You Gotta Have Crust

I found this recipe off the Internet. Looking for an easy crust for your holiday pie? Look no further.

Butter Flaky Pie Crust

by Dana

Ingredients

*1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

*1/4 teaspoon salt

*1/2 cup butter, chilled and diced

*1/4 cup ice water

Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water, a tablespoon at a time, until mixture forms a ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.

2. Roll dough out to fit a 9 inch pie plate. Place crust in pie plate. Press the dough evenly into the bottom and sides of the pie plate.

The Newsletter

On my newsletter yesterday, I added a short teaser of my newest creation, Fallon's Flame, the first book in the Dawn Endeavor Circ series. I'm so excited by it I might start book two, Hayashi's Hero, early. So far so good. And if you want updates, sneak peeks, and contests, join my newsletter. It's low volume, non-interactive, and just informative.
My plug of the day.

Lurin's Surrender...is Back!

Lurin's Surrender releases from Fictionwise today. The book came out from Total E-Bound in July 2009. So it's been a good 4 months between publisher and Fictionwise release dates. I really do wish I knew how Fictionwise determines which books to release, because readers have asked me. Alas, it's another of the great mysteries out there. Who knows? The good news is, it's finally there!

New Excerpt

Check out the brand new excerpt from a new work, tentatively titled, WOLF WANTED. It's only at Total E-Bound's Hitting the Hot Spot. Enjoy!

Triumph, Oh Triumph!

And like Achilles' triumph at the Trojan War, I too have slain the beast... of deadline. That flagrant defiler of authors everywhere lays trodden under the wheels of progress. And behold, I have finished Fallon's Flame. And readers rejoiced, and they were glad.

Good tidings upon this most glorious Friday. I'm going to celebrate later with a slaughtered lamb, or a Trojan in chains, or maybe a milk chocolate truffle. Yeah, definitely the truffle.

Dorky Post of the Day: A Terrific Link

Whoa! I'm a few days late in posting. Sorry. Been busting my butt (not that you can tell) to finish Fallon's Flame (see Fallon, to the left) before next week, when the children will be home, underfoot, on Thanksgiving break.

Something I've discovered that I'm absolutely in love with, this site:
http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp. I actually printed out the key and keep it by my desk on hand.

Yes, it's geeky, but I type for a living. I've always had such a hard time figuring how people use the degree symbol, an accent over the a, or that funky wavy line over the n, for a word like mañana (Spanish for tomorrow.) But yes, I've found the KEY! Many of you might be thinking I'm quite the dork for my excitement, or because it's taken me this long to discover how to correctly type, but you know what? Thmmbbtttt on you. Inverted exclamation point (¡), superscript 2 (²), and ellipses (…) here I come!

And just because I can, I've named a bad guy in my book Montaña. How cool is that?

Over the Moon releases today!

OVER THE MOON is out today from Total E-Bound.

Congratulations to Maggie J, who won a free download for commenting on last week's blogs. Thanks to all who commented, and I hope you enjoy the anthology, Maggie! Email me at marie_harte@yahoo.com to let me know what format you'd like the book in.