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February 3, 2014
Crowd sourcing Pie Book. Can you help?
Calling all pie lovers!
Hello friends, family and pie lovers!
I have decided to reprint my book about pie called A Slice of Humboldt Pie and could use your help. I’m going through a new crowd sourcing entity called Pubslush that only focuses on books. They are here to support writers in publishing and marketing their works. So I am humbly asking the world if there is anybody out there who would like to support a writer? And for this you will be rewarded.
Here are the contribution levels:
$5 – Thank you email that includes a pie baking tip.
$10 – Thank you email that includes a pie recipe from the book.
$25 – Signed pie book
$50 – Signed book plus pie-baking tool
$75 – Signed book plus oven mitt
$100 – Fort Collins residents only. A signed book plus a home-baked pie delivered to your house.
To contribute, go to my The Pie Book page. And please feel free to spread the pie love and share this link with your friends.
About the book: Ten years ago when I lived in California, I went on a quest to find the perfect pie crust. It created a domino effect where once I met one pie baker, he or she had another friend who made pies that I should talk to. So I went on a series of interviews where I visited with folks in Humboldt County who invited me into their homes for a slice of warm pie. A Slice of Humboldt Pie is a collection of essays that also includes the recipes each person shared. I did find the perfect pie crust, and I also made new friends along the way. Includes dozens of recipes and pie baking tips.
Cover of new pie book.
What You’ll be Funding: I’ll use the funds raised to reprint the book and then have fun marketing it with tie-ins to National Pie Day and National Pi Day. I also plan to do a crust demonstration at a local shop to encourage people to make their crusts from scratch. Funds permitting, I also plan to print up recipe cards with what I found to be the perfect pie crust.
Note: 1% of the money raised for my book will be donated back to Pubslush to support literacy programs.
Filed under: Natasha Wing Tagged: A Slice of Humboldt Pie, baking, book funding, crowd sourcing, pie books, pie recipes, Pubslush
January 27, 2014
Birthday Book Blog Tour
Happy birthday to me!
My new Night Before book is set for release January 16th (which also happens to be my 26th anniversary) so to celebrate, I’m having a blog tour! Different blogs will be running interviews, book reviews and giveaways during this week and next so stop by again as I add more links to new posts.
Jan. 9 – The first one is on Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s site. Check out her fun interview and then click around her other features. For kids she has a bunch of coloring pages. And don’t forget to sign up for the book giveaway. Here’s the link.
Jan. 12 – The Book Faerie. Check out her sweet review here.
Jan. 13 – Juliana Lee’s blog. She asked me some fun questions about my birthday and included a link to my Goodreads book giveaway. Check out her interview here.
Jan. 13 – Word Spelunking blog – Review, interview, book giveaway and cupcakes, too! Check out this great blog tour stop.
Jan. 14 - Katherine Valdez. A writer friend of mine from Fort Collins wrote a memoir of her birthdays as a young girl then reviewed my birthday book. She’s also giving away a free signed copy so go to her link today to enter before Jan. 17th.
Jan. 16 – Good Reads with Ronna review. Enter the giveaway until Jan. 24th.
Jan. 16 – 5 signed books being given away on my favorite local bookstore, Old Firehouse Books, blog. There’s a nice interview as well.
Jan. 17 – Win my birthday book along with a birthday cake game. Fun package! Enter at KC Edventures blog.
Jan. 17 – Great review with input from the blogger’s children on From Tots to Teens.
Jan. 18 – Review and giveaway until Feb. 3rd at Mymcbooks’s Blog along with 5-star Goodreads review.
Jan. 18 – On the day before this blogger’s birthday, Katie posted this review on Youth Lit Reviews. Thanks and happy birthday, Katie!
Jan. 23 – See Silkki’s Reviews for the icing on the cake review.
For more information about the blog tour, here’s my publicist’s site.
Update: We have 5 winners for the Goodreads Giveaway! Thanks to all who joined my virtual book release party and signed up for the giveaway. The book is available in stores or to order January 16th. Congratulations, Rebecca of Athens, GA for winning a signed copy on Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s site.
Thank you to all the above bloggers who took time to read my book, write up a post, and share their review with their viewers. I appreciate the support.
Thank you, bloggers!
Filed under: Natasha Wing Tagged: birthday books, Elizabeth O. Dulemba, Good Reads with Ronna, Juliana Lee, Katherine Valdez, Natasha Wing, The Night Before My Birthday
January 18, 2014
Blog Tour In Progress
Happy birthday to me!
