• Thaw bread dough and allow it to rise. Punch it down and let it rise again.

• Liberally grease a deep-sided cookie sheet or roasting pan with olive oil. Knead the dough on a lightly floured board and roughly shape to the shape of the pan. Place the dough in the pan and let it rise again.

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread the dough out to fill the pan and poke holes in the dough with your fingertips.

• Spread the olive oil on top of the dough. Add tomato sauce and spread evenly. Sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese over the sauce. Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 20 minutes or until the crust starts to brown and the bottom of the pie is golden brown in color. Remove the pie from the oven and let it rest on a cutting board for 15-20 minutes before serving.

Delicious!

Stephen noted that, in passion, your life must lead you toward God like-ness. Here are some ways that a Christian exemplifies Godliness:

• Living the truth in front of others
• In your actions, people can see God in you and it honors God
• Our life isn’t about us, but Him
• Always remember, we must be small and He must be big

GodLike-ness is every day expressions that express the character of God within you.

This procedure works well if you are storing your belongings in a storage unit, start the bomb off 24 hours before you go in to transport everything into your new home.

The nice thing about using the bomb in a U-Haul is that the spray doesn’t get on your walls. So, don’t forget to cover bare and upholstered furniture with old sheets that you can later wash.

Let me know if this tip helps you!

I found that Magic Eraser works well. But, unless I used the magic eraser and then rubbed the area with a damp cloth, some ingredient in the eraser left a stain on the wall.

Let me know how this works for you!

When you use the original can to paint from, and thus tap the brush on the inside edge of the can, that area gets clogged with paint and will create rust once sealed. Tip: Use a rubber band to tap your brush by wrapping the rubber band around the can, leaving a string of rubber in the center of the can. Use tape to temporarily tape the rubber band onto the can. When you are done, remove and dispose of the rubber band.

By the way, always store your paint in heated and air conditioned space (the back of a large closet perhaps). If stored in the attic or garage, the paint will not keep.

Let me know if these tips help you!

In your small touch up roller pan, mix half of your original wall color with half of the 1/2 wall color. Try a small dab with a brush to see if it is a match. Keep adding from one or the other until you have found a match. Then use your roller touch up kit to touch up that faded wall!

With a sharpie, write a note on your paint can with the date and instructions on what you did to make a match so that you can replicate down the road. Let me know if these suggestions help you

1. matching wall paint
2. a small roller and roller pan (Sherwin Williams makes a nice touch up kit)

Repair the wall as needed. On a clean and dry wall, use the small roller dipped in a very small amount of paint. Cover the area with paint and then dry roll  into the surrounding areas, effectively moving all the paint from the roller onto the wall. As long as there is a paint color match, the nap of the touch up roller will match the nap of the original roller used to paint the wall!

What if your wall is faded, what can you do? See my post tomorrow . . .

BEFORE

Put distilled water in your iron. Allow the iron to heat. Place a thin washcloth over the surface of the carpet. Place the hot iron on the carpet and press the steam button a few times, pushing the iron back and forth. Remove the iron and washcloth, then move the now pliable carpet fibers into place.

AFTER

Let me know if this post helped you!

1. Use a Swiffer sheet and lightly rub
2. Use a dampened sponge and lightly rub then dry

If neither of these ideas remove the grime from your molding, you may have dust in your paintable caulk. If so, you can get a can of matching molding paint and paint the top of your molding. As long as the paint color matches, the fresh painting job will blend in with the entire molding and look freshly painted!

Suzanne Hartmann is the author of Fast Track Thrillers, with book #1, PERIL, coming out Nov. 18 through OAK TARA. She has also written WRITE THIS WAY: TAKE YOUR WRITING TO A NEW LEVEL, a blueprint for writing a novel for the novice and a revising resource for the veteran author. She is wife to a wonderful husband, a homeschool mom, and a consulting editor for PORT YONDER PRESS. She and her family reside in the St. Louis metro-east area. Suzanne operates the WRITE THIS WAY blog as well as the FICTION WITH A TWIST website to offer resources on the craft of writing, as well as a critique service, to help authors improve their writing and take it to a new level.

