With Sparkle Abbey‘s Special Guest Catriona McPherson Is HOP SCOT a seasonal romance? I’m going to say yes. Okay Lexy and Taylor are already engaged when they go to Scotland to let him meet the parents, the rest of the regular cast are all coupled up already, and there’s a mouldering semi-skeleton bricked up in […]
by Sparkle Abbey Do you love all the holiday books that are coming out? We certainly do! Halloween, All Saints Day, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and more. From now until the end of the year there are celebrations galore. Families and friends getting together for various festivities. Or not. We’re working on our new series, […]
by Sparkle Abbey We are just back from an amazing trip to Scotland and so our heads and hearts are full of all of those experiences. We were there two weeks and still didn’t get to see everything that we wanted to, but we certainly hit most of the high points. We started in Edinburgh, […]
by Sparkle Abbey Today we’d like to welcome our friend Kari Lee Townsend to the blog. She’s going to tell you a bit about herself and share some info about the book she’s working on as well as what she has coming up. Welcome Kari! Hi there. My name is Kari Lee Townsend, and I’m […]
by Mary Lee Ashford Summers and reading are forever linked in my memories. I grew up in a small town and in a time of school consolidation and so that school I attended was in a larger town eight miles away. So while my friends were headed to the pool or getting together at the […]
by Sparkle Abbey Malice Domestic is the annual convention that celebrates the traditional mystery and frankly it’s one of our favorites. This year we were unable to attend and we were so bummed. From our very first Malice Domestic and multiple ones since that first one, the mystery community welcomed us. We’re so grateful for […]
by Sparkle Abbey How is it that February is already in the books? 2023 is moving right along and we shared last month that we kicked off the new year by beginning to write a new mystery series. We also shared that the new series is not set in California like our Pampered Pets books, […]
By Sparkle Abbey Happy February! Hard to believe that it’s February already and you know what that means… It means winter is not quite over and many parts of the US are feeling that intensely. But it also means Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. We’re thinking you probably already knew that due to […]
by Sparkle Abbey Travel and a change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – Seneca It’s exciting that travel is opening up and people are once again beginning to plan trips. For some of us that means a road trip to visit family for the holidays or a short vacation to warmer climes. […]
By Sparkle Abbey We’re back this month for another chapter of So You Want to Write a Book! If you’ve followed along on this journey so far, you know that we’ve covered how to get started, getting to know your genre, brainstorming, and revision. This month we’d like to talk a bit about editing. Step […]