There aren’t any useful quantities for me to list for the ingredients, because it’s all to taste. A quick guide is to go a bit lighter on the turmeric and bit heavier on the marjoram.

Ingredients:

Salt

Pepper

Marjoram (this flavor blends really well with meat)
Turmeric (probably good for health)
Paprika (adds a smoky flavor)

Optional: Parsley (enhances the other spices)

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Trinity Library, Digital Edition

Sept. 2011

• The Lost Fleet: Dreadnaught, (paperback), by Jack Campbell

Nov. 2011

• The Alloy of Law, by Brandon Sanderson
• Magic on the Line, by Devon Monk

Jan. 2012

• Of Truth and Beasts, (paperback), Barb and JC Hendee

March 2012

• Raven Calls, by CE Murphy

April 2012

• Tricked, by Kevin Hearne
• Magic Without Mercy, by Devon Monk

May 2012

• Andrea (spinoff from Kate Daniels series), by Ilona Andrews

Feb. 2013

• Kate Daniels 6, by Ilona Andrews

Hopefully, other bookstores will step up and take over some of the Borders sites. Rumor (aka the newspaper) says that both Barnes and Noble and Books-a-million are looking at some of the sites.

Perhaps the closing of Borders will enable smaller local bookstores to thrive.

For the ingredients, I will list the ingredients as I actually made it, with the original version in parentheses.

Ingredients

Fondue

• 1 tablespoon coconut oil (unsalted butter)
• 3/4 cup Daiya cheddar or mozzarella cheese (Italian Fontina cheese, cut into 1/4 inch pieces)
• 1/2 cup coconut milk (regular milk)
• 2 large egg yolks

Crostinis

• 4-8 slices GF bread (four 1/2 inch thick slices for a crusty bread, or sliced baguettes)
• 1 large garlic clove, halved
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 4-8 pieces of bacon (1/4 pound thinly sliced prosciutto)
• 1 pound thin asparagus

Directions

Ideally, these will be timed to all be ready about the same time.

Cook the bacon (I microwaved the bacon between paper towels for a couple of minutes).

Toast the bread (toaster or under the broiler for 1-2 minutes per side). Rub the bread with garlic, add a little salt, and brush with the olive oil.

Cook the asparagus. I stir-fried it in a wok with some olive oil. You can also boil the asparagus in water. Either way, it takes about 5 minutes.

Make the fondue. This is the part with the most steps. Heat up a double boiler (if you don’t have one, fill a soup pan with some water and stick a metal bowl on top). Melt the coconut oil (or butter). When it melts, add in the cheese and the coconut milk. When the cheese begins to melt, whisk in the two egg yolks. Continue whisking until the mixture is smooth and thickened. It should take about 7 minutes. Let the mixture cool off the heat, stirring occasionally.

Make up the crostinis: break up the bacon (prosciutto) into pieces and put it on the bread. Cut the asparagus into bite-sized pieces and place on top of the bacon. Pour the fondue over the bread.

1. Write novel #1
2. Put novel #1 on shelf, start writing novel #2
3. Decide novel #1 has been on the shelf long enough and start editing it
4. Give up editing novel #1, go back to writing novel #2
5. Finish novel #2, put it on the shelf
6. Edit novel #1 again
7. Start writing novel #3
8. Start editing novel #2
9. Give up editing novel #2, go back to editing novel #1
10. Write some more on novel #3
11. Decide novel #1 is finally ready to start querying
12. Query agents with novel #1
13. Edit novel #2
14. Finish writing novel #3
15. etc.

Ingredients

• Bananas
• Brown sugar
• Cinnamon
• Vanilla
• Dairy-free chocolate syrup (Onalaska is a good brand)
• 1 can coconut milk (regular, not lite)
• 1/2 cup sugar

Directions

Slice up the bananas and add one of the following toppings.

Chocolate syrup

Brown sugar and cinnamon to taste

Coconut cream. Open the can of coconut milk and drain off the liquid, keep the more solid parts. Refrigerate the coconut milk and sugar for 24 hours. Refrigerate a bowl and spoon for three hours. Mix the coconut milk and sugar together–you’re looking for something the consistency of whipped cream. Pour this over the bananas.  Add vanilla or cinnamon to taste.

What inspires you may not inspire me, and vice versa.

Take the time to renew your creativity.

Ideally, publishers would sell at a lower cost than the bookstores and pay a higher absolute royalty to their authors for those sales. If authors can make two dollars selling an ebook directly through the publisher’s web site, or one dollar selling through Amazon, which one are they going to link to?

• A dictionary
• The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman
• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King
• The Enchanted Forest And Its Family by Mavis Tofte
• Designing Disney: Imagineering and the Art of the Show by John Hench and Peggy van Pelt
• Fantasy Encyclopedia by Judy Allen
• Shrines and Temples of Kyoto by Shizuya Paul Satoh
• Forensics and Fiction by D. P. Lyle
• Cause of Death by Keith D. Wilson
• Forensics by D. P. Lyle
• The Imagineering Field Guide to the Magic Kingdom by The Imagineers
• The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy, Vols. 1-3
• The Writer’s Complete Fantasy Reference
• Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See