This is a difficult post to write, not because of anything bad happened, but because it’s a bit awkward, so bear with me, please. Gordon and I are very grateful that you are worried about our sales. We’ve been hit with a deluge of questions about whether or not you should preorder Wildfire, what format, would the series continue if you bought two books, etc.
We very much appreciate your concern.
However, please stop worrying about the sales. The only reason we mentioned sales at all is because we try to be honest with you when you ask things like, “Will the Hidden Legacy continue?”
It will sell how it will sell. We don’t want you to spend extra money, and we want you to preorder Wildfire because you want to read it, not because you’re panicking about there not being more books. To put things in perspective, we are talking about thousands of units sold. There is no way for even the most dedicated fanbase to really affect the outcome. White Hot has done very, very well – okay, it’s done pretty damn amazing in the failing market – with #6 on NYT, #3 on Wall Street Journal, and #11 on USAT, and I don’t even remember Bookscan and BN numbers. It showed a 54% growth over Burn For Me. We are hoping Wildfire will continue this trend, but if it doesn’t, that’s okay, too.
🙂
Seriously, please stop worrying. We don’t want you to have any anxiety associated with our books. We just want you to enjoy them. If you would like to “support us,” please don’t pirate them. Buy them or borrow them from a library. Leave a review at your favorite retailer or blog. That is plenty, and we will be grateful.
I never worry because you guys are amazing writers! Your work succeeds because it’s worthy of success.
Hooah … I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for all the outstanding work you have provided thus far!
Pffft. I pre-ordered Wildfire as soon as it popped up in Amazon. Might not have even had the cover yet. I’ve been looking for Hugh’s book to pre-order, too, although I haven’t checked in the last week to see if it finally showed up.
So you write it, I’ll pre-order it. And then I’ll keep trying to pre-order it, ‘cuz, you know, IwantitIwantitIwantitIwantitNOW!
I agree with Tink.
*Queen’s “I Want It All” playing in the background – especially this part “I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now.”
Agreed! One of the very few authors I buy just by name!
Me too! The number of times Amazon tells me I’ve already pre-ordered when I excitedly go to do so is pretty embarrassing.
Me too, and on both my Kindle and Kobo.
Couldn’t have said it better myself!!!!
Also, if you preorder and then, while waiting for the book to arrive, go to the local “bookstore”, buy the book or get the e-version, return the original book, and then the bought book to another store in the chain, you’d have created a lot of action. Although it’s still one book.
Hypothetically.
Publishing houses pay attention to the final number of returns too, though, not just the sales.
You guys give me hope that one day people might enjoy my work, too.
Every series you’ve done has delivered a fantastic story, devoid of the tired tropes that drive me crazier than I need to be.
Thank you. As long as you seek to put work out there? I’ll buy it, because it’s always from the heart and your best efforts. I strive to be as good one day.
Much respect.
Mary Beth
Got it. Thanks for all the lovely books you’ve written and will write.
We try to help by telling everyone we know to read your books! If every person who loves you two and your work managed to get just one other friend to fall in love too, imagine what we could do. You build amazing worlds; I want them to flourish!
I don’t leave many Amazon reviews but I took the time to do so for this book.
I think this series does a better job of crossing genres into urban fantasy than most of the other famous series in the paranormal romance genre.
I pre-ordered both White Hot and Wildfire the same day. The last time I preordered a book it was the last Harry Potter book. 🙂 Can’t wait for Wildfire!
Now the Harry Potter reference makes me want to go to a midnight release party!
That was insane here for the last HP release at midnight. Wal-Mart brought a pallet of the books out on a forklift and teenagers mobbed it. I was there because I had just gotten off of work and stopped by to pick it up as I expected it might sell out before I got up the next afternoon. An employee asked me if I was going to go get a copy, I told her I was waiting about 30 seconds for the rush to be over. Then I would casually walk up, pick one up without worrying about losing a limb, then stroll casually over to checkout to pay for it.
I will order all your books, because they satisfy my needs. There are less than five authors that provide me with that satisfaction. I have wondered if the earlier a book is preordered, will the author gain from it. One of your fans wrote, the book is counted when it is sold. The preorders are counted when the book is released, the first day of sales. The author gains points on the first week sales volume.
