Scone by Scone... Tales from an Innkeeper's Life

Scone by Scone…Tales from an Innkeeper’s Life, shares what it’s really like backstage at an inn, through stories of the myriad situations an innkeeper faces. Whether it’s producing an impromptu wedding one afternoon, discovering that a guest was my host 20 years ago in a remote village in Africa, or introducing actors to early morning breakfast – nearly every day has brought another fascinating story to our door.  Each chapter contains not just our recipe for business success, but also the recipe for whichever item on our prize-winning menu is featured in the story.

To our surprise, we discovered that innkeeping is indeed our vocation. It’s inspiring, transforming work, and calls on skills we didn’t know we had. And is laced with entirely unexpected ingredients – the love and friendship of many amazing people who came to us as guests but whom we now count as treasured friends for life.

Deedie and her husband are on the World’s Longest Book Tour. They visit 47 states over 5 months or so and nearly every member of our respective family trees, our Christmas card list, former colleagues and classmates and everyone in between. If we don’t stay with one of the foregoing, we’ll stay at a B&B.