• Author Spotlight: J.C. Kenney Is Back with More Elmo Simpson!

    We have a winner! Congratulations Cindy McCarter! You are J.C.’s giveaway winner. He will be in touch! Thanks to everyone who stopped by–the flamingo suit was worth the trip–am I right?  I say it so often, but maybe not often enough–I do love J.C. Kenney’s mystery hero, Elmo Simpson! I’m lucky enough to be on his Tule Publishing team as copy editor, so I get a first peek at each new Elmo book! What a delight! The added bonus is that J.C. and I are friends, so I get to tell him right away how much I love his newest Elmo book. J.C. Kenney is the Agatha Award-winning and bestselling…

  • Author Spotlight: J.C. Kenney’s Here with a Fab New Series!

    And we have a winner! *Drumroll* Janine, you were chosen at random to receive an e-book copy of Panic in the Panhandle! J.C. will be in touch with you! Thanks to everyone who stopped by this week to celebrate with J.C. and me! Sure loved seeing you! I gotta tell you, I think I’m almost as excited about J.C. Kenney’s new release as I’ve been about my own! Right off, I kinda have a stake in his new Elmo Simpson series of mysteries with Tule Publishing. I was the one who encouraged him to submit the proposal to Tule–I just knew they’d be a good fit, and because I freelance…

  • Sunday Snippet: The Don’t Faint, But It’s a Snippet Edition

    I know how infrequently my Sunday Snippet actually features a snippet from a book, but that’s because I’m trying not to let each Sunday be all about my books. I muse and whine and talk about other stuff a lot more, and I think that’s okay, don’t you? It’s been a week… but this whole summer has been, I dunno, weird. I’ve been in a strange mood. I think it has more to do with the state of country instead of the state of Nan. For the first time in a very long time–probably since 2008, I feel hopeful again about the United States. Hope has been at a premium…