Amy's Latest Blog Posts

POLL - My fellow authors and I are curious... take this poll and let us know! NEW SERIES COVER REVEAL (again) I accidentally only sent this reveal to a few of you the first time, so I'm offering it...

Cake Decorating Gone Horribly Wrong For Mother's Day I decided to make my mother a chocolate cake. I've had problems with this before, like in 2016.  While have a natural feel for cooking, baking has my...

NEW SERIES COVER REVEAL I'm 55k words into the first book in my new Jupiter Beach mystery/thriller series and I'm hoping to have it released in August at the latest. I'm going VERY SLOWLY because I want this...

Pineapple Hurricane: (Pineapple Port Mysteries 11) $2.99  - Save $2 - Price goes to $4.99 next week! Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | Amazon IN When a Pineapple Port resident is...

Whew! This week I don't have room for anything except Deals, Kindle Giveaways, Gift Card Giveaways and MORE! So let's get started... BELOW: 2 of my books for sale, a 12 pack of mysteries for $1.99 - proceeds...

Name the Hurricane Winners! Over three hundred entries to name the hurricane in the new Pineapple Hurricane - releasing June 1st!  A lot of Amys & Ananas! Ha! First prize will get an autographed copy...

I need your help naming a HURRICANE in the upcoming release of PINEAPPLE HURRICANE (now available for pre-order, releasing JUNE 1!) This storm is arriving early in the season to cause havoc with the...

Some Things I Love This isn't a paid advertisement --- I just thought I'd let you know about some things I discovered that I love and that might help you, too! My new years resolution was to SOLVE PROBLEMS -...

Winners of the Name the Hero Contest It became clear as I read the submissions that some people thought my SEAL (Navy Sea, Air, and Land Teams) soldier was an actual seal... which made for hilarious reading!...

Pineapple Hurricane: A Pineapple Port Mystery: Book Eleven   Available for Pre-Order Now! I was about three-quarters of the way through the first book in my new series, when I decided what the world...

Stir-Crazy Facebook Party How's everyone? This is CRAZY, isn't it? Hopefully things will start to turn around soon... in the meantime I hope everyone is safe and staying healthy! To try and break up some...

Yummy Air-Fryer Fried Chicken So, I finally cracked The Air-Fryer Fried-Chicken Puzzle (boy does that sound like a cozy mystery...). I'm including my recipe so you can avoid the three attempts and burnt...

The Best Pizza...Sans Dough Isn't it gorgeous? I took the old "stuffed crust" pizza one notch up and made my whole crust out of cheese!  I've been Keto-ish for about a year and a half now so finding...

Backyard Camera - DAY ONE - Screaming Bobcat! Mike and I finally got around to adding a back yard camera to our Nest system and the very first night we heard the most ear-shattering wailing coming from just...

THANK YOU! Free Short Story Thanks to everyone who went to vote for me for that "get Pineapple Port on the screen" thing --- I lost! LOL! But it was still a great experience - so many of you wrote me lovely...

Help me Get Pineapple Port Made into a Television Series - Part 2! I need your help again, and you can make a big difference with a click! First, thank you to all the people who read through my screenplay -...

A Free Book, a New Release, 99c Books, a Money Saving Pack... I realized not everyone who follows me has read the the first book in my Pineapple Port series, so in conjunction with the release of Book 10,...

Pineapple Port - The Television Series! I'm working on the pilot episode of a new Pineapple Port Mysteries television series I'm entering in a contest (and then just working to make it a reality one way or...

Happy New Year Pirogi! Now that I've moved to Florida and actually have some counter space and a place for all my paraphernalia, I've been cooking a lot more. For Christmas it was just Mike and me, so...

Below is a HUGE Pineapple Port sale... but first... Critter Cam Action! We've been having a ton a fun with our security cameras... but it was hard to tell WHAT was scurrying across the driveway. This guy...