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I just finished sending off my latest Haunting Danielle newsletter to subscribers. If you have subscribed but haven’t been receiving the newsletter (I try to send out newsletters every two weeks), I suggest you check your email’s “junk” file.  If the newsletter has landed there, you will need to add it to your email’s safe list, unless you don’t mind retrieving it from the junk file. If you haven’t subscribed, you can click here to subscribe!

In other news, are you snowed in? Has the weather kept you home, like it has us? Have you been spending your time reading but now your eyes are starting to hurt? Have you considered switching to an audiobook? It just so happens I have the perfect one! Haunting Danielle’s most recent release, The Ghost and the Twins, came out in audiobook format just this week! That was a clever segue, wasn’t it? 

(Above photo of our back yard this morning. The snow is starting to melt.)

Me as Grandma Bear

I’m back from the short visit with my daughter and grandkids. Her hubby was off on a hunting trip, so I only saw him the first day I was there.  While the trip was brief, I enjoyed myself. I even joined the grandkids for some trick or treating around their neighborhood. I borrowed my son-in-law’s costume. So instead of the Three Bears being a papa, mama, and baby bear, we were grandma, mama, and baby bear. 

My new book, The Ghost and the Twins, came out last Monday. During the first few days, it earned a Top New Release banner at Amazon in ghosts, and a bestseller banner over at Barnes & Noble. It currently has 274 ratings at Amazon, with a 4.8-star average, and 121 ratings on Goodreads, with a 4.9-star average. 

The audiobook for The Ghost and the Wedding Crasher came out on Halloween, and The Ghost and the Twins audiobook is coming in January.

Since returning home, I’ve been working on my social media and marketing. The first thing I’m focusing on—my newsletter. I try to send out a newsletter every two weeks. But I’ve been a little flaky the last few months.  Yet I promise to get back to every two weeks—and in each newsletter I have a raffle.

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What you may not know about the cover designer of the Haunting Danielle series…

Some of you may be familiar with the professional cover designer, Elizabeth Mackey, of Elizabeth Mackey Cover design. If you are an author, maybe you’ve used her or have heard of her. If you are a reader, I suspect you have read at least one of the authors she’s designed covers for. You can check her website and see if you notice a familiar cover or author.

Elizabeth was a fine artist before she went into cover design. She graduated with honors from the Art Institute of California, San Diego, earning a Bachelors of Science Degree in Graphic Design. and has been in this business for over fifteen years. She not only designs the covers for all my books, she created the artwork for Marlow House, along with many of the silhouettes that show up in the various covers in the Haunting Danielle series.

Oh, did I mention, Elizabeth is my daughter?

Authors who work with Elizabeth know her husband is in the Coast Guard, and this means they move every four years or so. They are currently in the middle of a transfer. They left their home in Kodiak, Alaska, and are heading to California, where her husband will be stationed next.

Lucky for me, while traveling down from Alaska, Elizabeth’s family stopped by our Holmestead in Oregon and stayed for two nights.  Her family includes a husband, daughter, son, cat, and dog. 

While the visit was short, it was incredibly sweet, and we had an amazing time. Yesterday morning I went with my daughter and grandkids to visit Mom at the care home. Originally, we had considered bringing Mom home for the day, but decided against it, since Mom has just settled in and we were afraid to disrupt her routine since she seems so content now. I believe our decision was the right one.

We stayed for just under two hours, and my son surprised me by popping in to see Mom while we were there.  I decided to share two photos we took during the visit. One shows four generation of women in our family. The second shows Mom with her two eldest grandkids, my son and daughter (Elizabeth).  

I think Mom’s smile says it all.