Cooking Thoughts: Cooking High

I live at altitude—around 5600 feet, to be exact. Altitude has a lot of effects, including thinner air, brighter sunshine, and (apparently) a greater tendency toward suicide. However, one area of life where altitude has a very pronounced effect is cooking. Atmospheric pressure decreases as altitude increases, and that fact turns out to screw with […]

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The Giving Tree and Me

Eloisa James recently quoted the final lines of Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree on Facebook. She described it as “a book that needs no introduction.” She’s probably right—I’m sure the majority of people who saw those lines recognized them immediately. I’ve heard The Giving Tree quoted in sermons. I’ve seen adults tear up as they […]

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Style and Substance

So I picked up this book at my local library last week. I admit I was attracted by the cover to begin with, but the blurb sounded interesting. Plus I’d heard of the author—she’s fairly well known in her genre. I hoped I might discover an author I hadn’t read before with a sizeable backlist, […]

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Tess Gerritsen: Bringing the Scary

I’m the author of three ghost romances (Medium Well, Medium Rare, and Happy Medium, thanks for asking), so I know something about scariness. But this post isn’t about my books—I’ve already posted quite a bit about them, like this, this, and this. This post is about Tess Gerritsen’s books, which are some of the scariest […]

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Making Your Own Reunion

I’m not much for reunions. I’ve never made it to my college reunions because they always seem to take place on my wedding anniversary (hubs and I tied the knot right after graduation) and rural Iowa is not exactly the ideal place to celebrate your wedding. I made it to one of my high school […]

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The Incredible Medium Rare Blog Hop

So I’m currently involved in a multi-week blog hop for Medium Rare, Book 2 in the Ramos Family/Medium Trilogy. The first week (and several weeks thereafter) I’m with Orangeberry, a British book publicity group. The second week I’m with Goddess Fish. So I’m including a schedule here with a large, honking caveat: Orangeberry is posting […]

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Medium Rare Is Out!

Congrats to Heidi Duckworth Hard who won the third copy of Medium Well last week. Medium Rare, book 2 in the Ramos Family/Medium Trilogy is now available from Berkley InterMix. Some readers have asked me how difficult it was to switch from writing contemporary romance to writing paranormal romance. I guess the answer to that […]

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Medium Rare, Week 3

Congrats to Kim Linger Brooks, winner of last week’s drawing for a copy of Medium Well, the first book in the Ramos Family trilogy. Once again, leave a comment on the blog and you’ll be entered for next week’s drawing. As I’ve said before, my heroine in Medium Rare, Rose Ramos, is a medium. Which […]

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Medium Rare, Week 2

Congrats to Sheryl Asbury who won last week’s drawing for a copy of Medium Well. To be entered in this week’s drawing for Medium Well, just leave a comment below. I’ll give away two more copies, leading up to the release of Medium Rare on August 20. One of the things I enjoyed about doing […]

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Welcome To the Ramos Family

On August 20, three weeks from today, Medium Rare. the second book in my Ramos Family Trilogy is released from Berkley InterMix. To celebrate, I’m giving away three copies of Medium Well, the first book in the trilogy, to a randomly chosen commenter, one per week. To be entered, leave a comment (and your email […]

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