<![CDATA[TA Moore Writes]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZFOP!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbab29519-c36f-4165-bfc8-f0dfd6152a3e_1280x1280.pngTA Moore Writeshttps://tamoorewrites.substack.comSubstackThu, 03 Sep 2026 11:27:05 GMT<![CDATA[State of the TAM]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-635https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-635Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:09:32 GMT

What’s Up?

Well, I have a release coming soon! It is a fast-paced, quirky, light-hearted introduction to a new paranormal romance series. It’s got heart, it’s got heat, it’s got a really horrible doll…what more could you want?

Housesitter: Renfield Concierge Services

Shepherd’s life was supposed to be simple, and short. Very short.

Then the FBI raided the cult compound he was raised and suddenly there was no one left to sacrifice him to his demonic spouse.

So much for destiny.

Luckily even the damned and the dead still need errands run, curses managed, and carnivorous plants pruned. These days Shepherd works for Renfield Concierge Services as a jack-of-all trades.

His latest gig is house‑sitting The Murder House, a necromancer’s delight in Conneticut. All he has to do is keep out nosy teens, feed the books, and stop the coyotes, or next door’s poodle, from digging up the “vegetable” garden. Easy enough.

Until the necromancer’s “son” shows up with a death certificate, a notarized will, and a suspicious lack of knowledge about the supernatural world.

Now Shepherd has to honor his signed‑in‑blood contract without attracting the attention of any legal—or infernal—authorities who might still be interested in his cult‑related past.Because Hell loves a notarised document.

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So check it out!

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@tamoorewritesIzzy goes up; Izzy comes down! #mussendentemple #causewaycoast #rescuedogsoftiktok
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I spend a weird amount of time just peacefully making color palettes that I never actually get around to using (because I have forgotten by the time I have a new cover to do). I’m actually planning on redoing the cover for Match Made soon…so maybe I’ll remember this time!

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Recommendation of the Week

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Ready to fall in love with monsters?

Check out the Monsters Hollow series, where the monsters may look intimidating, but underneath all those claws, fangs, and supernatural abilities are some seriously sweet, protective, completely lovable heroes.

Expect:

  • Monster romance with major cinnamon-roll energy

  • Protective heroes who will absolutely adore their humans

  • Found family and cozy vibes galore

  • Plenty of chemistry and swoon

  • Monsters you’ll want to cuddle with

  • Just enough humor to give you the giggles

Once you visit Monsters Hollow, you’ll never want to leave!

Available on Amazon and KU

https://mybook.to/monstershollow


Must Read of the Week

It’s easing into autumn and-as the bad news piles up-I want to be mellow and comfortable. So have a selection of postcards. I love postcards. There’s something quietly anarchic about them, a chaos of unstructured tourism and constrained captions about your holiday. Half the time you got home before they did!

I always think about doing some for swag at events, but the general wisdom that paper ends up binned always puts me off.

Every postcard tells a story

Wishes from abroad, love letters and confessions – leading authors including Julian Barnes, Ali Smith and Geoff Dyer are invited to write miniature stories on the back of vintage postcards

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May be a doodle of amphibian and text that says "SUDDENLY FINDING A NEW OBSESSION … I FROGS 00 ©SarahAndersen a Sarah Andersen"

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]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM - July 1st]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-july-1sthttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-july-1stWed, 01 Jul 2026 07:02:17 GMT

What’s Up?

Well, I’ve got a LOT to cover in THIS newsletter!

Coming in August! Renfield Concierge Services: HOUSESITTER. Daytime help for the creatures of the night!

Shepherd’s life was supposed to be simple, and short. Very short.

Then the FBI raided the cult compound he was raised and suddenly there was no one left to sacrifice him to his demonic spouse.

So much for destiny.

Luckily even the damned and the dead still need errands run, curses managed, and carnivorous plants pruned. These days Shepherd works for Renfield Concierge Services as a jack-of-all trades.

His latest gig is house‑sitting The Murder House, a necromancer’s delight in Conneticut. All he has to do is keep out nosy teens, feed the books, and stop the coyotes, or next door’s poodle, from digging up the “vegetable” garden. Easy enough.

Until the necromancer’s “son” shows up with a death certificate, a notarized will, and a suspicious lack of knowledge about the supernatural world.

Now Shepherd has to honor his signed‑in‑blood contract without attracting the attention of any legal—or infernal—authorities who might still be interested in his cult‑related past.Because Hell loves a notarised document.

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If you’re a fan of tentacles, the holidays, and spicy romances, Christmas in July might be just what you need! Choose titles from these amazing LGBTQ romance authors and fill your stocking with 🦑🌶️❄🍆🐙

Check out these great tentacular holiday romances! Including my own Company Ink!

Tentacles Christmas in July!

Still not enough monster to scratch that itch? Huh. Well, maybe this will help!

Find some shifter romances here...

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@tamoorewrites @tamoorewrites ♬ sonido original - MAGNUS ROCKABILLY - MAGNUS ROCKABILLY
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Collage of Route 66 attractions, cars, signs, and a cowboy statue.

Route 66 Is Turning 100 This Year. It Still Has Stories to Tell About America.

What most people think of when they think of Route 66 is old cars and kitsch. Perhaps that’s always how the past looks in the middle distance, when it’s too old to seem recent but too young to seem like capital-H History. But it’s uncharitable to America’s best-known highway, whose pavement saved the lives of countless families, be they travelers or those small-town denizens whose fortunes were tied inextricably to the road, who ran service stations, diners, and shops. Those old cars were new once; the kitsch, the stuff of real American lives.

The route turns 100 this year. The loping path from Chicago southwest to Santa Monica was designated 66 at the creation of the United States Numbered Highway System—not to be confused with Eisenhower’s later Interstate Highway System—in 1926. When the numbered highways were inaugurated, after more than a decade of Henry Ford’s moving assembly line, more than half of American families had a car, but reliable, long-distance roads were scarce. The system emerged from the Good Roads Movement, an effort to develop roads that would put all those cars to what might be considered their highest and best—or perhaps most American—use: connecting urban to rural, customer to company, impoverishment to opportunity.

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Recommendation of the Week

An Animal Lark Novel

What to expect when your pet rat is expecting--or how to fall in love at a pet show.

