I love food. I love to write about food. And you know how much I love to collect cookbooks; each one in my collection is like a great novel that I cherish. There is, of course, always room for one more. Maybe it’s one with your name on. Do you have the next great cookbook for the Kelly’s Kitchen collection? Maybe! This is a call to everyone who’s ever dreamed about finally taking all those cherished recipes and creating a wonderful cookbook. The big question of course is where do you start?

   How about with a tweet? The Lisa Ekus Group is aa full-service culinary agency that has provided media training, strategic public relations planning, consulting and literary agency services for over 31 years, and they have a unique opportunity for those of you who blog, maybe write a column and just have a fantastic collection of recipes the world needs to know about with the “So You Want To Write A Cookbook” contest. Sally Ekus, Literary Agent Associate explains how the contest works.

   So what are they looking for? Trendy stuff? Comfort food? Sally has some good advice of what’s hot…and what’s not.  I’d love to know if you’re going to enter, and how it goes. Click here for all the details, and we can all say we knew you when. Good luck!

   To hear the full interview, just click here.

WORDS OF WISDOM FROM KELLY’S KITCHEN

“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.”  - Mark Miller