DEBRA BORCHERT is the award-winning author of the Château de Verzat series (Her Own Legacy, Her Own Revolution, Her Own War), its companion cookbook, Soups of Château de Verzat, and Give ’Em Something to Talk About, Word-of-Mouth Drives Book Sales, A Marketing Workbook for Spreading the Word. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Writer, among others. She is also a columnist for Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s publication, WriteOn!