Gift suggestions for the fantasy fans on your shopping list.

Yuletide Gifts

As it sometimes happens, my interview fell through this month, and since it’s the official beginning of the holiday shopping season next week, I decided to give you my recommendations for holiday gifts.

#1 Greatest Holiday Gift for fantasy readers of all ages??

(You guessed it)

Author-signed copies of the award-winning Rowan of the Wood and Witch on the Water!

Rowan of the Wood, the first book in the series, won the Indie Excellence Award for YA Fiction. It’s a magical adventure tale about a young boy named Cullen who meanders through the redwood forest every day on his way to school, losing himself in fantasy books full of elves, fairies, and wizards. Cullen’s life changes incredibly one day when he uncovers an ancient magic wand that is inhabited by a powerful wizard, Rowan. Inadvertently, Cullen releases Rowan from the wand and finds himself not only possessed by the wizard but also by the wizard’s obsessive need to find his lost love, Fiana, who has used dark magic to stay alive over the centuries. She has descended so deep into the darkness that she has become something evil.

Read more reviews and testimonials of this magical book.

Rowan’s sequel, Witch on the Water, has only been out about a month. The preliminary reviews and reader testimonials have been overwhelmingly positive! Witch on the Water chronicles the continuing adventures of twelve-year-old Cullen and his friends, Maddy and April. Cullen thought he had enough trouble surviving school, dealing with his miserable home life, and being possessed by Rowan, a 1400-year-old wizard. But when Rowan’s wife, the sadistic vampire Fiana, comes back seeking revenge, Cullen and his band of misfits must do what they can to stop her. This time Cullen’s favorite teacher is Fiana’s first target.

Other great yuletide gifts include handmade ornaments, bookmarks, a handmade crossbow, and a super-cool, hand-carved Vampire Slayer Cross (pictured left). All in a beautifully wrapped package that’s delivered directly to your loved one’s doorstep! Please visit the Yuletide Shop for details on the packages. The books are also available on Amazon and for the Kindle.

Release the Magic this holiday season, and give the gift of fantasy!

Steampunk Stocking Stuffer

Last month I read Soulless by Gail Carriger, and I’m still thinking about it. It is most definitely THE STEAMPUNK STOCKING STUFFER this season! Check out my review:

Miss Alexia Tarabotti lives with her insufferably shallow family in a Victorian London where vampires, werewolves, and ghosts are an accepted part of society. Her remarried mother and step sisters care nothing about anything unless its the latest fashion and London’s High Society. Miss Tarabotti’s mother had given up on Miss Tarabotti finding a husband, with her large nose and tan skin, over a decade ago, leaving Miss Tarabotti a twenty-something, aging spinster.

Little does Miss Tarabotti’s mother know that Miss Tarabotti has no soul, and that makes her very special indeed.

After accidentally killing a vampire that quite rudely attacked her during a posh party, she’s thrown into a mystery surrounding this paranormal London underground where unregistered vampires start popping up and others are disappearing without a trace.

Excellent book. Superb writing.

Carriger brilliantly blends a (quite humorously executed) Victorian style of prose with the increasingly popular Steampunk sub-genre along with just a touch of delicious paranormal romance.

I will most definitely read this book again, this time with a highlighter to mark all the wonderful dialog and quips that made me laugh out loud the first time through.

Reading Ms. Carriger’s work inspires me to be a better writer, myself. I thoroughly look forward to the forthcoming sequel Changeless.

Be sure to check out the Soulless Victorian Dress-Up Doll website. It’s an awesome way to pass the long hours between lunch and the end of the work day.

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Christine Rose is half of the husband/wife writing team: Christine and Ethan Rose, award-winning authors of Rowan of the Wood, the YA fantasy series. The authors have just completed a year-long book tour, traveling the country in a fancifully painted RV they affectionately call the Geekalicous Gypsy Caravan. Christine blogs often, produces videos on YouTube (TheTuberRose), and was named one of the top 100 authors on Twitter by mashable. Catch her prolific tweets and pictures from the road @christinerose. http://www.christineandethanrose.com

