Author: MCD

I'm a writer. I also bake. And knit. A lot. My novels are available anywhere ebooks/paperbacks/audiobooks are sold online. Find more info on my blog: http://www.madebymeghan.ca

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In the garden: Yellow Brandywine

This is one of the new varieties of tomatoes we tried this year, Yellow Brandywine. The plant was huge, took a long time to fruit, and didn’t start ripening until mid-September, also it seemed to be very prone to powdery mildew, but they sure were tasty! I purchased the starter plant at the VanDusen Garden Sale at the beginning of May 2011.

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Around The Web: After The Virus, etc.

Only two items (that I know of) of note this week, as I have been doing more writing than web surfing, which is good of me, but makes a bit of a boring post (with only a couple of links).
  • Michelle over at Michelle’s Book Blog took a read of After The Virus this week and ranked it 4-stars! Hopefully her readers enjoy it as much as she did!
  • Also my great proofreader, Diana Cox, (who, BTW, found a multitude of things in what I thought was a really clean final draft, plus her rates are crazy reasonable) was kind enough to request After The Virus as one of her featured books on her web site. Thanks Diana!
Hope you are having a great week!
FYI – !!Beginning next week!! – Flash Fiction Fridays and then, alternating somewhat random weeks, Short Story Saturday – accumulating in the release of After the Virus in POD (print on demand) and then the launch of Harbinger!
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gardening photography vancouver

In the garden: Pink Echinacea

In the bee garden…

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gardening photography vancouver

In the garden: red (velvet) snapdragons

These snapdragon were rather desperate to grow in the rose garden, even though I planted them on the other side of the back yard (where they declined to grow). I didn’t have the heart to rip them out and now they look like velvet – what a colour!!

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Around The Web: After The Virus, etc.

If you are a writer and not reading these blogs you are crazy (okay, that’s a bit extreme seeing as time is a limited resource, but still check these out):
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gardening photography vancouver

In the garden: green beans

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Around The Web: After The Virus, etc.

Oops, this was supposed to go live yesterday!!
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Instead of doing individual posts, I’ve decided to do a link round up every Wednesday (if I have collected enough links to warrant a round up!!) So, since I last posted about my novel, After The Virus, (buy and sample links found on the right hand side bar) here is what has happened around the web!

Other links of interest:
  • Want to know all about ISBN’s? Author Michelle Demers has written a 6 part series for self-publishers on this very topic. Here’s PART ONE.
  • Ever wonder what it would be like to be a female detective in a small town? Well, Suzie Ivy is the Bad Luck Detective and she blogs about her crazy (and funny) experiences. I’ve got her on RSS and am loving her posts.
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gardening photography vancouver

In the garden: red, red rose

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From garden to kitchen: Zucchini

Last week I found this monster zucchini hiding behind a garbage can full of crazy potato plants (more on those later). Under this stealthy cover the zucchini was able to grow beyond tasty eating size and into what-the-hell-am-I-going-to-do-with-this proportions.

So this:

Monster “Ambassador” Zucchini

Became this:

Monster Zucchini = 8+ cups when grated!!

Became these:

Zombie Chocolate Chip Cookies (x 2 batches)

And this:

Zucchini Bread with Chocolate Chips

And last, but certainly not least in taste, these:

Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing

And yes, despite this flurry (fury?) of baking, I did manage to get some writing done last week.

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In the kitchen: possessed (suicidal) bananas

Michael, while packing for his lunch, found these in the cupboard this morning:

After staring at them for a moment – cut him some slack, how often do you come across suicidal bananas – he laughed his ass off and then took the one which declared itself “like brains but better” for a morning snack.

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ETA: Currently eating the “Come on! You know you want to!” banana, as, it turns out, I did totally want to… just now. It’s tasty.

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Thanks to The Bloggess for the idea!