a new bookburger series: authors with special sauce

hey burgerfolk...publishing a novel is plenty cool enough, in our book.  We salute anybody who can sit down and write anything longer than a blog entry (which is all we can manage...and, um...as you may have noticed...sometimes we can't even manage to do that!). So when we read on a book's jacket copy that the author of the novel we're holding in our hands has also climbed Mount Ranier in his underwear or hitchhiked across Tanzania with a monkey on his back, we just feel awe-full.
Yes, filled with awe. In burger lingo, when somebody accomplishes something above and beyond the norm, we say, "she's topped with special sauce."
So we're starting a little series just to shine the spotlight on writers of new books who've also accomplished  incredible off-the-page stuff....next post is installment number one....