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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on December 31, 2009.
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COCKTAILS Behind-the-scenes progress reports, sneak peeks of the art and a recipe postcard mailed to you.
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AMUSE BOUCHE Behind-the-scenes progress reports, sneak peeks of the art, a recipe postcard mailed to you AND a pdf copy of the book once it's complete.
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APPETIZER Behind-the-scenes progress reports, sneak peeks of the art, a recipe postcard mailed to you AND a signed copy of the printed book.
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SOUP or SALAD Behind-the-scenes progress reports, sneak peeks of the art, a recipe postcard mailed to you and a signed and SKETCHED copy of the book.
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THE ENTREE Behind-the-scenes progress reports, sneak peeks of the art, a recipe postcard mailed to you, a signed and sketched copy of the book AND a recipe named after you (given name will be credited at the bottom of each recipe, Junior League-style but the recipe name can include your nickname or the name of one of your characters, if you want--we can talk about it).
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THE CHEESE PLATE Behind-the-scenes progress reports, sneak peeks of the art, a recipe postcard mailed to you, a signed and sketched copy of the book, a recipe named after you AND a piece of original art from the book.
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DESSERT Behind-the-scenes progress reports, sneak peeks of the art, a recipe postcard mailed to you, a signed and sketched copy of the book, a recipe named after you or one of your characters, an original page of art from the book AND a character based on you in one of the five story arcs.
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SOUP to NUTS Behind-the-scenes progress reports, sneak peeks of the art, a recipe postcard mailed to you, a signed and sketched copy of the book, a special thank you on the dedication page, a piece of original art from the book AND DINNER FOR 4, made by me. This means you've either got to be in Tallahassee for the meal or within, say, a 5-6 hour drive from my place so I can travel, cook, and then crash at a hotel for the night before heading home. Boundaries by major cities would be New Orleans to the west, Birmingham to the northwest, the greater Atlanta area to the north, Savannah/Jacksonville/Daytona Beach along the east coast, Orlando area to the south around to Tampa on the Gulf Coast and pretty much anywhere within that arc. If I'm driving to cook, you've got to have a kitchen available for me to prepare the meal in, I'll bring everything else.
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I wear many hats--okay, I don't wear hats that often, I prefer shoes, but you get the idea. I have a Culinary Arts degree but no longer work in the hospitality industry with the exception of my food and cocktail blogging. Instead, I have a day-job as a Bookkeeper with the same company I've been at for the last 15 years. I like what I do, it pays the bills and it's predictable. Unfortunately, as I told my boss one day, creative accounting gets you 10 to 20...
Enter the off hours. Some people call it free time, I'm not sure I really embody that. Almost every spare moment is spent working on my comics (I have 2, they're both on the web, check 'em out at the links below), writing or creating in some way or another. For the last 2.5 years (give or take a month) I was the Art (& Crafts) Expert for eHow.com so I did a lot of writing for them, creating projects to photograph step-by-step and sharing my creativity. With that program finished, it was time to move on to something else, freeing me up to do more of my own projects instead of someone else's.
I throw fabulous parties, still love to cook, just got my BAC (BarSmarts Advanced Certification) to beef up my cocktail knowledge, knit, scrapbook, sew, make jewelry, take photographs and get the greatest joy from sparking a smile or laugh from one of my comics. I prefer useful art and functional fun stuff to dust-catchers and collect monkey-stuff.
