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Saturday, November 30, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Review: One Sweet Cupcake by Janell Brown
One Sweet Cupcake by Janell Brown, NF -Cookbook, Hardcover, 160p, Rating=3.5
Source: provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review
Winner of Food Network's Cupcake Wars, Janell Brown, gives expert advice on all aspects of cupcake baking, including ingredients, techniques, and equipment. You'll also learn the basics of cupcake decorating, along with ideas for themes, seasons, and holidays. Discover all these sweet secrets for making your cupcakes look professional and taste great.
This cookbook is absolutely beautiful! I gained 10 pounds just looking at the professional photos of the cupcakes! Then there's something to owning the manual that will show me how to make them that made me giddy with excitement. After all, it imparted professional tips like using proper ingredients and tools. Also, it had some decorating ideas (this one I'll have to try another time ...can't find my piping tools at the moment). Just bummed that it didn't get to me before my daughter's birthday.
There's about 50 different yummy looking cupcakes so I didn't know where to start. Subsequently, I looked at what I had in my pantry and went from there. I discovered that I had the ingredients to make vanilla based cupcakes so I started there and made Cranberry Orange Cupcakes and Banana Cupcakes. The next day I went to the store and bought ingredients to make chocolate based cupcakes. Then I tackled the recipe for S'more Cupcakes.
I followed the easy to read directions and ended up finding oversights. For example, the instructions for the Cranberry Orange cupcake recipe paired it with Citrus Glaze icing but the picture looks like it paired it with maybe Cream Cheese icing. I had already started with the glaze recipe so I just went with it. Also, the Banana cupcake just didn't quite fully rise (perhaps I didn't measure the baking powder correctly?). Then, in the S'mores cupcake, I was at loss when it didn't tell me how long to bake it for in minutes (just stated "until the tops spring back...")! I browsed the book and some recipes had them, some didn't. I thought that was not agreeable for a cookbook. Oh, I did not like that the first ingredient in many of the recipes were included in red ink in the directions but should have been in black ink to uniform as ingredients (ex. Stir together sugar, corn syrup, etc.). My eyes didn't see the sugar because it blended with the red ink direction words so I was going crazy wondering where the heck to put the sugar! My fault but still.
Overall, I'm not going to quit my day job. For some reason my cupcakes wasn't as moist as I would have liked them to be. In fact, with the first two cupcakes, the texture was slightly dense that I ended up telling people that they were scones! My chocolate cupcakes turned out better in texture, yay! Additionally, I think baking from scratch takes a lot of patience and practice plus certain factors or conditions just needed to fit ME and MY kitchen (weather, altitude, technique, timing, love, taste buds, etc.). But the cupcakes tasted good! Not as fabulous as I'd hoped they be but again I think that will come through trial and error. So if you're patient and passionate about baking then I think this cookbook will pump up your baking and creative skills.
Cranberry Orange Cupcakes with Citrus Glaze
Banana Cupcakes
I skipped the icing ..didn't have the right ingredients
S'mores Cupcakes with Marshmallow Icing
Yikes, I forgot to put a piece of graham cracker and chocolate!
Oh, I didn't have a blow torch on hand so I made do with waving it over my stove burner flame
Just because ...
I've wanted to do this and I finally did!
(Whipped egg whites and cream of tartar --
part of marshmallow icing)
Monday, November 25, 2013
Holiday Kindle Fire HDX Giveaway
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
Author-Book Profile with Giveaway: His First, Her Last by Jonathan Sturak
Jonathan Sturak grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. He is a Penn State University graduate and holds degrees in Computer Science and Film. He currently lives in Las Vegas where he uses the energy of the city to craft stories about life and the human condition. "The Place Called Home," Sturak's essay about Eastern European heritage in Northeast PA, was featured on Glass Cases, associate literary agent Sarah LaPolla's pop culture blog at glasscasesblog.blogspot.com. Sturak is also a contributing editor at NoirNation.com, the premier location for international crime fiction. His debut thriller novel "Clouded Rainbow" was published in December 2009 and has over 100,000 downloads on the Amazon Kindle. New for 2013 are two exciting novels, his crime thriller "Vegas Was Her Name" published by Noir Nation Books, as well as his adventure romance "His First, Her Last: The Incredible True Story of an American Lost in the Philippines." Sturak keeps updated information on his website at sturak.com.
His First, Her Last: The Incredible True Story of an American Lost in the Philippines
Engaged couple Jason and Hazel travel across the world to meet her family in this true story of love and adventure. The moment Jason steps off the plane in the Philippines, an exotic island caught between the East and the West, the past and the present, grabs hold of this naive American and seduces him with its beauty, its places, and its people. Temptation looms as the best friend of Hazel tests their relationship and touches their souls.
