Rutabagas for Ten is not a cookbook, but a savory collection of blogs and short stories sure to delight your literary palette. The book contains spicy observations on life, mixed with political and social commentary. Each morsel will whet your appetite for more.  

Looking for a quick read to make you chuckle or give you pause, Rutabagas for Ten explores the humorous and sometimes thoughtful side of life in a series of essays and short stories by award-winning former journalist Susan Hanafee.

Susan Hanafee is an award-winning former journalist whose career as a reporter for The Indianapolis Star spanned three decades. She formerly headed corporate communications for IPALCO Enterprises and Cummins Inc. Hanafee sometimes writes under the pen name of E. C. Thomas. She describes him as a former newspaperman who quit his job 20 years ago to look for a spot where happiness and peace prevail. Finding no such place, Thomas ended up living in a beach community where he dusted off his old laptop and begin writing. Hanafee's blogs can be found on www.susanhanafee.com. Her previously published books include Red, Black and Global: The Transformation of Cummins (a corporate history); Rachael's Island Adventures (a collection of children's stories), Never Name an Iguana, essays and observations on life and the Leslie Elliott mystery series, including Leslie's Voice, Scavenger Tides, The End of His Journey and Deadly Winds.