Author Amy Vansant

Exploding Meatball Bombs Last night I reheated a meatball to throw on the spaghetti squash I was making for dinner (in case you were wondering how to shoehorn a bunch of fat and meat into a healthy...

What are your favorite romantic suspense and mysteries about? I'm in the middle of finishing up my Pineapple Port story for the Summer Snoops & Cozy Crimes collection (only 99c on pre-order right...

Pineapple Port #6 is 99c pre-order on Amazon! Pineapple Disco Releases May 29th - grab it at the intro price now! SECRETS OF THE PAST ARE UNRAVELING IN PINEAPPLE PORT... "Amy is one of my favorite...

Culinary Ingenuity vs. Presentation I had my parents over for dinner last week and decided to make "brie bites" as appetizer. Lovely aren't they? <---- Yeah, those aren't mine. The problem started...

Winners of Pineapple Disco - Pineapple Port #6 And the freaky cover reveal! After redoing all the covers with my new mascot, the sunglass-wearing pineapple skull, I was out of ideas for Pineapple Disco. Told...

Hanging Bacon Did I tell you there's a restaurant in Florida called "Aaron's Table" that sells candied bacon? And they serve it like laundry hanging from a line. This is my husband during the few seconds when...

All the New Covers I'm finally done all the new covers (well, my lovely cover designer Steven Novak is). Thank you for all your help as I struggled to find a new theme for everything that better represent the...

A Light by Any Other Name... My husband Mike is obsessed with "smart bulbs" and "smart sockets" now, so instead of clicking a button now I have to ask Alexa or Google Assistant to turn on my lights. But do...

Final Pineapple Lies Cover Vote! Thanks to all your help I have a new cover for Kilty as Charged, too! Now I have to rework the Kilty Conscience...  but in the meantime Kilty as Charged is looking good and...

First...thank you for your help with the Pineapple Lies cover! Thank you to everyone for help with the Pineapple Lies cover last week -- all the comments were HUGELY helpful! I thought the new skull cover...

I sent some of the newsletters out with this link instead of the KILTY cover page: For Kilty go here thank you! Pineapple Face-Lift So after much soul searching I've decided to redo the covers on my...

5 Things I Learned in Florida You can see your husband's quirks in a new light My husband/muse, Mike, has a lot of...let's say idiosyncrasies. I'm used to them and they make great character tics in my...

Florida is Nice in the Winter Mike and I visited his mom in Florida and then stuck around to avoid the miserable weather in Maryland. We went to Bern's Steak House in Tampa, which is amazing, if you've ever...

  NEW! Slightly Sweaty (Slightly Series Book 2) Usual Price: 2.99 New Release Sale: .99 So it took forever, but finally I have a new book available! If you like romantic comedies, this is the...

Squirrels are Insane I was sitting on my exercise bike when a commotion just outside the basement doors caught my eye. It was this squirrel trying to drag 50ft of weed blocker up to his nest. I only...

More Proof My Husband is an Idiot I don't make this stuff up. We bought a motion detection camera and my husband has been having a ball playing with it. So I wasn't totally surprised when I received the...

How You Send Your Niece to Sweden My niece is spending her next six months at the Naval Academy in Sweden. She stayed at our house for the few days before she left, and while those of you with children won't...

Thank you for Getting Me on the USA Today Best-Seller List Yay! Thank you to everyone who bought Winter Whodunnits and made me (and many of my writing buddies) USA Today Best-Selling Authors! After Amazon...

Mall Walkin' Then there was the day we walked 20,000 steps... I sometimes get distracted by the games. I don't know where you live, but here in Maryland it's been about two degrees for over a week...

Adjectives are Green Army Men I survived Christmas dinner. In fact, it couldn't have been more perfect, so clearly my brother hired out. Ha! No, he and his wife did a great job. I'm the one that screwed up...