Author Amy Vansant

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...

Winners of the Fashion Line Contest & a Cover Reveal Got a bunch of great entries for the fashion line contest, so I'm going to announce them AND show you the cover for the next Kilty book Kilty as...

Pineapple Gingerbread Men (Pineapple Port Mysteries #7) - Is LIVE! 99c through Nov. 6! Feels like Pineapple Gingerbread Men has been on pre-order forever, but it's live now on Amazon! Free on Kindle...

Name the Fashion Line Contest! I'm cruising along writing Kilty as Sin - the fourth Kilty novel (romantic suspense, thrills, humor...and a strapping Highlander in modern day!) and it's time for me to pick...

My Foot-in-Mouth Disease The other day I came back from running an errand to find an unfamiliar car in the driveway. I knew we had a guy coming over to give us a quote on a new HVAC system---so no big...

Big Kilty Sale! FIRST BOOK FREE, NEW THIRD BOOK .99c OCTOBER 8-11th! If you're a Pineapple Port fan but you wish it was just a little more edgy, you will LOVE my Kilty series! It has a touch of paranormal,...

Pineapple Gingerbread Men (Pineapple Port Mysteries #7) - Available for 99c Pre-Order! Whoo! Just in time for Christmas! (Well, a little early for Christmas...) comes the Pineapple Port Christmas-themed...

New Book Released! I've been BUSY! Kilty Mind (Kilty Series #3) is out -- It's $3.99 at the moment but I'll be offering a 99c sale on it the second week of October, so I'll let you know when that happens....

Seamus is buying a bar in Pineapple Port... and you can name it! It’s that time where I ask YOU kind readers to name something in my upcoming book. Turns out it’s a bar again. I’m starting to see a...

Yes, those are my sexy, sexy knees. Try to control yourselves. When Your Shadow is a Cat My husband and I were on our usual daily walk when Mike sensed a disturbance in the Force and whipped around. His...

That other thing at the bottom is one of the toothpicks that used to hold it up. It ripped it out one night as it slowly makes its way to our bedroom... If you don't hear from me, it was the avocado... This...

Kilty Mind Cover Reveal Kilty #3 is finished! Just waiting for it to come back from my various editors and then I'll publish it. On to Pineapple #7 - Pineapple Gingerbread Man! But here's a sneak peek at...

When Mike Attempts Romance... I think my goofy husband Mike might fear you all have the wrong impression of him (or that you might have the right impression and he'd like to change it anyway...).  I think...

I have something SUPER FUN for you all today!   Introducing the...  Sure, my book marketing sites AuthorsXP.com & AXPBooks.com offer you free books every day... but wouldn't it be more fun if...

HOW TO KEEP YOUR AMAZON REVIEWS FROM GOING MISSING... Have you been notified that your Amazon reviews are being yanked? It's a problem a lot of readers (and authors) are seeing right now and it's infuriating...

And another dog in a kilt because...why not? KILTY TITLES WINNERS I never dreamed there were this many puns left!! I thought I'd pick ten but they just kept coming... so lot more winners than ten. As for...

“Name the Hollywood Studio” Contest! Win a Signed Paperback of Kilty #3! The next Kilty mystery/suspense/romantic time travel humor (whew!) novel should be done soon and hopefully released sometime in...