Free e-book, Cooking with Herbs & Spices

On Amazon, for the Kindle (and any other e-readers), for three days only.

http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Spices-Earthly-Gardener-ebook/dp/B008JHVR08

Grab it while ya can!

Rosemary in my Texas garden.  This time of year I harvest a lot of it to dry to make my own Italian herbal blends, and to give for holiday gifts.

Thanks!

Happy trails,

bobbi c.

New e-booklet available NOW

SPECIAL TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Dear friends,

The new herbal e-booklet I promised last month, COOKING WITH HERBS & SPICES is AVAILABLE NOW in e-book format for the Kindle for only $2.99 (compared to the $6 of the formerly printed version).  It's llustrated with color photos taken by me.

READ A SAMPLE, OR BUY COOKING WITH HERBS & SPICES

And to think, twenty years ago this month I was folding smelly printed pages, collating them one by one, adding a cover and stapling them by hand, trimming then packing into envelopes for mailing, or into boxes to take to herb festivals.  Wow.

I have to say, I love publishing e-books!  There are so many advantages to them---saving trees/paper/time/energy, and I can include color photos (although some Kindles are still black and white).


This is the first in a planned series of Earthly Gardener Guides.  Future booklets will feature past garden articles I've written, garden stories, etc.

Happy trails!

bobbi c.

Twenty Years Later!

Dear friends,

Twenty years ago this month, I was publishing short gardening and cooking booklets through my Fiberworks Publications small press.  One in particular, COOKING WITH HERBS & SPICES, was my favorite.

The booklets were short, sweet, and I sold oodles of them at herb festivals, fairs, through mail-order and to libraries.  After recently publishing my LONE STAR DEATH mystery novel as a Kindle e-book, I had the notion that the booklets might be something that my Earthly Gardener readers might like.  So, I dug through my piles and found the only original copy that I have, published back in June, 1992.  Ironic, I thought--twenty years exactly.  Just in time for a Special Twentieth Anniversary E-book Edition!

So, I spent the weekend updating it, editing it, adding a bit, taking a bit out, formatting--all that stuff that one has to do these days to get a book ready for publication.  One thing I couldn't do back then was afford to include photos in the book.  This time, I can!  So I spent another day or so going through my thousands of garden and cooking photos to find just the right ones to illustrate it.  Luckily, I have lots of photos of herbs! :-)

THEN, I had to find the right photo for the cover.  (Yes, I Do It All Myself).  Found that, added the title  text, and came up with this:

Stay tuned!  I predict that the booklet will be available for sale on Amazon.com as a Kindle e-book by the end of the month, if not sooner.

Happy trails, y'all!

bobbi c.