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Up Helly Aa: Great Balls O’ Fire!
One of the things on my bucket list is a trip to Scotland, which I’m hoping to accomplish as a graduation gift to myself in a year or two. Ideally, I’d like to visit in the summer time, when the weather is less sucky and the heather is a-bloomin’ on the moors… but the problem is that a summer visit means I’d miss Up Helly Aa! Up Helly Aa is a Shetland festival that’s a throwback to the islands’ Viking heritage. If you ever do any Sheltand Island genealogy research, you’ll know what I’m talking about – I’ve got people with names like Angus MacDonald marrying people named Gunnhild Olafsdottir,…
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Scar Tissue: Zombies, Time Travel & Mad Scientists
Originally published on August 21, 2015, but moved over here for your viewing pleasure: Scar Tissue is available now for your Kindle or the Kindle app! It’s 2213, and Zanna Tradescant is one of the best Historical Interference Control agents in the district – after all, who else would let the Launch Team strap them into a pod and shoot them back in time? Not too many people would sign up for that at all, so when rogue scientist Austin Kent timerides back to 1893, carrying a deadly virus with him, Zanna’s the only one who can stop him. She’s going to need some help, though, to navigate the turn-of-the-century…
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Guess Who Moved?
Okay, I haven’t actually moved, per se, as in “a physical shifting of location,” but what I have done is moved my website to a new hosting service, which means I’ll be spending the next few days relaunching everything. This year is going to be chock full of bloggy goodness, with a new (and renewed) focus on adding stuff on a regular basis, as well as adding different types of material. Good news, though – if you miss the look of my old site (and who wouldn’t, amirite?), you can always access it over at Outside the Lines on Blogspot. Also, because I’m feeling sassy as hell, I’m kicking off…
