Author Amy Vansant

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...

It's been wonderful... Well, it's been wonderful knowing you all, but I'm afraid this will be my last post. My brother is making the Christmas turkey this year. While I appreciate the break from serving...

Naples, Florida Mike and I took a quick vacation to Naples, Florida, where apparently they hand out Porsches and Bentleys to everyone who moves there. The place was beautiful and wildly out of our league, but...

I'm going to keep this newsletter short because I have some things going on here I'll tell you about next time... but I do have a couple important announcements... Finally it's here! 12 Mysteries (3000+...

What Christmas movies do you watch every year? It's that time of year when I get the urge to sit around with an eggnog watching holiday movies. My husband and I watch the same ones every year, so to make sure...

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm Thankful for You! Just a quick note (filled with a bunch of great book giveaways/promos and contests as usual) to say I'm thankful for you - my readers! And Gordon Labradoodle...

I'm not sure this sort of thing helps the old bones... Anybody have an aging puppy? My baby is going on twelve and a half now. About two years go he started getting creaky - slow to get up, back legs a...

Winner of the Name/Create a Reality Show Challenge I received some wildly inventive ideas for reality show challenge inspiration for my new romantic comedy Slightly Sweaty (which takes place during a reality...