]]> 2009-11-20T14:25:19+00:00 http://www.popsyndicate.com/books/story/peter_mays_5-spice_pork_ribs_korean_barbecued_chicken/ About the author Scottish author Peter May’s China Thrillers are highly-acclaimed novels with food as a prominent feature. He is also a celebrated script writer, having produced a thousand episodes of a highly popular crime drama in Scotland. He is currently writing a new series, The Enzo Files. The series features Enzo MacLeod, a former forensic scientist with the Scottish police who now lives in France and investigates celebrated French cold cases using the latest technology.. Find out more about May at his Web site http://www.petermay.co.uk/ To view more of May’s scrumptious recipes, visit http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/peter.may/recipes.htm Photo by Domi Photographe Books, Blogging

About the author

Scottish author Peter May’s China Thrillers are highly-acclaimed novels with food as a prominent feature. He is also a celebrated script writer, having produced a thousand episodes of a highly popular crime drama in Scotland. He is currently writing a new series, The Enzo Files. The series features Enzo MacLeod, a former forensic scientist with the Scottish police who now lives in France and investigates celebrated French cold cases using the latest technology.. Find out more about May at his Web site http://www.petermay.co.uk/

To view more of May’s scrumptious recipes, visit http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/peter.may/recipes.htm

Photo by Domi Photographe

She knows how to work a room, she’s always impeccably dressed, and no matter how hard you might try you just can’t seem to break her confidence. Hate her or love her, everyone wants to be her. Here are 10 tactics to achieving your own Girl on Top status:

  1.

    Know what you want and have the guts to ask for it. There’s nothing worse than being completely tongue-tied when you finally get face time with your boss.

  2.

    Never offer up too much information—maintaining an air of mystery is always better than being an open book. If you show all of your cards too soon, there’ll be no incentive to keep listening to you.

  3.

    Know the difference between being nice and being respected, and always opt for the latter. This isn’t high school. There’s more at stake than a seat at the “cool” lunch table.

  4.

    Don’t make excuses. If you mess up, take the blame and move on. After awhile, people won’t remember the mistake—but they will recall how you tried to weasel out of it.

  5.

    Live by the rule of One Sexy Thing and pick one body part to flaunt each day. A little leg goes a long way and there’s a fine line between subtly sexy and streetwalker.

  6.

    Quit badmouthing in-house competition, but always be kept in the gossip loop. It’s fine to know what’s going on, so long as you aren’t the one whose lips are moving.

  7.

    Don’t waste half a second on those who just aren’t that into you. For every one employer who doesn’t want you, there are 10 who do. Don’t waste your energy on those who don’t appreciate your talents.

  8.

    Never let yourself become complacent. When it comes down to it, no one is indispensable.

  9.

    Always have other more attractive options. When the time comes to move on you’ll want that to be your decision, not your employer’s.

  10.

    Never, ever, let them see you sweat. Leave the room, leave the building if you have to, but never let on that you’re in over your head.

©2009 Nicole Williams, author of Girl on Top: Your Guide to Turning Dating Rules into Career Success

About the author
Nicole Williams, author of Girl on Top: Your Guide to Turning Dating Rules into Career Success, is the best-selling author of Wildly Sophisticated: A Bold New Attitude for Career Success and Earn What You’re Worth, and the founder of WORKS by Nicole Williams, the first media and content company marketed toward young professional women. Her advice is featured regularly in major media outlets including Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, the Wall Street Journal,and the Financial Times. Nicole also regularly appears on The Today Show, ABC’s Primetime, Good Morning America, Fox News, and CNN.

You can visit Nicole’s websites at www.NicoleWilliams.com and www.GirlOnTopBook.com.

Here is my recipe.  It’s an old Russian cutlet, featured in my husband’s and mine latest book, On the Edge, as the “Edge Burger”

1 1/2 lbs of ground beef
1 cup cooked long grain rice
2 garlic cloves, put through the garlic press or 1 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp minced green onion
1 egg
Salt and pepper
1 1/2 - 2 cups bread crumbs ( I use Progresso Italian Style but any variety will do)
Oil for frying

Warm about an 1/2 inch of vegetable oil in a frying pan on medium.  Mix first four ingridients in a large mixing bowl.  Add salt and pepper, as if to eat.  Add the egg and work it through the mixture.  It’s important that the egg is completely mixed in.

Place bread crumbs into a dish.

