CHERIE CLAIRE

I love this time of year for many reasons. One, it's not sweltering outside. We really don't have autumn in Louisiana, the weather kinda slides from steaming summer to a muggy wet chill (although it's dropping from high 70s to 30s today). The trees don't turn colors, either, unless you count the bald cypress turning burnt orange sometime around Thanksgiving. But, hey, it's not 95 and usually the hurricanes have slacked off, so we're happy! Second, I love fall stuff. You know,

There's a full moon on Sunday, Oct. 13, this year. What better time for the latest installment in my Viola Valentine paranormal mystery series to come out! In 2005, Hurricane Katrina uprooted Viola Valentine from her dead-end job and what she deemed a loveless marriage. Four years later, she and her husband Thibault “TB” Boudreaux are starting over on a Tennessee houseboat, she following her dream as travel writer and TB finishing school at Smoky Mountain University. But the

Viola travels to McAllen, Texas, in my latest novel, "Ghost Trippin,'" the fourth book in the Viola Valentine paranormal mystery series. John Valentine disappeared years before but recent developments that may explain his mystery point to the town at the bottom of Texas and continue up the coast through Padre Island and Galveston before ending in a remote area of Alabama. John Valentine is a birder, what we used to call birdwatcher before the term "birder" became cooler. McA

Valentine's Day beckons and you know what that means? The fourth book in my Viola Valentine paranormal mystery series comes out! "Ghost Trippin'" hits all online bookstores on Feb. 14, 2019! I'm so excited because it means that the story of Viola's long-absent father gets told, we learn more about her uptight sister Portia, and Aunt Mimi goes witchy woman on us. Of course, TB makes an angelic appearance and their relationship develops further, and Stinky the psychic cat's the