The Geekish Reader

  **GIVEAWAY WINNER – ERIN!!** Where authors, friends and fellow bloggers share their favorite receipes! ----------------------------------------- Amanda Usen knows two things for certain: chocolate cheesecake is good for breakfast, and a hot chef can steal your heart. Her husband stole hers the first day of class at the Culinary Institute of America. She married him after graduation in a lovely French Quarter restaurant in New Orleans, and they spent a few years enjoying the food and the fun in the Big Easy. Now they live in Western New York with their three children, a crawfish, two guinea pigs, a tortoise, and a new-to-them beagle. Amanda spends her days teaching pastry arts classes and her nights writing romance. If she isn’t baking or writing, she can usually be found chasing the kids around the yard with her very own hot chef husband. Want chimichurri, chocolate cake or Chicken Alighieri? Visit Amanda at http://www.amandausen.com , where you can find recipes for many ...

Where authors, friends and fellow bloggers share their favorite receipes! ----------------------------------------- Melinda Pinon grew up on the back of a horse hills of Colorado. A jack of all trades she is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up; cowgirl is high on her list. Married to a Naval officer, she and her husband have moved cross county A LOT the last couple of years. Life has them in Texas right now; which has really kicked those cowgirl fantasies into high gear. When not day dreaming about riding the range she is busy taking care of here extremely rambunctious 19 month old, Mateo. She loves to read, cook, and is one crafty son of a gun. While the cowgirl gig is just a dream for now she still swings her butt up in the saddle every chances she gets. I'm sure y'all have heard the saying "slower than molasses in *insert cold month of your choice here*". Well it's been pretty dang cold down here in Texas. We were recently hit...

Where authors, friends and fellow bloggers share their favorite receipes! ----------------------------------------- New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Cathryn Fox is a multi published author in the romance genre under two pen names. Cathryn is a wife, mom, sister, daughter, and friend. She loves dogs, sunny weather, anything chocolate (she never says no to a brownie) pizza and red wine. She has two teenagers who keep her busy with their never ending activities, and a husband who is convinced he can turn her into a mixed martial arts fan. Cathryn can never find balance in her life, is always trying to find time to go to the gym, can never keep up with emails, Facebook or Twitter and tries to write page-turning books that her readers will love. A maritime native and former financial officer, Cathryn has lived all over Canada but has finally settled down in her childhood hometown with her family. Find her online at http://cathrynfox.com/ or  http://cathrynfox.co...

Where authors, friends and fellow bloggers share their favorite receipes! ----------------------------------------- Audra North fell in love with romance at age thirteen and spent the next twenty years reading as many romance novels as she could. Even now, after having read over one thousand of them, Audra still can’t resist the lure of a happily ever after, and her collection continues to grow. She lives near Boston with her husband, three young children, and a lot of books. Find her online at http://audranorth.com/         I love the holidays! So much, in fact, that my debut novella is set at Christmastime. Falling for the CEO , which releases on Monday, is a new twist on the Cinderella story: Finance genius Meredith Klaus prefers numbers to people, especially around the holidays. At least the large sum of money that’s mysteriously vanished from the company accounts will distract her from the ghosts of Christmases past. Until her sexy boss asks her to be ...

Where authors, friends and fellow bloggers share their favorite receipes! ----------------------------------------- Kate Meader writes contemporary romance that serves up delicious food, sexy heroes, and heroines with a dash of sass. Originally from Ireland, she now makes her home in Chicago, a city made for food, romance, and laughter—and where she met her own sexy hero. When not writing about men who cook and the women who drool over them, she works in an academic library. Visit her website at http://katemeader.com and follow her on Twit ter @kittymeader Social Media: Facebook   ~ Twitter ~ Goodreads I cook, he bakes. It’s the perfect match. -- Kate Meader Over the years at Chez Meader, my husband and I have fallen into a natural division of labor. He takes care of the dishes, I clean the bathroom. He makes weekend breakfasts, I make our weekday dinners. He shields me from bugs, I scream like a girly-girl. Hey, it works for us. You know what else works? I like to...