Cupcake Dreams

I'm in love with cupcakes. Have been since childhood. When Selah was born the cupcake fascination returned. This week I'm making cute Gidget cupcakes for our girlscout troop's pool party on Friday. I've read and made so many cupcakes that I decided to include this fascination into my novel. Let me tell you my second draft has new life . Chucky P told me in a letter he sent me two years ago when I participated in his writing workshop that if I'm not having fun with my writing, then don't write. Back then writing wasn't so much fun. Now it's a piece of cupcake :)

Some of my favorite new writers have a fresh vibe to their work. I think because they are having loads of fun and infusing their passions on the page. Mair Burney is a CSI fan, so her Amanda Bell Brown mysteries feel so good reading down. Mary Griffith's If The Shoe Fits (Steeple Hill Cafe) fits her personality so well, I had to call her midread to tell her. Cyndy Salzmann's Crime and Clutter (A Friday Afternoon Club Mystery) is chock full of home cleaning tips. I could tell that Cyndy watched Martha along with me everyday. There's just something about including your passion in your stories that make you stand out.

What keeps you up all night? Are you writing about it?


photo courtesy of Atlanta Cupcake Factory. Cute!