New Shee Preorder and updates on critters
New Shee on Preorder, Coyotes and Gators Run Wild...
Today is mostly book news sales and new preorders, but I finally saw one of the coyotes I've been hearing... Well, Archer saw him, barked, and then I ran up to the fence between my house and the preserve and saw the little guy staring at me. Young, small, very healthy-looking—though I don't love that he was wandering around in the middle of the afternoon. Apparently one of them came nose to nose with one of my neighbor's dogs so things are getting coyote cray-cray around here...
It could be worse...up north in Fort Pierce, an elderly lady was eaten by an alligator. Only in Florida can you turn on the news and see a woman riding an alligator. This is a wrangler, not the woman who died—at least I assume it's a wrangler—who knows around here!
The gator tried to grab her dog, and the poor woman died trying to save it. Dog lived, she died, which is how it would go down if one tried to grab Archer, so I get it.
No one eats baby on my watch!
There are multiple books on sale below and the new Shee McQueen is available for pre-order. I'm about halfway through writing it. Half of it reveals the secret to why Croix has been hiding out at the Loggerhead and where/how Mick found her, the other half is about new recruits working with the crew. If you like action, you're going to LOVE this one - every chapter drags you breathless into the next!
If there is anything you'd like to see happen in it, feel free to
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Discover the Yule Lads in Chapter One Below!
In Icelandic folklore, thirteen troll brothers known as ‘Yule Lads’ visit for the thirteen nights leading up to Christmas Eve. Children leave their shoes on the windowsills, and the designated Yule Lad for that evening places a gift inside for good behavior. If the child is naughty, he or she gets a rotten potato instead.
If you’ve ever smelled a rotten potato in your pantry, you know the Yule Lads aren’t messing around. At least they don’t eat your flesh like the worst version of Krampus, Santa’s hairy, fanged buddy. Krampus has issues.
Luckily for Icelandic children, the Yule Lads are just weird. Really weird.
There’s Sheep-Cote Clod (Stekkjastaur), who harasses sheep, and Gully Gawk (Giljagaur), who hides in gullies to bother livestock.
Then there’s the kitchen contingent—Stubby (Stúfur), who steals food from pots, Spoon-Licker (Þvörusleikir), who licks unwashed spoons, Skyr-Gobbler (Skyrgámur), who eats all the yogurt, Pot-Scraper (Pottaskefill), who scrapes pots for leftovers, and Bowl-Licker (Askasleikir), who—you guessed it—licks bowls.
Believe it or not, the last six brothers are even stranger. There’s the Door twins (Hurðaskellir)—one who slams doors to wake people like an angry poltergeist, and his brother, who sniffs at entryways, looking for food. Then there is Candle-Beggar (Kertasníkir), who steals candles, Sausage-Swiper (Bjúgnakrækir), who is pretty self-explanatory if not rife with phallic innuendo, and Meat Hook (Kjötkrókur), who sounds terrifying, but who only uses his hook to steal smoked lamb from the rafters.
This delightful group is rounded out by Peeper (Gluggagægir), who peeps into your house, looking for things to steal. He sounds a little creepy, but after hearing about the rest of his dysfunctional family, he doesn’t come as a surprise.
Their mother, Grýla, must be so proud.
Actually, the Yule Lads’ mother probably is proud, because she’s a troll, too, and this sort of behavior is cool by troll standards—especially a couple of pranksters like Grýla and her lazy husband Leppalúði.
It’s safe to say most of the residents of Pineapple Port have never heard about the Yule Lads.
But they will.
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