I’m pleased to offer a 25% advance order discount on Five Rivers two new upcoming books, How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days, and Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke: Historical Colour Names, Definitions & Uses, by Deb Salisbury. If ordering as a Christmas present, just send a note in the Comments section of Five Rivers secure shopping cart, and I’ll be sure to send along a note to the email address you provide…
I thought I’d share this wee exerpt from my cookbook, Recipes of a Dumb Housewife. This is a recipe that evolved over several Christmas marathon baking sessions. At first the cookies were plain shortbread with cherries on top. Then I thought it would be neat to have the cherry buried inside the cookie. And then I thought of decadence and dipped the cookie in chocolate, whereupon my daughter said the cookies looked like heavenly, seductive…
The aborted book signing that was to take place Saturday, November 15 at Chapters, Stone Road Mall, 435 Stone Road, Guelph, N1G 2X6 will has been rescheduled, thanks to the efforts of Lindsey Burrow, the Events Coordinator. I’ll be at the Stone Road Mall Chapters Saturday, December 13, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., signing copies of And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song, just in time for your Christmas shopping!
Unfortunately, like so many authors who write endless series, Card should have known when to stop. Not one of his best works, Shadow of the Hegemon is filled with cookie cutter characters who are clones of one another to some degree; utterly nonsensical political stratagems that tend to a big yawn; utterly implausible premise of very young adolescents being the political geniuses and power-mongers of the world. All of this is very disappointing coming from…
Well, it would appear someone at Chapters messed up, didn’t send in the book order soon enough, and consequently there are no books for me to sign tomorrow, and hence no signing. I send all of you my deepest apologies, even if these matters are beyond my control. Books will be arriving at the Stone Road Mall Chapters sometime in the next week or so, if you still wish to pick up a copy of…