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  • Making your cookbook picture perfect

    Ask the Editor: Making Your Cookbook “Picture Perfect”

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    This month, Xulon Press is all about self-publishing your recipes—we’ve gone cookbook crazy! One of the most important components of a cookbook is, of course, the pictures! To get the skinny on how to capture your picture-perfect casseroles, sauces and sides, we’ve tapped into the brains of our resident food & photography experts. Meet our panel: Krystina Murray, Xulon Editor, blogger and passionate foodie; Nick Lopez, Author Support Rep and photographer extraordinaire; and Sabine Khouri, our super-trendy, tech-savvy Product Coordinator. Me: Thanks for getting together! Our authors have been pretty excited about this month’s topic. We all know that pictures are…

  • Cookbooks and recipes with Xulon Press

    Whipping Up Your First Cookbook

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    The moment has come to compile your favorite recipes in a fun cookbook. You may be wondering where to begin, where to get your recipes from and how to make your cookbook unique. Compiling a cookbook may not be as hard as you think! But first, why not dabble in writing about your favorite dishes? The list below can help you get started. Passing down family traditions and recipes. Your cookbook may be a way to share a unique cultural background with exotic cuisines that you have fond memories of making. You can also commemorate deceased relatives by dedicating your…

  • Xulon Press author Elizabeth Chalker

    Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight: Elizabeth Chalker

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    Xulon Press author Elizabeth Chalker is our featured author profiled in today’s Successful Author Spotlight.  She is a psychologist who specialized in working with at-risk youth until her body was attacked with Mold/Biotoxin disease, along with Lyme Disease. These diseases have adversely affected Elizabeth’s life and caused her intense pain and placed her in extremely difficult living conditions, all of which can be viewed on the website www.helpelizabeth.net which speaks in frank detail about the life our featured author endures on a daily basis. Her book “Hanging on by the Scratch Marks my Nails Left Behind (Raw Faith)” shares her…