UPDATE: The winner is…Elaine Swinney!
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Reminder for Authors

Deadline for Submissions is March 15!

When you send in your story, I’ll send you back a note to say I have it! If you have questions, don’t hesitate to email me!
Here are the guidelines: Silver Soldiers Guidelines

Puzzle Contest

For a chance to win a FREE download from my backlist of books, tell me—how’s the weather where you are? We’re nearing 80 degrees here today and tomorrow, then we’re going back into a freeze, followed by possible tornadic activity. It’s almost Spring in Arkansas! Is the weather as crazy where you are?

Open Contests

1. Michal Scott: Elizabeth Jennings Graham — The Rosa Parks of the 1850s (Contest) — This one ends soon! Win an Amazon gift card!
2. February into March (Contest–and more contests!) — Win an Amazon gift card!
3. Ukraine Solidarity (Puzzle-Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!
4. Cameron Allie: Character Spotlight — Lucifer (Contest & Excerpt) — Win a gorgeous pendant!
5. Lainey Reese: The Inspiration Behind a New Series (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!
6. Anna Hague: South Carolina, here we come! (Contest) — Win a FREE book!

UPDATE: The winner is…Jolene!
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A Reminder

First! A reminder! This Valentine’s Day giveaway ends tomorrow night! Get your copy!!

A woman accidentally sets her kitchen on fire while trying to catch the eye of a Texas firefighter…

“Hunk of Burning Love” is a short story in my Cowboys on the Edge series!
Please share this giveaway with your friends!

Get your FREE copy here!

A Puzzle

A Contest

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me why whatever it is in the puzzle picture is doing whatever it is. 🙂

UPDATE: The winner is…Rita!
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It’s Saturday! I’m late posting because, well, I goofed off this morning. I’m allowed to do that once in a while, right? 🙂

Here’s the challenge!

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle then tell me what she’s walking toward! Have fun!

It’s O-dark-thirty in the morning as I post this. My quiet time. It being a weekend, my quiet won’t last long. Between COVID and cold house-bound kids and eight indoor animals that need feeding and walking, quiet only happens when everyone’s sleeping. Although, I do have an office in the basement to keep well out of the way of most foot traffic.

I have a puzzle for you! It’s not my usual, and my choice was likely influenced by all the hours of Deep Space Nine I’ve been watching. It will be challenging, so roll up your sleeves and get cracking! I’d love to hear what you think. My first impression was that I was disappointed it wasn’t purple or swamp green. My second was that I wanted the goggles. Finish the puzzle. Share your time if you like. And be sure to enter the CONTESTS below while there’s still time!

Open Contests

1. Your favorite fairytale…? (Puzzle-Contest) — This one ends soon! Win an Amazon gift card!
2. January into February… (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!
3. Flashback: Baby, It’s You (Contest — 3 Winners!) — Win a FREE book! 3 WINNERS!
4. Happy Groundhog Day! (New Contest — and Open Contests!) — Win a FREE book!
5. Tell me a story… (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!

UPDATE: The winner is…flchen1!
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It’s Saturday! I couldn’t sleep in. I’ve been up since 4:30 a.m.—but that’s because I fell asleep around 8:30 p.m. The reason? The 8-year-old is very, very spoiled. Last night, she asked me to scratch her back so she could sleep, which turned into, “Rub my hands?” She held out her little hands, and of course, I laid down beside her and massaged her hands. By the time I finished, we were both asleep. Very, very spoiled.

I should have read her a book instead. One of my favorites, when I was growing up, was Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Not the Disney, happy-washed tales, but the dark, scary ones that didn’t promise happy endings. One of my favorites was the story about Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood was one that had a happy ending for Red and Grandma, but I always felt sorry for the clever wolf.

Anyways, it’s Saturday, I’m thinking about Little Red and the Wolf, and fairytales in general, so have fun with the puzzle!

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle then tell me your favorite fairytale.

Open Contests

1. Opening Scenes… (Contest) — Last day to enter! Win an Amazon gift card!
2. Pre-order ELI & Enter the Puzzle Contest! (Contest) — Last day to enter! Win an Amazon gift card!
3. Fun times in Dead Horse, MT, continue! (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!
4. Michal Scott: Thwarting the Danger of A Single Story — Maggie Lena Walker (Contest & Excerpt) — Win an Amazon gift card!

UPDATE: The winner is…Miki!
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Before we play, I’d just like to remind you that Montana Bounty Hunters: Dead Horse, MT, will add a new title this coming Tuesday! This is what Eli’s story is about in a nutshell…

An ex-SEAL sniper, who has spent his life experiencing everything from a distance, finds his self-imposed solitude challenged by the one woman in the world who might have been made just for him.

Reserve your copy now!
Plus, it’ll be FREE in KU!

You know it’s going to be a sexy good time! ~DD

Puzzle-Contest

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle, and then tell me what happens next to the people in this picture! Have fun with your answers!

UPDATE: The winner is…Roxie A. Jones!
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Happy Saturday!

I’m busy finishing Eli’s story—my handsome silver fox! If you’d like to read a snippet from the opening of the story, it’s right here: READ AN EXCERPT

While I’m writing, my SIL and daughter are right next door repainting my bedroom. Now, when I say it’s a major undertaking, I’m underrepresenting just how difficult this task is. I’ve lived a lot of years, and I have a bunch of stuff. So, they shift everything one way then the other to get to the walls. That sounds like I’m a major hoarder, doesn’t it? Like I have so much crap they have to make tunnels to get to the walls. I swear it’s not that bad, but I do have a couple of cabinets—one large—full of collectibles (Russian boxes, Fenton glass, snuff bottles, fortune-telling teacups…) that had to be emptied, and all that stuff is now sitting carefully stacked on a banquet table IN MY OFFICE. It’s a wee bit distracting—all that activity and clutter overtaking spaces…

So, me writing with things piled up around me—get the picture? And I have to have Eli finished by next Friday!!!! I’ll make it, but getting there won’t be pretty. Good thing Eli is! 🙂

Pre-Order your copy here!

Puzzle Contest

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me what treasures you collect. Do you have bottles of buttons? (I do! Still haven’t figure out what to do with them!) Do you collect crocheted afghans? Share for a chance to win!

Open Contests

1. A New Short Story and a Puzzle Contest! You couldn’t ask for more on a Saturday, right? — This one ends tomorrow! Win an Amazon gift card!
2. Diana Cosby: Nature’s Beauty – A Year to Remember! (Contest) — This one ends tomorrow! Win a SIGNED book!
3. Tell me a story… (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!
4. Flashback: Ride a Texas Cowboy (Contest–Two Winners!) — Win a FREE book!