Pause Tiles

The Pause Tiles app Just So game mode

A gift from our family to yours:

The new Pause Tiles app is now available free on the Apple App Store (an Android version is on its way). A meditative tile-matching game with four ways to play, it's made entirely of hand-cut paper art — no scores, no timers, no noise. Designed for when it's all too much: take a pause, then get back out there.

Every tile set is created from hand-crafted paper art, with more sets available in-app and a sticker set included with each theme. Pause Tiles works on iPhones and iPads, and even on the Mac. Find out all about the new app at PauseTiles.com.

 

Mountain of Authors 2026

 

 

We have been invited to participate in the Pikes Peak Library District's feature event for Colorado authors, Mountain of Authors. It will be held on Saturday May 16, 2026 from noon to 5pm at Library 21C, 1175 Chapel Hills Dr., Colorado Springs CO 80920.

There will be talks, meetings with the authors, and book signings throughout the afternoon. Come by and say hello!

 

Toasted: A Snack-Sized Mystery Wedding

In the fifth book of the amateur sleuth mystery series, Toasted: A Snack-Sized Mystery Wedding, food blogger Murph Murphy's past floods into his present like a tidal wave of sticky caramel he can't escape. Murph and weddings have never been a perfect pairing. A dead body, unexpected guests, and losing his closest ally don't improve his appetite for the lavish Florida destination wedding.

At least the beach will be nice, right?

Ever-hungry food critic and amateur sleuth Murph Murphy rights culinary wrongs and serves criminals their just desserts in the Snack-Sized Mystery series, where Hallmark mysteries meet food TV. Each book in the bingeable series offers readers quick and satisfying dips into the cut-throat world of an inquisitive foodie.

Travel with Murph as he seeks out perpetrators of crimes against food and man.

 

Why YA?

We read across the age spectrum of literature, from children's books to geezer lit. A well-told story transcends categories. YA, short for young adult, is very popular beyond its target audience. People may not realize they have been immersed in YA-story-based movies from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games.

Don't let a book's listed age range put you off. Read what you like—no judgment!

Squashed: A Snack-Sized Mystery

The fourth book of the bingeable Snack-Sized Mystery series is available on Amazon in both eBook and print versions. Read for free with Kindle Unlimited. From the back cover:

Where's Kimber? Does her cryptic message to Murph Murphy signal danger, or is she simply on holiday, as the local constables want to believe?

Murph rushes to ensure his sometimes-assistant is safe. Will he be able to track her down in a land as foreign to him as Quebec City, or is it already too late?

Ever-hungry food critic and amateur sleuth Murph Murphy rights culinary wrongs and serves criminals their just desserts in the Snack-Sized Mystery series where Hallmark mysteries meets food TV. Each book offers readers quick and satisfying dips into the cut-throat world of an inquisitive foodie.

Journey with Murph as he seeks out perpetrators of crimes against food and man.

The Other Side of the Mountain

The fourth anthology of the Tales From the Pikes Peak Writers is now available, with 15 brand new short stories themed to the title, The Other Side of the Mountain. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry has written an all-new Monk Addison Case-file exclusively for the anthology.

This latest anthology, as well as the previous three, will be available, along with a book signing, at Authorpalooza during the Pikes Peak Writers Conference on May 3, 2025, 6:00-7:00p.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Colorado Springs. Authorpalooza will be open to the public.

All of the anthologies will also be available at Pikes Peak Library's Mountain of Authors at Library 21C on May 17, 2025, 12:00-4:30p.m.

Tossed: A Snack-Sized Mystery Cruise

Food blogger Murph Murphy is a fish out of water as a competition judge on a cruise ship filled with celebrity chefs, and at least one murderer (I mean where can you go where there are really no murderers). He's sure the wrong person is in the brig but he's running out of time to prove it. Once the luxury liner docks in the UK, the real killer will slip away.

The Snack-Sized Mystery series offers readers quick and satisfying dips into the cut-throat culinary world of an inquisitive foodie.

Set sail with Murph as he seeks out perpetrators of crimes against food and man.

The third book of the new mystery series, Tossed: A Snack-Sized Mystery Cruise, is available in bookstores and libraries, and on Amazon in both eBook and print versions.