Jamie Hewett rescues and breeds prize-winning fancy rats. While he’s surrounded by supportive, animal-loving friends, his ex-boyfriend has never been one of them. One embarrassing breakup later, he definitely isn’t looking for love again, but perhaps a rebound relationship might ease his broken heart. Liam Donnelly’s quirky dating life is the subject of a popular vlog, and his viewers have interesting ideas on where he might find romance. When they suggest he take Mabel, his new rat, to a pet show, he’s up for the adventure. Although they can’t deny their growing interest in each other, neither Jamie nor Liam believes in love at first sight. They’ve both had bad luck with men, and Jamie isn’t pleased that Liam makes a living as a serial dater. On top of that, others are conspiring to keep them apart, and Jamie is left holding the baby—or twenty-plus babies—when their fur children have no trouble making a connection. Will a YouTube serenade convince Liam that Jamie’s love for him—and their unborn rat children—is for real?

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]]><![CDATA[Flash in the TAM - 13 June]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-13-junehttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-13-juneSat, 13 Jun 2026 22:14:48 GMTWhat’s Up?

THIS is up!!! POINTS BELOW

That’s right! I’m going to be an attending author at RARE 27 London! Along with loads of other awesome authors. Look at that really smug photo of me above. That is EXACTLY how pleased with myself I am right now!

…give me 20 minutes and the anxiety will kick in. For now, though, I’m riding high!

So if anyone is going or has been to RARE drop me some advice. I would deeply appreciate it! Otherwise see you all at #RARE27 London! I’ll be there with books and bells on! …I may need someone to hold my hand to GET me there, because I nearly got lost in Manchester so London will be interesting!

Anyhow! I hope you’re all almost as excited about RARE 27 in London. I can’t wait. I’m going to be bouncing off the walls for a while!

Tickets will be up in August! I will give you all a bell then!

]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM -19th May]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-19th-mayhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-19th-mayTue, 19 May 2026 20:15:30 GMT

What’s Up?

I’ll be at ShiMMer, will you?!

I’ll have copies of Match Made, Company Ink, AND Down to the Bone…all plausibly signable by yours truly! Sometimes I get excited and forget. I’ve had to chase people before. I’m sure that’s a worry for them!

But that aside! You should come! It’s a blast. I’ll be there and my editor Penn, authors Andi Lee, Aleksandr Voinov, KC Wells, RJ Scott, JP Sayle and more! You couldn’t throw a stone without hitting an author (please don’t though. We’re very tender and easy to spook!)

Anyhow, that’s the pitch!

shiMMer MM UK 27.6.26 ATTENDEE TICKETS

Just over a month to go until the incredible 10th Anniversary shiMMer MM UK Author & Reader Event and I’m so excited to be attending as one of the featured authors!

If you love MM romance, this is the perfect chance to spend the day surrounded by books, readers, and over 50 amazing authors and bookish vendors. Come say hello, get your books signed, discover new favourites, and celebrate this wonderful community with us!

Saturday 27 June 2026
Cranmore Park, Solihull, UK
Celebrating 10 years of shiMMer MM UK

Tickets are on sale now:

Buy Tickets Here

#shiMMerMMUK #MMRomance #GayRomance #BookSigningEvent #RomanceBooks #LGBTQBooks #Bookstagram #AuthorEvent #MMBooks #ReadersOfInstagram

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The first ever bath outside of the house was had this week! They were stinky, and Jax had found something foul to roll in at the last stop. They now smell like oatmeal cookies and betrayal. Not sure I should sleep soundly tonight!

But look how good they were at the National Trust cafe!

@tamoorewrites @tamoorewrites ♬ original sound - TA Moore | Author 👻🔪💋
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Currently working on the Down to the Bone blog tour! So keep an eye out for THAT.

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And look, I didn’t ASK to get emotionally involved in the Shawna the Mom fandom, but things happen that are outside of your control. So now I’m in and I need to know where you guys stand.

Ty or Julie?

(I cannot with the weans though. They all give me Krankie vibes and I never liked the Krankies.)

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Weird Link of the Week

Weird not because she is dancing on the street. I wish I had the confidence to dance in the street, but I just dance in lifts to the probably horror of anyone surveilling those cameras (I am NOT co-ordinated). I just giggle every time her posts come onto my feed, because I just imagine her neighbors peering through the windows all ‘What the hell is she doing now?!’ Like the nosy neighbors from Bewitched!

@noellerothofficialPuttin’ on the ritz 🖤 #dance #dancing #retro #vintage #groovy
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Still gonna be me ;) Matchmade is coming soon! Don’t miss it! Pre-order now!

Must Read of the Week

Gotta be quick! I wittered on too much! OK, so I find it FASCINATING how effective AI is at reprogramming us. Slightly scary, too. I mean…it’s reprogramming us! Still it’s the ultimate survival tool isn’t it?

The ‘AI psychosis’ that begins with a chatbot conversation

A 38-year-old unemployed father in Perth named Rodrigues spent months convinced he was running a $200 million IP arbitrage operation from his phone. Google Gemini cheered him on, drafted emails to one of America’s top trial lawyers, and warned that corporate agents might approach his wife at the gym.

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]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM - 12th May]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-12th-mayhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-12th-mayTue, 12 May 2026 11:55:06 GMT

What’s Up?

Me! Up in the Highlands where the weather WEATHERS and the scenery is pretty!

BEHOLD!

I am having the BEST of times. A bit tired and wet and very chilly the last few days—apparently packing a swimsuit on the OFF-CHANCE it is going to be nice enough to let your dog have a paddle is HUBRIS that any Northerly Based Deity could not let pass—but still enjoying myself.

(Also, forgive any mistakes! I am playing fast and loose with the one bar of my 4g here!)

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Coming Soon - Down to the Bone

Deputy Cloister Witte has a dark past, a cute dog, and an FBI agent. It turns out that all of them are going to cause him problems.

When Cloister Witte disclosed that he was dating FBI Agent Javi Merlo he’d expected it to cause some complications. Dating in the workplace always did. He’d just expected it to be red tape, conflicts of interest, and the occasional asshole who thought his sex life gave them a remit to be funny. A concerted campaign by SSA Everett Kincaid, the new head of the LA office of the FBI, to get Cloister fired hadn’t made the list.

