Celebrate the season with my latest award winning books, Backlash, a JadeAnne Stone Mexico Adventure #5 and my memoir of living in Mexico, Saints and Skeletons, available for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their 2023 End of Year Sale! Find my books, and many more, at https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ through January 1! #SmashwordsEoYSale #Smashwords. You can easily find the books through the search function under my name.
Okay, now that you have your book, let's get down to celebrating the season. Tonight I'm going to trim my tree to a good eggnog (with spiced rum), homemade cookies, and a sappy holiday romcom. Then I'll start my round of entertaining. Here's what I'm serving. JadeAnne's grandmother served one at table every Christmas Eve, but it's dramatic with any holiday feast!
Gaga's Persimmon Pudding
Ingredients
Preparation
To flame: fill a small pitcher with brandy or rum , pour a good amount over the pudding and into the. plate. Light a match and watch the blue flames! With a spoon, keep the flames going by dipping alcohol from the plate over the pudding. Don’t worry if the spoonfuls are flaming. It burns at a low temp and burns out fast, but while it lasts, it makes an impressive display. Be sure to dim the dining room lights and flame with fanfare!
Rum Butter
Cream together ½ c. brown sugar, ½ stick butter, 1 tsp nutmeg. Slowly add 2 Tbls. dark rum, 1 tsp cream sherry and whip until fluffy.
@anamanwaring
Okay, I don't usually toot my own horn, but I'm thrilled to share my
for Saints and Skeletons A Memoir of Living in Mexico.
Not convinced? Read the review! Five stars from Literary Titan
"Saints and Skeletons by Ann Manwaring offers a poignant and introspective narrative that delves into a life shaped by personal triumphs, struggles, and the unwavering quest for self-discovery. With eloquent prose and candid storytelling, Manwaring invites readers to immerse themselves in the depths of her experiences, bearing witness to the transformative power of vulnerability and resilience. "
Pages: 298 | ASIN: B0C4QLYLC8 Available on Amazon, B&N, Smashwords
Please join me and memoirist, Aletheia Morden, author of The Last Indentured Servant A Hollywood Memoir at Sonoma's Vintage House on Friday, July 21st at one o'clock for a reading from our recent books and discuss the lure of travel, relocation and the personal growth that accompanies living abroad. Moderated by Susan Savage.
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The JadeAnne Stone Mexico Adventures
Monday, July 24th at 9:40 a.m. Marcia Macomber will interview me for her program, Mondays on the Morning Show at KSVY 91.3 FM and streaming at www.KSVY.org.
I Look forward to seeing you!
Find me at: www.anamanwaring.com and https://linktr.ee/anamanwaring
This action-packed memoir/travelogue formed the real-life backdrop to what later became the successful JadeAnne Stone thriller series. Starting in the summer of 1991, Saints and Skeletons takes you through the back roads of Mexico, Belize, and the Peten region of northern Guatemala, where I camped out in ruins, sampled exotic foods, smoked loco weed atop pyramids, drank mescal out of the still, skinny dipped in the Pacific at Zipolite, found lost cities, and learned to make a killer margarita. In the process, I also experienced love, betrayal and loneliness. As doors opened and walls crumbled in my heart, skeletons tumbled out and, occasionally, saints appeared just when I needed them most.
"In Manwaring’s immersive memoir, Saints and Skeletons, she deftly takes her reader on a pilgrimage to Mexico. Rendered with heart and vulnerability, we observe her inner life through the risky choices she regrets, the love she desires, the sublime beauty she discovers. Don’t miss this multi-sensory adventure of a lifetime." JC Miller, Amazon #1 author of Vacation, Believing in Bigfoot, Heliotrope and Larkspur (2023)
Preorder your digital format now and pick up your paperback on June 21st. Available from most digital retailers.
Saints and Skeletons is my serialized story of traveling in Mexico with an old dog and a hot Chilango boyfriend in a VW poptop camper in 1991/2. Read more at www.saintsandskeletons.com