Every Wednesday we offer you a special photo taken by our CEO Janet Beasley to help spark your creativity. Whether you're an author, a painter, a musician, or clay sculpture artist we think you'll find her photos very inspiring!

As the fire of 2015 begins to dwindle, we wish you all the best in the upcoming New Year!

Wishing you a Booktastic Christmas Day!

All of us here in the JLB Creatives Publishing house want to wish you the merriest Christmas! We hope your stockings are overflowing with books.

Every Wednesday we offer you a special photo taken by our CEO Janet Beasley to help spark your creativity. Whether you're an author, a painter, a musician, or clay sculpture artist we think you'll find her photos very inspiring!

Pastel Holidays

Happy Creating!

Every Wednesday we offer you a special photo taken by our CEO Janet Beasley to help spark your creativity. Whether you're an author, a painter, a musician, or clay sculpture artist we think you'll find her photos very inspiring!

Holiday Serenity

Happy Creating!

Every Wednesday we offer you a special photo taken by our CEO Janet Beasley to help spark your creativity. Whether you're an author, a painter, a musician, or clay sculpture artist we think you'll find her photos very inspiring!

Tis the Season

Happy Creating!

We are thankful for...

JLB Creatives Publishing staff and authors are most thankful for all of you readers. Those who buy our books, check them out of the library, and dive into the stories from cover to cover. We wish you and yours a most joyous holiday feast. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Be sure to stop by JLBCreatives.com for the perfect gift this holiday! 

Every Wednesday we offer you a special photo taken by our CEO Janet Beasley to help spark your creativity. Whether you're an author, a painter, a musician, or clay sculpture artist we think you'll find her photos very inspiring!

 Garnish of Gold

Happy Creating!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to our amazing fans and followers!

JLB Creatives Publishing's CEO loves this holiday. Being she is of Irish decent she is always ready to serve up a good meal on this festive day. Here's a sampling of her favorite recipes to fix for her St. Patrick's Day feast...

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Start with:

Warm Reuben Spead ~
directly from Kraft.com

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Dive into the main course:

Slow-Cooked Corned Beef Recipe ~

directly from Taste of Home

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Cap off the meal with this sweet delight:

The Best Darn Peppermint Brownies
...EVER! ~ 

directly from: 
Author Janet Beasley's Hidden Earth Series cookbook
 "More Than Grilled Cheese 
and Tomato Soup" 

     Ingredients:

In a small mixing bowl create DRY MIX by whisking together:

1½ c all-purpose flour

1/3 c Hershey's Special Dark® cocoa powder

1 tsp salt

Using an electric mixer, cream together on LOW speed:

2 squares (1 oz each) white chocolate, melted

1 c sugar

1 c packed brown sugar

1 c sweet cream unsalted butter, softened

2 T light corn syrup

2 tsp vanilla extract

4 eggs—one at a time

Add DRY MIX (a little at a time) and fold in:

½ c York Peppermint Pattie® baking pieces

Preheat oven to 375º.

Grease and flour a 9 x 13-inch pan. 

Spread brownie batter into pan and bake for 35-40 minutes. 

DO NOT OVER BAKE!

Optional: Ice with Pillsbury vanilla icing. Add a few drops of green food coloring if 
so desired for St. Patrick's Day feasts

Holiday Wishes

Our last photo of 2014 to Spark Your Creativity takes us to "Bethlehem"

Janet has titled this photo, "Luke 1:31"

The JLB Creatives Publishing Team will be taking a blogging-break to spend time with family and friends during the Christmas Season.

You'll still see us chiming in on Facebook now and then at
JLB Creatives Publishing on Facebook

Our Submissions will be open throughout the remainder of the year. If you are an aspiring author looking for a fresh new kind of publisher, we invite you to visit JLBCreatives.com to discover our publishing company, and see if we are the right match for you.
JLB Creatives Publishing

We thank all of you for your shared enthusiasm and continued support, and look forward to treating you to wonderful literary goodies all throughout next year. Until then...

May you days be merry and bright,

and may your New Year be a pure delight!

We'll see you next year!

Happy Creating!

From your JLB Creatives Publishing Team

Literary Gift Idea #4 - Dog Lovers

Santa Paws
photo courtesy of Janet Beasley
copyright 2011

It's time to start thinking about picking up that Kindle they've been begging you for! Why not make it a great and inspiring combination by adding our author Thom Battisto's Sydney Finds a Job (English or Spanish) to your new Kindle before you wrap it up? Visit Sydney and Thomat the 
Sydney Store located in the 
West Oaks Mall - Florida!

