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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Did Somebody Mention Food?
Um … Did Somebody Mention Food? By Jeff Salter We sometimes have blogging weeks where I’m totally lost … as in this one, when the Foxes are talking about kitchen skills and such. My lack of culinary talents are well-known, … Continue reading
Posted in Holiday, Jeff Salter, Life, Miscellaneous, Random thoughts, recipe, romance, writing
Tagged Astraea Press, cabinets, chicken soup, Columbus Day, cucumber slices, deleted scene, eggs, frozen pizza, garbage can, kitchen, Pizza, scene, scrambled eggs, soup
18 Comments
Character Cooking
No, I haven’t thrown any characters into a vat of boiling water or acid trying to turn them into superheroes. I mean how much my characters cook in my novels. Which is to say very little. My characters are mostly … Continue reading
Lisa’s Peanut Butter Pie Recipe
My dear friend from high school, Lisa Gaylord Everett, is a superstar friend and I love her dearly. Not only is she fun to be around and a true and loyal person, she can cook!! Here’s her easy peasy, yummy … Continue reading
Posted in Jillian Chantal, recipe
Tagged faithful friends, friends, Jillian, peanut butter pie, pie, recipe, yummy
17 Comments
“Smørrebrød, Smørrebrød …”
“Cream cheese, smoked salmon, lemon, onions, capers?” “Delete capers. Run program.” Kathy Reichs, Deadly Decisions Cooking is on the menu this week. Well, you won’t learn much from my post, because the kitchen is more or less one of my … Continue reading
Posted in authors, childhood, Life, Random thoughts, recipe, writing
Tagged cooking, Eating, Fajitas, German meals, Iris Blobel, memories, recipe, recipes, Spaghettis
15 Comments
We been discussing conventions, contests and awards, and being that this blog is basically a writers’ blog, my minds my mind went straight to writer’s conventions, contests and awards. I have never been to a writer’s convention, at least not … Continue reading
Posted in authors, GIveaways/Contest, poetry, Tonette Joyce, writing
Tagged American Song Festival, breaking into the music business, Certificate of Merit, lyric competitions, lyric contests, lyric writing, playwrighting, poetry, poetry competition scams, songwriting, songwriting awards, songwriting competitions, songwriting contests, the music business, writers seminars, writers' conventions, writing competition scams
13 Comments
Contests and Conferences, Oh My
By Jeff Salter We’re blogging about contests and conferences this week, and I’ve done plenty of both. Some in the context of writing and some not. Some good and some bad. For a look at my comments about years of … Continue reading
Posted in authors, GIveaways/Contest, Jeff Salter, Life, Miscellaneous, poetry, Random thoughts, writing
Tagged authors, categories, competition, conference, contest, convention, criteria, judges, librarians, meeting, poetry, winning, writers, writing
21 Comments
Conference Junkies Anonymous
Hi. My name is Micki and I’m a conference junkie. Hello, Micki. (Must be said in monotone chorus by fellow junkies.) Who are we kidding? There’d be nothing anonymous or monotonous about our meetings. Chances are we conference junkies would … Continue reading
Writing Contests are NOT My Thing
When I first started the endeavor to be published, I entered a few contests with two different manuscripts. I ended up stopping because I noticed a pattern in the judging of them. When the judges were published writers, I got … Continue reading
Posted in Jillian Chantal, Random thoughts
Tagged aspiring writers, contests, endeavor, heroine, judges, manuscripts, published, random thoughts, unpublished, writing, writing contests
21 Comments
A post about nothing
“I hate mornings. They start so early.” ― Janet Evanovich, Plum Spooky Brace yourself for a rather uneventful post today – theme is: Conferences, Contests, and Conventions. May I use the term “I draw a blank”. Absolutely! I’m as mute … Continue reading
Posted in authors, Life, writing
Tagged about nothing, conference, contests, conventions, Iris Blobel, nothing, Romance, writing
14 Comments
Phil’ed With the Spirit of Spring
Here we are with what I hear was supposed to be a ‘free’ week, but it has been one that has cried out for attention every day…until today. The beginning of the week enlightening us on the German pre-Lenten fun … Continue reading
Posted in Holiday, Tonette Joyce, writing
Tagged carnival, clutter, crocus, daffodils, expressions, Ground Hog Day, Helau, Lenten, Mardi Gras, painting, Pauxatauny Phil, spring
13 Comments