Baking or Writing, It Pays to Stay in Practice

I confess I’m not fond of all the lessons life so generously provides me. This week I was reminded that there is an art to baking, and that practice does indeed create a better baker.
In my first novel, Mustard’s Last Stand, coming out this October from L&L Dreamspell (yee-hah!), two characters eat scones in a restaurant I named The Blind Chukar, for no particularly good reason. The scones, the characters report, were delicious. So I decided to try out my old scone recipes (the real Scottish...