And it’s Monday again. My adventure in seeing clearly continues. Except that I can’t see the texts on my phone with the eye that was operated on. This caused some concern, so I bought reading glasses, although today I was able to read a text, kind of. My biggest issue is remembering eye drops. I
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The Two Sides of the Reading Coin
Thank you for all the blog prompts. I wanted to answer this one sent to us by an aspiring author: Since I started writing, I hate everything I read. Reading used to be an escape. It makes me feel like I’ve lost a part of myself. I think I’ve talked about it before, but coincidentally,
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Augustine Snippet: Maria
I am sitting on a treasure trove of art, news, cool writing, and I can share none of it. I have a large Augustine snippet for you today instead. Some of you have read the first version of this scene. It has been edited and expanded. In return, please drop some blog topics and questions
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A Fluffy Pancake
We have made it back and forth from my appointment. I was pronounced healthy enough for surgery and the traffic was not awful. In celebration of this, I bring you this tiny snippet. Also, just so you know this conversation took place: Me: Do not laugh. Jeaniene Frost: I am not laughing. Me: We were
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The Winners of This Kingdom Giveaway
Drumroll, please. By the grace of Random Number Generator, we have three winners. So many of you have entered that we had to break the comments into pages, and the winner was selected by rolling for page number and then the comment number from the oldest to newest. (We had a total of 6,028 entries.
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Special Edition FAQ
When Mod R sent over the list of questions, my first instinct was to dismiss it, but then I realized that she is going to spend a long time posting individual replies and that time needs to be spent elsewhere. So let’s talk about the special editions. What is a special edition? A special, or
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Kindle Unlimited and Libraries
Amazon lifted KU exclusivity for libraries. More information in this article from New Shelves. My question is to the librarians among us. Will your libraries be taking advantage of this feature? Is this something useful or will this have no bearing on your library collections?
Working Monday
It’s a working Monday. I have no news to share and no announcements to make. I have a cup of tea and a file opened in front of me. Some people find the blank page intimidating, but to me it is always exciting. It’s full of possibilities. You can go anywhere. Do anything. And then
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Tea and Cooking
This week was heavy on traditional publishing tasks and business side of things. We needed a merchandising contract. We needed a lawyer to look it over. We had some IP questions regarding the audio books. We did some writing. I’m a bear of very little brain at the moment. I decided to bundle all of
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Merchandise Poll
The BDH has been loud and clear in their need for merch to be available. We understand that Christmas is coming up, and we are very flattered that you want to have cool stuff related to our writing. We are in talks with a small business who offered to print merch in-house, meaning they make
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HL News, Part 1: Arcane Society x Ilona Andrews
Today we bring you the first part of Hidden Legacy news. Part 2 tomorrow. From Arcane Society: Arcane Society website: click here. For all questions regarding this edition, please reach out to help@arcanesociety.com. We can’t answer any questions here.
Time Off
::Waves:: Something is going around in our area. It’s like a summer cold and not a summer cold. It starts with body aches, specifically in the legs. Gordon and I both had it since Monday and it finally ran us down. I’m typing this and fantasizing about crawling onto the couch and napping. I talked
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