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My Homemade Tandoor Oven
For those that read the previous entries in my travel blog, you'll remember that towards the tail end of our trip to India, I was told that tandoor ovens are incredibly cheap to purchase over there. Like 500 rupees (about $10-$12 USD) but of course the problem is that they are very heavy, because they are essentially a giant chunk of clay. And on top of that, they are very fragile. So while I was able to find one at a very affordable price, by the time it was packed safely enough to ship somewhere, it weighed about 40-50 kilograms (90-110 pounds). That's way to heavy to check as baggage, and it would cost a fortune to ship back home by any method other than ocean liner. So my dreams of having a tandoor at home were dashed for the moment.
But alas, I wasn't going to give up so easy. As soon as we got back to the states, Rebecca left again to go join her family. So I'd be by myself for a couple of days after christmas with nothing to do. So I decided to read a hundred articles on the internet about building a back-yard tandoor over, and devise a plan to build my own out of common items found at your local home improvement store.
Looking back in hindsight, my first design was really lacking. I thought that a tandoor wasn't much more than clay (or stone) walls around something really hot. So my plan was to cut the bottom off of a cheap planter pot, attach the wide end to a metal BBQ grill somehow, then invert the whole thing and put it on top of one of those super-jet-burners that they use for boiling huge pots of water while camping. So I set out on the 26th of December to see what kind of after-christmas sales I could find on camping equipment. As luck would have it, I found exactly the kind of burner I was looking for at G.I. Joes (I guess it's now just called "Joes") which is a chain store in the pacific northwest that carries all sorts of camping, sporting, fishing and outdoorsing equipment... and car parts... ??? figure that one out. But whatever, it had exactly the kind of burner I wanted on sale for $34.99. Ok, the first part of the journey is complete, now lets see what else I can find.
Next I run over to the local home improvement store "Jerry's", which I think is unique to Eugene/Springfield. (We've got Home Depot and Lowe's too, but I try to shop local when I can) And I head out to the garden center where I find that they've got a huge section of their pottery on 75% off! Score! I pick up this nice large white pot and a round BBQ grill that fits the mouth just about perfectly. At this point, I knew that I didn't just want exposed super-heated stone on the outside of my over, so I needed something to protect myself and others from touching it. I wandered around the store for probably an hour looking for inspiration. I asked a couple of store employees if they had any ideas for high-temp insulation, but we couldn't come up with anything. Then I started thinking "I just need a big can to throw over the top of it!" and then I ran over to the garbage can isle praying that people still carried metal garbage cans. Sure enough, there it was, the perfect-sized garbage can, at a very affordable price as well. So I purchases all my goods and returned to my garage to start construction.
I get home and I remember reading all these stories about people that cut the bottoms off their pots with an angle grinder. So I whip out my trusty angle grinder and put wheel to pot and.... nothing happens. Sure, there are some sparks and lots of loud noise, but I'm left with nothing but a black smudge on my pot. What?? So I haul the pot over to my workbench and try the hack saw... and it can barely even scratch the surface, it's defenitely not cutting it. Then I realize that this super-cheap pot I got is an actual fired ceramic pot, it's not terra cotta like all those articles I've read. Ah man! I hope back in the car and run back up to Jerry's (luckily its pretty close) and I find this special hack saw blade for cutting ceramics. I also pick up a big terra cotta pot just in case the other one doesn't work. Well, it turns out that special hack saw blade works pretty good. It actually gets a purchase in the ceramic and starts cutting it. But it's sloooooow going. After about 2 hours of sawing back and forth, I haven't even made it 1/4 of the way around. So I finally just give up and go inside to watch a movie or something to give my arm a rest.
At this point, I toy with the idea of giving up, but I decide to trudge on, and I go out to try the new blade with the terra cotta pot. Ahhhh! Much better! It's not quite like a hot knife to butter. It's more like a cold serratted knife to butter that's been frozen to absolute zero. Suffice it to say that I get the entire bottom cut off, but it takes about an hour to make the entire cut. On the bright side, you're going so slowly that the cut is very straight and the edges are perfectly smooth when you're done. Sweet! One step closer to the goal! I admire my handiwork for a moment, and then I remember an old rule about cooking on pizza stones: they are prone to cracking if any part of them is wet. Well half of my pot had been sitting out in the rain for who knows how long, one side was noticibly damp. So I realized I couldn't go much farther with this pot until it dried out. I knew that letting it dry naturally would take forever, so I decided to help it along a little. I inverted the pot and placed it on top of the large burner on my stove turned to low heat (2 of 10), I placed the decapitated base back on top as a lid to keep the heat inside and I'd check it periodically over the next couple of hours to make sure that the walls of the pot were warm but not super hot. I left it that way for about 6-8 hours while doing other things. Sure enough, the water spot slowly dissappeared over that time.
While my pot was drying, I decided to read up more on how tandoors work. That's when I realized that the tandoor is more than just a clay-walled oven. They work by essentially building up and trapping the heat inside so much that they can get up to insanely hot temperatures. Then I realized that there was no way my tandoor was going to get hot enough with a 17 inch mouth over the top of a 12 inch burner (due to excess airflow) and I also didn't incorporate any kind of insulation into my design. So I decide to increase the complexity of the project by a factor of 10, and come up with this plan to glue a second terra cotta pot of the same size to the pot I currently have cooking on the stove. This would make the inside shape of the oven more oval-ish, which is a shape I'd seen on a couple of professional tandoor ovens. But more importantly, it would get the size of the bottom hole something small enough to fit over the top of my burner without a lot of excess airflow. So I ran back to Jerry's, picked up a second pot, some high-temp mortar used in fireplaces and kilns, some square-net chicken-wire type stuff, and giant bag of Perlite, which is a type of pummice rock used for drainage in the garden section. But it also makes a pretty good high-temperature isulation filling.
I spend another hour cutting the bottom off the second pot, swap it with the pot that's drying on the stove, so it can get some of it's water out as well. I then mortar the top and bottom lips of the first pot and wait a while for everything to dry. After sufficient time had passed, I blob a bunch more mortar around the lip of the upright pot, and drop the second pot on top of the first. Then I commence in applying a nice thick layer of mortar to the inside and outside of the joint between the two pots. Around the outside, I cut the chicken-wire down to the right size, and I wrap it around the two pots at the thickest part. I use two pairs of small vice grips to make sure it's tight. Then I mortar over the top of that. I place the whole concoction over the top of my stove burner (set to medium low heat, maybe 4 of 10) place the lid on it, and leave it overnight (about 8-12 hours).
