Author Amy Vansant

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 number...

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 t...

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 found dea...

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 g...

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 of...

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 Pineappl...

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 - i...

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 nee...

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 o...

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...