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First of all! Thank you to all the readers and reviewers who voted in the Paranormal Romance Guild 2021 Reviewers Choice Awards…especially the ones who voted for me! But seriously, thank you all so much!

GHOSTS/HORROR/PARANORMAL/URBAN/FANTASY/FOLKLORE/ MYTHOLOGY/OCCULT/GOTHIC/MYSTERY/SCI-FI/EROTICA
2 Hex Work – T.A. Moore

LGBT/ROMANCE/FANTASY/FUTURISTIC/SCI-FI/URBAN FANTASY –
2 Night Shift – T.A. Moore

LGBT NOVELLAS AND SHORTS
2 Shift Work – T.A. Moore

And congratulations to C.S. Poe, Jordan Castillo Price, Jordan Hawk, and everyone else who placed! Whoot!

MEANWHILE! Don’t forget my upcoming blog tour for Dirty Work!

OH! And while I and my sweaty little fingers shall be duelling it out for GRL tickets this weekend? I am definitely - barring y’know… - going to the UK Meet!

I will have an OBSCENE amount of swag and there’s a better than good chance I’ll be a entertaining, gibbering wreck! So if you fancy coming to see all that,along with a BUNCH of other cool authors who’ll be there, then check it out! There’s still a fortnight to get the Early Bird Discount so…if you’re gonna might as well not miss that!

It’ll be my fourth? year and I can say it’s a cool event, there’s lots of fun people, no one takes themselves too seriously, and last time we all had a lot of fun! I’ll be there, Rhys Ford, KC Wells, Andi Lee, Anna Martin, KJ Charles, Clare London, and just loads more.

2-4 September in Southampton…where I have never been before, but I am determined to go to Piecaramba. It’s a pie shop that does gluten-free pies. So…nuff said.

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Pupdate of the Week

This week the #WritingStaffie did not do so well in his puppy training class. He was just over-excited. Still, next week is graduation so we’re keeping our fingers crossed he’s feeling a WEE bit more like doing what he’s told!

Still, he tried really hard and he’s a good boy!

I just adore this. It’s just ridiculously awesome :D

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Hex Work: Babylon Boy Book One by [TA Moore]

My name is Jonah Carrow, and it’s been 300 days since I laid a hex.

OK, Jonah Carrow isn’t actually an alcoholic. But there’s no support group of lapsed hex-slingers in Jerusalem, so he’s got to make do. He goes for the bad coffee and the reminder that he just has to take normal one day at a time.

Unfortunately, his past isn’t willing to go down without a fight.

A chance encounter with a desperate Deborah Slater, and a warning that ‘they’re watching’, pulls Jonah back into the world he’d tried to leave behind. Now he has to navigate ghosts, curses, and the hottest bad idea warlock he’s ever met…all without a single hex to his name.

But nobody ever said normal was easy. Not to Jonah anyhow.

Buy Now

I know some people aren’t too keen on The Rings of Power, but I am fully invested! I can’t wait.

Must Read of the Week

There’s obviously a LOT of story fodder in this, but mostly it reminds me of a story about Belfast…which may or may not be true. OK, the first bit is definitely true. Years ago the Dalai Lama came to Belfast and planted a tree. It was a beautiful and very lovely event.

This is where it gets into anecdotal…it being Belfast, though, the government shortly after had to dig up the tree because there wasn’t meant to be a tree where they’d planted it. So someone—a poet—asked them what they were going to do with it and the guys said, ‘throw it away’. Poet was all, ‘You are not throwing away the Dalai Lama’s tree’ and asked if she could have it. They said ‘sure’.

So somewhere in Belfast—maybe, possibly—there still grows the Dalai Lama’s tree in a terrace house’s back yard.

We Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees

A collection of tree seeds that went round and round the moon was scattered far and wide back home.

A moon tree planted on June 9, 1977, surrounded by space

Ron Zellar / NASA; Getty; The Atlantic

The American moon missions, more than 50 years later, are each memorable in their own way. Apollo 11, of course, is known for being the very first time human beings set foot on the moon. Apollo 12, for being a little rowdier. Apollo 13, for nearly ending in disaster. Apollo 14—the third of six moon landings—is known, as I recently discovered, for its “moon trees.”

Stuart Roosa, one of the Apollo 14 astronauts, took a small canvas bag of tree seeds with him on the journey. While his fellow astronauts walked on the lunar surface, Roosa and the seeds flew round and round the moon until the crew was ready to come back. A few years after the astronauts returned home, some of the seeds—sycamores, redwoods, pines, firs, and sweetgums—were planted across the United States, to see how they would grow, or simply to keep a piece of moon history close by.

I have barely any idea of what this game is or how it is played, but it is CLEARLY delightfully unhinged. I am deeply invested in what happens next for this dynasty…even though they have technically taken over my home.