We are downsizing our phsysical library but I order both kindle and hard copy. The kindle version is mine and can travel anywhere with me. Hard copy is given as gift(s) to our DIL. Good authors should be promoted.
I’m pre-ordering in paper and ebook. the first for my first edition collection and your autograph, and the ebook so I don’t spill coffee on the paper copy. Has nothing to do with future sales. I want it ’cause I want it. My indulgence – a 1st edition collection of Ilona Andrews, Jim Butcher and Lois McMasters Bujold.
THANK YOU! I stalked lois mcmasters bujold since I also love ia and jb. I’m burning my way through her books now. yay, new author!
Aw, you guys are so sweet.
If it makes you feel better – I figured that, and I’m sure most other fans did as well. I joke about buying extra copies to get more books in the series, but I had already planed on getting White Hot in HB, PB and audio book. There aren’t many series I do that for, but I do it for your books. And it’s not (just) to affect sales, it’s because that’s how I like the purchase books I really love. I also do that for Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars novels (and I know I’m not affecting his sales!! Lol).
The only thing I *do* do to affect sales is make sure that anything I’m going to purchase anyways, I try to get release week….Even if I don’t technically NEED both/all copies immediately.
One of the reasons I enjoys trying to help your release numbers (as little a difference as it probably makes) is because you don’t ask for it. I appreciate that. I know if I was broke and told you at a signing that I checked your books out at the library, you’d probably just smile and make a comment about how wonderful libraries are.
Cause you guys are awesome, as are your books, which is why you take up several shelves of my bookcase 🙂
I too have bought multiple copies of HL mainly so my sister can read the paperback while I can utilize the e-books. O did the same thing with Innkeeper.
Lately I haven’t been buying that many books because I’ve been buying manga. These days, I usually put off book purchases till it’s convenient for my cash flow. However, I made sure to buy White Hot during the release weekーeven if I had to browbeat kobo into taking my moneyーso that the purchase would count for the bestseller lists. You’re the only author I’ve done that for in recent years, and that’s because I want more Rogan and Nevada!
In addition to being great writers, you guys as authors have done some amazing things for your fans. The Innkeeper series comes to mind. Willingness to communicate with your fan base is another.
It seems only fair that your fans reciprocate in some fashion. In our case, the best we can do is buy books and write reviews. So we do worry about numbers, and sales and promotion. Most of us understand the way publishing works and know that good sales = more books for us, and an easier life for our favorite authors.
So maybe our concern for sale is just another way to express how much we like the work that both of you are doing. We could go back to the chant of more books, more books. Pretty much a different way of saying the same thing. We love your writing, and would like more.
Ok but what if we buy extras to boost sales and then donate them to the library!
My Library gets thquicker in the system quicker when I donate it.
*the book in the system quicker
Here’s the thing – the books are awesome so my desire to see the series succeed is really all about me and my selfish need to feed my inner book beast! I kinda like you Authorlords as genuine human beings too – it’s fun to be a part of your community.
Seriously, so many people enjoy and appreciate your talent and are happy to pay you to participate in the worlds you create. Thanks for what you do.
Co-signing on this, Trinity. This expresses my EXACT feelings! Genuine respect and love for all you (Ilona and Gordon) do!
As well!
This.
Also.
Ditto:)
Me too.
Considering what a bombshell, fantastic book Wildfire is, I don’t think there’s anything to be concerned about! Seriously, if there aren’t more books, I will cry. And it will get ugly.
Yus! 😛
I always buy two versions of your books: e-book (Kindle) and audio book (Audible). Of course, now when I read the Kindle version, I mentally hear Renee Raudman’s voices… 🙂
I don’t “worry” about your sales, but I greatly enjoy your books and hope that writing continues to be financially rewarding for you. While you may (and I hope do) write because you enjoy writing, at some point you need to make a living. So, if writing doesn’t pay the bills, you will need to spend time on other activities, and your books will come out less frequently. In thinking about it, I guess I am a bit selfish. I want you to do well so I can continue to read lots of your books.
