I have the Youtube recording of the afterparty ready below, but for those of you who can’t watch right now, here are some answers to some questions that the long suffering Moderator R has compiled.
Will it be a series?
Moderator R says: Despair, thy name is BDH- it came up 223 times on the Spoiler thread alone (it was fun to click count after a while :D).
We don’t know yet. We’ve moved from possibly to probably, but we will know more when we get the list placement this Wednesday and first week’s sales numbers sometime this week.
“Why is Ascanio a douchebag now? He used to be great, we want redemption.”
After 20 some books, you guys still don’t trust us. Ascanio is not a douchebag. He has reasons, they are good reasons, and they will be revealed later on. It has to do with the current state of the Pack, Jim’s imminent retirement, and what Andrea and Raphael foresee as the fragmentation of everything Curran has built and Jim has refined.
Why is Sophia older than Conlan?
A selection of weirdness by ModR
- “I thought she was a magical-insemination-clone something…”
- “Christopher is an Albino… Sophia has been conceived by highly illegal magic with genes both from Christopher and Barabas. But who was the surrogate mother?”
- “I thought that she was biological somehow.”
- “Elara was their surrogate”
- “Wasn’t Christopher still raving mad at the time she was supposed to be born? Also she’s been absent from all the KD novels when she was a toddler…”
- “what was the illegal means by which Barabas had a child? They hadn’t mentioned invitro being illegal in any of the other books or gene splicing so I’m left wondering what it was?”
- ” Bit confused by age of Sophia? Conlan was born before she was??? Speed grown?!”
“I wondered about magic cloning too. She’s so fair maybe Elara was involved??” - “I haven’t figured out yet how Sophia became Christopher and Barabas’ daughter!”
- “Julie was gone for 8 years and their daughter is 14? I’m confused.”
Sophia is adopted. Unless you live on the African Continent, if you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras. Older children deserve to be adopted too. Adoptive parents are parents. Sophia is an albino. Barabas is not an albino. Christopher is not an albino. Her adoption is canon.
When is the audio book coming out?
We will announce when Audible finishes processing it. 🙂
Are you guys happy with how it did?
We are thrilled. We both feel so fortunate that you guys like it and that in this stressful time we could deliver a little distraction into your world. This has been an absolutely amazing release. Even if the sales somehow will fall short, this was worth all the effort and editing and rewriting. This was amazing for us. Thank you for making our launch special.
Here are our rambling answers. We cut the spoiler portion off. Sorry about feline interference. 🙂
Love Hometown also!
Lol think horses not zebras. I think the reason my brain went to zebras because it sounded like aurelias brain did as well. The book is awesome thank you.
Loved Blood Heir. LOVED it. I would love to see Blood Heir II – you can count on a pre-order from me. Thank you so much for all you do.
Thank you for all the answers and posting the video. It was enjoyable – you two are such a great team, the critters are wonderful and I am jealous of the bookshelf with the ladder and open shelves! ????
I thought BH was great as I do all of your series and am looking forward to Ruby Fever next.
The book was amazing and a much needed distraction this year! Thank you!! Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for a trilogy. ????
Not sure if this question was answered in the spoiler section, but I would love to know the origin of Julie’s magic – specifically why wolves like her scent. Super curious.
Hi Anna,
Details of Julie’s magic and her affinity with wolves, wolflike dogs, horses and birds of prey can be found in Magic Binds- specifically in Chapter 12, pages 248/249.
Julie is a child of the Koorgahn (kurgan). Their magic was the Sight (her sensate gift) and also related to the things they were surrounded by in their lives:
“Wolves, horses, and birds of prey, those are her things. That’s how they came to battle, riding their horses, guarded by their birds of prey and their wolves.” Andrews, Ilona. Magic Binds, page 249. Ace 2016. Kindle edition
Thanks so much!! Can’t believe I’m forgetting stuff. Perfect excuse to re-read 🙂
I loved Blood Heir!! It was so great to be back in the KD world. And Julie is a straight up badass!! It was so cool to read up on what’s happening in that world. I’m begging for you guys to continue with her story though. There’s still so much to unpack!! Fingers crossed from a KD obsessed fan. 🙂
Thank you for posting the YouTube video. I would have loved to have heard the “spoilers”. Thank you for giving more details about the Hugh and his conversation about the cow. For me that was one of the best scenes in the book. Looking forward to the next books you will be writing.
