State of the TAM - 1st Feb
It is a really mild February here! This time last year there was snow, this year I’m walking the dog in a hoodie. It’s wild.
So happy Lunar New Year!

It is the Year of the Tiger. Apparently it’s a responsible year for me! So yeah, that sounds…like a prediction I’m going to let down!
However, I can start off well! The blog tour for Dirty Work by TA Moore is coming up in March! Don’t miss it!

Don’t forget that I’m doing an AMA. If you have any questions you can use the form and leave it there. Or you can join my Facebook Group and ask me there. Or email me, ask me on twitter. I’m really easy :D

I’ll collate them all and do a video post on…Monday 7th February! A certain #writingstaffie might make a blurry appearance. I can’t promise anything. He moves fast.
Pupdate of the WeekThe #writingstaffie had an explore up at Mount Stewart this week. He likes the sniffs! and sometimes fox widdle that she leaves behind.




January 30th 2022
5,938 Retweets36,806 LikesLook at these! They’re both dark and amazing.
Free Audio Chapter of the Week‘Shift Plan’ by TA Moore is a Night Shift short story and a prequel to Split Shift. 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 Two up now!

Written by TA Moore
Narrated by Michael Fell
If you prefer to read rather than listen, you can get Shift Plan in mobi and epub on the website.
The complete Night Shift series is available on Audible, also narrated by the awesome Michael Fell.

I love a good angel and demon story. It’s just two great tastes that taste great together. I mean, Holly Lisle’s Devil’s Point books are among my FAVORITES evvvvvvaaaaaah. So this seems right up my street.

An angel and a demon walk into a bar…
It should be the start of a joke, except Emmett and Phoenix loathe each other the moment they meet. Reluctant and mismatched partners they may be, but they’ve been given a job to do on Earth: persuade the newly dead to move on to wherever they’re destined to go.
A friendly word here, a nudge there, all the dead should need is a push in the right direction—but dark forces are working against the pair, and the mission takes a dangerous turn.
From hate at first sight, to toleration, to something more… Except time is running out, and soon Emmett and Phoenix will be torn apart and returned to the worlds from which they came. That’s not what they want, and neither is willing to go back without a fight…
…. Because even though they're dead, they've never felt more alive.
This is book 3 in the series, but all can be read as standalones.
Awwww.


February 1st 2022
39 Retweets314 LikesMust Read of the WeekI understand the urge, but with the amount of dogs and cats being handed in to rescues and pounds it seems grotesque to genetically clone a dog that just…looks like your dog. Also while there’s genuine grief there, it seems weirdly tangle up with career aspirations.
People are going to do what they are going to do, but it seems…pointlessly self-serving. It’s not even going to get what they want, no matter how much is spent on it.
Bring in the clones: Instagrammers are genetically replicating their petsCloning cats and dogs is expensive and controversial. But the humans behind petfluencer accounts say it’s worth it.
Udvar-Hazy, a 29-year-old from California, documented Willow from the moment she got her, and followers watched Willow grow from a tiny puppy to a strapping adolescent who roamed California’s wilderness on hikes with her owner.
Then, in 2018, tragedy struck: Willow escaped from her pet sitter and was struck by a car. “When I got there, she was still alive. My friend was driving us to the vets,” Udvar-Hazy says, her voice quavering. “She passed away while I was holding her in the backseat.”
This is beautiful. I can’t draw worth toffee and sometimes I am STRICKEN with envy for those who can create something like this. Plus, y’know, obvs the fey courts :D


February 1st 2022
28,449 Retweets140,635 LikesI mean, I’m here for it.
…OK, I know it wouldn’t be tonally appropriate, but I was dying for that bald dude in the trailer to read his note and then go, “I’m the Queen!?”.
It is just so genuine. Like, you keep expecting to see some sort of artifice. The dude just really likes nice pots.