February 2022 News

This month is when I’ll be finishing up the first draft of the next Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast Mystery. After that, it will be time for the dreaded rewrites!

I’m pleased to announce the February 15 release of The Bad Hair Day Mysteries Box Set Volume Five: Books 13-15.

will be appearing at Murder in the Magic City (Birmingham, AL) on February 5 and at Murder on the Menu (Wetumpka, AL) on February 6 talking about Four Cuts Too Many and the upcoming Five Belles Too Many (June 2022 – but available for preorder).

I’m working on a few new mystery series proposals and hope to hear good news from my agent very soon.

I’ll be finishing up a new proposal for an edgier cozy series set in South Florida which will be looking for a home starting next month!

You may also know me as Valona Jones, and I’m writing the rough draft of book two in my The Book and Candle Shop Mystery series about a psychic candlemaker in Savannah. This book features a twilight luminary festival.

It’s a busy month for me. I’m spending February continuing to work on Guilty as Framed, the 11th Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, and trying to survive a bathroom renovation that I hope will take as little time as the contractor promised. (Color me skeptical!)