Shape the meat into small oblong patties about 3/4 of an inch thick, roll them in bread crumbs, and pan fry in oil on both sides.  The bread crumbs burn fast and the cutlets will take at least 3-4 minutes to cook on each side, so medium temperature works best.  A cooked cutlet should be dark brown in color and crisp.  Traditionally these are served with onion, sliced very thin and pickled in a mixture of equal parts water, vinegar and a spoon of sugar, but I found that my kids vastly prefer plain ketchup.

The cutlets will keep well and make good left-over snacks.

When doubling the recipe or cooking for a crowd, the good rule of thumb is to have about equal amounts of rice and meat. 

About the author

“Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Andrew is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. Contrary to popular belief, Andrew was not an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was not the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him.  They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. Andrew is still sore about that! Andrew and Ilona currently reside in Pooler, Georgia, with their two children and two dogs, one of whom is clearly neurotic and the other who believes herself to be a thirty-pound wolf.

It’s half-way through November, and there’s NANO end to the enthusiasm for National Novel Writing Month. The momentum is truly something remarkable. Thrilling. But I still have to ask, what’s next? There’s a practical side to this madness we call creating. Where does drafting frenzy find its place in a writer’s overall process? To give some real world insight into harnessing creativity and making sure stories find their readers, I’ve invited Michelle Grajkowski from 3 Seas Literary Agency to share her thoughts…

How can you not be moved by seeing so many people excited by the prospect of writing and writing and writing, until their minds and hands are numb? NANOWRIMO is a thrilling experience you have to take part in to believe. Participants literally can’t stop themselves from writing and posting their progress and loving the process of creating. I’m hooked! NOTE: If you missed November’s first NANO thoughts at I Write THOSE Books, check them out here.

It can be easier than you’d think to lose your love for storytelling. I’ve published fourteen novels in the last five years. That’s a lot. Too much, some would say. And maybe they’re right, because I’ve lost sight of why I wanted to do this for a living more than once along the way. The demands of the day and the drive to publish and the acceptance that there’s always more to learn about your craft than you know… These are the things that make writing a job, because a working writer has to get her pages done, no matter what else is going on. And HAVING TO write each day is not the same thing as reveling in a writer’s passion for creating new worlds and characters and experiences.

From everything I’ve seen on the NANO site and through the various social media outlets where participants check in and cheer each other on, the race to abandon yourself to story is thriving all over the world. No constraints, no limits, no going back to worry if what you’ve written is good enough to write more. Creative souls everywhere are writing, and loving it, and not stopping, no matter what. Me included—as I have during many Novembers past, I’m drafting a new novel this month. It’s been wonderful, knowing I’m in such enthusiastic company. To follow along, track my NANO progress on the site, and visit my author blog for behind-the-scenes updates.

But I still have to ask, what’s next? There’s a practical side to this madness we call creating. There’s a story to be told, and it has to be told well if you want it to reach the hands of a readers who’ll love it so much they’ll demand more. A working writer has to face the “work” reality of a storyteller’s job, too.

Where does drafting frenzy find its place in a writer’s overall process?

To give some real world insight into harnessing creativity and making sure stories find their readers, I’ve invited Michelle Grajkowski from 3 Seas Literary Agency to share her thoughts on NANOWRIMO and what participants should be thinking about next, once November is done and their story is drafted.

Take it away, Michelle…

Thanks, Anna! It’s a pleasure to be here!  First, let me congratulate you all for taking on this challenge.  Just like everything, from losing weight to budgeting your pocketbook, you have to start somewhere.  NANOWRIMO reminds me so much of THE BIGGEST LOSER, one of my favorite television shows ever.  Every week I tune into NBC to watch the contestants push themselves to the limit.  I love that they challenge themselves to their breaking points, doing everything they can to make (and often exceed!) their goal.  Most of the contestants can’t walk a city block when they first enter the ranch.  But, by the end of the show, they are running marathons! 

Happy writing!

Yummy crab cake goodness! Today’s recipe comes from author Paige Cummings and is featured in her book, Under the Liberty Oak.

