T.A. Moore's Blog, page 7
October 4, 2023
State of the TAM - 4th October
Sting in the Tail by TA Moore is out today! Check it out! Tell me it’s marvelous! :D
I’m very excited to have this out there! I hope you all enjoy it as much as me. There’s a blog tour that will be running over the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for them! Articles! Prizes! All the things!
In other news it’s only a week and a half until GRL! I’m not ready! I mean, I should be ready but I’m sure I’ve forgotten something.
NOT, however, my covid jab! I’ll be getting that next weekend. So that’s a relief! Once I get back from GRL I’ll see if I can do a swag giveaway or something :D
Pupdate of the WeekOK. The Izzy is the best little gray beastie in the world. She’s also very timid and quite scared of non-Jax dogs. Today, however, she said hello to a little Shih tzu AND a very happy Golden Retriever. She was tapped out after that so we had to wait for the other dogs to go on before she’d trot on her way.
Still so bold and brave!
They also had a lovely time at Mount Stewart earlier today!
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The Carnival of Mysteries just arrived in Sutton County. They say if you cross the fortune teller’s palm with silver she can read your future like a map. Right now all Ledger Conroy wants to know is if he has a future.
Back in Sutton after over a decade, Ledger’s plan had been to bury his father--recently deceased convicted serial killer and less-well known warlock, Bell Conroy--clear the property, and then finally wash his hands of being a Conroy. Instead there’s a cured human heart in the larder, a pissed off pretty boy who is definitely not human at the door, and a debt to the devil that Ledger’s just inherited.
Devil. Monster. Something like that. He’d not asked for its pedigree
Whatever it was, it's given Ledger a week to fulfill the terms of his father’s contract. Or else he’s never going to leave Sutton again. With pretty-boy Wren at his heels, more to make sure Ledger doesn’t skip town than to provide assistance, Ledger tries to track his father’s sins across Sutton. The problem is there’s so many of them.
Ledger is faced with old grudges, a Sheriff that thinks Ledger knows more about his father’s crimes than he’s ever said (and isn’t wrong), and a dead man with a book shop. Not to mention the on-going distraction of Wren, who can't decide whether to be a hindrance, a help, or just hot.
Luckily Ledger has a nose for this sort of work.
Sting in the Tail is part of the multi-author Carnival of Mysteries Series. Each book stands alone, but each one includes at least one visit to Errante Ame's Carnival of Mysteries, a magical, multiverse traveling show full of unusual acts, games, and rides. The Carnival changes to suit the world it's on, so each visit is unique and special. This book contains a dealer in dark collectibles, a man who's NOT people, and a monster with a debt it expects to be paid.
Look how cool these are! I am taken with the idea of it, although I haven’t the stuff to do it :D
@rebelunicorncraftsThat glow!!!! 🎃🎃🎃🎃 Negative or reverse watercolor painting doesn't just make things darker, it can also make light pop! #negativewatercolour #reversewatercolor #halloweenart #halloweenpainting #easywatercolor #watercolor #pumpkin #jackolantern [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browserMust Read of the Week
There is a definitely a book in ‘digital necormancy’. I mean, that would work. A necromancer with a delicate stomach who doesn’t like to deal with rot and corpses. So they create ‘bodies’ through AI and summon life into that.
Generative AI – which encompasses large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT but also image and video generators like DALL·E 2 – supercharges what has come to be known as “digital necromancy”, the conjuring of the dead from the digital traces they leave behind.
Debates around digital necromancy were first sparked in the 2010s by advances in video projection (“deep fake” technology) leading to the reanimation of Bruce Lee, Michael Jackson and Tupac Shakur. It also led to posthumous film appearances by Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing, among others.
Initially the preserve of heavily-resourced film and music production companies, the emergence of generative AI has widened access to the technologies that were used to re-animate these and other stars to everyone.
@tamoorewrites“When your dead father is a serial killer, and a warlock on the side, it is important to approach your inheritance with caution! As Ledger Conroy is about to find out!” Sting in the Tail by TA Moore is out today! Check it out! http://bit.ly/46eSW8N #tamoore #stinginthetail #authortok #mmromance #paranormalfantasy #urbanfantasy #funkyweehat [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
September 27, 2023
State of the TAM - Sept 27
It is windy enough here tonight! I got the dogs out early when it was ONLY piddling down, so they’re happy enough to snooze the night away.
