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Footwork by TA Moore, aka me!, will be out on September 10th! It’s very exciting :D People who have read it tell me they liked it!

For the record I loved the characters :D

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Little bit late this week! Sorry. Izzy had to go to the vet’s yesterday and they could only fit her in for the last appointment of the day (no worries! She has a lump that they think is an excessive allergic reaction to a bug bite. I bet it was a cleg!) and I got distracted after that so didn’t gets lots of things done!

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Anyone going to GRL, I’m extending my preorders for another week. So if you want a specific book, order a specific book now :D I’ll have mostly new/newish books and a few older ones at the table.

Pupdate of the Week

Shout-Out of the Week

With imminent destruction possible, and the trust of the townsfolk gone, can Darius and Bale work together and set things right to send Hastur back to his demonic dimension?

Darius has worked hard to get where he is now. He has a home, two cats and a close circle of friends. He doesn’t mind that lightning sparks out of his fingers when he’s about to lose control, or his former lover, Bale, keeps hanging around, waiting for forgiveness Darius doesn’t believe he deserves.

He is fine. Everything is fine.

Bale knows that trying to get back into Darius’s good graces will require perseverance and a lot of patience. He’s determined to do it though, because Darius is the world to him. Agreeing to work with Hastur nearly killed him but it was worth it to keep Darius safe.

He’s going to prove to Darius that he always loved him.

Though their world is in constant peril, and friendships are strained to almost breaking Darius and Bale will fight to the death to keep the Elder Demon, Hastur, from consuming their town.

With second chances, enemies to lovers, prickly heroes and their adoring demons, Darius and Bale will show that all saving the world takes is love and patience.

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Free listen of the Week

‘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. the final chapter!

This song….this SONG!

@howie.stevie FINALLY - September 8th it is ;). (now let’s hit that pr3save and let’s set some records 😉) #independentartist #newmusic #originalmusic [image error]Tiktok failed to load.

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I’m not saying it doesn’t look good, but how would you even get that in your bake?

@bignibblescooks 🚗💣 Noises #belfast #officialfood #sandwiches #britishfood #northernireland #foodtok [image error]Tiktok failed to load.

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Good to know.

In terms of brain activity, imagining something is very similar to seeing it, so why don’t you confuse the two more often?

In 1910, the psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky asked volunteers what you’d think would be an easy question for them to answer: is what you’re seeing real or imaginary? In her research, she told people to imagine objects, such as an apple, while looking at a wall. Then, secretly, she used an early projector called a magic lantern to cast the same image. The participants had trouble distinguishing what they perceived with their eyes from what they imagined in their heads.

This seminal experiment, and many since, have suggested that seeing and imagining seeing involve similar processes in the brain. This leads to a conundrum: ‘If the brain is treating imagination so similar to how it treats reality, why are we not confusing the two all the time?’ says Nadine Dijkstra, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London.

In a modern-day exploration of what’s become known as the ‘Perky effect’, published recently in Nature Communications, Dijkstra and her colleagues asked more than 600 people to look at a static-filled screen, to imagine diagonal lines on the screen, and to report back how vivid the lines were on a scale of 1 to 5. As the experiment went on, similar to Perky’s study, the researchers secretly introduced real diagonal lines, to test how it affected what people thought they saw.

Creepy, terrifiying….and then hahahahaha!