It is said that there is no perfect book and that every book has an error in it somewhere. Make Your Own Darn Good Cookies has been out for a month now and I have found a few mistakes — as follows.
The recipe reads “4 cups – 480 ml All-Purpose Flour”. There is a mistake in the conversion to metric and it should read “4 cups – 960 ml All-Purpose Flour”.
COOKIE SQUARES ERRORS
The conversion for 2 1/3 cups flour is frequently incorrect. It often reads 650ml while it should be 560ml.
This can be found in the following Cookie Square flavours – Almond Cranberry, Brunettie, Butterscotch Blondie Coffee, Cranberry Orange, Dirty Blondie, Lemon, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Strawberry Lemonade.
ASTERISKS TO NOWHERE
In “Chris & Arne’s Fabulous Cheeseburger Soup” and “Chris & Arne’s Fabulous Chicken Bacon Burger Soup” you will find asterisks (you know — these ***) next to “cheese” in the ingredients. There is nothing below that these lead to.
~ The Loved & Loathed BLACK FRIDAY ~
What Are You Doing?
Are you hitting the Black Friday sales? Hiding out, staying home, and avoiding the chaos? Or are you busying yourself with something else today?
Aside from drinking coffee and enjoying some leftover Thanksgiving PIE, I’m at home working on a few future-book-projects. For the past week+, while the e-book file of my current recipe book is getting reviewed for me, I’ve kept myself busy making progress on a few future book projects. One of these calls for me to create some NEW COOKIE RECIPES — which couldn’t have me More Pleased! Black Friday
I enjoy the creative process of imagining new baked goods and bringing them to fruition — it puts me in my element. Get an idea, figure out how maybe to make it, give it a go, possibly fail, try again, and then … finally … FIND IT! For the book I am chiefly working towards, I want recipes with finished baked goods with serious visual and taste-bud POP. Cookies that delight the eye, that the hand can’t resist picking up, and makes a mouth smile from a promise fulfilled. If a cookie could have the electric ambiance of a rock concert, THAT would be THESE COOKIES! Black Friday
As you know from my first book — Make Your Darn Good Cookies, published last month on Amazon — I gratefully accept recipe submissions. If you have a cookie recipe you’d like to submit for possible publication in one of my future books — and in this case a recipe that to you looks and tastes like ROCK’n’ROLL — please run-don’t-walk to e-mail your submission to me.
Can cookies be Rock’n’Roll? OH YEAH! I think so…
Do you want to do some experimenting, too? Download my FOUR FREE COOKIE RECIPES from my recent book, go get in your kitchen, and have some FUN!
My Bigfoot Monster Cookies feature peanut butter, oats, choc-chips, and m&… er, a candy-coated chocolate. My Chupacabras are focused around peanut butter, oats, dried cranberries and white chocolate chips. I slapped a signature name on these for some savvy marketing and things were good to go. Bigfoot was a familiar local name while Chupacabra fit with the white chocolate chips for fangs and dried cranberries for red eyes that the creature is sometimes noted as having. Godzilla
I would like to make a number of different Monster Cookies after different beasties — cryptozoological beasties like The Loch Ness Monster and the Jersey Devil, mythical beasties like Krampus, and then today when I had a BRAINSTORM ….. in this case, I’m thinking …. FILM! Godzilla
So here’s my question ….. What flavours would you think of for a Godzilla themed Monster Cookie? What kind of cookie base would it have, what highlight flavours (candies, spices, etc)?
Nearly 3 years of work and a number of speed-bumps along the way, and my debut recipe book is finally PUBLISHED. I finished the submission to Amazon on Friday and Saturday morning it had GONE LIVE!!! I was part way through breakfast when I found out the news — then the web and my phone EXPLODED with activity. Congrats on getting published, questions about my book, someone bought a copy, someone else wants 3 signed copies as Xmas gifts, keeping up with the comments, posting on Facebook and Twitter …. and about 4 or 6 hours later things calmed down and I turned to find the rest of my cold, uneaten breakfast sitting next to me. Really, coffee shouldn’t be treated that way.
It took me a while, but I finally figured out where and how to order copies of my book. I’m getting about 60 on this first go-around. I have around 20 people to give copies to who contributed to the project and were amazingly supportive along the way — I am grateful to get reminders of how incredible people can be*. There are also two people seeking around 5 copies each (WOW!) for Christmas gifts — 10 copies already sold!
* One among them is this guy — Tom Trimbath! He also has an impressive collection of books he’s written available here.
Yeah, things started moving pretty quick — and finally, now … late Sunday evening, I’m getting to make a blog post about the highlights of what’s gone on. It’s been an amazing ride so far — testing my stick-to-it and gumption, giving me challenges to use my resourcefulness to resolve, and numerous new things and lessons learned — I love this stuff! And now…? book
Now I go from being a writer to being a published author. book
Now I get to work on converting the manuscript for my book into an e-book — and likely an audio-book too, narrated by yours-truly!
Now I remember that I need to get new business cards made. Now the pivot of WIBC from being a company that makes food to being a company about good food and people connecting with people is complete. book
Taking a bagpipe break while at Galacticon IV at the Seattle Center, August 2015
This past week something surprising happened on Facebook for me. Out of the blue I was asked about the WIBC t-shirt I wore at farmers markets and conventions — more specifically, if I had ever made these available for sale. WOW! It’s been two years since I sold my last cookie and I’m just about as I am to publish my first book, and one of the security guards at Galacticon 4 remembers — and still wants — one of my shirts. COOL!
The whole time I was selling cookies I was only asked once by a customer if they were available. Quite frankly I wanted to carry my company shirts and see how they would sell however I was always too busy cranking out cookies to order even a small supply. WIBC t-shirt
After responding on Facebook to the security guard gent that I should still be able to get a shirt to him last week the surprising thing happened… quickly …
WIBC vending at the Coupeville Farmers Market 25Jul2015
Various friends expressed solid requests for at least a dozen WIBC t-shirts and at least as many more people showed interest in making a WIBC shirt order! While I can still order these from my original supplier, a new friend here on Whidbey Island is starting an embroidery and printing business and suggested I could get these made through her — “Keep it on The Rock” as we like to say here on the island.
What was lost — er, put into storage — has been found
With the release of my soon-to-be-published first recipe book I had planned to make these shirts available. However, with one to two dozen folks interested in a WIBC shirt, I’m excited to get to work on this As Soon As Possible! I’m swamped at the moment moving house — if I can figure out how to do this on top of the move I will — otherwise it will be first on my list immediately after. I’ve even been trying to figure out if I can work these shirts from a marketing angle — maybe something along the lines of if you order a shirt now, when my book comes out if you send me a picture wearing your shirt in a prominent place, I’ll send you a signed copy of my book free of shipping. I don’t know yet exactly how I might work that, but I really like the idea.
If you are interested in a WIBC t-shirt …
Please contact me by email, leave a comment below, or contact me on Facebook. WIBC can take credit cards and handle PayPal transactions. Currently I can get standard t-shirts made like those pictured in this post and I plan to look into other options including long-sleeve shirts, hoodies, and spaghetti tanks, aprons, et cetera. WIBC t-shirt
Excited? OH YEAH!
Let me know! ~ Don WIBC t-shirt
WIBC product demo at Goose Grocery in Bayview 03Jul2015 — company URL featured on the back of my shirt …. and a kilt
Later that day my 
Now the pivot of WIBC from being a company that makes food to being a company about good food and people connecting with people is complete.
