Chapter One
The First Dinner
The first meal your partner ever cooked for the two of them was meant to impress, and it did, mostly the smoke alarm.
The two of you in a small kitchen full of smoke, one waving a tea towel at the alarm, both laughing.
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Our Greatest Kitchen Disasters
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| Format | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Digital | $16.90 | Read tonight, any device |
| Softcover | $44.90 + shipping | Printed keepsake |
| Hardcover | $49.90 + shipping | Premium keepsake |
The smoke alarm has been the dinner bell more than once. This is the book of every meal your partner and you have burned, dropped, flooded or quietly swapped for takeaway, told with love, with both of you drawn from your photos in every kitchen and your own words about the worst ones quoted inside.
Your photos are only used to draw the people in this book - never published, sold or used to train AI.
A story for more than one person: you'll add a photo of each person in it as well as the hero's, and the prices above include everyone in the book.
Chapter OneThe First DinnerThe first meal your partner ever cooked for the two of them was meant to impress, and it did, mostly the smoke alarm.
Rachel & Dan: Our Greatest Kitchen Disasters
Rachel & Dan: Our Greatest Kitchen DisastersHardcover $49.908 x 8 in hardcover, 12 illustrated chapters, every page approved by you before it prints.
- Truly their faceBuilt from one photo, recognizable across all 12 chapters.
- 12 illustrated chaptersA real story arc, one full-page illustration per chapter.
- Ready in minutesPreview free tonight - pay only if you love it.
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How the story unfolds
These are just sample lines. Your book is written fresh from your answers - their name woven through every page, and the answers you give us quoted word for word in the chapters.
Chapter Two
Plan B
There were cakes that sank, pasta that welded itself to the pan, and a takeaway menu kept on the fridge for emergencies.
A pan of pasta stuck solid, held upside down between you, with nothing falling out of it at all.
Chapter Three
Still Cooking Together
Years later they still cook side by side, still burn the first one, and still think it is the best kitchen in the world.
Today, side by side at the stove, the first pancake burned as usual and both of you grinning about it.
These three sample the opening, middle and ending of a 12-chapter book. All twelve are drawn with them in it when the book is made: the cover and chapter one free in your preview, the remaining eleven once you order.
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Who Our Greatest Kitchen Disasters is for
Our Greatest Kitchen Disasters is the funny anniversary book for a couple who cannot cook, or who can and still manage to set things on fire. You tell us the worst meal, the dish that became a running joke and the takeaway that saved the night, and those sentences are quoted in the chapters. Both of you are drawn from your photos in every kitchen, laughing through the smoke rather than at each other.
Who it suits, and when
It suits any couple with at least one dinner they would rather forget, whether you moved in last spring or have shared a stove for thirty years. Anniversaries, birthdays and housewarmings all fit, and it is a good gift for the partner who does the cooking and takes the teasing. The jokes are affectionate, never mean, and it reads aloud in one sitting with plenty of laughing.
For Dan, who has never once followed a recipe and has made me laugh at every single dinner.
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Common questions
Who is Our Greatest Kitchen Disasters for?
Our Greatest Kitchen Disasters is a book about a grown-up, written in the voice of a gift book rather than a picture book. During setup you answer three questions, and up to three more if you want more of the book to be yours, and your answers are quoted word for word in the chapters.
How is Our Greatest Kitchen Disasters personalized?
You upload a photo of the person the book is about, choose man or woman, and they become the illustrated hero - same face shape, hair and skin tone - recognizable across all 12 chapters. Anyone else in the story is drawn from their own photo, and their name and a dedication are woven in too.
How long is the book, and what formats are there?
Twelve illustrated chapters, one full-page illustration per chapter. Digital is $16.90, softcover $44.90 and hardcover $49.90 plus shipping; the hardcover is a 8x8 inch matt-laminated keepsake.
Can I see it before I pay?
Yes. The cover and the whole first chapter - artwork included - are generated free. You only pay if you want the remaining eleven chapters.
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