@dublinsfm104Well, Storm Agnes is definitely here… 🤣 #stormagnes #ireland #weather [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
I have, however, pulled a muscle in my back. It’s fine…unless I pick something up, turn suddenly, bend down, or sit in my normal pretzel position. Also, don’t blame my pretzel posture for my pulled muscle! I did that through sheer athletic excess! To be exact, I bent slightly funny when I went to get the dogs steps out of the back of the car. Then I made a weird noise.
So I’m on painkillers, watching Yellowjackets Season 2 (story was more compelling in season 1, but we get more Misty this season so it events out?), and drinking some soup. …I need to take up an exciting hobby IMMEDIATELY, don’t I?
Until then, I’ll stick to planning out GRL! And if you are going to GRL this is VERY PROBABLY where you can find me.
I would go so far as to say it’s very, very probable. I am just bad at times!
Pupdate of the Week
@tamoorewritesI think Jax and Izzy have gotten too used to these treat balls! #staffiesoftiktok #enrichmentfordogs #cutenessoverload #treatballs [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
Also Izzy being VERY DIGNIFIED.
@tamoorewritesThe alternate treat balls are confuzzling Izzy. [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browserShout Out of the Week
Happy release day to R.L. Merrill!
From the author of Foreword Indies Finalist Summer of Hush and BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist Brains and Brawn comes a new installment in the series, a contemporary gay romance with a side of time travel and magic.
Musical prodigy Kallos Alexandrou has played his calliope for countless visitors at Errante Ame’s Carnival of Mysteries, but his one-year residency has come to an end. Scars from a terrible tragedy in his past are the only explanation he has for his loss of speech and memory, but it’s time to move on, so when a music festival sets up next to the carnival, Mr. Ame sends him off with identification, a bottomless billfold, and a set of new clothes. Outside the carnival’s perimeter, Kal finds himself in an unfamiliar world surrounded by strange instruments and vibrant people like nothing he’s ever seen.
Ryan Wells is the troubled and celebrated lead singer of the metal band Backdrop Silhouette. He’s brought more than his share of baggage on the last cross-country Warped Tour, including harsh restrictions placed on him by his parole officer and the band’s label, but it’s the treatment from his bandmates that have him feeling unsettled. After a tough morning, he spots a strange young man playing carnival music on a keyboard backstage, and the sound takes him back to a particularly vulnerable time in his youth. Intrigued, Ryan asks the young man’s name, but he flees only to appear later as a replacement stagehand for the tour.
An invitation from the band Hush to ride on their bus gives Ryan and Kal a welcome distraction. They find the camaraderie and support they’ve both been craving…as well as a little magic and a fresh new romance. But personal secrets and the music business make relationships difficult to maintain, and when the tour ends, Ryan and Kal will have to make a choice: move forward together on an uncertain path, or let fear keep them from trusting that sometimes you really can have everything you desire.
Art work/Mural on side of building in Ballymoney.
Relating to Ballymoney’s former nickname “cowtown”
Check out Beautiful Northern Ireland for more…
Must Read of the WeekCome for the mass, stay for the curses. Never say the Irish can’t multi-task!
The Quest to Pick Up the Lost Lifting Stones of IrelandA strongman is on a mission to uncover and lift these forgotten tests of strength.
Photographs: David Keohan, Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte
For centuries, Ireland’s stones were more than just a feature of the rugged landscape: The ability to pick them up off of the ground had deep practical and spiritual meaning. Lifting stones were used in tests of manhood (and, in a few cases, womanhood), hoisted at funerals to honor the dead, carried at weddings in celebration of the couple, and used to determine whether a man was strong enough to earn work as a farmhand. But in the 18th and 19th centuries, during British colonization, the practice largely vanished. Most of the stones remained untouched where they were last lifted.
This is how the man they call Indiana Stones came to be standing in the middle of a churchyard 60 miles north of Dublin, bale hook in one hand, crowbar in the other. He notices that something immediately feels wrong about this place: It’s too new, too pristine. If he’s going to find––and attempt to lift––a 400-year-old rock once stood upon during secret Catholic mass gatherings, and used to invoke curses upon one’s neighbors, it’s not going to be here.
