Happy August!
Thanks for clicking our email to read our hello to you! We hope you are staying healthy and cool as summer eases into fall, although here in Atlanta a crisp fall day seems so far away from reality!
Keep scrolling through for a scrumptious lemon meringue pie recipe, the August antique specials from Storyology, and Anne's recommendations for a fabulous soon-to-be-released book by the super-talented author Ginger Garrett and art for sale by the incredibly creative Jeanie Brandt, member of Lahaina Artist Society in Maui, Hawaii!
PS: Haven't purchased DANGEROUS CONJURINGS or WITH KISSES FROM CÉCILE
yet? Keep scrolling for links!
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As a child, I spent many hours at the elbow of my mom in the kitchen helping her (a little) and bothering her (a lot) while she'd cook our suppers (as Southerners, we called it that, a carry-over from the past, even though our suppers were not light affairs but heavy-duty-dinners). During the summer months, our kitchen would be so hot (no air-conditioning back then), and Mom would become so frustrated when trying to get her pie's meringue to peak on those steamy, humid days. Somehow, she'd work her magic,and we would enjoy lip-smacking slices of her pie, her specialty being lemon meringue. Here's a picture that has survived the years of my mom, baby brother, one of my older brothers, and me (age 5) taken after demolishing a summer supper! Not sure what we were finishing up eating, but I bet dessert was lemon meringue pie! -Anne
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Lemon Meringue Pie
Ingredients:
1 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups water
2 lemons, juiced and zested
2 tablespoons butter
4 egg yolks, beaten
1 (9 inch) pie crust, baked
4 egg whites
6 tablespoons white sugar
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a medium saucepan, whisk together 1 cup sugar, flour, cornstarch, and salt. Stir in water, lemon juice and lemon zest. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until the mixture comes to a boil. Stir in butter. Place egg yolks in a small bowl and gradually whisk in 1/2 cup of hot sugar mixture. Whisk egg yolk mixture back into remaining sugar mixture. Bring to a boil and continue to cook while stirring constantly until thick. Remove from heat. Pour filling into the baked pastry shell. In a large glass or metal bowl, whip egg whites until foamy. Add sugar gradually, and continue to whip until stiff peaks form, then stop immediately (over-beaten eggs are just as bad as under-beaten eggs). Spread the meringue over the pie, sealing the edges at the crust. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, or until meringue is golden brown.
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September 18-19-20
1321 Atlanta Highway
Cumming, GA 30040
Phone: 770-889-3400
Friday 9-5 Saturday 9-6 Sunday 10-5
Tickets $3 - Good All Weekend
Children Under 12 Free
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September 10-11-12-13
3650 Jonesboro Rd
Atlanta, GA
Phone: 404- 363-2299
Show Hours
Thursday 10:45am - 6:00pm
Friday 9:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tickets $5 - Parking Free
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I am thrilled to share my good friend Ginger's upcoming middle grade novel, available NOW for pre-order ahead of its September 1 release!
You don't have to be twelve-years-old to relate to Lizbeth.
If you are looking for a fantastic book to "fall" into Fall with, this is it! Buy for your inner kid, your kids, or your grandkids. Laugh, sniffle, & "fall" in love with Lizbeth!
Twelve-year-old Lizbeth always has a plan, and those plans have usually worked―until now. No matter what she tries, she can't get rid of her dad's new girlfriend, Claire. And when she and her mom move, Lizbeth has to join a sixth-grade class already in progress, where her teacher makes her wear a name tag and she's seated with three notorious "weirdos."
When faced with mandatory participation in a school talent show, Lizbeth and the Weirdos decide to create self portraits. Reluctantly, Lizbeth finds herself becoming friends with people she thought she had nothing in common with―and coming to terms with the things she can't control.
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GREAT REVIEWS ARE STREAMING IN FOR
NAME TAGS AND OTHER SIXTH GRADE DISASTERS!
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"While coping with her parents' divorce, a sixth grader inadvertently helps save her school's art program and stands up to bullies. Lively episodes…Smoothly depicts bullying differences between genders…A satisfying, climactic twist…Disasters averted in this realistic yet amusing take on sixth grade life." —Kirkus Reviews
Lizbeth and her pod of “weirdos” will make you laugh then steal your heart. This hilarious and heartfelt gem is moving straight to my “favorites” shelf. —Lisa Lewis Tyre, author of Last in a Long Line of Rebels and Hope in the Holler
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Name Tags and Other Sixth-Grade Disasters is one of those books that explores difficult topics—divorce, a new school, being dubbed a “weirdo”—with grace and good humor. Lizbeth’s antics will make readers giggle and groan, likely both in the same breath! —Rebecca Petruck, author of Boy Bites Bug and Steering Toward Normal
Fun, funny, and fully heartfelt. Everyone needs true-blue friends like Lizbeth’s. SuperChicken for life. —Kristin L. Gray, author of The Amelia Six and Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge
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JOIN GINGER FOR THE
SEPTEMBER 1 LAUNCH OF
NAME TAGS
AND
OTHER SIXTH GRADE DISASTERS
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We are proud to announce that
WITH KISSES FROM CÉCILE
is available at The Southern Pen Book Shop, located in the Monroe Mercantile Co., on Broad Street in Monroe, Georgia! Visit in person, or order books online.
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QUARANTINE SPECIAL!
DOWNLOAD THE
$2.99
(ALWAYS FREE
TO KINDLE UNLIMITED SUBSCRIBERS)
ALSO IN PAPERBACK
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FREE
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AN
EMBOLDENED KISS
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When Mirabelle Montgomery visits Paris on a business trip for her critically ill mother to buy antiques, she finds an aged note in a 1900 Paris Exhibition coin purse souvenir: Meet me at the Luxembourg Carousel —M.
On a whim, Mirabelle stops at the Carousel, where she is sent into its whirling time travel vortex. She becomes The Carousel Traveler, transported to 1900 Paris to alter a man’s destiny. But whose?
Deposited onto the moving sidewalk of the Paris Exhibition in a beautiful Paquin design, Mirabelle is weak and disoriented. She accepts assistance from sexy yet secretive Jacques Thibaut, a disgraced former police detective who now races newfangled automobiles at untested speeds.
Fiery passion ignites between them, despite the clash of Mirabelle’s modern feminism with Jacques’ male superiority. Although he will not divulge his tormented past, Mirabelle believes she has found her man…but she has been sent to change his fate, not fall in love.
If she proves Jacques innocent, the Carousel will whirl Mirabelle back to the present and her mother, separating the lovers by over a century.
Unless…they become Carousel Travelers, together.
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MEET ARTIST JEANIE BRANDT |
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In my imagination, I am living in 1900 Paris while I write my time travel romance
THE CAROUSEL TRAVELER.
From the moment I first saw FRENCH FOLLIES GIRLS painted by the fabulously talented artist Jeanie Brandt, I knew I must purchase this gorgeous piece of art! When it arrived, I was totally thrilled.
If you are searching for fabulously creative art to brighten up your life, visit Jeanie's website to see her latest!
I am sure you will fall in love with one of her paintings just as I did, and soon an original Jeanie Brandt canvas will be brightening up your life!
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Learn more about
Artist Jeanie Brandt
View Jeanie's
3 minute video showcasing her
100 Day Project.
She created
a 5" x 7" abstract each day, exploring new techniques, concepts and mediums for 100 days! The originals as well some prints are available in her shop. Enjoy!
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