What’s Up
Hello from sunny California peeps! I mean, my friends keep saying it has gotten cool but it’s still pretty sunny from my perspective.
Badger—Jenn Moffatt’s house-lynx—would like to say hello.
He is very beautiful, very HUUUUUUUGE, and a big, soft, sometimes pointy pudding cat. Most of the time he likes me!
So far this week we have written, drunk coffee, chilled, written some more, chased around swag, and had pho with some very cool people.
Geez, though, it’s not long now until GRL! Two weeks and the Left Turn to Albuquerque road trip begins! We are going to hit Phoenix for an overnight, and then arrive Sunday at the hotel.
So if you’re around early, give me a bell :D
During GRL I can be found, well, here and there. However, my schedule is below.
Oh, and don’t forget you still have a few days to enter to win a Fire Tablet in my Rafflecopter!
Book Rec of the Week
I’ve loved this book since I first read it as a kid. It’s full of Irish mythology, beautifully realised characters, and a fun plot. Well worth a read.
An Ancient Manuscript...
When ten-year-old Pidge finds the crumbling pages of an old manuscript in a second-hand bookshop in Galway, he unwittingly releases the serpent Olc-Glas--and the forces of good and evil gather to do battle. The Mórrígan, Goddess of Death and Destruction, has set her evil heart on gaining Olc-Glas and adding its poison to her own, thereby casting her shadow over the world.
A Lost Stone...
To thwart The Mórrígan, Pidge and his little sister Brigit are sent by The Dagda, Lord of Great Knowledge, on a quest to find a stone that has been lost for countless years--th only means of destroying the serpent.
A Perilous Adventure...
Pidge and Brigit's journey begins in Ireland...their destination is unknown. All true creatures help where they can, but ultimately, it is up to steadfast Pidge and courageous Brigit to find their own way. And always at their heels are the terrible hellhounds--the hounds of The Mórrígan....
When ten-year-old Pidge finds an ancient manuscript in a secondhand bookshop, he unwittingly sets into motion an epic battle between Good and Evil. In order to save the world from the Mórrígan , the Goddess of Death and Destruction, Pidge and his little sister, Brigit, go on a quest to find a stone that has been lost for countless years. And always at their heels are the terrible hellhoundsthe hounds of the Mórrígan.
Deal of the Week
$1 eBook by Geoff Laughton
Sale ends September 30, 2019 at 11:59 PM ET
Shane Martinelli and William Houghton come from very different backgrounds. They meet at a high-end summer camp in the Adirondacks, where Shane works as a lifeguard to earn some money and begin saving for college. William is one of the guests, and he doesn’t want to be there. As far as William knows, his father only dumped him at the camp so he could spend time with his latest mistress. When Shane figures out William can’t swim, he offers to teach him. William enthusiastically responds, but when an unexpected storm blows in, William is caught in the water and Shane comes to his rescue. They barely reach shore before lightning strikes the dock—close enough to damage Shane’s hearing.
The following summer both boys return to the camp. Shane doesn’t let his use of hearing aids stand in his way. William is now a counselor-in-training. The attraction between them is undeniable, but how can they possibly make it work? Once camp is over, a week at William’s family home in the Hamptons will determine if the love that bloomed at the lake can survive in the real world.
Must Read of the Week
I am too Irish for this sort of thing. Even if you don’t really believe in whatever, you don’t welcome this sort of energy into your house. I mean, seriously, the best that’s going to happen is that you spent a lot of money for a fake box. At worst you end up with a curse on your ass.
Might as well just cut down a fairy thorn.
The Mystery of the Cursed Dybbuk Box
There seem to be objects in this world that draw to themselves some sort of mysterious, dark energy. For whatever reasons unexplained forces, spirits, entities, or curses are said to gravitate towards these items, imbuing them with some ominous quality beyond our ability to explain or understand. One such baffling object turned up for sale on the Internet and immediately stirred the imagination with its story of spectral entities, curses, and strange happenings orbiting it, and it has gone on to catapult into one of the weirder haunted object tales of recent times.
The tale of what has come to be known as the Dybbuk Box, also spelled Dibbuk Box, has achieved almost urban legend status, and revolves around an old, antique wine cabinet steeped in a shadowy past that was allegedly discovered and purchased at an estate sale in Oregon by antiques collector and small-business owner Kevin Mannis.
I am loving this.
Useless Site of the Week
I like to check every now and again. Has the large hadron collider destroyed the world yet? As of this morning?
Poetry of the Week
Nafeesa Hamid is a British Pakistani poet and playwright based in Birmingham. Her work covers taboo themes such as sex, domestic violence and mental health, using personal experience as a basis for her writing.