Thank you for the book! I loved it! This may have been answered but can someone fill me in on Marten? Through most of the book she is an orphan with no family but in a conversation with Julie she talks about her dad who is not a creep.
To be continued in future books. She does have a father. During the posted Q&A video they said her father is not one of the known characters.
Thank you!
If the sales do well do you think you’d do a Subterranean release? I’d love to add a hardback to my collection ????
Love ALL and EACH book.. especially the latest…Blood Heir!
Just watched the video tape of the Q&As and wish I was present then too. Interesting to hear many of us have the same questions.
Thanks for writing!!!
You guys are amazing. I hope on days when you’re down you can feel uplifted by how much joy and goodness you’ve put into the world. I can’t thank you enough for all the hours of happiness I personally have had from your books. I hope I can do that for other people one day.
I am finally able to watch and just wanted to say Thank You So Much! I loved the book it was a welcome escape from life and to visit old friends! Looking forward to I hope a second and maybe a third book?
Blood Heir is fantastic, and certainly fits right in with the Kate Daniels series. It was enjoyable, and very engrossing! I literally have all your books, love them all. Hope you keep writing for years to come. Thanks for the enjoyment.
FYI, I loved Maude. no ripper cusions
LOOVVVVEEE Blood Heir.
More please!
I love how Julie/Aurelia refers to so many of the familiar people of her mother’s generation as Uncles. I am “Aunt” to several of my friends’ adopted children (and those who don’t get along with their parents) and it’s wonderful to find models of the family you create during your life through friendships and experience represented in stories I love.
In India, everyone of your parents’ generation is ‘Aunty’ and ‘Uncle’. Including strangers. So those words don’t mean much here, except denoting age gap.
Thank you…I’m always happy to learn something new. Honestly that sounds like a tradition with pleasant intentions: emphasizing we are all related?
Happy to hear that Innkeeper books are not so complicated to write. I enjoy ALL of your books but I find I re-read Innkeeper more because they make me laugh. In your fantasy scene with the fans sitting around I guess I’m in that group. Philosopher Ko-kou chickens! (Hahaha) Giant porcupine molecular gastronomy chef tries to make fast food! (Snort, weep!) Intruders randomly sink into the ground like a game of whack a mole! Small children with fangs! So, so much that amuses…I will never tire of it all.
Things I have learned:
1) The BDH asks both clever questions and very much “out there” questions. We get deeeeeeep in the weeds. Plus many repeated questions. I’m assuming the hope is that the answer changes if we ask it enough?
2) I have pronounced so many names WRONG. Saiman, Roman, Andrea and Ascanio. Oh no!
3) I like how whoever was talking would focus on the question but then immediately take up the role of “cat petter” when the other person started talking. Done talking => initiate petting. Tuna knows the system!
Loved the talk! Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this! Work exploded and I was finally able to take a day off today and settle in front of the fire with tea and the dogs to read BH. It was SOOOOO good! Coming here and watching you both answer questions and talk about the book was a perfect cap to the best day I’ve had in weeks. Your work and art has gotten me through some tough times and brought me so much joy over the years. Thank you, thank you, thank you fir your incredible work and for always sharing so generously with us, your devoted horde.
With regard to Roman: my father is the sort of typical Russian man you describe. (My family is all Russian and Ukrainian. I majored in Russian Regional Studies) He was a federal administrative judge, a servant of the law as Roman is a servant of Chernabog. He doesn’t feel loved unless he is needed. When he’s feeling down I ask him for advice I don’t actually need (but he doesn’t know that) so that he feels better. His mother was a difficult woman. My mother is a difficult woman. Both were smart, creative, charismatic, stubborn, etc. They fought. It made my father sigh heavily and twist words into pretzels to avoid taking sides. My mother is still convinced that my grandmother wanted my father to marry someone else, whom she picked for him. When my father retired, my mother said after a while, “if you aren’t going to remember to change the furnace filter maybe you should get your own place.” My father replied, “whatever makes you happy, sweetheart.” They live in homes a block apart in a retirement community and my father drives to get her an egg white McMuffin every morning so they can eat breakfast together. My point being: I picture Roman in a relationship like that. It doesn’t make sense to most people but it’s exactly what he wants. If you decide to go with it, I’m all in to provide answers to “what would happen if…” scenarios and help in any other way I can. You like renovation shows— check out Escape to the Chateau. The relationship between Dick and Angel is somewhat similar.
