ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  Theophany.

#CommissionEarned

Ten years ago the Savients took over Niban, forcing the independent inhabitants into poverty and despair. Bass White saw the careless cruelty of the Savients kill his mother and his father. When a resistance cell is discovered in his city bloc, the Savients seek to make everyone pay.

With his wife Amie, Bass races into the caverns to escape the Savients’ brutal enforcers: the Atrasai. The couple barely make it to the limits of known territory outside their underground city, however, before the Atrasai catch up with them. It would take a miracle to save them…

…or a combat medic robot.

Join Bass and Amie in this sci-fi story of healing, hope, and wonder. After a decade of fear and pain, even a little light can bring out the best in man and machine. But will the best be enough to heal?

IT’S AS IF HE’S ACTING LIKE A BREWER, GIVING THE YEAST TIME TO WORK:  Trump cancels US delegation’s Pakistan trip as Iran peace talks stall: ‘They can call us anytime they want’.

COOL STUFF: Curiosity looks at a small crater as it climbs Mount Sharp.

IT’S NOT AS IF THEY CAN EXPECT BRITONS TO VOTE LABOUR:  Labour chief’s vision of a Pakistani-dominated Britain.

DID YESTERDAY END IN A “Y”?  Scott Jennings Wrecked a Dem Operative’s Anti-Trump Talking Point With a Simple Question on CNN.

IF YOU MISSED IT:  Witch’s Daughter (Empires of Magic Book 2)

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

THIS:  Get Busy.

AS SHE SHOULD BE (REMINDER: DISCOVERY IS A BIT-H):  January 6 Star Witness Cassidy Hutchinson Is in the DOJ’s Crosshairs.

I WONDER HOW MANY MORE OF THEM EXIST:  The Political Hall of Mirrors.

PROBABLY:  Does Cherfilus-McCormick Think She Has A Political Future?

THE LEFT’S DREAM OF THIS BEING SOMEONE ON THE RIGHT ARE DISAPPOINTED AGAIN:  Update: Gunman Stopped Before Reaching WHCA Dinner Named.

I AM SORRY, I WAS HOUSE CLEANING AGAIN:  Trump Evacuated to a Holding Room After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

A REVIEW:  REVIEW:  Battleborn Magazine #1. The boys at Iron Age Media are keeping the flame alive.

I HAVE NO LOVE FOR SWALWELL, BUT THIS WAS JUST THE PARTY GETTING RID OF HIM:  Some unkind thoughts on Swalwell!  … And his Accusers

THE MEMES HAVE DROPPED. HAPPY WEEKEND:  Laissez Faire, Laissez Memer.

WHO’S AFRAID OF TEMU OBAMA?  It Sure Sounds Like Hakeem Jeffries Just Tried to Threaten the VA Supreme Court.

FROM JEFF DUNTEMANN:  Whale Meat.

#CommissionEarned

Two 700-year-old witches in modern-day Chicago must confront a demand from the community of whales living in Earth’s oceans, that the witches’ unborn son join with them in their effort to heal the broken soul of humankind–with death the outcome should the child fail. Homeless, hungry, and mostly without hope, Yonnie and Mara find help in some unlikely places, including a young mathematics student struggling with calculus, and an alcoholic bum who is much more than he seems.

I ENDORSE THIS:  I recently bought a couple of books from a lovely artist I happen to know. I’ve meant to buy her book for a while, then learned she has a second one, so, you know, it was time to get them both!

NOT MY FAVORITE, BUT AGAIN MOST HEINLEIN CRITICS HAVE NEVER READ HIM:  Defending Heinlein and his most controversial novel – Farnham’s Freehold.

I HOPE THE CEASEFIRE IS JUST TO LET THE ECONOMY CRUMBLE AND THE INFIGHTING OVER THE REMNANTS CULL THE LEFTOVER LEADERSHIP:  It’s hard for Iran to keep a ceasefire when it has no leadership.

SAY WHAT YOU WILL, IT SURE SERVES POUR ENCOURAGER LES AUTRES:   The Department of Justice Announces It’s Bringing Back Death by Firing Squad in Capital Punishment Cases.

OOH, OOOH, HAND UP! I’VE SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WHERE THEY CAN STORE THE OIL:  Iran Activates Retired 30-Year-Old Super Tanker As They Run Out of Places to Store Oil.

WELL… THEY WOULD:  India Denies Ship Made Crypto Payments to Iran for Strait of Hormuz Passage.