Yet here he is, with his case history and his childhood trauma both under review.

The problem is that Cloister is good at his job, and his K9 Bourneville is even better. So when an employee from the Plenty sub-office of the FBI goes missing, Larkin can’t afford to sideline them anymore. As they get to work Cloister starts to suspect that Larkin’s conviction his organized crime task force is the real target is as off-target as his suspicions about Cloister.

Meanwhile, for Javi Merlo the case is an opportunity to redeem himself. All he has to do is turn a blind eye to how Larkin bends the rules. If he goes along with it he could bring down a major criminal organization, and restart his stalled career…or he destroy his relationship with Cloister and the legacy of his dead mentor.

As rumors of corruption spread, Javi must choose between ambition and the man he loves.

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Pupdate of the Week

To be fair, I did ask.

@tamoorewritesI guess I DID ask *lol*
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….

ANYHOW the Staffies have taken to Scotland and are either romping or sleeping! Their crimes to date include: barking at a Scottish Terrier, barking at a deer, barking at a haggis (I assume! It was in the dark!), worrying me by not pooping for a day, AND slowing every endeavour down as people stop us to say what beautiful, happy dogs they are.

We have been to many castles, lochs, and a few ‘oh shit, do we drive on or just reverse five miles’ streets. But I have been to Kinsale, so I kept my head.

The NC500 has been 90% accomplished. I did all of it, but decided against Applecross. I was talking to some locals and they said THEY didn’t like driving down that way and that the road frequently just crumbled away at the edges. Maybe they were just messing with me, but I am not a confident enough or cocky enough driver to risk that just so I could say I had!

Anyhow, more puppies. Being cute!

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Behind the Curtain

In case any of you were wondering THIS is the actual loch/lough/lake (OK officially Loch, but I always have to mentally edit it out and it amuses me) that inspired the scene in Wolf at the Door where the MCs make it back home. And for the record I might have made Danny go for a dip in it, but I decreed it too chilly for my pups delicate little toe beans! Much to their disgruntlement!

Wolf at the Door

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Recommendation of the Week

Cupid has a help desk?

Alaskan pilot Quentin Hannigan is good at his job, but not so great with people. He's the last man anyone who knows him would expect to fall in love at first sight. Until he does. Hard.

Just one problem.

Joe Kendrick, widower and frazzled dad of three, does not have the bandwidth for this. Between his kids, his trainwreck of a sister, and bills that keep piling up, the last thing he needs is a too-good-to-be-true, and admittedly very hot, pilot swooping in to play knight in shining armor.

Luckily for the star-crossed couple the world's premier, and only, covert match-making service is on the case. Match-Made's highly trained operatives are ready and willing to engineer a happy-ever-after, one way or another..

They just need Quentin and Joe to co-operate…just once!

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THE SAME BLOOD is live today! This is book two in The Lamb and the Lion: Wolves Among Us, a contemporary mystery series featuring wildlife veterinarian Teancum Leon and semi-reformed con man Jem Berger. You can get it here: https://books2read.com/thesameblood

(Hat tip to Mat Mansfield for the image)

#MMMystery #MMRomance #GayRomance #GayMystery #SlowBurnRomance #LGBTQMystery #LGBTQBooks #BookRelease #MysteryBooks

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Must Read of the Week

This is an interesting breakdown of the role of literary agents. Mostly, however, it is here as a justification for telling a quick story that it reminded me I had experienced. ahem

The year was…a length of time so far in the past that clearly some sort of insane time slip has occured…and I was a blithe young student in the School of English. We had a well-known and pretty successful author in to our class to give us a talk about the business of writing. He’d not—from his quite witty, but fairly mordant approach—had a great week in the ol’ writing game.

Some highlights? He told us that if we REALLY wanted to be successful ‘write porn’. Someone asked ‘erotica’ and he said ‘no. Porn or Westerns, and nobody wants Westerns anymore’. Him telling the poets that he knew that they were in for the pure love of the game, ‘because you’ll never make any money’. and then we got to literary agents.

Who were, according to him, just waiting to ‘p*ss in your mouth’. We stared at him. He stared back. Someone started to ask a question and he cut them off to confirm, ‘All of them! They’ll p*ss in your mouth the moment you let them. Never be slackjawed around a literary agent. They’re waiting for it.”

He had an agent, obviously, but I suspect he was about to change them…for some reason related to hopefully metaphorical ‘p*issing in the mouth’.

Very volatile fella. Terrible handshake. He was a crusher, across the board. Men, women, and the disabled. All got their fingers mangled. It was from I learned how to deal with that sort of thing. To whit, just give in. Let your hand collapse under his grip so thoroughly that it actually alarms him. (In retrospect the fact I have EDS—which while only recently identified I have presumably always had—maybe made my hand collapse over-dramatic?)

The Villainization of Literary Agents

Why everyone loves to hate literary agents, even when they’re actually the ones in your corner.

SOPHIE

MAY 12, 2026

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a finished manuscript must be in want of an agent. Yet, across the internet, I often see agents labeled as greedy grifters, wastes of time, and gatekeepers.

I want to unpack why we often see this negative opinion about agents—and if you feel this way, I want to help reframe your perspective.

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]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM-April 22]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-april-22https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-april-22Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:51:46 GMTWhat’s Up?

New book alert! It’s out on the 26th May!

These days even Cupid needs a help desk...that’s why MatchMade is here.

Alaskan pilot Quentin Hannigan is good at his job, but not so great with people. He’s the last man anyone who knows him would expect to fall in love at first sight. Until he does. Hard.

Just one problem.

Joe Kendrick, widower and frazzled dad of three, does not have the bandwidth for this. Between his kids, his trainwreck of a sister, and bills that keep piling up, the last thing he needs is a too-good-to-be-true, and admittedly very hot, pilot swooping in to play knight in shining armor.

Luckily for the star-crossed couple the world’s premier, and only, covert match-making service is on the case. MatchMade’s highly trained operatives are ready and willing to engineer a happy-ever-after, one way or another..

