Welcome Holly Jacobs!

Please say howdy to my friend and our
Sunday guest blogger, Holly Jacobs!
Holly has been a long time pal of mine,
starting when we both wrote for Harlequin
Duets. She's an absolute delight as a person
and a writer, so I'm just tickled to have her
here with us!

Hi, I'm Holly Jacobs. I don't write mysteries.
Okay, so I did once write a comedic romance

that might count. It was sort of a Weekend at

Bernie's story. A dead body that kept moving

around. However, my dead body died happy and

stayed frozen the whole time (Bernie would

have smelled). The book's title was

Found and Lost. Me, I wanted to call it

Can't Find NoBODY. I thought it was a perfect

title for a dead body mystery/romance!

LOL

Okay, the rest of my bio? Wife, mother,

dog-owner (okay the dogs wouldn't agree

with that...Ethel Merman and Ella Fitzgerald

are pretty sure they own me.) and writer...that

about sums up who I am. I'm also someone who

really enjoys cooking and baking. Nothing fancy.

Just good old home cooking sort of meals.

When my friend Jenn asked me to participate in

this blog I wanted to think of something unusual,

but easy. Something that was great for a quick

holiday treat. And I hit on Wheaties Bread. Yes,

I mean Wheaties as in the breakfast cereal. We've

made it for years, and have adapted it from the

original recipe that a friend gave me. It's quick

to throw together, and it's lovely when holiday

company stops in for coffee.

Here goes:

Wheaties Bread

2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour (or White Wheat)

1 Cup Sugar

2 1/2 tsp Baking Powder

3/4 tsp Salt

2 tsp Cinnamon (I tend to use a bit

more...we like it spicy)

Mix the dry ingredients, then add:

2 Cups Wheaties cereal

1 Cup Milk

1 Egg, slightly beaten

1/4 Cup Oil

Mix.

Use cooking spray to coat a bread pan.
Rather than dust it with flour, I dust it with
sugar (or a sugar/cinnamon mixture).
Pour the mixture in. (I tend to sprinkle
a fine layer of sugar on top as well.)
Bake at 350 for 60 Minutes.

This is a great sweet bread to serve warm to guests
during the busy holiday season. And this year's

holiday season is really busy here. In addition

to family gatherings, I have two releases!!

UNEXPECTED GIFTS by Holly Jacobs

ISBN #978-0-373-71601-2

Harlequin SuperRomance, 11/09

Life happens…and then life really happens!

Teacher Eli Cartwright has it all figured out—

the career, the reliable boyfriend and the

next few dependable decades. But life has

quite a sense of humor, it seems, since her
perfectly ordered existence has been

completely upended. Because now Eli is

counseling pregnant teens—with an
unplanned pregnancy of her own! So Eli

is single, terrified… and exuberant. And

her colleague, Zac Keller, has never
been more attracted to her. But can he

convince Eli that life sometimes offers more

than one unexpected gift at a time?

9 Months Later: It’s not what they’re

expecting.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

EVERYTHING BUT A CHRISTMAS EVE by Holly Jacobs

ISBN 978-0-8034-9984-3

Avalon Books, 12/09

For years, Nana Vancy Bashalde Salo

believed that she’d cursed her own family

to bad weddings. Now that the curse is

broken, she’s bored. Her best friends, the
‘Silver Bells,’convince her to try her hand

at match- making. And Nana has just the

people in mind, Salo Construction’s new

office manager, Eve Allen, and
her neighbor, TC Potter.

Hope you enjoy the bread...and that you

have a great holiday season! Thanks for

letting me visit!

Holly


Thanks for popping in, Holly! I am positively in love
with the dog on your cover for EVERYTHING BUT
A CHRISTMAS EVE and can't wait to read both of
your new titles. - Jenn

And tomorrow, we'll be returning to the Mystery Lover's Kitchen's Iron Chef week
featuring PUMPKIN! Stay tuned to see how you can win a prize by suggesting
our next mystery ingredient!