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Holiday Gift Guide 2026
Be your neighbors’ first stop for Christmas gifts.
From Nov. 9th to Christmas Eve, one local business gets the featured spot in each of our five morning newsletters. You pick the morning. We write the feature and send shoppers your way.
See how it works in about a minute.
Turn the sound on. One morning, one local shop, and how your feature keeps working through Christmas.
34 mornings. One business each.
Each newsletter has one gift guide spot a day. Once a morning is booked in your town, it’s gone. You’ll see the open dates when you book.
The newsletters go out every weekday morning, Thanksgiving week included.
One morning in the inbox. Seen all the way to Christmas.
- The featured spot
- Your gift is the newsletter’s featured story on your morning. About 120 words and your photo, written by our team from what you send us.
- The online gift guide
- Your listing stays on your town’s gift guide page through Dec. 31st, and every newsletter links to it through Christmas Eve.
- The Dec. 21st roundup
- You’re in the last-minute gifts email, the week everyone is scrambling.
- The December paper
- Book by Nov. 11th and your gift also gets a tile on the print gift guide page, in homes Nov. 25th.
- A click report
- After you run, we tell you how many readers clicked through to you.
Pick your town.
Choose the newsletter your customers read. Book by Nov. 11th and your gift is also in every copy of that town’s December paper. You’ll pick your morning and pay on the next screen.
Want a full week in one town, or the same morning in all five? A Feature Week is $1,000 ($1,800 in Hoover). All five newsletters on one morning is $1,200. Ask us to book it.
Booked in five minutes.
- Pick your town and your morning.
Open dates only. One business per morning per newsletter.
- Pay online.
$250, or $450 for the Hoover Sun. Card, on the booking screen.
- Tell us about your gift.
A short form opens right after you pay. Send your photo and details by noon Wednesday the week before. We write the rest.
Questions owners ask
What should I feature?
One gift. A gift card, a product, an experience or a holiday special. A specific gift sells better than a general list of everything you carry.
What if I only sell in store?
We send readers to your listing on our gift guide page, with the gift, price, address and hours. Add a line like “Mention the Homewood Star” so you can count who came in.
Who writes the feature?
We do, in the newsletter’s voice, from what you send. It’s labeled Sponsored, like every paid feature we run.
When do you need my details?
By noon Wednesday the week before your morning. The form opens as soon as you pay, so most people send it right then.
Can I book more than one morning?
Yes. Book each morning on its own, or ask us for a Feature Week or all five newsletters on one morning.
