HOORAY my next Zoe Chant story, A CHRISTMAS LIKE NO OTTER, has just gone live! Return to the small town of Virtue for an otterly adorable story of holiday cheer and a guaranteed happily ever otter! ( laughing-husky.gif ) Special thanks to Rachel G, Sharon C, Ellen M, & Bruce R, who came through with copyedit/proofreads on this thing like O V E R N I G H T because there was a sudden crunch to get it out! For those who are unaware, Zoe Chant is a multi-author pen…
taxi drivers & electric cars
My taxi driver today had just bought a new electric car and was so pleased with himself that it improved my entire day. It was a 45K car, but he got a 15K grant, so that brought it down to 30K. Then he got a 12.5K trade-in on his old car, which was obviously quite decent, but only had 4 years left on its 9 year run as a vehicle acceptable as a taxi (I didn’t know there was a limit, but there is), so he got a 45K car…
Release Day: Death of an Irish Mummy
Hey, today really IS launch day! Book 3 in my Dublin Driver cozy mystery series, DEATH OF AN IRISH MUMMY, is out today! If you’re just here for the links, it’s available now on: Amazon (affiliate link) || Apple || Barnes & Noble || Kobo Squiring a self-proclaimed heiress around Dublin has got limo driver Megan Malone’s Irish up—until she finds the woman dead . . . American-born Cherise Williams believes herself to be heir to an old Irish earldom, and she’s come to Dublin to claim her heritage. Under…
heat? in the house? i do not understand
So it turns out that the heat’s never worked properly in this house since we moved in. Here’s the thing: the heating in Ireland is such shit that this never occurred to us as a possibility. We’ve been trained to think sleeping in gloves is just a thing you have to do sometimes. The radiators were gurgling horribly & Ted tried bleeding them (again: this happened a few weeks ago & we eventually turned the boiler off & back on again & the heat came back, but THIS time) the…
Launch Day: Practical Boots
I am lying. Today is not launch day. Today is the day I remember to post about launch day. :] But: launch day! New novella! PRACTICAL BOOTS, a story of the Torn, is now available! These boots are made for walking… The disappointing daughter of a Lord of the Torn, Cat Sharp was dumped in the shapeless Waste to prove herself or die. Seven years later, she’s honed the Artificer magic that saved her in the Waste, and her courier business is booming: after all, no one else can step…