The next day, I spend a little more time reading about tandoors and I discover all this information about curing your tandoor oven. Curing is something you do to the inside surface to give it the right kind of cooking properties, like you would a cast-iron pan. So I run out to buy the ingredients, which consist of spinach, jaggery (which is like a big block of raw sugar, latino markets have something similar called panela, which is what I used), some type of oil (mustard oil is traditional, but I used peanut oil, as it's very resistant to high temperatures), a pinch of turmeric (which probably doesn't contribute anything) and salt. I return home and throw it all in the blender and end up with a bright green liquid that looks like something Rebecca might try to drink for breakfast on a healthy day. I start applying this gunk to the inside with a spatula because that's what everybody else uses. But then I realize that a paint brush would work much better for the consistency that I've ended up with. So I get the whole inside painted, let it dry for while, then apply a second coat and put the whole thing over the stove again to dry.
So far so good! Now it's time for final assembly! I measure the bottom mouth of the clay liner and cut a circular hole in the bottom of the garbage can that is about 1 inch narrower all the way around. That way I would have a nice little shelf to rest the skewers on when they are in the oven cooking. And I gotta say the garbage can idea is brilliant because the bottom has all these circular ripples in it for strength, so cutting a perfectly circular hole that is also exactly centered is really quite easy because you just pick the ripple closest to the size you need and cut along that, and voila! For this job I used tin-snips. I know a lot of people would use an angle grinder, but I keep finding that slow-moving hand tools almost always yield a better cut than high speed power tools. Anyway, I get my hole cut in the bottom of the can, apply a copious amount of mortar to the inside edge of the hole, and gently lower the clay liner into the can. I clean up a bit of the excess mortar with a putty knife and let it rest for a minute. Then I start pouring in the Perlite around the outside of the liner. The liner is a very tight fit, so I had to pour a bunch, then jiggle the liner back and forth a little bit at a time and the stuff would slowly drain into the open cavity below. This whole process was a little time-consuming, but it was the dust that's a killer. The perlite throws up a hell of a dust cloud and it's just nasty to breathe that stuff. That's about the time I see on the package in big letters "Do not create dust" right next to "Breathing dust can be hazardous to your health". Oh great... So I run away and let the dust settle. Then I found a mask, and I'd run in, pour a little bit, then run back out of range again. I eventually got the whole can filled up and I moved on to the next step.
I measured the lip of the liner at the top of the can, and I cut a nice circular hole in the garbage can lid. Again, using the ripples in the lid as a guide, I was able to cut a very round, very centered hole, but when I fitted it on the top of my contraption, it didn't line up! That's when I realized that all the jiggling around to get the insulation to drain down actually misshapes the roundness of the can a little, and the centered-ness of the liner a little as well. Not a big deal, I just ran a sharpy around the outside of my liner and trimmed the lid down so that there was a 1/8 inch gap between metal and clay all the way around. That way the lid has a chance of staying cool even if the clay gets super hot. Once I got the lid complete, I put it all together and looked upon my handiwork and was really quite surprised how clean and professional the whole thing looked. Now to see if it will actually do what it's supposed to do...
I placed my tandoori-can on the burner and turned the propane on just a crack, and let it go for awhile. I've got one of those kitchen thermometers with a remote probe, so I dropped that inside to see how how it was getting. After about 20 minutes of running with the lid off, the temp had stabilized to about 180 degrees I think. But if I put the lid on, and dropped the probe in through the whole in the middle, the temp shot right up past 400 degrees (that's where my termometer maxes out) in a matter of minutes. If I took the lid off, the temp would slowly fall to some stabilized temp much lower. I also noticed when the lid was on, the outside of the can would get much hotter. After a little investigation I realized that with the lid on, the inside heats up, and starts pouring out the bottom hole of the clay liner and overflowing around the bottom of the can and starts climbing up the outside of the can. To test this theory, I took the lid back off and gave it 15 minutes, at which point the outside was cool again. I suppose it's also possible that with the internal temp climbing so high, the heat is actually reaching the outside of the can through the insulation. But it doesn't really matter... with the lid on, the outside gets hot to the touch, with the lid off, the outside stayed cool.
I decided I needed to block the bottom hole a little and force whatever air is coming in to pass by something that is hot, and also give the heat rays inside the tandoor something to bounce off of and return back upwards instead of escaping. The solution proved to be very easy: I made a small basket out of the extra chicken-wire I used for reinforcing the joint, and forced that down to the bottom of the liner, and poured in a bunch of lava rock that they use for the bottom of normal gas BBQ grills. The instructions on the package of lava rocks actually says you need to fire them up by themselves for about 15-20 minutes. That is because on their first heating, they burn off their outer layer and that releases a bit of a smell which could possibly effect your food. So after dropping them in, I fired up the burner to low at first, then up to medium after about 4 or 5 minutes. Then I let it sit for another 15 minutes. The bottom layer of lava rocks started glowing red, and I could already tell that the heat inside that tandoor was much more stable than before. Ok! It was time to try cooking something!
I only had one skewer at this point, a piece of metal stock that is probably 3/8in diameter by 6 feet long. I sharpened the tip with my bench grinder and stuck a bunch of chicken on it. I dropped that in and set the timer for 10 minutes. Not quite enough, but after a 2nd 10 minutes, it was a little overcooked (but still delicious I'm told). So after getting the chicken off (which was quite a hassle, remember to oil the skewers before you use them) I dropped the skewer in a plastic garbage can filled with water to cool it off, then I prepped a 2nd skewer and dropped that in 17 minutes. That one came out just about right. At this point I thought the temp inside the tandoor had equalized, so I dropped in a 3rd skewer and set the timer for 15 minutes and walked away....
When the timer went off I walked out and noticed that the lid I was using had cracked, so I pulled it off and saw that the chicken on the skewer was burning. Not burning like the edges were black, but burning like a log in a roaring bonfire! I quickly pulled the skewer out and the whole thing kept burning quite easily. So I shut off the propane, dropped the whole skewer in the water tank to put it out. I put my hand over the top of the tandoor for a second, and realized I couldn't even hold it 10 inches over the top of the mouth for longer than a tenth of a second without feeling like my hand was burning. All the lava rocks inside were glowing bright red from what I could see, and by my estimation, I think the inside of the tandoor was probably about 1000 degrees! I left everything off and left it to cool down overnight.
