Terri’s Upcoming Events!
Terri has some fun events coming up in the next several months – all the details can be found on her EVENTS page – hope to see you there!
Fall Into Romance at the Berlin Library October 28th!
Terri will be joined by Shirley Hailstock, Tina Gabrielle, Victoria Jayne and Alexis Woods at the Marie Fleche Memorial Library’s FIRST Fall into Romance event on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from 7-9pm. A panel discussion about the variety of stories available in the romance market and about how they write romances and more will be followed by a Q&A and then the authors will have books on hand to sign. Refreshments will be offered throughout the evening.
This event is open to the public at no cost, so please stop in and enjoy lively conversation about books, authors, reading, writing and more! For more information, please visit the Library’s website.
Local Author Event @Waterford Twp Library – September 27th!
Terri will be joining other local authors at the Waterford Township Public Library’s FIRST Local Authors Day. Authors of fiction and non-fiction will be there to greet readers, chat, share donuts&coffee and sign their books from 10:30am until 1:30pm on Saturday, September 27th, 2025.
Local Authors are:
- Alexis Sharp (Fantasy, Action/Adventure)
- Jennifer M. Eaton (Space Opera)
- Kennedy Cannon (Contemporary, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Satire)
- David Schulze (Psychological Fiction, Literary Fiction, LGBT)
- Michael Sabia (Self-help/wellness)
- Lionel Moses (Relationship, Self-help)
- Sara Wuillermin (Grief, Community, Mutual aid, Nonfiction)
- Gene Miller (Middle Grade/YA, Short Story, Adult Memoir)
- Robert Glass (Wildlife, Falconry)
- Tom Tracy (Children’s)
- Erene Davis (Kids Story Time & Take‑&‑Make Craft) (Children’s)
- Claudia Tung (Illustrator) (Children’s)
Terri will also be presenting a special version of her talk about the History of Romance Novel Covers as part of the event.
For more info and a complete list of authors, please visit the Waterford Township Library website for the event. Hope to see you there!
Hearts & Coffee at the Philly Library on Oct. 4th!
Terri joins Xio Axelrod and lots of romance author friends in a comfortable setting for coffee and chatting!
🌟FREE EVENT 🌟
Have you ever wanted to chat with an author over a cup of coffee? Here’s your chance! On Saturday, October 4th, head over to the Parkway Central Library in Center City Philadelphia for a morning filled with bookish conversations, nibbles, and community.
There, you’ll find authors Xio Axelrod, Terri Brisbin, Golden Angel, Sarahlyn Bruck, Tara Conrad, Veronica Forand, Piper Huguley, Reem Kashat, Noué Kirwan, Aliza Mann, Priscilla Oliveras, Rebecca Rivard, Nikki Sloane, and Dakota Willink.
Come meet your faves and discover new ones. Whether you’re a dedicated reader or an aspiring writer, this is the perfect place to share your bookish obsession. And it’s a FREE event! Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to connect with fellow booklovers.
Grab your ticket here: Hearts & Coffee – An Author and Reader Meet n’ Greet!
Romance Between the Vines – August 23!
Join Terri and other NJ authors at Pladigo’s Winery in Hammonton to celebrate and enjoy romance and good wines at this Booze & Books West event! We’ll be chatting about books, and wines, enjoying refreshments and more from 11am until 3pm on Saturday, August 23. The authors will have books on hand for purchase and signing.
Join us!
It’s the Holiday Historical Romance Cookie Hop!
I have never been a great baker-of-cookies. Although I’m great at cakes and other things, the perfect cookies elude me! I produce excellent door stops filled with chocolate chips or smelling like gingerbread but most times I avoid baking them. Oh, there are one or two I can make that are edible, delicious even, but I can’t count on them actually coming out that way.
So, maybe that’s why Rosette cookies appealed to me? No dough to make or roll or drop. No worries over too-thin-or-too-thick. Waaaaay back in the married-with-young-children days, I felt pressured to find something when my younger sister became a pizzelle master, especially at the Holidays.
From researching their origins, these batter cookies are claimed by several countries including Sweden/Norway, Netherlands and Mexico – and more. Basically they are fried batter that are dusted with powdered sugar. There are special irons that hold the batter in shapes to be dipped in hot oil. If it sounds like funnel cakes, it’s because they are the same batter but one has a shape and the other is freeform.
