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The siege is over but the war goes on. ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.

Valletta has a central part to play in the story. Bob and Monique stay in the city and their exploration of some of its seamier areas produces leads about the fate of the men they are seeking.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-eoh/index.html

Valletta, seen across the Grand Harbour. This modern image shows the stone ramparts, bastions and other buildings that rise in tiers above the Grand Harbour on the south-east side of Valletta in Malta. The water of the harbour at the foot of the image is blue and the stone that dominates the picture is all a light honey colour. A crane is in the top right of the frame and a tall lift stands on the left. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

Introducing the Tinker WriterDeck OS!

Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck: A device designed solely for writing.

No distractions.
No internet.
No apps. No games. No social media.

Just writing.

The Tinker WriterDeck is very light weight and specifically seeks to lower the barrier of entry to creating writer decks. It converts older, reused, refurbished, or inexpensive laptops into a dedicated writing machine.

A digital typewriter.

The Tinker WriterDeck sits on top of a "headless" Debian Linux image and boots directly into a console based text editor.

We're using the Tilde Text Editor because it is a simple text editor, has an intuitive User Interface, and allows for customized color schemes for light and dark modes.

Operating System download and instructions on how to convert your laptop into a dedicated writer deck for free are found here: https://tinker.sh

See below for an example of the …

A laptop running Tinker WriterDeck OS that shows the Tilde text editor in dark mode. On the screen is the first couple lines of Moby Dick starting with "Call me Ishmael". The laptop sits on a forest green circular pad with candlesticks and flowers behind. A cup of coffee is to the side.
A laptop running Tinker WriterDeck OS that shows the Tilde text editor in light mode. On the screen is the first couple lines of Moby Dick starting with "Call me Ishmael". The laptop sits on a forest green circular pad with candlesticks and flowers behind. A cup of coffee is to the side.

When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows the west side of Edinburgh Castle. The book’s central character visits the army headquarters that was housed at the time in the castle as the story develops.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/dol/index.html

The image shows a telephoto view up to the west side of Edinburgh Castle past a tree in the bottom left of the frame. The stone barracks are rising in the upper centre of the frame, with a high wall this side of them descending to steeply sloping grass banks. Below them is a lower stone wall which stands above rocky crags. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the top right corner.

I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out J.C. Rycroft

Fantasy

JC Rycroft is a queer fantasy author living and writing on unceded Wadawurrung land in Australia. Their work draws on high and epic fantasy tropes, mixed with a dollop of queer romance, humour and wit, flawed but fabulous feminist heroes and diverse-in-all-the-ways characters, liberally sprinkled with philosophical concepts ...

https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/jc-rycroft/

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How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland.

Dunmore is a model village developed by the Dunmore estate from the mid-1800s. The novel’s young characters live close to the village and use it as a base for their exploration of the area.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-h46c/index.html

The image shows the village of Dunmore. A block of stone houses with tall chimneys can be seen beneath the branches of a large tree, whose trunk is on the left. There are swings on this side of the houses and more buildings on the left. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

In the book the fictional Sarclet Castle on the east coast of Caithness has a great hall based on that at Eilean Donan Castle, shown here. The central character dines in it when he stays at Sarclet Castle.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/ets/index.html

This modern image shows the great hall at Eilean Donan Castle, on which that at the fictional Sarclet Castle is based. It is a large and imposing stone-walled room with a blue and green tartan carpet and an exposed-beam wooden ceiling. There’s a large dining table in the centre of the room and a stone fireplace occupies much of the right-hand wall. Lights are suspended from the ceiling. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top right corner.