The next morning I went out to check on it, and the clay liner was perfectly in tact, although the curing glaze I'd painted on the inside had been completely incinerated. I also noticed that the mortar I'd put on the bottom of the garbage can had all cracked and fallen off. At first this really worried me, but then I realized that it looked like it was nothing more than a different heat expansion properties between the steel and the mortar. The mortar was designed to stick to stoneware (which is does very well) and it is probably designed to expand at the same rate that fireplace bricks do. The steel of the garbage can obviously expands differently at different heats, so the mortar wasn't able to hold on, so it just cracked and sluffed off. A little more concerning, however, is that the wire basket I placed the lava rocks in. I poked at that a couple of times, and it seems like the metal had crystalized (or whatever happens when it reaches super high temperatures and then cools down)... because as soon as you poke it, the individual strands would just shatter. It actually reminded me of the silk mantles that you use in coleman lanterns for some reason. And I hypothesize that as long as I don't move anything, it'll probably be fine, but as soon as I lift the can off the burner, that basket with probably break and all the lava rocks will fall out. I'll deal with that later if it happens, but for now, it looks like it'll be ready for cooking again as long as I re-glaze the inside.
So I put a couple more coats of the curing glaze on the inside, then went out to find a thermometer to put inside this thing so I know how hot I'm working with. The solution ended up being quite simple... Jerry's has a magnetic thermometer that is for wood-stoves. It's designed to stick to the base of the chimney I think (to tell you if you're getting close to a chimney fire), and it goes up to about 800F. It's all metal, including the readout, so the whole thing can sit inside a very hot environment and not be any worse for wear. So I took a strip of steel I had sitting around my shop area and make a quick couple of bends with a vise and my big 3lb sledgehammer (I love that hammer!) and made a bracket that hangs over the top of the tandoor and hooks on the edge of the garbage can lid, and drops down into the opening about 5 or 6 inches. I fired up the tandoor after installing the thermometer and it doesn't really read anything below about 200F, but between 200F and 600F it did a good job of telling me approximately how hot it was inside.
I had a big party coming up where I wanted to show off what the new toy could do. So I got about 15lbs of chicken breast tenderloins and started them marinating. I also bought 4 more pieces of steel stock from Jerry's. This time I got the 1/4 inch by 6ft plated rods. I cut each one in half, which yielded 8 skewers of 3ft per. 3ft means that I've only got about 8-10inches sticking out the top which isn't really enough to work with. So I found a small pile of wooden dowels in my shop, and cut a bunch of 1ft sections, drilled holes in the end, and jammed the skewers into the end of the dowels. I also sharpened the ends of the skewers, and then I measured out the optimal cooking placement for each skewer and realized that you only want to have stuff on it from the 7 inch mark to the 21 inch mark. That gives you 14 inches per skewer for cooking. I used the bench grinder to grind little divets in each skewer at the appropriate marks, then took then all to the kitchen for a thourough washing and oiling.
In addition to the 15lbs of chicken, I sliced up about 5 lbs of potatoes into 1/2in rounds, and and equal amount of onions cut into eights. When it came time to make up the skewers, I would alternate potatoe-chicken-onion-chicken-potatoe-chicken-onion and so on until I'd filled up the whole 14inches of cooking space. The purpose of this is that I noticed when it's just a big bundle of chicken on a skewer it tends to fuse into a solid mass which makes it harder to both get off the skewer and cook all the way through. It also added a bunch of edible stuff to each skewer, as the big party might have as many as 17 people attend. I might also mention that after chopping the onions and potatoes, I threw them in a big bowl with peanut oil, and a mix of indian spices (ground cumin, corriander and turmeric) and tossed it all together to get the spices mixed around.
On the day of the party, I started the tandoor about 90 minutes before I wanted to start cooking to get it heated up. I think the temp equalized within 40 minutes, and it never really got above 275F. So I turned up the propane and found that the temp would equalize within about 15 minutes after it was pre-heated. So I kept adjusting it until I got the temp to about 500F consistently, and started cooking. At 500F, each skewer would go in for at least 20 minutes. And each skewer came out slightly black around the edges (just right) seared on the outside, and the juiciest, most succulent texture on the inside that you could imagine. I'm really not sure it's possible to reproduce this in a normal oven... or even a back-yard BBQ for that matter. I started pulling the chicken out and serving it to people and they guests were actually doing little happy dances because the food tasted so good! It was awesome! All this hard work has paid off for a perfect way of cooking meats and vegetables.
The next thing to try was naan, which is a traditional indian flatbread that is cooked by flattening out the dough into a little pancake-like patty and slapping it to the inside wall of a tandoor oven. It starts bubbling and cooking immediately, and they use a little hook and scraper to retrieve them off the walls when they are done cooking. So I'd actually fashioned a hook out of another piece of metal like my skewers, and I make a scraper by attaching a cheap wood-handled frosting spreader I got from the local kitchen supply store to the end of another piece of metal rod. I flattened out the dough, slapped it to the inside, and it started cooking immediatly just like it should. I was estatic and I was doing my own happy dance around the tandoor at that point. You see, we've been throwing these parties every month for the past year, and each time I try to make naan we can only cook them one at a time on a cast-iron griddle, and they just don't cook the same. It also takes the better part of 45-minutes to get them all cooked. Once I master the process inside the tandoor, it should cut that time to less than half, and they end up tasting better as well. So it's win-win all around!
I realized this post is a little long-winded, but I know there are several people out there on the internet are wishing they had their own tandoor oven just like I was. And I hope this detail play-by-play of my process will help those people in building their own.
In the photos I included a cost breakdown to give you an idea of how much this project cost. I'm pretty sure I could have gotten a propane tank cheaper somewhere, and a lot of people already have one sitting around. That was defenitely a large part of the cost, but overall I'm ok with the price. I could probably get a decent backyard BBQ grill for $230, but the way I see it, the tandoor can do almost everything a normal grill can do, and lots of things it can't do. And I also get an awesome burner for boiling water while camping as well. So I think this is defenitely a better deal.
