{"id":7452,"date":"2019-10-18T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2019-10-20T11:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:05:50","slug":"guest-blog-laura-bickles-glittery-ghoul-donuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/18\/guest-blog-laura-bickles-glittery-ghoul-donuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Laura Bickle’s Glittery Ghoul Donuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When I saw vampire donuts come across a friend\u2019s Facebook feed, I knew that I had to give them a try. I\u2019ve had my own share of Pinterest disasters, to be certain, but I think this is something I can handle. The worst thing that could possibly happen would be that I\u2019d have a dozen mangled donuts, right? I could eat all the evidence before anyone was the wiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I gathered my materials. I picked up a dozen glazed donuts, a bag of plastic vampire fangs, and a package of candy eyes. For fun, I got some edible glitter. I originally thought I might make sparkly vampire donuts with silver glitter, but decided to get green so that the completed creatures would remind me more of ghouls.<\/p>\n
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I squished some vampire fangs into the donut holes to make mouths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Then I added the candy eyes. They stick very well into the donut glaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Then I dusted the donuts with edible green glitter. I was pretty pleased with my green choice\u2026they seem particularly monstrous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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And ta-da! A horde of flesh-eating ghoul donuts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I\u2019m counting this as a Halloween craft win. Do you have any Halloween crafts you\u2019re going to make this season? Any raven wreaths, bat cookies, or carved pumpkins on your agenda?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Title: Flesh
Author: Laura Bickle
Genre: YA Horror
Release Date: September 19, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dead are easy to talk to. Live people, not so much.
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Charlie Sulliven thinks she knows all the secrets of the dead. Raised in a funeral home, she\u2019s the reluctant \u201cGhoul Girl,\u201d her reputation tied to a disastrous Halloween party. But navigating her life as a high school sophomore is an anxiety-inducing puzzle to her. She haunts the funeral
home with her parents, emo older brother, Garth, their pistol-packing Gramma, and the glass-eyeball-devouring dachshund, Lothar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chewed human bodies are appearing in her parents\u2019 morgue\u2026and disappearing in the middle of the night. The bodies seem tied to a local legend, Catfish Bob, who has resurfaced in the muddy Milburn river near Charlie\u2019s small town. When one of Charlie\u2019s classmates, Amanda, awakens in the cooler as a flesh-eating ghoul, Charlie must protect her newfound friend and step up to unravel the mystery\u2026and try to avoid becoming lunch meat for the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Laura Bickle:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura Bickle grew up in rural Ohio, reading entirely too many comic books out loud to her favorite Wonder Woman doll. After graduating with an MA in Sociology-Criminology from Ohio State University and an MLIS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she patrolled the stacks at the public library and worked with data systems in criminal justice. She now dreams up stories about the monsters under the stairs. Her work has been included in the ALA\u2019s Amelia Bloomer Project 2013 reading list and the State Library of Ohio\u2019s Choose to Read Ohio reading list for 2015-2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Website<\/a> | Instagram<\/a> | Facebook<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | BookBub<\/a> | Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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