What’s Up
Happy Halloween everyone! Hope you’re having a spooky one!
I am keeping busy! Lots of admin, bits and pieces of layout, and lots of sulking about GRL! I have got the paperbook of Night Shift: The Collected Volume ready to go. I just need to get my proof copy and make sure I didn’t make any crazy mistakes! Once I’ve done my approval it will be up on Amazon - should be by next week! I will let you all know.
My nose is down on the next book too. It’s going to be contemporary romantic suspense, so I need to put all magic and wolves out of the brain for a while!
I was going to try and do something Christmassy, but the Halloween spirit wasn’t letting me skip a whole season. Although to be fair to Christmas, I definitely have more Halloween appropriate books!
Pupdate of the Day
If I ever wanted Jax to make a fortune as a dog model should we go catalogue?
Or sport’s model?
Look how cool this copy of Dracula is!
Free Audio Chapter of the Week
‘Tailor Made’ by TA Moore and narrated by Garrett Kiesel is a Prodigium short story and a prequel to Cash in Hand. Find out more about the hidden world of ghouls, ghosties, and long-leggedly beasties — although Grandmother thinks that’s just rude!
Listen to the LAST chapter now! If you scroll down you can also download the ebook! :D
Next week we have a BRAND NEW audio by Michael Fell for ‘First Shift’, the short story prequel to the Night Shift series.
Shout Out of the Week
There has been plenty of bad news this week, so maybe we’re all in the mood for something a wee bit light-hearted?
As a Scrivener and a Seer, Dixon and Yuri possess many talents. Baking is not one of them.
But when a mysterious malady grips Yuri, the two of them must bargain, bluff, and bake their way through Pinyin Bay to find a cure.
Dixon is none too confident in the kitchen, but he’ll stop at nothing if it means finding a cure for his grown man friend. Even if that means getting his hands dirty in the flour bin.
Yuri, naturally, makes a terrible patient, and their home remedy attempts are half-baked at best. Can he dredge up the patience to figure out what lies behind his bizarre affliction?
and just for fun!
I love Mussenden Temple! It’s such a beautiful spot.
You can tell how windy it gets though!
Must Read of the Week
I am entirely fascinated by the idea of being a Professor of Art Crime. I’m sure it’s mostly acres and acres of citations and hours of bickering of minor details, but IN MY HEAD it’s a mixture of Remington Steele and Indiana Jones.
That Robby Hobby
The Museum of the Bible wants you to believe it’s the victim of swindlers. It’s not.
I’m a professor of art crime. To teach my students about the varieties of cultural heritage crime, like forgery, fraud, and looting, I’ve spent decades researching cases from throughout history and around the world. Which, frankly, was a big waste of time. They could have learned nearly everything about heritage crime by looking at what the Museum of the Bible has been caught doing in the past few years.
The District of Columbia museum, founded in 2010 by Steve Green, the president of the crafting superstore empire Hobby Lobby, is in the news again after September’s handover of the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet to Iraq.
Look, I was as frustrated by the ending of GOT as anyone else. BUT I am probably still going to watch this. What can I say, I’m weak.