Update (1 year later):
I've now been using the tandoor on and off again for the past year. The wire basket inside eventually disintegrated completely, which caused me to rebuilt the bottom of the unit. For the rebuild, used a freshly-cleaned shop-vac and sucked out all the Perlite from the top section of the garbage can, then I gently tipped it on it's side and pushed, pulled and jiggled until I got the liner out in one piece. This led to the bottom half of the Perlite going everywhere. Using the shop-vac again, I got all the Perlite sucked up, then I put the original metal grill (12 or 15") in the bottom of the garbage can, then I set the liner on top of that and poured in all the Perlite from the shopvac. This caused the liner to sit a little higher so the hole in the garbage can lid needed to be cut a little larger, but that only took a couple of minutes with the tin snips. Lastly, I added a new bag of lava rocks (they get smaller over time) and they sit very well on top of the metal grating, without any fear of falling through.
The original bracket for the thermometer only lasted one or 2 sessions, it got in the way of the lid too much. To I ended up drilling a whole in the lid (which is a trash can lid from a small-sized metal garbage can) and placing the thermometer over that whole. That mostly worked, but after a couple of months it started sticking, and by now if it moves at all it is so inaccurate that it's not even worth spending the brain cells to read it. What I really need is one of those IR laser themometers, I just need to make sure it can read up to 1100 or 1200 degrees (F).
Over the year, we've used it for dinners maybe 20 times, and I still struggle with naan sticking to the side correctly. I think that terra cotta just doesn't react the same, and I frequently wish I had a horizontal surface I could drop inside for baking flatbread. But sometimes I get it to work, and when it works, everybody raves about how amazing the bread is. But for skewered items, it is awesome. Tandoori Chicken, Lamb kebabs for gyros, and there is simply no better way to make roasted eggplant.
I am very interested in your very detailed instructions to make a tandoori oven. I saw another blog that someone posted about how to make one out of a garbage can and flower pot. She only rubbed the pot down with olive oil. And, I guess according to this video link, sprinkles it with water to get it to stick? Watch video on this link to see what you think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwlOV7qTmHA
Very cool project...I'm not sure I'm ambitious or talented enough to copy it. However while looking at other designs, I found this warning (on www.instructables.com)--if your metal trash can is galvanized, beware!
introGarbage Can and Flower Pot Tandoor Oven
SAFETY UPDATE: You should not do this with a galvanized can! If something goes wrong (too much airflow, too little insulation) the outer can could exceed 100DegF and the zinc (that's the "galvanized" part) could vaporize into a toxic gas! Avoid galvanized! Thank you vigilant commenters
@Ted - Thank you so much for the info. I think I've seen the end result of the galvanized steel getting too hot. The two trashcan lids on my tandoor have slowly changed to a hazy, rough texture over time. At first I thought it was just some solidified chicken fat or something, but after an extensive cleaning session I realized that the metal itself had actually changed. It feels almost like a rough sandpaper. So I bet my lids have almost no zinc left in them.
As far as I know, I haven't suffered any ill effects from it. If there is a toxic gas coming off the unit (other than propane) you can't smell it. And nobody I know of has even had a reaction to the food made in the tandoor. But I'm wise enough to know that doesn't mean that bad stuff isn't happening. If I were to do it all over again, I would build a permanent brick structure in the back yard with enough space in it to insert the liner and have a good food of insulation all around it. I think I would also bulid it in such a way that the liner was at a 30-45 degree angle. I would A) make it easier to work with, B) trap more heat inside, and C) allow me to constuct some kind of horizontal surface that I could slide inside (like an oven rack) that would make cooking flatbread LOADS easier.
Hi Kirby,I love Tandoori food and have been wanting a Tandoor for years...
About your breads...I asked to look inside the Tandoor at a food festival and
they they where cooking Nann bread in it,what they had was a approx 8 inch padded "cushion" (may have had a handle strap sewn on) and it was covered in a tea towel,then the bread was placed on the tea towel which they pressed against the wall of the oven which resulted in a lovely bread with the odd black/brown bit....just gorgeous....one day I would love to have my own oven and like you would probably have a brick housing made for it.....:D
I made it easy - got my authentic clay pot from www.hometandoor.com people on recommendation of a chef in NY. He claimed that the naan bread in an authentic tandoor cooks better and now i can vouch for it.
Used an old barrel sourced by a friend and insulated it with ceramic lining. Skewers were provided by the same company that sent me the clay pot. I got mild steel skewers instead of the stainless steel skewers as it cooks better and does not slip as much as the stainless steel one.
Maybe my input helps others.


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Bluebonnet Youth Ranch hosting annual Spring Fling
April 2, 2013 at 6:03 p.m.
Updated April 1, 2013 at 11:02 p.m.
The Bluebonnet Youth Ranch will host its annual Spring Fling starting at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Yoakum Community Center, 105 Huck St.
Members of the Yoakum Golf Association will serve a barbecue chicken dinner with all the trimmings from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The Shiner Hobo Band will perform at 10:30 a.m.
The live auction will start at 1 p.m., and raffle prizes will be awarded throughout the day.
The artisans' market will feature a variety of woodwork and artwork as well as homemade foods and other items.
Activities for the children include face painting and balloon creations.
Bluebonnet Youth Ranch is a nonprofit facility that serves as a long-term, residential home for dependent, abused and neglected children.
For more information, call 361-293-3546.

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Spring is in the air, and that means it's time for the most electrifying of sports competitions, the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The hockey gods have seen fit to bless us this year with some truly exciting first round matchups…in the Eastern Conference. Yes, the first round in the west appears to be a bit of a snoozer this year, but think of it as the small salad that you use to whet your appetite for that 64oz porterhouse you ordered in round 2, or the dynamite dessert you can't wait for in round 3. Restaurant analogies aside, let's dive right into our preview of the this year's 2 vs. 7 matchup, the Chicago Blackhawks and the Nashville Predators.
Seasons in Review
The Preds stumbled out of the gate this year, amassing a pedestrian 8-8-1 record before a big homestand ignited them on a 17-6-2 tear over their next 25 games, placing them firmly in the playoff race for the remainder of the season. You can attribute their 7 seed not to their play (they won three of their last four) but that of the blazing hot teams above them, who simply refused to lose down the stretch. 100 points is a hard luck 7 seed.
