Welcome Back! Today’s headlining picture makes me think of my favorite thing about autumn baking…apples and cinnamon. Here in the North Country, Autumn is in full swing. Cool, crips nights, and sun-shiny days illuminate the colorful trees here in the Adirondacks. It’s the season for steamy drinks, comforting casseroles, warm breakfasts to get us started in the morning.
Which brings me to our featured author of the week.
For this fourth installment of my series, I present to you author Melody Winter, and her soon-to-be-released novel, INIQUITY. Here is Melody, with a bit about her upcoming release.
Village life for my characters in Iniquity is hard. Food is limited, and meat scarce. But the one meal that’s made every morning is a hearty bowl of porridge. The men need a filling breakfast to see them through a day working at the fields, and the women usually eat their fair share as well. The weather is cold, miserable and it often rains, hence a stomach full of warm porridge is a good start to everyone’s day.
Athena mentions having to soak the oats overnight. This was a traditional way of making porridge. For each serving, the equivalent of 50 grams of oats was added to a mix of 300ml water and goats milk if it was available. The following morning it was cooked in a large metal pot over hot coals, stirring constantly until it boiled, and then stirred again for a further ten minutes.
Unfortunately, in Iniquity there isn’t much else you can add to the porridge as fruit and other plant growth is severely hindered by the lack of sunlight. The villagers only grow the necessities.
INIQUITY is due for release on the 25th October, available through amazon, or a signed paperback direct from Melody. The ebook is currently available for pre-order at a special discounted price on amazon:
Amazon.com: Link to Iniquity on amazon US
Amazon.co.uk: Link to Iniquity on amazon UK
Email Melody: melodywinterbooks@gmail.com
About the author:
Growing up, Melody showed a natural ability in art, a head for maths, and a tendency to write too long English essays. Difficult to place in the world when she graduated, she pursued a career in teaching, but ended up working in finance. Melody is convinced the methodical times she spends working with numbers fuel her desire to drift into dream worlds and write about the illusory characters in her head.
Melody Winter lives in York, North Yorkshire, England with her husband and two sons. When not dealing with football, rugby, and a whole plethora of ‘boy’ activities, she will be found scribbling notes for her stories, or preparing for another trip to the nearby beaches at Scarborough and Whitby. With an obsession for anything mythical, Melody revels in reading and writing about such creatures, and creating her own.
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