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Books by Hills
Featuring writing team
Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill, authors of ‘$uccess,
Your Path to a Successful Book’, ‘Cooking Secrets - The Why and How’, and
‘Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel’. Plus, Norman E. Hill -
author of ‘Winner and Final Chairman’.
Meet the Authors Read
the Books Culinary Secrets - Recipes
Successful with Words Monthly Book Marketing Column
Special Events
Meet the Authors:
Maralyn
D. Hill -
Maralyn Dennis Hill says she was born to travel and tell the
story. From flight attendant, copywriter, incentive program
creator, conference planner, motivational speaker to writer,
all have fed her love of travel and writing. Together,
Maralyn and Brenda Hill have successfully written and
published ‘Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel’, ‘Cooking
Secrets the Why and How’, and their new book '$uccess,
Your Path to a Successful Book'. Read more about
Maralyn D. Hill.
Brenda
C. Hill - Brenda Colley Hill published her first
book with Random House while attending graduate courses at
Columbia University in New York City. Brenda writes articles
and books and conducts seminars with her writing partner
Maralyn Hill. Together they have written ‘Our Love Affairs
with Food & Travel’, ‘Cooking Secrets the Why and How’, and
their new book ‘$uccess,
Your Path to a Successful Book’. Read more
about
Brenda C. Hill.
Norman
E. Hill - Norman E. Hill, FSA, MAAA, CPA, author, has
executive experience with conglomerates and large and small
insurers. A frequent speaker and facilitator for the life
and health insurance industry, Norm is well known for his
articles on a broad range of insurance industry issues.
Norman is the author of ‘Winner and Final Chairman’. Read
more about
Norman E. Hill.
Read the Books:
$uccess,
Your Path to a Successful Book –
This the
next how-to book by the Hills and will be available in
August 2008. It was published in answer to the many
participants at Maralyn and Brenda's seminars, marketing
workshops, and classes at writer's conferences and spas.
Students and participants often ask them, "How do we get
started?" $UCCESS tells how!
Read
The Big Blend Magazine’s review and listen to the interview with
authors Maralyn D. Hill & Brenda C. Hill about their book
$uccess, Your Path to a
Successful Book.
Cooking
Secrets - The Why and How – This book helps
aspiring chefs and food lovers understand the art of Modern
French Cooking. Hervé Laurent’s latest book collaborated
with Maralyn Hill and Brenda Hill, begins where many cooking
schools leave off. It explains why some recipes go wrong,
with tips for success. Cooking Secrets—The Why and How is
easy to read from A to Z, and emphasizes light cuisine with
a French accent. This useful, problem solver is a guide that
makes reading and cooking fun.
Our
Love Affairs with Food & Travel – Written by two
published authors who tell travel tales, and bring 200+
delectable recipes from chefs worldwide. Famous
personalities such as Julia Child are featured, along with
new emerging chefs from rustic Tuscan farmhouses, the Fijian
Island, villages, cities, and well-known culinary schools
including Cordon Bleu. Co-authors, Maralyn Hill and Brenda
Hill, have combined their travel and culinary talents. They
travel the world to break bread, sip wine, and learn from
nearly 100 chefs—their stories and secrets. ‘Our Love
Affairs with Food & Travel has selections from 19 countries
and 17 states.
Winner
and Final Chairman -
An Expose of an American
Corporate Power Struggle and $138 Million Golden Parachute.
If you read Barbarians at the Gates or followed Enron,
you’ll enjoy this fictionalized version of a corporate power
struggle. It shows how a visionary business plan, not
followed through, and never-ending corporate politics, undid
a promising turnaround. Written by Norman E. Hill.
For a review and interview on Winner and Final Chairman,
click here.
Spa & Travel Destination Articles
Agave, The Arizona Spa at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa
Boar's Head Spa
Spa Avania at the Hyatt Regency
Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Gainey Ranch
Food & Cooking Tips
Chavez Cheese Tips & Recipe
How to Open a Pomegranate
Tasting & Appreciating
Chocolate
Ocean to Fork
Go Garlic
Bison & Guinness
Recipe of the Day
Chinese New Year - What's It All
About?
Indian Masda
Tea (Chai)
Alligator 'Gland' Martini
Pureed Parsnips
Champagne Floating Sorbet
Pomegranate Topping for Ice Cream
or Cheese Cake
Ancho Honey Roasted Shrimp with
Chimichurri Sauce
Boar’s Head Inn Smoked Salmon Parfait
Anti-Oxidant-al Cocktail
Oysters Carnival
Awara Bavario from Suriname
Simple Spinach Soup
Three-Minute
Jalapeño Dip
Organic Salmon Fillet with Salad and a Melon Muddle Cocktail
Indian Coconut Rice
Rum Sea Breeze Cocktail
Croissant French Toast With
Fresh Strawberry Syrup
Prosciutto Wrapped
Asparagus Spears
Mango, Ginger and Chili
Sorbet
Roasted
Tomato, Artichoke and
Prosciutto
Tartine
Orange Scented Seared Scallops
Culinary Secrets with the Hills
Winter Recipes from Europe
Holiday Recommendations
Holiday Tips & Planned Over Recipes
October Menu _
Stirring Up the Pot
September menu
- Salads
August Menu - Summer Fruit Menu
July Menu - Summer
Seafood Menu
June Menu -
Earth Friendly and Healthy Recipes
April Menu -
Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!
May Menu -
Burgers & BBQ Party
- May
March menu -ST. Pats Day, cocktail
and spirit recipes
February is
a month of chilly weather and what tastes better than comfort or toasty
food? As a child, one of my favorite winter dishes was any type of
potato soup.
Try these recipes from the Hill
Team.
Hearty Comfort Food –
January is a month that brings a feeling for heavier dishes and
comfort food, and sips that make your toasty. How does Blue
Cheese Comfort Bites, Duck Confit & Pumpkin Ravioli, Liquer Ice
Cream, and Caipirinha sound? Try these comforting recipes from
the
Hill Team.
A Simple Holiday Dinner –
Maralyn Hill
and Brenda Hill
how to prepare a holiday dinner with some
short cuts which will enable you to join in and enjoy the
dinner. Recipes include Spiced Pecans, Roasted Turkey, Sweet
Potato Stuffing, Tequila Gravy, Green Bean Casserole, Green
Chili Corn Bread and Cranberries, Cheesecake, PAMA and
Champagne! Get their
Holiday Recipes.
Read Maralyn and Brenda’s cooking and recipe column as featured
on The Big Blend
Stacky’s Chili -
As featured in ‘Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel’ this hearty
and tasty chili recipe is from Stacky’s a beach café in
Summerland, California.
Salsa, Salsa, Salsa!
One Extreme to Another and Paopao Cocktail...with a "Pow"!
Successful With Words - Monthly Column on how to market your
book
Writing Newsletters - How
Many Do You Need?
Writing your Profiles or Bio
for your Book - Maralyn D. Hill shares her tips on how to
write effective bios and profiles for your book.
Attention Authors & Writers
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Do You
Know How to Query Magazines, Agents & Publishers?
Maralyn D. Hill shares her list of ‘query musts’
to help you successfully submit your writing project to
agents, magazines or publishers.
Character Development
Marketing, Marketing and
More Marketing
Twelve Steps to Start
Your New Year in 30 Minutes to an Hour a Day

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editing services, and to purchase books -
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