The Blackhawks roared to the top of the Central Division standings early on and placed a virtual stranglehold on their division crown in December (thanks in large part to a wounded Detroit squad) and set their sights on home ice advantage. Despite setting a single season team record for both wins and points, the Hawks fell just one point short of the top spot in the Western Conference.
All six games between the two teams this season ended in regulation, with the Blackhawks taking 4 of them, including a decisive home and home series on Boxing Day weekend that crushed the Predators' hopes of catching them for the division lead. Despite being in the same division, the teams have not yet met in 2010.
Players to Watch
Patric Hornqvist, F Nashville
The Preds' very own "Mr. Irrelevant" burst onto the scene this year, leading the team with 30 goals and tied with Steve Sullivan for the team lead in points. This will be his first playoff series.
Marian Hossa, F Chicago
Fair or not, Hossa has a reputation for disappearing offensively during the playoffs. Will this be the year he sheds that stigma?
Antti Niemi, G Chicago
Niemi has never been in a playoff game before (he did sit on the bench for a game in last year's conference finals), and now finds himself saddled with the starting job, charged with taking a cup favorite all the way to the promised land. Can he handle the job?
Shea Weber, D Nashville
Weber will have his hands full, as the Preds will look for him to put in solid performances at both ends of the ice. Look for him to continue to be an offensive threat, but it will be interesting to see if he can also handle his defensive assignments.
Wild Card
Pay close attention to the pace of these games. The Blackhawks love to play an uptempo style with very few whistles and lots of space. The Predators like to slow the game down and gum up the neutral zone. It will be interesting to see which style of play wins out, and whether either team can adapt. High scoring affairs almost certainly favor the Hawks, while low offense grinders could go either way.
Chicago simply has too much depth up front for the Preds to match, and with Nashville's scoring differential at 0 (the Hawks at +62 were second only to Washington), Pekka Rinne or Dan Ellis would need to be otherworldly for four games out of seven and I just don't see that happening. I say the Hawks take it in 5 games.
Since the Harlem Globetrotters weren't aware that the Blackhawks would have home ice advantage for the first round, the series will start Friday at 7:30pm local time, and continue every other day. In Chicago, you can catch the game on Comcast Sports Net, or on TSN2 in Canada. Let the games begin!
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text: Turn a Filing Cabinet into a Rolling Container GardenMelanie Pinola4/29/11 4:30pmFiled to: Weekend projectDIYDIY CreationsPlantsGardening11EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkYou can make a planter out of pretty much anything. An old metal file cabinet is just about the perfect size for a raised planter you can roll in and out of the sunlight as needed.AdvertisementRemove the drawers, prime and coat with exterior nontoxic paint, and turn the cabinet on its back for a great deep planter for growing tomatoes and other deep-rooted plants. For more structural support, add some 2-by-4s to the bottom of the planter, which you can drill casters into.You can find old metal filing cabinets at secondhand stores or just reuse an aging one you already own. The drawers can be transformed into planters as well, and, as the photo at left shows (courtesy of ARTS), you can apparently grow plants in a filing cabinet while still using the other drawers. Photo by Sasquatch BooksFull directions from DIY Life are in the link below. Perhaps you can couple this with our previously mentioned self-watering tomatoes planters project to build your own Earth Box alternative.


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My wife and I have been married for a thoroughly enjoyable three years, but we've recently fallen on hard times. At nearly 30, I now realize becoming a screenwriter should be Plan B, although I still have to find Plan A. My wife is a 24-year-old student. We'd like to start a family but can't for a few years. She has suggested egg donation. From the various listings, it sounds like we could make $6,000-8,000 per shot. As she sees it, we'd be helping a determined couple have a family, we could use the money, and she's just "flushing them down the toilet every month" anyway. Any child would be lucky to share her genes—she's smart and gorgeous. But I have concerns. First, I think these hopeful parents should consider adopting. Second, despite the technicalities, I have a hard time seeing her eggs merely as genetic material. Part of me feels that since any child that results from this would be half my wife, I would feel a sense of responsibility for it and its well-being. What should we do?
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Obviously, your gametes can't get you out of your financial hole. Sperm are a dime a dozen, but, oh, those golden eggs. You need to consider this step carefully because it will have implications for the rest of your lives. However, since the whole point of this exercise is that the recipient family gets to raise the child, you can stop worrying about that obligation. Also on the plus side, your wife might be the answer to an infertile couple's prayers. Egg donation is a low-risk but intrusive process, and there is the possibility of complications. This report has information about the medical issues. There has been little research on the psychological impact of egg donation, but this study looks at donors' mental state (generally fine) two years later. It used to be that egg and sperm donation was kept secret by the recipients. But the legal and cultural world of assisted reproduction is in flux, and as this report shows, opinion is shifting toward telling the child about his or her beginnings. This article describes how "donor conception is creating new family forms"—radically extending the notion of extended family. So you have to consider that one day triplets might ring the doorbell wanting to meet their biological mother. (This might be the basis for a movie, but I agree you should get out of the screenwriting business.) I can't make a decision for the two of you. But as you think through this possibility, your wife needs to do more than shrug and say egg donation is simply a lucrative alternative to flushing the toilet.
I'll start. We're hurting for money. Not for extra. Not to buy anything new. Nothing fancy. Just to pay our bills. That's all. We do have money to eat ... because we don't pay ALL of our bills. And we didn't over-extend ourselves and get into trouble that way. I lost my job. With that being said... I'm undecided. The thought of my offspring..a part of me..being out there and not knowing them upsets me. BUUUT, the thought of giving the gift of a child to a family who was unable to concieve on their own brings me joy. So it's a toss up.
i wouldnt consider anything like this for money... yes the $ is a nice incentive, but id rather do it to help someone who cannot have a child of their own... but on the other hand, we are not hurting so bad to resort to something like this. we have enough to pay bills, get groceries and have a little to save.
I wouldn't, because I've heard that the horomone treatments and such that you have to undergo to do it are harsh on you and your body. So no... I just don't think it's the healthiest thing to do. My best friend however wouldn't mind giving all her eggs away, she's been talking about this for years actually. She doesn't want kids.


