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We’re sponsoring a culinary mini-mystery contest every month.

To enter the contest, you’ll need to write a culinary mini-mystery (no more than 3,000 words) featuring our “virtual” three angels - Ireland Reynolds, Daisy Benson, and Delphine Gray - as the main characters.

The story must contain food tips or recipes, and relate to the Three Angels Gourmet Co. in some way. No purchase is required - so you don’t have to try our products, but you should read enough about them that you know the kinds of gourmet mixes we offer and how easy to make and versatile they are.

You’ll also need to understand the back story of how these three friends created the Three Angels Gourmet Co., so here it is:

Ireland, Delphine, and Daisy still live in the little town along the Gulf Coast where they grew up called Seven Cedars, Florida.

Ireland and Delphine are happily married to their high school sweethearts, while Daisy is unhappily divorced from a professional baseball player.

Ireland is an excellent cook, and for years she’s been creating gourmet mixes to give to her friends and family so they can easily recreate some of the unique dishes they eat at Ireland’s home whenever they visit.

Ireland is a fulltime mom, homeschooling her two sons, Nathan and Taylor. Her husband, Brad, is an art professor at the local college and a landscape painter.

Delphine has two daughters who attend regular school. Delphine and her husband, Charlie, own a spa and pool business. Delphine works as the bookkeeper for the business.

Daisy is a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company. She has no children and her biological clock is ticking louder and LOUDER!

One day, the three friends decide to start a business selling Ireland’s delicious gourmet mixes and the Three Angels Gourmet Co. is born.

The angels start out trying to wholesale their mixes to gourmet food stores in their hometown.

JUDGING AND PRIZES:

Each month, a new winner will be selected for that month’s contest. A panel of judges will decide each month’s winner.

Each month, the winner of that month’s contest will receive a box of gourmet goodies from the Three Angels Gourmet Co., and his or her mini-mystery will be published as an ebook that will be given away free at the Three Angels Gourmet Co. website. The ebook will credit the author and also include links to the author’s website(s) and/or blog(s), but the Three Angels Gourmet Co. will acquire all rights to the manuscript.

HOW TO ENTER:

Simply send us your story, pasted within an email to: info@threeangelsgourmet.com

Include your name, email address, and links to your own websites and/or blogs in the email. Entries must be received the 25th of the month to be considered for that month’s contest.