And the Winners Are...

My first blog tour is now in the history books.  A special thanks to all my blog partners. They were fantastic to work with and great writers. I was honored to be asked to join them. Please continue to visit their blogs and support their work. Their books are wonderful. My blog partners are:

M. M. Gornell             http://mmgornell.wordpress.com/

Timothy Hallinan          http://www.timothyhallinan.com/blog/

Jackie King                 http://bnbmysteries.blogspot.com/

Jean Henry Mead        http://mysteriouspeople.blogspot.com/

Marilyn Meredith         http://marilynmeredith.blogspot.com/

Mike Orenduff            http://thepotthief.blogspot.com/

Jinx Schwartz:             http://jinxschwartz.blogspot.com/

Earl Staggs:              http://earlwstaggs.wordpress.com/

Anne K. Albert:       http://anne-k-albert.blogspot.com/

Beth Anderson        http://www.bethanderson-hotclue.com/blog/

Ron Benrey             http://blog.benrey.com/

Pat Browning          http://pbrowning.blogspot.com/

John M. Daniel       http://johnmdaniel.blogspot.com/

Alice Duncan          http://aliceduncanblog.blogspot.com/

I also would like to thank them for allowing Mitch Malone to take over the blogging and answer all his impertinent questions. 

And now for what you have all been waiting for (drum roll here) -- The winners of books. I originally planned to give away a single book but have, in the spirit of the season, added a couple of more. So without further adieu the winners are:

Jenny Twist

Stephanie Suesan Smith PhD

boots@wowway.com

Please email me at wsgager@yahoo.com and let me know whether you would like A Case of Infatuation, A Case of Accidental Intersection or A Case of Hometown Blues and whether you would like it in paper, nook, or kindle format and how best to get it to you. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you will continue to follow Mitch Malone and his search for a Pulitzer.

Iritating Outlets

I'm backing into a series of blogs I'm planning on doing just because this one annoys me so much. To bring you up to speed I've been busy moving, then moving and caring for two houses and one apartment. As of yesterday, I no longer have to take care of one house. It was sold! I live part time in a small town so my son can finish his senior year and on the weekends in a larger city 2.5 hours away. This can make me crazy. What is even worse is the electrical outlets in my apartment aren't consistent. For some you put the plugs in with the ground on the bottom and others it is the top. Then on weekends I have to adjust again. Not a big deal. Just a pain. This morning when I tried to plug my hair dryer in the wrong way...again, I thought about my characters and how they would react to an upside down outlet. Would they go ballistic? Would they shrug and walk away? I, in my postage-stamp apartment go from one extreme to the other depending on my mood and how much cabin fever I have.
What little annoyances make you go ballistic?