Author Amy Vansant

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...

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....