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Carolyn Brown | The Sometimes Sisters Top 5 List
GIVEAWAY: win a copy of THE SOMETIMES SISTERS
February 28, 2018
Hello to Sara and all y'all at Fresh Fiction. I always enjoy myself, whether
it's a book club visit by phone, Ritas & Readers event or having the
privilege of attending a book club night. I'm here today to talk to y'all about
my newest release, THE
SOMETIMES SISTERS. Harper, Tawny and Dana have inherited their grandmother's small lakeside resort
that includes a café run by Granny Annie's long time friend, Zed. He's real
proud of the recipe book that his mother handed down to him from her mother, and
from the look of it, maybe it went back more generations than that. So today
we're going to list the top five things that are mentioned in the book that Zed
offers as the daily blue plate special.
- On Sunday, his blue plate special is chicken and dressing, cranberry
sauce from scratch, mashed potatoes (none of that powdery stuff from packages
but real potatoes), gravy and corn on the cob. People come from miles to eat at
the café on Sunday and there's usually a waiting line.
- Fridays were Harper's favorite. She loved Zed's pot roast and
homemade yeast rolls, covered with butter and right out of the oven. She hopes
to someday be able to make them but she's pretty sure it's in the technique as
much as it is in the recipe. That means she'll have to stand right beside him
and watch every movement as he makes them every week.
- Pancakes! I do love pancakes and I was so glad that Zed gave us his
secret to making them. EXCERPT: Zed brought out another platter with six big
pancakes on it and then went on back to the kitchen. "It's Annie's recipe.
Secret is in beating the egg whites first and then folding them into the batter.
Makes good light pancakes."
- Blackberry cobbler. It's right there in Zed's cookbook and the
secret is flaky pie dough. He doesn't give out that recipe but he will tell us
that when it's just about done, to brush the top with butter, shake some sugar
on it and let it cook another ten minutes.
- Burgers, available from ten thirty in the morning until closing at
night.
EXCERPT: "Zed could put in a burger shop anywhere in the
world and people would flock to it. He should write a recipe book. Bet he could
make a million bucks on it," Wyatt said.
"Probably so, but I don't think he'll share his secrets with anyone," Harper said.
And Harper is so right…until she proves herself and Zed decides that she's
worthy to touch his recipe book.
And one more just because I like what Zed has to say.
- Gingerbread with warm lemon sauce. His secret is good strong
molasses. None of that white syrup or waffle syrup goes in Zed's gingerbread.
EXCERPT: Zed stuck a bowl of lemon sauce in the microwave and
set half a pan of gingerbread on the table. "Life is what you make it, girls.
The past is all over and done with. What you got is the present, because
tomorrow might never get here. Annie told me that a lot when I got to frettin'
about things, so we worked hard at makin' today a good one."
I'll give away a signed copy of THE SOMETIMES SISTERS or a
digital copy, reader's choice, and the winner will be drawn from the comments.
Tell me, if you were going to the café at the lakeside resort, what would you order?
A bittersweet inheritance reunites three estranged sisters in a novel of
family, trust, and forgiveness from New York Times bestselling author
Carolyn Brown.
When they were growing up, Dana, Harper, and Tawny thought of themselves as
“sometimes sisters.” They connected only during the summer month they’d all
spend at their grandmother’s rustic lakeside resort in north Texas. But secrets
started building, and ten years have passed since they’ve all been together—in
fact, they’ve rarely spoken, and it broke their grandmother’s heart.
Now she’s gone, leaving Annie’s Place to her granddaughters—twelve cabins, a
small house, a café, a convenience store, and a lot of family memories. It’s
where Dana, Harper, and Tawny once shared so many good times. They’ve returned,
sharing only hidden regrets, a guarded mistrust, and haunting guilt. But now, in
this healing summer place, the secrets that once drove them apart could bring
them back together—especially when they discover that their grandmother may have
been hiding something, too…
To overcome the past and find future happiness, these “sometimes sisters”
have one more chance to realize they are always family.
Women's Fiction
Contemporary [Montlake Romance, On Sale:
February 27, 2018, Trade Size / e-Book, ISBN: 9781503949201 / ]
Carolyn Brown is a New York Times and USA Today best
selling author and a RITA Finalist who has sold more than 2.75 million books.
She presently writes both women's fiction and cowboy romance. She has also
written historical single title, historical series, contemporary single title,
and contemporary series. She credits her eclectic family for her humor
and writing ideas. She was born in Texas but grew up in southern Oklahoma where
she and her husband, Charles, a retired English teacher, now make their home in
the town of Davis, Oklahoma. They have three grown children and enough
grandchildren to keep them young.
Ready to win? What would you order at the cafe? Just tell us below.
Comments
18 comments posted.
Re: Carolyn Brown | The Sometimes Sisters Top 5 List
Sunday's blue plate special!
(Jessica Nathan 11:05pm February 28, 2018)
A Big Plate of pancakes sounds amazing
(Barbara Ryan 11:19pm February 28, 2018)
I can only pick ONE?!!! I'd have to go there every day and try that day's special. I am starving for this food now I've read the descriptions. They all sound yummy!!!!
(Nancy Reynolds 9:52am March 1, 2018)
I would show up on Fridays for the pot roast and homemade
rolls, sounds delicious.
(Maryann Skaritka 2:49pm March 1, 2018)
Blueberry cobbler! But I do love gingerbread with lemon
sauce, not to mention a good pot roast!
(Kathleen Bylsma 9:19pm March 1, 2018)
Sunday's blue plate special!
(Ann Unger 9:53pm March 1, 2018)
comfort meal and pie thanks for chance
(Susan Gannon 10:10am March 2, 2018)
Gingerbread with Lemon sauce sounds delectable and
unforgettable.
(Sharon Berger 11:26am March 2, 2018)
Pie and coffee
Great review sounds very good thanks
Penney
(Penney Wilfort 2:01pm March 2, 2018)
Blackberry cobbler.
(Melanie Rosen 1:46am March 3, 2018)
Chicken Salad Sandwich
(Jeri Dickinson 10:06pm March 3, 2018)
Blue plate special
(Darlene Carroll 5:22pm March 4, 2018)
I think I'll have some pancakes and gingerbread
(Alisha Woods 6:21pm March 4, 2018)
Mmmmm. Gingerbread!
(Glenda Martillotti 11:34pm March 4, 2018)
The blackberry cobbler sounds delicious. I haven't eaten any in years and it would be a treat.
(Anna Speed 11:19am March 5, 2018)
(Julie Parrish 2:13pm March 5, 2018)
A Chicken Salad sandwich with lettuce and Mayo and fries
(Jeri Dickinson 5:14pm March 5, 2018)
Blackberry cobbler please!
(Rebecca Shields 8:55pm March 5, 2018)
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