I'm thrilled about our guests this morning - two amazing women who are both editors and authors. Best of both worlds I'd say! The first half hour we'll hear from Beth Adams who is an Editor with Guideposts. The second half of the show will feature Ginger Kolbaba, who is an editor for Kyria.com. All you aspiring authors (myself included!) have your questions ready. Call into the show, tweet them (@mcsweeney) or leave them here on this segment post.
About Bet
h: Beth Adams is a senior editor at Guideposts Books. She works primarily on fiction, and is thrilled to get to work with some of the best authors in the business, including many former guests of this show.
She started her career at Random House, schlepping coffee and making photocopies and complaining about it in the corporate cafeteria. She moved to Guideposts four years ago, and still schleps coffee, makes photocopies, and complains in her spare time. She also writes books sometimes.
She grew up in San Jose, California, where the sun shines three hundred days a year, and moved east for college. She promptly decided she hated East Coast winters. She has degrees from Princeton and New York University, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband. She likes to run, read, and eat.
Oh and look at this great recipe - LOVE the name. Potatoes of Wonderfulness!
Generally, I try to cook fairly healthy meals, with lots of fresh vegetable and lean protein.
This is not that.
This cheesy, gooey potato dish is basically a heart attack on a plate, but it’s so good. My mom made this as a side dish when I was home visiting a few years back, and I have made it several times since, with rave reviews.
My husband named this dish. I believe the official name of the recipe my Mom forwarded me to is Cheesy Potato Gratin, but Potatoes of Wonderfulness is how my husband always asks for this dish, so that’s what we call them now.
Potatoes of Wonderfulness
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
1 sprig fresh thyme
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 teas. ground nutmeg
butter
2 russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/8" slices
salt and freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup grated Parmesan, plus more for broiling
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a saucepan, heat up the cream with the thyme, garlic, and nutmeg.
While cream is heating, butter a casserole dish. Place a layer of
potatoes in an overlapping pattern and season with salt and pepper.
Remove cream from the heat, then pour a little over the potatoes. Top
with some grated cheese. Repeat with 2 more layers. Bake uncovered
for 45 minutes. Sprinkle with some more cheese and broil until cheese
browns, about 5 min.
About Ginger: Ginger Kolbaba is editor and manager of discipleship and women’s resources, including the
newly launched Kyria.com, and Marriage Partnership.com, an award-winning publication and website of Christianity Today International, both with more than 2.5 million unique visitors annually. She is also a freelance book editor for several major publishing houses and a former editor of the award-winning publication Today’s Christian Woman.
Also an accomplished author, Ginger has written more than 300 articles and has written or contributed to more than 16 books, including the best-seller Refined by Fire, which received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly and was nominated for a Gold Medallion award. Her most recent novel series, Secrets from Lulu’s Café, includes Desperate Pastors’ Wives, A Matter of Wife and Death, and Katt’s in the Cradle.
Ginger also teaches and speaks across the country. She’s been quoted in Newsweek and the Chicago Sun-Times and has appeared on national venues such as CNN’s Nancy Grace and Court TV’s Catherine Crier Live, as well as Chicago’s top rated talk radio station WLS, Family Life Radio, and Moody Radio’s Midday Connection.
She is a graduate of Anderson University (Anderson, Indiana), and worked as a professional actress and singer before making the transition to more sane and solitary roles behind a computer.
When she isn’t chained to her computer, Ginger enjoys spending time with her husband motorcycling through the countryside, visiting Yellowstone National Park, walking her Doberman, reading good books, and talking theory with her friends about the television series Lost. She believes one of her greatest accomplishments would be dusting off her piano and treadmill and using them both—at least once this year.
Visit her at www.GingerKolbaba.com
About Ginger's latest book: Four pastors' wives. All desperate for something. 
Is it possible that their desperation will lead to hope?
Mimi, Lisa, Jennifer, and Felicia all live in the fishbowl of Red River, Ohio. Everyone expects something from them. Gourmet casseroles. Perfect husbands. Well-behaved children. They expect even more of themselves.
The constant demands and always-ringing phones are enough to drive any sane woman crazy. Add to all that the condescending Katherine Fleming Katt -- self-promoting pastor's wife of the town's largest church -- who loves to flaunt her superior position. In the midst of such chaos, will each woman find the one thing she longs for?
When the unflappable Kitty Katt starts showing up at odd places, the four friends get suspicious. Is Kitty hiding something? What secrets lie behind her "perfect" exterior? But even more significant than unraveling Kitty Katt's secrets is finding answers for themselves.
Win an on-line membership to Kyria.com and a copy of Desperate Pastors' Wives, the first novel in the Lulu's Cafe series. Leave a comment on this post and don't forget to include your email address.
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