What’s Up?
Look at this weather. I get climate change and all, but apparently our weather has just been thrown in a tumbler and shaken about. All the weather all at once!
I’ve seen people talking about that author who said that authors should stay in their lane and keep their mouth shut about Roe vs Wade. To start with, I do as I like. Secondly, I know women who lost their children in the Magdalene Laundries, who were brutalized and shamed by nuns. I had friends at school who had to try and sneak over to England to get an abortion against their parent’s wishes. I know what happens when religion becomes part of the state. It does neither institution any favors.
So it’s my lane, thanks. I’m not really worried about losing any readers. I can’t imagine I have a lot of those who are all that way right of where I stand. If they are, well, consider what these laws are really about. For the record I think abortion should be the pregnant person’s choice and religion should be kept out of it. If people want to discourage abortion, make birth control easier to get and sex education mandatory.
Not much else is going on this week! Lots of dragging the pups out in the rain while they grumble about it and doing some writing. The Dirty Job blog tour is off to the different mailboxes it was supposed it hit!
Addendum - We will be doing a puppy bath this week apparently. The baby is stinky.
Pupdate of the Week
Mind you, we have had SOME nice days!
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 Seven 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.
These are so cool. Horrifying too, obviously, but still!
This delighted me.
Shout Out of the Week
Must Read of the Week
You would think I’d be tired of plague after the last few years (and I’d certainly sign up for the No New Pandemics multiverse), but I still find the Black Death fascinating. I remember studying it in history, after the murder of Thomas Becket (which I rendered in gory detail for an illustrated essay, using tipp-ex blobs as brain matter. Apparently 12 year old me thought there’d been a final boss fight!).
Where Did the Black Death Begin? DNA Detectives Find a Key Clue.
Where and when did the Black Death originate? The question has been asked for centuries and led to heated debate among historians.
Now, a group of researchers reports that it has found the answer in the pulp of teeth from people buried in the 14th century.
Based on their analysis of the preserved genetic material, the researchers report that the Black Death arrived in 1338 or 1339 near Issyk-Kul, a lake in a mountainous area just west of China in what is now Kyrgyzstan. The plague first infected people in a small, nearby settlement of traders eight years before it devastated Eurasia, killing 60 percent of the population.
I love my puppies, but sometimes I do miss my cats. They would have hated the dogs from somewhere on high, but I still wish they were here.
So fast! I love it!
Look! How cute is this?!