A deeply personal account of the conflict of culture between American excess and Philippine poverty, His First, Her Last explores the ability of love to transcend two worlds apart. But after an accident spills blood on the streets of a remote village, the lives of this couple flash before their eyes.
Will he escape? Will she survive? Will his first trip be her last?
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Author-Book Profile with Excerpt: The Wind Whisperer by Krista Holle
Krista Holle is an award winning author who stepped up her writing after reading Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. It occurred to Krista that there is an insatiable audience of women and girls who want to read books filled with stories about true love—not just vampires. When Krista is not writing, she loves to collect seashells, watch movies, and eat obscene amounts of pizza. Krista currently resides in Montpelier, Virginia with her husband, four daughters and an eccentric cat with a weird attachment to the family’s socks.
The Wind Whisperer (young adult—paranormal romance):
Publication date: Coming this October 15, 2013
Publisher: (Independent) Sweet River Romance
Pages: 302
This love triangle just got dangerous…
At fifteen, Anaii is the most important member of her tribe—and the most mysterious. Ever since Anaii can remember, the spirits of the wind have whispered of fertile hunting grounds and imminent enemy attacks. But when her people are ambushed by a brother clan without any apparent cause, the spirits remain eerily silent.
As the village prepares to retaliate, Anaii is pressured by her best friend, Elan, to marry him. It’s an old plea—Elan has spent a lifetime loving her, but Anaii only sees a childhood playmate out of an imposing warrior. Stifled by Elan’s insistence, Anaii escapes into the forest where she meets Jayttin, the beautiful son of the enemy chief.
Enamored by Jayttin’s carefree spirit and hope for peace, she repeatedly sneaks away to be with him, but when her deception is discovered, Elan is devastated. Pledging his lifelong affection, Elan gives her a passionate kiss, and Anaii begins to see her friend in a new light.
While Anaii is tormented over which man she must choose, the wind whispers of a new threat that could destroy both tribes. Only a union will afford a chance at survival, but the reality of that union is based on one thing—which man Anaii chooses to die.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
November Kindle Fire HDX or $229 Giveaway
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Author-Book Profile with Excerpt: Lolly by Jeff Stewart
Please welcome Jeff Stewart, here with us today to introduce us to his latest book, Lolly: From Fishing to Fashion, Reeling in and Unlikely Fashion Success. This book "takes an in-depth and personal look at the start, deconstruction and re-birth of Los Angeles based clothing company, LOLLY Clothing". I'm looking forward to reading this. Perhaps the insights might spark and empower me to let out the entrepreneur in me that's eager to come out so I can make lots of money and buy more books! That and to better the world with my contribution, of course! ;)
Lolly: From Fishing to Fashion, Reeling in and Unlikely Fashion Success
Non-Fiction, 187p, 4.8 out of 5 stars so far on Amazon
Excerpt:
"There’s a storm in the Bering Sea. The boat is roughly 75 feet and the swells are tossing it around like a plastic ball.The boat crashes through the center of the storm, its eye beating down upon the deck, and the crew pulls together tokeep the haul secured and the nets and ropes from being absorbed by the ocean. The captain screams into the storm fromthe wheelhouse, the crew bites down on their cigarettes and clutch their rosary beads. The storm began as a light rainbefore sunset, and now its arms and breath are dealing blows into the boat without mercy. The sea rages beneath the roar,and they ride the storm out for hours and sit in the galley. A bottle of whiskey is produced and the shots get poured,cigarettes get lit, and the cards come out of the box for a hand of seven-card. The captain has nothing past the ante,but his mind is on the ocean, their slip of fate from the storm behind them, and talking to his men about investing in a high-end contemporary women’s fashion company…"
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Jeff Stewart left home at seventeen, and lived between the states and cities. The lack of interest in the status quo or a stuffy corporate career left the road open, not for adventure or self-discovery, but for the motion of it. “I was happy moving and writing, working city to city and staying in a month-to-month rental, in a room that wouldn’t keep me, in a place I didn’t have to commit to.”
Stewart traveled almost two decades working odd jobs, food service, and once on an Alaskan salmon boat; anything to get the rent, to keep moving and writing. By the time he was in his mid-twenties, Stewart had written volumes of short stories, poems and two novels. At 29, He wrote his thinly fictionalized autobiography, March of Time and Skin.
At 30, Stewart was discovered by an international lifestyle magazine, that paid him for his work about life across the States. He traveled and wrote freelance for the magazine between 2001 and 2006. His articles, written in his unique, raw form, changed the face of the industry’s journalism and gained Stewart a readership spanning 27 countries.
In 2008, Stewart was highly established in the world of American Literature with the release of March of Time and Skin, a brutal and beautiful breathtaking beat of truthful humor and the war-like victories of a life in constant motion.