Backcover copy: A top-secret agent with enhanced strength must use her extraordinary abilities during several high-profile assignments while escorting a Muslim king who converted to Christianity—from the White House to NASCAR tracks—and struggles with trusting God to protect her when unwanted publicity and the attention of a NASCAR champion threatens to expose her secrets. As the danger builds, she becomes a terrorist target and realizes the only way she can save her life as she knows it is through death.

BOOK TRAILER

Congratulations on your debut novel, PERIL! Tell us how you found out about your first publishing contract.

I was at one of my daughter’s softball games the first time my agent called to give me the good news. I’m bad about checking caller ID, and didn’t realize he called, so it was the next day before he tried again. When I saw the caller ID display, my stomach started doing flip-flops and my legs went weak. An agent doesn’t just call a client, it’s either really good news, or really bad news, and I hoped it was the good news I’d been waiting for. I could barely speak and my voice probably sounded like a mouse squeaking, but I did manage a small strangled scream and plenty of thank you’s.

What’s your biggest challenge in balancing writing time with your other responsibilities (homeschool mom, Yonder Press Editor, author, wife, cook, housecleaner…..)?

Time. There’s never enough of it. I’ve tried to set schedules, but I have a tendency to become a slave to my schedule, so God usually has to remind me that they aren’t a good idea (often with a 2×4 moment upside the head ‘cause I can be so dense). What He really wants me to do is seek Him each day and follow His lead regarding what He knows really needs to get done. It seems chaotic, but when I truly seek Him, things seem to get done much better than when I try to do it myself.

Your stories are NASCAR related, why?

It all started with my daughter. Shortly before she turned eight, she announced that she had a favorite NASCAR driver. Since I knew almost nothing about stock car racing (because I always fell asleep while my husband watched a race), I decided I’d better pay more attention so I could decide whether this man was someone we could approve of her rooting for. At that time, I was also creating stories to entertain myself while my kids had violin and piano lessons and baseball and soccer practice. Once I knew a little more about NASCAR, I decided the addition of a driver and some tracks as settings would add more excitement to my stories. At the time, I never intended to write a novel, but once God nudged me and I started weaving the stories into a novel, I realized that my hunch was correct and it added an exciting and unique flavor to my book.

Who/What spurs you to write? Where do your story and character ideas come from?

My stories usually start with a single idea, then I start asking questions and let my imagination have free reign. The stories that eventually became PERIL began with the question, “What if someone could…” Once I started to write my novel, I asked questions like, “How would this character respond to this?” and “What would make a character behave this way?” As I began to revise the book and learned more about how to write a good story, I reviewed the scenes and asked, “What is the worst thing that could happen in this scene?” Then I would make it happen.

And how do your faith and spiritual life play into the picture and affect your storytelling?

I love stories full of suspense and twists I don’t anticipate, but I’m so tired of authors who add things to their books that are offensive to Christians and sometimes even go so far as to be anti-Christian. I want my stories to be just as compelling, but have a Christian worldview. So you’ll get the action and suspense, even some violence (although not graphic) in my books, but they  won’t lift up immoral behavior.

I see a book two, CONSPIRACY. Can you tell us the plans you have for this novel?

Conspiracy will pick up right where PERIL leaves off. Joanne’s boss, the head of the country’s most clandestine intelligence organization is framed for selling secrets to a foreign government. Along with the help of her friend, NASCAR champion Stuart Jackson, she vows to help George set things straight  in spite of the personal tragedies engulfing her life. CONSPIRACY is scheduled to come out in the summer of 2012.

The third book in the Fast Track Thriller series is REVENGE, is due out in 2013. In it, the man who framed George is be behind bars, but he wants revenge. He promises to expose her deepest secrets to the entire world and isn’t afraid to threaten her loved ones to accomplish it. When he threatens Stuart’s during a race, will she trade her secrets in order to save him?

Suzanne, thank you for sharing with us!

Thank you for hosting me, Heidi. Before I go, I would like to invite your readers to help me celebrate the release of PERIL by entering a special give-away that will run from 11/18 – 12/16.

To enter, click here: WIN A KINDLE