A passion for pasta

A passion for pasta

I never realised it was so straightforward. Pasta, I mean. Specifically, making one’s own fresh pasta at home. Since discovering some labour-saving secrets, I have been going about it with gusto. Jen introduced me to pasta making a few months ago. Her creations were delicious but took an age, kneading the dough and letting it [...]


Jumping way ahead (and back)

Jumping way ahead (and back)

TableRappers Book 1 is not even off the starting blocks yet, but just because I needed to get the idea out of my head, I wrote the first draft of the prelude chapter to TableRappers Book 2 yesterday.

Originally written in screenplay format as an introductory scene, I was unable then to give the introduction as much depth as I wished as it would take up far too much time. Novel format, of course, does not suffer from such limitations and so a full-blown, all-out prelude was possible.

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