Writing frenzy, soul-stealing book covers and Liebsters

I wrote my A to Z Challenge posts for next week and managed to knock off M thru R in one long frenzied, session of writing, googling and bitching. I'm super-paranoid that if I don't have the weeks posts done before Sunday night, I am doomed to fail this challenge, due to high levels of laziness and procrastination. So I'm ready for this week and have 7 days before I fly into a panic again. I've gotten way behind in visiting everyone's blogs and I'm blaming all other forms of social media, my work schedule and Garry Rodgers for that.

Who is Garry Rodgers? He's a retired Vancouver RCMP Homicide Detective and forensics coroner who wrote an awesome book "No Witnesses to Nothing", that I spent a fair amount of my spare time devouring this week. It's based on a true crime story, with a supernatural twist and involves the RCMP, Hell's Angels, a drug-trafficking organization, a  criminal conspiracy that goes back 25 years, the mystery behind the deaths of 2 informants, shamanism and the Kushtaka,a soul-stealing supernatural being. It's a great story, full of lots of twists and wtf-moments, but what makes this book really amazing is how much of it is based on things that really happened with actual people, and how much of it makes you question the dichotomy of good and evil, what the soul really is (and there is a really interesting explanation for that in the book) and what happens after death. Also, that a lot of this happened in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island where I live makes it extra interesting for me. The book's editor is one of my boss's clients and she lent me a copy, but I will be buying a copy of my own because there is so much detail and twistiness, I need to read it again. Two thumbs very high up, and I suggest you give it a read

I will admit the Kushtaka mask on the book cover freaked me out enough that when I read it before bed, I had to move it to the living room and put it facedown on the table before I could go to sleep. Something in those glowing red eyes scared the shit out of me and convince me it will steal my soul while I'm sleeping

Also, I got nominated twice this week for a Liebster award, by taochild and Ruby Wilbur and I thank them both! Since the Liebster is a chain-mail award type thing and you have to answer questions, give facts about yourself and come up with questions that the people you nominate have to answer, I'm going to wait until A to Z is over to do it. That also gives me time to come up with some highly inappropriate questions and answers :D