Author Amy Vansant

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 crust...

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 solutions ...

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 ou...

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 no...

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 - l...

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, Pine...

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 the...

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 instead...

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 fina...

PINEAPPLE GINGERBREAD MEN NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIO! Pineapple Gingerbread Men: A Pineapple Port Mystery: Book Seven (Pineapple Port Mysteries 7) is now on sale at Audible, iTunes and Amazon. Just in time for ...

Winners Of the Name the Bar Contest... All very cute or interesting ideas --- Brahms and Liszt was really trying to class my joint up! LOL! PAPERBACK WINNER: Cynthia Blain  --  THE BROMELIAD Because s...

Currently available for preorder on Amazon! A Woman Walks Into a Bar... Once again I need your help naming things in an upcoming book! This time I need two things for Pineapple Turtles... Name My New ...

The Turtles are Coming! Pineapple Turtles - $2.99 on pre-order now - save $2 over the price after launch (it will be $2.99 for about a week after launch if you prefer to grab it then!) Charlotte heads to th...

Romantic Suspense eBook & Paperback Giveaway! (2) Winners of eBook "Gift Baskets of ALL books pictured! (12+) Winners of individual ebooks or paperbacks (randomly selected) Talking Dog There is ...

Winners of the Pineapple Port book of Your Choice: TC - Doug (short for Skullduggery) (There were a lot of plays on skullduggery, but I liked the simplicity of 'Doug.' Rose Ash - Ronald (Because THAT GR...

First a quick hi to my new followers - people have been sending in "Name the Skull" contest entries and they're awesome! We Finally Sold Our Old House Whoo! I didn't talk about it because I thought I'd jinx ...

Pineapple Turtles is on the Way! And here's the cover! I'm finally typing away on Pineapple Port Mystery #10 -- Pineapple Turtles! In this book Charlotte will travel to the east coast of Florida, where you'...

Dog-Sitting a Genetic Experiment Well, I'm done dog-sitting my mother-in-law's dog and now it's time to burn the house to the ground. It's the only way to get the hair out of it. She's a sweetheart, but I swea...

Today it's all about new releases and book deals! NEW RELEASE! GET IT SEPT. 27-Oct. 5 - 99c for a limited time Usually $3.99 Kilty Secrets: Time-Travel Urban Fantasy Thriller with a Killer Sense of Humor (#...

Let's Name the Skull! Name the skull featured on the cover of all my bestselling Pineapple Port Mysteries and you could WIN! ENTER Below! Winner chosen Oct. 23.   Grand Prize: A Kindle Reader! TEN RUN...