Talk about suffering for one’s art.  Before writing a new novel, Davidson volunteers to help a local caterer with an event she wants to feature in that book.  For Fatally Flaky (copies in print: 250,000), she worked a wedding’s “hot line” – the area of the kitchen where food is plated before being picked up by the wait staff.  After standing in a hot kitchen for hours saucing some 300 plates of filet mignon and shrimp, she ended up with severe back pain and had to see an osteopath.

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