Viva Editions Releases TOASTS

For nearly 20 years, June Cotner has been the go-to for blessings, housewarmings, new babies, graces, and all of life's rites of passage. Here, she joins forces with award-winning poet and author, Nancy Tupper Ling, in Toasts: The Perfect Words to Celebrate Every Occasion, published by Viva Editions.

Organized by category and containing many original toasts written just for this book that won't appear anywhere else, this timely tome contains sayings famous and profound, suitable and sentimental. Covering holidays, births, weddings, graduations, and other events both major and minor, co-authors Cotner and Ling also provide inspirations for how this wonderful gesture can add meaning to life's special moments.

About the Authors

June Cotner is the author or editor of 31 books, including the best-selling Graces, Bedside Prayers, and Dog Blessings. She has appeared on the television shows AM Northwest in Portland, OR, and New Day Northwest in Seattle. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, she lives in Poulsbo, WA.

Nancy Tupper Ling is the winner of the prestigious Writer's Digest Grand Prize and the Pat Parnell Poetry Award. She draws her inspiration from the multicultural background of her family and the interwoven fabric of familial culture . The author of Double Happiness Box, and My Sister, Alicia May, she lives in Walpole, MA.