The Dushegub Tote Giveaway has concluded. Thank you all for your comments and so much reminiscing on all the cracktastic and emotional scenes we love in Ilona Andrews books. Because of the overwhelming response, House Andrews have decided to pick two winners instead of one. The lucky people are: International Winner: Maggie Berney Anything to
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New Nightingale by Inflexion Games
A few months ago someone in the comments on this blog recommended Nightingale, a new survival fantasy game that had just hit Early Access on Steam. In the game, humans encountered the Fae during the Victorian Age and learned to access the Realms, pocket worlds that could be travelled to via portals. Some worlds were
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Hidden Legacy Acquired by Graphic Audio
Ilona Andrews and Graphic Audio are delighted to announce that the Hidden Legacy series will be released as full-cast dramatized adaptations. I don’t know about life, but the Book Devouring Horde always finds a way! Thank you for all your messages, questions, comments and support that made this happen. We did it! We’re getting the
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Tote Bag Dushegub Giveaway
Hehehe. Happy Monday! At Dragoncon, Jeaniene Frost and we gave away tote bags with a vampire on one side and a dushegub on the other. They turned out much cuter than expected. We printed 250 and they were gone – whooosh. For anyone looking into their own merch, we used 4imprint, and had a great
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The Irony
On the phone with Jeaniene Frost Me: I haven’t done anything for a whole week. J: I hear you. Dragoncon was a lot. Me: I might take the next week off too. J: This is so unlike you. I’m starting the new project next week. Me: But why? J: List of reasons that make sense.
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Happy Graphic Audio Anniversary Sale
The dramatized adaptation of “Magic Strikes: Kate Daniels 3” was released an entire year ago. Tempus is as fugit as ever, because it does not seem that long since I first had the full cast Midnight Games experience and was blown away! In my humble experience as the Mod who has been reading all your
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Many Thousands of Words
It is 85 degrees Fahrenheit in Texas this morning. Y’all, it’s chilly. Hehe. Why are your books around the 300-400 page range when they are so good and literally could be double the size and still be awesome and other books from other authors are 400-700 pages. You mention a word count limit. Why is
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The Time Between
We all have a routine that keeps our lives running. Get up, brush teeth, make coffee, drink a cup, get dressed, head out the door. Don’t forget phone-keys-wallet. We run our dishwashers, we sweep our kitchens, we vacuum our floors, and feed our pets. Being writers, we work from home, and our cycle of routines
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Housekeeping, Discounts, and Polls
We have some housekeeping items for you thing morning. Graphic Audio Innkeeper Sale The Innkeeper series is 40% off on the Graphic Audio website. From their promo Her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave
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Back From the Dragoncon 2024
We are back from the con. We had an amazing time. The panels were interesting and well attended. There were many awesome guests. We said hi to people we haven’t seen for a while and it was lovely. We had two meet and greet events and I wasn’t sure anyone would show up, because our
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My Trope Fu is Stronger than Yours
“It’s a grumpy/sunshine book, and there’s only one bed! Eeeeeek!” Ever feel like book reviews or BookToks are speaking in a cryptic code that you can’t decipher? Something that goes beyond mere skibidi youth slang and “we’re-all-in-a-hurry” shortcuts like comps? There is one culprit for that, and it isn’t going anywhere: tropes. What’s a trope?
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Friday Foodies
“I live in constant terror that someone around me might be even a little bit peckish” said Nigella Lawson once, and honestly, she gets me. My Notes app is full of recipes that look good, my counters with food experiments, and my thoughts are occupied by yumminess I remember and want to have again. It’s
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