What’s Up
If the subject line seems unnecessarily gleeful (we aren’t at that stage of lockdown anymore, after all), then you clearly missed the fact that the last three months I’ve looked QUITE A LOT like Prince Valiant due to a hair mishap. So I’m pretty thrilled it’s finally grown shaggy enough to restyle into something a bit less…
Pageboy that definitely should have graduated to something else by this point!
So there will be photos in 11 days. Or tears? Whichever works out!
In other news! Just gearing up the gumption to put Night Shift live on Amazon (well, doing the last checks of the paperback to make sure it’s all there!)
I also think I just heard a rat in the attic. So that’s a real situation I’m going to have to eventually deal with.
Pupdate of the Day
This is Jax and Frank, brothers from…the same mother! They’re actually littermates and while they don’t look much alike, they are very similar love bugs in personality. Jax is obviously SLIGHTLY better, but we’re never going to let on to Frank about that.
It also wasn’t ENTIRELY easy to get both of them sit and face the camera!
Free Audio Chapter of the Week
‘First Shift’ by TA Moore is a Night Shift short story and a prequel to Shift Work. Find out more about who Kit Marlow was before he joined the Night Shift, and how he became the man Cade Deacon gets to meet in Shift Work.
Written by TA Moore
Narrated by Michael Fell
Enjoy Chapter One!
Recommendation of the Week
Andi Lee, the littlest of the Five…in my head even though she is taller than me, has her new book Risky Business up for pre-order! If you like sweet heat, ferrets, and pining? This is the book for you!
This is just neat!
Another supernatural Jolene cover! Will I ever get tired of these? Probably not. I am warning you now.
Must Read of the Week
How cool is this? If I sell 3 million copies of Night Shift I’ll spend the night here next Halloween (I will not, please no one take this as a challenge. I am a very practical person who doesn’t believe in the supernatural, but I’m also Irish and I’ve 100% seen Black Shuck already (and I don’t believe in him, but that won’t help if he believes in me!). AND one of my uncles died after a banshee ran his motorbike off the road (not that night and from the injuries received, but still). So, I appreciate anyone buying my book but any effort to hold me to this will give me anxiety.
In the middle of a field in a lesser known part of Ireland is a large mound occupied by sheep. These livestock wander freely, chewing the grass beneath their feet. Yet, had they been in that same location 2,000 years ago, these animals probably would have been stiff with terror, held aloft by chanting, costumed pagans while being sacrificed to Celtic demons that inhabited nearby Oweynagat cave.
Considered by the ancient Celts to be a passage between Ireland and its devil-infested “otherworld,” Oweynagat (pronounced “Oen-na-gat” and meaning “cave of the cats”) was the birthplace of the Samhain festival, the ancient roots of Halloween, according to Irish archaeologist Daniel Curley. Far from the child-friendly event it has become, Halloween can trace its origins to a bloody and eerie ritual marked in Rathcroghan, a former Celtic center buried beneath the farmland of Ireland’s County Roscommon.
Awww! I love them! Look at them in their giant sized sheets. Bless.