Heather Weidner, author of Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs, a Jules Keene Glamping mystery, is visiting Ascroft, eh? today to introduce us to her sleuth in the series.

Welcome, Heather. I’ll turn the floor over to you –

Jules Keene is the owner of the Fern Valley Camping Resort, home to vintage trailers and tiny houses. She first appeared in Vintage Trailers and Blackmailers, and she’s the star of the Jules Keene Glamping series (Vintage Trailers and Blackmailers, Film Crews and Rendezvous, Christmas Lights and Cat Fights, Deadlines and Valentines, and Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs).

Here are 15 things that you may not know about my amateur sleuth.

1. Redhead
2. Drives a Silver Jeep Wrangler
3. Born in 1983
4. From Fern Valley, Virginia
5. Graduated from James Madison University in 2004
6. Earned a degree in Interior Design
7. Likes hiking and camping
8. Named after Demi Moore’s Character in St. Elmo’s Fire
9. Named her dog after the classic Bijou movie theater in town
10. Divorced the Idiot in 2010
11. Her parents bought the Fern Valley Camping Resort in the 1970s
12. Her boyfriend Jake is named after the heartthrob in 16 Candles
13. Crafts in her spare time
14. Savvy with social media
15. Appears next in Hazardous Links and Hijinks

Thank you for sharing this with us, Heather, and good luck with Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs, the latest book in the Jules Keene Glamping mystery series. Readers can learn more about Heather Weidner by visiting the author’s website and her Facebook, Instagram, Goodreads, Tiktok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, BookBub and YouTube pages. You can also follow her on Threads, BlueSky and Twitter/X.

The book is available online at the following retailers:

 Amazon – B&N – Bookshop.org 

About Heather Weidner: Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.

Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, Murder by the Glass, First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder, and Crime in the Old Dominion, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.

Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a crazy Mini Aussie Shepherd named Cooper.