Visit this author's page on the JLB Creatives Publishing website at:

Author Thom Battisto

Thrusday Prompt: Holiday Shenanigans

It's that day again on JLBCP Blog where we spark some creative thinking. :) Let's have some fun and get into some Holiday Shenanigains with this prompt. Choose one of these  prompts and let your imagination fly.

Write a flash fiction or short story about: 

Two of Santa's reindeer and how they got on the naughty list this year. 

Going to the Griswald's holiday party. (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a great way to get to know the Griswalds if you're not familiar.) 

A holiday dinner where everything goes haywire. 

Don't forget to stop by our website JLBCreatives.com to discover great reads and something special to stuff those stockings with! 

Happy Thanksgiving from JLB Creatives Publishing!

JLB Creatives Publishing Team and Authors wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgivgiving! We are so thankful for all of you for reading and following, helping us bring you wonderful books for your bookshelves.

We hope your day is filled with moments that will become fantastic memories. If you're looking for a great read for all ages visit our site JLBCreatives.com There are children's books, Epic Fantasy, Science Faction, Historical Fiction and more!

 Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Don't forget the pumpkin pie and stretchy pants! 

WEDNESDAY FEATURE "Spark Your Creativity"

#Harvest #Autumn #Pumpkins #Fall 

This week's photo takes us to Thanksgiving

Janet has titled this photo, "Bountiful Harvest"

Happy Creating!

On Wednesdays we're posting a photo taken by our CEO, author Janet Beasley to help inspire authors, painters, musicians, and other awesome artists. We've titled the new feature, "Spark Your Creativity." How did we come up with this? Read on...

When Janet isn't hard at work in the literary world, you'll find her and her husband kayaking the crystal clear, spring fed rivers of Florida. Janet's second passion next to writing is photographing nature as they glide through the serene settings these rivers have to offer. She and her husband also enjoy traveling the US, so you'll also be seeing some of Janet's

photos taken from hikes and journeys she and her husband have done nationwide. She has used her photos time and again for her own inspiration when it comes to many of her stories, and decided she would like to share the same inspiration with the literary and arts world.

And not to worry if you're not inspired this week, come back each Wednesday to catch a glimpse of what could "spark" your next amazing piece of work. And if you don't want to wait until next Wednesday, we'd like to invite you to visit our JLB Creatives Photo Gallery on Flickr where the photos are always free to download and use as book covers, business cards, wallpaper, etc. All we ask is that you give credit where credit is due - perhaps by something as simple as adding a credit link to the JLB Creatives/Janet Beasley Flickr site in your book or on your presentation. 

We hope you enjoy our new Wednesday feature, "Spark Your Creativity." And we want to let you know, if a photo inspires you to write a story that you would like to have considered for publication by JLB Creatives Publishing, be sure to visit our website at http://www.JLBCreatives.com where you'll find our company's history, be introduced to the publishing team, discover our Submission Guidelines, and may submit your work for consideration.

Enjoy!

Author Thom Battisto's Favorite Recipe...

Hello fans and followers. For the month of November we are going to be featuring some of our authors' and team members' favorite recipes every Tuesday and Friday right here on the JLB Creatives Publishing Blog.


Today we're featuring children's author Thom Battistos's favorite recipe. Find out more about Thom's children's books by visiting Sydney Finds a Job.

This is one of my many favorite Thanksgiving foods:

PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE

CRUST:

1-3/4 cups graham cracker crumbs

3 tlb brown sugar

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 stick melted butter

FILING:

3 8oz. packages of cream cheese at room temp.

1 15oz. can pureed pumpkin

3 eggs + 1 egg yolk

 1/4 cup sour cream

1 1/2 cups of sugar

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg

1/8 tsp. ground clove

2 tlb. all purpose flour

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Directions:
CRUST

In medium bowl, combine crumbs, sugar and cinnamon. Add melted butter then press crumb mixture flat into a 9" spring form pan. Set aside.

FILLING

Beat cream cheese until smooth. 
Add pumpkin puree, eggs, egg yolk, sour cream, sugar and all the spices. 
Add flour and vanilla. 
Beat together until well combined.

Pour into crust and spread evenly

Bake in oven for 1 hour
Turn off oven and crack oven door open, leaving pie in oven for 1/2 hour 
Remove from oven and let sit for 1/2 hour, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4 hours.

Thursday Prompt: Creepy Visual Prompt

It's All Hallow's Eve and the ghosts and ghouls are ready to come out and play. Why not write them a tale and set them free on the page. Here are a couple of creepy prompts to stir your muses' cauldron of inspiration. Now lift your pen and cast your writing spell...

From Theresa's Haunted History of Tri-State 

From Weird Tales

Found on cc.toptenhen.com