EBOOK SALE: Clockwork Dagger $1.99, Clockwork Crown $2.99!
To build up to the release of Breath of Earth in two weeks, Harper Voyager has set ebooks for Clockwork Dagger and Clockwork Crown on sale. A BIG sale. Clockwork Dagger is $1.99 and Clockwork Crown is $2.99; both are usually $10.99!
(Psst. If you already own these books and want to give them as gift ebooks, it’s very easy to do so through Amazon or Barnes & Noble!)
Clockwork Dagger: Amazon Kindle | Barnes & Noble Nook | Kobo | iTunes
Clockwork Crown: Amazon Kindle | Barnes & Noble Nook | Kobo | iTunes
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Sunday Quote rejoices over Cake Month
Read More“A story is a narrative description of a character struggling to solve a problem. Nothing more, nothing less.”
~Ben Bova
Bready or Not: Maple Sour Cream Bundt Cake
IT IS BOOK RELEASE MONTH. IT IS CAKE AND PIE MONTH. Oddly enough, the emphasis will be on maple. Gee, you might think I like the stuff.
I am starting out with what might be the best bundt cake recipe I have ever made. Yes, it even rivals the infamous Tunnel of Fudge Cake.
This recipe is extremely close in flavor and texture to the holy-moley-amazing Maple Walnut Cake, minus the walnuts. The Maple Walnut Cake is stunning to eat but it’s also very time-consuming to make because it’s a layer cake.
This bundt cake is EASY. It whips together in no time.
The cake itself is like a moist pound cake–soft, tender, and sweet with maple.
I opted for a glaze rather than a frosting. Tweak the liquids to make that as thick as you want, but really, the cake is sweet on its own so you don’t need a big layer here.
Some of these pictures look almost pornographic, don’t they?
Yes, the glaze is as good as it looks. You can’t go wrong with powdered sugar, cinnamon, butter, and maple flavor. Well. I guess you can go wrong if you’re diabetic.
CONSUME AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Modified from Overtime Cook.
Bready or Not: Maple Sour Cream Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup unsalted butter 2 sticks, room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 5 eggs room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon maple flavor optional but recommended
- 1 cup pure maple syrup NOT flavored pancake syrup
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sour cream
Glaze
- 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar sifted
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tb unsalted butter melted
- 3/4 tsp maple flavor or vanilla extract
- 1 Tb water more as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325-degrees. Spray a bundt pan with nonstick spray with added flour, or grease well and sift flour over the surface.
- In large bowl, beat the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Pour in the vanilla extract, maple flavor, and maple syrup.
- In a small bowl, sift together the baking powder and flour. Add some of the flour mix to the big bowl, followed by sour cream, going back and forth until all of the cake ingredients are mixed together.
- Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan. Bake for 1 hour, or until it passes the toothpick test. Let it cool for about ten minutes in the pan and then carefully plop the cake onto a wire rack to completely cool down. Once it is room temperature, it's time to glaze.
- Mix together all of the glaze ingredients together EXCEPT the water. Dribble in the water. Stir well. Add more water if needed to achieve desired consistency.
- OM NOM NOM!
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Clockwork Dagger collection DEEP ROOTS is out today!
Hooray, hooray, it’s publication day! Deep Roots is an omnibus of my three previously-published ebook-only works set in the world of The Clockwork Dagger. This includes two stories, Deepest Poison and Final Flight, and the Nebula-nominated novella Wings of Sorrow and Bone. Together, they are a 208-page volume that is available as a mass-market paperback for $4.99 and as an ebook for $2.99!
Amazon: paperback or ebook | Barnes & Noble: paperback or ebook | Kobo | Google Play | iTunes
Included are:
THE DEEPEST POISON
Octavia Leander, a young healer with incredible powers, has found her place among Miss Percival’s medicians-in-training. Called to the front lines of war, the two women must uncover the source of a devastating illness that is killing thousands of soldiers.
WINGS OF SORROW AND BONE
After being rescued from the slums of Caskentia, Rivka Stout is adjusting to her new life in Tamarania. But when Rivka stumbles into a laboratory run by the powerful Balthazar Cody, she also discovers a sinister plot involving chimera gremlins and the violent Arena game Warriors.
FINAL FLIGHT
Captain Hue hoped he was rid of his troubles once Octavia Leander and Alonzo Garrett disembarked from his airship, but then the Argus is commandeered by a Clockwork Dagger and forced on a deadly mission. Hue must lead a mutiny that might bring down his own ship…. perhaps for good.
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Read MoreNew Publications Through July
Oh hey, August is here. This month promises to be outright crazy with the release of my story collection (TOMORROW!) AND my new novel Breath of Earth out on the 23rd, the trip to WorldCon in Kansas City, and writing projects looming overhead like a Super Star Destroyer.
That means I need to catch up on website stuff now while I have a few spare minutes, ’cause I won’t have those soon.
An incredible honorable mention:
– Ellen Datlow included my poem “The City” from Mythic Delirium on her long list for best horror of the year!
Over at Novelocity:
– 5 Tips for Writers Writing Book Reviews
– 5 Tips to be a Prepared Panelist at an SFF Convention
Reprint story publication:
– “American Shadow” in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
– forthcoming in August: “A Recipe for Rain and Rainbows” in Mysterion: Rediscovering the Mysteries of the Christian Faith
New poetry publications:
– “Post-Apocalypse as Described by a Wine Reviewer” in Zetetic
– “Footprints” and “Shopping Spree” in Star*line 39.3 (print only)
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