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Winter is coming, and the author is getting fat. Yes, indeed, I have seen the signs – ‘Book your Christmas meal now!’ in pubs across the land. This is the time to stick on Radio 4 and some warm socks, draw the curtains, and make the house smell of delicious cooking.
These are my warm socks (I wear them as I type this). They are Authorial Socks. They were knitted for me by my best mate, and the stripes are the barcodes for my first two novels. If they were not made of wool, you could scan them and they would beep. No doubt Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and others have just such socks, which they wear as they write their masterpieces. If they do not, I pity them.
And this is what I suggest for the cooking: a mouth-watering pamphlet of recipes created by author Rosy Thornton, a 'virtual friend' of mine from the Writewords site. All the recipes are taken from her new book The Tapestry of Love, which is set in the Cevennes region of France. She’s giving this pamphlet away as a kind of amuse-bouche for the novel, so do feel free to download it here:
If you get a taste for the book, it can be got from Amazon or the usual places, but there might be a couple of weeks delay because the paperback is just about to be released.
Enjoy!
http://www.rosythornton.com
And terribly organised people have (a) done their Christmas shopping, (b) made their puddings and cake
and (c) do not wear nice warm woolly socks because they are too busy being organised....I go for warm feet in woolly socks instead!
I had a lovely moment to do with this book. I read it and wanted very much to see the landscape she described. Anyway, later that week I took the dog for a walk (in the UK) and the dog disturbed a family of wild boar who came charging out of the forest! Wowzers! The Cevennes had come to the UK for me.
Oh, how exciting, Elen! Whereabouts was it?
Knitted socks...shouldn't that be a baa-code? Do they set off alarms when you walk out of bookshops?
Socks? I have AUTHOR BOOTS (fur lined) for wearing at computer in winter, and I still get cold feet!
Mind you, I've heard all the blood is supposed to rush from your feet into your brain when you are using it...