I’m about to send The Oracle #1 off to the editor – yay – and dig back into writing Dowser #4. Yes, I have titles for both of those books and I will release them soon as well.
During the next couple of weeks as I write Dowser #4 I’m going to be doing some fun things that I thought you might like to know about and/or participate in.
Starting Wednesday, I’m reading through the first three Dowser books. I’ll download them on my iPad, sit down, and actually read them as if I was … well, a reader. I’ll share my favourite quotes and thoughts about certain sections as I read. Perhaps you will have questions yourself? Or favourite quotes to share?
I’ll start a new post here on the blog and a new thread on my Facebook page for each book as I read.
I’m expecting to start Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic on Wednesday. The ebook is perma-free everywhere if you haven’t grabbed it yet (links on the book page). I’m a fast reader, so I expect to have it done in a day, barring any other work that needs my attention. Then I’ll read Trinkets (Etc) and then Treasures (Etc).
The second thing I’m going to be doing is testing some new cupcakes – specifically with some wild blackberries I picked the other day. It has been suggested that my readers may want to participate in this process and perhaps even come up with a name or two, so we will do that as well 🙂
Third, and most importantly because Jade needs new chocolate for Dowser 4, I will be test tasting these:
I know I’m such a martyr for my craft. Yes – if you didn’t already know it from my Facebook post – I went a little crazy and dented my credit card pretty hard at Xocolat right before we moved. Did I mention we just picked up and moved to Salt Spring Island? No? Well, we did. It’s an adventure (more on that later).
I will select a chocolate bar a day … or two or three a day if I run into something I don’t like enough to eat plain (I bake with any chocolate I don’t love enough to just eat). I’ll share the bar and my tasting notes on Facebook and do a digest version here.
Fun, yes?
Okay, so it all begins Wednesday with reading Cupcakes (Etc).
I hope you join me!
Read the first chapter this morning. Great start. I’m already intrigued by the vampire and there is some sort of mystery about the trinkets. I need to make cupcakes later and by need, I mean REALLY REALLY NEED
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I read chapter one and two yesterday and highlighted the bits that stood out to me. I'm going to start another post here with those bits, but I wanted to say I ate a LARGE lunch before starting to read and I still needed chocolate to get through the first two chapters – LOL