Voice recognition mistake of the day: “Her eyes fifty clothes as she inhaled the sand.” 🤔 and yuck!

Make that “Her eyes drifted closed as she inhaled the scent.”

I spent Mother’s Day in Tempe, AZ with my mom. We don't look quite like this anymore though. Well, she hasn't aged a day, of course. I got taller.

I’ve started work on the next Magical Cat Café and Teashop collection. These are cozy novels about people finding family, healing, and home.

Readers say: This story was so heartwarming and magical, please bring us more!" – Carolyn

"A heartwarming story told from various points of view, as different characters experience the subtle magic of the cat cafe. Connections are made and lives are changed for the better in this interesting tale." - Robin

If you don’t shop at Amazon, Find book 1 at your preferred store or buy the ebook directly from my online shop now, as soon it will be pulled from other stores in order to go into Kindle Unlimited for 90 days, so I can enter a contest.

Four years ago, Something Shady at Sunshine Haven: The Accidental Detective book 1 was featured as the Albuquerque Journal's "Book of the Week." Now the series has seven books!

In the Accidental Detective humorous mystery series, a witty journalist solves mysteries in Arizona and tackles the challenges of turning fifty. This humorous series starts with Something Shady at Sunshine Haven. 

Rigby and Mercury are still rambunctious when awake and adorable at all times. Here Rigby is very sleepy and Mercury is a tolerant pillow.

Find More New Books and Authors (with animals)!

There are now four books in the Smiling Dog Café collection by Neil Plakcy: Where lost souls find their way home… guided by mysterious dogs and the scent of perfectly brewed coffee. These each contain two healing fiction novellas about second chances, coffee, dogs, and people finding their way back, similar to my Magical Cat Café and Teashop, but with dogs! They are free with Kindle Unlimited or buy all 4 books for under $20. Neil Plakcy also creates engaging mysteries and romances with humor and heart, celebrating love, identity, and found family (often with a loyal dog). Join his newsletter for free stuff!

Kitty Heaven by Effrosyni Moschoudi: “A mother and her little girl rescue two kittens. Or is it the other way round? Liza, a widowed young woman, is finding it hard to cope after the loss of her husband, and to raise their little daughter, Myrto, on her own. After a thunderstorm, they hear desperate crying. Next thing they know, they're rescuing two small kittens that bring new joy to their lives. But alas, the owner of the building does not allow pets. Myrto doesn't want to let the kittens go. A solution comes in the most unexpected way…”

Mending Lives by Aleesha Brown: “When Hannah flees to her hometown of Camden, Maine, after a bitter divorce and a dead-end job, she expects a quiet refuge and a chance to care for her ailing mother. She also finds a mystery in the attic: an old teddy bear with a love letter hidden in its pocket. Can Hannah solve the mystery, mend her relationship with her mother, and heal her own broken heart? Mending Lives is a heartwarming romance novel about second chances, small towns, and secrets.”

Felony Melanie in Pageant Pandemonium is on sale 2.99 for the ebook (US, CA, Britain, AU, EU, local currency)! Meet teen “Felony Melanie” years before the movie Sweet Home Alabama in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy series. Follow the crazy antics of Melanie, Jake, and their friends as teens.

Readers say:

“Fun loving, laugh out loud read!!!!” 

“Such a fun book! If you enjoyed Sweet Home Alabama this will be a treat.” 

Multi Genre Sweet Romance reads: Find Sweet Romance in Kindle Unlimited (and also for sale on Amazon), including two of my cat cafe sweet romance series filled with cuddly cats and kittens and the people who love them. “It will leave you feeling all kinds of happy.”

Free Fast-Paced Mysteries: Browse dozens of exciting mysteries! Authors give away these stories in hopes you'll want more. You might find a great new author in these stories, each free w/newsletter signup (unsubscribe any time).

Rigby still likes to explore the upper reaches of the closet on occasion. What do your pets get into?

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Did you get your freebies? Find them all here: a cat café romance novella, short stories in the Accidental Detective and Reluctant Psychic mystery series, and 22 recipes from the cat Café. Plus get a Sweet Home Alabama short story and a preview of my brother’s comedy, Totally Rad Wormhole. 

Learn more about the Accidental Detective humorous mystery series, the Reluctant Psychic Mystery series, the Accidental Billionaire Cowboys sweet romance series, the Felony Melanie: Sweet Home Alabama romantic comedy novels, and the Furrever Friends cat cafe sweet romance series.