I don’t know if this is correct, but my assumption is that my individual choice of pre-ordering vs. bookstore vs. e-book doesn’t make a significant difference given the number of books you sell. What I do hope helps is that, after reading your book, I submit a review on Amazon as a “verified purchaser”. This is usually within 24 hours of release and at the time I submitted my review for White Hot, there were less than 100 reviews (there are now over 400). My hope is that given the small number of reviews, every extra positive review can make a difference. There are very few authors/books where I submit a review, you are at the top of the list.
I hope the White Hot release tour has been going well and make sure that you take some time to enjoy yourself. Thank you for all of the joy and pleasure you bring to your many readers.
Well, I wouldn’t say I *worry* exactly, but I do pre-order the books of authors whose books add so much enjoyment to my life. It’s my way of saying thank you, and please keep writing.
Does the fact that we’re stressing entitle us to a snippet? You know… “Aussies worried about sales numbers” ?
LOL!!
There is very little you have written that I have not, or will not read, and pay for that privilege. Your are extraordinary artists, who should at least be able to imagine travelling when your girls leave home. Please make Australia your first visit – and claim the expenses on your tax return – we have wool here too!
Another Aussie here who would love some more snippet to help allay the stress of waiting till July 25 when we can get our hands on Wildfire.
I went to Supernova to meet Patricia Briggs and get all my books signed. I’m hoping the Supernova organisers bring the Ilona Andrews team out some year soon.
You guys are such good people. Thank you for being you and writing such amazing books.
Great news about the sales for Whit Hot; my copy of Wildfire has been pre-ordered since I learned of it, and I want it desperately.
I also hope it’s sales do well enough to justify a continuation of the series.
I’ve had both White Hot and Wildfire pre ordered on Amazon and Audible as soon as they were available, you are always my pre order author no matter what you are writing.
I am so so grateful that the books don’t cost as much as many new books do. The exchange rate is crazy and I have to pay five times the price that US readers do. That means if my favourite author releases a new book, I have to stay at home for a few weekends because the price can be equivalent to a full tank of gas. So I am happy that the Hidden Legacy ebooks are still affordable. I hope the final sales figure are good and we get more books in the future.
Don’t pay any attention to your publishers, the market is not failing. It’s just redeveloping in new and exciting ways that they’re not ready for. Keep writing awesome and fabulous books in any genre you please. We will love them. The market will love them. And you’ll be fine.
And while I may be a part of your core group of dedicated fans, and therefore have an untrustworthy view of your potential brilliant successes, I also pay a huge amount of attention so what’s going on in publishing as a whole. You seriously do not need to worry. You could take this, or any other of your series and write three more books, or ten more, or twenty, then self pub them, and since you’re already an established writer with a fabulous fan base that lurves you, you would likely make more in the long run than you do with a publishing contract with one of the houses. Not because we would buy your books (which of course we would) but because when we bought your books the various electronic algorithms would learn who to market those books to, which would then happen without you having to drive around and exhaust yourself at conventions. Please still do that though, we love having you at conventions. 🙂 (And please excuse the run-ons and the attitude.)
Write what you want and readers will follow. Because seriously, you guys are great writers.
Cedar, I see that you meant to be supportive, but unfortunately I’m going to have to stop you short. A lot of aspiring authors read this blog, so we’ll have to set the record straight.
I’ve been doing this for a decade with great success. I’m a professional who built a brand out of nothing and that brand is successful in a large part due to my understanding of the market conditions. I’m an expert in my field.
When I say that the market is failing, I am looking at a decade worth of hard numbers, statistics, and sales trends, both ours and our friends. When you say things like “don’t pay any attention to your publishers, the market is not failing,” you are implying that I am an incompetent wide-eyed fool who has no idea what’s going on. I just can’t have that. 🙂
I am discouraged to read the market is failing. This is my favorite genre. But hopefully your books will break the trend and start a upswing.
I understand your point about the technicals of the market, but I’m a voracious reader of the genre (and have been since it’s inception in the 80’s-90’s, yes it did exist, sort of). What I think technicals overlooks (and what I think Cedar was saying) is that I feel like the quality of the UF books has significantly declined, and that that is a significant driver of the overall market decline, but that the quality of your work would likely exempt you from those same pressures.
For years, there was a ton of stuff that got published (IMHO) because the genre was blowing up and it seemed like publishers just wanted to jump on the bandwagon, not necessarily because it was great writing. I think that might have taken a toll.
