http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

hot link

I’ve tweaked the recipe a tiny bit, but this is real close to Hodgman’s.

preheat oven 375 degrees

crust

1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 sticks butter
3 tablsp cold water

mix salt into flour, cut butter into flour, sprinkle water, form in ball, chill for 1/2 hour

bake crust at 375 till done, about 20 min

turn oven down to 350

filling (make while crust is baking)

3 bags frozen peaches (my change — she calls for 4 sliced fresh peaches. Sounds great! but I promise you the frozen work better every time and save SO MUCH FRKN TIME that once you use frozen you will never go back…

1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
nutmeg
pinch salt
butter (she says 1/4 cup but I use anywhere from 1/2 a cube to a whole cube, depending on my mood)

mix dry ingreds, melt butter/ combine all — it will be a gooey pasty glob. Keep peaches separate.

layer peaches/brown sugar mix and bake for 50 min at 350

eat while still warm. Fabu for breakfast next day (if there’s any left)

Eric Says:
August 1, 2010 at 6:43 pm edit
Nice work i have to say, even inspired me to do a short story off of that idea. Thanks!

Whoa, there pardner! That’s my world you’re helping yourself to. I’m not even established yet, and someone’s fanficking me?

Now, of course ideas are not intellectual property, but world’s are. I found Eric’s page at Smashword’s, and what do you know? He’s published an entire book over there — has it for sale for $5.99 based on “David Drake’s Hammer’s Slammers Universe.”

He downloaded my free first chapter and left a 5 star review. It’s all too weird.

I wrote this letter:

Hi Eric,

I saw your comment on Fair Maison and checked out your page at Smashwords. Thanks so much for the 5-star review of my first chapter of Space Junque. I hope to have the whole thing out in about a month.

You mentioned writing a short story off the world of Space Junque, and I hope you won’t do that. This is my world I am creating for my work.

It looks like you’re a good writer. I hope you’ll put your efforts into creating a world that is yours.

I appreciate your enjoyment of my work, but I explicitly do not give you permission to use it in yours.

I wish you much success in creating worlds that your readers will enjoy — and I hope to be one of them,

Most sincerely,
LK Rigel

Any thoughts? Ideas?

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turns out the “I write like” website is likely a scam trying to lure writers to a vanity press.

1.   Go to datafont and pick a font.  Note that some “fonts” are packets of several fonts. Some are free for personal use. Some are free but you can donate to the artist through PayPal. (don’t piss off the art gods – if you want people to pay for your book, it would be tacky not to pay your font designer.)

2. Download the font and open it in the download folder.

3. Unzip the fonts.

4. Select all and copy.

5. Go to your control panel and open the fonts file.

6. Paste.  You might get some messages saying that one or several files aren’t allowed — just click okay until you’re done.

7. Open GIMP — ta-da! You’ve got fonts.

I keep thinking how great Samhain’s covers are getting– and then they just get better!  This is for Kristen Painter’s upcoming Miss Bramble and the Leviathan.

I smell a hit…

Kanaxa (the artist) — take a bow.

The three novellas in Zoe Winters’ Blood Lust trilogy — Kept, Claimed, and Mated tell the story of how three couples in her world find true love and hook up. The series is a fast-paced and well-done introduction to the world of the Preternaturals series. (The full-length novel Save My Soul will be the next installment.)

You can’t write about Winters’ work without mentioning that she is an indie publisher — see? — and then remarking on how professional her presentation is — see?  Well, she is.  And it is.

I’ve enjoyed all three novellas. The stories are fresh and complex and full of smart humor.  Sentences like “Anthony has minions?” and “Cole didn’t have time to listen to his beta’s excuses.” Hilarious in context, delivered by an excellent story teller.

Oh, and as to the which did I like best question:  Claimed — but only by a hair’s breadth.

I’m so glad I read these novellas. I heartily recommend them all.