Thanks for the shoutout! @cozymystery-com.bsky.social
MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR is out tomorrow! 🎉🎉🎉

I went to see #projecthailmary yesterday and loved it. They did a great job adapting it into movie form. I read it on audiobook, and I had high expectations. Those of you who’ve seen the movie tell me—what did you think?

Rebeccah Makkai's Substack made me laugh so loud, I scared the dog: "You decide to be a morning writer & you last 6 days...Then you try some kind of app where, whenever you work, you get points that keep an animated hedgehog alive. Then you forget the hedgehog." #adhd #writer

The Estate Sale Mysteries are just getting started.

📕Dying to Live Here—start the series
📗More Than She Bargained For—March 25
📘Everything Must Go—May 5

Emma and Laura thought running estate sales would be fun.

They didn't expect to find murder.

Dying To Live Here By Shelley Marsh - Salty Inspirations Shelley Marsh visits the blog to celebrate her new book Dying to Live Here. Learn about her inspirations and find cozy mysteries to add to your TBR.

In this guest post, I shared a bit about why estate sales inspired me while writing Dying to Live Here.
Many thanks to Salty Inspirations for sharing my guest post!

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Dying to Live Here (Estate Sales Mysteries) by Shelley Marsh #AuthorInterview #Giveaway #GreatEscapesBookTour @a1abeachwriter Dying to Live Here (Estate Sales Mysteries) by Shelley Marsh I am happy to welcome Shelley Marsh to Escape With Dollycas today! Hi Shelley,  Please tel

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Thanks!

My book is officially out in the world now!
Still wrapping my head around that.

It's National Escape Day! Books are the best escape, don't you think?
#nationalescapeday #books #writing #writer #mystery #author

Today is National LEGO Day. Even though I'm all grown up, I still love constructing LEGO sets.
#nationallegoday #lego #author #hobby
Photo by Ben Griffiths on Unsplash

Cover reveal ✨

Dying to Live Here, the first book in my Estate Sale Mysteries series.

Florida setting, quirky neighbors, secrets, and humor. Out Feb 10.

Laura swiped the photo off the screen, dismissing both it and my idea.
I grabbed her phone. “You know what I think?”
“Billionaires are evil?”
“Well, besides that.”
“What?”
"I think they're in on this together."
#WIP #billionaires #instamood #swipe
Photo by Flure Bunny on Unsplash

A sample of my corrections to the galley proof of Dying to Live Here:
"What do you do if you hook a shark?"
"Cut the line and throw 'em back"—>"Cut the line!"*
*Author error: Don't throw sharks.

Today's the day! 🎁On the 12th day of Christmas, my newsletter subscribers get a bundle of 7 free e-books+goodies from @carolynridderaspenson @gretboris @karensuewalker_author @moirabatesmysteries @patymjager @beckiwillisauthor
+ my holiday novella BETTER WATCH OUT
Link in bio 🔗

Join the 12 Days of Christmas Story Giveaway! Today's free holiday e-book is Murder on 34th Street by @authorramuth
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Join the 12 Days of Christmas Story Giveaway! Today's free holiday e-book is a humorous novella by @martinadaltonauthor
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Join the 12 Days of Christmas Story Giveaway! Today's free holiday e-book is by cozy mystery author @Anne_Seidel
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I’m joining 11 other mystery authors for a 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS STORY GIVEAWAY. From Dec 1-11, my newsletter subscribers receive a link to a completely free holiday story each day. On the 12th day, get a bundle of extra goodies to celebrate the season! See link in my bio to join

What had the thief been looking for?
Nobody would try to lift a collection of Precious Moments figurines to sell on the black market.
_Is there_ a Precious Moments black market?
My insane speculation was cut short by the sound of another door opening down the hallway.
#WIP

Nordic Literature Week (originally the Nordic Library Week) has been a cultural project for over 20 years, aimed at spreading the joy of reading, literature, and the Nordic tradition of storytelling, across borders. It's become a yearly event with approximately 160,000 young and adult participants.

The context is a scuba tank pressure gauge.

Scrivener's suggestions: gouge, gauze, gage, gauger, gaugeable. I don't like red lines, so I changed the setting to make it very faint.

Scrivener doesn't know how to spell "gauge." That's one of those words (like "sleuth") that I often have to type twice before I get it right, but Scrivener puts a red line under it, regardless. Is it just me, or is Scrivener's spell-check function useless? I have to export to a Word doc to check it.

It's #nationalauthorsday
Tag your favorite author!
#writing #writer #mystery #author #books

Happy Halloween! What will you be doing tonight?
🥳Partying!👯‍♀️
🍬Handing out candy~🧙🏽🦹🏻‍♀️🧛🏻‍♀️🎃
📺Staying in and watching TV?🥱
#halloween #trickortreat #party or #pajamas?

It's starting to feel like fall, even in Florida! Feeling cozy this morning in my fuzzy socks with coffee in hand

In case you wonder where I've been lately…
Everything came due at once:
Galley corrections
Reader magnet novella
Second book revisions
Third book first draft
But the good news is that things are happening!
(Now, back to work!)

What are you reading?
📖 Post the book you're currently reading
✅ Then go back and like the books you've read
My #TBR pile needs to be taller!

“He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”
#Florida #nature #gators