I loved this post.
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I love and appreciate y’all and your lovely moderator. Thank you so much for the clarification. I love so much that This Is The Way.
Loved the book. Would really like to see Conlan get his own book / series!
Thank you for sharing this video – the time difference wasn’t in my favor for catching the actual event live so video after the fact is ????
Also, congrats on BH now also being an “Editor’s pick” on Amazon. ????????????????????????
I’d been meaning to say – it’s cool that the Hodag fight scene from the original website version became a simple charge-sidestep-slash scene. Thought that was pretty effective at cementing Derek’s badassery. haha!
Loved it loved it loved it! Thank you soooo much. ????????????????????????????????????
But….but…..no spoilers? ????
This was great, and hilarious, and wonderfully informative. No one expected the Spanish Inquisition, but I don’t think we need one with Gordon. ????
I’m doing a quiet little kermit dance in the corner because Hugh 2.0 is still coming. I love Ryder, I love Catalina, and I love Innkeeper – and will happily partake in whatever you release for them. But I fell in love with Hugh when he lost the fight with Kate in the courtyard, and I’ve never wanted a HEA for a character as much as I want it for him. Knowing it hasn’t fallen by the wayside is happy making. ❤️
You guys say the readers still don’t trust you- I’m ashamed to say I didn’t fully trust until I read Iron and Magic. I absolutely abhor novels starring longtime villains but tried IC anyway and loved it. You have my trust forever- even if you did kill Aunt B. ????
Just listening to your video, about julie and aurelia. I think of it as a growning up procss. I am called priscilla. As a child inwas called lala and to my family i will always be lala even as a 40yr old. In school in was called Pris. All my school friends would call me that. When i went away to university I was called Cilla.
This in away allowed me to evolve and give me a different environment to be the person that i wanted to be growning up and maturing.
For me its the person rather then the name that counts.
My two cents
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Hello Gordon and Ilona, I’m a long time fan from Athens Greece.
I couldn’t watch you on line but I wanted to let you know that you have fans all the way to Greece, two at least me and my daughter Christina.
Thank you for the book, I love Derek and I’m so happy that we get to see his story continue and evolve.
Sending you love, happy thoughts and all the positive every!!!
Marina ????
Thank you for sharing the video and I’m so glad it all is going so well! I laughed so much with joy of hearing you both talk about your work!
Quick question: Will the spoiler portion of the video be available anywhere?
Thank you for all you do! This was great and I adore the book! <3
Is Bucky Tulip’s sire?
Yes
I read about people asking for the audio book…I’m asking for the next installment. I really like how Julie grew up and how she is her own person now and has reached some of her goals, especially in terms of power and strength. Loved Derek as well.
loved the book…thank you..thank you…take a well deserved break.
One question …what other book was Sophia in?
Hello Kay,
Sophia’s Blood Heir appearance is her first one.
Hope this helps 🙂
This was so fun to watch! I missed being able to sign up for watching it live so thank you for posting this (even if I’m dying for the edited out spoilers).
You two are my favorite authors and it is so good to see you both look so relaxed and happy and to see Julie getting embraced by the BDH. Can’t wait to read whatever you decide to publish next.
I love your stories. I really do. EIGHT years?! She was gone for 8 years. She LEFT Derek for eight years!!! This is my response. I needed to vent it out to the universe. PS I can’t wait for the next one!! ☺️☺️
Ok. Finally got to watch the video above vs just reading the comments.
Pardon if it has already been emphasized but…
DID I JUST HALLUCINATE OR DID ILONA SAY SHE HAD AN IDEA FOR A COMPLETELY NEW PROJECT?!?!?
