Happy Thursday! Tor is dedicated to supporting the independent book stores. They are vital for the book community, and we all benefit is they flourish and stay in business. To that end, Tor is offering preorder incentives to independent book stores. How does this work: the independent book store signs up for promotion and receives
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Entomologist/Biologist
Thank you, expert found! Dear BDH, I’m looking for an insect expert for some brainstorming regarding research for the book involving imaginary oversized insect monsters. If you are reading this and happen to be an entomologist who doesn’t mind answering a few questions, please email me at ilona@ilona-andrews.com. Dear BDH, please do not volunteer your
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Characters: Stories and Descriptions
You do such a wonderful job describing people so that we can almost visually see them, the little details that just make a person come alive in our imaginations. How do you keep from everyone blending together? Do you search for images? Do you just imagine that person? Do you people watch and think, that
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Friday Snippet
It’s Friday. How did that happen? We haven’t had a snippet for a bit, so here is Augustine being impersonating an impressive business owner. Augustine’s office lay on the seventeenth floor. He’d chosen that location precisely because it was just under the top two floors. The eighteenth floor held a private training space. The penthouse
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Trad Publishing: Editing and Production Glossary
I heavily debated posting this. I might still take it down, because I’ve long ago decided that the internet doesn’t need my “wisdom.” Also, I am bitter and jaded. However, we keep getting repeated questions and there is some weird erroneous stuff floating out there. With that caveat, here is the basic primer on who
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Cover Sensibilities
It is Monday, and I’m armed with Russian Country tea and a list of BDH questions. The process of creating the Maggie cover through traditional publishing. How did everyone decide on the theme, covers, etc? Were there other drafts or ideas? Why is the UK cover slightly different in color? We have now worked with
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Graphic Audio Wildfire Preorder
The wait is over! The full-cast dramatized adaptation of Wildfire, Nevada Baylor’s third book in the Hidden Legacy series, is now available for preorder on the Graphic Audio website. They are currently running a promotion too until November 30th! We’re getting Zeuses and dashing male secretaries with frying pans, evil grandmas and Prime trials –
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Proof of life
I made it through the second surgery. Last time they must’ve given me something before hand, because this time I remembered a lot more of it. My doctor said this happens often. I thought it would be scary, but it wasn’t. I’ve had my one day post-op. Gordon is still flabbergasted that we actually saw
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Bake on, Bake off
I’m happy to report that Ilona made it home yesterday in one piece and will be back to give us a full update and more good news after some well-deserved rest. We’re staying in the realm of food today, but moving on to more sensitive matters. The kind that can divide nations, friendships, and apparently
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Eat, Drink, and Be Married (or Not)
Ilona is undergoing her second cataract surgery today, so while we’re crossing our fingers for her, you’re stuck with me again. But I have a tasty morsel suggestion to mitigate that bitter pill! Before anyone starts getting ideas from the name of today’s recipe, let me clarify: I’m neither interested in, nor pushing the nuptial
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Primes Hate This One Trick
Apparently, writing one little post warning the BDH about spam was enough to fling open the gates of chaos. For the past couple of weeks, the blog has become a magnet for unsolicited messages from every corner of the multiverse. My personal theory? The immortal wereferret who solves crimes in space finally found Wi-Fi and
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Reestablishing Homeostasis
It’s Saturday, and I’ve had my tea (Harney & Sons Vanilla) and my breakfast shake. Sookie, the old bulldog, is snoring on the pillow behind me. Tuna is asleep next to her, Tubby is sacked out on the floor with his ball, and Nykie is having a cat moment. Perhaps because she is part dachshund
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