I completed the California Culinary Academy’s program for professional chefs in 1983 and worked as a pastry chef in San Francisco and Oakland for eight years. Set in the restaurant world, my first novel, Beat Until Stiff, won the 1999 Malice Domestic Writer’s Grant, was a BookSense pick for Winter 2002, and was nominated for the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. I live in Lafayette, California.
Hi Claire! I totally identify with the "decent photo" thing. I posted a picture of my cat until I got a pix where I have so much makeup on, you'd have to have a spatula to remove it, lol!
Claire M. Johnson
Nice to meet you!
Mar 12, 2007
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