Stewart’s Dead Birds Hot is a dystopian vortex of short stories with titles like “January” –a mirrored collage of an oppressed bartender as his dramatic girlfriend and job break down the remaining echoes of a future, “Glory” – a look at a young deviant’s sex addiction through the eyes of San Francisco’s Chinatown, “Wreckedge” – a story about a writer on the Philadelphia leg of his book tour who encounters an impaired reader with a bizarre obsession, “Retribution” –a sideways stroll through Manhattan with Sonny, a man at war with illusions he didn’t create and cannot escape, and, “Dead Birds Hot” –the story of a man who meets a hot and hard summer involving chain-gang labor, highways, dirt, sweat, and broken teeth in what is quickly being acclaimed as one of the best works of short fiction in contemporary literature today.
Currently living in California, Stewart has finished the novel Bad Jacket, about a writer falsely accused, incarcerated, and facing life in prison due to a psychotic reader. Also completed is Lolly, a much-awaited novel featuring the life and rise of a fashion company told from the eyes of a writer’s dissent into a world of business and the shine of a small company’s struggle and unheard of success. Stewart also recently completed Flotsam for Jetsam, about a man who delivers food for the Irish mafia, gets married then escapes massacre only to fall into a life of fame and strangeness. Stewart’s next release is Gutted Rose & Other Stories, being released early next year.
Lolly: From Fishing to Fashion, Reeling in and Unlikely Fashion Success
Non-Fiction, 187p, 4.8 out of 5 stars so far on Amazon
The gulls glide on the wind and land on the famous rock planted in the tides while the ocean reaches for Asia. In a pub one mile inland and north, a writer’s chance meeting with the owners of a clothing company ignites an agreement─planting the seed for a novel about the blood, work, fate, and unyielding vision that confounded the fashion industry and left it examining the path of Lolly.
March of Time and Skin author Jeff Stewart navigates us through the start, deconstruction, and rebirth of Lolly Clothing, the salvation from the bottom of survival to the methods of their success. Told in a beautifully raw, stripped-down style, Lolly: From Fishing to Fashion, Reeling in an Unlikely Fashion Success takes us through the insides of the fashion company and their people with humor, heartbreak, and prose that introduce the fashion process through the world of the writer; moving us along from the effects of guts and consequences to the cathedral of Lolly, and the power of never listening to the odds.
Excerpt:
"There’s a storm in the Bering Sea. The boat is roughly 75 feet and the swells are tossing it around like a plastic ball.The boat crashes through the center of the storm, its eye beating down upon the deck, and the crew pulls together tokeep the haul secured and the nets and ropes from being absorbed by the ocean. The captain screams into the storm fromthe wheelhouse, the crew bites down on their cigarettes and clutch their rosary beads. The storm began as a light rainbefore sunset, and now its arms and breath are dealing blows into the boat without mercy. The sea rages beneath the roar,and they ride the storm out for hours and sit in the galley. A bottle of whiskey is produced and the shots get poured,cigarettes get lit, and the cards come out of the box for a hand of seven-card. The captain has nothing past the ante,but his mind is on the ocean, their slip of fate from the storm behind them, and talking to his men about investing in a high-end contemporary women’s fashion company…"
Get it from Amazon here (or click on book image above):
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Head's-Up: Once in a Lifetime -Fractured Fairy Tale Collection
Once in a Lifetime: Fractured Fairy Tale Collection
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Bestselling authors Rashelle Workman, Chanda Hahn, Marie Hall, and Cameron have collaborated in a gift for the holidays. A box set that is humongous (330,000 words)! It contains Hahn's UnEnchanted and Fairest; Workman's first four Blood and Snow and first two Cindy Witch; Hall's Hook's Pan; and Cameron Jace's Grimm Diaries Prequels 1-6 . PLUS new, never before published bonus stories. And get this, all of this will be for $0.99. Holey Moley!!!
But wait! I just found out that it's available on Smashwords for pre-order NOW! Go HERE to check it out. :)
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Review: Soc and Greasers: Behind The Scenes ... by Rob Lowe
Soc & Greasers: Behind The Scenes of The Outsiders from Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe, NF, 2012, Kindle book edition, 31p, Rating=3.5
Source: own; freebie
A scene taken straight from Rob Lowe’s New York Times bestselling memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, a wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.
In Socs and Greasers, Lowe tells us what it was like to work on the set of The Outsiders, a film that helped launch the careers of many of today’s biggest stars, including Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, and Rob Lowe himself.
There's something about being revealed something "behind the scenes" that grabs me. You know, as if I've been included in a secret and so it's exciting and I feel trusted. Well, Mr. Lowe doesn't know me from Adam so it's not that he trusts me but having read this book, I'm one more person that knows something outside the inner circle and that's exciting and intimate. That said, whoever was responsible for this "teaser" was astute. This disclosure was interesting enough to want me to know more, hence, to read the full memoir. Tricky, tricky, I say! I must admit though, the writing was pretty good. Note however that it does contain conversational adult language.