Each Christmas season, my sister would bring out her pizzelle iron (like a waffle iron) and make piles of pizzelles (almost crunchy, flavored with anisette) and I would make piles of rosettes. And our families loved them both! It’s a good memory and I think of my sister every time I see a pizzelle…
The recipe? Easy peasy — but the irons aren’t easy to find —
Rosette Cookies
Ingredients: Makes about 30 cookies
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- vegetable oil for frying
- confectioners’ sugar for dusting
Directions:
Beat eggs, sugar, and salt together in a large bowl. Add flour, milk, and vanilla extract; beat until smooth.
Heat oil in a large, deep skillet to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Place a wire rack over paper towels.
Heat the rosette iron in hot oil for 2 minutes. Lift the iron and let excess oil drain. Dip the iron in batter to 1/4 inch from the top of the iron, then dip the iron immediately into hot oil. Do not cover the whole form in batter!
Fry rosette in hot oil until golden, about 30 seconds.
Lift the iron out; tip upside down to drain. Use a fork to push rosette off the iron onto the prepared wire rack.
Reheat the iron in hot oil for 1 minute; cook remaining batter. Sprinkle rosettes with confectioners’ sugar.
Have you ever had Rosette Cookies (or Funnel Cake)? Or Pizzelles? Do you make any special family dessert for the Holidays?
If you comment below or email a comment to me at: contest@terribrisbin.com – you’ll be in a drawing for an ebook of any of my books along with a Scottish 2025 calendar – 2 winners will be chosen from those who enter!
And don’t forget to hop to all the Historical Romance Authors in the Holiday Cookie hop to find their cookies – and their giveaways! Any questions? Visit the FB event page – for more info and the complete list, too.
E-mail your completed list to Heather@HeatherMcCollum.com with “Historical Romance Authors are Sweet” in the subject line. Good luck!
Join Terri in Cupid’s Corner – Feb 10th~
It’s true – February and especially Valentine’s Day and its celebration belong to ROMANCE AUTHORS and READERS! So, to mark our special time of the year, Terri will be joining authors Tara Conrad, Stephanie Julian, Lydia Michaels, AK Landow, Lucia Catherine and Raven Storm at Cupid’s Corner — aka the Barnes & Noble in Wilkes Barre PA – on Saturday, February 10 from Noon till 5pm!
So, please stop in the Barnes & Noble on the Arena Hub in Wilkes-Barre – we’ll be signing our latest releases and chatting and having fun next weekend. It’s open to the public, no cost except for the books you buy and should be fun!
Historical Romance Holiday Cookie Hop
It’s coming soon!! More authors, more recipes, more holiday fun! Mark your calendars now….
Terri’s Silver Anniversary of her FIRST BOOK!
Long ago, in a land far far away…. oh wait! It wasn’t far away at all – it was in NYC – when my first book, A LOVE THROUGH TIME, was published by Berkley/Jove in their then- Time Passages line of time travel romances. The year was 1998 and I was thrilled to see my story out in the world.
25 years later – I’ve written 53 more books and have more in the planning. From Berkley/Jove, I moved to Harlequin’s Historical line and to Kensington Books and PenguinRandomHouse’s NAL line and Oliver Heber Books and Dragonblade Publishing – and I’m still with Harlequin Historicals, too! In addition to working with publishers, I republished my older books as well as self-publishing a number of shorter projects with other authors. And there are still more stories to come!
So, I think that I should be celebrating both the Silver/25th Anniversary and the stories I’ve written. And you, my readers who make this all possible should join in!!
I’ve got signed books, 2024 Scottish calendars (weekly giveaways!), Terri’s branded tchotchkes, Scottish goodies and even a Hebridean Baker’s cookbook! And more. And all you have to do is enter on my CONTEST page. If you’re already a newsletter subscriber, there’s a special giveaway for you that will be in the upcoming issue early next week – don’t miss your special drawing!
Go to my website – and click on the banner on the opening page:
Hie thee hence to enter!
The weekly giveaways are opening next week and will include all entries received that week and continue until November 30 when the giveaway winners will be chosen. There will be one (1) grand prize awarded to a website/in-person entrant, one (1) grand prize awarded to a newsletter subscriber entered via email and one Scottish calendar given out weekly during the celebration to one person from among all the entrants that week. Although an entrant may only win one of the 2 grand prizes, winners of the weekly calendars are still eligible to win a grand prize.
I hope you’ll join me in celebrating this milestone!
Terri
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