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Eat This While You Read That: Kris Keldaran
I’m going to start this ETWYRT on an unusual note. I cooked a recipe I’m familiar with for this week’s dish, and that is thanks to my Dad. Dad, like me, was a military brat. His family landed in Hawaii for his highschool years, and it left a big impression on him, one he passed…
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Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking
Growing up, this was the cookbook I remember best. My mom told me much later that this book had come to her from my grandmother, and the copyright dates bear that out – this book has been loved, used, and in the family for more than 60 years now. I’m talking about the Meta Given’s…
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Eat This While You Read That: George Phillies
When I asked George Phillies for a dish and a book, he sent me several. So I had choices! With the juxtaposition of Christmas, traveling, and the kids to help me, I decided to go with his Snickerdoodles recipe. In a fun turn, this was a recipe you really can read while you make it,…
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Indie Author Christmas Sale!
Just in time for Christmas giving, here’s a list of books, stories, and other readables. Who doesn’t love to get a book in their virtual stocking? Bonus is that this gift won’t sit around collecting dust or taking up space. And you don’t have to go out and fight the traffic to buy it, or…
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Top 100 Military Science Fiction Books
I realized that although I have made many lists of books, I have never done a list for military science fiction, one of my favorite sub-genres to read. An online friend asked about recommendations, so I did what I usually do, and crowdsourced the list-making. Over 300 comments later… No, not all of them were…
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New Release!
Just in time for Christmas I’ve released the entire trilogy of Pixie Noir, Trickster Noir, and Dragon Noir under one cover. It’s just shy of 300K words and it’s perfect for gift-giving. One book with three books inside, plus an Author’s Foreward about the writing of the series, and a teaser in the back for…
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Eat This While You Read That: LB Johnson
It’s rare that I have a recipe in this series where I haven’t talked to the author directly, and it’s also rare that I have a recipe I can’t publish. That’s because the author is a friend of friends and they asked her about taking part, and because like me, she cooks and posts recipes…
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Inktail & Friends
I have alluded to it, but now I’m going to get into details. I am working on a coloring book. No, not coloring it myself (although I need to do that for the cover I think) but creating one for other people to color in. I’ve been asked many times over the last couple of…
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Review: Art Books Part II
You can find the first part of this series here, where I talk about two ebooks, both of them on digital art and painting. Today at the Mad Genius Club I hosted a great essay by Jason Fuesting comparing Starship Troopers the movie to the book. But this post is a review of two three books,…
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Eat This While You Read That: Anita Young
I’ve done a husband-wife pairing before, with Sarah and Dan Hoyt. But it took me altogether too long to realize that although I’d gotten a recipe from James Young, I hadn’t talked with his lovely wife Anita about her books and food yet. For the meal, I’m making her Pepper Steak, and we’re recommending her…
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Review: Art Books, Part I
I have a lot of books on art. Not as many as I used to, sadly, but still, more than I probably need. Books! must have books. Ok, so I hoard books like some kind of dragon librarian. And the art books are meant to learn from, which means that sitting on the shelf they…
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Review: Trader’s Tales
Since most of the people I know plan to spend today sitting at home recovering from a turkey coma, I have a whole series, not just a book, to recommend for reading in between naps today. What, you can’t binge-read a half-dozen books on your day off? I, um, I’m not going to admit anything……