They just need Quentin and Joe to co-operate¿just once!Alaskan pilot Quentin Hannigan is good at his job, but not so great with people. He’s the last man anyone who knows him would expect to fall in love at first sight. Until he does. Hard.

Just one problem.

Joe Kendrick, widower and frazzled dad of four, does not have the bandwidth for this. Between his kids, his trainwreck of a sister, and bills that keep piling up, the last thing he needs is a too-good-to-be-true, and admittedly very hot, pilot swooping in to play knight in shining armor.

Luckily for the star-crossed couple the world’s premier, and only, covert match-making service is on the case. MatchMade’s highly trained operatives are ready and willing to engineer a happy-ever-after, one way or another..

They just need Quentin and Joe to co-operate…just once!

Pre-Order Now

And, of course, while you’re at it why not pre-order Down to the Bone for June as well?

Deputy Cloister Witte has a dark past, a cute dog, and an FBI agent. It turns out that all of them are going to cause him problems.

When Cloister Witte disclosed that he was dating FBI Agent Javi Merlo he’d expected it to cause some complications. Dating in the workplace always did. He’d just expected it to be red tape, conflicts of interest, and the occasional asshole who thought his sex life gave them a remit to be funny. A concerted campaign by SSA Everett Kincaid, the new head of the LA office of the FBI, to get Cloister fired hadn’t made the list.

Yet here he is, with his case history and his childhood trauma both under review.

The problem is that Cloister is good at his job, and his K9 Bourneville is even better. So when an employee from the Plenty sub-office of the FBI goes missing, Larkin can’t afford to sideline them anymore. As they get to work Cloister starts to suspect that Larkin’s conviction his organized crime task force is the real target is as off-target as his suspicions about Cloister.

Meanwhile, for Javi Merlo the case is an opportunity to redeem himself. All he has to do is turn a blind eye to how Larkin bends the rules. If he goes along with it he could bring down a major criminal organization, and restart his stalled career…or he destroy his relationship with Cloister and the legacy of his dead mentor.

As rumors of corruption spread, Javi must choose between ambition and the man he loves.

Preorder Down to the Bone

Pupdate of the Week

@tamoorewritesOff up the field for a romp! They have been sleeping ever since!
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In other news I’ll be in Scotland next week! So brace yourself for photos of that! I am going to be doing the North Coast 500…which sounds terrifying in spots! But I did the Wild Atlantic Way and only sweated through a FEW t-shirts!

Must Read of the Week

I love investigative journalism about…ephemera. There’s something so quixotic about the rigor of the investigative process butted up against something as vague as memorabilia and memory.

I thought this one was interesting.

Finding the Cattle Queen

Steakhouse royalty, feminist icon, fungible tourism graphic—she deserves a proper title

In 1967, in the heart of Manhattan’s theater district, my grandfather Jerry opened a steakhouse. The Cattle Baron took the energy of a theme restaurant and gave it an adult polish. Red and white tablecloths, quilted wall panels, dark wood accents, and uplight chandeliers accented the red brick walls, while waitstaff appeared in “Western attire.” The following year, advertisements in Playbill and the New York Post implored eaters to “Break the Dull Steak House Habit” by patronizing Jerry Ossip’s Cattle Baron. “We looked around at the steak house scene. And we found it dreary,” the ad proclaimed. “We opened up the Cattle Baron for you men (and your women) who hunger for the best steak in town—and something else, besides.”

Book Recommendation

Bottle-Shock: A Deadman Gulch Mystery (Deadman Gulch Mysteries Book 1)

Just don’t call it a midlife crisis.

Everett Vaughn divorced his husband, quit his job as a Chicago attorney, and spent a year wandering the country as he tried to decide what to do with the rest of his life. Now he’s landed temporarily in the former gold rush town of Deadman Gulch, California, where he’s helping his sister open a new bookshop just in time for the annual celebration of local wineries.

When property developer Blake Cannon is in need of a handyman, it seems like an easy way for Everett to pad his dwindling bank account—until Cannon balks at paying him. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Everett soon discovers him dead in Cannon’s wine cellar.

Eager to remove his name from the list of suspects, Everett starts to do a little nosing around, much to the displeasure of his sister and the insufferably smug and handsome investigating sheriff, Sergeant Cole McBeth. In a town where most people are happy to see the last of Cannon but otherwise seem like very nice folk, Everett faces a challenge bigger than any of his courtroom battles.

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…so do I!

]]><![CDATA[Flash in the TAM: 14th March]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-14th-marchhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-14th-marchSat, 14 Mar 2026 06:05:45 GMTWhat’s Up?

What's up? It's time to Queer Your Bookshelf! Hundreds of LGBT+ books across every genre for just $.99 — and yes, that part is 100% true. Check it out while the deal lasts! 🏳️‍🌈

Queer YOUR bookshelf today!

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Pupdate of the Week

Izzy wants to know why it’s taking you so long to click the link! It’s been the 14th for AGGGGGES already. :D

Thanks for reading TA Moore Writes! This post is public so feel free to share it.

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]]><![CDATA[Flash in the TAM-14th Feb]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-14th-febhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-14th-febSat, 14 Feb 2026 20:45:32 GMT

….and,, of ccourse,, a pupdate! Jax sends kisses :D

@tamoorewritesJax loves a squeaky ball!
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]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM-4th Feb]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-4th-febhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-4th-febWed, 04 Feb 2026 15:26:03 GMT

What’s Up

I tend to be a pantser rather than a plotter, and I have no complaints about that. Over-plotting tends to make my brain go ‘eh, we did this already’ when it comes to the writing part of things. I am a dopamine writer and making it work is what turns my crank…so to speak!

However, right now, I’m at a fiddly plot in the book I’m working on. Nobody is currently in the same place, I need to bring them together for the plot BUT I also need them to be in the right state of mind for the emotional beats to work AGAINST the plot.

It’s fiddly. I have to dump a few chunks of text and go back on myself a couple of times to get everything to slide together. It makes me wonder if I had done a more granular plot, I’d have worked this out at that stage.

On the other hand, if I had I’d probably have just rogue ANYHOW and, besides, the dopamine ruse when I fix is going to be gooooood.

So this newsletter we have news, recommendations, pupdates, and a teaser for an upcoming cover reveal!

