Tag: #marleycreek

  • Why Writing Silly Love Stories Matters

    Why Writing Silly Love Stories Matters

    The most important thing to me as I wrote No Gouda Without You was to have a main character who was a cancer survivor. I was tired of reading and watching stories where women died of breast cancer. What about the seventy percent of women who have breast cancer, go through treatment, and then pick…

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  • Why Authors Call Their Books Their Babies

    Why Authors Call Their Books Their Babies

    Sometimes authors talk about their book babies and I didn’t understand why until I was revising my first book. Writing a book is like being in labor. Once it’s done and the baby has arrived you quickly forget the finer points of how arduous the whole process was to endure!  When I was writing this…

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  • Never Enough Notebooks!

    Never Enough Notebooks!

    Meet my new notebook. My husband was so befuddled that I needed a notebook to write down recipes when I could just save the links to the online recipes I like. He’s not wrong. I don’t need this… In my defense, look at these pages! There are little boxes you can check and lines for…

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  • A Soup So Good I Put It In My Book

    A Soup So Good I Put It In My Book

    In It App-ened One Night, Susan makes a butternut squash soup for her mom. It’s a soup I love to make in the fall and winter because the veggies are in season and usually on sale and it is vegan and a good choice for any diet. Plus you can add cheese or a protein to…

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