New Recipe

I love easy and yummy recipes and found another featuring chocolate chips in the newspaper the other day that I thought I would share.

Baked Somemores

You will want to use some of the non-stick cooking spray on a 10 X 15 cookie sheet, the old kind with the rimmed sides, and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Mix together 3 cups of graham cracker crumbs, 1 stick of unsalted butter, melted and 1/3 cup sugar. Pat this mixture on the bottom of the sprayed baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle the marshmellows on top. I haven't tried this but I would be inclined to put the oven on broil and toast the marshmellows a bit to get the flavor you get when roasting them over an open fire. Top the marshmellows with 12 oz broken up (6-8) chocolate bars or chocolate chips and bake 5 to 8 minutes. Remove and cool than take a pizza cutter and cut into desired size squares. Makes 35-40.

I am immersing this thought into my mind, "Let God sort it out." Whenever I want to holler not fair or why me over things I have no control over, I remind myself to let God sort it out.

Best wishes from my book to yours,

Susan

Whoohee

Whoohee, because life is grand regardless of every pitfall and every bit of bad news or lack of good news.

What happened today that was so great? Millions of things. But most of all,  I'm healthy, my family is healthy and we can laugh.

So many people on this earth are living through and perservering in spite of overwhelming devastation and tragedy. My woes, such as they are, pale in comparison.

I am reading the best book I've read in a long time. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE by Kristan Higgins. It's been in my pile of "to be read" for a long time. I'm glad I plucked it out. It is funny and sweet, quirky and at the same time sane. It is a story of falling in love in the very best way. I'll be sad to leave these characters when it ends.

I send best wishes from my book to yours.

Susan

Good Vibes

Things have been moving forward in a very positive direction. Hoorah. Many opporutnities have opened up for me in the month of August.

My website can be found by doing the usual www + susanralph + com. It is currently residing somewhere in the dark recesses of the listings if you search on susan ralph. You will find an e-mail contact address there.

If you would like to have a chance to win a copy of my new book, drop into http://www.romconinc.com/ on August 12. To find me on that date, move your curosr to the blog box and then click on contemporary in the drop down box.  My question of the day is who played  or plays an important part in making you the person you are. I would love to read your answers.

Hope to see you there.

Susan

The Second Book

It is great to have a second book out. Unlike BROMPTON MANOR, a Regency historical, STARTING FROM SCRATCH is a contemporary chick-lit style story.

The love interest has a big role, he is a great guy--my kind of guy--but the story is about the heroine taking charge of her life and following her dream without losing the people she loves and who love her.

The past week  was a wonderful time in Orlando where I attended the Romance Writer's annual conference. Like always, the conference was filled with wonderful people , great workshops, and inspiring speakers. But this year, I thought the conference hotel, The Swan and Dolphin, was superior to any of the previous conference hotels I have been to and this was my ninth conference.

And now I am back home and picking up my writing. Hoping all of the inspiration I got from being among fellow writers for a week will spur me to make a larger effort.

May you all find inspiration for the tasks you are faced with in a mother's group, a social club, church, working for a cause you believe in, or from a boss with excellent management skills and a heart of gold.