In the last few years, I have been disappointed time and time again by previously reliable authors who seemed to get a final edit clause in their new book contract and use that to get lazy with their editing/writing/storytelling. It used to be if I saw a book that looked promising, I would go ahead and buy it because I was guaranteed a baseline level of quality, but no longer.
Things have gotten so bad that it takes tons more to get me to pull the trigger and actually buy a book (as compared to the past, not as compared to normal people) because the price, major publishing house involvement, and/or well-known author is no guarantee of quality (or even a complete story). Kindle Unlimited at least takes away the risk, though you could argue that they are the cause of the risk in the first place.
I’ve read White Hot four times so far. I love it; it’s a compelling story tightly written with minimal to no plot holes or dangling threads (that are not due to be addressed in future installments). But honestly, one of the reasons I love it so much is that the last four books that I have waited for on pins and needles were disappointments. It was so nice to read a book that exceeded my expectations.
I still read a ton of stuff and mostly love it but your work stands head and shoulders (and hips and feet) above most others, and more importantly, the quality and originality have remained consistent.
I’m no expert, and I have no idea if I’m (and most definitely bow to those who know better) right or wrong, but the readers who are no longer buying the books in the same quantities as before may have valuable insights that authors and publishing houses simply wouldn’t have reason to know.
Your books are different, so I’m not surprised even a little bit that they behave differently in the market than expected. It sometimes seems like you don’t realize how good, (and unique) you are, but your work really is that good and deserving of best seller lists, and accolades, and appreciation, and fan hoarding of extra copies.
Thank you so much, and I apologize if I’ve said anything inappropriate, I just felt this needed saying.
No need to apologize and thank you for the vote of confidence. 🙂
I won’t bore you with numbers. The core problem with the book market is that it’s fickle and full of trends. For example, Twilight came out, and people couldn’t buy romantic UF YA fast enough. Then Hunger Games came out, and people abandoned vampire ship and pounced onto dystopian YA. Then we had Player One and the market went retro with 80’s references. This pattern repeats itself over and over in a variety of genres.
Let’s say the readers at large are an iceberg. The top part, the visible part, have definite preferences. They want to read what they want to read, whether it’s UF, heroic fantasy, etc. They are dedicated readers. Then there is bottom part, a much larger part. Those are the readers who don’t have strictly defined preferences and who will pounce on whatever cool new thing is happening. I’m simplifying a lot for the sake of argument.
The operative word here is new. It has to be new and exciting.
UF/PNR has had its day, blossomed, boomed, and is no longer new and shiny. When you hear about a book with werewolves and vampires, very few people think, “Oooh, I’ve never read anything like that before.” It’s familiar and because it’s familiar, it’s not as exciting. The dedicated readers of UF/PNR will still read it, because it’s their favorite genre or their favorite author. But the bottom half of the iceberg will mostly ignore it. When you try to tell them about a new UF, their response is “Eh.” They are looking for that shiny they haven’t seen before.
This is why UF/PNR is a failing market. If it was a rising market, it would actively increase readership. Instead, it’s shedding readers. The big names are successful precisely because they already built their readership, but it’s not significantly increasing and,m in some cases, it’s shrinking. As Cedar noted above, we have a fabulous fan base, but the challenge isn’t to just market to the fanbase. The challenge is to snag the iceberg, Whether that happens with Wildfire or not remains to be seen.
I definitely take your point and I appreciate your taking the time to answer. As Michelle says above, I do believe your work stands out head and shoulders above so many of the other books out there and I think they will stand the test of time as genre fads come and go. I also believe you are a very very good business person who pays a lot of attention to the market – which an enormous number of other writers are not and do not.
I really just want you to keep writing so I can read more of your books. 🙂
(I’m going to put my foot in my mouth one more time – and keep in mind that I have no idea what I’m talking about. I’m not entirely sure your work is paranormal romance or urban fantasy. It’s so much more layered and complicated than most of what you see in either of those genres, so I’m not sure the market trends totally apply to you. That’s it. I’ll shut up now. And don’t let my silly opinions irritate you, seriously, what do I know?)
