Jill Edmonson, author of Blood and Groom, the first Sasha Jackson Mystery, makes one of her detective's favourite drinks, the chocorettotini. Pick up the fun and fast-paced mystery and join Sasha Jackson as she hits some of Toronto's bars (the Park Hyatt, the Wheat Sheaf, the Horseshoe and more) and figures out who murdered Gordon Hanes, a nearly bankrupt art dealer and would-be groom.

Head to the Pilot on December 8th for the launch party for Blood and Groom. See Open Book's events page for details.

How to make a chocorettotini:

For the last month I've felt just like my creative inspiration ODB did, having to run a much needed intervention up in this mofo. Before there was Kanye, Taylor Swifting stuff up, there was Big Baby Jesus. I work out of the tradition of the late Osirus, so thank you for letting me share with you some of my views From Another Kitchen, on what Canlit means, if anything, to my particular group of hypenated Canadians who might be less rooted to Canadiana cliches and/or dull, uninteresting prose. It's 2009, not 2009 A.D. What more else can I say to end this lovely relationship I developed with mi open book familia over the past 30 days.