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Review: Sia by Josh Grayson
Sia by Josh Grayson, YA, 2013, 3411, Rating=3
Publication Date: 11/20/2013
Source: ARC ebook copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review
I found myself turning the pages intrigued by the premise of fugue amnesia (DMS term would be Dissociative Fugue). In this case, seventeen year old, Sia, finds herself waking up hungry and with memory loss. Apparently not a good combination since she accepted the offer to get into a stranger's car. Luckily she escaped his advances and befriended a homeless lady who ended up helping her survive the street life. A week later Sia was reunited with her family and friends and finds out that she lived a luxurious lifestyle. Plus, discover that she was queen teen of snob and the behind the curtain family troubles may have been the cause of the intense stress that put her over the edge. This amnesia however had its perk ..it gave her morals. And it seemed to put wonders in her life and those around her because by book's end things were squared away ..someone went to rehab, someone got the saving job, someone got the boy, etc. May sound too neat and simplified but looking at the bigger picture, I applaud Sia's resolution to be an upstanding person and claim an identity. In that sense, this story provided a heartwarming taste of the power of perspective ..."walk a mile in my shoes" kind of viewpoint. Though I think this undertaking of amnesia may have been better suited for an adult novel because a mature character would be more plausible in such a case and supply a more enriching development.
About Author:
Publication Date: 11/20/2013
Source: ARC ebook copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review
When seventeen-year-old Sia wakes up on a park bench, she has no idea who or where she is. Yet after a week of being homeless, she’s reunited with her family. At school, she’s powerful and popular. At home, she’s wealthy beyond her dreams. But she quickly realizes her perfect life is a lie. Her family is falling apart and her friends are snobby, cruel and plastic. Worse yet, she discovers she was the cruelest one. Mortified by her past, she embarks on a journey of redemption and falls for Kyle, the “geek” she once tormented. Yet all the time she wonders if, when her memories return, she’ll become the bully she was before…and if she’ll lose Kyle.
I found myself turning the pages intrigued by the premise of fugue amnesia (DMS term would be Dissociative Fugue). In this case, seventeen year old, Sia, finds herself waking up hungry and with memory loss. Apparently not a good combination since she accepted the offer to get into a stranger's car. Luckily she escaped his advances and befriended a homeless lady who ended up helping her survive the street life. A week later Sia was reunited with her family and friends and finds out that she lived a luxurious lifestyle. Plus, discover that she was queen teen of snob and the behind the curtain family troubles may have been the cause of the intense stress that put her over the edge. This amnesia however had its perk ..it gave her morals. And it seemed to put wonders in her life and those around her because by book's end things were squared away ..someone went to rehab, someone got the saving job, someone got the boy, etc. May sound too neat and simplified but looking at the bigger picture, I applaud Sia's resolution to be an upstanding person and claim an identity. In that sense, this story provided a heartwarming taste of the power of perspective ..."walk a mile in my shoes" kind of viewpoint. Though I think this undertaking of amnesia may have been better suited for an adult novel because a mature character would be more plausible in such a case and supply a more enriching development.
About Author:
Josh Grayson was born in Mexico, raised in Massachusetts, and now lives in Martinsville, Virginia. It was his move to the South that stirred his imagination and gave him the courage to start writing. During his free time, Josh enjoys reading, jogging, swimming, and watching YouTube videos.
Josh currently works as a medical driver, shuttling people all over Virginia and North Carolina. He has also worked as a machinist, film sales rep, admin. assistant, and telemarketer (he apologizes if he called you).
Find him: Facebook | Goodreads | Instagram | Twitter | Website
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
Review: Stink and the Great Guniea Pig Express by Megan McDonald
Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express by Megan McDonald (Stink #4), Illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds, YR, 2008, 120p, Rating=3.5
Source: school library
When three guinea pigs from the local pet shop make a great escape, Stink Moody and his friends Webster and Sophie spring into action.
TA-DA! The Fantastic Fur Friends round up the little hairballs and bring them safely back to Mrs. Birdwistle’s shop, where they discover — OH-LA-LA! — guinea pig pandemonium! Time for the Great Guinea Pig Giveaway! Stink and company hit the road in a crazy quest to find
good homes for 101 squealing, whistling, chirping, wiggly piggies.
My 7yo brought this home from school to read. Nabbed it for a quick read. Cute. I especially liked the "Stink's Furry Facts" at the end of each chapter. They were fun and interesting facts about guinea pigs ..like more than 10,000yrs ago South American Indians ate them and in the Andes mountains of Bolivia and Peru they still do! Moreover, the story itself was a wholesome tale of a traveling adventure to find homes for 101 guinea pigs that were saved from being put down.
My first Stink book and looks like Ms McDonald has weaved kid friendly characters that kids can relate to and parents would find acceptable ..at least this mama does.
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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