Something Borrowed, Something 90% Dark ~ Lone Star Book Blog Tours Spotlight & Giveaway!

 

SOMETHING BORROWED, 

SOMETHING 90% DARK

Bean to Bar Mysteries, #6

by

Amber Royer

Cozy Culinary Mystery

Publisher: Golden Tip Press

Date of Publication: September 12, 2023

Number of Pages: 288 pages 

Scroll down for Giveaway!

Felicity Koerber's bean to bar chocolate shop on Galveston's historic Strand is hosting the friends and family coming into town for her best friend Autumn's wedding. As matron of honor, Felicity has a ton of tasks to complete - including making chocolates for the gift bags. She doesn't have time to solve another murder. But when one of the bridesmaids becomes a prime suspect in the death of a visiting real estate agent, Felicity has to put her detecting skills to use again to keep the wedding plans from getting derailed.

She's already nervous about the impending deadline she's given herself to finally choose between her two love interests - and figuring out where life goes once she makes her choice. But add in a missing Pygmy goat and a new coffee shop that wants to partner with her, and she's frazzled.

She begins to discover that not everything is as it seems among the wedding guests. Can she handle the wedding preparations, pull off turning her shop into a concert venue, and unmask the killer before anyone else dies?

Click to Purchase!

Amber Royer writes the Chocoverse comic telenovela-style foodie-inspired space opera series and the Bean to Bar Mysteries. She is also the author of Story Like a Journalist: A Workbook for Novelists, which boils down her writing knowledge into an actionable plan involving over 100 worksheets to build a comprehensive story plan for your novel. She also teaches creative writing and is an author coach.

Amber and her husband live in the DFW Area, where you can often find them hiking or taking landscape/architecture/wildlife photographs. If you are very nice to Amber, she might make you cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes, of course! Amber blogs about creative writing technique and all things chocolate.

WEBSITE ◆ BLOG ◆ FACEBOOK

X (TWITTER) ◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ GOODREADS

YOUTUBE ◆ AMAZON

GIVEAWAY!  GIVEAWAY!  GIVEAWAY!

TWO WINNERS:

Each receives an autographed print copy.

(US only; ends midnight, CDT, 9/21/23)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

A Shot in the 80% Dark ~ Lone Star Lit Book Blitz & Giveaway!

A SHOT IN THE 80% DARK
Bean to Bar Mysteries, Book 4

by

AMBER ROYER

Cozy Mystery / Culinary Mystery /Woman Sleuth 

Publisher: Golden Tip Press

Date of Publication: July 15, 2022

Number of Pages: 285 pages

Scroll down for Giveaway!

Felicity Koerber’s bean to bar chocolate shop is thriving. Despite everything she’s been through with the murders she’s helped solve, Felicity is ready to take on new challenges. So when a local museum offers her a contract to create a chocolate replica of a gigantic sailing ship sculpture for a gala celebrating Galveston’s history, she jumps at the chance to combine chocolate-crafting with art.

The project is fun – right up until there’s not just one but two dead artists on the scene, and Felicity has to change gears back to detective. Logan, Felicity’s business partner and previous bodyguard, and Arlo, Felicity’s ex who is now the cop investigating the case, are split on which victim they think was actually the intended one. Felicity may have to take some chances, both emotionally and in luring out a killer, to determine the truth.

Can she find out how Galveston’s history relates to the murders, unmask a killer, and prepare 2,000 chocolate desserts for the gala all at the same time?

CLICK TO PURCHASE!

│ Amazon│ Barnes and Noble

view on YouTube

Amber Royer writes the Chocoverse comic telenovela-style foodie-inspired space opera series and the Bean to Bar Mysteries. She is also the author of Story Like a Journalist: a Workbook for Novelists, which boils down her writing knowledge into an actionable plan involving over 100 worksheets to build a comprehensive story plan for your novel. She also teaches creative writing and is an author coach. 

Amber and her husband live in the DFW Area, where you can often find them hiking or taking landscape/architecture/wildlife photographs. If you are very nice to Amber, she might make you cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes, of course! Amber blogs about creative writing technique and all things chocolate.

◆ WEBSITE ◆ BLOG ◆

◆ FACEBOOK ◆ TWITTER ◆

◆ AMAZON ◆ GOODREADS ◆

◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ YOUTUBE ◆

---------------------------------------

GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY!

