title: Minding Mama: Winner! Mayhaven Award for Fiction
author: Marilyn Arnold
description: "Minding Mama is the wacky, hilarious tale of...a cross-country journey...a very funny yet deceivingly thoughtful novel...deserving of Mayhaven's Award for Fiction." Richard H. Cracroft, Nan Osmond Grass Professor in English, emeritus
zlib_text: **Darynda Jones** has won several awards, including a 2009 Golden Heart in the
  Paranormal Category for _First Grave On the Right_ and the 2012 RITA awards
  for Best New Book.
  
    
  
  She lives in New Mexico, with her husband of more than 25 years and two sons,
  the mighty, mighty Jones boys.
  
    
  
  Visit Darynda Jones online:
  
  [www.daryndajones.com](http://www.daryndajones.com)
  
  [www.facebook.com/darynda.jones.official](http://www.facebook.com/darynda.jones.official)
  
  [www.twitter.com/Darynda](http://www.twitter.com/Darynda)
  
    
  
  _Praise for Darynda Jones:_
  
    
  
  ‘Hilarious and heart-felt, sexy and surprising, this paranormal has it all… An
  absolute must read - I’m already begging for the next one!’ J.R. Ward, No.1
  _New York Times_ bestselling author
  
    
  
  ‘From its unique premise to its wonderfully imaginative characters, Jones’s
  award-winning Charley Davidson mystery series, from _First Grave on the Right_
  onward to this fifth delectable installment, will continue to attract and
  delight a bro