It seems like every few years my life gets shaken up like a snow globe and the Universe allows me to pick up the pieces and plop them into new places. Even when I thought I was on the right path and doing what I thought I should be doing. Nope. Here we are. Another shake-up. This year, it's my job.

This one is an added Christmas Eve Bonus! Written in 2014, it was originally published in a Christmas Anthology and became the inspiration for my Sugarwood Mystery series. Drop Dead Cowboy, will be relaunched for Halloween 2026, so keep watching for Audra and the gang to return! Dead Man's Doll will follow soon. Death of a Christmas Witch by Diane Bator…

It's that time of year again the Round Robin Gang shares some fun Christmas Stories!! There are links to even more great Christmas stories at the end of this one, so don't forget to check them out!! We have some amazing writers in this group. Grab a cup of hot chocolate and cuddle up for some fun, heart-warming, and laugh out loud reads.

Book two in my A.J. Cadell Mysteries, Diamond on the Rocks, was released in September 2025. This one takes place in December with Christmas on the horizon. It sets us up for Book 3 (which I still have to write) that will deal with A.J.'s family chaos at Christmas. Here's the blurb! When A. J. (Alison Jane) Cadell took over Thistlewood Manor, she fully intended to turn it into the bed and breakfast Grandma Bebe dreamed of before her death – except for a few minor hurdles.

Did I mention I had fun with The Bakery Lady? The tension between Christina and Leo was fun to play with. Do they get together in the end? I guess you'll have to wait until the book gets relaunched. Until then, here's another little teaser! The Bakery Lady - excerpt from Chapter 4 She closed her eyes. He already knew about the burn and certainly didn’t need to hear about her other life.

Today's Christmas Cheer treat comes from The Bakery Lady, Book 3 in the Wild Blue Mystery Series. I had fun creating this one as well as Christina's 12 Days of Christmas surprises. While this book is currently out of publication, I plan to design new covers for the entire Wild Blue Mystery series one day soon and bring them back out once more!

This was more of a YA story from 2021. It seems whatever I was working on had to do with snow globes that year! I have the start of another mystery story that features snow globes! Grab something warm and curl up to enjoy! Killer in a Snow Globe by Diane Bator “I’d like this job a lot more if I didn’t feel like I was working in a snow globe,” Harley said as she gazed around us at dozens of rolls of shiny paper, hundreds of feet of ribbon, and Plexiglas surrounding the wrapping desk.

While I've had a bit of a crazy autumn, I thought it might be nice to fill my blog with some Christmas cheer this month. I'm starting it off with a short story I wrote in 2021. Some of you may remember it, but I thought this would be a great time to share it again. Hope to follow along as I share more tidbits of Christmas writing this month.

For those of you who have followed my journey on social media, it's definitely been a year of ups and downs. From some family issues, to excitement over writing projects, the roller coaster ride came to a bit of a screeching halt in September right after I got home from a wonderful vacation in Prince Edward Island with a long time friend.

DIAMOND ON THE ROCKS, Book Two in a new Mystery Series by critically acclaimed mystery writer, Diane Bator E-Book released for pre-sale on June 11, Available worldwide in e-book & print format Sept 5, 2025 from Escape With a Writer Publishing When A. J. (Alison Jane) Cadell took over Thistlewood Manor, she fully intended to turn it into the bed and breakfast Grandma Bebe dreamed of before her death – except for a few minor hurdles.

Book Two in a new Mystery Series by award winning mystery writer, Diane Bator E-Book released for pre-sale on June 11 Available worldwide in e-book & print format Sept 5, 2025 from Escape With a Writer Publishing Have you heard about the new sleuth in town? AJ Cadell isn't your average nosy sleuth. She's a wannabe romance writer who discovers the father she thought was long dead is alive and hiding out in the wilds of British Columbia!

Book Two in a new Mystery Series by critically acclaimed mystery writer, Diane Bator E-Book released for pre-sale on June 11 The book will be available worldwide in e-book & print format Sept 5, 2025 Published by Escape With a Writer Publishing, Release date Sept 5 2025 When A. J. (Alison Jane) Cadell took over Thistlewood Manor, she fully intended to turn it into the bed and breakfast Grandma Bebe dreamed of before her death – except for a few minor hurdles.

A new Novelette by critically acclaimed author and media host, Joseph M. Lenard The book will be available worldwide August 1st in all formats including audio ... was life just indeed a collection of mediocre days with some random happy times. Was life irreparable and tainted with mis-spent youth bad reputation children might have had, or redeemable with age and wisdom acquired?

