UPDATE: The winner is…Mary McCoy!
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For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle and tell me a story! Doesn’t have to be long or even good—just have fun!

The winner is…Jeannine Hess!
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For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card,
solve the puzzle then tell me who they are!

UPDATE: The winner is…flchen1!
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A Pandemic, multiple hurricanes—and now “zombie” storms? Yeah, add my personal woes of a broken finger that has me typing one-handed (with all the accompanying whining & typos) and a lower back that’s still keeping me walking like an old woman, and I’m ready to volunteer for the first mission to Mars! Short of that, I’ll settle for a bucket of Tramodol and some mindless, upbeat TV (I’m starting Wizards of Waverly Place).

Enjoy the puzzle, but be sure to check out the HUGE list of still-open contests you can enter below it!

Contest

Solve the puzzle then tell me what you “see”…for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card!

Some of these CONTESTS end after today!

1. Landra Graf: Sci-Fi Television Shows (Contest) — Last day! Win a FREE book!
2. One Craptastic Night — Puzzle Contest — Last day! Win an Amazon gift card!
3. Get your FREE Love in Lockdown stories! — Get FREE stories!
4. Down-cast (snarky pun intended) and a Puzzle Contest! — Last day! Win an Amazon gift card!
5. Reina Torres: WEDNESDAYS (Contest) — Win a FREE book!
6. Diana Cosby: Update – Diana Cosby’s Romance Reader’s Build A Habitat For Humanity House (Contest) — Win a mug & a tote!

UPDATE: The winner is…ButtonsMom!
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This will be short. I have to get my left hand back into an Ace bandage. Dummy me, last night I ran into a large rock in the dark and fell on my face. Or sort of fell backward over the boulder and twisted and landed on my face. It felt like a slow-motion fall—you know, the kind in the movies with the long, loud, “Ooooh Nooooo!” I broke my favorite glasses (because I landed on them), grazed the side of my face, skinned my knees, but the worst injury is to my left hand. I think I may have broken something. I’ll think about going to the doctor if it’s not improving Monday. I hate going to doctors.

Anyways, just another crappy thing to happen in a craptastic year, right? And did I mention that the house’s AC unit’s pipe that takes the condensation out of the house backed up and we had a flood in the basement last night? Yeah, that kind of day.

I may go back to bed.

So, I’ll leave you with a puzzle. Enjoy it!

Puzzle-Contest

Solve the puzzle and tell me a story for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card. Doesn’t have to be long. Have fun!

UPDATE” The winner is…Tamye Whitener!
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For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, 1) solve the puzzle, then 2) tell me how the pieces all work together in a story! Your idea doesn’t have to be long or good. Just have fun!

UPDATE: The winner is…Eileen Airey!
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It’s the first day of September! I checked the weather forecast. This week, if weather permits, will likely be the last week I can comfortably swim in my pool. Some years, I’ve been able to stick it out until mid-October, but with temperatures going down steadily (we’ll have a high of 68 degrees around the 10th!), I have to concede the battle.

I love the first of the month. My bank account is flush ( 🙂 ), and I have a lovely plan mapped out that doesn’t have any chicken-marked changes on it, yet. If you read yesterday’s blog, you know I have plenty to do, but I won’t let any negativity take me down today. It’s a bright, shiny new month!

To start your month right, how about a puzzle and a little game?

Puzzle-Contest

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me a story… Doesn’t have to be long or be any good. Just have fun!

Open Contests!

Enter while you still can!

1. #1 place I want to visit post-COVID! (Contest–2 winners!) — Win a FREE book!
2. Reina Torres: Some Help from a Friend (Contest) — Win a FREE book!
3. Flashback: Truly, Madly…Deadly (Contest–3 Winners, Plus Excerpt!) — Win a FREE book!
4. What a Week Update, Plus More! Also, Contests! — Win an Amazon gift card!

UPDATE: The winner is…Colleen C!
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I know! A second puzzle inside a week. I really do make you work hard for your prizes!

I hope that in between playing games, you’ve been reading (*cough*), and hopefully, it’s my latest release, Cage! I can’t wait to hear whether you’re ready for more fun happenings in Dead Horse, Montana!

On to the puzzle! And be sure to check the list of open contests below!

Puzzle-Contest

Solve the puzzle—then tell me a story for a chance
to win a $5 Amazon gift card!

These offers are still open! Enter to win!!

1. Diana Cosby: Nature Through The Lens – A Creative Outlet (Contest) — Ends soon! Win a free book!
2. Cage is out! (Puzzle-Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!