My new Night Before book is set for release January 16th (which also happens to be my 26th anniversary) so to celebrate, I’m having a blog tour! Different blogs will be running interviews, book reviews and giveaways during this week and next so stop by again as I add more links to new posts.
Jan. 9 – The first one is on Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s site. Check out her fun interview and then click around her other features. For kids she has a bunch of coloring pages. And don’t forget to sign up for the book giveaway. Here’s the link.
Jan. 12 – The Book Faerie. Check out her sweet review here.
Jan. 13 – Juliana Lee’s blog. She asked me some fun questions about my birthday and included a link to my Goodreads book giveaway. Check out her interview here.
Jan. 13 – Word Spelunking blog – Review, interview, book giveaway and cupcakes, too! Check out this great blog tour stop.
Jan. 14 - Katherine Valdez. A writer friend of mine from Fort Collins wrote a memoir of her birthdays as a young girl then reviewed my birthday book. She’s also giving away a free signed copy so go to her link today to enter before Jan. 17th.
Jan. 16 – Good Reads with Ronna review. Enter the giveaway until Jan. 24th.
Jan. 16 – 5 signed books being given away on my favorite local bookstore, Old Firehouse Books, blog. There’s a nice interview as well.
Jan. 17 – Win my birthday book along with a birthday cake game. Fun package! Enter at KC Edventures blog.
Jan. 18 – Review and giveaway until Feb. 3rd at Mymcbooks’s Blog along with 5-star Goodreads review.
For more information about the blog tour, here’s my publicist’s site.
Update: We have 5 winners for the Goodreads Giveaway! Thanks to all who joined my virtual book release party and signed up for the giveaway. The book is available in stores or to order January 16th. Congratulations, Rebecca of Athens, GA for winning a signed copy on Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s site.
Filed under: Natasha Wing Tagged: birthday books, Elizabeth O. Dulemba, Good Reads with Ronna, Juliana Lee, Katherine Valdez, Natasha Wing, The Night Before My Birthday
January 14, 2014
Blog Tour In Progress
Happy birthday to me!
My new Night Before book is set for release January 16th (which also happens to be my 26th anniversary) so to celebrate, I’m having a blog tour! Different blogs will be running interviews, book reviews and giveaways during this week and next so stop by again as I add more links to new posts.
Jan. 9 – The first one is on Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s site. Check out her fun interview and then click around her other features. For kids she has a bunch of coloring pages. And don’t forget to sign up for the book giveaway. Here’s the link.
Jan. 12 – The Book Faerie. Check out her sweet review here.
Jan. 13 – Juliana Lee’s blog. She asked me some fun questions about my birthday and included a link to my Goodreads book giveaway. Check out her interview here.
Jan. 13 – Word Spelunking blog – Review, interview, book giveaway and cupcakes, too! Check out this great blog tour stop.
Jan. 14 - Katherine Valdez. A writer friend of mine from Fort Collins wrote a memoir of her birthdays as a young girl then reviewed my birthday book. She’s also giving away a free signed copy so go to her link today to enter before Jan. 17th.
Jan. 16 – Good Reads with Ronna review. Enter the giveaway until Jan. 24th.
For more information about the blog tour, here’s my publicist’s site.
Update: We have 5 winners for the Goodreads Giveaway! Thanks to all who joined my virtual book release party and signed up for the giveaway. The book is available in stores or to order January 16th.
Congratulations, Rebecca of Athens, GA for winning a signed copy on Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s site.
Filed under: Natasha Wing Tagged: birthday books, Elizabeth O. Dulemba, Good Reads with Ronna, Juliana Lee, Katherine Valdez, Natasha Wing, The Night Before My Birthday
Let the Blog Tour Begin!
Happy birthday to me!
My new Night Before book is set for release January 16th (which also happens to be my 26th anniversary) so to celebrate, I’m having a blog tour! Different blogs will be running interviews, book reviews and giveaways during this week and next so stop by again as I add more links to new posts.
Jan. 9 – The first one is on Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s site. Check out her fun interview and then click around her other features. For kids she has a bunch of coloring pages. And don’t forget to sign up for the book giveaway. Here’s the link.
Jan. 12 – The Book Faerie. Check out her sweet review here.
Jan. 13 – Juliana Lee’s blog. She asked me some fun questions about my birthday and included a link to my Goodreads book giveaway. Check out her interview here.
Jan. 13 – Word Spelunking blog – Review, interview, book giveaway and cupcakes, too! Check out this great blog tour stop.
Jan. 14 - Katherine Valdez. A writer friend of mine from Fort Collins wrote a memoir of her birthdays as a young girl then reviewed my birthday book. She’s also giving away a free signed copy so go to her link today to enter before Jan. 17th.