Leadership Lessons from a Prison Cell Released by Manuscripts LLC on July 29, 2025. Now an Amazon #1 Bestseller in TWO categories:Addiction & Recovery AND Leadership The Path of Rocks and Thorns: Leadership Lessons from a Prison Cell is the leadership book that should change the conversation about how great leaders emerge. Douglas Smith’s deeply personal story—of childhood trauma, addiction, mental illness, incarceration, and ultimately, recovery—follows the structure of Dante’s 

The book is available worldwide in all formats “Dogs Chase Cars” details the downturn in the newspaper industry through the eyes of a longtime Kansas City sports columnist, who is driving to work on a November Friday, expecting to be the latest casualty in a business that has shed far too much blood in recent years. It takes place over a single day, but flashes back to those seminal moments – from covering a World Series game in 1989 that was halted by a 7.1 earthquake to accidently breaking the story of a Hall of Fame quarterback’s rumored trade while doing his business at a urinal – that stand out in a storied career.

Not another money book, this one starts with YOU You’ve done the budgeting. You’ve tried to be grateful. You’ve worked hard, given your all, and still felt like something was missing. This isn’t another money manual. It’s an honest look at how you relate to money, and how you can start feeling good in that relationship. Written for the woman who is tired of tying her worth to her wallet, 

I've been away from posting with the group for so many reasons! Life has become a bit of a whirl wind while getting my next book prepared for release and for my daughter's wedding this summer and a vacation coming up soon! I've also been elbows deep in editing a fantasy novel coming out next year (I hope!) that I wrote with a dear friend.

A new spin of darkness within this critically acclaimed series by one of historical fantasy’s new shining lights, Bjorn Leesson Every road to an ultimate good is paved with monstrous deed...by a monster. Sometimes the monsters are all that stands between the living world and annihilation. In the struggle to survive her own life ,Josephine Peele becomes the monster in service of the Light, but it takes all her torments to ready her for her own purpose that only she can accomplish.

Published by Kingsley Publishers, May 2025 ALL JUNE LEFT BEHIND Set In Canada, All June Left Behind is a gripping and suspenseful mystery novel. An introverted, widowed farmer discovers that opening his heart to others may be the only way to confront the painful truth about his beloved wife’s murder. 5 stars! Available at Indigo, Amazon, and your local independent bookstore.

Leadership Lessons from a Prison Cell Released by Manuscripts LLC The book is available in digital format on July 29th, 2025 The Path of Rocks and Thorns: Leadership Lessons from a Prison Cell is the leadership book that should change the conversation about how great leaders emerge. Douglas Smith’s deeply personal story—of childhood trauma, addiction, mental illness, incarceration, and ultimately, recovery—follows the structure of Dante’s 

The critically acclaimed historical fantasy series continues by Rockhill Publishing’s own, James L. Hill Released by Rockhill Publishing The book is available worldwide in digital and print format It is the turn of the nineteenth century. The industrial age has begun. Steam powered ships has taken over the oceans. Factories are going up across Europe and America. There is a resurgence of activity in the castles in the mountains and when the…

Brought to you by Christopher Denmead, acclaimed radio-show host and writer An exclusive Kickstarter for the ages that will start on August 15th 2025!! A Vlada a Dracula Tale Sequel. Art by Tim Vigil and Matt Slay and various covers by them and Heather Rose, Len Danovich, Chandra Akerblom, and Ken Hunt the original Vlada a Dracula Tale Artist. This will be a 28 page comic book Tim Vigil will have two covers for this book one normal cover and one XXX rated cover. 

It's true. I've been around the sun one more time and heading for another round. While I'm on here today, I thought I'd share some news about bookish things to come! My next Dash story was submitted but that particular anthology shelved for now. Have no fear! I'm hard at work on the next one, A Friendship of Backstabbing for the August anthology.

World-ending literature at its best by critically acclaimed author Jason Kristopher “I didn’t see Rebecca die the second time.” David Blake was a small-town bookseller—until the day his world ended. When a zombie outbreak hits Fall Creek, Colorado, he loses everything he loves. But his survival makes him valuable. Recruited by a top-secret military group that’s been hunting the undead since 1873, David becomes a reluctant recruit in a war the public doesn’t even know exists.

The second installment in the Award-winning YA dystopian series by author, C.C. Robinson Published by Manifold Publishing The walls are closing in on Rose. But when powerful enemies move her from house arrest to a literal prison, Rose finds herself alone. Caged. And without help. Isolated from her friends and allies, yet stumbling on the truth of her captors’ schemes, Rose must free herself.