About Virginia Wright

VIRGINIA WRIGHT (born Virginia Brown) is an American multi-genre best-selling author, award-winning illustrator, and nature photographer born and raised in Maine. As an artist, the cover Wright designed for Steampunk Alice by Dennis Higgins won the AUTHORSdb Gold Award (2014). She won the AUTHORSdb Silver Award (2016) from Timothy the Christmas Mouse Coloring Book. Crying Bear ranked #1 Amazon Best Seller in Children's Bear Books (2016). Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do, ranked #1 Amazon Best Seller in three categories (2016). Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do is the AUTHORSdb Cover Contest Bronze Award winner (2018), in the Education category. Ayuh, Another Downeast Cookbook ranked #2 Hot New Release Best-Selling in New England Cooking, Food & Wine (2018). As a multi-genre writer, Virginia's WIP is currently a romance novella. Besides writing, in her pastime, when she isn't spending time with her husband, Virginia is a foodie and restaurant reviewer. She enjoys sifting through old recipes and photographing everything she cooks and eats. She is also a nature photographer and a mixed media artist; she gets her ideas for her illustrations through inspiration that she gathers from the nature that surrounds her, which is ever-present in her designs.

Happy Earth Day| What is Earth Day & What Does it Mean to You?

By Virginia Wright

Happy Earth Day Everyone! I’ve been reading messages in one form or another all over the internet today. Google’s home page, on Blogs, in the Online Newspapers…but what is EARTH DAY and what does it mean to you?

Earth Day is a day that is planned for April 22 each year, for the next three years anyway, to help bring awareness and gratefulness of the Earth’s natural environment. It is a day for mankind to reconnect with the Earth and globally appreciating its existence. Earth Day has been around since April 22, 1970 when John McConnell Pioneered Earth day, and this day is now being coordinated by the Earth Day Network.

GETTING ONE WITH THE EARTH and nature is good for the soul!  Some of the best therapy, in my mind, is to take your bare hands and dig in the soil.

How can you get your green on? You can start by giving back to the earth by planting your favorite plants, or favorite pollinator flowers…

Have you planted your pollinator garden yet? Earth Day, would be a good time to start!

Earth Day | Dave from Dave's Bees Planting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source (s):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

http://www.earthday.org

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/kids/earthday.htm

http://www.davesbees.com

 

Pollinators

The greatest pollinators, bees, are responsible for one out of every three bites of the food we eat. Most of the food grown i.e., vegetables, fruit, need pollination by insects, such as the honeybee.

 

 

 

Alexa Bourne | Blog Tour 2012

Come join the party on April 30th for HER HIGHLAND CHAMPION, a brand new contemporary Scottish romantic suspense! Learn more about Alexa Bourne as she travels on a blog tour! Leave a comment and be in the running for a free copy of HER HIGHLAND CHAMPION, a $10 Amazon gift card, and a Scottish surprise! The more you comment, the better your chances of being the winner! Hope to see you there!

Her Highland Champion

By Alexa Bourne

Available from Decadent Publishing

Please visit Virginia Wright’s Blog on April 30th

to meet Alexa Bourne!

HONEY BEE PROMOTIONS  http://www.honeybeepromotions.com  Blog Tours

Blueberry Season in Maine

By Virginia Wright

In the early years of my children’s lives– we lived in Maine; my husband was a drilling reservist in the USN, drilling once a month out of Bangor. Eventually he went in the USN as a career man, 24 years…and that took us away from Maine, until he retired, and when we returned last summer. But before all that…Click for the rest of the story!

The Recipe Corner

Recipes @ The Recipe Corner

I’m so excited how the recipe corner is starting to shape up! It was suggested by fans that I start posting recipes on my writing blog instead of only on social media sites. Based on the requests, I am going to post recipes in a new section here on my blog, that I refer to as the recipe corner.                                                              (https://virginiawright.com/blog/recipes)

If you have a “Tried and True” recipe you would like to have posted at the recipe corner, send in the recipe to [info] [at] virginiawright [dot] com. In the subject area type: Recipe Submission. Please include your full name and the state you are from along with your recipe, adding that you give permission to post your recipe. All recipes are reviewed for consideration, and if your recipe is chosen, you will be notified when it is in the queue for posting.

-Virginia Wright, Author & Queen of Recipe Adaptation :-)

The Recipe Lady | @The Recipe Weekly

Recipes @ the Recipe Corner

Hi, I’m the author of the children’s books The Princess and the CastleThe Prince and the Dragon, and my newest release “Crying Bear Yes Bears Cry Sometimes Too.” I’m also the author of the non-fiction book: Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do. Buzzzzzzzz is available in Paperback and eBook;
and is a honeybee, beekeeping basics primer for children 4th-grade reading level to adult. I’m currently working on a number of writing projects and my latest release was a romance novel A Christmas to Remember.

Check out my cookbook Ayuh, Another Downeast Cookbook: Recipes From Maine

For ten years, before authoring my books, I was the Senior Writer for Lowfat Weekly, a website, I founded. (If you’ve read my other blogs, then you are familiar with a post that told about why I closed down that website). In brief, while working at Lowfat Weekly part of my job as a recipe developer, included adapting recipes to healthier Low-Fat versions. I LOVED that challenge! As a food blogger, I was known as “The Recipe Lady,” and I enjoyed interacting with our viewers, emails, chats, and such.  The problem I was having is that I didn’t want to only develop low-fat recipes, as it left no room for old-fashioned recipes that make you think of your “Mum and home.” I literally have hundreds of recipes that I’ve developed and adapted before Lowfat Weekly, during, and since working there. My recipes are made from ingredients that I already have in my cupboards, on hand– and trust you do too! They are mostly recipes that you will be familiar with, but in some cases, will be posted with “this cook’s” designer twist. These recipes are also some of “my family” favorites and will become yours too. You will find recipes on my blog that have been passed down from my mother, grandmothers, aunts, sister, friends, and friends of friends. All my recipes (most) are “quick and easy” to make including Old-Fashioned Heirloom Recipes, Low-Fat Recipes, Gluten-Free Recipes, Low Carbohydrate Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes, Italian Recipes, Fish and Seafood Recipes, Desserts, and more. In the search block, you can look up everything from dandelion green recipes to honey butter.

-Virginia Wright                                                                                                                           Queen of Recipe Adaptation

Please visit my blog often for recipes, and to see what I’m cooking up next…

These are my granddaughter’s Abigail and Elisabeth. They were visiting with their grammie, the recipe lady, and receiving a cooking lesson.

Cooking Lesson