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Poll results, date change, free book! And happy Friday the 13th!  Rain, rain, rain! It has rained hard all day, every day for so long I feel like my brain is soggy. Urk. So ready to get back to the Florida sunshine!! Okay, mid-September news: The poll results are in! Slight date change for MORE…

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT re YEAR OF ATLANTIS:

** **ONLY APPLIES TO JAN, FEB, MARCH, APRIL, MAY IN ATLANTIS I’m not happy with the way Year of Atlantis was/is going. If I return to this series, I’m going to expand the books to each be much longer. For now, I’m planning to take them all off sale this weekend. If you had any…

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Come on an epic quest with me!

So, I have some news. As pretty much everyone knows, I’ve battled chronic, clinical depression my whole life. And, as a voracious reader and now writer, I’ve always wanted to write one of my favorite kinds of books—an epic quest fantasy—where the heroine is somebody like me. Thanks to  Liz Pelletier and the wonderful team…

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Wheee!!!!

That time one of the best things in your entire publishing career happens and you’re going to get to write the literal book of your heart, the book you wanted desperately to read when you were younger, and you come home from errands to roses and cards because Navy Guy is the best husband in…

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Happy National Donut Day!

Happy National Donut Day my friends!! Went to Krispy Kreme to try the Dolly donuts. WHappy National Donut Day my friends!! Went to Krispy Kreme to try the Dolly donuts. Whee! hee!

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The office purge continues…

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…

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Schedule change: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

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

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Tricks AND Treats!! It’s A DEAD END HALLOWEEN!!

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…

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Thanks, Nook readers!!

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

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EYE ON THE BALL is here tomorrow!!

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…

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