The First Page: Cocktails & Mock-Tales by Julianne McLean

Title: Cocktales & Mock-Tales
Authors: Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch
Publisher: ASJ Publishing
Pages: 90
Genre: Humor

Cocktails and Mock- Tales is not just about alcoholic beverages. The book is about sensations that tickle your tastebuds and humour that tickles your fancy. It includes non-alcoholic beverages that the whole family can enjoy and even herbal recipes for the adventurous.

Have one extremely tall high ball glass and a giant cocktail shaker at the ready

Ingredients:

Unlimited centilitres of wit and humour

9 cl or 3oz titillating snippets of history and gossip

Add flavours of exotic destinations

A dusting of spice mixed with satire

Several centilitres of high spirits (optional)

Shake with vigour. Garnish with an open mind and your own sense of humour

Now you are ready to truly laugh and savour Cocktails and Mock Tales!

Amaze your friends and family with your knowledge of the origins of international beverages and excite their tastebuds with these exotic sensations.

For More Information

• Cocktails & Mock-Tales is available at Amazon.
• Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.

The First Page

Cocktail and Mock Tale Book Recipe

Have one extremely tall high ball glass and a giant cocktail shaker at the ready

Ingredients:

Unlimited centilitres of wit and humour

 9 cl or 3oz titillating snippets of history and gossip

Add flavours of exotic destinations

A dusting of spice mixed with satire

Several centilitres of high spirits (optional)

Shake with vigour. Garnish with an open mind and your own sense of humour

Now you are ready to truly laugh and savour Cocktails and Mock Tales!

Amaze your friends and family with your knowledge of the origins of international beverages and excite their tastebuds with these exotic sensations

The First Page Interview

Welcome Julianne and Mark. Can you tell us what your book is about?

It is an hilarious romp through the world’s best cocktails and mock-tails with witty cartoons and recipes that can be enjoyed by all with non-alcoholic recipes for the kids and big kids. Plus, snippets of history about the most known cocktails. It is a book that everyone can enjoy

The first page is perhaps one of the most important pages in the whole book. It’s what draws the reader into the story. Why did you choose to begin your book this way?

The first page is really the cover as it draws in the reader into the fun and witty tone of the book. It was important that the reader saw that he/she would be entertained and that the humour on the first page would draw the reader in to see if the book tickled their fancy. The page ,however that I will show, is that which I used to set the tone of the book and to promote further the recipes and cartons that follow

In the course of writing your book, how many times would you say that first page changed and for what reasons?

Mark is a prolific and highly acclaimed Australian cartoonist with many national and international awards to his name. He is very spontaneous and quick- witted . I believe it took him less than a day to come up with the idea completed and in colour.

Was there ever a time after the book was published that you wished you had changed something on the first page? 

No

What advice can you give to aspiring authors to stress how important the first page is?

Go with your head and your heart