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Low, underrun heels If a horse has been trimmed to have low, underrun heels, how long does it typically take to correct? He has always been barefoot. Also, what risks are associated with having low heels? |
it causes stress on the ligaments and tendons. I have problems with farriers not' leaving heels or standing the hoof up ' it puts the bones in the hoof out whack. There are a few bones in the foot, and I dont use the proper terminology, the hoof bulbs will get weak also. It takes a year to grow out a hoof , more or less , depending on the horse and the nutrition. |
Is there anything that can or should be done to alleviate the stress on the tendons/ligaments while they are growing out? This horse has always been barefoot, but someone made the suggestion to shoe him for a bit? I am switching farriers. |
If it's a flat pancake foot that doesn't easily grow heel, shoes are your best option for getting the bones correctly aligned. If it's just poor trimming, backing the toes up to the white line and dragging the heels back to the proper spot can allow the new hoof growth to come in with the correct alignment. Obviously the shoes are an instant fix while the latter will take about a year. Best to get some xrays and see how out of whack things currently are. Having the bones out of alignment long term can lead to navicular changes, coffin bone rotation, and ligament/tendon damage. Sometimes none of those if you get lucky, but always good to have a properly trimmed hoof. |
288 Attachment(s) Hi, There's a difference between low, too low & underrun heels, which are generally too long but crushed forward. Horses should have low heels and unless they're crushed forward, they're not *generally* too low. Under run heels, if caused by farriery, is often IME caused from farriers leaving heels too long & 'standing the horse up', which frequently goes along with trimming toes from the ground surface but leaving them stretched forward. Over time this leads to the overlong heels collapsing. Depending on hoof form & the horse's posture, this doesn't necessarily take much. Shoeing long term without respite & consideration about balance, especially before maturity & the hooves have had a chance to grow strong also commonly results in run forward feet with horses who have long, crushed heels & far from recognising what they're seeing, frequently farriers lable these horses as having 'no heel'. Under run heels, or very low heels esp combined with long stretched forward toes can cause P3 - the major bone within the hoof capsule - to be ground parallel or negative angle(lower heel than toe) on the bottom surface. This puts a lot of strain on ligs & tendons, especially in the navicular region. Crushed, non-functioning heels & lateral cartilages also aren't able to become strong & function properly for weight bearing/impact/shock absorbtion, so this also further inhibits health & strength of the rest of the 'package'. Run forward heels generally go along with run forward toes. How long does it take to correct? As with everything, it depends. On the horse & length of time it's been going on, how it's treated, the environment & lifestyle/work of the horse, etc. For eg. I've heard so many farriers say they can't be fixed & I've never seen the problem resolved where conventional shoes were used. I personally feel that shoeing makes treatment a lot harder to address, if not impossible, as it forces the walls to be fully loaded. However, using 'frog support' pads or such, to load and raise the frogs/heels without loading walls can help allow the heel to 'relax back' again & become more upright. This also raises the back of the foot to correct the angle of P3 & relieve unnatural strain from this. |
Loosie's right. Most underrun heels are caused by someone using the theory of "not trimming a heel will let it grow taller". I am in shock with seeing farriers even shoe on top of rolled in heels (heels that have bent over to the inside) their reason being "let the heel grow". Outside this forum there are not many people who understand that growing heel is to continuously back up the toe, relieve the quarters (lessen stress of heels being pulled forward), and most importantly giving the heels a light rasp. IMO I think that heels come around faster if "thinking" they are trimmed. A light rasping. Loosie had mentioned to me that , well I hope I got this right, to give a swipe to the area between the point of the heel ,and where it starts (correct me if I'm wrong). So I think I just reiterated what Loosie said, LOL |
A healthy heel is SHORT and not under run. Under-run heels are LONG and have run forward under the foot. That moves the ground pressures pushing up in the foot forward so the internal structures in the back of the foot can not properly support the coffin joint . And it adds stresses the tendons and ligaments in the back of the leg. The long term issues associated with under run heels are 1)sore heels causing a toe first landing, 2)which in turn directly leads to navicular issues and coffin joint issues. The fix can be as fast as fifteen minutes .The fix is to trim the heels short so the ends come back where they belong. It is really that simple. But along wot that the TOE of the foot (the point of break over) must be also brought back if it too has run forward, as many of them have. After an initial correct trim ,if the bone alignment is wrong internally (very rare) then a shoeing with wedges *and frog support* can get it right. But in most cases that I have done the heel and break over issues are fixed in the trim (whether preparing for shoes or barefoot) . ONE trim. fifteen minutes. The WORST thing we can do is try to grow more heel on ANY hoof because that is the cause of the under run heels in the first place. Keep them short. Usually when someone thinks a foot needs more heel is it because the TOE is distorted, stretched forward, creating an illusion of a lower hoof angle then what is really going on inside the foot. |
Wouldnt taking heels back to were they belong after 3 years of being under run in one trim. Wouldnt that make the horse sore? Also wouldnt that be a drastic change for a horse? whos used to being with long run forward heels. I know under run heels and long toes arent right....but to change all that in one trim isnt that to much at one time? |
Whether the change can be done all in one trim or over several trims depends on the particular situation. I have done a fix in just one trim, but I have done others where I just wasn't comfortable making that much of a change all in one short. However, I am NOT a professional and prefer to err on the side of conservatism until I have things figured out. I have spoken with a couple of trimmers who have made dramatic changes in just one trim and the previously sore, quiet horse took off running and bucking in the field when turned out. 3 years is a very long time for sure, but it really depends on what shape those hooves and the horse got to in three years which would be dependent on environment - ground, feed, general nutrition and exercise... 3 years in a soft green field is far different than 3 years in a rough field with a variety of terrain or a dry lot. |
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Heitinga was Moyes' last acquisition of the transfer window that closed on Tuesday night, and his versatility is hugely important for the Goodison Park chief.
"He is here to give me cover at centre-half and at right-back," said Moyes. "Johnny is comfortable in both those roles and he has also some knowledge of playing a central defensive midfield role."
Moyes always considered Joleon Lescott, who finally moved to Manchester City last month for up to £24m, vital for his ability to fill more than one role, and reckons Heitinga fits the same criteria.
"Until Phil Jagielka returns from injury we need another player who can fill in at centre-back, and I also felt we needed some more competition at right-back," added Moyes.
Lescott played in central defence and full-back for Everton, and Moyes now has a similar player in Heitinga.
"This is an important season for Johnny with the World Cup coming up and I am sure he will want to be playing regularly so that he goes to South Africa next summer," added the Scot.
