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Inspirational Cookies

by Janet Loh

24 pages; Saddle stitched; illustrated; catalogue #05-0882; ISBN 1-4120-5981-x; US$13.50, C$15.63, EUR11.00, £7.50

A tribute to six people who have fired my imagination. A cookie specially created and named after them. Treasured times, precious moments and related musings on life.

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About the Book      About the Author      Excerpts      Catalogue Information

About the Book

This book combines Janet’s two great loves – writing and baking. But it’s not about recipes. It is about friendship, love and treasured moments.

It’s also a reluctant and rather accidental book.

Janet may be a prolific writer, but a very private person, and therefore a reluctant publisher, and an even more reluctant cookie seller. Accidental, because this book idea came about only after she has been goaded, in late 2004 during a casual conversation, into being an ‘’entrepreneur’’ - selling her shortbread for Chinese New Year.

From shortbread came her friend’s request for oatmeal cookies, and somehow, her ‘’cookie project’’ was born: Janet wanted to create and dedicate a special cookie each to the people who have made an impact in her life.

These special cookies will be freshly-made and sold ‘’on-demand’’, accompanied by a write-up in the jar, published in this book. In this book, Janet has also included accounts of her cherished times with them, and some other related musings.

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About the Author

Janet was born in Singapore, in that memorable baby-boom year where KK Hospital made history by breaking a record in its number of deliveries.

Having contributed to an important national statistics upon her entry into the world, she grew up pretty ordinarily though: she battled with her parents, her brother, her lecturers, her classmates and her friends; she struggled in school; she fell intensely in and out of love; she obtained her BA in English Language, English Literature and Philosophy; she sailed through her MA in Mass Communications Research, and then forced herself to work.

She had wanted at first to be a scientist, an artist, a novelist, a fashion designer, a photo-journalist, an architect, a lawyer, a journalist and even – gasp! – a housewife on a farm.

Thankfully, ‘’public affairs and communications’’ chose her, and she has since remained in this field for more than 16 years. Janet now works as a communications professional in a French smart card company.

Her other ‘’work’’ is to create her own world, a world where she can escape, dream, invent and be crazy.

In addition to the frets of her angst-ridden adolescent years (over family, friends and relationship), Janet these days tortures herself with her diligent studies in European languages and her obsession with their confounding grammar. She speaks a good melange of English, French, Spanish and Italian in less-than- perfect grammar, but dreams of being perfect one day, with no mix-up in vocabulary and pronunciation. As for her Mandarin and Hokkien, she simply ‘’wings it’’ and hopes her listeners don’t detect a fanciful cocktail of European accents!

She is a dessert-devourer and keropok-cruncher, but masquerades convincingly as a health and fitness enthusiast, with her boycott of fast-food, finicky food choices and her passion for pilates, yoga, running and gym work-outs.

Being fanatical about semi-precious stones, she has an eclectic collection, built over the years, locally and from her extensive travels.

Janet is a nature-lover, sun-worshipper, manic book-collector, arts-follower, and a magnet for hazards.

She protects her sanity in the real, mad and hazardous world, by being crazy and creative. And here, in this book, she invites you to explore a tiny facet of her creations – cookies.

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Catalogue Information

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