BITA ARABIAN

Recipes • Coaching • Vitality

Hi Reader.

I hope you’re having a wonderful week!

As many of you know, my culinary journey started right here in our community sharing recipes, and I am so grateful to have you along for every new chapter. Today, I wanted to share a personal update on my upcoming cookbook, Power & Glow: Vibrant Persian Breakfasts to Prep & Go.

🌿 Celebrating the Pre-Launch in Dana Point!

This past week, we hosted my very first book signing pre-launch party at Harwood House in Dana Point. The venue was absolutely perfect - it's a brand new art cafe and event space. We featured a signature Persian honey saffron latte and some tasty bites with some special Persian ingredients. I baked two of the breakfast muffins from the book. Guests made custom bookmarks while I gave a live saffron blooming demonstration.

It was the perfect start to this author journey, and seeing the finished books in people's hands made all the hard work worth it.

📚 Publishing Update

I want to be authentic with you all as I navigate independent publishing for the first time.

The bottom line is we're still waiting for Amazon’s clearance for the book and online ordering links.

A printing house/distribution glitch has caused an inadvertent book scarcity issue. As a result, the anticipation has been organically building, as I expected the book to be available mid-August. What started as a late summer launch evolved into a fall launch, and now we are hoping and praying it will come out in time for the holiday season.

Navigating the indie publishing world definitely comes with a learning curve.

Thank you for your incredible patience, encouragement, and support as we cross the finish line.

Warmly,

Bita Arabian

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