Ava Mallory

  Buy Now! My contribution to Christmas Cookie Cozies introduces brand-new characters in a brand-new cozy mystery world. The title is Christmas Cookie Catastrophe. Here's the blurb: Blurb: Consuelo “Cookie” Alvarez is great at a lot of things, but baking isn’t one of them. When she inherits a bakery from her favorite aunt, she’s dead-set on closing the business so she can pursue her dream of becoming a citizen detective and true-crime blogger. What she doesn’t expect is a letter from her late aunt asking her to take her place in the county-wide Christmas Cookie Bake-Off. Now she has two weeks to perfect the super-secret award-winning recipe before the competition, but there are major obstacles in her way: she can’t bake, the recipe is missing, and her competitors are a who's who of shady characters with sticky fingers. Can she fulfill Aunt Birdie’s wishes, or is this where the award-winning cookie crumbles? Want to read an excerpt? Scroll down. “That’s a first.” The baritone vo...

Happy New Year! May your 2020 be filled with love, laughter, and light! Nothing excites me more than a do-over. I love them! Because I'm a planner girl, a lot of the excitement is all about the set-up, new possibilities, and building my dream. I can't get enough of it. This year, 2020, is all about peace for me. That's my one word. I want to demonstrate peace, feel peace, strive for peace in all I do, say, and think. Last year was a stressful one for me. I put a lot of pressure on myself. It's a sickness. I overschedule, over-commit, over think. My health and my sanity took a huge hit because I lived under a constant state of chaos and stress. I know better. Right here, right now, I'm promising msyelf to treat myself better. My Kanban board is all set-up with four sections - three dedicated to my writing business and one all about my health. If you're not familiar with Kanban boards, here's a great video by Sarra Cannon  https://www.yout...