Voice recognition mistake of the day: “He didn’t want all this up evil in his routines.”

Er, make that upheaval. That’s from Pride and Prejudice at the Cat Café. I’ve now finished the draft and I’m editing! Cover art is underway too. Maybe I'll have preorder links up by the next newsletter. (Or the one after that...)

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The big news is that I've signed a contract for a NEW mystery series! 💃 The series and book 1 titles are still up in the air, but here's the one-line pitch: A quirky loner who can read the history of any object with her touch gets drawn into mysteries when people bring troubled artifacts to the museum of oddities where she works.

You'll have to wait a year or so for this series to launch, but you can preorder book 6 in the Accidental Detective humorous mystery series now.

In the Accidental Detective humorous mystery series, a witty journalist solves mysteries in Arizona and tackles the challenges of turning fifty. In Someone Rotten Riding Rails, the Kate Tessler and her crew of misfits set out to blow the whistle on two feuding crime families . . . Here’s a quick peek:

You might assume reporting on wars and natural disasters would be the dangerous part of my life, but moving back home to Arizona after a bomb tore up my leg hadn’t exactly resulted in a peaceful retirement. Arnold and Clarence gave a new meaning to “natural disaster.”

Still, they’d been loyal friends and had helped me investigate crimes, wanting nothing more than the knowledge that they’d done some good.

  Ha, just kidding. They wanted excitement, adventure, and the adrenaline rush of danger. They might be in their seventies and eighties, but they were more likely to play strip poker than bridge and they’d only sit in the park feeding pigeons if it was part of a stakeout. Even then they’d probably try to train the pigeons as evil minions, or at least questionably moral ones.

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Last weekend we visited an area near San Antonio, New Mexico, that we call the hoodoos and found this cheerful fellow. A cousin of Jabba the Hutt?

Bear Bear prefers to stay home and take cozy naps.

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Here's Bear Bear again, wondering why I keep interrupting his naps to take photos.

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