Why I
wrote this book.
I think about chocolate every day. I
don't always eat candy- but chocolate has
to be involved in some part of a
dessert...or it's not for me! Apparently
quite a few other people feel the same
way. These were so much fun to think
up and draw. Not
the real thing, but close.I
edited and produced a calendar for Barnes
and Noble entitled: What do Women REALLY
Want? Cats, Chocolate, Shoes and Love!
Yes, it's a long title, but isn't it
lovely and true?
The publisher at NBM loved
the title, too. But he wanted to do an
entire book on each subject, and he
picked Chocolate as the first book. Good
choice!
And he wanted to make it a
hardback, so it would be a real
collectible. (The publisher, NBM,
specializes in graphic novels.)
Description.
The chocolate-brown cover is smooth,
almost silky. The publisher decided it
had to be a hardback, to be a real
collector's item. Readers often tell me
it looks likd a chocolate bar. And in
contrast, the pages are super-white.
There are over 120 fullpage
cartoons about ice cream, cake, brownies,
cookies and of course chocolate. Some
unusual quotations are also sprinkled
about. And the foreword is by the famous
author of 9 cookbooks, Rose Levy
Beranbaum. She had never written a
foreword before, but thought chocolate
and cartoons made this book special!
It was printed in a limited
quantity. As of June, 2006, this book is
officially out of print, unless another
publisher snaps it up. Copies are still
available here, and sometimes on Amazon.
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