"He had a difficult season last year at Atletico Madrid when he perhaps didn't do as well as he would have liked. But prior to that he was outstanding for Ajax. I felt the price for him offered excellent value compared to the prices we were being quoted for other players."
Heitinga linked up with the Dutch squad after completing his medical and the transfer documentation, and will play against Japan at the weekend. He will not be able to represent Everton in the Europa League, having already played for Atletico Madrid in the Champions League this season.
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It's an old thread but intriguing for me.
Today I sliced cardboard after doing much stropping (white/autosol)on GB M4 and it gets sharper after slicing one 8x8 single layer cardboard (pizza box).
I've been actively lurking around here/BF+FF+KFF+FoodieF for the last 6 months - read and learned alot on blades&tools from many contributors. My appreciation to all!
Sharp journey: 2006, started with EP + Kitayama8k. 2007, slightly messed-up edges of my 3 jknives. 2009 became discouraged after s30v & zdp. 8 months ago, I need to teach my cousins outside of U.S. learn how to sharpen knives/tools to make a living. 2011-2012 gears: DMT xc-ef, 1k/4k combo & 12k stone, spyderco ceramic med-ef, cbn 0.5-3.0u, md 0.1-12.0u, pd: 0.1-1.0u, crox 0.5u and leather+balsa strops. lol - hopefully this endeavsor turn out better than blind lead blinds.
Thoughts? Edge burr/wire/hinge is a PITA to remove depend on steel. However does micro-hinge (a burr/wire metal hinge width is less than a carbide width) need to be remove for high hrc+toughness alloy? Since most effective burr removal for me was edge leading into the stone. I found stropping or slice felt/softwood would remove burr but at the cost of some carbides pull-out. So, leaving micro-hinge alone and let the cutting be the burr removal, essentially the blade is actually getting sharper with use. I envisions cutting would fold the burr onto the edge, eventually abrade the burr without tear/pull carbides way from the edge.
I test sharpened knives(skd, white carbon, moly san mai, s30v, d2, m4, vg-10, 1095,zdp-189). Set the bevel as good as I can at sub 1k deburr progress through 12K, then I heavy pressure stropped to produce micro-hinge (thus obtuse the edge angle a little bit). For vg-10 initialy won't push cut newspaper but seem push ok after slicing ~20 pages. Diamonds & CBN worked well but CrO abraded too much of the matrix especially for high MOHS Vanadium & Tungsten carbides steel. Please sharpen my synapses?
It's an old thread but intriguing for me.
Today I sliced cardboard after doing much stropping (white/autosol)on GB M4 and it gets sharper after slicing one 8x8 single layer cardboard (pizza box).
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Bluntcut's rambling tofu physics
Take a perfect apex - atomic width - of high/hard alloy steel and gently strop with abrasive that softer than carbide. Carbides(partial & whole carbide) surrounding the apex will mostly either (simplify physics)
- Get dislodge from loss of matrix support and abrasive impact (abrasive collides with carbide)
- Obstructed/shielded the newly slight convex apex - envision how water flows/wraps around boulder in a stream, where water flow is abrasive, stream bottom is steel.
From 2. Abrasive can't get to the footing of thin shielded apex - with that there are burr/wire. At this point, now it's even impractical to strop them out with diamond and cbn, realistically you need hard abrasive + hard surface abrasion to bring to 2 bevel planes intersect the obstructed points. It's possible to reduce the burr/wire length by strop almost laterally (violin stroke with slight trailing movement)
Slicing cardboard and thick hard leather essentially change abrading vector to onto the apex, thus working on the apex and if there any carbide shielding would mostly be benefit rather than bad. Keep in mind 'slicing' burr/wire removal avoid the apex from impacting with abraded burrs. 'sawing' could damage the thin apex due to collision with chunks of solid steel (burrs) embedded in the material (e.g. wood, leather,etc..).
Thanks. In my on going journey, recently I've been trying edge leading light passes over DMT EEF and pretty much that's it. Also practicing low angle on SB E4 and GB M4. Am still impressed
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She wore the Fabergé Solyanka Cabochon Emerald ring set with a cabochon emerald of 14.50 carats, ethically sourced from Gemfields' Zambian mines, and 263 round white diamonds.
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Make your own salsa. It's cheaper and tastier than the commercial varieties.
Since we eat so much Mexican food at our house, we eat a lot of salsa. When we first married, I paid $4 for a 16-ounce container of salsa fresca every week. It was refrigerated and I thought it was. the. best.
Once I realized that I could make twice as much for half the price, I quit buying it. On the occasions where I'm lazy or in a hurry and I've bought the old varieties, we've been sorely disappointed. Why buy it when you can make it better and cheaper?
This is the recipe I prepare weekly, using canned tomatoes. Later in the summer when fresh garden tomatoes are in abundance, I'll share another version. This one is almost as good and more readily available. The amount of heat will depend on which chili you use (serrano will be hotter, crushed red pepper will be mild.)
Recipe: Homemade Salsa
- 28 ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1/2 bunch fresh cilantro, rinsed well
- 1/2 sweet onion, chopped
- 1 serrano or jalapeno chili, stem removed, finely chopped OR 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 Tablespoon lemon or lime juice
- salt and pepper
- In large bowl, combine all ingredients.
- Serve with tortilla chips or other Mexican dishes.
Cost breakdown:
canned tomatoes, generally available for $1
cilantro $0.15
onion $0.25
serrano $0.01 (really!)
lemon juice $0.10
Total cost for 4 cups of salsa: $1.51
Making your own is a great way to save money on a good eat.


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The Powerball jackpot began rolling Dec. 28 and has rolled 11 times.
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Pakistan tribal sources say U.S. drone strike kills al Qaeda commander
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Tribal sources from Pakistan's northwest said on Saturday a U.S. drone attack had killed a senior al Qaeda commander in the latest blow to the militant Islamist group that has been targeted in many similar attacks.
Abu Zaid was killed in the drone strike on a hideout in Pakistan's North Waziristan, one of the tribal regions near the border with Afghanistan, early on Thursday, the sources said. Zaid had just moved to the hideout a few days ago, they said.
Pakistani security officials based in North Waziristan said they were aware of the death of a senior al Qaeda commander but could not confirm his identity or rank.
