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What’s Up

Look at me! On time! That’s because I’m writing this in the afternoon before I go to Jax’s training! So you’ll have to wait till next week for the update! He’s been doing OK, though! Last week his ‘stay’ was a LITTLE wobbly, but he got there in the end. That’s what matters.

Work wise…I have swag designs all ready to go for UK Meet and GRL if my fingers are with me for the registration! I’ve also going to have Dirty Work out in paperback as well as ebook if anyone fancies it (probably! I’m going to try and get them both ready at the same time. It’s just…y’know…fiddly!).

Oh! And I did my AMA. You can watch it here…

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Pupdate of the Week

I love Jax. I would argue that he is the best dog in the world and the sweetest boy. It’s gonna be said though, he’s a stuffed animal mass murderer at this point.

(I ALSO have to stop calling the stuffies his ‘babies’ because it probably does sound VERY WRONG if you’re not part of the Jax Scene.)

As a life-long arachnophobe…I would have fully abandoned bathroom for whoever went in there next. In spiders, sinking ships, and the last turkey at Xmas it’s every person for themselves.

Richy Craven @RichyCravenGATHER YE CHILDREN OF TWITTER AS I RECOUNT THE VALIANT TALE OF "RICHY VS. THE FUCKING MASSIVE SPIDER IN THE SHOWER"

June 10th 2018

4 Retweets17 LikesFree 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 Five up now!

Written by TA Moore
Narrated by Michael Fell

Listen Now

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.

This is amazing. I used to have an RPG character who had living tattoos. They were a lot of disturbing fun to write! (Tzimisce, Sabbat, and a little tweaking of the powers to make it work :D)

mcbess @mcbessI still enjoy frame by frame more than after effect style animation.

February 7th 2022

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Well, sort of it! I only just found it, but it looks pretty cool!

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Cameron D James (he/him) @Cameron_D_JamesI used to host Deep Desires Podcast -- a podcast with the cool authors over at Deep Desires Press! Archived episodes available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, and Stitcher!deepdesirespress.com/podcast/#podcast #bookchat

February 8th 2022

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I watched the whole series this weekend because I have NO self-control. It’s a LOT of fun. I loved it. This is definitely more Reacher than the Tom Cruise movies (which were fun, but not as nasty as they could have been? And Reacher was definitely not enough of an asshole in them…not a problem in the Amazon series!)

Must Read of the Week

This is fascinating. There’s so many sides to it that you’d need 32 hands to accurately cover them all (I have little sympathy with hunters, but getting rid of hunting altogether in areas that have traditionally functioned around it would be…a bad idea in the long term.).

Who Owns Scotland? The Rise of the Green Lairds

Climate-savvy millionaires are buying up huge areas of the Scottish Highlands and transforming how it is managed. These "green lairds," many of them from overseas, are rekindling debates about who owns Scotland’s land and what they’re doing with it.

The main road into Kildrummy, a 5,500-acre estate on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, runs past a ruined castle and across a scaffold-clad bridge to an unloved building that the new American owners, Camille and Christopher Bently, call the manor. It was built in 1901 to accommodate shooting parties held by Colonel James “Soapy” Ogston, who made his fortune from a soap factory in nearby Aberdeen.

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I am not a great cook. Ask literally anyone. I have made some bad culinary choices in the past, but…wow. This is unpleasant sounding chilli. (I mean, everyone involved sounds awful, but that chilli just distracts from anything else going on.)

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