That makes perfect sense in terms of market behavior. I still remember (in the mid-80’s) making my weekly pilgramage to the used book store, toting my grocery bag of books to return so I could afford to buy more, and being told that the brand new Amanda Glass novel was a must buy. I remember calculating the number of used books I could afford with that same money and questioning the purchase (if you can’t tell I’m a math person and can’t write for crap, but still love to read).
The clerk told me that Glass was a pseudonym for Jayne Krentz and that the book was crazy amazing and different and I *had* to read it. The title was Shield’s Lady, published in 1986. It was the first PNR ish book I ever read and I was blown away. I’d never read about alternative worlds, magic, and revamped social systems in a romance novel. After that I was constantly on the lookout for anything new and different, and read anything I could get my hot little hands on.
Fast forward 30 years and I can afford to buy whatever I want (for which I’m so grateful), but now I grab a new book and I can tell where the author integrated ten other elements from 7 other authors, mashed it all up and called it a new story. I nearly broke my kindle in frustration when I started reading a book where the author had basically plagerized Kate (poorly, I might add). So now, I’m careful about what I buy because I love my kindle.
Some of the issues relate to the explosion of self publishing but not all. Books with editing and continuity errors (glaring) are released in hardcover with $20+ price tags. Paperbacks are released that (IMHO) are not up to snuff (I keep re-reading my old stuff in comparison and the finish (editing and story coherence) was better.
Either way I will keep reading, old and new, but I can see less hardcore readers turning away. But I still think quality is a huge factor, even if it isn’t the main driver.
P.S. Another thing I love about your books is that as a science nerd I don’t have to put my brain on pause to read your work. I nearly had a book-gasm when you talked about electron orbits in Kate #8 and I’m having a blast in the spoilers section thinking about the scientific basis of the Osiris Serum (epigenetics maybe?) and how that might manifest, and the pathophysiology of MPNST, and if brainwaves are involved and, and, and, etc., etc.
Well, I feel I did my part for the Andrews Army by going to buy White Hot at my local BN opening week. When I couldn’t find it, a clerk was nice enough to check their stockroom, and bring out not only one for me, but to actually restock the shelves with it in the middle of a busy day.
Here’s hoping that keeping it on the shelves remains your biggest challenge in selling.
Thanks for being so concerned about your readers and fans, and for keeping us updated all the time! Please keep writing your amazing books and we will be here… waiting to buy, read and review them. 🙂 Oh and also to share the love with other readers. It makes me so happy when I manage to convince a friend to read your books.
Well now I’m curious about the state of book sales in general! Particularly women’s books. Is urban fantasy going down and another genre going up? Is pirating doing to book sales what it did to music sales? Hmmm!
And I’ve read White Hot WAY too many times! My husband thinks I’m hilarious for anticipating your book releases the same way other people anticipate movie releases 🙂
Hail Author Lords and the BDH! ?
I recently asked my library to purchase each book in every Ilona Andrews series. It only took about 10 minutes, our librarians are awesome like that. I did this in part to share my favorite books with others and because I can’t always afford to buy the little extras that make life shiny -so I find ways to borrow them. ?
I was suprised by
the length of the waiting lists when the books finally began arriving at the library. I’m always first (Yay!) in a line that can be 12 deep or longer.
I like to do my part to support the authors and feel this is a great way to do it without stretching my budget too tightly. I’ll buy the books as I can and get back on the library waiting list to re-read the books I don’t own yet. BTW, I’m sorry to learn that Urban Fantasy is losing traction, it’s my favorite genre. That said, I’m looking forward to seeing the authors maneuver in the flux of the publishing market and etch their names across the top 10 lists again!
So glad to hear this!! Many libraries don’t buy much in genre they don’t think do well, BUT will buy 99% of patron requests!!! PLEASE request your library buy the books you love – I’m often told not order books older than a year old that we don’t already own….but if a patron asks for it, I can! Your requests really do matter. And you just might make the librarians happy too 😀
Squee!
I have bought White Hot and pre-ordered Wildfire on Audible, despite their low quality and need to strip down their damned DRM.
However I have a question – do you get paid full price if your books are bought on audible under free trial or gold membership?
