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News Flash, May 3

Deb Meredith is at the Malice Domestic Conference this weekend and on the panel “Get a Clue” on Sunday. On Monday, she will be at the Festival of Mystery in Pittsburgh, PA (the Greek Orthodox Church in Oakmont, at 12 Washington Avenue) starting at 4 PM.

Deb Eve will be at the CARE Conference and Celebration in Washington, DC, May 5 & 6. She will be speaking on a panel about connecting the world’s women in the fight against global poverty. CARE will also be actively promoting FIRST COMES LOVE, TH

Josie’s Mom’s Cookbook: A Legacy of Love by Guest Author Jane Cleland

We’re excited to welcome Jane Cleland, author of the IMBA best selling and multi-award nominated Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series, which has been called an Antiques Roadshow for mystery fans. Jane chairs the Wolfe Pack’s literary awards and is on the board of the Mystery Writers of America/NY Chapter. Her latest book is called Killer Keepsakes.


My protagonist, antiques appraiser Josie Prescott, loves to cook. Often she uses the cookbook her mother made for her in the days before she died.

Food Glorious (LOCAL) Food, by Deb Eve

Does anyone else think that Americans don’t know how to eat anymore? It certainly seems that way from the glut of books, food gurus, and diet programs that exist to tell us how to eat. Do we really need to be told what to eat, what not to eat, when to stop eating, whether it’s better to eat organic or things that were grown with toxic chemicals, how to tell if something even has any nutritional value at all?

C’mon. We KNOW how to eat. Okay, I’ll have to admit that’s hard to believe that when

Food for Life by Deb Tiffany

I am rabidly passionate about this week’s subject. Food. It should be so simple, so basic, but it’s not.

People, readers, everybody–we are seriously f***ed when it comes to our food. As I’m writing this (on Monday night) it’s just emerging that fecal lagoons for pig farms are a likely source for the current swine flu outbreak.

My first reaction is ew. My second is duh. What the hell did people think would happen when thousands of animals are herded together in unsanitary, mind-blowingly unnatural

A Few of My Favorite Foods by Deb Meredith

My parents always had a strawberry patch in their garden. For several weeks a year, we had more strawberries then we knew what to do with. I would go out in my nightgown before breakfast to fill up my cereal bowl with fresh fruit. Red and flavorful, they taste nothing like the ones you get in the store in January. They’re incredibly juicy and stain your hands pink.

My birthday hits right in the middle of strawberry season in Virginia, so I usually had strawberry shortcake. Because of this,

Working on being unapologetic, by Deb Katie

I love food.

I mean, I love it. I love shopping for it, looking at it, reading about it, watching shows about it… everything short of actually cooking it.

But naturally, what I love the most is eating it.

Living in a larger city and being married to a person who loves food as much as I do, I find a lot of opportunities to indulge. Anything that can be even vaguely described as a special occasion is usually celebrated with a ridiculously caloric feast–the day I got an agent, the day an editor lik

In which Deb Kristina doesn’t know what cuts her oatmeal

I miss enjoying food for the sake of it. But now the healthy living culture and environmentalism and trying to model healthy eating habits for my kids combined with alarmist reports about hidden dangers in our food (additives! Transfats!) have me feeling guilty every time I write a shopping list and anxiety-ridden over meal preparation (and as we know from my comments on the “Debs in the Kitchen” week, I’m no Martha Stewart).

I find myself arguing with TV pundits – and when I do this, my kids giv

News Flash, April 26

Deb Meredith is getting ready to attend the Edgar’s in New York and go to the Malice Domestic Conference in Crystal City, VA next weekend. Her panel “Get a Clue” is on Sunday.

Deb Eve’s FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COMES MALARIA received a nice review in the April/May issue of National Geographic Adventure - available on newstands now.

Founder Deb Mia King’s Table Manners (Berkley, August 2009) and sequel to her first novel, Good Things, just sold book club rights to Doubleday, Literary Guild, Rhaspsody

PLEASE HELP. I CAN’T STOP SELF-GOOGLING, by Guest Author Robin Brande

In honor of Katie Alender, whose first novel, BAD GIRLS DON’T DIE (which I totally, totally loved!), landed in stores just days ago, I offer you the wisdom of my own experiences and those of my other author friends who shall remain nameless or they will sue me, because we have all spent far more time than we would care to admit being very, very idiotic those first few months (or maybe whole year) after our debut novels came out, and even though I could write fifteen essays about all the ways in

Bad Girls, Good Girls, and even Moms love this book, by Deb Eve

Aside from when I was an adolescent, I’ve never been a big reader of young adult literature. Oh and another thing, I’ve never been a fan of thrillers of any sort, ghost stories in particular. Yeah, me and Deb Katie’s book were in trouble from the get-go. And yet, BAD GIRLS DON’T DIE grabbed me from the beginning and wouldn’t let me go.

There is something so appealing about Alexis – pink hair and lousy attitude and all. I found her so real that I couldn’t help but worry about her and care about