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Don’t Miss These Tonya Kappes Cozy Mysteries on Sale

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People ask me all the time if I actually go camping in the winter. Yeah! Heck yeah. I go glamping in my travel trailer camper because it has heat.

If you didn’t know, I actually go to my camper every morning and write. I use it at my office when we aren’t traveling. I have electric and heat which is a plus. The camper does have a bathroom, but we do have to winterize it which means no running water or potty. So when camping during the winter we use the bathrooms at the campsite…or…mhmm..nature. I know too much, right?

Nah! Y’all know me! I’m pretty much an open book.

Just in time for Christmas, Christmas, Criminals, & CampersChristmas, Criminals, & Campers is on sale for the only time this year. It’s a ton of fun and about an writer who comes to Happy Trails Campground to get in some writing time. Sound familiar?

Also Stamped Out is on sale. It’s the first book in the Mail Carrier series. I’m getting ready to write the next, the sixth book in the series. So now is the time to get to know mail carrier, Bernie Butler and her sidekicks, the Front Porch Ladies.

 

Happy sleuthing!

xoxo

Tonya

Fifth Day of Christmas Camper Giveaway + 60 Recipes!

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🎉🥳🎉Whooop whoop!! Congratulations to Jennifer Sandorf! 🎉🥳

Jennifer won a signed print copy of Christmas, Criminals, & Campers along with a camper tote, camper compact, and It’s A Southern Mystery Y’all measuring spoon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m sooooo excited on this FIFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS CAMPER GIVEAWAY to give you more than just ONE recipe! I’m giving you sixty! Sixty recipes that contributed from readers on our community here !

I baked all of them and they are all so good. And it’s right in time for you to look through them and make a few for your family. They are all cookies and delicious!

Grab your copy here!

And please let me know if you bake any! I’d love to have a photo.

Thank you so much for all the fun we had this week in the FIVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS CAMPER GIVEAWAY. Be sure you enter the rafflecopter to be entered to win A print and signed copy of Christmas, Campers, & Criminals as well as Desserts, Driving & Derelicts, a tote, it’s a southern mystery y’all measuring spoon, and a camper compact.

 

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Day 4 of 5 Days of Christmas Camper Giveaway!

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Whooop whoop!! Congratulations to Deb Nelson! Deb won a signed print copy of Christmas, Criminals, & Campers along with a camper tote, camper compact, and It’s A Southern Mystery Y’all measuring spoon!

I’m not sure if you know The Daniel Boone National Forest is a real national park in Kentucky. There are a lot of caves, caverns, waterfalls, and hiking trails along the appalachian trail. I truly do love living in Kentucky and we have so many wonderful state parks, but The Daniel Boone takes the cake!
I do have fond memories of camping there as a child and as I’ve taken my own family. And those memories and the ones we are making today in our very own travel trailer involve food.
That’s why I put recipes in the back of each book. I”m so happy and proud to share a recipe near and dear to my heart.
My mom’s very own Derby Pie.
Now…my mom obviously didn’t name the pie, but a true story is about the Kern family from Prospect, Kentucky. They created teh Derby pie and it’s rumored that so many family members had different names for the unique pie that they all wrote their names for the pie on a piece of paper and put them in a hat. The winner was pulled from the hat: Derby Pie!
And it’s so fitting because of the Kentucky Derby is so popular.
Through the years, everyone has put their own little touch on the pie and below you can make my mom’s various of the delicious treat!
Reader Linda Swann sent in a photo of the Derby Pie she made from my mom’s recipe! Doesn’t that look yummy?? Y’all…it’s devine!
Mama’s Derby Pie

(from my mama~Linda Lowry)

My mama’s Derby Pie is smack your mama good! It’s a southern pie with walnuts and chocolate chips. You can use pecans in substitute for the walnuts, but I really like my walnuts!

Ingredients:

½ cup melted butter

1 cup sugar

½ cup flour

2 beaten eggs

1 tsp. vanilla extract

¾ cup Walnuts or pecans (your choice not both!)

¾ cup chocolate chips (or more if you really want it gooey!)

 

Directions

Mix in the order that’s written under the ingredients. This is very important. Pour the mixture into an unbaked 9 inch pie shell. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes.

Don’t forget to enter to win today’s prize for our Five Days of Christmas Camper Giveaway!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Day In The Life: Harriette Pearl

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Millie, scooch over! Let Bernie take a load off. She’s been busy walking all over God’s creation to deliver our mail.

Here, Bernie, let me pour you a nice cold iced-tea. Millie, scooch over!

Now, I know you’ve got all these folks from the Cozy Town Sleuth wandering ’round with you today but I just have to bring up the fact that Lucy Drake is humdinger. I swear she’s flauntin’ all over there at Mac’s nearly throwin’ me into a duck fit.
I know, I know, you broke up with Mac, but that don’t mean he can keep company with the likes of her. If you ask me, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

But you didn’t ask me.

So don’t mind me flappin’ my lips. You just sit right over there and enjoy that tea.

I don’t see my Publisher’s Clearing House envelope in this here mail stack you handed me. I swear I was supposed to get it today. Can you take a gander back in your bag?

But while you do that, I want to welcome your friends to my front porch. I love my porch swings since it holds all me and the Front Porch Ladies.

Now…me and the ladies love to sit here everyday and talk about the events of the community. Mind you, we ain’t gossiping. We are discussing prayer concerns.

Which a lot of prayers can be said on a front porch. We love our porches here in the south. It’s a place to gather after a big Sunday supper after church while we watch the kids play in the yard. After our bellies are filled with the meals that consisted of at least four kinds of meat, a half-dozen casseroles, five or six vegetables, and 10 desserts made from recipes that are handed down in the family, we can relax right here.

Don’t mistake my porch for a veranda either. Here in Kentucky we mainly have porches. There’s a vast difference. Porches were here way before air conditioning where the veranda was popular after air conditioning.

My porch is always open. It meet all needs, all moods, and all hours, so come on and sit a spell.
Tell Harriette Pearl all about your favorite things about a good porch…yeah, I do refer to myself in third person.

YOU can meet the Front Porch Ladies, including Harriette Pearl in the Mail Carrier Cozy Mystery Series.