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This is delicious with fresh baked biscuits or try it with fried biscuits. SlowCooker  Apple Butter apples (enough to fill crock pot) 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla 2 tsp cinnamon 1 1/2 cups sugar 2/3 cup brown sugar Peel, core and slice apples. 2. Put apples and vanilla in slow cooker. Set on low for 8 hours. I left it overnight. 3. Mash apples and mix in cinnamon and sugars. Continue cooking another 6 hours. Process in blender for a smooth consistency.  Should make about 6 pints.  What on earth can you do while it's cooking? Play  UNO with the kids  OR grab one of my books to read on  KINDLE  . SHADOWBOXER SERIES ASSET  – a Brill Winger Thriller OPERATIVE  – a Brill Winger Thriller SIDEWAYS  – a Brill Winger Thriller CHOKEPOINT  – a Brill Winger Thriller DECREED  - a Brill Winger Thriller IN THE DARK  – a Brill Winger Thriller TRUE NATURE NOMINEE ELECT DEEP STATE DISAVOWED CREDIBLE THREAT Tin Trooper – a Br

Simple and easy to make. Just drop it all in the pot, set it and forget it. After an hour, your house will smell delicious.  Great for a big group get together and served with cornbread or yeast rolls. Slow Cooker Ham Bone Soup 1 leftover ham bone 1 onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 large carrot, diced 1 – 15 oz can corn 2 large red potatoes, chopped 2.5 cups cooked pinto beans salt and pepper to taste 2 cups diced ham 4 cups water Step 1: Place ham bone in slow cooker. Step 2: Add vegetables and water. Step 3: Cook on low 7 hours and then remove ham bone. Step 4: Add diced ham and cook an additional 1-2 hours. Step 5: Season to taste and serve. What on earth can you do while it's cooking? Play UNO with the kids OR grab one of my books to read on KINDLE . SHADOWBOXER SERIES ASSET – a Brill Winger Thriller OPERATIVE – a Brill Winger Thriller SIDEWAYS – a Brill Winger Thriller CHOKEPOINT – a Brill Wing

“He doesn’t want a snack!” The little girl screamed at me when I didn’t take one from their box. A lot of people are putting out water and treats in boxes by their front door for delivery drivers. Two little girls put out a box and watched through the door as they waited. They hovered while I walked up. “We made a snack for you,” they said. I was tired. I was sore. I felt like a huddled mass. Lady Liberty would be the only woman who loved me. “I’ll get one next time,” I said without thinking. I didn’t really feel like a snack. A hot bath. A full body rub down. Something cold to drink. Yes. Just not gushers. The youngest blinked back tears. So I took the gushers. And gushed a lot of thank you’s. The smiles were worth it.   They waved as we drove off. “You should wear a santa hat next week,” the driver said. He’s a nice guy. Thirty years on the job at UPS. I told him I worked there in college and for a few years a

Panic isn’t the right word. I don’t panic. I worry my plan isn’t working. Then I try to adjust. Like Amazon. I use Amazon publishing to publish my books. I make money from selling paperbacks and from Kindle Unlimited page reads. Some weeks, it’s hard to determine what the final payout is going to be at the end of the month. I try to take the average of the first 15 days of sales and multiply that number by 30. That tells me what I’m going to get when Amazon makes a payment two months later. If that number is low, I can either write and release something to try and bump it up, or I can schedule a promo to ramp up the numbers. Most of the time, it’s a guessing game because what worked once, may not again, and what was working before might suddenly stop. December is supposed to be a bad time for indie sales as readers use their money to buy presents for others. It’s called a sales slump. It happens all the time. There’s one in sum

Back Up - The Series "You know that source we've been searching for?" Jo glanced over at her partner in the passenger seat. Charlie was a big man, and he took up most of his seat and managed to squeeze over onto her side. It was all muscle covered with a healthy layer of fat courtesy of what he called "ass in seat" time. Like now. They had been in the patrol car for three hours, but during that time, there was no patrolling. There was sitting outside of a brick warehouse, waiting. Watching. Charlie had a CI, or a confidential informant. God only knows how the man managed to speak to the person, since most of the time, his ass was in the seat of the patrol car, ready to bark out orders for Jo to follow. But the CI had informed them, confidentially, that some big shit was going down in the warehouse on the edge of the river district, the one targeted for redevelopment. "Drugs?" she asked. Charlie shook his boulder like head, send

SPA CITY “I want a taste of this,” he said as his yellow tongue worked in and out of the gap in his teeth. “Nope,” Juanita told him. “This is one for the boys.” He considered her with watery eyes, blinking as if confused. “I built this family,” he started to say. “Save it Dad,” Juanita answered before he could get going on a roll. “I know what you’re going to say and the answer I still going to be no.” “I’ll-,” “What? You’ll what? Go to the Sheriff? I’m up to date with him. Go to Ricky? You can’t, you burned that bridge a long time ago.” His trembling hand gripped the head of the Ozark oak cane and the tongue worked around the edges of his thin lip as he tried to think of way to respond. “You’re my daughter,” he finally settled on a plea halfway between a whine and a growl. Juanita stood up from the couch and sat the can of beer next to his on the fold out table by his recliner. “Thanks for the beer,” she said. “Don’t call me at work.”

KINETIC - an action thriller Amber Payne stared up from the book on her desk, a copy of PAST DUE about a ex-soldier and bookstore owner in Arizona who kept stumbling across trouble.   She marked the page with a finger and glanced at the alert window that pinged red on the monitor screen. His job was simple. She monitored a computer screen that was connected to data mining software that was embedded on a communications satellite orbiting above.   That software searched for certain words or combination of words, and flagged them for review. When it was created, Operation Overhear was designed to prevent terrorism.   But with the global war on terror defunding and winding down, the Board of Directors found other applications for the software in the corporate sector. Business was booming. Amber hit print screen and marked her place in the book as she shut it.   She grabbed the info flash from the printer and hurried it to her section head. “I thought your shift was over