Amy's Latest Blog Posts

Hubby and I are packing up to move from Maryland to Florida (YAY!) but we've made the tough decision to shut down our embroidery shop. We started DoodleSport.com fourteen years ago because we were so sick in...

Input About Your Favorite Books, Please! I'm thinking about starting a new series...but I don't want to start a whole new one without it being unique. I don't want to just replicate Pineapple Port or...

First...some #PineapplePortMysteries Challenge Favorites First, I thought I'd share with you a few of my favorite original entries from the Pineapple Port Challenge so far! If you'd like to see them all, plug...

Meet the Pineapple Puppies! So I know Pineapple Jailbird #8 was JUST released, but I'm already half-done Pineapple Puppies, Pineapple Port Mystery #9! I figured after two serial killer-heavy books you could...

PINEAPPLE JAILBIRD (Pineapple Port Mystery #8) has been released! Get it on Amazon while still only 99c... (All 8 always FREE on Kindle Unlimited!) BOOK #1, Pineapple Lies, is FREE March 26-27, TOO! So if...

Want to go swimming with me? I grew up on the beach and never thought twice about getting into the water as a kid. I was East Coast Editor of SURFER Magazine, and never hesitated to catch some tasty waves,...

Enter the Pineapple Challenge and WIN! To celebrate the launch of Pineapple Jailbird (Pineapple Port Mystery #8) on March 25th I'm running a Pineapple Challenge and giving away a ton of stuff! (Be sure you're...

How cute is Harley!!? Dog Sitting a Hamster My own baby, Gordon Labradoodle, passed away Dec. 6, 2017, which I never mentioned because I'm still a disaster over losing him. So, for over a year now, I've...

I'm rushing around today but I didn't want you all to miss this!! I'm spilling over with giveaways and specials today... We've made this special thriller/suspense series free (but hurry)! Click to get...

My Interview on ConversationsLIVE I was featured on the ConversationsLIVE podcast hosted by Cyrus Webb - and I was in good company! He's interviewed a lot of writers, musicians and television...

Dancing the night away... Well, I had an interesting weekend! Our realtor here in Jupiter, Florida (Jill Byers Geraci, who is awesome and has become a great friend-I highly recommend her!) took us to Uncle...

Snake Attack!! Okay, not really but it was kind of exciting there for a second, wasn't it? I'm about to make you feel better about snow. Last week for the "Name the Python" contest I had to use a stock...

Name the Python Contest! It's time for me to pick something in the upcoming Pineapple Jailbird (Pineapple Port Mysteries #8) for you to name! How about a snake?! In this book, Charlotte, Declan and the...

Pineapple 8 is coming... Cover Reveal! If you're a fan (or very much NOT a fan) of the calculating, crazy-ex Stephanie in my Pineapple Port Mystery series.... boy, you're going to love Pineapple 8:...

We're coming for you, Amy... I need one of you to leave your house in Juno/Jupiter Beach, FL, please. Mike and I are in Florida house hunting, which isn't half as fun as HGTV pretends it is. While my Navy...

Kilty As Sin - RELEASED! (and Kilty As Charged FREE!) Start the top-rated Kilty mystery-thriller-romance series for FREE with Kilty as Charged free until January 12... PLUS NEW RELEASE $1 off - Kilty As...

Christmas in Pineapple Port Pineapple Port, the 55+ community featured in my Pineapple Port Mysteries  is a real place with a different name and I spent Christmas there this year with my mother-in-law (aka...

I'm Building an Army...You earn gifts! I mentioned last week that I'm trying to GROW the reader audience for my AuthorsXP.com web site (picture makes sense now, doesn't it?) -- more readers mean more author...

Don't Go Towards the Light, Amy! I bought a motion activated light for my closet and for the first time in years I can actually see my clothes in my poorly lit room.  (Poorly lit because we bought an awesome...

Flat Bread & Mint Jello Mmm. Yum. I don't know if it will eat me before I eat it. I've failed making bread two out of three times now. Seems you never really run out of ways to kill yeast. The first...