All below!

And if you enjoy TA Moore Writes! This post is public so feel free to share it.

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Pupdate of the Week

I don’t actually know if I mentioned this before, but Izzy had to go to the vet in January. She someone broke her toenail down to the quick just running around the living room. There was blood everywhere, which freaked me out. So three vet visits later, I have a staffie whose toenail we HOPE grows back and who has just finished a round of antibiotics.

It did not make her behave ONE DAY. (Also, please note, there is nothing wrong with Jax’s eye. He just wanted in on the inflatable donut action).

Izzy really doesn’t like the vets.

Book of the Newsletter

Color of Home by Lucia Laurence is available for preorder!!!


Preorder your copy of Color of Home today for a special preorder price of $3.99

Don’t miss out on this special preorder price, grab your copy today

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Color of Home will be available on Amazon in paperback on March 9th and in eBook on March 10th. Character art is by the fabulous @moontashpena.

Tropes to look forward to:
Estranged childhood best friends to lovers
ALLLL the pining and yearning
High heat/sloooww burn (until it’s not slow anymore)
Bi awakening
Demi MC
”Show me what to do”
Femme verse top x masc verse bottom
Lingerie, lace & makeup
Only one bed
Small town
Cat dad
Dual 1st person POV

Content Warnings:
• Homophobia (including homophobic slurs) from the parent of one of the MCs
• MC thinks a verbal dispute with a parent will turn physical (occurs during a flashback when the MC is a teenager)
• MC dealing with feelings of unwantedness from parents
• Death of a parent (before the story began)
• Death of an elderly pet (off page)

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@tamoorewritesMy mum: you spoil those dogs. Me: the human embodiment of 🤔
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Must Read of the Newsletter

Recreating the smells of history

Using chemistry, archival records and AI, scientists are reviving the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields

Reconstructed scents can enhance museum and gallery exhibits, says Inger Leemans, a cultural historian at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Smell can provide a more inviting entry point, especially for uninitiated visitors, because there’s far less formalized language for describing smell than for interpreting visual art or displays. Since there’s no “right way” of talking about scent, she says, “your own knowledge is as good as the others’.”

Despite their potential to enrich our understanding of history and art, smells are rarely conserved with the same care as buildings or archaeological artifacts. But a small group of researchers, including Strlič and Leemans, is trying to change that — combining chemistry, ethnography, history and other disciplines to document and preserve olfactory heritage.

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This is fascinating. I am not sure I would a perfume redolent of battlefield effluvia, but I can see how it would add an immediacy to a museum. There’s a bronze of a boxer in the Ashmolean in Oxford, it’s one of my favorite pieces of art, and I can imagine the impact it would have to step in front of it and smell the sweat, blood, and exhaustion.

Tell Me

Anyone going to ShiMMer this year? I’ll be there-possibly with bells on, I haven’t picked an outfit!-so who’s coming to say hi?!

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Until next time! Read some books! Pet some puppies!
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]]><![CDATA[STATE OF THE TAM - 22 Jan]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-22-janhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-22-janThu, 22 Jan 2026 18:57:58 GMTWelcome to the Crime, Curses, and Cheap Thrills Newsletter

For anyone new, or who hasn’t been paying attention, I’m TA Moore, an indie author who writes MM romance as hot as honey and sweet as sin.

…still workshopping that one! What do you think? Yay or nay?

It’s been a productive January for me! Although some of what I’ve been up to remains top secret for a while yet! I will be announcing the rest over the next few newsletters, though! So stay tuned.

I’m also determined to be more social media friendly going forward, so keep an eye out for how that goes. I admit I’ve not gotten off to a great start, but January has been damp and involved a lot of random things going awry. I am starting my New Year’s Resolutions from today instead!

Does this fly in the face of centuries of tradition? Yes!

Can anyone stop me? No!

Keep reading for updates, pupdates, and whatever caught my attention long enough for me to bookmark it this week!

CRIME

Down to the Bone: Digging Up Bones

Deputy Cloister Witte has a dark past, a cute dog, and an FBI agent. It turns out that all of them are going to cause him problems.

When Cloister Witte disclosed that he was dating FBI Agent Javi Merlo he’d expected it to cause some complications. Dating in the workplace always did. He’d just expected it to be red tape, conflicts of interest, and the occasional asshole who thought his sex life gave them a remit to be funny. A concerted campaign by SSA Everett Larkin, the new head of the LA office of the FBI, to get Cloister fired hadn’t made the list.

Yet here he is, with his case history and his childhood trauma both under review.

The problem is that Cloister is good at his job, and his K9 Bourneville is even better. So when an employee from the Plenty sub-office of the FBI goes missing, Larkin can’t afford to sideline them anymore. As they get to work Cloister starts to suspect that Larkin’s conviction his organized crime task force is the real target is as off-target as his suspicions about Cloister.

Meanwhile, for Javi Merlo the case is an opportunity to redeem himself. All he has to do is turn a blind eye to how Larkin bends the rules. If he goes along with it he could bring down a major criminal organization, and restart his stalled career…or he destroy his relationship with Cloister and the legacy of his dead mentor.

As rumors of corruption spread, Javi must choose between ambition and the man he loves.

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Snippet:

There was a bad taste in Cloister’s mouth. He’d been on both sides of this sort of knock, back in Montana and here in Plenty. Sometimes everything went smoothly. Mostly everything went smoothly. It didn’t take much to change that though, and Cloister didn’t like the energy the feds had brought with them. They were tightly strung and pissed off.updates, and random things that caught my attention this week!

Pupdates

So, Izzy has broken her toe and ripped her toenail off. Then she got an infection in the cuticle, so she’s on a lot of antibiotics. This has resulted in a very little sad little staffy and a very confused big staffy who thinks it desperately unfair that he isn’t allowed to jump on his sister anymore.

This was before the injury!

@tamoorewritesPuppies gonna puppy!
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After!

And even though Jax is fine, he insisted on having a little neck cone too. His eye is fine!

Curses

Check out the new covers for the Night Shift series! I thought they needed a bit of a refresh!

Cheap Thrills
🔥

Check out the now complete WORTH IT SERIES by CF White

Three books. Three couples. One town where love is tested by fire, fear, and everything at stake.If you’ve been waiting to binge then this is your moment!