1 Pound of fresh, picked crab
¼ cup diced onion
¼ cup of chopped red pepper
(Trulee chops 1-2 Ssotch Bonnets and uses sweet red pepper
for the rest of the ¼ cup)
1 Cup of Bread Crumbs
¼  Cup Cream Cheese
½ Cup Mayonnaise
1 T. Dijon Mustard    
Pinch of Cayenne Pepper
1 large egg                  
1/8 t salt
1T chopped parsley

Mix everything together and let it rest in the fridge for at least one hour.

Roll into bitesize (heaping teaspoon) balls and roll them into more breadcrumbs.

Bake at 375 for 12-15 minutes.

Serve with Trulee’s crab sauce

Mix 1 C Mayonnaise with ½ cup of Pepper Jelly and 2 shakes of Liquid Smoke

About the author

A native of coastal Georgia, Paige now lives in Athens, Georgia with her husband, Mike and three home-schooled cats. She is a founding member of The Southern Scribes and The Harriette Austin Writers. Twice retired, as a naval officer (our Navy) and a Red Cross executive, Paige volunteers her time with programs for the homeless and medically indigent, when not writing or staring out of the window thinking about writing. She is currently working on a historical prequel as well as a sequel to Under the Liberty Oak. Under the Liberty Oak is available at http://www.Amazon.com. She would love to hear from readers at PaigeCummings.com

Photostyling by Kandy Duke, photos by Ken Duke

Ginger cookies were popular during the Civil War. Historical author Jessica James shares an easy, mouth-watering recipe for them today at Book Addict.

All sorts of ginger cakes or breads were popular in the 19th century - both soft and crisp. It was also common to cut them into shapes and hang them on the Christmas tree. The recipe below is for crisp, sugar-coated cookies.
Ginger Cakes

3/4 cups shortening

1 cup sugar

1 beaten egg

1/4 cup molasses

2 tsp. soda

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. ginger

2 cups flour

Cream shortening and sugar. Add the egg and molasses and mix well. Sift together the dry ingredients and add to the shortening mixture. Mix until combined. Roll into walnut sized balls and roll in sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 7 - 10 minutes.

About the author

Jessica James is the author of the award-winning historical novel Shades of Gray. During her latest book tour, James will give away a basket of goodies. Find out details about the tour - which will be from Nov. 30 to Dec. 14 - are available at her blog. Here is a trailer for her novel:

The old saying goes that the only sure things in life are death and taxes, and sometimes that feels all too true. It’s hard to hold onto faith when all around us we see wars, natural and man-made disasters, hardships, broken families, major illnesses, substance addictions, abuse of all kinds—and the list goes on. We all know families or individuals going through difficult times, and we’ve encountered our own personal times of brokenness as well. I certainly have. The truth is it’s hard not to become disillusioned and cynical when faced with these things.

Over the years I’ve questioned how we can find purpose, strength, and healing when it feels like our world is out of control. One of the main ways I try to make sense of life is to write stories about it. That’s what led me to write my contemporary novel One Holy Night, which grew out of my wrestling with the kinds of gritty issues that impact our lives every day. At one point my character Julie asks: “Why don’t we have a God who always answers our prayers, especially if it concerns the welfare of someone we love, especially someone who also happens to be a believer?” That’s truly one of the hardest questions we have to deal with. If there is a God and He is good, why does He allow suffering?

We tend to blame God for evil things that happen when, except for natural disasters that are a part of our world, these things are all caused by human beings, whether intentionally or not. Obviously God didn’t cause the suffering in these cases. People do things that hurt others and themselves. But time and again we see God repairing what people have destroyed. We pollute the earth and divert natural resources in ways that harm the environment, but God set in place natural processes that cleanse the earth and restore it to its natural state once pollution ceases. People do things that violate others and break relationships, but reconciliation and healing take place in situations where pride and anger and willfulness stand in the way. Against all odds, hearts change.

That still leaves the question of why God allows suffering, however. Why did God give humans free will, which allows us to do evil things, when He could have made us to be good? The hard truth remains that we don’t know the answer because God doesn’t choose to reveal it to us—and our human minds couldn’t encompass it even if He did. So at the end of the day, the will and ways of the Creator remain inscrutable. We’re left with the choice to have faith, to trust the Giver of Life and His ability to use every circumstance for our good—or not.

