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July 19, 2013
Vampire Romance Feature Soon
The Alluring Vampire Stories and Romances. Featured at the end of July as part of a Vampire Romance Blog Hop.
Starts July 25!
STORIES OF DESIRE AND HORROR
Starts July 25!
STORIES OF DESIRE AND HORROR
July 17, 2013
COMING SOON; HORROR ROMANCE BLOG HOP. WE ARE JOINING IN J...
COMING SOON; HORROR ROMANCE BLOG HOP. WE ARE JOINING IN JULY 25
Joining Horror Romance Writers July 25 for a week of it!June 30, 2013
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June 4, 2013
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WRITING WESTERN STYLE ROMANCE AND SHARING COOKING SECRETS
WE Romance Writers know how to do two things at once. We might have a hot new novel on the computer, but we can also have homemade brownies in the oven for our families. Multi-tasking, we take to it like there is no tomorrow. So I am happy to say, my Western Romance is featured on Sandra Sookoo's website today. She is known for wonderful romances, so check out her site anytime. Also why don't you go over there and leave a comment on the picnic lunch article she is featuring about my favorite way to fix a meal sometimes. Meanwhile, come back here and say you left a comment there. At the end of the month, I am going to have a $10 gift certificate to Amazon for someone who is drawn out of my Cowgirl hat!. Meanwhile, ya'll come back. and a Howdy to all of you!
WRITING WESTERN STYLE ROMANCE AND SHARING COOKING SECRETS
WE Romance Writers know how to do two things at once. We might have a hot new novel on the computer, but we can also have homemade brownies in the oven for our families. Multi-tasking, we take to it like there is no tomorrow. So I am happy to say, my Western Romance is featured on Sandra Sookoo's website today. She is known for wonderful romances, so check out her site anytime. Also why don't you go over there and leave a comment on the picnic lunch article she is featuring about my favorite way to fix a meal sometimes. Meanwhile, come back here and say you left a comment there. At the end of the month, I am going to have a $10 gift certificate to Amazon for someone who is drawn out of my Cowgirl hat!. Meanwhile, ya'll come back. and a Howdy to all of you!
May 1, 2013
Pie making time
Cooking is something which always is helpful to know
I have been trying to remember how old I was when I first started cooking. I was young, very young. But now, I am glad and I can remember I loved it then. There is something satisfying to preparing something someone wants to eat and since I have written about cooking, well I like sharing also
Here, have a dish of homemade fried pieIf you were at my house, I would offer you a cup of coffee and something I had baked. We might sit down to have a piece of this freshly made caramelized apricot fried pie. And we would talk about cooking and baking. I have shown many people how to cook. It just comes natural to me and we just find ourselves at the stove and I am stirring something up and telling them how I do it. And I love it when they tell me how they do it.
I have a little cookbook out, a two in one special I would call it, since it is two little cookbooks in one. In this economy, I like a bargain and it sure is one.
If you ever want to share a favorite recipe with me just send it over to the Chatter House and I think that would be great.
Meanwhile, I want to say Thanks for Stopping By!
I have been trying to remember how old I was when I first started cooking. I was young, very young. But now, I am glad and I can remember I loved it then. There is something satisfying to preparing something someone wants to eat and since I have written about cooking, well I like sharing also
Here, have a dish of homemade fried pieIf you were at my house, I would offer you a cup of coffee and something I had baked. We might sit down to have a piece of this freshly made caramelized apricot fried pie. And we would talk about cooking and baking. I have shown many people how to cook. It just comes natural to me and we just find ourselves at the stove and I am stirring something up and telling them how I do it. And I love it when they tell me how they do it.I have a little cookbook out, a two in one special I would call it, since it is two little cookbooks in one. In this economy, I like a bargain and it sure is one.
If you ever want to share a favorite recipe with me just send it over to the Chatter House and I think that would be great.
Meanwhile, I want to say Thanks for Stopping By!
April 24, 2013
And the winner is......
We want to thank everyone who entered our Sweet Pea's Chatterhouse drawing. The winner is.....Sarah!
In June we are having cowboy and cowgirl month and will have another drawing then. So come on back anytime you want to. Nice to see you!
Romance Novelist Anna Patterson
April 20, 2013
Why I wrote my Hard Times cookbooks
Dear Readers:
I started writing years ago as a newspaper journalist. I have written a lot of things in my time, but the hardest thing I ever personally wrote was a cookbook. And that is because it was so personal and something I wanted to do to help other people. And I wanted to help people who were struggling to feed their families, not back then, when I was trying to feed my own children, but right now, when people are trying to do the same.
I have read hundreds of cookbooks and loved to find a new one and I also have shared recipes with people all my life.
But writing something is not like writing something our on a piece of stationary and handing it to a friend. It is so much harder to write a cookbook.
But the main thing is it made me remember Hard Times something no one would willingly want to do. I can remember working in a factory one summer while I was waiting to go into a university full time that next year. I saw people tape their fingers because of blisters due to repetitive work and they went on to work with these sore hands all day, sometimes for twelve hours straight.
I have seen people go out to the cotton fields with these old gloves and the fingers were cut out of them so they could pick the cotton, a stickery bush for sure and there was blood everywhere. I know some old people who used to brag, "Well, I have sure had it hard, but I never picked cotton." I can see why they say that when I saw all that cotton being picked.
I talked to a woman who can remember hog killing season, and the neighbors helped each other out and killed the hogs, dressed them out (which means cleaning them) and then canned the meat for the winter. I myself have canned pork. Most people don't can meat nowadays, it is just too high risk and dangerous. I feel the same.
But I can things today. It matters what you have done when you start to write anything, I believe. I had a journalism teacher in high school who told us, "Write what you know."
A smart alec of the class said, "What if we don't know anything."
Back then, we thought we knew everything, but now, we have learned differently.
I wrote the Hard Times Cookbooks (two little books both together now in one at Amazon.com,) because I knew something about stretching the food dollar. I still know something about this.
So I just wrote down things I wanted to share, like I was sharing it with my daughter or son or a dear friend. Because that is what I wanted to do. I wanted to help people learn some things which might do them good.
Anyway times are not getting any better, I would think. The economy is still going bad, many people have had their hours cut, or can't find work at all.
So those Hard Times cookbooks, well, I am very glad I shared them. They are not fancy, they are plain, but they still tell the hard, plain truth about cooking.