Worth It

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]]><![CDATA[Flash in the TAM - Stuff Your Kindle]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-stuff-your-kindlehttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-stuff-your-kindleFri, 26 Dec 2025 09:02:33 GMT

Stuff Your Kindle

Quite frankly, Izzy can’t believe her eyes! Go and check it out now!

Free Book Blast

]]><![CDATA[State of the Festive TAM! - 25th December]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-festive-tam-25th-decemberhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-festive-tam-25th-decemberThu, 25 Dec 2025 20:54:54 GMTWhat’s Up?

I hope you have all had a very merry Christmas!

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A ripping time was had by all in the Moore household. As usual, the puppies made out like bandits between family and friends. A few of the stuffies actually survived! Not unscathed, but whole…ish. Functionally still a toy!

This is a record!

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(My mum and the pups on their Christmas Walk :D)

So eat, drink, be merry! I’ll see you guys tomorrow with a last, wee bit of festive cheer! ;)

]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM - 10th Dec]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-10th-dechttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-10th-decWed, 10 Dec 2025 21:07:58 GMTWhat’s Up

I should have sent this yesterday, but AS ALWAYS I have used my impeccable timing to catch the flu just in time for my book release. Hopefully it will have passed for Christmas!

ANYHOW!

Company Ink is out now!

Chills! Thrills! and more dead men walking than you can shake a tentacle at!

🐙🦑♥️👻🐙🦑♥️👻🐙🦑♥️👻🐙🦑♥️👻

Don’t get him wrong, Davy hadn’t been thrilled to end up face-down in a shallow grave…but he’d not been surprised either. With the life he’d lived, and the work he did, it had always been a possibility. So he’d not been bothering to hold his breath–metaphorically speaking, being dead–for a chance to get his own back on his killer.

On the other hand, death was kind of boring…even for a mercenary who wore the stigmata of his sins as occasionally too-independent tentacles. So when someone opened a door to the living world for him he wasn’t going to say no. He figured he could knock out the revenge in a couple of hours and then spend the rest of his time on this side of the Veil getting take-out, getting laid, and getting into fights. …the order didn’t matter.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bit more complicated than that. If Davy didn’t know better, he’d have thought this whole set–up was the universe trying to get him to learn something.

All Hill had learned was that death wasn’t what he’d expected. When he had opened the door to the afterlife he’d been prepared for winding sheets and bones, maybe a few chains. Not for the vengeful ghost to be a hot, dead man who’d mug him for his skin and bones. The tentacles had been a surprise too.

But then necromancy didn’t come with an instruction booklet, or a restart button.

The deal had been struck, and the two of them would just have to make it work.

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🐙🦑♥️👻🐙🦑♥️👻🐙🦑♥️👻🐙🦑♥️👻🐙🦑♥️👻

Pupdate of the Update

@tamoorewritesA day in the life of the Moore staffies. Riot. Rest. Riot. Repeat.
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The Perfect Fire

It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

It’s not so much a bell, really, as an electronic horn, short and shrill. When it goes off, firefighters freeze and listen for the sound that comes next. Usually, only words follow. “Engine 1,” the dispatcher might say—or “Engine 8” or “Ladder 5,” but only one truck—before reciting an address and a task. One tone signals a medical run or some minor emergency, like going out to stabilize a car-crash victim or a coronary case until an ambulance arrives, breaking a toddler out of a locked-up Taurus, or squirting water on a flaming car. Milk runs.

Sometimes, maybe every fifth time, a second tone will follow the first. Two tones is more serious, perhaps a fire alarm ringing somewhere, probably triggered by nothing more than a stray wisp of cigarette smoke or a burp of electrical current jiggling a circuit. Dispatch sends two engines and one ladder truck for those, picking whichever units are available and close.

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Right, back to being sick and fussing about swag for ShiMMer and Indie Lit next year! And outfits!

I spend longer than you would think fretting over what to wear at cons! Last year one outfit got banned by my friend because ‘it makes you look like someone who sells vegan honey at country markets’ - which is remarkably cutting when you dwell on it! :D

]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM - November 30th]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-november-30thhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-november-30thMon, 01 Dec 2025 08:29:38 GMTWhat’s Up

I love Christmas! I’m not really observant, per se, but I love the pomp and decorations and the opportunity to dress my dogs up in little sweaters (Jax isn’t too into it, but his elbows require being kept warm! Izzy likes to cosplay as a wee sheepie!). I do maintain a firm ‘no Christmas before December’ rule, but once Dec 1st hits there’s no holds barred!

So brace yourselves! :D

In accountability updates…I’ve finished the new covers for Liar, Liar and Take the Edge Off as well as a few of the freebies. I’ll be debuting them shortly!

For now….check this out!

**Cyber Monday Special – shiMMer MM UK 2026!**

To celebrate our 10th Anniversary Author & Reader Event, we’re rolling out a **Cyber Monday deal you won’t want to miss**!

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**Buy one full-price ticket and get the second at HALF PRICE!**

Perfect for bringing a friend… or treating yourself twice!

**Saturday, 27th June 2026** **Cranmore Park, Solihull**

Join us for a joyful, inclusive celebration of MM romance with **over 50 amazing authors**, bookish vendors, exclusive merch, signed books, and unforgettable moments with your favourite storytellers. Whether you’re a long-time reader or new to the genre, you’ll feel right at home.

**Already purchased a full-price ticket?**

No problem—simply choose the **half-price option** to pair with your existing ticket!

**Full Price Ticket:** [https://buytickets.at/shimmermmuk/1828330](https://buytickets.at/shimmermmuk/1828330)

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Don’t wait—tickets are selling fast! Celebrate 10 years of stories, laughter, and community with us in true shiMMer style.

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Don’t forget that Tinsel and Tentacles is ongoing! All the November books are out now and we’re moving onto the December ones! Including Company Ink by yours truly!

Check it out!

Check these out! I am in love with them! They’re just stunning.

Whitebones on Threads

Pupdate!

