Author Amy Vansant

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...

I'm in the middle of a war with the liquor store clerk. A very polite, slow moving, full blown nuclear war. If you find this by my corpse... It started with the baskets. I used to go into the liquor...

I hosted Christmas this year and there were a few mishaps. I burnt my arm while leaning into the oven, but on the upside, the burn mark makes it easier to to masquerade as a celebrity chef. I started the...

So excited to announce that Slightly Stalky, my romantic comedy, is now available as an Audible! The book is narrated by the brilliant and award winning Christa Lewis, who gave all the fun, goofy...

Choosy Bookworm has partnered with eNovel Authors at Work (an author group to which I belong...) to bring you a month long celebration of Giveaways. You could win awesome books by some of your favorite...

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...