I still don’t know what happened there. Mass madness! Chaos! Sheer disregard for the laws of man and Tescos.
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September 25, 2023
Flash State of the TAM
When ex-priest Jack finds a dead man nailed to his bed, he knows it’s going to be a bad night. He just has no idea how bad. Now he’s been recruited by his own personal demon to find the thieves who killed a man, kidnapped his family, and stole something of indescribable value from the demonic Math. To find answers he has to delve deep into the infernal underbelly of his town and face his own past. Jack’s been promised his soul back if he succeeds. As local cop Ben Ambrose risks his own soul by following too closely in Jack’s footsteps, and with a child’s life on the line, Jack has to decide if it’s a deal he’s willing to make.
Previously published by Dreamspinner Press in the Devil Take Me anthology, January 2019.
Obligatory pups cos I know what you’re all really here for!
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September 19, 2023
State of the TAM - 19th Sept
Thank you to everyone who bought Footwork! I hope you enjoyed it. I loved writing it.
Next up, Sting in the Tale by TA Moore.
Check it out! And if you are at GRL, I will have copies!
GRL is going to be in a month! Can you believe it? I’m wracked with anxiety about getting everything ready. Wracked with anxiety and vaguely damp, since it’s piddling out of the heavens this week.
It rained ALL DAY Sunday, most of yesterday, and most of tonight. At this rate I’ll FLOAT to Virginia!
Pupdate of the Week
@tamoorewritesJax’s favorite game *lol*[image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
@tamoorewritesBath night for the pups! #staffiesoftiktok #dogwash #dogsinrobes [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browserShout-Out of the Week
To protect your people, you must allow yourself to be captured by the creature everyone has feared for over a century.
Or maybe, you’re a stowaway bested by an enemy on distant shores or a princess seeking a deal to save your kingdom.
Whether this collection of stories takes you for a journey through a magical landscape or brings a creature from a distant land to your doorstep, you won’t be left wanting of magic and excitement.
In this collection, you’ll be captivated by dark magic, anti-heroes, and tough heroines who don’t cower in the face of their demons. In fact, you might find some falling for them.
Fae, vampires, elves, and more grace the pages of this book, written by various beloved fantasy and paranormal authors. Be captivated by unconventional enemies to lovers stories with twists to thrill, surprise you, and sometimes, break your heart.
Grab your copy of DANCE WITH DARKNESS today. Discover nearly a dozen romantic fantasy stories for fans of Elise Kova, Emily Blackwood, Sarah J. Maas, and more.
I am DEATHLY afraid of moths. I blame, possibly unfairly, Joan Aiken (I don’t actually know if they wrote this story, but I feel like that they did). Anyhow, it was about a little boy who did something to moths and then he woke up that night to moths forcing their way into his mouth, pushing their powdery, furry bodies between his lips, and down his throat. Next thing he turns into a moth.
That said, look at this little furry kitten-of-the-skies. It squeaks!
@jumpingspiderlifeFeeding my female vs my male! Deaths head moth #mothfeeding #fyp #mothsqueak #deathsheadmoth #excoticpets [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
I cannot wait for this to come out, even though it will gut my longheld fan-theory that links Lovejoy and John Wick. It was a fairly out there theory, but it was my mine and I’m sad to see it go!
And for anyone who’s been waiting…the Bad, Dad, and Dangerous illustrated novellas are available now!
…I’d eat it, other than the black pudding. That would be so dry in the last bite. Mealy.
@bignibblescooks🚗💣 Noises #belfast #officialfood #sandwiches #britishfood #northernireland #foodtok [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
September 12, 2023
State of the TAM - 12th September
So Footwork by TA Moore is out now!
I also got to have a really fun chat with Graham Mack, the very talented narrator of the new Stone the Crows audiobook. We had great craic.
You can check it out here.
Now we can all look forward to Sting in the Tail - Carnival of Mysteries out on Oct 4!