TWO WINNERS

Autographed copies of A SHOT IN THE 80% DARK

(US only. Ends Midnight, CDT, July 28, 2022)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Out of Temper: Bean to Bar Mystery, Book 3 ~ Lone Star Book Blog Tours BONUS Spotlight & Giveaway!

   

OUT OF TEMPER

Bean to Bar Mysteries, Book 3

by

AMBER ROYER

Categories: Cozy Mystery / Women Sleuth / Romance 

Publisher: Golden Tip Press

Date of Publication: February 1, 2022

Number of Pages: 264 pages 

 

Scroll down for Giveaway!

 

Felicity Koerber's bean to bar chocolate shop on Galveston's historic Strand has been the scene of two murders - both of which she has been instrumental in helping solve. So when she gets invited to demo her chocolate skills aboard a cruise ship sailing out of the local port, she's excited at the chance to get away from the shop long enough to regain her equilibrium. She even brings her best friend along, and makes plans for time at the spa. But when she gets on board, she finds out that she's been booked for a mystery-themed cruise, and said best friend, Autumn, has to finally deal with the real reasons she quit writing mysteries. Only - if that wasn't stressful enough - it doesn't take long before there's a real murder on the cruise, and someone Felicity knows becomes the prime suspect. When said suspect asks her for help, she can't exactly say no, can she?

Felicity finds herself surrounded by cruise goers who all had connections to the victim - and finds that both Logan (her business partner, whom she recently kissed) and Arlo (the cop who was once Felicity's first boyfriend, before she moved away from Galveston) are dealing with the case until more official help can arrive. How will Felicity survive the ensuing awkwardness?

One thing that helps: the retired police dog turned therapy dog she meets on board. Satchmo helps Felicity deal with being back on the water after tragedy in her past - and also helps her uncover a vital clue to the case. Can Felicity unmask the killer and keep a friend from being framed before all the suspects leave the ship?

 

CLICK TO PURCHASE!

│ Amazon│ Barnes and Noble │Apple Books │Kobo│

        YouTube Link To The Book Trailer

 

 

Amber Royer writes the Chocoverse comic telenovela-style foodie-inspired space opera series, and the Bean to Bar Mysteries. She is also the author of Story Like a Journalist: a Workbook for Novelists, which boils down her writing knowledge into an actionable plan involving over 100 worksheets to build a comprehensive story plan for your novel. She also teaches creative writing and is an author coach. Amber and her husband live in the DFW Area, where you can often find them hiking or taking landscape/architecture/wildlife photographs.  If you are very nice to Amber, she might make you cupcakes.  Chocolate cupcakes, of course! Amber blogs about creative writing technique and all things chocolate.

◆ FACEBOOK  ◆  TWITTER ◆

◆  WEBSITE  ◆  BLOG ◆

◆  AMAZON  ◆  GOODREADS  ◆

◆  INSTAGRAM ◆  YOUTUBE  ◆

Grand Openings Can Be Murder ~ Lone Star Book Blog Tours Bonus Guest Post & Giveaway!

GRAND OPENINGS 

CAN BE MURDER

Bean to Bar Mysteries Book 1

by

AMBER ROYER

Categories: Cozy Mystery / Woman Sleuth / Romance

Publisher: Golden Tip Press

Date of Publication: February 2, 2021

Number of Pages: 266 pages

Scroll down for Giveaway!

Felicity Koerber has had a rough year. She's moving back to Galveston Island and opening a bean to bar chocolate factory, fulfilling a dream she and her late husband, Kevin, had shared. Craft chocolate means a chance to travel the world, meeting with farmers and bringing back beans she can turn into little blocks of happiness, right close to home and family. She thinks trouble has walked into her carefully re-built world when puddle-jump pilot Logan Hanlon shows up at her grand opening to order custom chocolates. Then one of her employees drops dead at the party, and Felicity's one-who-got-away ex-boyfriend - who's now a cop - thinks Felicity is a suspect. 

As the murder victim's life becomes more and more of a mystery, Felicity realizes that if she's going to clear her name in time to save her business, she might need Logan's help. Though she's not sure if she's ready to let anyone into her life - even if it is to protect her from being the killer's next victim. For Felicity, Galveston is all about history, and a love-hate relationship with the ocean, which keeps threatening to deliver another hurricane - right into the middle of her investigation. Can she figure it out before all the clues get washed away? FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!

