Hey, Roguelings!

I'm not sure if you saw this, but if you've read Skies of Fire this might be interesting to you... 

First off, I always try to write seeds of reality and fact into my stories. I'm not a science major and I don't retain half the information I research, but I don't put anything in my books that doesn't have a meaning or purpose either. And most of what I write, especially in my survival stuff, is plausible. 

i.e. Fact - over 200 "extinct" volcanoes can be found under Texas. So of course it was the perfect setting for Skies of Fire, a story about reawakening and new volcanoes unlike anything the world has ever seen. Yellowstone even makes an appearance, especially in book two.

As I was writing, my question was - what makes a volcano extinct? And why can't it wake up?

And so, with a dash of gravity shifting and the Earth thrown out of whack, I created a catastrophic climate event that sent parts of the world ablaze (among other devastating natural events).

And here we have it, an extinct volcano that hasn't erupted in HUMAN HISTORY aka 710,000 years, is beginning to rumble in Iran. 

Here's an article: https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/an-iranian-volcano-appears-to-have-woken-up-700-000-years-after-its-last-eruption

Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX8FExkB5b8

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I'll write more about the realistic goodies I add to my stories in a Rogue Letters Substack later, but for now I thought I'd share this in case you missed it!

Interesting times, indeed!

Linds