Author Amy Vansant

First off, my new urban fantasy novel, Varymor: Angeli Book III is out! Whoo! (Get it on Amazon) (If urban fantasy isn't you're thing, don't worry I also have a huge 40+ book cozy mystery giveaway...

YOU can name a bar in my next novel! 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 theme... Angeli 3: Varymor will be...

Hello to all the people who took part in the AXP Women Sleuths giveaway event! (And of course all my old favorites. Well not old... I mean loyal favorites. :) ) Some more fun free/bargain stuff... and stick...

I've known for months that I'd be babysitting my brother's new doodle, Lucy, while he took the family on vacation.  What I didn't know, was that my "bother-in-law" would suddenly have his job move to...

Get Pineapple Lies for Free August 1-4! First off, welcome to everyone who is new to me through the AuthorsXP.com Crime/Mystery giveaway - I have free things for you and everyone else! The first book in...

So this newsletter is all about free stuff! Another big giveaway for book "gift baskets" - this time for Mystery/Crime novels of various sorts! $100 giveaway!  <----WHAT?? Scroll down! A bunch...

This post is for authors, so my apologies to the readers on my mailing list thinking "Dang, this post isn't making fun of her husband at all." As an Indie author, I spend as much time marketing as I do...

First, hello to all the cozy mystery lovers who entered my cozy mystery giveaway! I have a bunch of exciting stuff coming up for you (and my regular people) soon (including more free books for all and a...

By Didier Descouens - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26449955 It's always been a mystery to me, why men can't seem to hit the toilet 100% of the time, but I think...

This event is legit - and a great way to win a ton of great books! (I know it is legit because I'm running it through my new author support site http://www.AuthorsXP.com ) Enter and good luck!! Win up to...

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Took me a little longer than I hoped, thanks to a vacation/family visits/holiday blah blah blah - but I finally picked the name of the bar that appears in the first chapter of Pineapple Port Mystery #3 -...

Name a Pub in Pineapple Port AND Win All Three Pineapple Port Mysteries Signed by Amy Vansant (me)! I'm working on the final edit of Pineapple Port Mystery #3 - Pineapple Puzzles and found myself trying to...

My parents have a house in Florida where they spend half the year. The other half they live about a block from me in Maryland. This is important information because in the middle of his Maryland stay last...

I've had a web development company (Vansant Creations) since 1997 that pays the bills (Shockingly, writing novels isn't the e-ticket to riches.) That's nearly twenty years of being a professional nerd. That's...

I didn't realize it at the time that I was writing it, but after some soul searching it occurred to me that Slightly Stalky, my romantic comedy, is really best for an audience in their early twenties (not only...

I've been messing around with DesignFeed.io to give some of my tweets and Facebook posts some graphic flair, so I thought I'd put the last two weeks worth in a post in case you missed them! (Plus it takes some...

Last November I stumbled on a dot-matrix print out of a novel I wrote in ninth grade. I thought it would be fun to clean it up, re-name the characters after my young nieces, and publish a middle-school...

Quick update on my progress novel-wise and a chance to win all sorts of neat stuff! I'm a day or two from releasing my children's novel The Magicatory for kids from age clever-4th grader to one of those...

This is what happens in Maryland when someone mentions there might be a dusting of snow: PEOPLE LOSE THEIR MINDS. There was a dusting last night and by the time we woke up there had been 165 reported...