For more information about the blog tour, here’s my publicist’s site.
Update: We have 5 winners for the Goodreads Giveaway! Thanks to all who joined my virtual book release party and signed up for the giveaway. The book is available in stores or to order January 16th.
Filed under: Natasha Wing Tagged: birthday books, Elizabeth O. Dulemba, Natasha Wing, The Night Before My Birthday
December 31, 2013
December 21, 2013
Calling all Bloggers
My publisher just sent me 75 copies of my new book set to release January 16th called The Night Before My Birthday. I am doing a Birthday Book Blog Tour from January 13-18. If you would like to participate, please contact me for your free review copy and a copy to use as a giveaway on your blog at natashawing@gmail.com.
If these blog dates don’t work for you, but you’d still like to review the book or interview me, don’t hesitate to still request a copy.
My publicist and I will both post your review on our sites to direct new readers your way.
There’s a mishap before the birthday party, but not even kitty can stop the celebration.
Filed under: Natasha Wing Tagged: Amy Wummer, Birthday, birthday books, Natasha Wing, The Night Before My Birthday
December 3, 2013
3 weeks until Xmas Eve!
Hard to believe, but there are only three weeks before Christmas Eve.
I confess: I like Christmas Eve better than Christmas Day. There’s something about the magicalness of anticipation: gifts wrapped waiting to reveal what’s inside, the tree sparkling at night with lights and ornaments with presents stacked at its base. And by the time Christmas Eve comes along, whatever you didn’t get done for Christmas, you may as well just resign to the fact that you missed the deadline and enjoy the evening – with a cup of spiked eggnog.
For those of you who are still trying to get Christmas done – and have the habit of putting things off until the last minute – have I got a book for you. The Night Before the Night Before Christmas is a children’s picture book, but it appeals to all ages. It’s about a family who’s rocket-sledding into the holiday while Mom has the flu. All appears to be total chaos until the family realizes what’s most important about Christmas.
Holiday Humor
Here’s a fun read for after the Christmas chaos where the overwhelmed mom is saved by Mrs. St. Nick.
To make you feel better, even Santa is under pressure at Christmas! How would you like to find out that you missed a whole city of kids and had to work your elves overtime to make toys? That’s what happens when Santa learns of the merchildren in The Legend of Christmas Island.
We all start off the season with a Norman Rockwell or Martha Stewart image of how we’d like Christmas to turn out. But let’s get real and enjoy the holidays however we can with a sense of humor.
Filed under: Christmas gifts for kids., Christmas Island, Christmas shopping, Christmas story, Natasha Wing, The Night Before the Night Before Christmas, Wing Tagged: Christmas, Christmas Eve, Holiday, Night Before the Night Before Christmas, Norman Rockwell, Santa, Santa Claus, Shopping, The Legend of Christmas Island, The Night Before Christmas, Twas the late night of Christmas
November 25, 2013
Over the River and Across the Plains
“I used Grammarly’s online plagiarism checker because it has given my sentences a whole new meaning.” Without it, Eat, Pray, Love would be Eat Prey, Love.
Tis the time of the year to go over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go. As a child, I loved that saying, because we literally did just that as we drove from Connecticut to my grandparents’ farm in Massachusetts. This year my husband and I are going over the Poudre River and across wide open spaces to Oklahoma to spend Thanksgiving with my cousin’s family and my aunt. (Who knows. It might inspire another story.)
On Wednesday, the night before Thanksgiving, Cousin Meg and I are making four pies – pecan, pumpkin, chocolate pudding, and Key Lime using our dear grandmother’s recipe. For the pecan pie, we’re using nuts picked from my uncle’s tree – yum! And I’m bringing a recipe for Spicy Nuts so we can make some very addictive snacking treats using pecans.
If you’re also making a pecan pie and have leftover nuts, here’s the recipe. It’s super easy and great for football games.
Spicy Nuts
1 lb pecan halves
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
2 T tabasco sauce
1/4 tsp cinnamon
dash of ground cumin
1-1/2 tsp salt
2 T canola oil
2 T Kahlua (optional, but not for this cook)
Mix all in a bowl or bag. Lay out in a single layer on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 8-1/2 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool.
This story is based on Thanksgivings
at my grandma’s house.
After your Thanksgiving with your family, I would love to read your version of The Night Before Thanksgiving. So send me a whole poem, a few stanzas, or funny things that happened. I’d love to hear from you!
Gobble, gobble.
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