My first book, The CSA Cookbook, is slated to release on February 16. (I shared a sneak peek of it recently!)
Can you believe it’s been one year in the making? Nope, neither can I, even though I feel like I’ve been saying It’s coming! It’s coming! for soooo long now. It’s exciting stuff, and I’ve been bowled over by all the kind comments and emails of encouragement from readers near and far.
Now, it’s really coming. And as a show of thanks for your immense support and incredible patience, I have three copies of my book to give away to three lucky winners this week!
These are advance copies from the publisher, and they’re special because there aren’t that many advance copies floating around. I have one, my editor has one, the marketing team has one… the rest are boxed up on a boat as I type this, making their way across the Pacific to the publisher’s warehouse.
That leaves just three copies remaining, and I want them to go to you. My hope is that you’ll enjoy the book, make a few recipes from it, and leave an honest review on Amazon (or your preferred book review site) when it releases.
Since the books will ship directly from the publisher, I won’t be able to personally sign them but I’ll include a signed bookplate, which you can adhere to the inside of your copy. And who knows, maybe I’ll see you at one of my book events this year for an in-person signing?!
If you’ve already preordered a book, you’re still welcome to enter. You can send a book to a loved one as a surprise!
This giveaway is open to all readers in all countries. Thanks for making my world go ’round.
How to enter: I had a blast writing this book and would love to do another! What do you think my next book should be about? Give me your suggestion below to be entered for this giveaway. (If you’re reading this post as an email subscriber, please go to the post and leave your comment on my blog.) To receive an additional entry, follow @gardenbetty on Instagram, and leave a second comment below indicating your Instagram username. You have two chances to win!
The giveaway will end at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time on Friday, January 30, 2015. Three winners will be drawn at random and announced the following week. Good luck!
Giveaway Rules
- Giveaway begins January 26, 2015 and ends January 30, 2015.
- No purchase is necessary. To enter, leave a comment on this blog post.
- All persons ages 18 and older are eligible to enter.
- Two entries allowed per person.
- Odds of winning are based on number of entries received.
- Winners will be drawn at random.
- If winner does not respond within 48 hours after time of contact, that entry will be forfeited and a new winner will be drawn.
Update: A big thanks to everyone who entered!
This giveaway is now closed. The winners are Kelly from Oregon, Mandy from California, and Teresa from Texas.
Travel food…recipes from the road. Delicious things that you eat when you are using a temporary kitchen
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An exciting time, I am looking forward to the book!
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I would love to see you combine your love of road trips, camping, travel and food. The great outdoors and food, cooking outdoors: in the backyard, on the beach and at the campsite. Maybe even highlighting local ingredients from some of your favorite regions along the west coast.
You have an inquisitive mind especially with regard to wild plants or unusual edibles. I think you will enjoy researching into various plants that grow in the wild and find which once are edible and which are not. And then invent recipes that involve those edible plants.
I enjoyed your post explaining that tomato leaves are not poisonous. Your article gave me an idea to add a few tomato leaved into each jar of tomatoes that I canned last fall. It enhanced the flavor of my canned tomatoes.
Make it unusual, for example, include lactofermentation recipes.
Kimberly
My instagram name is _kathleen23_ too!
I’d love to read a book that organises all of your gardening knowledge, tips & techniques along with the recipes you have developed for your produce. It should definitely have a big chapter on keeping chickens – basically your blog in a book!
I would like to read about how you prepare your garden throughout the season.
Enjoy your blog and think a book about gardening would be interesting
How about a guide to the back-roads and obscure parts of CA. Your blog posts and images regarding your trips around CA are great !!
i just started following you on instagram….I’m cdunnmusic
I love your style! Your choice of topics is not ordinary and they are always accompanied by beautiful pictures. How about a book that includes gardening for animals (I have bunnies…growing food to feed the animals) and children’s gardening? Whatever you choose I know I will love it!!
A month by month ‘what to do in garden’. Examples like garden chores, what to harvest, etc!
