Phoenix Author Todd Gee Fox Makes the Case for the Handwritten Letter in New Book

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Todd Gee Fox has published "A Winter Season’s Passage: Encouragement: Faith in Action," a book built around a simple argument: a handwritten letter does something a text message cannot, and that difference is worth recovering.

Fox, who lives in Phoenix, frames the book around his own life. According to the announcement, he lost his second wife, Debbie, and went through a period of grief that included what he describes as destructive coping mechanisms before he began rebuilding his life with the support of family and prayer. A writing class during that period, he says, gave him a way to put his emotions into words. He met his current wife, Clotilde, in 2016, and the two were married in 2019 by a priest, Father John B., according to the book’s own description. Fox has said he began writing letters to Father John in May 2020 and has continued the practice since, alongside letters to family members and others who shaped his life.

The book’s description, drawn from Fox’s own account, traces the habit further back than his second marriage: he writes that his parents, raising eleven children, were frequent letter writers, and that letters from them and from his siblings and children have become keepsakes he values highly. That family history, he suggests, is part of what drew him to the practice with his own correspondence to Father John and others.

The book contends that the intentional act of composing by hand, in contrast to the quickness of digital communication, constitutes part of what makes it valuable Fox writes that composing a letter demonstrates care partly because of the time it takes, and that sharing honest feelings with the recipient, paired with gratitude, benefits both the person writing and the person reading. "The unveiling of one’s heart through letter writing is a win-win for both composer and receiver," Fox says in the announcement, adding that he hopes the book moves readers to put their own feelings in writing.

"A Winter Season’s Passage" is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available through bookstores and major online retailers including Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play, and Barnes and Noble.

Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a steady stream of faith-based memoir and devotional titles built on personal testimony rather than a publishing event in itself, but Fox’s account of a decades-long family letter-writing habit gives this one more texture than most.

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