I do my part to boost the sales. I put in a request at my local library to order Wildfire as the copy of Burn for Me was getting lonely. What is interesting is the Kate Daniels books are ordered by by the librarian who is in charge of ordering the fantasy/ scifi but the Hidden Legacy books are ordered by the librarian who orders romance. I gave both the request and left them debating who’s budget would pay for Wildfire.
You are awesome and i love your books fiercely.
I want to relax into this new series without fretting der wont
be much more of my newest Ilona Andrews Series (aka my treasure).
You give me so much, not only in your books, but also here.
Of course i want the world ( aka Family, Friends, Coworkers, Bookstores in
my area etc.) to know you. Read a bit. Wanting more. Buy the next.
I am not fretting much, but that much i want to do.
Spreading the addiction 🙂
I’m glad to hear your book sales are good, I enjoy your stories. And I don’t believe we ever have to worry about you pulling a “Rob Thurman” on your fans, that was a really pathetic thing.
What did s/he do?
I had no idea what the reference was about so I googled and this link told me what “pulling a Rob Thurman” might refer to. Sad for everyone involved.
https://wickedscribes.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/so-whats-going-on-2/
Anne in Virginia
Her publisher dumped her (right before the final book in the Cal Leandros series, grrrrr) & she went on Facebook/Twitter & basically blamed her fans because they didn’t buy all her books & she got pretty nasty about it.
Wow. I was aware of an author called Rob Thurman (thought it was a guy) but hadn’t read anything. May never read anything by her, in fact.
Rob is short for Robyn 🙂
Could you explain the phrase, “pulling a Rob Thurman”? I don’t get it.
Thanks!
See my reply to Ara right above you 🙂
Thank you for the link!
Wow, it sounds like a nasty break-up where the kids got caught in the middle. Sad way for it to end for all involved.
Super excited to see White Hot in the book section of my local walmart! :). I preordered from amazon but it was still satisfying.
If it’s in Walmart the Path to World Domination is proceeding apace!
bwahahaha!!! *cohort agreeing chuckle*
Was re-reading White Hot today, and smiling. Thank you.
Preorders of Wildfire just went up by one. Somehow I’d forgotten. I’m so ashamed.
I preordered the books not just out of the wish to support you guys* – I preordered some of the best writing I have encountered. And because I have an equally addicted daughter. You guys give so much joy with your books. When I’m a stressed academic, (surprisingly often stressed – what with fretting about my beloved students, cost cutting at universities and new AI research combined with my disability/chronic pain, AND raising five adult/near adult miracles of joy and mayhem), you guys relax me. Some of my favourite writing, and this is from a voracious book addict that can clear libraries of material. And I’m an academic, so I do know writing (while I am IT based, I started in English literature, so believe me, I do know writing). You have a gift, and are generous enough to share it. I hope enough people are sane enough to be generous in their support, and not take advantage of the Internet to obtain it for nothing.
* FWIW I do want to support you, because supporting you supports my addiction to your writing. To that end I order both ebook and actual book versions. Electronic books because I cannot wait, and actual book because, well, real books.
Thank you, from the bottom of my fan girl heart.
Ps like the knitting stuff too;)
LOL I’m #53 on 3 copies of White Hot at the local library. I think I’m going to have to order 🙂
Quite frankly, I would pre-order anything you author lords wrote because I am completely greedy for your work. I would read anything that you wrote. This is inclusive but not limited to your: Books, novellas, weekly instalments like with SIP (which I also bought when the book was released), your blog posts and probably even your grocery list. Everything you write is magic.
Originally I was buying just the e-books because of ease of storage. But then I ended up getting a hardcopy book and an e-book for books I love and can read and re-read. I do this generally because I read a lot and many friends ask for recommendations to read and I usually loan them books that I love. It’s so funny, I have a few friends that couldn’t wait for me to loan the rest of the Kate Daniels series and after I loaned them the first, or the first and second, inevitably they decided I was too slow at lending the books, so they went out and bought the whole series because they couldn’t read them fast enough. A sentiment I am familiar with.
I know that you write for a living, but I am very glad that you also do this for love and hopefully won’t be too pressured by the current market. Plus… I am excited to learn there may be another book after Wildfire!!!! I can’t wait to preorder it. Hidden Legacy is absolutely one of my favourite series.
