UPDATE: The winner is…Flchen!
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I bought this little brainstorming tool years ago at some writers’ conference. “Story Cubes” is a brainstorming game. You roll the dice and whatever pictures appear, face-up, are the ones you use to riff off a story. You can try to include all the cubes in your “story” or choose a few.

To make this fun, I’ll offer a prize—a $5 Amazon gift card—good for purchasing one or two stories…
Have fun with this! Don’t overthink! Here’s the roll…

UPDATE: The winner is…Kerry Jo Pruett!
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I know, I know. Lately, I’m seem to be obsessed with food. My fun holiday list isn’t helping at all. Today is Sticky Bun Day! So, in honor of the occasion, I quickly listed ten breakfast pastries I could think of off the top of my head.

Exercise that gray matter and enjoy the puzzle! Then, for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, add to the list OR tell me your favorites! For me, it’s kolaches and danishes!

UPDATE: The winner is…Shirley Long!
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A few days ago, I asked readers to “show me what they made.” I asked for pictures of their art. I chose the winners of that challenge using a random number generator because I’m not going to judge anyone’s art. The two winners of the challenge are listed on the previous blog, but for a chance to win something today (whether you participated in the challenge or not), I’ll give a $5 Amazon gift card to someone who comments here!

Anna Taylor Sweringen

Not only is she an author, Anna makes lovely, seasonal wreaths for her door! If you’d like to see more of her work, check out this blog she did with pictures of some of her artwork: Wreaths

Beckie Lowe

Look at how gorgeous these are! I’m so jealous. My daughter loves gnomes, she’ll flip out seeing Beckie’s!

Bridget

Too cute!

Cindy Bartolotta

Check out the wiremen! Very clever!

Eileen McCall

I’ve always wanted to make a quilt! But it takes patience (which I lack!). So pretty!

Ellen Wulf

Now, I knew Ellen made lovely stained glass art, but I had no idea she was so multi-talented!

Fedora Chen

I was hoping someone would show off their cooking skills! Fedora made a very scrumptious-looking cake. What do you think it is? Looks like there’s chunks of apple, so maybe an applesauce cake?

Plus, she’s showing off her knitting skills! Look at the lovely patterns!

Jennifer Beyer

This is adorable!

Last week…

• I worked on two editing projects for two other authors. I’m getting close to The End!
• I published and promoted the release of Malcolm!

This next week will be insane for work and play!

• I must write the opening chapters of my next book, What Happens in Bozeman…  
• I need to complete two editing jobs! Then begin two more.
• I’d like to read another five to ten stories for my next anthology, Secret Identities.
• I begin the #The100DayProject, where I’ll be producing one piece of art a day.

Just shoot me now.

Open Contests

1. Flashback: Bad Moon Rising (Contest) — Last day to enter! Win an Amazon gift card!
2. Coming Next Tuesday — Pre-order Malcolm Now! (Contest & Excerpt) — Last day to enter! Win an Amazon gift card!
3. Saturday Puzzle-Contest: Getting ready for Valentine’s Day! — Last day to enter! Win an Amazon gift card!
4. MALCOLM releases tonight, but let’s not forget those who came before him… (Contest) — Win a FREE book!
5. Gabbi Grey: The Tropiest of Tropes (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!
6. Show me what you made… (Contest) — TWO PRIZES! Win something made by me/Win a FREE book!
7. Cameron Allie: What’s happening in my world… (2 FREE Reads + Excerpt!) — EVERYONE! Two FREE reads!
8. Saturday Puzzle-Contest: What I want for dinner tonight! — Win an Amazon gift card!

UPDATE: The winner is…Margaret!
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I skipped breakfast, and now my tummy is taking over my brain. So, here’s today’s puzzle!

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle then tell me what you want for dinner tonight! 

UPDATE: The winners are…Bridget and Ellen Wulf!
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Tonight, I’ll be leading a Gelli plate class for my local art guild. It’s going to be some messy fun! We’ll create papers we can repurpose to make many cool things. I’ll show them the gift tags I made from papers I painted.

We’re all creative people—creative in many different and beautiful ways. I’d love a chance to showcase what you do!

So, my challenge to you is to send me a picture of something you made. It could be a piece of art, an apron you sewed, a lovely dish you cooked for your family—the possibilities are endless!

Send me a picture of what you’ve made, and I’ll post a blog next week highlighting your “art.” Send the picture to me no later than this coming Sunday for me to post next week! Then I’ll choose a winner at random to receive something I made: a bookmark, a postcard, a couple of these tags, perhaps? Your choice! Send your pictures to me at delilah@delilahdevlin.com then comment below to tell me what you’re going to share, because I’d love everyone to read your comments! In fact, I’ll choose a winner from among the commenters to receive their choice of a download of one of my books, so there’s a second prize to be won!

UPDATE: The winner is…Jennifer Beyer!
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Tonight, just after midnight, my latest Dead Horse, Montana, story releases! I can’t believe I’ve reached story #10! I’m thinking about what I want to do next, and yes, there will be a new group, along with some familiar faces who will be there initially to help set up the West Yellowstone office, and then off I’ll go again. Yellowstone will be my third bounty hunter series.

Just as a reminder of what you may have missed in this series, here’s the list…

Every MBH: Dead Horse, MT

Book #1
A former SEAL and MMA fighter, and now newly minted bounty hunter, has to hunt down his first skip…his ex-wife!
Read more about Cage!
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Book #2
An ex-Delta Force soldier, now Montana Bounty Hunter, finds himself slipping naturally into protector-mode when a small-town dessert chef is threatened by mysterious attacks.
Read more about Preacher!
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Book #3
This former SEAL thought BUD/S training was the challenge of a lifetime until he faced his biggest challenge, teaching a woman who’d never learned trust to trust in them…
Read more about Hardman!
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Book #4
The happily single owner of the only liquor store in Dead Horse, MT needs the biggest, baddest man around, and a certain former Green Beret seems made to order…
Read more about Chase!
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Book #5
A lonely, bounty-hunting cowboy looking for one last great adventure may have found it in a girl with serious curves…
Read more about Cowboy!
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Book #6
An ex-SEAL sniper, who has spent his life experiencing everything from a distance, finds his self-imposed solitude challenged by the one woman in the world who might have been made just for him.
Read more about Eli!
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Book #7
An ex-Special Forces bounty hunter has to find a way to repair his friendship with the agency’s prickly tech guru while not falling in love with her…
Read more about Gabriel!
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Book #8
An ex-Special Forces bounty hunter, who likes working alone, accepts the challenge of teaching a feisty young woman how to hunt…
Read more about Mica!
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Book #9
The games begin when a bounty hunter, who likes working alone, clashes with a cable TV showrunner who’s determined to make him a part of her show…
Read more about Jackson!
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Book #10
Two fiercely independent bounty hunters, newly hired by the Montana Bounty Hunters, must learn to trust each other’s abilities as they work together to bring in a dangerous skip.
Read more about Malcolm!

Contest

For a chance to win your choice of one of the stories listed above, let me know whether you’d like to see one more MBH: Dead Horse, MT, story. If so, should it be a Christmas story, including all our hunters? Or should it be an entirely new hunter’s story?