Can’t wait to tell you about my new novel Comfort Food!

But first I want to extend heartfelt thanks to each one of you who recommended my first book, The Friday Night Knitting Club, to a friend or colleague, who posted such wonderful reviews here on Amazon, and who selected FNKC for your book clubs. You helped make my first novel a bestseller. THANK YOU!

After I finished that story, I thought a lot about what I wanted to write next. (Well, initially I took a little breather. But then I began thinking…) And I wanted Comfort Food to be just what the title implies: comforting and warm. Upbeat. Maybe even a little bit funny. My main goal with this new novel is to simply create an entertaining read. The kind of book you’ll want to curl up with and enjoy a bit of an escape from your busy day. Read it when you’re in bed. In a bubble bath. Or coming home on the subway while dreaming about taking a bubble bath. (That’s my love of New York coming through! There’s no reading while commuting now that I’ve moved to the West Coast and live in the SoCal suburbs. It’s all about driving out here.) But you get the idea.

Comfort Food is about the elegant host of a television cooking show, Augusta “Gus” Simpson, who is fending off an ambitious co-host while also dealing with personal issues with her two twentysomething daughters, Aimee and Sabrina. It’s a book about family, about friendships, about our frustrations in life and in work, and about the power of food to bring people together. I spent a lot of time in the kitchen when I was writing this one – all in the name of research, of course – and I procrastinated many an afternoon making chocolate chip cookies. (That’s my kind of comfort food.)

Plus there’s a related website you might enjoy visiting at www.comfortfoodnovel.com. Here, you can read the first chapter, connect with other readers on the message boards, check out recipes for dishes mentioned in Comfort Food, share your own culinary creations in the Recipe Share, and take the quizzes. Coming soon will be an online game. I love to play online games, especially when I’m between chapters, so I thought it would be cool to have a game that we could all play together.

And now I’d better get busy packing for the Comfort Food book tour. You can find dates and times at my website, www.katejacobs.com, for my upcoming events in Oakland, Pleasanton, Petaluma, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Lansing, Charlotte, Vancouver, and, of course, Hope, BC! (That’s where I was born and raised and I am always eager to sneak in a visit with friends and family. I’m particularly looking forward to attending my nephew’s birthday party!) If I’m not coming to your neck of the woods, then you can follow along as I blog about the tour here and on my website.

In the meantime, I hope you’ll take a bite of Comfort Food!

All best wishes,
Kate