Because Books Make Everything Better

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

Ive read so little of Stephen King, and yet he is my favorite author. Something about his writing feels nostalgic, like home.

when i released the book, i was like, oh, i oughta do something for promo! which i promptly did not do, at all. but i’m doing it now! free cookbooks for all! well, for some. five. five, to be exact, free cookbooks for five.

anyhow, this is the book i wrote: 

Cooking is terrible, and food is often a massive pain in the ass. Eating is sometimes ok, sometimes a giant drag, and somehow still a thing that you have to do multiple times a day, which seems enormously unfair. This book isn’t going to teach you how to cook, or turn you into the kind of person who hosts effortless dinner parties, or make you more attractive and popular and interesting. At best, it’s going to make it slightly more likely that you manage to eat something in the ten minutes between walking in the door and falling into the sweet embrace of the internet. I’m not joking—a lot of this can be done, start to finish, in ten to fifteen minutes. I resent thirty-minute meals because it feels like about twenty-eight minutes too long to spend on feeding myself. If you’re excited to get home from work and spend an hour cooking dinner, this isn’t the book for you. If you really value authenticity, this isn’t the book for you. If you literally only eat three foods and you’re happy like that, this isn’t the book for you. If you, like me, are tired and depressed and just need to get some food into your face once in a while, this is definitely the book for you. You should buy it. Maybe it’ll help.

you can buy it on amazon or gumroad, or you can win a copy (in pdf, epub, or mobi format) by reblogging this post. 

other important stuff:

winners will be chosen by a random generator

please don’t spam people–reblog no more than twice

no giveaway blogs

you do not have to follow me

there are reviews on amazon; my cooking is terrible tag has questions people have asked me

contest closes friday, august 17, 2018, at 11:59 pm pacific time

winners have to give me their email address so i can send them the book

Her eyes got wide and she gave me a big smile and said, “Oh! I’m so jealous of you! I wish I could it read it again for the first time.”

So I’m sick and tired of reading all these negative posts where writers try to force themselves to sit and type a certain number of words in order to feel good about themselves. Relax. Sometimes you need a break, and that break will be the reason you write twice as many pages next time. Go out for a coffee, or visit a bookstore to stare at pretty covers. Sit in a park. There are so many ideas out there in the world waiting for you, and you won’t discover them by sitting in front of a laptop and being angry at a blank page.

- sequels coming out in a different size than the first book

- damaged book mail

- that we can’t read through our tbr pile before we die

- that time the Library of Alexandria got burned down