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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BDH Crosswords
Friday is Horde enrichment activity day, because otherwise we start to think Steve ideas make sense. Behold, the Ilona Andrews crossword for June 5th: Across Down This is a static image, not an interactive puzzle, because the blog is many things, but not a puzzle app. You can copy
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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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Out of Office: Please Advise
From: bookdevouringhorde@ilonaverse.galaxyTo: ALLSubject: Completely Hypothetical Assistance Inquiry Hello, This is Steve. I don't think this is an emergency, everyone is still breathing. Unfortunately, so is that weird artifact we brought back on the last Horde raid. Before
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Austin event with Caitlin Rozakis
On Monday, June 1st, at 7 pm, Ilona will be joining Caitlin Rozakis at Barnes & Noble Arboretum in Austin to chat shop, ask questions, and help celebrate Caitlin's new release, STARTUP HELL. Tickets are free and available at TicketLeap. Purchasing the book from B&N Arboretum on event
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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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Horde vs The Grey
Happy Thursday, BDH. Mod R here, requesting Horde assistance. I am moving house. The new place is lovely, and I am very happy and grateful to have housing, but it has also been touched by the Fairy of Modern Rental Design (much less cooler than the Fish Fairy) and leeched of colour. Stark
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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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Millennial PR vs Gen Z Socials
The official Tor account on Instagram did the Millennial vs Gen Z Marketing trend for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me this week, and I was helpless before it. For the happily offline among us, the meme format is simple: the Millennial Team gives you the earnest, back-cover-copy voice that tries
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