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I'm in training to become a Nac Mac Feegle. Their motto is: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!" WEE FREE MEN by Terry Pratchett.

Meanwhile, I'm a traditional mystery author and patient advocate. GinJones.com
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Oops, I seem to have gotten lost on the blog tour, and didn't realize there's a second stop today, and it was even written by me! If that's not enough of an incentive, it's also got a recipe for my world-famous (okay, just locally famous) shortbread hearts. guatemalapaula.blogspot.com #BookSky
Cover for Holidays & Homicides (cozy fireplace scene with the back of a chair and the suggestion of a poison victim), with added text about the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour December 2-15
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Today's stop in the Holidays & Homicides blog tour is at jodyjoy.com/holidays-hom... #BookSky
Cover for Holidays & Homicides (cozy fireplace scene with the back of a chair and the suggestion of a poison victim), with added text about the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour December 2-15
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Also in today's blog tour for Holidays & Homicides is an interview with fellow author Misty Simon. dianneascroft.com/blog/ #BookSky
Cover for Holidays & Homicides (cozy fireplace scene with the back of a chair and the suggestion of a poison victim), with added text about the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour December 2-15
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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A nice review at the first stop in the Holidays & Homicides blog tour: karensiddall.wordpress.com #BookSky
Cover for Holidays & Homicides (cozy fireplace scene with the back of a chair and the suggestion of a poison victim), with added text about the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour December 2-15
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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To celebrate Holidays & Homicides, the 12 authors (including me!) are going on a book-blog tour, where you'll find interviews, reviews, and a holiday recipe or two. And prizes! Starts today and runs through December 15. www.escapewithdollycas.com #BookSky
Cover for Holidays & Homicides, with additional information about a "Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour" presented by EscapewithDollycas.com, and the dates of the tour, December 2-14.
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The holiday-themed cozy mystery anthology is here!
Cover of Holidays & Homicides, featuring a seemingly cozy fireplace scene until you notice the cup of spilled cocoa. Superimposed copy: From twelve USA Today bestselling and award winning authors comes a short story collection stuffed full of mirthful mysteries, clever criminals, and holiday cheer!
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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The day before a new book is released is always more stressful for me than the day of the release. Thinking about it makes me anxious, but there really isn't anything I can do about it, and there's none of the fun of seeing readers find and get excited about the book yet. #BookSky
Cover of Holidays & Homicides, featuring a seemingly cozy fireplace scene until you notice the cup of spilled cocoa. Superimposed copy: From twelve USA Today bestselling and award winning authors comes a short story collection stuffed full of mirthful mysteries, clever criminals, and holiday cheer!
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The #BlackFridayBooks sale at Gemma Halliday Publishing ends Monday (but don't wait or you'll forget). I've got two seasonal books in the sale, just a buck apiece. You can see all the books here: www.gemmahallidaypublishing.com/sale #BookSky
Cover of Old-Fashioned Holiday Homicide with a snowy small-town street and a cat on a blue post office drop box. Cover of A Christmas Quilt to Die For, with a thimble and thread nestled among evergreens and ornaments.
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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These are the four quiltlet tops I found AFTER I declared myself to be completely done with all my UFOs. But now I really (maybe) have finished all my quilt UFOs. #QuiltSky
Five quiltlets (cat-sized quilts) scattered on a wood floor. Designs are mostly pinwheel blocks, two in green, one in peach and turquoise, one in red, white, blue and one dark and light blue.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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#BlackFridayBooks is starting today at Gemma Halliday Publishing through Monday (but don't wait or you'll forget). I've got two seasonal books in the sale, just a buck apiece. You can see all the books here: www.gemmahallidaypublishing.com/sale #BookSky
Cover for Old_Fashioned Holiday Homicide, with a snowy small-town scene and a tuxie sitting on a blue post office drop box. Cover of A Chirstmas Quilt to Die For with a thimble and thread mixed in with a centerpiece of ornaments.
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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A fun anthology of holiday-themed cozy mysteries, Holidays & Homicides, is almost here to get you in the holiday mood. Pre-order now, and it will be waiting for you on December 2. #BookSky
Cover of Holidays & Homicides, featuring a seemingly cozy fireplace scene until you notice the cup of spilled cocoa. Superimposed copy: From twelve USA Today bestsellling and award winning authors comes a short story collection stuffed full of mirthful mysteries, clever criminals, and holiday cheer!
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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My Thanksgiving-set cozy mystery is on sale for just a buck, and apparently it's no longer in KU, so it should be available at all the usual retailers, no longer exclusive to Amazon! Links here: www.gemmahallidaypublishing.com/gin-jones#de... #BookSky
Cover art for Deadly Thanksgiving Sampler by Gin Jones & (the fictional) Elizabeth Ashby. Background image is of a fabric pumpkin, a handful of acorns, thread, scissors, and a badge for USA Today bestselling author.
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Thought of you at grocery store today. Probly not what you want, but it's a two serving pie! Does your store carry the brand? May be other flavors
Grocery freezer shelf with two-slice pies
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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This is Todd, lover of quilts and beloved of all other cats (even if he didn't understand their worship), who overcame a heart murmur and succumbed to diabetes this summer, after outliving all of his litter mates.
Orange and white cat, with a completed turquoise cat-sized quilt in the backgound, while he's sitting on several joined rows of the green and white quilt I'm trying to add the remaining rows to.
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Convincing you to read my [short story] with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

"When guests were making plans to spend a romantic Valentine's Day weekend at the Three Sisters B&B, they hardly ever remembered that it fell during the peak of snow season in Kentucky."

