Shovel & Pail Press

05/13/2026

05/13/2026

If you loved Jennifer's Sanibel Island Mysteries, be sure to check out her other books!

02/19/2026

"An Obsession with Murder" is the cat's meow! A fun, fast-paced mystery with 4.5 stars out of 5, you can find it on Amazon and wherever books are sold online.

12/17/2025

Jennifer's new book, "An Obsession with Murder," a fun mystery set in New England, featuring a cat-loving librarian with OCD out to solve her therapist's murder, is out, just in time for Christmas! You can find it online (Amazon, B&N) or by request in bookstores.

10/01/2024

New book alert!

05/28/2024

Shovel & Pail Press is thrilled to announce the release of FINDING GEMMA LOVEGOOD, a feel-good novel about books and the people who love them -- and finding love when and where you least expect it! The paperback is available wherever books or sold online and in select bookstores. (Want your library or bookstore to carry it? Ask them to order it!) It is also available for the Kindle. If you love books by Jenny Colgan, Emily Henry, and/or Abby Jimenez, you will fall in love with FINDING GEMMA LOVEGOOD!

04/11/2024

Round 2 of the contest to pick the cover of my new book, FINDING GEMMA LOVEGOOD! Cast your vote!

I’m running a book or magazine cover contest on 99designs. Designers have submitted 85 designs so far. Please vote on your favorite as I’d love to receive your feedback.

04/09/2024

Help me pick the cover of my new novel, FINDING GEMMA LOVEGOOD! Click on the link below to see the contestants and vote. NOTE: These are FIRST drafts and I can request changes. So let me know what you like and don't like.

PLOT: The book is set mainly in Southwest England, in a quaint English cottage. The main characters are Hope, late 20s (think Anne Hathaway type), an editor who goes to England in search of Gemma Lovegood, a bestselling author of Victorian romances, who no one has never met or seen, who has gone AWOL along with her overdue manuscript; Oscar (32, darkly handsome), her grouchy agent/protector who butts heads with Hope; and the mysterious Gemma Lovegood. A horse farm and a costume ball also figure in the story.

I’m running a book or magazine cover contest on 99designs. Designers have submitted 74 designs so far. Please vote on your favorite as I’d love to receive your feedback.

01/25/2024

Love seeing our books featured on library and bookstore shelves! Thanks for showcasing TINDER FELLA, Collier County Public Library !

12/01/2023

Love a good mystery? Then you'll love FRAMED IN NAPLES, the latest cozy from Sanibel Island Mysteries author Jennifer L. Schiff! Learn more at https://www.sanibelislandmysteries.com/framed-in-naples