Shutter-bugs, Photographers, Folks with Photo-collections – I need your help!
One of my nutcrackers — not these — will stand guard for Christmas
My latest cookie recipe book is on track to publish Spring 2022. This book will feature tasty treats for winter holidays – Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Although time is getting snug, I think I’ll make it – but I need a few pictures …
The photos of my cookies are in good shape. I have found that getting other people involved makes my books more fun. What I lack are pictures for the chapter openings.
What I am looking for are simple photos with a single icon that is immediately recognizable with its holiday. I have a small collection of nutcrackers, and I will be taking a picture of one to represent Christmas. I still need photos that represent Thanksgiving and New Years*.
* Update – I may have some New Years fireworks photos to choose from already.
I will of course need colour photos with good composition, lighting, and resolution. These pictures be used in multiple products – print books, e-books, etc – possibly in some marketing. The contributors of these photos will be mentioned in the Acknowledgements section of the book and receive a complimentary copy of the book in gratitude. Also, the copyright section of the book will acknowledge you as the owner of the image.
(Note that the primary product will be a print book with black & white photos in the interior, including these chapter openings.)
You know that I’ve been posting a FREE Recipe Of The Month on my blog since 01Dec2019 — RIGHT?!? This has been an absolute ball — thinking up something different to present, seeing people’s responses online, and knowing that folks are inspired to try new things in their kitchen.
But could there be … more?
YEP – these cookies are GREEN! Trust me, I know – I live in a state where 1/2 of everything is green. So far as I have found little of it tastes minty though.
During this time I have been thinking of ways to do more with these recipes. I could start an e-mail newsletter, a Patreon account, and maybe even produce demonstration videos on YouTube. While I think those are great ideas, these are not really manageable for me at this time.
Instead I have started turning my Recipe Of The Month content into books. My aim is to publish the first two — the 2020 and the 2021 Collections — in early 2022. Folks who want nicely published keepsake copies will be able to get these for their recipe-book shelf and e-reader. My plan is to keep the prices of these low, and the sales will help to support what I do.
What recipes will be in these books?
These books will feature the twelve recipes from the year — and so far each book has ended up with a few bonus recipes! In some cases these recipes will include previously unreleased photos and additional content. Here’s what’s to come in the first two recipe books …
The 2021 Collection — Burmese Chicken Soup, Hot Fudge Pudding Cake, Farls, Grasshopper Squares, Jambon, Cake Mix Cookies, Lemon Almond Pudding Cake, Peppermint Patties, Dirty Chai Coffee Cake, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Graham Cracker Pie Crust, my current November recipe for Peanut Butter Pumpkin Soup(pictured below), my December recipe which hasn’t been decided yet, and a bonus dessert recipe … which you’ll have to buy the book to find out what it is …. but I’ll tell you this, it doesn’t exist anywhere else!
Keep an eye on the WIBC blog
My aim is to release these first two Collections in Spring 2022 along with a Christmas cookie recipe book. Keep an eye to my blog along with Twitter and Facebook for updates!
Have a recipe to submit for me to present as a Recipe Of The Month? Drop me a line!
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My debut recipe book — “Make Your Own Darn Good Cookies” — is now a 3 year old! If you can’t wait to start buying my Recipe Of The Month annual collection books, fire-up your browser and order a print copy today. Darn Good Cookies is also available in electronic form from most e-book retailers. In it you will learn to make over 50 proven recipes including cookies, biscotti, coffee, some breakfast items, and other comfort foods.
Recently, multi-award winning author, Kathleen Stone, wrote “Scoby’s comfort foods are themselves a thing to behold, but this book is so much more. There are wonderful stories and anecdotes as well as beautiful photographs, and all of that combined with the mouthwatering recipes makes this a book I’m excited to have in my collection. … The book in its entirety embodies what the author is all about — comfort food, family, friends, music and a love for life in general.”
Want to try a few Darn Good Cookies before you buy?
Grab a copy of my FREE SAMPLE e-book “Let’s Bake Cookie Squares and Biscotti!” — available through most major e-book retailers! In the text you will get 2 recipes from Make Your Own Darn Good Cookies, which will show you my writing and direction style. You will also see a step-by-step photo section that guides you through a few steps that some folks might find a little more tricky. Check it out!
I am EXCITED to say that I am in the final stages of making a free-sample recipe e-book*. Yesterday I contacted OliviaProDesign, whom I’ve worked with once before, toward handling the cover-art. An author friend recommended her a few years ago — her work POPS!
(*Here’s a secret — I’m actually working toward TWO free recipe e-books!)
I have proposed using two of my favourite photos — one a cookie square, the other some Toasted Almond Biscotti. Olivia is so clever she suggested including my company logo, too — why didn’t I think of that, DUH! Thanks for the pick-up on that, Olivia. My aim is to do the final stages of publishing around the 15th of this month.
Watch here along with my Facebook and Twitter profiles for more announcements!
As you know I am working on two new books right now. One of these is a bagpipe sheet music book — which has taken priority since I am aiming to release around June/July 2019. Following that I have a new cookie recipe book, and with some luck it might get published this fall. Between the two, the recipe book includes a number of cookies I have dreamed up … some of these recipes do not yet exist. experiment
TIME FOR AN EXPERIMENT!
One of these recipes — and I’m not giving out much details until it’s perfected — is at least to say caffeinated shortbread with a cool name. I’m excited about this idea!
During a recent phone call with a close friend I shared the details and this fellow replied “Those sound so good I’d take two batches NOW!” My schedule is a bit of a juggling act right now however I want to bake the first experimental batch this week if I can.
There’s a handy thing about my shortbread recipe (which you can find in my book/e-book now available on Amazon.com) … The recipe calls for a pound of butter, 4 cups of flour, and 1 cup of sugar, which means I am able to make this as small as a quarter batch. That’s great for this experiment because I can try one idea, tweak it, and then try again without blowing through whole batches at a time.
Something that came to my attention earlier today… FREE
Before the Fall 2018 launch of my book I redundantly and obnoxiously told everyone about a link on my website — a link where you could get FOUR FREE RECIPES that were going to be and are in my book. I found out today that not everyone caught that.
Yes — if you go to WhidbeyIslandBaking.com and look under “Products” for “Free Stuff” you can download these FOUR FREE RECIPES — better yet, OR JUST CLICK THIS LINK.
Please try these recipes. Please enjoy these recipes. Please share these recipes. If you have questions about these recipes please ask me. If you don’t have questions then I did my job right in writing these recipes. If you like these, then please buy my book on Amazon. If the book is bigger than your budget, it’s also available as a save-a-tree e-book for about a quarter of the price.
ENJOY!
~ Don
PS — Thank you Rachel for bring this to my attention 🙂
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