Besides
being writers and contributors to the book, Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing, Sharleen Scott and I have
another thing in common. We live in Washington State near one of the great
produce valleys in the country. Skagit Valley is famous for growing berries:
blueberries, strawberries; black berries; Marion berries, and raspberries. If
you ever visit during the summer, you’ll see fresh berry stands all along the
roadways and even in the small towns along the way. Walking through a community
farmer’s market, will have your mouth watering over the scent of ripe fruit.
So,
it made perfect sense to me when I learned that Sharleen’s recipe in the book
was Berries and Cream Pie. Although berry season has long passed, I have
Sharleen recipe and several containers of berries in my freezer, which will get
me through until the summer.
Her
recipe calls for fresh or frozen berries poured into a nine inch pie crust and
topped with a mixture of sugar, flour, salt, cinnamon, and half-and-half, and
baked. Check out the dessert cookbook for recipe details and to read Sharleen’s
seven steps to a lasting, loving relationship. Her writing advice is equally
simple and wise: “Follow your heart, because only a book written from the heart
will have a heart.”
Bake,
Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Relationships and
Writing, is edited by
Lois Winston. The book features mystery and romance writers
sharing not only their favorite recipes for fabulous cakes, pies, cookies,
candy, and more, they also share the best advice they’ve ever received on love
and writing.
Bio: Romantic suspense author
Sharleen Scott lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband Brett,
two college kids, and two spoiled cats. Caught in the Spin, the second book in her Caught
series, was released November 2.
For more information about Sharleen Scott and her writing, check out her website:
Cookbook authors include:
Brenda Novak, Lois Winston, Debra Holland, Dale Mayer, Shelley Noble, Caridad
Pineiro, Diana Orgain, Lisa Verge Higgins, Lynn Cahoon, Jasmine Haynes, Jan
Carol, Meg Bellamy, Bobbi Chukran, Melissa Keir, Amy Gamet, Kristy Tate, Terry
Shames, Barbara Phinney, Kitsy Clare, Raine English, Cathryn Cade, Haley
Whitehall, Shilpa Mudiganti, Melinda Curtis, Jessa Slade, Jill Blake, Daryl
Devore, Molly MacRae, Elizabeth Rose, Helena Fairfax, Lourdes Venard, Jessica
Aspen, Maegan Beaumont, Kay Kendall, Elizabeth John, Victoria Adams, Cyndi
Pauwels, Alice Loweecey, June Shaw, Donnell Ann Bell, T. Michelle Nelson, Nina
Milton, Pam DeVoe, Skye Taylor, Conda V. Douglas, Pepper Phillips, Judy Alter,
Cadence Denton, Lesley Diehl, Erin Farwell, Regan Walker, Kaye Spencer, Barbara
Monajem, Kathleen Kaska, Catherine Kean, Rose Anderson, Suzie Tullett, Deborah
Hughes, Cynthia Luhrs, Judy Baker, Alicia Dean, Leslie Langtry, Janis Susan
May, Mitzi Flyte, Ruby Merritt, Renee D. Field, Kathryn Quick, Susan Cory, Judy
Penz Sheluk, Kay Manis, Kathryn Jane, Debra Goldstein, E. Ayers, Chantilly
White, Sloan McBride, Triss Stein, Ana Morgan, Adele Downs, L.C. Giroux, Pamela
Aares, Nancy Warren, Barbara Lohr, J.J. Cook, Lynn Reynolds, Cori Arnold, B.V.
Lawson, Lynn Franklin, M.L. Guida, Irene Peterson, Sue Viders, Liese
Sherwood-Fabre, Susan Santangelo, Sheila Seabrook, Elaine Charton, Sharleen
Scott, Kathy Bennett, Jody Payne, Reggi Allder, Ashlyn Chase, Beverley Bateman,
Susan Lohrer, Donis Casey, Barbara Leavy, Stacy Juba, Karen Rose Smith.
Now an Amazon bestselling cookbook!
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