Continuing the “excavate and clean and reorg” of my office. Just donated more than 250 books to the library sale. Have another 20 or so writing craft/marketing type books I’m giving to the members of the writing group I’m speaking to next month. Packing away another 200 or so in storage. I have bought thousands…

We are having some scheduling issues and are moving MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE to September. Thanks for your patience! (Your preorders will be fine, except at Amazon, who will cancel them and we’ll have to go through the thing again in September.) Thanks again! xo Alyssa

A small-town mystery with laughter, kissing, mayhem, and magic When Halloween comes to the quirkiest small town in Florida, tricks overwhelm treats by a huge margin. When tiger shapeshifter and private investigator Jack Shepherd and pawnshop owner Tess Callahan turn their special talents to solving the biggest mystery to hit Dead End in years, the…

Thanks, Nook readers! Just heard from Barnes & Noble:>>Congratulations, Alyssa, you made the list again! Eye on the Ball was #6 on the B&N Press Top 10 last week. May the orders continue through Summer Reading!<<I appreciate you so much, B&N and my beloved Nook readers!!xoAlyssa

And paperbacks are here TODAY!! GET YOURS HERE!! Life is getting crazy — again — in Dead End!! There’s a robbery! Five minutes after I opened the shop, a masked man walked in and tried to rob me. I knew I should have stayed in bed. He shoved something approximately gun-barrel shaped in his pocket…

ARGHHHH!!! Deadline brain strikes again!! We got this new rice cooker/ veggie & egg steamer thing that works great. I used it this morning to make eggs, since the first time worked great. This time, I smell plastic burning and open it to find the little egg tray is melted to the bottom and the water has…

WHEEE!! My ApollyCon preorder form is finally live! Are you going? Please let me know if you’d like this lovely story signed and personalized or any of the others on the list! Check it out HERE!!

It’s our 28th wedding anniversary! I’m so lucky to have Navy Guy in my life. And he brought me these beautiful flowers! It’s easy to write about true love and happily ever after when I have him as my person.