Author Amy Vansant

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The second book in my Pineapple Port cozy mysteries series is here!  Get it on Amazon! Pineapple Mystery Box! When a giant inflatable Halloween witch goes missing, Charlotte’s eager to nab the culprit....

My car's radio has been set to country lately because I've been shuttling my niece back and forth from the Naval Academy and country is her jam. It's a Pennsyltucky thing. It's listening to country that I...

Two months ago I received a frantic phone call from my mother-in-law, Mary, informing me that she'd scheduled a Pineapple Lies book signing at her book club at the end of August and that I'd have to come to...

I had the Bother-in-Law, Gary, and his family over for four days last week for Naval Academy Parents' Weekend. Somewhere between hangovers, Mike, Heather, Gary and I went golfing and returned sweaty and...

A few weeks ago, the husband and I stayed at the Miami Mandarin Oriental in a room we couldn't possibly afford during the "season." Our idea was simple: it's hot as rhino's wrinkles here, so what's the...

If you've been having trouble sleeping at night, wondering what I sound like when I imagine myself on the radio with a voice that is mine and yet sounds completely foreign to me and isn't half as alluring as...

Win great books, a $100 gift card and a Kindle Fire from eNovel Authors at Work! The Fussy Librarian is hosting giveaways almost every day in July from some fantastic authors from an author's group I...

My mother and I went to "Wine & Canvas" last night, which is where you drink and learn to paint.  I'm already really good at the first thing, but I'm not much of a painter, so I figured I could use a...

BookBub.com is a titan when it comes to book promotion. If you're a reader, you probably receive their promotional emails, which help readers find top notch books for free or discounted prices. (If you're not...

New! CHERUBIM - Angeli Book II Get it on Amazon for $2.99 - OR - Free with Kindle Unlimited! Look at me, I finally wrote a second book in a series instead of just starting a new series... Cherubim - Angeli...

Turns out I'm kind of ditzy. I'm not saying that to brag. I know it is a thing sometimes for girls to exclaim how featherbrained they are and then titter, pearly-whites flashing, eyes flirty. I hate that....

If you haven't already gotten your hot little hands on a copy of my romantic comedy/mystery Pineapple Lies, you'll be happy to know the Kindle version is FREE today through Tuesday May 19th! It spent most of...

Today I'm trying to be helpful instead of funny, so forgive me if you're here for the jokes! Pinterest recently rolled out "Promoted Pins" where you can turn one of your pins into an ad that will appear on...

What do you get the parents who have everything? Do they have balloons hidden all over their house? Some with faces? I didn't think so. For my parent's 50th I sneaked into their home with the...

My neighborhood, which is already a wild kingdom, has attracted a pair of foxes. The bait was probably the people down the street who keeps chickens. Er...I mean kept chickens. Rest their little chicken...

Guess who has a new novel out! (get a free copy for a limited time...) This is yet a new series (I swear I'm working on Angeli 2 and then Stalky 2 next - I will stop starting new series for a...

TWO chances for FREE BOOKS! (from me and other people) First, Moms Are Nuts is FREE!! TO EVERYONE! ...until end of day Monday March 30th. This is a sure thing - you don't have to try and win it. Just...

I received an email from a very nice lady asking me if I would write a little ditty about the book Many Paws - The Years of Change by Susan DeGarmo. It's - get this - a pop up book about menopause. I tried...

This is a little "literary humor" piece I wrote for the Barnes and Nobel Review. It's about birds having a committee meeting. It's very silly. Minutes from a Meeting of the Avian Advancement League Canary...