Independent publisher of award-winning books by Kelly Brakenhoff
As part of our five-year anniversary celebration, we are throwing it back to where everything started. The smart, sassy voice of Cassandra Sato, newly minted Vice-President for Student affairs at Morton College. If you are new to Cassandra and her friends, here’s a peek behind the scenes from her point of view. Welcome to the series!
Ever wondered what happens when you take a pinch of Hawaiian sunshine, mix it with Nebraska cornfields, and throw in a crime scene investigation just for fun? Well, you get Death by Dissertation, a concoction I brewed up during a month-long cram session known as National Novel Writing Month back in November 2014.
Death by Dissertation, the first book in the Cassandra Sato series and my debut novel was nominated for a 2020 RONE award from InD’tale magazine!
I’m done with screens, and I just want to escape into a good book. But the libraries closed, I owed too many fines, and they shut down my account. (Oops.) I’ve gathered a list of books or authors I recommend for you to survive the quarantine blues.
I can only think of two long-term series where I’ve read every single book in the series, some of them twice.
Spam in a cake? Yep. And it’s surprisingly delicious.
When I was brainstorming recipes to pair with my first Cassandra Sato mystery, Death by Dissertation, I knew it had to involve Spam. Cassandra grew up in Hawai‘i, where Spam is practically a food group (seriously, six million cans eaten every year!).
Featuring a whole-wheat, no-yeast dough, these Swiss Mushroom Bierocks take less than an hour start to finish. They are great for football tailgate parties, potlucks, or Husker ex-pats who miss eating our beloved Runzas.
