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BREAKING NEWS! My fourth novel, FRIENDSHIP BREAD, will be published in hardcover by Ballantine Books in April 2011! You can even pre-order the audio CD (Random House Audio) by clicking here!
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d blog! There’s so much going on right now as the news continues to spread about my next novel, FRIENDSHIP BREAD. It sold at auction in mid-March to Ballantine Books for publication in 2011, and foreign rights have sold to Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, New Zealand, Taiwan, Poland and Australia.
I wrote FRIENDSHIP BREAD after my own daughter brought home a bag of Amish friendship bread starter. The truth? If she hadn’t been the one to give it to me, it might have gone straight into the trash! What a shame that would have been because days after receiving this fateful bag of starter, Julia Evarts, my protagonist, appeared.
I started writing and soon both the story and the words started to flow. I wrote like crazy and didn’t stop until I finished. And before I knew it, I had a new novel.
Between my agent’s client load (apparently she has other authors to represent — imagine that!) and more edits (if you heard teeth gnashing in the middle of the Pacific, that was me), it was almost a year before the manuscript went to auction. Talk about a lesson in patience. It was exactly one year to the week from when I wrote my last word to when FRIENDSHIP BREAD found a home, which is a wonderful reminder of how much can happen in a year. Who knows what any of us will be doing 365 days from today? I, for one, can’t wait to find out!
So what happens between now and the release of FRIENDSHIP BREAD? Lots of baking and recipe adapting, for starters. Meeting new readers and foodies, too. Instead of creating a book page I decided a kitchen was more up my alley, so behold the Friendship Bread Kitchen (www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com). We’re parked at Facebook for now but will be moving to our own home soon and I’d love for you to join the wonderful community that’s growing there.
If you’re visiting my website for the first time, I invite you to take a look around. You’ll find recipes from my books plus a few extras, excerpts, reading guides and a whole lot more. I have all sorts of wonderful contests going on from time to time, and I love to hear from readers! Email me anytime at authormiaking {at} gmail.com.
Affectionately,
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