Category Archives: Just for Fun

If anyone still wants a San Francisco Smugglers book with the original cover, I just happened to stumble on it through my Amazon Central Author page. It’s only $2.58 and if you have Prime, then you also get free shipping. Now, that’s a steal! Just thought somebody be interested. I looked to find other oldContinue reading “Ten Left on Amazon!”

My author friend, Donna Alice Patton, thanks you for your help with choosing a cover for her first Maggie and Em Mystery, The Search for the Madonna (set during the Great Depression of the 1930s). She even has a new website/blog here >> I am her administrator and am helping her set it up. ThereContinue reading “More Cover Voting!”

I thought you would like to know that I’m almost up to the place where I left everybody off on the cliffhanger. I have already expanded the original (and fixed all the wrong names). I have even thought of one new and fun scene to add . . . where after the bombing tragedy andContinue reading “Terrible Secret Progress Report”

Finally! The printed versions of Trouble at the Line Shack came and are now available from the Circle C store for $10 each (free shipping). The expanded Long Ride Home is also available for $10. Bonus: If you buy both, you get a dollar off each book ($18). I am working feverishly on The TerribleContinue reading “Trouble at the Line Shack”

Read more Just for Fun posts in Andi’s Attic > 2013 repost: June and Emily want to know what happened to the boy who modeled Cory. This is an easy answer. The boy who modeled Cory is my son, Ryan. He was fourteen years old when he modeled Cory on the Trouble with Treasure cover, theContinue reading “What Happened to Cory?”

I’ve had more than one person ask me advice on how to start their own blog. It’s not that hard, but it’s much too complicated to answer in a two-or-three sentence email. So, I put together a 45-minute Zoom video if you are interested in learning how to get started. It is not all-inclusive, butContinue reading “How to Start a Blog”

You will be happy to learn that I finally got my proof book from Lulu. I followed the exact same steps I laid out in the bonus lessons of the new Writing Workshop videos. Except for the fact that I created the cover on my PhotoShop program. But honestly, I could have created the coverContinue reading “Off to the Printer!”