#BookSky
Cover art for Holidays & Homicides, featuring a Christmas tree in front of a lit fireplace w/ stockings. Facing them is a chair with its back turned to the viewer, a limp arm draped over the side, and a cup on the floor, with foamy contents all around it, and a skull and crossbones on the cup.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I've done so much free motion quilting recently that I borked the sewing machine foot. The piece that caused the foot to go up and down a little with the needle, so it glided over the fabric, snapped off. #QuiltSky
High shank darning foot with spring mechanism to give the foot some wiggle room to go over seams and not cause wrinkles and pleats.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Rosie likes to help with machine quilting. #QuiltSky
Tabby and white cat sits on a Christmas quilt that was in the process of being quilted on my Juki sewing machine until she weighed it down.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Quilt basting with Billy Joel tonight, because I'm in a New York state of mind! (And Virginia and New Jersey, which Billy covers too!) #QuiltSky
Corner of a burgundy, white and green quilt with snowman fabric made into variable stars. On top are a plethora of basting straight pins, The Essential Billy Joel cd case, and a portable CD player.
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Sometimes I like to work on complicated quilts like yesterday's, and other times, I want something quick & easy, especially for a holiday quilt, used only a few days per year. I needed a burgundy winter quilt, because my bedroom wallpaper is burgundy & the usual holiday reds clash with it. #QuiltSky
Unfinished (needs quilting and binding) bed topper quilt (about 65" square) with four rows of burgundy variable stars (centers are fussy-cut snowmen from the print that is the border), on a white background, with deep green cornerstones and inner border (print has Ho Ho Ho in a variety of fonts). Binding will be the same green print. Closeup of one corner of the quilt top, with two of the stars and a chunk of the inner and outer borders. The photograph doesn't do justice to the actual color of the burgundy print -- in real life it's much more burgundy, not a clear red.
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I can't believe I finally finished the last (and biggest) UFO quilt! Okay, so I've started new ones recently, & there are now 2 tops in my UFO pile, but it doesn't count if they're less than a month old! Second pic is the quilt back. Couldn't find a print I liked for a one-print back. #QuiltSky
Huge (80" x90" approx) red and white quilt, using North Wind blocks and a wide variety of red prints. Blocks are made of a large red triangle in one corner, large white triangle in opposite corner, and red and 5 small triangles in each of red and white in between the large triangles. When set solid, but alternating which corner is red, they form interesting secondary patterns. Quilt also has a wide red paisley border. Back of quilt pieced in three rows, each with two to four large rectangular chunks of (mostly) different red prints left over from making the front. You can also see the paisley print used in the binding, which sort of clashes with some of the prints and disappears against others.
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Red and white quilts are so much fun! I just finished this one (altho' the pic is from when it was just a top). It's not complicated, but it is a bit time-consuming with all the half-square triangles. Pretty much any basic block will be effective in red and white.
Unfinished quilt top (bed-sized) in a variety of red prints on a white background. Blocks are "north wind," made with a large red triangle in one corner, a large white triangle in the opposite corner, and 5 smaller red triangles on a white background in between. They're set in alternating directions, no sashing, and there's a wide red (paisley) border.
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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We're getting to the end of the summer/fall finishing of UFO quilts. Today, I've got THREE quilts to share. It's all one basic design, a variation on the nine-patch, with pieces that are different widths, but using different color palettes, or different border options.
Three baby quilts laid out in a diagonal, overlapping row. They're all made with dark and light alternating nine-patch variant blocks, but in different colors. The one on top (almost entirely visible, closest to camera) is in a variety of bright colors on a white-background tiny black print, 5 x 5 blocks, with a bright blue border. Middle one is 7 x 7 blocks in pink on a tiny pink print background, and the last one has the same background print and assorted bright colors, but is 7 x 7 blocks and no border.
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I'm going to run out of recently completed UFO quilts to share someday, but today is not that day! This one (large lap quilt size) was made with scraps from some tank tops I made for myself last summer (2024). #QuiltSky
Broken Dishes blocks (alternating dark and light triangles) in dark blue and turquoise/teal on a mottled light blue background, set solid, so they have the same basic overall effect as pinwheel blocks, with a bit of mottled blue border and dark blue binding. The lighter colored turquoise blocks create secondary patterns when three or four are touching, either horizontally or diagonally.
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Yes, I was a busy quilter this summer and fall. Another of the UFO quilts that I finished recently.
Lap quilt (about 45" square with 6 rows of 6 blocks in a mix of nine-patch and monkey wrench, red prints on a black background, with three that have a yellow center square. Blocks are set with black sashings, then red piping, a black print border and red binding.
October 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Another quilt UFO that is finally finished! It doesn't photograph well, and looks a bit garish, but it's more mellow in person. It's for the man cave of my brother, whose hobby is fly fishing and tying flies. #QuiltSky
Lap quilt made with four large squares of photorealistic fish printed on a black background, laid out with sashings made of 2 strips of orange bubble print on either side of a solid black strip, and then nine-patches of the same fabrics where the sashings meet in the corners of each fish print square. There's also an outer, darker-orange stripe border and black binding.
October 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM