What’s Up?
I know. I know. I’ve sucked at keeping up with my newsletter the last while. I’m going to try and get better. It’s just a lot going on!
Part of that, to be fair, is that I went away last week for a couple of days. I headed down to Belle Isle (I am not renting the castle, although if anyone wants to go halfsies with me at some point!) with the two pups to have a nice wee getaway.
Before you worry, the weather had broken and, besides, it wasn’t as hot here as it was on the mainland. Trust me you would have heard me complaining if it had gotten to 30 degrees here, never mind 40!!! We topped out at 26 in Newtownards, which was hot enough for the dogs! They got out early and then spent the rest of the day going from sunbeam to cool spot.
The hottest it was while I was away was a balmy 19 degrees.
I have booked my flights to UK Meet and GRL. So that’s a little…somewhere between nervewracking and exciting! :D
Pupdate of the Week
Ready for their holibobs!
Free Audio Chapter of the Week
'Late Shift' by TA Moore is a Night Shift short story and a prequel to Shift Less. 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 the books! Chapter Eight up now!
Written by TA Moore
Narrated by Michael Fell
If you prefer to read rather than listen, you can get Late Shift in mobi and epub on the website.
The complete Night Shift series is available on Audible, also narrated by the awesome Michael Fell.
Shout Out of the Week
I had to hit the ‘I believe’ button over someone wanting to go back to their construction job (I have relatives who work in construction, they sound like Rice Crispies when they walk or pick things up!), but the rest of this looks like a lot of fun! :D
I am loving this so far.
Must Read of the Week
I mean, sometimes I’ve been on a call with my friends and the next thing you know one of us mentions ‘goat cops’ and next thing you know what’s all over my facebook. TikTok is worse! I swear it mines my hindbrain anxieties for the FYP.
The Quiet Way Advertisers Are Tracking Your Browsing
Cookies are on the way out—but not enough is being done about browser fingerprinting. So what is it?
Creepy cookies that track all your online activity are (slowly) being eradicated. In recent years major web browsers, including Safari and Firefox, have restricted the practice. Even Chrome has realized that cookies present a privacy nightmare. But stopping them ends only one kind of online tracking—others are arguably worse.
Fingerprinting, which involves gathering detailed information about your browser’s or your phone’s settings, falls into this category. The tracking method is largely hidden, there’s not much you can do to stop it, and regulators have done little to limit how companies use it to follow you around the internet.
I used to read these AGGRESSIVELY. This, despite the cover’s fame, wasn’t one of my favs. I was all about the Mallorys (a pirate AND a rake in one family? Be still my heart) and the Ly-San-Ter clan.
This has a chokehold on me. You have NO IDEA how much I am looking forward to it.