Ritter Ames's Blog

Now that we have Halloween in our rearview mirrors, and Thanksgiving and Christmas are just up the road, I rereleased ORGANIZED FOR CHRISTMAS WISHES for anyone who wants to get into the holiday mood for free. Yes, this title is Free through the holidays, and it’s available for download at all the online booksellers. But it will disappear again in 2022, so grab it while you can–and please tell any friends who like cozy mysteries. Click here to get to that book page with all the bookseller links. Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone is enjoying a festive holiday season, despite having to trim things back this year. All I want for Christmas is an end to this crazy and sad 2020! But in the meantime, in addition to my gift of a free copy of Organized for Christmas Wishes (Click here to get to that book page with all the bookseller links), I’ve also discounted my boxset of the first three Organized Mysteries, and it’s now half price for about a week — Click here to go to the page that shows bookseller links for the boxset. That’s a $5 savings over the regular price. Also, don’t forget to grab your Free Organized for Christmas Wishes if you haven’t already download a copy — that freebie will disappear on New Year’s Day, too. Hope these two gifts help y’all have a happier holiday season for gift-giving to yourself and others. Take care! Read more...

Now that the holiday rush has begun, I wanted to take a moment to tell anyone who doesn’t already know that I’m offering Organized for Christmas Wishes as a holiday gift ebook to anyone who wants a heart-warming cozy mystery. It is FREE now at all online bookstores. This is a shorter read–a novelette–and there’s no murder this time, but there is a seasonal mystery. It’s available in all ebook formats, and you can find links to all the booksellers at  — https://www.ritterames.com/books/orga... As always, please share with friends and fellow readers, because I love for everyone to receive these gift ebooks. And if you would like to leave a short review, I would greatly appreciate it. Take care. Have a wonderful holiday season. Grab this title while it’s FREE.

I hope everyone is well and you’ve all been enjoying summer (in the Northern Hemisphere; winter in the Southern Hemisphere, right?). As we celebrate the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. — equating it with school starts (in whatever capacity is available this year) and the end of summer (yay! I’m not a fan of summer heat & humidity) — I’m looking forward to a fabulous fall. To celebrate the holiday, I’m giving away copies of Organized for Picnic Panic. It’s available free for a limited time at all the booksellers worldwide. All you have to do is go to your favorite online bookstore and download

I’m giving away a signed print copy of Frugal Lissa Finds a Body over on my Facebook Author page. To enter, find the pinned post at the top with the graphic below and comment with what you’re currently reading. The winning name will be drawn tomorrow night and posted at the end of the FB post. If you haven’t already liked my FB Author Page, be sure and like it if you want to get notified when the winning name is drawn. Here’s the link — https://www.facebook.com/RitterAmesBo... Good luck!

Everyone ready for trick or treat? Wanted to treat readers early–no tricks! Organized for Masked Motives is Free today until midnight–when all the ghosts, ghoulies and free Halloween mysteries disappear. Grab yours before the price goes up again. BOO! Click here to grab your free copy!

It’s Fri-YAY! YAY! And Fresh Fiction is spotlighting Lissa & Honey in one of their October contests this month. You can win a huge canvas totebag (19″x15″x6″) and an Amazon gift card–U.S. entries only (sorry!). Click this link to enter– https://gleam.io/Q6epM/ritter-ames-oc... Good Luck! I’d love for the winner to be someone I already know

Oh, this is such a fun weekend, and more fun to come in the week ahead thanks to all the celebrations of Agatha Christie’s Birthday. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the huge cozy sale is going on until the 21st ( Click here to see that post if you missed it). But the fun has just begun! In yesterday’s post, I promised multiple giveaways to multiple winners and I intend to make good on that promise. In honor of Dame Agatha, I have 3 copies of Frugal Lissa Finds a Body, the first book in the Frugal Lissa Mysteries (and featuring my creative canine, Honey). However, I know a lot of you have already bought a copy of the book and reviewed it–Thank You So Much–and I want you to have something to win, too. So, anyone who wins in this giveaway and has already purchased a copy will Read more...

Tomorrow is the Agatha Christie’s birthday. Longtime fan–bet you are too, right? I recently watched the movie Agatha starring Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave. I never saw the film when it came out in 1979, but BritBox had it on the schedule and I settled in one Sunday afternoon, ready to be transported to the fictionalized 11 days in 1926 when Agatha Christie disappeared–and what could have happened. I was entranced! The movie made me love Dustin Hoffman even more than I already did, increased my dislike of Timothy Dalton (though I do credit that he’s excellent at playing jerks in his roles, and excelled in this one; just like he played the perfect villain in The Rocketeer). Also, since I’d watched the newest season of Grantchester, where Jemma Redgrave plays the mother of the new vicar, I was amazed at how much Vanessa–at about the same age as Jemma is now–and Read more...

Lovely cozy mystery sale running at this End-of-Summer Cozy Mystery Sale where you’ll not only find a couple of dozen books sale priced at 99¢ or Free, like my Organized for S’more Death. You can also enter to win a Kindle Fire. Good luck!