Eeek, what am I forgetting?

I leave for Greece in like a day or so, and I've been packing and unpacking for weeks. I think I have everything I could possibly need - almost. I will tell you this, the next newsletter you get from me will be all about Greece and then more Greece and then pictures. Can you tell I'm excited?

Other than that, my website is up and working!! Finally you can buy books, shirts, hoodies, audio books, and soon figurines from me. Granted anything that is in KU you can't get from me, but wide you can. Check it out here!

Balanced Luck has crossed the 100k mark, which means it's coming down to the climax where everything will get resolved--or everyone dies. Not sure which way it's going to go yet. Just saying.

Book Recommendations!

We have SO MANY this week, so buckle up and get ready to read!

First up is a .99 cent sale on Amazon on book 1 of a series. Seers and Shifters drops you into a kingdom where tensions between the races are all going to drop on a young introvert. Can she bring everyone together before their foes destroy any chance?

A free start to a series! Book 1 of Hollow - Flight of the Gazebo. When your town is in a hollow dome, everyone things you know something, and the only thing you can depend on is a living skeleton - then you have some sympath for Drome. Catch the start of the series now.

A free prequel to Fighting in the Shadows, Approaching Shadows. Meet David, Jessica, and Nathan and how it all began. There are secrets everywhere the question is can you survive learning them

A free book with dragons, a protector, and a librarian? Yes please. Politics, despots, a world trying to unite, and three beings the only chance it has. Get A Selfless Sacrifice now while you can.

A free prequel to The Stone Legacy, The Void dives into a world of magic, and dangerous choices. What if the person you loved did something so evil, you had to stop them? Would you? Could you? What if it was a lie? Check it out for free.

Weekly Micro Story

Nebula Not

"Hey, Jonas, can you come look at this?" Laura stared at the data on her computer. It made no sense. She hit the internal page to see if they had been hacked lately.

"What's up?" Jonas wander over to her desk, his manopause belly and scraggly beard proceeding him, but his smile and sharp eyes prevented the redneck assumption. 

"I've checked the internal security page and they say we haven't been hacked, but look at this." Laura brought up a picture of NGC 5189. "This was taken with Hubble about three years ago." The image showed what looked like to many viewers a dragon made of stars and gases. Human imagination coudl see things in any image. 

"Yep. It's one of my desktop wallpapers," Jonas replied in a soft drawl with hunched shoulders.

"This was taken by Hubble a year go," she pulled it up. "The original nebula is between 1780 to 3000 light years from us, depending on who's measuring."

Jonas just nodded. He never rushed you, listening all the way through before commenting on anything, another reason she like working with him. 

"When I was looking at the most recent Hubble the measurements came back as only being a thousand light years away. But here is where it gets… odd." Laura was positive odd wasn't the right word, but she wasn't sure what word covered it.

"This is a picture from James Webb telescope last week, I just got it today." She brought up a bright image, sharper and more vibrant in color. "The measurements say it is only five hundred light years away."

"What?" 

"It's moving. Toward us. And if my numbers are correct, it will be here in about six months." Laura paused and bit her lip. "And Jonas, it's moving, the stars in it are shifting position as it gets closer."

Jonas had paled to the point his normal insipid complexion seemed healthy. "Are you telling me a nebula is coming to us?"

"No, the data is. I've got nothing to do with it."

They both stared at the screen. 

"Well, shit."

~*~

Yet another odd idea. What if a nebula wasn't, we just assume because we don't know what else it could be. I'll see you in two weeks with Greece pics!

Mel

Schedule 2023: (so far)

Greece (OMG!): July 17- August 1

Dragoncon: August 30 - Sep 4 (Atlanta, GA)

20BooksVegas: Nov 6-10 (Las Vegas, NV)

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