It's here!

It's here!
Now available from Amber Quill Press' Amber Allure line.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-566-9 (Electronic)
ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-843-1 (Paperback)
$5.25
http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/CursePharaohsManicurists.html

Blurb:

In the roaring '20s, Charlie Doyle, the ink still wet on his Dartmouth journalism degree, answers an ad for a job as secretary to Edward Kilsby, Lord Withycombe and renowned flying ace of the Great War. The ad leads him to expect excitement, but Charlie never expects quite so much.

When Edward is hired to find missing archaeologist Sir Alexander Spencer, Charlie is about to go for the ride of his life. A whirlwind tour of London, the Paris nightlife, a kidnapping by Edward's jilted fiancée and rival, Cairo, the Valley of the Kings, even the Orient Express all pale compared to what awaits Charlie and Edward in the tomb of Ni-ankh-khnum and Khnum-ho-tep, Overseers of the Manicurists in the Palace of the King.

But not mummies nor jilted lovers, not malaria nor Anubis himself can stop their quest...or their growing love for each other...




 

I have procrastinated

The word "holy crap" goes right about here.

35 vocabulary words to define, 92 done
37 questions to answer, 17 done
57 MORE questions to answer, 7 done
Of the projects:
2 done,
2 charts to finish
4 papers to write
and a clergy member to interview

Having the vocab done is a major hurdle.

137 vocabulary words
54 questions
64 MORE questions
8 projects, one with 2 papers involved/.
Lots more work than I thought.

Guest Blogger: Charlie Doyle

Charlie Doyle, from CURSE OF THE PHARAOH'S MANICURISTS, has agreed to take over the LJ this evening. But only after I swore to make the fiends' list go easy on him. Enjoy and ask lots of questions.

Um...good evening.
Mrs. Sparrow says this works just like my typewriter, but I'm not sure how. It's all...well, flat. There we go, I see the letters but how do you type without clacking? It's entirely too quiet.

Never mind. I'm supposed to tell you about my adventure. Boy, did I ever have one! It all got started when Lord Withycombe hired me as his secretary. The trip across the Atlantic was bad enough. I got really seasick. But I like England enough to make it worth the pains.

Edward, he's only Lord Withycombe on formal occasions like when he has to serve in the House of Lords, is a baron but not a wealthy one. He does have a nice house. He's pretty nice himself. A lot taller than me, really good looking, and when he smiles at me he has dimples in both cheeks to match the cleft chin. His smiles always sort of make me feel like I'm going to melt into a puddle right there and Janine or Olivia will just have to mop me up...
Ahem!

Edward is an adventurer. He was an ace in the War and flew a Sopwith Camel. Now, he does odd jobs for wealthy people. When I did odd jobs, it was walking dogs and cutting grass. When he does them, it's finding lost archaeologists for the British Museum or retrieving a rare animal for the Regents Park Zoological Garden.

Edward's much more interesting than I am. I haven't done or seen too much, except school and more school. I just got my degre from Dartmouth and went straight to his employ. It beat going into the tailoring business for my dad.

So, that's me. I think I hear Edward coming. He's going to want me to find his pipe or his matches or more likely both. He's the worst man for holding onto small objects. Questions cheerfully answered in due time.

Blots from the Debauched Desk

• 17:12 power window plus finger equal ow #
• 23:45 A hard day. Wrenched knee when a rock shifted. cut scalp checking the kingpin. Dropped catalytic convert on arm. smashed finger in window. #
• 23:46 However: we have WWI flying aces and undead manicurists www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/CursePharaohsManicurists.html #
• 15:53 @adamlambert have some BBQ qhile you're there. Gates & Sons is best, followed by Zarda. I miss Kansas City. #

Please to be sweeping them into the wastebasket now
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