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Did you know that you can read the first three chapters of 🍁A Fatal Fumble🍁 for FREE on Amazon? Just click "Look Inside" on the picture of the book cover and BAM. There ya go. (It works with most books.) It's Book 2 in the River Sutton Mysteries. Click here to try it now on Amazon. Here's the synopsis: Only one thing would drag Robin Pearce home to River Sutton, West Virginia for the high school's 100th homecoming 🏈 celebration: seeing her sister in her old cheering uniform with a huge smile on her face at the halftime show. 🎉 Ogling Sheriff Chris Payne's broad shoulders in his old quarterback's jersey wouldn't be a chore, either. So, make that two things. 😍 But when Robin bumps into high school classmates at the football game, her homecoming turns into a nightmare. She literally stumbles over the dead body 👻 of her frenemy, River Sutton's top trophy wife. The whole town suspects Robin, and even Chris wants to lock her up for her safety. When she's not guzzling coffee or … [Read more...] about Do you ever click LOOK INSIDE 🔍 on Amazon?

I love tech. 🤓 I'm not ashamed to admit it. But I never considered myself tethered to my phone. 📱 Until the day my new dishwasher was coming and I had no cell service. None. Nada. That meant I couldn't call anyone. I couldn't text anyone. But even worse no one could call me. 😲 My beautiful new dishwasher was making its long-awaited journey to my kitchen and the installer had no way of reaching me if he was lost, or running late, or had to (say it ain't so!) cancel. I was sweating bullets, I tell ya. 😰 I couldn't remember the last time I felt so helpless. So impotent. So powerless. It was unbearable. Thankfully, past-Nancy lived in fear of a repeat of the cellular crash of 9/11 and still had a landline. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to call AT&T to get my cell service up and running. (I couldn't log into the website for a chat because they had to text me a confirmation code to make sure it was me. Hey, AT&T! No texting! Duh! 😡) Tech is at the heart … [Read more...] about The day my phone died and other disasters

You know you've turned the corner from a hot, young thang to an AARP discount-loving Weeble when the most exciting thing to happen to you is that you switch from drinking coffee 24/7 to sipping black tea in a mug that a toddler painted fifteen years ago that looks like Woody from Toy Story met Jack the Ripper. 😈 (If you don't know what a Weeble is, watch this vintage commercial. And also, are you old enough to read this newsletter?) I drink a lot of coffee. ☕ When I say a lot of coffee, picture Ron Swanson eating breakfast. 🍳🍖🍳🍖🍳 However, there's a tea and herbal shop in A Bitter Swill to Swallow, and its owner plays a very important role. I visited a tea shop recently and purchased far more than I had planned to. I would have liked to have browsed more, smelled more blends, taken in the ambiance, but the blasted owner followed me through the store like a yapping Chihuahua begging for a biscuit. She talked incessantly. 👄 When I asked her questions about her business, her … [Read more...] about Which is better? Coffee or tea?

Last weekend was The BookFest and I'm honored to say that I took top prize for A Fatal Fumble in the LGBTQ Mystery category. 🎉 Now I can slap AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR on everything: my Amazon page, my books, my Instagram profile, my license plate, my children's birth certificates... 🏆 You get the idea. The only thing that could be better is if the award were wearing fishnets, and I could light it up and stick it in the front window for all the neighbors to see. 👠 To make the weekend even sweeter, A Fatal Fumble took second place for both the Cozy Mystery category and the Amateur Sleuths categories. I'm just as proud of those awards because the first place winners are prolific and talented authors. Visit The BookFest website to see the awards page. Isn't that just the coolest thing? My excitement just doesn't come through your screen. I'm thrilled, honored, humbled, and just amazed where this author journey is taking me. And it's all thanks to you readers. Thank you, … [Read more...] about It is a jpg, but it’s a major award 🦵🏻

Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service offered by Amazon that allows you to read an unlimited number of ebooks from a specific catalog. The books range from classics, like Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle, to modern bestsellers, like Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover and Quick Silver by Dean Koontz. Beyond those heavy hitters, though, is a deep catalog of fantastic cozy mysteries, amateur sleuths, female detectives, and traditional mysteries written by authors like me who are self-published or just getting started. They've got four-star and five-star reviews, but they don't have a big five publisher behind them. Kindle Unlimited gives authors like us more exposure and a chance to reach readers who are craving new mysteries and new authors. Kindle Unlimited is essentially perfect for the reader who devours ebooks like Hercule Poirot devours a dish of escargot. Misconception One misconception about … [Read more...] about Why Kindle Unlimited is Great for Mystery Readers