Sunday, February 26, 2012

A Sliver of Bacon

by Jeffe Kennedy

Before I met sister Word Whore Allison Pang, I never gave bacon much thought.

I mean - why would I? Sometimes restaurants or family offered it with other breakfast foods. There's an appetizer I make at Christmas sometimes, where shrimp are wrapped with bacon and drizzled with Balsamic vinegar and rosemary - those are yummy. But otherwise, bacon was just something that wasn't particularly good for me that didn't cause me much heartbreak because I could take or leave it.

Then I met Allison.

She takes love of bacon and elevates it beyond obsession and makes it into an art form. A horrifying art form, from time to time - you wouldn't believe the bacon monstrosities she discovers and posts pictures of. But her love is strong and sincere, akin to the devotion Linus has for the Great Pumpkin.

When I first read A Brush of Darkness, in one of its early incarnations, I remarked on how often bacon appears in the book. I think Allison even removed some of the references at my suggestion. So, when her agent asked her to take out a few more, I just laughed and laughed.

Turns out there IS such a thing as too much bacon, Allison!

I'm proud and delighted to see Allison's second book come out on Tuesday. She'll be over at my personal blog tomorrow, giving away a special something to a lucky commenter. And A Sliver of Shadow is available for pre-order right now. I can't promise that there's bacon in it.

Knowing Allison, though, there will be.

8 comments:

  1. Too much bacon?! What a concept....best wishes to Allison with the new book, bacon or not!

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  2. Ha ha - never any such thing as too much bacon. Except in novels. And yes, my agent made me remove at least 24 references before we sent it out on submission. >_<

    Thanks for the fab post, Jeffe. :) (And thanks for hosting me tomorrow)

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  3. So looking forward to reading SOB - oh, wait - it's SOS. ; ) Allison, I'd say it anybody is hassling you about bacon references, just refer them back to Dickens. That man put descriptions of food and drink *everywhere*.

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  4. A whole week of bacon!? Tell me it's not so! *shudders*

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  5. Bacon like chocolate go hand in hand. Also after witnessing an Allison Pang precooked bacon twitter chat which was good reading, never enough bacon.

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  6. So, do you think there will be bacon-cake on Tuesday? Or will it be a trip to Denny's for the bacon sundae?

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  7. I predict bacon cupcakes - what else??

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