Pupdate of the Week
@tamoorewritesToo hot for walkies yet, but the pups apparently need a good riot anyhow. #staffiesoftiktok [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
@tamoorewritesTook the pups for a walk in #donaghadee this morning! Izzy wanted to climb all the stairs! #staffiesoftiktok #dogwalk [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
OK, they look delicious and all? But how the heck does he manage to eat all those gooey, sticky treats and not get one DROP on his lovely white t-shirt? I spend half my life trying to identify random stains I have on my shirt.
@talali5لاتفوتكم ذا كيوب من كافيه it كل الست نكهات رهيبه 😋 وجرّبت من عندهم الكانولي بالكاراميل وكيكة الريد ڤلڤت كانت أسطورية 🔥موجودين على كل تطبيقات التوصيل بعد #fyp [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
Welcome, Traveler, to Errante Ame’s Carnival of Mysteries!
What you see before you is no mere vagabond circus. Indeed, our show is full of wonders and delights that will leave you breathless, but whether that is with amazement or dread depends entirely upon you. We are unlike any other band of creatures you have ever encountered -- and you few brave souls who choose to step beyond your mundane expectations and join us may witness sights beyond your wildest imaginings.
So sit back, relax, and let us entertain you. For time and worlds are fleeting, but each soul has a tale to tell.
Male dryad, Professor Julian Scarlett lands a protected position at the Lunore Academy of the Arcane. Caretaker of his grove, he senses trouble brewing underneath his oak and grove.
A mysterious traveling carnival offers distraction and fun. For Julian, a tarot card reading sparks off fears and heightens hopes.
Brought in mid-semester to replace an ailing Professor of Botany, Emrys Cadogan tries to prevent a potential disaster. A druid, he gets lost in the overwhelming work. Until the carnival offers him a brief distraction and pause.
Sparks strike away from the midway lights. Dark magic flickers and threatens. From games and shows, to life and survival, a druid and a dryad need to survive and fight together to save more than trees.
Dryad on Fire is part of the multi-author Carnival of Mysteries Series. Each book stands alone, but each one includes at least one visit to Errante Ame’s Carnival of Mysteries, a magical, multiverse traveling show full of unusual acts, games, and rides. The Carnival changes to suit the world it’s on, so each visit is unique and special. This book contains a mysterious hero, a lonely wanderer, a vengeful god, and a guaranteed HEA.
This is amazing! They look so cool.
@xolahouston#aztec #mexicanhairless #xoloitzcuintle #tattooideas [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browserMust Read of the Week
I am fascinated with face-blindness. I don’t have it, but I AM blind as a bat. Something that wasn’t remedied with glasses until I was 13 (everyone thought I was just being a lig with the squinting and asking people what was going on). So it was a very similar result. I still have trouble with identifying people ‘out of context’. One of my old bosses got really offended that I’d walked past her in the street, but I literally didn’t register her at all.
My Life With Face BlindnessWhen your brain won’t let you recognize people, how do you navigate the world?
In 2013, I was four months into my job at The Washington Post when we had a going-away party for a woman who was moving to Philadelphia. Everyone gathered around my section’s little newsroom while our boss talked about Sara’s contribution to the paper, how sad we all were to see her leave.
I, personally, was neutral on the subject. I hadn’t gotten to know Sara, just as I hadn’t really connected with anyone in my new office, but I had noticed that she was unusually versatile. A news editor/fashion writer would be hard to replace.
“I think that as you get older, it gets harder to make friends with your co-workers,” I opined to my boyfriend, Steve, that evening.
I would never have the patience, but these are amazing.
@joleenemeryFolded book patterns so simple and easy for your projects! #mixedmediaart #makersgonnamake #upcycled #minnesotamade #papercraft #bookart #fypage[image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
September 10, 2023
Flash State of the TAM - Footwork is Out Today!
Bode Harlan has never claimed to be a good guy, but he’s trying to keep his nose clean and his head down these days.
After a year in prison for assault--and to be fair, he did it--he isn’t looking to go back. Admittedly, his pretty face being the star attraction in an illegal underground fighting ring seems to run counter to that goal, but he’s gotta pay the bills and there ain’t much else he’s good at.
And it keeps his parole officer off his back…since she runs the place.
