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Excerpt 1

FBI Badge of one Cassandra Becker

from Chapter 1, page 8 of Justice for All Time

The first man had made it off his horse and had raised his gun to end the scuffle when the warrior who had been shot leapt on him, snarling. Now two couples of men were rolling and fighting as Cassie finally made it to the ground, pulled the gun and cocked it, all in one fluid motion and fired at the warrior closest to her.

The bullet took him in the shoulder and damn near took off her arm with its recoil.

He went flying backwards off his stunned opponent who looked dazedly up at Cassie.

Meanwhile another shot rang out behind her and she whirled, pointing her gun and finding one pointing right back at her.

Cassie realised that the shot had come from the second man, who had shot point blank at the warrior he’d been wrestling with and then turned his gun on her.

Looking up from the barrel at the man holding it she noticed sharp green eyes looking at her from beneath a wide-brimmed cowboy hat. She also noticed the star on the man’s chest, emblazoned with the word “Sheriff.”

For the first time since waking up in that cave, Cassie felt two things – relief in finding ‘her people’ and the disbelief in her situation falling away. She was in the past. 1853 to be exact. She didn’t know how or why, but it was time to stop denying the facts laid out before her and deal with it.

She thought fast: she needed to figure this out, and to do that, she needed time. How to buy time? Well, start by not getting killed by mistake.

Cassie took her finger off the trigger and relaxed her stance, straightening and lowering her right arm so that the gun hung at her side. She raised her left hand palm out, fingers splayed.

What languages did they speak in Kashmir over the centuries?

Devimahatmya manuscript on palm-leaf, in an early Bhujimol script, Bihar or Nepal, 11th century

It seems to have been mostly Persian with some Turkish, and here is where I got that data from:

Linguistic history of the Indian subcontinent
Indo-European languages
Confessions of a Linguist!
Steve Huffman Language map
Timur & Timurid Architecture
Linguistic history of the Indian subcontinent

 

Mapping Serena King’s journey

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As part of her story, Serena will travel from Srinagar to Sopore on her way to the Neelum Valley Dig site. This is the route she takes.

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“Hold onto yer butts…”

 

Writing a kick-ass back cover description for your book

I am finally at the stage with this story that I am filling out the fields in the Kobo Writing Life form, and of course, one of the fields is for a kick-ass backcover description. Well, it calls it ‘Description’ but we all know it’s the backcover of the book, and therefore very very important.

I of course went to the internet for any advice first, and here are the articles I found most useful:

The 11 Ingredients of a Sizzling Book Description – Catherine Ryan Howard
My Method for writing a book description – Karen McQuestion
Create a great Amazon Kindle Book description – Mark Edwards
How to write a short summary (great examples) – WeBook
How to write a back blurb for your book - Joanna Penn

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