I get Ilona’s explanation for why the genre isn’t doing as well, but I wonder if part of it is also categorizing it and placement in bookstores. Like when Wynnsfolly above mentioned being unable to find the book in the bookstore. I had the same problem back with the second or third KD book and trying to find it, because the bookstore didn’t seem to be set up at the time for a crossover category like UF. I think I ended up buying it via Amazon. Which is unfortunate, because I would like to support local bookstores, but if they don’t carry the content, then I have to go elsewhere. I could order it via the bookseller, but that would take longer.
That said, just out of curiosity, where do they stock Ilona Andrews’ books at libraries? Is there an UF section, or does it go into Fantasy/Sci-fy, or is it under Romance?
In libraries I look it up in their computer system to find it, beseeching a librarian if I can’t find it. And if I don’t need it immediately – like it’s 4th in the series and I’m on the second book – I request it. As long as it’s not an interlibrary loan, I usually get it in about 48 hours. Of course, where I live there’s a big library system, I know the whole country is not like that.
Usually I wait to buy the audio version when the price comes down a bit more when paired with the ebook, but White Hot was so awesome that I couldn’t wait! And Renee does such an awesome job, I really love how she brings your stories to life. I can’t imagine buying your stories now WITHOUT the audio version as well. I’ve re-read and re-listened to your books so much (particularly Kate Daniels), that the audiobooks are my happy background noise at work to filter out the noise of my coworkers.
I buy them because I enjoy the stories Gordon and you write. I pre-order them because I’m rabid for more, and also because I often forget release dates. (Damn you ADHD brain!!!) I’m tempted to buy more paperback copies just so I can shove them under my friends’ noses, shouting, “You neeeeeed to reeeead this!!!” *insert heavy breathing*
But don’t worry, my friends are used to it… 😉 Oddly enough…they love me anyways. 😉
I’m not surprised that your Hidden Legacy series is doing so well. Yeah, they have some nice steamy fun in them, but it’s the overall quality of the story and characters that really makes it shine. Often times, characters in a romance are not quite real, and it’s less about story and more about smut. Now smut has it’s place too, but genuine well rounded characters in a well crafted story with a more realistic romance is just… so much MORE and really raises the bar. This is likely why we are loving this series so much. If you write more, then YAY! If you move on, but still are still writing, then still YAY! You gotta love what you are doing, right?
Thank you Ilona and Gordon. Your stories make me laugh, cry, excited, and generally warm and fuzzy. And thank you to Renee for adding her own splash of magic to your stories!
Question for curiosity sake—-this is your niche genre, but if you were thinking of venturing into another (others), what would it be?
In my humble opinion, the countdown timer to the release of Wildfire should be moved to the home page under the pretty book cover and release date. Just sayin.
http://vampirebookclub.net/alpha-showdown-2017-finale-mercy-thompson-vs-kate-daniels/
Has the Vampire Book Club annual Alpha Showdown featuring two of my favorite characters. Kate Daniels vs. Mercy Thompson to determine who will be the Alpha Champion for 2017.
Mercy had to battle already Son of Satan Reyes (Jones), her husband Adam (Briggs), Vlad (Frost).
Kate faced Archangel Raphael (Singsh), Curran (Andrews) the god killer and Kates husband/mate, then Mad Rogan the Butcher himself (Andrews). Their is about 11 hours left of voting.
Keep on rockin’ it!!! Love the series so far!
I bought two copies of White Hot. 1. It was my birthday and my husband has a job for the first time in years. 2. I can read the paperback while sitting in my creek. My phone doesn’t go in to free flowing water. 3. I have had authors I like disappear. I also get your books from libraries and requested it at a store. 4. It’s great, I am looking forward to Wildfire. I will probably buy a print copy of Burn For Me and Wildfire so that I can take them to unsafe places.
I preordered White Hot and Wildfire as soon as they were available, simply because I really enjoyed Burn for Me that much. I’m just kicking myself because it took me so long to read BFM! It’s right up there with your Kate Daniels books for great characters and storyline. I LOVED the book cover for BFM. Not so much the others, to put it in the most polite terms. The Male & Female models you have on the BFM cover SO work with my imagination when reading the book. #2, she’s anorexic -ick; & #3 the wrong hair color -time to get a new graphic designer, editor or whoever contributed to that decision!!!?