Then his mom skips town and her boyfriend kicks Bode’s 14 year old brother out on the street. Bode grew up in and out of foster care, he doesn’t want that for Danny. It’s not like he can take the kid in, though. He’s an ex-con who gets beat up twice a month for money. That’s how he ends up on his good-natured ex-boyfriend’s doorstep. Sonny is a soft touch. At least he always was for Bode. All he wants is somewhere to crash for a couple of nights, nothing more. Sonny’s got his life together now--a home, a boyfriend, even a dog--and it would take a real asshole to want to blow that up.
…of course, Bode’s never said he wasn’t an asshole.
September 6, 2023
State of the TAM - 6th September
So Izzy’s lump on her back went down after a round of anti-histimines…. Then she ripped her dew claw off running in the field.
She had to go to the vet and have it nipped off to the nub. Then they bandage her up—very dramatically—to stop her chewing at it. The sock didn’t last long, but she’s been pretty good anyhow! She is feeling much better now, and all her nails are clipped down.
(She walks with her wee toes cocked up? So only her middle two nails get smoothed down when she’s out for a walk.)
And just in case you missed the Flash newsletter…
Stone the Crows by TA Moore is now available in audiobook, narrated by the EXTREMELY talented Graham Mack. I’ve been DYING for this to come out since I first heard Graham’s audition. I luuuuuurve his voice! I hope you guys enjoy his version of the Wolf Winter guys too!
And, of course, Footwork by TA Moore, aka me!, will be out on September 10th! It’s very exciting :D People who have read it tell me they liked it!
For the record I loved the characters :D
Check out MMRomanceReviewed for a teaser extract!
And check LoveBytes to see a snippet of my most-played songs while I wrote Footwork. It’s not well-curated, but it is honest :D
Oh, and if you are going to GRL I have extended my preorders for a few days. So if you want to order a signed copy for GRL, now is the time!
Pupdate of the Week
@tamoorewritesTook a walk over in Greyabbey tonight since it was still quite muggy. I think they had fun! #greyabbey #staffylove #staffysoftiktok #eveningwalk #writingstaffies [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
It is really hot this week (for us!) so taking them out late for a quiet wee dander around. They enjoy it and they’re knackered when they get home :D
Shout-Out of the Week
Don’t look. It isn’t there.
On the day Eli almost drowned in Coup d’Oeil Lake, a boy pulled him to shore and took him to a carnival. Nobody saw the boy or the carnival—not the lights, not the crowds, not the rides. So Eli kept quiet and ignored what he’d seen. He’s good at ignoring things now…
Except for the shadows.
Those he can’t ignore.
One step from homelessness and flirting with assault and battery every time somebody pisses him off makes the caretaker gig on out-of-the-way Greenwood Glen a safe place for Wade to cool his jets for a while. All he has to do is take care of a ramshackle house nobody lives in. Easy peasy.
At first.
The house was quiet until the prickly Elijah Gray returned home with his fluffy cat and woke something up.
Something dark and mysterious… and deadly.
The Extraordinary Locket of Elijah Gray is part of the multi-author Carnival of Mysteries Series. Each book stands alone, but each one includes at least one visit to Errante Ame’s Carnival of Mysteries, a magical, multiverse traveling show full of unusual acts, games, and rides. The Carnival changes to suit the world it’s on, so each visit is unique and special. This book contains a lonely artist who sees ghosts, a fuzzy black cat, a disgruntled caretaker, and a guaranteed HEA.
NOTE: Expect some dark “horror” scenes, but Gus the cat will be living a very long and very happy life.
I love this song so much :D I had to make my own fanvid for my own book. LOL. I’ll take it down in a couple of days so I can put a ‘proper’ ad type one up. But I thought this was pretty cool.
@tamoorewritesBook vibes! This is the perfect song for my latest book. So I made my own fanvid. 😂 [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browserMust Read of the Week
I get very excited about Writing Space Improvements (I tried two monitors, but I just find them extraneous! I’ve not got enough going on :D). However, absolutely positive I’d face-plant off one of these if I got it.
It’s not that I can’t walk and do things at the same time, but at least 60% of my attention has to be on my feet. Otherwise someone is going to be lying in the road getting helped up by old men again, and that someone will be me!
Behold the Rise of the Walking PadThey’re compact, and they’re relatively inexpensive. Are they changing how we work for the better?
