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🌞 Summer Themed Collection on Sale This Weekend Only- Celebrating Summer 🌞

HAPPY SUMMER AND HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! 

YES! The first day of summer is on Sunday! I’m super excited to give y’all FOR THE FIRST TIME 8 cozy mysteries set in summertime! How fun is that??? AND the entire box set is on sale this weekend only for .99!! That’s over 400,000 words and over 1600 pages for fun southern cozy mysteries!!

Have a wonderful weekend! ~ Tonya

Here are the eight books included in the box set:

Grab you flip flops, sunglasses, and a big ole glass of sweet iced tea to welcome in the summer by escaping into the 8 FULL-LENGTH cozy mystery collection of summertime novels!
Enjoy over 40,000 pages of southern hospitality with a smidgen of homicide.

Splitsville
Splitsville is more than Olivia Davis ever dreamed of when she launched the online break up service where she does the dirty work. It helps her keep a job because she has a gift no one understands. When one of her clients shows up dead, the trail leads back to her. It’s time to use her gift to figure out who the killer is and who’s trying to set her up.
A Charming Spell
As newly elected Village President of the magical village, June Heal has the final decision to allow the opening of Ever After Books, plus try to make Oscar Park a potion so he remembers who he is and his heart belongs to her. When one of the Spiritualist turns up dead and Oscar Park is falling in love with someone else, June has her hands full trying to solve a murder and fix her love life.
Checkered Thief
The heist king blackmails Laurel into believing Laurel’s long time best friend, Derek Smitherman, will be on the other end of the vigilante gun if she doesn’t help in stealing the money using her history of petty crime. She will stop at nothing to prove Derek’s innocence.
Betting Off Dead
Gambling on horse racing is Kentucky’s number one sport but when Kentucky Derby
Thoroughbred picked to win the Derby, Rails and Nails, ends up poisoned, SKUL special agent Mick Jasper and rookie witch Maggie Park, who keeps her witch powers a secret, are called in to investigate a world of illegal gambling where a run for the roses can prove to be deadly.
Mocha and Murder
Roxy becomes entangled in another murder as she puts her sleuthing skills to work in order to prove that Louise Carlton didn’t kill Fred Hill over a pet adoption gone wrong. After all, if Louise goes to jail, who is going to find all the animals at Pet Palace a home.
Forests, Fishing, & Forgery
It’s Labor Day weekend in Normal and Happy Trails Campground is at the center of a murder in which campers as well locals are suspects. It looks likely that a local resident is responsible for the dastardly deed since the victim is the one person who had the power to shut down the national park, which would be devastating to Normal’s small businesses.
A Ghostly Suspect
Debbie Dually is the one who informed Emma Lee that she wasn’t crazy, she was a Betweener, someone who can communicate with ghosts with the not so dearly departed. In fact, she told Emma Lee how she was the only one that could help solve their murder to help them rest in eternal peace.
This time Debbie Dually finds herself needing Emma’s help. This means solving her own murder.
Emma goes deep undercover as a fake psychic in order to see into the past and help Debbie cross over.
Return To Sender
Bernie tries to deliver a return to sender package and a certified letter to a local man and finds him dead.
When the death turns up suspicious, Bernie uses her amateur sleuthing skills along with the gossipy help of the Front Porch Ladies to cross reference who exactly in their small southern town stamped out the victim.

Grab it here for only .99!

Southern Magical Bakery Update

Hey y’all!! It’s time for me to let y’all know about the plans with the Southern Magical Bakery series.

The series is based on Lo Heal-Park. She is the adult daughter of June Heal and Oscar Park from the Magical Cures Cozy Mystery Series. Lo is unable to live in Whispering Falls because she’s not a spiritualist, which is a village rule. She did find a wonderful talent! She took her job as an employee at Wicked Good Bakery very serious and became an excellent baker.

She was given special classes at UnHidden Hall A Spiritualist University since she’s not able to take the usual classes offered there to witches and wizards so she did graduate with a culinary arts degree.

Lo has gotten approval from The Mary’s and the Village Council to move out of Whispering Falls and start a life of her own where she will open her own bakery in a mortal town.

Characters from the Magical Cures Series will be going to visit Lo and help her out since Lo will have no choice but to scratch her nosy side by learning to become an amateur sleuth in this fun baking cozy mystery.

Here is where you will be able to read this episodic culinary cozy mystery. I’m going to be publishing the episodes on Patreon and on Kindle Vella.

I’d already planned to write this in episodic form on my website until Amazon asked if I would interested in joining them on a new adventure – Vella.

You can check out what Vella
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=21613975011

Kindle Vella is a paid per episode. Each one of the daily episodes in the Southern Magical Bakery will cost about 9-11 tokens.
Tokens?

Yes. Tokens. Some of y’all may be familiar with tokens in your phone or ipad games or even your grandchildren games.
In Vella here is the token breakdown:
140 tokens – $1.99
368 tokens – $4.99
770 tokens – $9.99

So a month worth of episodes for Southern Magical Bakery will cost you about 300 tokens a month and the full mystery won’t wrap up until December. So that’s 300 tokens a month until December. BUT….

With Kindle Vella, I’m able to offer the story on their new platform and also on my Cozy Krew Patreon Group.

What is Patreon and why do I have to pay you ask? Patreon is a special group of readers who want ALL THINGS books. They get over 17 days of extra content you don’t get anywhere else depending on the tier they join. They also get ARC copies of each book and extra character content as well as behind the scene character profiles.

Why are you doing this on Patreon? I’m not able to offer Southern Magical Bakery in Kindle Unlimited, book form, ebook form, or for free in anyway while in Kindle Vella. (YOU”RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF AUTHORS DOING VELLA-just a side note so be prepared.)

That is why it will be on the Patreon page for y’all to enjoy for ONLY $1 a month! For ONE DOLLAR you can join my Patreon group and read the daily serial starting on July 1st!

The way I’m releasing Southern Magical Bakery isn’t about making money so do the math if you’re thinking that. $1 a month isn’t even going to buy Rowena treats. BUT it’s a way I can offer the story to those of you who LOVE the Magical Cures Cozy Mystery Series for a great price while blazing the trail for a new way to read through Kindle Vella.

I can’t wait for y’all to read it each day and excited for the new adventures of Lo Heal-Park and the amazing crossover character interaction from the Magical Cures Series.

On Friday you’re going to get a special, Patreon only, Father’s Day letter from Osar Park!
Lots of love and get excited!!!!

So if you want to join Patreon, we’d love to have you! Join the $1 tier when signing up unless you do want to get all the extra content the other tiers offer.

https://www.patreon.com/Tonyakappesbooks?fan_landing=trueWhy

Weekend Only Book Sale!

Happy Friday!
Yay! I’m happy it’s the weekend!

It has been an exciting week for me here. The house has started to really shape and almost ready for framing! I also had to go to Jack’s house here and move him out and putting his stuff in my already packed storage units.

So yeah. I’m glad it’s the weekend.

You should be too, because to celebrate the upcoming release of OUTDOORS, OARS, & OATHS, Kickbacks, Kayaks, & Kidnapping PLUS Assailants, Asphalt, & Alibis are both 85% off this weekend only. They’re each $5.99, or they are available in Kindle Unlimited.

If you haven’t read these yet, it’s a great time to do that. I’ve really enjoyed writing this southern and fun A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mystery Series, and you guys seem to love them as much as I do, according to the reviews!

Be sure to snag any of these you don’t have or want permanent copies (if you read them in KU)!