Hate to plot?Think you can't plot?With the no-plot plotting method in Hello, Plot. Are You Out There? you'll have plotted your book and not even realize it.Lori Devoti is the award-winning, USA Today Bestselling author of cozy mysteries and paranormal romance. She teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin Continuing Studies' annual Write by the Lake retreat and online, and does developmental editing for small publishers and authors.You'll love plotting y...

Book 1 of the Nine Worlds (previously Unbound series)Risk Leidolf is a hellhound, shapeshifters known and feared throughout the Nine Worlds, but even as pack alpha, he has never been free. Since childhood, he has been bound to an immortal witch. Bound to do her bidding.He’s sent to hunt again. This time novice witch Kara Shane.Kara has a mission of her own, to find her sister.When Risk learns of this, he realizes the twin witches could give him the ...

A Dusty Deals Holiday Novella featuring amateur sleuth and antique store owner, Lucy Mathews and her Alaskan malamute, Kiska.Lucy is looking for love with her cowboy detective boyfriend, Peter, at a Valentine's Mystery Weekend Retreat. Kiska is looking for treats.Motivated by a bet with Peter, Lucy goes all out to solve the mystery, but things go wrong and Lucy finds herself a suspect once again - and not for a pretend crime.Will she get through the weekend without ...

Book 4 of the Nine Worlds (previously Unbound series)Rogue wolf-shapeshifter Leifi Vik didn’t ask to be sent to Gunngar, a land caught between worlds and times, but he was making the best of it and he’d found a place of sorts for himself. Yes, his job was hunting rather than protecting, but the elf princess he served had yet to find any of the witches she seemed determined to destroy. So what was the harm?Witch Heather Moore knew as soon as she walked through the portal int...

Book 3 of the Nine Worlds (previously Unbound series)The legendary horn of the Wild Hunt has been silent for decades. No hounds called. No souls captured. Until today.When hellhound Venge Leidolf hears the horn’s peal, he’s compelled to follow its call. He finds himself in a ghost town bustling with angry hounds and alluring females that he can’t name. Whatever the females are, he and the other hounds find them impossible to resist. Especially one.The Valkyrie, Geys...

Book 2 of the Nine Worlds (previously Unbound series)Kol Hildr values nothing more than protecting his portal from those who would seek to steal it. A wolf shapeshifter, Kol is one of the most trusted guardians in the Nine Worlds. Neither his portal nor his heart have ever been breached. That is until he meets witch Kelly Shane.Twin witch Kelly has a score to settle with the wolf shapeshifter and will do anything to close the gateway that he is bound to protect.An a...

A mystery is brewing in Helena, Montana, and amateur sleuth Lucy Mathews is in the center of it... again.An ex-reporter turned antiques shop owner, Lucy prides herself on being a true and loyal friend. So, when she discovers a new coffee kiosk is stealing business from a friend she is determined to help.But, things are never that simple. At least not for Lucy.The “Cuties” running the kiosk are a tad too cute for a group of do-gooding ladies. Kiska, ...

No good deed goes unpunished. The rule has kept Lucy Mathews out of trouble for most of her 29 years. That is until her part-time partner decides Lucy’s image needs a little polishing and shoves her in front of every do-good bandwagon she can find.Luckily for Lucy, her dream charity runs right up to her doorstep in the form of a sexy Canadian musher who’s in town to help organize the local sled dog race.Not so luckily for Lucy, sexy Canadians and detective boyfriends do not...

There’s more Maggie to love as her pregnancy expands her waistline and shortens her temper. Whoever said the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year is full of it.Maggie Phillips was looking for a break before the baby is born but fate has other plans. Instead of peace and goodwill, she finds herself in Miami, facing off against a crime wave that’s anything but festive. A Santa doppelgänger is terrorizing the neighborhood, and it’s going to take more than ...

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. You can though move two thousand miles away and hope they don’t come to visit. Unfortunately, for Lucy Mathews that only works for so long.Lucy has a perfect week planned. The kind of week that includes a romantic dinner with her cowboy detective boyfriend, big dollar sales to the visiting Beef Ranchers Association and their wives, and maybe a relaxing holiday weekend at home with her Alaskan malamute, Kiska.Wha...

Four garden gnomes and their owner mysteriously disappear, and then she's located the next day . . . dead!A bizarre coincidence? Maybe.Beyond weird? Definitely!Deputy Coroner and human lie detector, Charmaine Digby, is determined to get to the bottom of this murder mystery and has no shortage of suspects. All she needs to do is unravel a dangerous web of lies . . . without becoming the next victim!

No one’s perfect.At least that’s what Lucy Mathews tells herself. Except faced with her boyfriend’s rodeo queen ex-wife and perfectly trained Australian shepherd, she has to wonder if maybe this whole ‘no one’s perfect’ thing was made up by someone like...Lucy.Lucky for Lucy though, things are hopping around Helena. It’s rodeo season, and she has a booth. It’s a great opportunity to expand her clientele and maybe even snag a cash prize for Kiska as the world’s first sheep h...