This is not a paid promotion! I would be open to doing paid promotions in exchange for chocolates, but to date no one has offered! That said…
HOW COOL IS THIS? It looks awesome!
@thechocolatesmithsFINALLY 13 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN IS HERE 🙌 available to preorder from 8pm on our website on Friday 8th Sept UK time. Please do t order these with anything else, because they have their own little box especially designed to transport them safe and sound directly to your door🥰 13 x 40g mini handmade chocolate bars in literally the most beautiful packaging EVER! These will be £45 each and we only have 1000 going on for preorder so youll need to be quick 😛 but we’ll keep you updated with numbers!! #handmade #food #chocolate #halloween #chocolatebar [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
And again, ABSOLUTELY open to promoting things for chocolate. Good chocolate, not like a Yorkie.
September 2, 2023
FLASH State of the TAM - 2nd September
Stone the Crows by TA Moore is now available in audiobook, narrated by the EXTREMELY talented Graham Mack. I’ve been DYING for this to come out since I first heard Graham’s audition. I luuuuuurve his voice! I hope you guys enjoy his version of the Wolf Winter guys too!
Oh, and if you are going to GRL I have extended my preorders for a few days. So if you want to order a signed copy for GRL, now is the time!
August 31, 2023
State of the TAM - 31 Aug
Footwork by TA Moore, aka me!, will be out on September 10th! It’s very exciting :D People who have read it tell me they liked it!
For the record I loved the characters :D
Little bit late this week! Sorry. Izzy had to go to the vet’s yesterday and they could only fit her in for the last appointment of the day (no worries! She has a lump that they think is an excessive allergic reaction to a bug bite. I bet it was a cleg!) and I got distracted after that so didn’t gets lots of things done!
Oh!
Anyone going to GRL, I’m extending my preorders for another week. So if you want a specific book, order a specific book now :D I’ll have mostly new/newish books and a few older ones at the table.
Pupdate of the Week
Shout-Out of the Week
Free listen of the WeekWith imminent destruction possible, and the trust of the townsfolk gone, can Darius and Bale work together and set things right to send Hastur back to his demonic dimension?
Darius has worked hard to get where he is now. He has a home, two cats and a close circle of friends. He doesn’t mind that lightning sparks out of his fingers when he’s about to lose control, or his former lover, Bale, keeps hanging around, waiting for forgiveness Darius doesn’t believe he deserves.
He is fine. Everything is fine.
Bale knows that trying to get back into Darius’s good graces will require perseverance and a lot of patience. He’s determined to do it though, because Darius is the world to him. Agreeing to work with Hastur nearly killed him but it was worth it to keep Darius safe.
He’s going to prove to Darius that he always loved him.
Though their world is in constant peril, and friendships are strained to almost breaking Darius and Bale will fight to the death to keep the Elder Demon, Hastur, from consuming their town.
With second chances, enemies to lovers, prickly heroes and their adoring demons, Darius and Bale will show that all saving the world takes is love and patience.
‘In the Name’ by TA Moore is prequel to Elf Shot. The peace that Conri and Bell try to protect in Elf Shot was hard won. the final chapter!
This song….this SONG!
@howie.stevieFINALLY - September 8th it is ;). (now let’s hit that pr3save and let’s set some records 😉) #independentartist #newmusic #originalmusic [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
I’m not saying it doesn’t look good, but how would you even get that in your bake?
@bignibblescooks🚗💣 Noises #belfast #officialfood #sandwiches #britishfood #northernireland #foodtok [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
Good to know.
In terms of brain activity, imagining something is very similar to seeing it, so why don’t you confuse the two more often?
In 1910, the psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky asked volunteers what you’d think would be an easy question for them to answer: is what you’re seeing real or imaginary? In her research, she told people to imagine objects, such as an apple, while looking at a wall. Then, secretly, she used an early projector called a magic lantern to cast the same image. The participants had trouble distinguishing what they perceived with their eyes from what they imagined in their heads.
This seminal experiment, and many since, have suggested that seeing and imagining seeing involve similar processes in the brain. This leads to a conundrum: ‘If the brain is treating imagination so similar to how it treats reality, why are we not confusing the two all the time?’ says Nadine Dijkstra, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London.
