I’ve been promising this Snickerdoodle recipe for weeks. Sorry it’s taken so long…but when you get back from a vacation you need an additional week to be a slug, and get over the time difference. (I was in Iceland – it is unbelievably gorgeous!) Then a few days to catch up on laundry, mail and email. Plus, I’ve been in book mode every day, all day trying to…
Thank GOD! I can finally breathe. Kirkus reviewed both my audiobook and the paperback of Come on Down! A Little Story About My Italian Mom’s Big Dream and gave both what I consider a ringing endorsement! Now you people in the above photo can proudly say, “Hey I read it and it really didn’t stink!” In the publishing world, a good review gives you credibility, which then gives…
July Fourth was the ONE day of the year that my dad, a man who never spent money frivolously, took us to the drive in to see a movie. (This was a man who had to be begged, repeatedly and loudly, to stop at Twin Kiss, the local ice cream place in the summer. Begging didn’t always work. He’d say, “Oh, we have better stuff than that at…
I know. You’re thinking, Dear God Fran, we’ve been waiting all this time for you to stop talking about your dang book and get back to talking about great food — and this is what you come up with? Granola? REALLY? Yes, really. And stop mocking me. (I also have an amazing Snickerdoodle recipe I’ll share soon so don’t freak out!) Granola, done right makes plain Greek yogurt…
A week ago, I ordered the Italian Curse Word Wine Charms from my Zazzle site so I can give one charm away to anyone who gets someone to buy my book. (Yes, it’s come to this.) All I’m asking for proof is a photo of someone holding the book. Email me at FranTunno.com and we can exchange info. For a good photo of the charms, please click on…
Scammers like…no, scammers love people like me – a new author just trying to get publicity for her book. So, they swoop in with a very flattering AI written email. This is my third email from scammers, so it’s comforting to know at least someone’s reading my bio. Last week I received an email from a scammer who was posing as Candice Fox, a successful Australian author, who…
When the Italian Sons and Daughters of America said they were going on a tour of the Pittsburgh Brewing Company, I wasn’t totally sold. I’m a wine drinker, but since this group is so nice and so much fun, I thought, what the heck, I’ll go. I envisioned a cavernous space that smelled like the basements of fraternity houses I frequented in my college years. That conjured up…
On Saturday I attended my very first Author event at the Northland Public Library. It was fun meeting people and getting to read a few chapters from my humorous memoir, Come on Down! A Little Story About My Italian Mom’s Big Dream. It was a little surreal being in front of a room like Jenny Lawson, or David Sedaris or Dave Barry, people who’ve made their living as…
I grew up in a very Italian Catholic household. We all went to Catholic school and knew all the feast days. I thought we were pretty good, but nothing prepared me for the feast that was put on for St. Joseph’s Day by the Italian Sons and Daughters of America, Lodge 174. Holy Zeppole! It was amazing. The feast day is March 19th, but our meeting was March…
I was in my bathroom, naked when the phone rang. I was in disbelief when he said who he was. Conan was lovely, telling me how much he enjoyed my book and wanted to have me on his podcast, Conan O Brien Needs a Friend. We chatted for about five minutes, then he said he’d have someone get back to me to schedule. To all my followers in…