Update: A winner's email has been drawn, Ally, and email sent. Thank you all so much for your interest! It's fun to see the support for Toby Neal! I like to try to take time to show gratitude for kindness and pay it forward as...
Read MoreCHOCOLATE CLUB! Okay, as the weather is heating up here and chocolate shipping is becoming problematic, I thought we might try something different: MACARONS! Given all the macaron-tantalization that goes on here and particularly on my Facebook. (Check out the Macaron Hall of Fame here...
Read MoreYou all were awesome! Thank you so much! We did NOT win, but honestly, I never in a million years expected this delicate, difficult novella to get so far in the first place (I thought for sure Sarah Morgan and then Anne Frasier / Theresa...
Read MoreMarch Chocolate Club! This month, I'm trying out fellow writer Taylor Reynolds's recommendation of Fleurir Hand Grown Chocolates. (Want to make your own recommendation? Have at it! I love recs. There's a permanent page on my website of US Artisan chocolate recs, if you want...
Read MoreThe Chocolate Club this month is a special Valentine's treat! This is from a chocolatier I love, Christophe Paume, a third-generation French chocolatier who works in Charleston now (there's a love story behind that!). He does the most beautiful chocolate hearts for Valentine's, full of...
Read MoreWhat are you reading this weekend? I grabbed BITTER SPIRITS by Jenn Bennett: Bitter Spirits (Roaring Twenties) (amazon link). I've already discovered her fantastic Arcadia Bell paranormal series, so this book had me at "1920s" and "witty, strong couple with baggage". My favorite kind. :)...
Read MoreI was debating and debating between so many delicious options which one to offer for the Chocolate Club this month, and then an email came in from Massachusetts-based chocolatier LA Burdick with the picture below, and it all came together. What better combination for our polar...
Read MoreBusy tasting my box from Madame Chocolat for the "Chocolate Club". Okay, I am mildly aggrieved that my box does not actually contain any chocolate hearts. (There was a collection that showed some hearts and some others, and I thought I would try that one,...
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