People have asked us now several times how exactly the magic works in Rellas. We will give you a bit more information soon, but here is the quick and dirty explanation. Magic in Rellas exists in 3 types: mage magic, priest magic, and bloodline magic. Mage magic depends on the environment and
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This Kingdom is Best of the Year So Far Again
These titles are getting longer and longer. Ahem. Drum roll, please! Apple books thinks that This Kingdom is the Best Of the Year So Far. Here is the link, but I think it only works if you are signed into Apple Books. “Explore a new world in this wickedly inventive portal
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The Special Editions and Horde Anxiety
The context of this post: Owlcrate released a premium edition of This Kingdom. It is a gorgeous book. It went out to their subscribers, and it is highly sought after on resale sites. They recently released the left over copies for general purchase and the copies sold out in something like 3 hours.
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Throwback Thursday Freebie
Someone emailed asking about Kate Daniels series being available as a DRM-free download. It is not. It is published by PRH, so they control DRM. But while tryin to find the Wilmington Years books - because those are self-published - I realized that Small Magics and the Wilmington series are not
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The Vellum Media Preorder Is Open
::braces self: If you missed the previous post, here are the highlights: You can find the link to the store in the banner above or you can click this button. Update: as of now, the orders have exceeded the initial print run expectations by 50% 150%. We are at 500% 800% 1,200% of the
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Life, Merch, and Other Trauma
It is the weekend so Mod R is off. You are in my moderating hands. - Ilona Important merch news first: we will be opening for the vellum preorders on Monday. Availability Right now it is US only. Canada: The cheapest shipping is $20, takes 4 weeks, and there is no guarantee it gets
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A Public Apology to Becka Moon
When we were first working on Kair Toren, we commissioned a map from Becka Moon of Becka Designs Cartography. Becka is a map artist who works with Inkarnate. To clarify before some misunderstanding might occur: Inkarnate is not generative AI and has never been one. It is illustrative software
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The Golden Butterflies
Warning: this post contains mild non-essential spoilers for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me and a discussion of insects. The golden butterflies of Ciste. So lovely, so deadly, and surprisingly rooted in reality. This is Calyptra thalictri, otherwise known as vampire moth. It is thought that
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Hello, Hello
I've received a concerned email asking if Something Bad happened due to my prolonged blog absence. This is the actual wordcount. 7 scenes left. This is a massive epic story. This sounds terrible, but neither one of us want to take anything out. We could tighten some scenes, but taking
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Happy Book Birthday to A Curse of Beasts and Magic
By now everyone probably knows that Jeaniene Frost is my BFF, so I am very biased, but I loved this book. Raine Stone is living a nightmare. Ever since she survived the attack that killed her family, she’s been hiding a terrible secret–and a Beast inside her. It feeds on violence and chaos,
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Pack an Order with Us
I have a couple of posts I would like to write, but they must wait till tomorrow. A difficult scene is coming up, and it must be done right. The only way to do it to live through the emotions it requires. We will walk this path with Maggie, because that is the price we pay for
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This Kingdom Sells Vellum
UPDATE from ModR: "They've sold out before I got the chance to format the pictures and write the caption for Instagram…" Level of BDH chalantness: 100. Okay, let us get this processed. Here we go. ::deep breath:: We are doing the first trial run of This Kingdom Vellum Overlays. This is our
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