In a modern-day exploration of what’s become known as the ‘Perky effect’, published recently in Nature Communications, Dijkstra and her colleagues asked more than 600 people to look at a static-filled screen, to imagine diagonal lines on the screen, and to report back how vivid the lines were on a scale of 1 to 5. As the experiment went on, similar to Perky’s study, the researchers secretly introduced real diagonal lines, to test how it affected what people thought they saw.
Creepy, terrifiying….and then hahahahaha!
@rubberdeiiIn this town of halloween. 😈🎃👻 #latexfashion #latex #latexhorns #devil #inflatablelatex #evil #costume #halloween #latexdress #newrockshoes #newrockboots #inflatable #latexclothing #latexcostume [image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browserintothefold11
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August 23, 2023
State of the TAM - 23rd Aug
I am still back into the swing of sending this consistently again, and I swear half the problem is that I have lost all sense of time. It’s only the fact all my neighbors put their bins out that clued me in on the fact it was a Wednesday.
Between working from home and only having streaming TV I live a calendar free life these days! The number of appointments I miss or run into at the last minute is embarrassing.
But just to remind you…
I’m taking tomorrow off to take the pups up the coast for some sea air. Maybe that will blow the cobwebs away!
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@tamoorewritesJax was VERY GOOD today and got to pick a toy out at #hillmountgardencentre He was determined to carry it all the way home himself.[image error]Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
For those keeping track, yes! Jax has got a new harness. That is because someone, naming no names, stole the harness from its hook and ate the clasps.
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TA Moore on Instagram: “Wash Day #kongdog #writingstaffies #everythingisclean”August 23, 2023Free listen of the Week‘In the Name’ by TA Moore is prequel to Elf Shot. The peace that Conri and Bell try to protect in Elf Shot was hard won.
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A con man and a government agent walk into a carnival…
Bartlett Gibson is a necromancer and an agent for the Tennessee Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. He’s hot on the trail of RJ Tucker, a psychic con man who has eluded him at every turn and led him on a merry chase. Pursuit leads to grudging respect in their game of cat and mouse, which becomes a high-stakes game of seduction. Bart chases RJ to the Carnival of Mysteries and realizes that nothing is as it seems. A dark witch’s curse ups the ante, creating a deadline for revenge and redemption, and the clock is ticking.
Falling in love breaks all the rules. Can Bart and RJ stop the witch, break the curse, and find a way around RJ’s spot on the “most wanted” list before time runs out?
Roustabout is a fast-paced MM paranormal romance filled with supernatural suspense, snarky humor, crafty carnival workers, sarcastic ghosts, midway magic, hurt/comfort angst, adversaries-to-lovers tension, and a very happy ending!
Part of the multi-author, shared-world Carnival of Mysteries series. Can be read as a stand-alone.
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Must Read of the Week…the STORIES in this headline.
Space Hotels—The Final Frontier for the Ultra RichAs space tourism continues to grow, so does the potential need for somewhere to stay for those who make it there.
In the mid-1960s, a travel agent on the East Coast started taking deposits for the first commercial trip to the moon, which has still never happened—at least yet.
Swept up in the Cold War space race, hospitality futurists had a firm belief travelers would soon be jetting beyond Earth. And the late Hilton CEO and president William Barron Hilton quickly saw the financial potential: they'd need somewhere to stay.
Hilton cited the anecdote of the moon travel agent in a talk at the American Astronautical Society conference in 1967, where he unveiled his hopes to build the first hotels off of our home planet, both on the moon and space stations in Earth’s orbit. “I firmly believe that we are going to have Hiltons in outer space,” he said. “Perhaps even soon enough for me to officiate at the formal opening of the first.”
The idea may not have come to fruition, but it was far more than a marketing gimmick, says Mark Young, a hotel historian and archivist at the Hilton College, University of Houston. “People really took it seriously, and he did, too,” Young says. “We’ve got hundreds of letters from around the world where people heard about his talk and then they’re asking for reservations for the first hotel on the moon.” The closest any of them ever got to a Hilton in space was the brand’s space station cameo in Stanley Kubrick’s epic 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Now space hotels are trending again with the rise of private space flights, Young says. “I haven't seen this much interest in space travel since the ’60s.”
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