State of the TAM - 28th Feb
News! Offers! Puppies!
What’s Up?
Lots actually!
Bring some shiMMery Love into your life!
70 much-loved and award-winning authors will be attending shiMMer 2025, and you can read a selection of their books in this March promotion
This very popular signing takes place this year in Solihull, UK on June 28th. And whether you’re attending or not, you can share in the reading fun and maybe find some new Favourite Authors! We LOVE meeting our readers – but we love sharing our books just as much ♥️.
Come and browse HERE: https://books.bookfunnel.com/shiMMerauthors2025/2q2u0ritfo
If you’re tempted to attend shiMMer?
Find out about the event here: https://www.facebook.com/shimmerauthorevent
Buy an Attendee ticket here: https://buytickets.at/shimmermmuk/1242839
And if you’re already going?
See all the Fabulous Pre-order forms in the Attendees Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1147076735399309/posts/7907788662661382/
Including mine: TA Moore’s ShiMMer Pre-Orders
Let me know about your favourite shiMMer authors and books, and I hope to see lots of you at the event in June ♥️.
Want to go to Indie Pride in Manchester? I have two tickets to give away! Comment on this post or the one on my Facebook Page to be entered into the draw!
Winners will be announced in a month!
Pupdate of the Week
Oh, you know I wouldn’t leave you without your fix of the dynamic duo, the staffie set!
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I was also trying to get some new headshots today and Jax decided to ‘help’.
This made me laugh so hard I snorted.
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Must Read of the Week
…I would have nothing left. Why don’t you just take my car while you’re at it?
6 Habits Therapists Are Begging You to Break for the Sake of Your Mental Health
You might not realize these behaviors are sapping the joy and ease from your life.
Adding self-care practices into your daily routine can obviously work wonders for your mood and mental health. (If you’re in the market, we’ve got suggestions for calmer mornings, afternoons, and nights—and we even compiled this list of our all-time best self-preservation ideas to sprinkle into your life whenever.) But sometimes, giving yourself a mental tune-up has more to do with letting go of the bad habits that might be subtly wearing you down than it does stacking on new ones.
It’s true: Therapists say that a bunch of daily behaviors—like how you approach getting things done and the ways you relate to others—can sabotage your mental health. But because of how ingrained these tendencies can be, you might not realize they’re killing your vibe or making you feel lousy. And that’s the last thing anyone needs in a world where protecting your peace and staying sane is already an uphill battle.
This story made it into the top three choices for the newsletter.
The concept of FOMO is widely known these days. But fewer people are familiar with a related and similarly potent force: FOBO.
I swear, I thought it was Fear of Being Out and I was just ‘Ugh, I get that’. I get both, to be fair, I have FOMO in case I miss something, but then the thought of not missing something gives me FOBO.
(Apparently FOBO is actually ‘fear of a better option’, which is…also relatable. It’s a good thing I rarely think things through well, because if I gave my neuroses time to warm up we’d never get anything done!)