Friday Fotos
Title Contest!
It’s time to vote for your favorite title from among those submitted by readers of last month's newsletter. I’ve gone through all of the emails I received last month and decided to offer five choices. I’ve picked my top four favorites and added one of my own. Use the "Enter Now" button to email me! Everyone who votes will be entered into the contest for a $5.00 Starbucks gift card.
Let me know your top two!
- The Christmas Sweater Kerfuffle
- Death by Christmas
- Murder Wears a Sweater
- Killer Christmas Sweater
- The Christmas Sweater Vendetta
Scam Tip
If you’ve bought a “smart device” for your home, you could be helping hackers around the world. The problem began when the first smart devices failed to provide a way to change their default passwords.
When the news broke that these devices could be hacked on a massive scale and used in phishing scams, the manufactures slowly made changes to enhance the security of future devices sold.
Those changes only affected future devices, which means millions of devices with default passwords are in use around the world and many are being used on networks for—shall we say, less than honorable purposes. So you have the picture, right?
The Dish
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The original recipe for this southwestern turkey salad came from a cookbook called Today’s Turkey Favorites which we sent away for in 1990. This book was only thirty-five pages long, but it contained a number of good recipes. “Today” is always a relative term because the original recipe is now nearly thirty years old. However, with a few little additions, this recipe is better than ever! |
My Latest Mystery
The theft of a hot new fragrance leads to murder and a tangled web of deceit for amateur sleuth McKenna and his PI-wannabe friend Chance Logan.
Writing NewsThe big news of the month came for me when Sidney Powell’s nonfiction book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, went into hardcover—and sold off the charts. Oddly enough, sales of my thriller titled License to Lie, which was published in 2013, took off. Okay, my sales are nowhere close to what Powell’s must be, but it goes to show the power of exposure. I’m currently working through edits of the Seaside Cove Christmas mystery. It needs a title and I’m hoping you’ll enter the contest to help me decide. |
Contest LeadsBooklovers BenchBooklovers Bench is into their August contest. The contest ends August 18. Enter today to win a $25.00 Amazon gift card! Click here to enter.Great EscapesThe ever-popular Rhys Bowen’s Her Royal Spyness series is at the top of my list. Enter to win a copy of Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by August 18! And what would a month be without a foodie mystery? Check out the giveaway for Maya Corrigan’s latest Five Ingredient Mystery, S’more Murders by August 13. Last up is A Dark and Twisting Path by Julia Buckley, which is part of the A Writer’s Apprentice Mystery series. This contest ends September 17. |
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