UPDATE: The winner is…Alison Rush!
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For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me a story about the man in this picture…

UPDATE: The winner is…Charlene Whitehouse!
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For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me where you would like to travel if there was no pandemic and no security threats in the world…

This picture is of a place I would love to go after COVID subsides a bit and after a couple of the kids are old enough to leave them behind to handle the horses, goats, dogs, cats…

Open Contests

1. Genevive Chamblee: The Non-technicality of Sports Romances (Contest) — This ends soon! Win a FREE book!
2. Too pretty to eat? (Contest) — This ends soon! Win an Amazon gift card!
3. Toes, really? (Contest) — Win a FREE book!
4. Grace Adams: Nearly-Published Author of FIRE’S RISING! (Contest + Excerpt) — Win a FREE book!
5. Rhonda Lee Carver: $0.99 Sale on BROKEN HALO! Read an Excerpt! Plus, Name that Character Contest! — Win an Amazon gift card!
6. Your weekend book boyfriend… (Contest + Excerpt) — Win an Amazon gift card!

UPDATE: The winner is…Karen!
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For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, answer me two questions:

1. Which would you choose from all these pretty offerings?
2. Are you a frosting girl? (Or do you lay your cake on its side and use your fork to eat the cake and leave the frosting on the plate? — That’s me, BTW)

UPDATE: The winner is…Rita!
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Our family is very serious about celebrating the seasons and holidays. We have garden flags for EVERYTHING. My daughter hangs signage she makes with her Cricut and decorations inside the living room. Summer is still here, but we’ve already had the conversation about what the kids will dress as for Halloween!

In early September, she will be eager to put out all her decorations, including my contribution—a tree filled with Strangling fairy ornaments. Something else I collect. I currently have twenty of them. Isn’t this one cute?

I’d love to hear whether you decorate or have some family tradition to mark the holidays. And have fun with the puzzle!

Puzzle-Contest

For a chance to win your choice of a download from among my many books, tell me when you start your Halloween prep or whether you do anything at all!

UPDATE: The winner of the Amazon gift card is…Karen!
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I know some of y’all hang out here for the puzzles! So, here’s a fun one.

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle (post your time if you like!), then tell me which you prefer!

UPDATE: The winner is…pc!
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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. Do any of these symbols tell you anything? You can pick some or use all of them.

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… Charlene Capodice!
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So, imagine a world without COVID, or with COVID conquered… Is there a place you’ve yearned to travel? Whether it’s somewhere you’ve been and wish to visit again, or some dream-location you’ve promised yourself that one day you’ll go there… Imagine that day is tomorrow.

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle then share where that dream journey would lead you!

Open Contests

1. Ava Cuvay: Fortunate F***-Ups (and Giveaway) — Win an Amazon gift card!
2. Flashback: Animal (Contest — Three Winners!) — Win a FREE book!
3. Scent Memories (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!
4. TGIF! Contest! — Win a FREE book!