Weaving Imaginary Vegans
Yes, it’s another bizarrely titled Friday Recommends post. So sue me.
First, get out your calendars, because you want to save this date: The Imaginarium creative writing convention is coming to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky from September 19-21 of 2014. And guess who one of the guests/panelists is going to be. Go on, guess. No, not Katya. Moi, that’s who! I told you about this new convention before, but now it’s absolutely, positively written in stone that it’s happening. I’m so excited! It’s gonna be a lollapalooza of writerly goodness!
Next, allow me to direct your attention to Three Fates Press — “We weave the tales you were born to read.” — a brand new publisher on the literary block. This is the brainchild of T. Lee Harris, Amanda Rotach Huntley (aka K.A.Davur), and me. We started talking about it when the future of Hydra Publications was uncertain. Like the mythical Hydra, the press has recovered its health, but we were already drunk with power, so there we are.
You know I love my veggies. I got a haircut yesterday at Great Clips, and the stylist (Jill. I also like Jennie.) said, “I can’t believe how fast your hair grows! What do you EAT?” And I said, “Vegetables, mostly.”
ANYWAY, here are a couple of nifty vegan/vegetarian recipe sites for you to peruse. Jean Yates put me onto the first one, Positively Vegan, which also has gluten-free recipes, which I like, since I have some gluten-intolerant friends. I also like it because Kim Miles’ recipes are simple, use-what-you-find, and use things like cashews and nutritional yeast which I have in the house rather than saying things like, “buy a package of high-priced vegan fake cheese.”
Kim referred readers to EverydayMaven(TM) food blog, and I went there and fell in love. I mean, how could I not love a site where one of the pictures looks like she burned every single iteration of her sweet potato latkes? Oh, yeah, let’s just pretend they’re supposed to look like that. Beautiful!
Both of these ladies are monetizing their recipes. Do you think I could sell my recipes? I mean, like: Soup — boil stuff. Salad — don’t boil stuff. How much would you pay for that?
Okay, I’ll just stick to fiction.
A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: A character burns the vegetables.
MA
