Eat Your Feelings
You GUYS. I’m going to get published.
Argestes, a literary magazine out of Iowa, has picked up a story of mine for their Fall/Winter ’09 issue, which is…pretty much the most exciting thing to happen in my life since I got to the episode of Lost where Sawyer and Kate do it and then escape from the Others. SO. You know. Pretty exciting.
Obviously, the only appropriate response was to drink a lot of champagne and bake cookies, which is EXACTLY WHAT I DID.
Have a recipe! And celebrate.
1/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup all purpose flour
1 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/3 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup flaked coconut
Preheat the oven to 350. Beat the butter for 30 seconds, then add sugar, baking soda, and salt; beat until well-combined. Beat in egg and vanilla, then flour, then stir in oats and coca powder. Add chocolate chips, coconut, and pecans. Dough will be thick. Spoon onto a baking sheet–small cookies work best, I think–and bake for eight minutes or so.
Eat. Drink. And feel damn pleased with yourself.
September 15, 2009 @ 11:20 am
YOU’RE FABULOUS!
September 15, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
you are fabulous. and hilarious. i loved the ‘lost’ memory- i was so mixed up emotionally over that episode.
okay, these cookies look like magic. i want to sink my teeth into one right this minute! are they ‘cakey’? i am way into cakey cookies.
ps. hey thanks for the comment the other day!
September 15, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
congrats, that’s WICKED awesome!
September 15, 2009 @ 6:03 pm
EEEEEEEEE!!!!! SO EXCITING!!!
September 15, 2009 @ 8:36 pm
That is still so awesome. WAY TO BE!!!
September 16, 2009 @ 12:19 am
Whoohooo! Celebrate! You are lovely and will have published novels one day.
September 16, 2009 @ 1:15 am
Holy excitement! This is just the beginning of a long, illustrious career that could be made into a movie titled “When the World Discovers Katie’s Fabulous Writing.” Unwieldy, yes, but a blockbuster with the literati. Yay, yay, yay for you!
Also, I’ll need some of those cookies to properly celebrate, please. Thanks.
September 16, 2009 @ 4:44 am
Congratulations!!!!!!! I am so excited for you. I am sure this is just the beginning!
Plus the cookies look awesome.
I’m only interested in your process. « Kitchen Door
October 23, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
[…] So I decided a long time ago that I wasn’t going to force it, that I was going to read and cook and knit scarves and make lists and wait for it–whatever IT is– to come. That’s where this blog was born, actually: a way to keep the words alive while I waited for whatever was next to reveal itself. And, finally, it did: last spring I was in the right place at the right time and I found fuel for eight, nine, ten short stories, letters and paragraphs and dialogue spilling over onto the page and the screen faster than I could get it all down. Over the summer Tom got used to coming home and finding me doing things like eating cereal and broccoli for dinner, notebooks and markers like rubble at my feet. I could feel my muscles getting longer and stronger, making connections I wouldn’t have made before. A Shred, if you will, for my brain: and one with results. […]