In Mark 4:35-41 Jesus’ disciples are out on the sea with Him. That alone should have given them supreme confidence when a raging storm threatened to swamp their small boat. After all, they had watched Jesus heal the lame, sick, blind, and deaf and even raise the dead. They had all the evidence they needed to be confident that Jesus was in control! But when the winds suddenly beat down on their boat, they did exactly what most of us do when a crisis threatens our well-ordered lives. They panicked! “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” they demanded. So he raised his hand and said to the storm: “Peace, be still.” Instantly the gale dissipated and the waves became smooth as glass. An unearthly calm possessed the once troubled sea.

When we’re overcome by trouble and distress, we can find peace in the assurance that in the midst of our stormy seas we also have Jesus in the boat with us. Although we do not know the way ahead and where unseen dangers lie, God does. And our heavenly Father, more than any other, cares deeply that we are perishing and reaches out to save us. In John 16:33, Jesus says, “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

When we face devastating situations, the cross is our assurance that Jesus has been where we are and that God sees our circumstances and is working on our behalf. The only one who can overcome the tribulation we experience is the One who set the universe in place and still holds it in His hand.

About the author
J. M. Hochstetler writes stories that always involve some element of the past and of finding home. Born in central Indiana, the daughter of Mennonite farmers, she graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Germanic languages. She was an editor with Abingdon Press for twelve years and has published four novels. Daughter of Liberty (2004), Native Son (2005), and Wind of the Spirit (March 2009), the first three books of the critically acclaimed American Patriot Series, are set during the American Revolution. One Holy Night, a retelling of the Christmas story set in modern times, is the 2009 Christian Small Publishers Fiction Book of the Year and a finalist for the 2009 American Christian Fiction Writers Long Contemporary Book of the Year.

Hochstetler is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, Christian Authors Network, Middle Tennessee Christian Writers, Nashville Christian Writers Association, and Historical Novels Society. She and her husband live near Nashville, Tennessee.

You can find Joan online at www.jmhochstetler.com or at this book’s blog http://oneholynight.blogspot.com

In general, there are only two kinds of people: stars and planets. Those who give off an autonomous, inner light, and those who are forced to reflect a borrowed, exterior light; those who illuminate the lives of others with an intrinsic inner glow and those who are so inwardly dark that they become a black hole, soaking up every last speck of light so that none is left for others to enjoy. The irony of Hollywood is that nearly all our celebrities are planets rather than stars. Lacking an inner radiance, they become dependent on the external spotlight. Soon they become its prisoner and, bereft of a connection with the Source of all Light, they suffer the corrosive effects of celebrity sunburn, which usually manifests itself in the form of moral degeneracy, irredeemable loneliness, and deep unhappiness.

A close friend of mine who is a television producer called me up after Michael died and told me that he was profoundly disappointed in my refusal to get back into Michael’s life to try and help him. “It seemed so unlike you, Shmuley, to give up on someone.”

What my friend did not understand was that salvation must always involve some act of personal redemption. One cannot rescue someone who is not prepared to exert any effort to rescue themselves. I knew that if I went back into Michael’s life it would be me who would end up needing rescuing. Michael would have dragged me back into his orbit and the dysfunction and chaos would have ripped me from my moorings. I would have been one sinking ship trying to save another.

Do you really believe that all the hucksters who surrounded Michael at the end of his life—the publicists who served as apologists for his most reprehensible behavior, the doctor-pushers who fed him his constant supply of drugs, the agents and managers who sucked his blood dry—were all bad people? I assume many or all of them were once quite decent. But they got slowly pulled into the unethical world of supercelebrity until they were compromised by it. A doctor would start by trying to resist Michael’s entreaties for more sedatives. But Michael would seduce him by making him feel that he needed him so badly. And it’s heady stuff to be needed by a global superstar. It makes you feel important and special and soon you close your eyes to all you know to be righteous. The glow of fame is too bright, the gravitational pull of celebrity too difficult to resist, until you have become nothing but a satellite in its orbit. All resistance has been quelled by the superpowerful narcotic of superstardom.

So, was Michael Jackson beyond redemption? I am loath to answer that question. I am a rabbi, for goodness sake, and with the exception of cold-blooded killers, terrorists, and violent rapists, I believe in the divine spark of every human being. And it was undeniable that Michael had a luminous soul that once shined brightly.

