First, obligatory health update: my recovery surgical appointment is in one week. My hope is to be cleared for some mild workouts. I would love to be back to normal or at least try to get there. As I get better, we are going to try to resume Fiction Fridays at some point soon, although
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“Potato” for Dessert
I’m having one of those days. Actually it has been one of those weeks. I didn’t even know what day today was – I just checked, it’s Wednesday. How? One of the worst things about copyedits is that it requires you to make a chain of instant decisions. Replace this word or not. Clarify this
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Love Bites by Cynthia St. Aubin
In late March, Jeaniene Frost sent me an email. It said, “You’re going to get an email from Amazon. It’s not spam or one of their promos. I sent you a book.” I thanked her and meant to read the gifted book, but life got in the way. Fast forward 2 weeks, and here I
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Bookish AITAs
I really do my best to, as the French say, m’occuper de mes oignons. Every week is a good week to stay hydrated and mind my own business. But then the algorithms shove these AITA posts with clickbaity titles at me and I can’t help checking them out. AITA stands for Am I the Asshole?
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That Good Eastern European Stock
We are all storytellers. Stories allow us to examine what it means to be human. Back when reading and writing were skills only a few possessed, stories were shared by word of mouth. With each oral retelling, narratives would mutate, until they became the product of a collective mind, the heritage of a particular corner
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Arcane Society Shipping & Other Updates
Arcane Society have updated the information on the Ilona Andrews Special Box, containing exclusive hardcover editions of both Iron and Magic and Blood Heir. The books are expected to arrive from the printer and into the Arcane Society warehouse this Friday, April 19th. That means shipping to customers is estimated to begin next week. You
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Food, It’s Complicated, Actually
Happy Monday! Huge thank you to Mod R for a week of awesome posts. It’s a beautiful, although overcast day. I have a mountain of work ahead of me, all of which needs to be done asap. Good news, I can sit in the chair a bit longer now, and I no longer wince when
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Sanctuary Preorder and Updates
Hello, everyone. I’m still alive. Thank you to everyone who emailed Mod R to check on me. I’ve written a long detailed post of woe about my gallbladder ordeal, but I just trashed it, because it was depressing, and who wants that? I don’t give medical advice, because I’m not a medical professional, so here
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555- RUMORS
“What’s the number again?” “555-RUMORS” “Who’s dialing, I can’t see?” “It’s Steve. And you’re treading on my feet.” “Sorry! Tell him to put it on speaker so we can hear in the back.” Beep beep beep. “Welcome to the Book Rumors hotline. If you’ve been waiting for longer than seven years, please press 1 for
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Favorite IA Supporting Character Quiz
Something we say a lot as a Horde is that our authors could turn every single one of their supporting characters into the lead of a story we couldn’t wait to read. In honor of one of the most beloved secondary characters who recently broke into the protagonist club, let’s see if the quiz can
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Math is a 4-letter Word
Graphic Audio updates first: I know a few of you who purchased the mp3 zip download version of the Magic Slays dramatized adaptation had problems with the file. The issues have been addressed, the file was updated with the correct format, you only need to redownload it. Here is the contact for the Graphic Audio
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The Merch Store Demands Sanctuary
Any plans for the merch shop reopening at Sanctuary release time? – M in the comments This is a tentative yes: when the Sanctuary novella is published this summer we will likely be able to celebrate with official merch. I say tentative, because releases are busy times and House Andrews have to fully recover to
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