Sometimes I can’t hear words well, especially through lovely accents, (too many rock shows when I was in college) so maybe I misunderstood but if not …. oh my … just oh my… ❤️????????????????????????????????
Just watching your Blood Heir After Party. Heard you mention concerns about Maud’s book in the Innkeeper series. Sweep of the Blade was my FAVORITE of the series. Would love to have you revisit them, especially to see how Helen is doing and does she have any siblings yet?
Was so excited to see this story! I was hoping for a spin off series for Julie. Loved seeing her and Derek together again! I really want to know what happened with Derek! Please make this a series to! THANK YOU!
Thank you for Blood Heir. It was a wonderful ride in the middle of a crazy world. I loved visiting the KD world again but in a new way. I’ve read it twice now!
I appreciate you so much! Thank you for writing this book!
Thank you! I normally listen to the audiobook but couldn’t make myself wait. It was excitingly wonderful to get the book, curl up on the couch for the day and enjoy the story! Can’t wait to hear the audio version with the new narrator.
I just checked and Blood Heir is doing well on Amazon in the Fantasy Romance and Romantic Fantasy lists. I hope this translates into happy amounts of royalties and more books about Julie. (I wouldn’t even mind hearing something from other characters’ viewpoints either, like Andrea and Dali and Desandra discussing Kate and eating honey muffins with George and Martha….). Hmmm, could Curran find out something but not pass it on to Kate? Is Derek levelling up so he can resurrect Kate and/or Julie? And does Marten end up with Conlan a dozen books down the line? Yup, I really really enjoy your bóks!
Soooooo disappointed w/ending… no Julie and Derek???? Why????
Absolutely loved Blood Heir! True to your Ilona Andrews style I love the characters and the storyline. With clever twists and new characters I enjoyed every minute of the story. I certainly am hoping for a sequel. Julie’s and Derek’s story is not finished. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with us. I read the Kate Daniels, Hidden Legacy and Innkeeper Chronicles over and over. I think I have read the Kate Daniels series about ten times! I look forward to your next project.
Thanks for that! Loved BH and I’m so excited for ALL the books coming up! Is there a transcript for this session?
Hello Debra,
There is no transcript at this time. Try the Facebook Fan Group, they usually make one.
I ordered the book and left it in my car, in the package, until I finished re-reading the series. It tugged on me like the dragon’s anchor, yet I held out and managed to wait.
Thank you so much! It was basically one sitting (as I expected) and so worth it – I love everything that you have done and this came at a perfect time.
However this happens (more or no more) – your gifts are deeply appreciated.
Thank you for uploading this Q&A!! It was imensly interesting to hear you two talk and the BDH asked some good questions! No stress on the Series, I’m just really happy that it’s gonna be three books! And I I love that you introduce new characters. It’s Julie/Aurelias story after all. I’m very excited about a HEA for Roman as well! I really like him 🙂
Thank you so much for writing this book. I absolutely loved it and I do hope that it becomes a series. So many questions unanswered. Also, does Julie don’t realize that Derek was indeed courting her in the most typical shapeshifter fashion ever? He found her secret lair. He broke into it and let her know that he did. He stole her food. He knew who she was. If that is not true love, I don’t know what it is.
We also want to know how Desandra and Nick Feldman got together. And what about the twins???
And what’s the scoop with Damian Angevin and Erra???
And what did Derek see when he ate the Sphinx’s heart? He smiles, so that must be good.
I am so happy you will continue writing this series. You have kept me sane.
Ooo! Laura, I appreciate this perspective on the breakdown of Derek’s real and practical take on shapeshifter courtship!
I figured Sophia had to be adopted as she was older than Conlan.
The kids, Ascanio’s penance for his teenage years.
Love all your books and wait impatiently, but quietly for the next one. When a new one is due, I usually go back and read the previous books in the series.
I finished Blood Heir and started KD over again (for obvious reasons) – I was in the second chapter of Magic Bites when my husband started reading over my shoulder. It’s been four days and he’s halfway through Magic Bleeds ???? My work here is done.
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