But having said this, I believe that short of the most profound and gut-wrenching intervention, Michael’s early death was almost inevitable. The reason: He had lost any real reason to live. Yes, there were his children, and he loved them dearly. But that was all. Other than that, his life had become so riddled with pain, his existence so directionless, his everyday routine so vacuous, that, aside from watching his children grow up, he had nothing to took forward to.

It remains a mystery to me why the precious responsibility of caring for his children was not enough to make him choose life. But what is clear is that everything else that was important to him—being loved by the public, helping the world’s children, having relationships that were not mutually exploitative—were, in his mind, out of reach forever. In this sense, dare I say it, Michael was beyond redemption because he could not summon the strength or energy to redeem himself. He was lethargic, burned out, and drugged into a near comatose stupor, all under the watchful eye of people who claimed to care for him.

The above is an excerpt from the book The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. The above excerpt is a digitally scanned reproduction of text from print. Although this excerpt has been proofread, occasional errors may appear due to the scanning process. Please refer to the finished book for accuracy.

Copyright © 2009 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation

About the author
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation is one of the world’s leading relationship experts and spiritual authorities. His twenty-one books have been best-sellers in seventeen languages, and his award-winning syndicated column is read by a global audience of millions. He is the host of TLC’s award-winning Shalom in the Home and was Oprah Winfrey’s love, marriage, and parenting expert on Oprah and Friends. He served for eleven years as rabbi at Oxford University, where he built the Oxford L’Chaim Society into the University’s second largest student organization. Today, Newsweek calls him the most famous rabbi in America. The winner of the highly prestigious London Times Preacher of the Year award, Rabbi Shmuley is also the recipient of the National Fatherhood Award and the American Jewish Press Association’s Highest Award for Excellence in Commentary. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Debbie, and their nine children.

Learn more about The Michael Jackson Tapes at www.michaeljacksontapes.com and www.shmuley.com.

Follow Rabbi Shmuley on Twitter: www.twitter.com/RabbiShmuley and on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/9la3tw.

I don’t enjoy cooking so when I find a recipe that is both full of delicious ingredients and easy to make, it’s a hit with me. Our niece Megan’s Cornbread Pizza is both. Cornbread is a favorite at our house and it is the foundation of this recipe. As with all pizza, you can design your own taste combinations. This crust makes a yummy “chili” pizza as well, Top it with chunky chili and your favorite cheese (I use cheddar) and bake. It’s a fun way to use up leftover chili plus it’s fast and delish. I want to thank our niece Megan for the recipe and Angela for letting me not only share a fun recipe, but also for giving me a little bit of bragging space - I am so proud of Megan!

Corn Bread Pizza
Recipe from Meal Planning Mommies

Ingredients

  * 1/2 cup corn meal
  * 1 cup flour
  * 2 t baking powder
  * 1/2 t salt
  * 1/2 cup water
  * 2 T extra virgin olive oil

Toppings

  * Tomato sauce ( 1/2 a jar)
  * Pepperoni
  * Mozzarella
  * Parmesan
  * Pinch of italian seasoning per pizza
  * Whatever else your little heart desires

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 8 inch cake pans and sprinkle with corn meal.
  2. Mix dry ingredients (corn meal, flour, baking powder and salt)
  3. Mix water and olive oil in a separate bowl.
  4. Make a well in the dry ingredients. Add water/oil mixture into the well and stir until a soft dough forms.
  5. Refrigerate until ready or divide in half and roll each into an 8 inch circle. Place in prepared cake pans and top with tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni and parmesan. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning and put in the oven.
  6. Bake for 12-16 minutes, rotating half way through. Remove from the oven when cheese is bubbling. Using a spatula or two, transfer to a plate. Eat like you mean it.

* This recipe can easily be made to apply for 3 people or doubled for 4 people!

About the author
Joy DeKok is the author of 5 published books, a professional speaker, and an author coach. She lives with her husband Jon on thirty-five acres of field and forest where they enjoy exploring. Two of Joy’s favorite things are spending time with the kids she loves and her dogs Sophie and Tucker. You can find her online at www.gettingitwrite.net  www.joydekok.com  and www.believe4kids.com