Please do a book about all the gardening “stuff” u blog about. i garden extensively but get many ideas from ur blog. thank you. I’m trying tomato, pepper and sweet potato leaves this year. nothing goes to waste here cause i have chickens, dairy goats and pigs but i still eat or put up anything i can. would love a copy of ur book. don’t win, ordering anyway. win, prolly get one for my daughter. just looking at the pics is amazing. thanks for the chance.
I would absolutely LOVE to win this book I love your blog and am always finding something new there. Thanks
I love your blog and I’m sure I would love your book just as much! You should write the A-Z on the starting and maintaining a kitchen garden for your next book.
Also, I already follow you on instagram, @millennial_homesteader
I can’t wait to go through your book! I think it would be cool for you to write a book about your experiences and advise on gardening in your particular region, etc.
A tell-all about how you manage to keep your gardening, chickening, cooking, traveling, making a living, and being a spouse all spinning at the same time without dropping anything! Must be that you don’t sleep!
A book on your gardening experiences would be great!
How about Gardens to Share with your Chickens?
How about Diabetic Recipes That can be done in Electric Pressure cookers. Just anything that can be done in pressure cookers i.e., Canning, Steaming, and Just cooking.
a garden book
Totally should do a book on hiking for neophytes (like me) who think it sounds like it would be incredibly fun but have a) no idea where to go or b) what to pack or c) what to do when I get there. Besides walk around.
wonderful idea with the draw! And you want an idea about what your next book should be about? Backyard chickens of course! How you’ve looked after them from scratch and made your own coop and their personalities and how they’ve become more than just livestock for you….
Love the pictures on instagram…. hpycpnmama there!
Oh yay! Would love to see another book with perhaps more information on foraging (like the post on pink peppercorns ) and the how-to stuff (eg. Your chicken posts, seeds, etc.)
Yay! I can’t wait for the release, and because I work at a bookstore, I can’t wait to share your book with my coworkers and customers. I’d love a cookbook for outdoor adventure that has meal plans and recipes for eating well while backpacking, car/boat camping, or for hikes/picnics. I also love MaoMaoKitty’s idea. Thanks!
congrats on the book and thank you for the opportunity to get a copy! I would like a cookbook based on seasonal eating or one that focuses on foods for outside eating…on the trail, at the lake or beach, by the pool…complete with drinks, snacks, desserts, “make your own energy bars,” etc.
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Thanks for giving us this opportunity to possibly win a copy of your gorgeous book! I LOVE cooking out side when the weather permits…over the open fire, in camp dutch ovens, etc. Something outdoorsy would be great!
Congratulations on your cook book.. Exciting!! I would love my very own copy.. I think your next book sound be about your travel adventures!!!
Congrats Linda on completing your first of many books…you are a natural writer and my desire as a fellow foodie/Dietitian and urban homesteader is this: Share your ideas on how the journey towards a sustainable and self sufficient life is done. Help us simplify the process! I see a series of books but based upon projects or sustainable habits that we can learn to do in our still too crazy busy lives! Keep us posted, ok
Can’t wait for your book release! Would love to see the next one be about cooking from your garden and local sources. You seem to have a strong knowledge of some unconventional edibles, would love to learn more! Weeds, flowers, herbs, foraging, mushrooms, etc.
I want to go on some of the amazing hiking trips that you’ve gone on! Tell me a little bit about preparing in general for day, overnight, and longer sojourns and then get me to your favorite hikes and clue me in on the amazing vistas, perfect swimming holes, and the best roadside meal on the way home. Maybe throw in a few anecdotal stories and campfire recipes and I’m a… happy camper!
Hi Linda,
Congrats on the upcoming release! I think your next book should be about using veggies in unconventional ways (e.g., desserts, drinks, etc.). That would be really cool!
Following on instagram. I’m @stephigardens
Your next book could be about raising chickens, creating a garden for chickens, and recipes to use up all the eggs.
How about a book on building communities through gardening and real food.. Working together to build school and community gardens in lower income areas; organizing seed sharing and borrowing programs at public libraries; educating families and individuals on ‘real food’ and simple meal preps using fresh produce; and ways to share abundance.
I think a book on your gardening techniques and experience would be great. Although you can’t go wrong with a Farmers Market cookbook. Looking forward to seeing your book come out.