Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Waxing Moon
Saturn Retrograde
Pluto Retrograde
Neptune Retrograde
Mars Retrograde
Mercury is about to go retrograde (on Thursday), and then there’s a full moon on Friday. With all these other retrogrades. I’d really like to stay home, in bed, until it’s over! Unfortunately, that’s not an option.
Hop on over to A Biblio Paradise to see the post on the Idea Vat.
Spent the weekend doing what yard work I could before the storm, writing, doing laundry and household chores, and working on purging boxes from the basement.
The writing, of course, has priority, as it always does. Steady work on RELICS & REQUIEM, although not as fast as I’d like. Slower, but also steady work on DAVY JONES DHARMA. Some organizational work for THE BALTHAZAAR TREASURE.
Work on the book I’m reviewing. Work on the Foreword. Notes on a couple of other things. Work on the other radio proposal, which went out yesterday.
Yesterday was stressful at my client’s site. Last day for one of the other people there, and more to learn so I can cover on my days there until they hire someone new. Which, fortunately, they did –and she’s lovely – and she starts today.
I had an excellent session on RELICS & REQUEIM yesterday, and I hope to keep up the momentum. It’s veered far from the Writer’s Rough outline, but it’s being itself in a lovely way. It’s a much leaner book than SPIRIT REPOSITORY, and very much true to Amanda and Phineas.
A little tired, a little sad, and bracing myself for a challenging week.
Onward.
Archaeologist Dr. Gwen Finnegan is on the hunt for her lover’s killer. Shy historical researcher Justin Yates jumps at the chance to join her on a real adventure through Europe as they try to unspool fact from fiction in a multi-generational obsession with a statue of the goddess Medusa.
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When plans for their next expedition fall through, Gwen and Justin accept teaching jobs at different local universities. Adjusting to their day-to-day relationship, they are embroiled in two different, disturbing, paranormal situations that have more than one unusual crossing point. Can they work together to find the answers? Or are new temptations too much to resist? For whom are they willing to put their lives on the line? Available on multiple digital channels 
SAVASANA AT SEA
Yoga instructor Sophie Batchelder jumps at the chance to teach on a cruise ship when she loses her job and her boyfriend dumps her. But when her boss is murdered, Sophie must figure out who the real killer is -- before he turns her into a corpse, too. A Not-Quite-Cozy Mystery.
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PLAYING THE ANGLES
Witchcraft, politics, and theatre collide as Morag D’Anneville and Secret Service agent Simon Keane fight to protect the Vice President of the United States -- or is it Morag who needs Simon’s protection more than the VP?
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THE SPIRIT REPOSITORY
Bonnie Chencko knows books change lives. She’s attracted to Rufus Van Dijk, the mysterious man who owns the bookshop in his ancestors’ building. A building filled with family ghosts, who are mysteriously disappearing. It’s up to Bonnie and her burgeoning Craft powers to rescue the spirits before their souls are lost forever. Buy Links 
RELICS & REQUIEM
Amanda Breck’s complicated life gets more convoluted when she finds the body of Lena Morgan in Central Park, identical to Amanda’s dream. Detective Phineas Regan is one case away from retirement; the last thing he needs is a murder case tinged by the occult. The seeds of their attraction were planted months ago. But can they work together to stop a wily, vicious killer, or will the murderer destroy them both?
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Ink In My Coffee 