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High excitement!!  The NEW MOON book trailer won a Bronze Telly Award!  This is an international award for commercials. It’s like the Academy Awards for commercials in all mediums.  The actual award is designed and made by the same company that creates the Oscar statuettes. All big companies that create commercials in all mediums enter their commercials in the Telly.  So  it was a thrill to win one of the awards.  

Here’s one of my favorite recipes that I’ve been making for years.

CINNAMON COFFEE CAKE

Coffee Cake

1 3/4 cups all-purpose or unbleached white flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2/3 cup granulated sugar

1 cup reduced-fat sour cream

1 egg (or 1/4 cup liquid egg substitute)

1/4 cup canola or safflower oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Topping

1 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

To prepare the batter: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8-inch square pan with non-stick spray, and set aside.

In a medium-sized bowl, thoroughly stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Set aside.

In a large bowl, combine the 2/3 cup sugar, sour cream, egg, oil, and vanilla. Stir vigorously until well blended. Stir in the flour mixture until just combined. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and spread evenly with the back of a large spoon.

To prepare the topping: In a small cup, stir together the 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Sprinkle the mixture evenly over the batter.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes on the center rack until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes. Cut into squares. Serve from the pan.

Makes 9 servings.

THE SECRET NIGHT won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Harlequin Intrigue of 2006 at the RT Booklovers Convention in Houston in April.

Ruth has been featured on the new web site romancenovel.tv--twice.  You can also see a great book trailer for NEW MOON on romancenovel.tv .  At brightcove.com you can also see a video of  a long interview with Ruth.

NEW MOON was on the USA Today Best-Seller list for three weeks.  It is the third of Ruth's Moon books to be on this list; the others were WITCHING MOON and SHADOW OF THE MOON.  Ruth's short story, "Hero's Welcome," from the anthology, THE JOURNEY HOME, has been chosen to be in BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE (2006 Edition), published by Juno Books in November 2006.

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