Lynn Rankin-Esquer, PhD

psychologist, author, mom, baseball wife, love my family, baseball (how convenient), pickleball, Lemonheads. New cozy mystery out now!

[Lynn Rankin-Esquer, PhD @LRankinEsquer]

My blog- A meandering corner of the internet about life, baseball, parenting, writing, and moments of grace and joy. Humorous tangents guaranteed. https://t.co/NZxnKbTLHp

[Lynn Rankin-Esquer, PhD @LRankinEsquer]

Congratulations to the UC Santa Barbara baseball team for an amazing year, a great NCAA tournament run, and these all-tournament players.

[Lynn Rankin-Esquer, PhD @LRankinEsquer]

Tropes work for a reason! Done well, it’s a shortcut to finding books you like. The Cozy world has a number, but these are my favorites #AmateurSleuth #JusticeRestored #QuirkyCharacters #InterestingOccupation #PastSecrets

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We reread books because we want that experience again. And we can get it! And our brain doesn’t really know the difference between “reality” and what experience in a book.
#Reread #Read #Books #BookLove #MyPaperbackCape

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Why Do We Love a Messy Character?
Maybe because most of us have at least one area of our lives where we know exactly what we should be doing and we just. . . Don't do it.
#MessyCharacters #CozyMystery #BookLovers #StephaniePlum

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@jflWrites Used Scrivener for a long time, it’s very good for easily moving between chapters, but recently switched to Atticus, which does same thing but saves more easily to epub, pdf etc

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Omg what a great review! You totally captured everything I was trying to do in the book (and series). Happy to be tagged in the future 😀. And I just bought your book, it looks so good. And now I’m going to have to read your other reviews, I gave a feeling my TBR pile is about to grow

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@secretcoran I love hearing that 😍

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Link in comments. Amazon free ebook today: Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress: An Order Out of Chaos Mystery Book 1 by Lynn Rankin-Esquer
Authors put so much time and effort and blood and sweat and definitely TEARS into their work, why give it away for free? I believe we deserve to be paid for our efforts, my plan is to be paid for my efforts, but first you have to find your readers. And if you are not well known, perhaps the most low risk (no risk) way for someone to give you a try is to give them the book for free. And if you have a series, why not? If they like the book, they will buy the next books in the series. 
So I have made the first book in my Order Out of Chaos Mystery series free today on amazon in the ebook version. If you like cozy-plus mysteries (amateur sleuth, quirky characters, small town, dash of romance, a little sass) give it a try. Maybe it is exactly your cup of tea. And if it is not, neither of us have lost anything.
#MurderMessAndTheTangerineDress #OrderOutOfChaosMysteries #FreeEbook #OnlyToday

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AI COULD NEVER!
I do the Wordle every day and could just look up the answer but I don't. I do puzzles for the fun of FIGURING THINGS OUT. And it is why I write mysteries, to give other people the fun of figuring things out. Don't deprive your brain of this kind of rush, of finding an answer yourself. Book links in comments.
#FunOfFiguringThingsOut #Puzzles #Mysteries #MysteryWriter #Books

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[Lynn Rankin-Esquer, PhD @LRankinEsquer]

Who was the first person who told you you’re a writer? I have realized that the person who encouraged me the most, from the beginning up until this very minute, was the wild little girl in love with words. Me.
#Writer #BookLover #YouCanDoIt #BestLife #MagicOfWriting

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I finally figured out what my "brand" is. Not psychology. Not mysteries.
Weebles.
People who get knocked over by life and keep finding their way back upright.
What's your version of a Weeble? #WritingLife #CozyMystery #Psychology #Resilience #StephaniePlum #DrSiri #VeronicaSpeedwell #AmWriting #PersonalGrowth #BookLover #Storytelling #OrganizingLife #WeebleWisdom

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Eagle Vision or Mouse Vision? You need both! Zoom out, zoom in. Oh, and me? I need to be alone to think 😂 #Writing #MarthaBeck #WritingRitual

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The Beauty of a Bad Review (and of a good one too). Bottom line WRITERS LOVE REVIEWS! #WritingLife #MysteryWriter #CozyMystery #TellUsWhatYouThink

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If you know a writer…. You might just be in their book. #WritingLife #Writing #AuthorSecrets

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This is your permission to be a writer! #Writing #PublishedAuthor #JustWriteIt If you like cozy-ish mysteries, check out my series, link in comments.