Please join us for the launch of the Thoughtful Journals, a new project from Amber Royer, author of Story Like a Journalist on Friday, December 6. The launch will be held in conjunction with Kay Thibodeaux of The Touring Chocolatier, in her retail space in Flower Mound.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
The Thoughtful Travel Journal – The Thoughtful Travel Journal includes prompts and ample space for recording your travel adventures. It's small size makes it easy to carry, while still allowing for over 150 pages for your insights and memories. The accompanying text covers ways to deepen your journaling experience. It discusses the rich history of travelogues and travel journals, as well as ways to use your journal to improve your writing and storytelling skills. There is also some discussion of how to share your journal, through blog entries or other media. This journal will guide you through designing your travel bucket list, and help you find a style and intention for your journal. It will also help you develop your observation skills and use sensory writing to create more vivid journal entries.
The Thoughtful Tasting Journal: Chocolate – The Thoughtful Tasting Journal: Chocolate edition includes prompts and ample space for recording your chocolate tasting adventures. Its small size makes it easy to carry, while still allowing for over 120 pages for your insights and memories. It's perfect for a chocolate aficionado, a chef - or as a gift for the chocolate lover in your life. With the rise of craft chocolate, and the innovations chocolate makers are making in terms of technique and ingredients, there is more to explore about chocolate now than ever before. The accompanying text covers ways to use all tour senses when you taste chocolate and to deepen your journaling experience. You will learn vocabulary relating to chocolate, to assist when you discuss your tasting experience with others. The text takes you through the steps of tasting a sample like a chocolate sommelier, and encourages you to record our findings in concrete, vivid ways while also allowing you to explore your personal reactions. It's a fun topic and a hands-on take that creates a personal keepsake, or notes to use in a professional setting, or to build into blog posts or articles. ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Amber has been a writing instructor and author coach since 2008. She also loves to travel, and has two book series that both relate to chocolate. She is the author of the Bean to Bar Mysteries and the Chocoverse space opera trilogy. She lives in DFW with her husband and two rambunctious tuxedo cats.