PRAISE FOR GRAND OPENINGS CAN BE MURDER:

"With as many unpredictable twists and turns as the hurricane approaching Galveston, Grand Openings Can Be Murder is an intriguing cozy mystery set in a new chocolate shop along the island’s historic Strand. Readers will love learning about the bean-to-bar chocolate-making process while the store’s owner, Felicity, pursues truth, justice, and the perfect chocolate bar."
-- Diane Kelly, Award-winning author of the Death & Taxes, Paw Enforcement, House Flipper, and Busted mystery series.

CLICK TO PURCHASE!

│ Amazon│ Barnes and Noble │Apple Books │

│ Bookshop.org│Kobo│IndieBound│

   

view on YouTube

Waiting on a Hurricane

Guest Post by Amber Royer

I hope you enjoyed the book trailer.  I made it during COVID, which made getting the shots that are actually from Galveston a challenge, but we did it safely social distancing. 

The weather becomes a large part of this book, and even while we were in Galveston, the sky got stormy and windy.  We were there not long after my parents, who still live in Southeast Texas, evacuated up to Dallas from Hurricane Laura.  In Grand Openings Can Be Murder, there’s a hurricane coming in as the story events progress.  While my parents were here, watching the storm radar and checking what their electricity provider had to say about power in their neighborhood, I realized that while the technology may have changed, that impending sense of worry hasn’t.  And I feel even more certain I captured it well in my book.

When I was a kid, I remember using paper hurricane tracking maps, with red and white grids for drawing in dots.  Anybody else remember those?  And I remember tough decisions on whether or not to evacuate, because once you get on the highway on an evacuation route, you are committed – even if the storm changes course while you are traveling.  I remember one time being stuck for six hours in my brother’s Toyota Celica with him – and his German Shepherd – only to find out that the storm had turned towards Louisiana, where we were headed.

That sense of waiting can just about drive you crazy.  One year, my husband and I had planned a trip to Galveston for our anniversary and had stopped off at my parent’s house on our way there.  They were planning to go across with us and stay on the island for a couple of days.  Only, the week of the trip, a storm showed up in the Gulf, and we spent the whole time at their house, because the storm was threatening to make landfall while we were scheduled to be there.  My husband had never toured the Tall Ship Elissa, and we had plans to go during our trip.  Only, by the next time we were able to visit Galveston, the Elissa had been closed off for repairs.  Damage sustained during Hurricane Ike had sent a power surge through the ship, accelerating a process called electrolysis, which ate away at the hull of the ship, which rusted out without anyone noticing until the ship was inspected much later. 

But don’t worry – Jake eventually got to tour the Elissa – and even go down belowdecks.  It was right after the ship reopened – you can still see repair materials in the cabin picture.  Because repair and renewal are just a part of living on the coast.

Amber Royer writes the CHOCOVERSE comic telenovela-style foodie-inspired space opera series, and the BEAN TO BAR MYSTERIES. She is also the author of STORY LIKE A JOURNALIST: A WORKBOOK FOR NOVELISTS, which boils down her writing knowledge into an actionable plan involving over 100 worksheets to build a comprehensive story plan for your novel. She blogs about creative writing technique and all things chocolate at www.amberroyer.com. She also teaches creative writing for both UT Arlington Continuing Education and Writing Workshops Dallas. If you are very nice to her, she might make you cupcakes.

◆ WEBSITE ◆ BLOG ◆

◆ FACEBOOK ◆ TWITTER ◆

◆ AMAZON ◆ GOODREADS ◆

◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ YOUTUBE ◆

---------------------------------------

GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY!

ONE WINNER

Autographed copy of GRAND OPENINGS CAN BE MURDER

and a $25 Gift Card to Dandelion Chocolate

(US only. Ends Midnight, CST, February 19, 2021)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

CLICK TO VISIT THE LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE TOUR PAGE

FOR DIRECT LINKS TO EACH POST ON THIS TOUR, UPDATED DAILY,

or visit the blogs directly:

2/9/21	Excerpt	Texas Book Lover
2/9/21	BONUS Guest Post	Hall Ways Blog
2/9/21	BONUS Promo	LSBBT Blog
2/10/21	Top Ten	That's What She's Reading
2/11/21	Review	Missus Gonzo
2/12/21	Playlist	All the Ups and Downs
2/13/21	Review	StoreyBook Reviews
2/14/21	Author Interview	Rebecca R. Cahill, Author
2/15/21	Review	Forgotten Winds
2/16/21	Scrapbook Page	KayBee's Book Shelf
2/17/21	Review	The Page Unbound
2/18/21	Review	It's Not All Gravy

blog tour services provided by