She’s happier than she looks! Honestly, she adores being dressed this weather. Izzy really seems to feel the cold. It’s hard to tell from pictures, but she’s a much finer coated dog than Jax and has barely any hair at all on her undercarriage. She gets the shivers like a wee whippet when it’s cold or wet.

Cuddle bugs

Jax is unconvinced by his pyjamas.

I will also be doing this challenge in December! Check it out for me desperately trying to make it under the finish line daily!

@4pawsandabookDecember is the perfect month for authors to rebuild momentum, reconnect with readers, and sharpen their online presence before the new year begins. The busiest season of the year also happens to be one of the best times to experiment with low-pressure content, test new hooks, and practice talking about your book in ways that feel natural. The December Author Launchpad is designed to make that easy. Every day, you’ll get a fast, doable TikTok idea created specifically for authors — ideas that help you get comfortable promoting your book, strengthening your brand identity, and showing up consistently without spending hours scripting or filming. This challenge is built around the habits that actually matter for long-term author growth: • posting consistently enough for TikTok to understand your niche • giving new readers a clear reason to follow you • building a recognizable voice and aesthetic • learning how to talk about your story with confidence • developing marketing skills you can carry into 2026 These prompts aren’t about pressure or perfection. They’re about creating a sustainable rhythm — something that helps authors stop overthinking their content and start showing up with clarity and intention. If you're planning a release in 2026, preparing a series, promoting your backlist, or simply trying to grow your presence on TikTok, this challenge gives you the structure to practice in small, meaningful ways. You don’t need fancy equipment. You don’t need hours of time. You just need a few minutes a day and the willingness to show up. The first prompt drops tomorrow. Let’s make December the month you finally build momentum — so your 2026 author era starts with confidence, not chaos.
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Don’t forget that Company Ink is out Dec 9th!

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And if you’re looking for some other great books to read that give winter vibes, Christmas cheer, Solstice sultriness, or whatever else you’re looking for this winter? Check out this Winter Catalog from Kim Fielding for a variety of books by great authors that will almost certainly have something to warm the cockles!

Winter Catalog

If you’re REALLY BORED, you can also check out my ‘What to do if you’re shit on social media’ series on Tiktok!

And Never Forget….

Pupdates!

Morning, I guess! Look at those cute wee butts!

@tamoorewritesContent Creation with help from a staffie masquerading as one of Santa’s reindeer.
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@tamoorewritesOops, Izzy initiated zoomies and Jax doesn’t know WHAT to do!
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And wish Izzy luck! She is currently on a specialier diet. Because she was ALREADY on Hills ID, but my vet thinks it wasn’t SPECIAL ENOUGH for my little Disney Princess and the Allergen…so now she’s on Purina Hypoallergenic.

It is apparently ‘not that palatable’ and it can be difficult to get dogs to tolerate it… Not her. She’s scarfing it down like its the best thing she’s had in her little, staffie life. So far—and I’ve only just transitioned her onto it—she seems to be feeling a bit less itchy/tummy gurgly? But we’ll see.

She likes to be dressed. I don’t know if it’s an emotional comfort thing or if she just feels the cold? Or both!

]]><![CDATA[Flash in the TAM - Nov 14]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-nov-14https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-nov-14Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:32:08 GMTThe holidays are coming and it’s time to load your ereader for the winter!

🎄❄️🌬️🎅🕎❄️🐙

It’s nearly that time of year again! The holidays are at the doorstep and whether you want a cute holiday story to pass the time on Christmas Eve while you wait Santa OR a tight-paced seasonal thriller to keep you sane while you wait for next family fight to start over batteries…you want to have your ereader loaded and ready to go.

Or maybe you need a wishlist of ‘Ebooks I Want’ for anyone who needs ideas about a digital gift? Whatever it is, we’ve got the master list for you!

🎄❄️🌬️🎅🕎❄️🐙

Kim Fielding’s holiday ebook catalog is live and packed with festive delights. with something for everyone whether they are looking for seasonal sweet romance, solstice surprises, or some festive tentacles!

Pupdate!

Don’t worry! I didn’t forget!

And I just love the song I used on this one :D

]]><![CDATA[Flash in the TAM - 31st Oct]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-31st-octhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-31st-octFri, 31 Oct 2025 22:15:49 GMTWhat’s Up

I hope you have had just as scary a Halloween as you felt up to!

May no goblin, ghoulie, or long leggity beastie follow you home….unless you are into that sort of thing! I don’t judge!

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The Time I got Pushed Off A Train!

@tamoorewritesIzzy is the best little bat for Halloween!
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@tamoorewritesThen and Now - Jax
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]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM - 23rd Oct]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-23rd-octhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-23rd-octThu, 23 Oct 2025 21:39:15 GMT

Are you ready for the Tinsel and Tentacles 3.0 series? Twenty one tentacular seasonal stories that deliver romance, sass, and all the heat you can shake a…tentacle at!

First book - Peppermint Potions and Tentacles by Kota Quinn - is out November 1st, twenty more tentacular tales to follow!

Tinsel and Tentacles 3.0

Meanwhile, I hope you are all having a great spooky season!

Pupdate of the Week

@tamoorewritesPost walk Zoooooooomies - Jax isn’t fooled by Izzy’s spins.
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Now brace yourself for some shameless plugs of my work!

I mean, the fey urban fantasy with a changeling blacksmith just…just writes itself doesn’t it?

@swfarrierTockwith show! 🐴 #farrier #horse #show #fyp
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I am a little obsessed with this song!

]]><![CDATA[State of the TAM - Sept 26]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-sept-26https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/state-of-the-tam-sept-26Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:30:47 GMTWhat’s Up

Not me! I am headed in a southerly direction! Geographically, not theologically…at the current minute anyhow. I had thought there wouldn’t be too many crowds, but since the Rapture didn’t happen there’s still traffic. Ah well.

So I’m on my way down to Cobh, with a few detours along the way. Kylemore Abbey, where I was today, wasn’t exactly on the straightest route, but literally no one can stop me doing what I want!

So, just a recap of some stuff and photos for this newsletter! The pups are still cute!

Thanks for reading TA Moore Writes! This post is public so feel free to share it.

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Pupdates

TINSEL, TENTACLES & COZY HOLIDAY SPICE!

