Why Fairy Tales?

I decided to take a modern spin on the classic fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" and modernize her a bit.  I feel that often times the female in fairy tales is a bit outdated for the world we live in.  Traditionally, they need to be saved and their place is in the home.   I wanted Little Red to be a heroine in her own right.  I chose to update the speech a bit to make it more relate-able to today's audience.  While fairy tales provide an excellent framework for readers and writers, they can be played with and tweaked and I think that makes them interesting in that they can keep evolving and changing from one generation to the next.

About the Author

I just finished my English master's degree in English.  I chose to focus more on creative writing because that is a passion of mine.  I primarily write non-fiction "memory snapshots".  I do dabble in poetry sometimes as well.  Nuff Said is one of the longest works I have written.  Like all authors, I have a few other story ideas floating around.  Putting the words to paper is sometimes difficult.  "Nuff Said" evolved out of a simple class exercise about fairy tales and dialogue.  It was only meant to be an activity to get you working in characters' speaking.  Little did I know that that would become my master's project and later something that I would self-publish.  I enjoy traveling, being outdoors, cooking and baking, and hanging with my friends and family.

Why a Cookbook?

Cooking has been a passion of mine for about 10 years now.  I actually thought about being a chef and still might, but for right now I'll just stick to my own home kitchen.  I think it is fun to create something out of simple unrelated ingredients.  I try to challenge myself to make things that are a little bit out of my comfort zone.  I wanted to bring my passion of food to children and adults alike when I came up with this idea of having recipes based off fairy tales.  I also wanted the recipes to be easy to understand with SIMPLE ingredients.  Too often, recipes are overly complicated with their pictures and ingredients.  I wanted simple.