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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…

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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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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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‘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.

Shout out of the Week

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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TA Moore on Instagram: “Do not make the Crowden come and give you a ticket! #donaghadee #thecommons #crowsofinstagram”August 23, 2023

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Space Hotels—The Final Frontier for the Ultra Rich

As 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.”