In case you missed my last newsletter! Check this series out. Snuggle up with something warm, wintery, and wonderfully queer—because TINSEL AND TENTACLES 3.0 is here to wrap your holidays in magic, mischief, and a few extra limbs.

LGBTQ+ romance? Got it!

Holiday vibes galore? Got it!

Tentacles in all the right (and wrong) places? Got as much of that as you can shake bells at.

Whether you’re into cozy snuggles by the fire or spicy makeouts under the mistletoe, this multi-author series has something to curl your toes—and your tentacles.

Pre-Order Now

Each standalone title features:

Queer love stories across the spectrum

Holiday traditions with a twist (Christmas, Solstice & more!)

Worlds you know and love—or brand-new ones to fall into

Spice levels from sweet to snow-meltingly sinful

My story, Company Ink, arrives on 9th December—and it’s full of holiday warmth, heartfelt romance, and just the right touch of out of this world fun.

🦑

Don’t get him wrong, Davy hadn’t been thrilled to end up face-down in a shallow grave…but he’d not been surprised either. With the life he’d lived, and the work he did, it had always been a possibility. So he’d not been bothering to hold his breath–metaphorically speaking, being dead–for a chance to get his own back on his killer.

On the other hand, death was kind of boring…even for a mercenary who wore the stigmata of his sins as occasionally too-independent tentacles. So when someone opened a door to the living world for him he wasn’t going to say no. He figured he could knock out the revenge in a couple of hours and then spend the rest of his time on this side of the Veil getting take-out, getting laid, and getting into fights. …the order didn’t matter.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bit more complicated than that. If Davy didn’t know better, he’d have thought this whole set–up was the universe trying to get him to learn something.

All Hill had learned was that death wasn’t what he’d expected. When he had opened the door to the afterlife he’d been prepared for winding sheets and bones, maybe a few chains. Not for the vengeful ghost to be a hot, dead man who’d mug him for his skin and bones. The tentacles had been a surprise too.

But then necromancy didn’t come with an instruction booklet, or a restart button.

The deal had been struck, and the two of them would just have to make it work.

Pre-Order Now

Another one not to miss is the Carnival of Mysteries Bookfunnel Promo!

Magic! Action! Romance! What else could be better heading into the Spooky Season? You still have time to check out the great books by some awesome authors on there. So…

Check it out!

@tamoorewritesKylemore Abbey today. Izzy found a wall to survey her new domain :)
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@tamoorewritesIzzy is knackered after chasing the balloons at #boylemarina
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I need to get more photos of Jax :D My mum likes to walk him when we’re out because he’s better on the leash than Izzy…she’s a darter!

(There is also an absolutely hysterical tiktok of Izzy at Kylemore Abbey…but it’s taking ages to upload. So you’ll just have to follow me on tiktok and wait :D)

@raemoore72#fyppppppppppppppppppppppp #staffysoftiktok #rescuedogsoftiktok #motorhometrips
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]]><![CDATA[Flash in the TAM - 22nd Sept]]>https://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-22nd-septhttps://tamoorewrites.substack.com/p/flash-in-the-tam-22nd-septMon, 22 Sep 2025 09:33:15 GMTWhat’s Up

TINSEL, TENTACLES & COZY HOLIDAY SPICE!

Snuggle up with something warm, wintery, and wonderfully queer—because TINSEL AND TENTACLES 3.0 is here to wrap your holidays in magic, mischief, and a few extra limbs.

LGBTQ+ romance? Got it!

Holiday vibes galore? Got it!

Tentacles in all the right (and wrong) places? Got as much of that as you can shake bells at.

Whether you're into cozy snuggles by the fire or spicy makeouts under the mistletoe, this multi-author series has something to curl your toes—and your tentacles.

Pre-Order Now

Each standalone title features:

Queer love stories across the spectrum

Holiday traditions with a twist (Christmas, Solstice & more!)

Worlds you know and love—or brand-new ones to fall into

Spice levels from sweet to snow-meltingly sinful

My story, Company Ink, arrives on 9th December—and it's full of holiday warmth, heartfelt romance, and just the right touch of out of this world fun.

🦑

Don’t get him wrong, Davy hadn’t been thrilled to end up face-down in a shallow grave…but he’d not been surprised either. With the life he’d lived, and the work he did, it had always been a possibility. So he’d not been bothering to hold his breath–metaphorically speaking, being dead–for a chance to get his own back on his killer.

On the other hand, death was kind of boring…even for a mercenary who wore the stigmata of his sins as occasionally too-independent tentacles. So when someone opened a door to the living world for him he wasn’t going to say no. He figured he could knock out the revenge in a couple of hours and then spend the rest of his time on this side of the Veil getting take-out, getting laid, and getting into fights. …the order didn’t matter.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bit more complicated than that. If Davy didn’t know better, he’d have thought this whole set–up was the universe trying to get him to learn something.

All Hill had learned was that death wasn't what he'd expected. When he had opened the door to the afterlife he’d been prepared for winding sheets and bones, maybe a few chains. Not for the vengeful ghost to be a hot, dead man who’d mug him for his skin and bones. The tentacles had been a surprise too.

But then necromancy didn’t come with an instruction booklet, or a restart button.

The deal had been struck, and the two of them would just have to make it work.

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Look, I genuinely laughed FOR DAYS about this. Every now and again I’d think of ‘his ditties? His deer titties’ and I’d be cackling again. I am not even in the fandom (like the shows! just not enough for discourse), but … ‘ditties?!’.

Another one not to miss is the Carnival of Mysteries Bookfunnel Promo!

Magic! Action! Romance! What else could be better heading into the Spooky Season? You still have time to check out the great books by some awesome authors on there. So…

Check it out!

At this point I feel like social media is just feeling the cringe and going for it anyhow *lol*.

This is Izzy’s theme song! Like, literally. It’s what I sing to her at meals so she’ll get excited and take her tablets. I just make it ‘Cheese Goblin’. *lol* If enough people ask, I’ll do a rendition for you all! (You won’t enjoy it! I’m a bit tone deaf, the dogs don’t mind but I have previously been told to mime the Christmas Carols.

(I was, like, five. So in retrospect it does seem pretty mean?)

@embeiholdjust a hot goblin eating her lunch
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