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Guest author - Lynn Marie Hulsman
Dec. 17th, 2013 10:29 amThis week I'll be having two guests, both of whom I met through the Festival of Romance and both of whom are jolly good eggs. The first is Lynn Marie Hulsman who likes mince pies and so goes straight to the top of any list of people with good taste. So, Lynn...
What inspired you to start writing?
I’m from the American South, where storytelling is given deep respect. For us, great stories are heard in likely and unlikely places. Equally important in my memory are church sermons exhorted by the fiery preachers I heard when we lived in the mountains of Appalachia, in tall tales fueled by beer, and told around the campfire alongside Kentucky’s lakes, as hyperbolic yarns spun among elderly ladies in my grandmother’s beauty parlor where I spent my summers sweeping hair, or in the pages of the novels penned by Harper Lee and William Faulkner that I studied in University. Storytelling is power. It’s a call for attention. And as I coach the performers in my comedy improve troupe ComedySportz New York, if you ask an audience to pay attention to you, respect them by giving them 100 percent of what you have to offer. Do not waste their time.
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Christmas at Thornton Hall from Harper Impulse.
When Juliet Hill unwittingly discovers a most-definitely-not-hers-rhinestone-studded lace thong in her high-flying lawyer boyfriend's apartment, this usually feisty chef is suddenly single and facing a very blue Christmas - with only a ready meal for one to keep her company!
So when she's personally requested to cater for the family at Thornton Hall three days before Christmas, it's not long before Juliet's standing at the (back) door of the impossibly grand ancestral pile.
The halls are decked, the guests are titled, those below the stairs are delightfully catty, and all-American Juliet sets to work cooking up a glorious British Christmas with all the trimmings.
But other flames are burning besides those on the stove... Sparks fly with Edward, the gorgeous ex-soldier turned resident chef, and are those sidelong looks Juliet's getting from her boss, the American tycoon Jasper Roth?
As the snow starts to fall on the idyllic Cotswolds countryside, so does the veneer of genteel high society and there are more than a few ancient skeletons rattling out of the Hall's numerous dark cupboards!
If you fancy looking at Lynn's cook books, get your teeth into How To Make Your Own Soda or The Irish Pantry.
What inspired you to start writing?
I’m from the American South, where storytelling is given deep respect. For us, great stories are heard in likely and unlikely places. Equally important in my memory are church sermons exhorted by the fiery preachers I heard when we lived in the mountains of Appalachia, in tall tales fueled by beer, and told around the campfire alongside Kentucky’s lakes, as hyperbolic yarns spun among elderly ladies in my grandmother’s beauty parlor where I spent my summers sweeping hair, or in the pages of the novels penned by Harper Lee and William Faulkner that I studied in University. Storytelling is power. It’s a call for attention. And as I coach the performers in my comedy improve troupe ComedySportz New York, if you ask an audience to pay attention to you, respect them by giving them 100 percent of what you have to offer. Do not waste their time.
( Read more... )
Christmas at Thornton Hall from Harper Impulse.
When Juliet Hill unwittingly discovers a most-definitely-not-hers-rhinestone-studded lace thong in her high-flying lawyer boyfriend's apartment, this usually feisty chef is suddenly single and facing a very blue Christmas - with only a ready meal for one to keep her company!
So when she's personally requested to cater for the family at Thornton Hall three days before Christmas, it's not long before Juliet's standing at the (back) door of the impossibly grand ancestral pile.
The halls are decked, the guests are titled, those below the stairs are delightfully catty, and all-American Juliet sets to work cooking up a glorious British Christmas with all the trimmings.
But other flames are burning besides those on the stove... Sparks fly with Edward, the gorgeous ex-soldier turned resident chef, and are those sidelong looks Juliet's getting from her boss, the American tycoon Jasper Roth?
As the snow starts to fall on the idyllic Cotswolds countryside, so does the veneer of genteel high society and there are more than a few ancient skeletons rattling out of the Hall's numerous dark cupboards!
If you fancy looking at Lynn's cook books, get your teeth into How To Make Your Own Soda or The Irish Pantry.
