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First a quick hi to my new followers - people have been sending in "Name the Skull" contest entries and they're awesome! We Finally Sold Our Old House Whoo! I didn't talk about it because I thought I'd jinx...

Pineapple Turtles is on the Way! And here's the cover! I'm finally typing away on Pineapple Port Mystery #10 -- Pineapple Turtles! In this book Charlotte will travel to the east coast of Florida, where...

Dog-Sitting a Genetic Experiment Well, I'm done dog-sitting my mother-in-law's dog and now it's time to burn the house to the ground. It's the only way to get the hair out of it. She's a sweetheart, but I...

Today it's all about new releases and book deals! NEW RELEASE! GET IT SEPT. 27-Oct. 5 - 99c for a limited time Usually $3.99 Kilty Secrets: Time-Travel Urban Fantasy Thriller with a Killer Sense of Humor...

Let's Name the Skull! Name the skull featured on the cover of all my bestselling Pineapple Port Mysteries and you could WIN! ENTER Below! Winner chosen Oct. 23. Grand Prize: A Kindle Reader! TEN...

Florida is a Jungle I basically live in a zoo now. The other day Mike and I were in the pool watching (at the same time) two gopher tortoises chase each other back and forth, an osprey fly overhead, a million...

Hurricane Dorian Blew By After days of waiting to see what happened, for South Florida, hurricane Dorian ended up being more mild than a lot of our regular old summer storms. We tend to deal with stress with...

Winners of the Name the Movie Contest There were a lot of creative submissions for naming the movie in my upcoming Kilty Secrets novel. Some people put some real thought into them...I think maybe they're...

Name a Movie in my Next Novel! It’s time for me to pick something in the upcoming Kilty Secrets for you to name! I've been planning to have the big finale of this novel take place on a jungle movie set....

KILTY 5 - Kilty Secrets COVER REVEAL & A BIG SURPRISE! I've got big, crazy plans for the Kilty series, which will begin with the new cover for book #5 Kilty Secrets! Ta da! Recognize anyone? Who's...

Get Audio Book Codes! Since the last time I talked about AUDIO BOOKS I've added two more to the Pineapple Port series, so that means books 1-6 are now available in AUDIO! I have a limited number of...

Lightning This week I found out Florida is NOT kidding around when it comes to lightning. We took these shots from our living room (they were videos and then we pulled the frame). Actually, this first photo...

The "What do you like in a mystery/cozy mystery series" poll results Maybe you like shelling. This is TODAY's haul for me! It took a while, but I finally managed to go through all the responses from my...

Upgrading My Wildlife for You In case my tortoises and turtles weren't doing it for you, I'd like to share with you the furry curve-ball nature threw us the other day... I was sitting at my kitchen table...

I Am the Turtle Whisperer My mother called me a "turtle magnet" because after bombarding her with pictures of Shelby, who lives in my backyard (though granted, Shelby is a tortoise...) I bumped into this...

When your books stalk you... I'm currently working on the fifth Kilty book... but Pineapple Port (who I was kind enough to write two in a row for...) is acting like a jealous lover. First of all, I moved to a...

Tortoise Turmoil! Remember my new friend Shelby? We watched Shelby plod away, exit stage left, yesterday... and then saw her reappearing stage right... That's when I realized the new creature wasn't Shelby,...

I'm in Jupiter, Florida! #JupUp? (<--- this is a saying my husband thinks he's going to coin/popularize while he's down here. *eyeroll*) Desperate to get away from the constant cleaning and scurrying...

A stealth photo through my screen as I was laying dying in my room after moving mecha-Godzilla from my basement. Ma & Pa Watch a Machine Move I should have known better. I used local Ebay once before...

Pineapple Explosion! NEW RELEASE: Book #9 - Pineapple Puppies - 99c for a limited time! Ends May 29! BOOK #4 Pineapple Land War - FREE May 27-28! BOOK #5 Pineapple Beach House - New on...