Zaid replaced Abu Yahya al-Libi as one of al Qaeda's most powerful figures in June after Libi was killed by a U.S. drone strike. Ten others were also killed in that attack.
Unmanned aerial attacks have crushed al Qaeda's network along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan but have drawn trenchant criticism in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda has been weakened steadily in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the killing of Osama bin Laden in a raid by U.S. special forces on a Pakistani garrison town in May 2011.
(This story corrects to 10 killed in Libi attack, not Zaid strike)
(Reporting by Jibran Ahmad; Writing by Randy Fabi; Editing by Paul Tait)
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Using actions and effectsAn introduction to using the actions and effects features within Easiteach through the production of a 'What am I?' game. Using spotlight modeAn example lesson activity demonstrating Easiteach's spotlight mode feature. Spotlight mode allows you to create a spotlight focus on specific areas of the screen. Using angles and dimensionsA brief introduction to using the angles and dimensions features within Easiteach through the creation of shapes. Using the randomizer widgetAn example classroom game using the randomizer widget. Using the locking to a plane featureAn example activity showing how items can be locked within Easiteach to be moved horizontally or vertically. Using the scrapbook featureAn example lesson activity using the scrapbook feature within Easiteach to create a weather report. |
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Workday is betting that a new reporting engine some 18 months in the making can convince more large enterprises to use its cloud-based financial software, rather than the widely used finance applications from Oracle and SAP.
Dubbed Composite Reporting, the tool was developed in conjunction with Workday customers such as Netflix and Chuck E. Cheese, said Betsy Bland, vice president of financial management products at Workday.
When creating reports for company boards, finance employees have traditionally pulled data from multiple systems and then crunched a resulting series of spreadsheets into a single document, which is a time-consuming process, Bland said.
However, Workday's architecture holds all of the company's financial data in a single system, making it possible to generate reports on the fly, Bland said. Composite Reporting also gives employees the ability to combine multiple reports into a single view, as well as create more specialized reports, such as a profit-and-loss statement for a particular department.
The reports look and act much like spreadsheets, with features such as a grid layout and the use of formulas, Workday said. A feature called Worktags can be used to apply further dimensions to reports, such as time or region, according to a statement.
Finally, the reporting system provides identity and access management controls that govern what access a particular employee can have to various sets of information.
Composite Reporting is a "much needed" feature for Workday as it makes it easy to share and pull information together, said analyst Ray Wang, chairman and founder of Constellation Research. "A business analyst can do it."
While it's easy to use, at the same time an employee "can go nuts and create some crazy custom reporting," Wang added. "Think of this as the report writer on steroids."
Composite Reporting is part of Workday 23, which is now generally available, Bland said.
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Ball and Paddle
GNU Ball and Paddle is an old-fashioned ball and paddle game with a set amount of blocks to destroy on each level, while moving a paddle left and right at the bottom of the screen. Various powerups may make different things occur.
You may find out information about Ball and Paddle by running info ballandpaddle and man ballandpaddle.
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released on 15 July 2009
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If you are a fan of transsexuals, Hazel Tucker needs no introduction. It was a no brainer to see her while she visited Boston even though it is a two hour drive from where I was. I e-mailed her first to introduce myself and after some friendly back and forth and gave her a ring to schedule a meeting. Was very thankful she was so flexible with her schedule since I could only get to Boston after work and would arrive later. Got slowed down in traffic a little bit and she called to see if I was still going to show up but assured her I would be there. Arrived to an area near her hotel and did the usual two call to verify. After she saw me and approved I got her room number and went up. I was super nervous to meet with an actual porn star. She opened the door and I was truly blown away. Hazel is absolutely beautiful in person and is more passable than a lot of genetic women. She had on some sexy torn shorts, a cute top, glasses, and her hair was in big tales. She let me in and then the fun began...


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News of the death of Paul Kantner, formerly of the Jefferson Airplane, reminded me of an early encounter I had with him.
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The Coen brothers had "Jewish technical advisors, helping with language and liturgical stuff" in their movie A Serious Man, as well as "a raft of translators for the Yiddish."
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This meme is a chance for authors to tell you what they are currently working on - their next novel. Authors answer several questions and then tag other authors.
Since I am currently working on several projects, including the final in the Requiem series, and other companion/series novels, I thought I would focus this post on something new...something exciting...something different...
What is the working title of your book?
As of right now, the working title is Beautiful Mess.
Where did the idea come from for the book?
After I finished Transcend, I brainstormed two additional psychological thrillers, just in case I found representation and sold the book - I wanted the potential for a multiple book deal. Needless to say, things went a little differently than I had planned. So now that I am exploring the wealth of opportunities authors have now, I decided to dust off the idea and get it written!What genre does your book fall under?
This is a YA modern psychological thriller.
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
This is tough for me. Unlike most authors, I don't use pictures, etc to form my characters. They are formed from the inside out, and I usually don't have a clear picture of their appearance until later in the creative process. So, I am going to have to wait to answer that one, since I am early in the process.
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Hmm...how about this:
Love and obsession; what do you do when the one protecting you is the one stalking you?
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
Here's the big new tidbit...I am actually going to jump back into the query pond with this one. And if I am unsuccessful, we'll try the small press route, just like I did with the Requiem Series and Transcend.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
Well, I am in the first draft process now. Or should I say, I will be once I get past this month and the release of another book and edits on a short. Then it's all about this novel!!! I do have it fully outlined and about 30% complete. So, I'll finish it up in between NaNo and the end of the year.
What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Another good question. I would compare it to Transcend and works within the adult psychological thriller genre (Dean Koonz, etc). There are just very few psych-thrillers in YA or NA, so not a lot to compare it too. I guess you could call it .... no, never mind. This one is very unique.
Who or What inspired you to write this book?
This was absolutely inspired by my experience writing Transcend. Working on that book gave me a taste of psychological thrillers. Since then, I have planned out several additional psychological or suspense thrillers that I am looking forward to writing at some point.
What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?
Hmm...I would say this: If you like my other novels, enjoy psychological thrillers and a good mystery, this book is for you. Just be forewarned...the ending will blow you away! (yes, I wrote the ending first this time. LOL - at least, the basics of it.)
There you go - the scoop on my WIP.
Here are some other writers who will share their upcoming works next week:
Lisa Amowitz, author of Breaking Glass
Michelle McLean, author of Treasured Lies
Rebecca Enzor,