Virtual Tour
The release of BLOOD HEIR is just around the corner. Normally, we would be arranging signings with bookstores. Unfortunately, COVID is still rampaging through the country, so we are home-bound but we still want to meet all of you and chat about the new book and what it means for the Kate Daniels universe.
We are doing two virtual appearances for the release of BLOOD HEIR. Both will be via zoom. There will be an FAQ and giveaways. 🙂 You don’t have to register, but it’s best that you do because attendance is limited. We tried to time the Saturday event so our European readers can join.
Tuesday, January 12, 7:00 pm Central.
Click here to register for Tuesday Release party
Saturday, January 16th, 12:00 pm Central.
Click here to register for Saturday After Party.
We are recording these zoom events and will make them available for viewing on YouTube, or so we hope. If you are unable to attend but would like to have your question answered live, please use the contact form and select Blood Heir Chat Question as your technical issue. Our moderator will look through the questions and select a few most common ones for us to answer.
Signed Copies of BLOOD HEIR
We have happy to announce that we partnered with a couple of independent bookstores to bring you signed copies of BLOOD HEIR. Because of COVID, “signed book” in this case will mean a book with a bookplate. BLOOD HEIR is self-published, so it will likely be the same size as IRON AND MAGIC or Innkeeper books. Here is what a bookplate will look like.
The price of the paperback is higher than the usual price of the mass market. This is due to it being a print on demand title. We try to keep our margins as low as we can.
Preorder Here
Books with a Past
2465 MD Route 97
Glenwood, MD 21738
Phone: (410) 489 2705
Email: erin@bookswithapast.com
Click here to preorder signed copy of BLOOD HEIR.
Blue Willow Bookshop
14532 Memorial Drive
Houston, TX 77079
Phone: 281.497.8675
Email: staff@bluewillowbookshop.com
Click here to preorder signed copy of BLOOD HEIR.
Bank Square Books
53 West Main St.
Mystic, CT 06355
Phone: 860-536-3795
Email: bsb@mysticbooksinc.com
Click here to preorder signed copy of BLOOD HEIR.
Due to the delays in shipping, signed copies probably won’t get to you until after the release date.
Small Magics Giveaway
We are giving away 3 copies of the Subterranean Collector edition of SMALL MAGICS. The giveaway is open to all readers.
The books are absolutely gorgeous, signed, and numbered.
To enter, post a comment on this blog about what you’re looking forward to most in 2021. The giveaway will end on Tuesday, January 12th and the lucky winners will be announced during Book Release Party and then posted on the blog.
If you commented and you don’t see your comment, don’t worry. Your comment is registered. We all collectively forgot that a new year started and our website host is caching the posts. This is being fixed. Please don’t comment twice. 🙂
Finally, we humbly ask you to please help us spread the word about Blood Heir’s release. We would like the book to succeed, so if you could mention it in your readers groups or social spaces, we are grateful.
And this concludes this massive publicity post.
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What I’m most looking forward to about 2021 besides wonderful books of course is graduating college. One semester to go and I’ve got a degree!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
What I’m most looking forward to in 2021? Being able to see the world again. Meet authors again. Smell the fresh air again because it’s impossible while wearing masks. ????
I look forward in 2021 is the vaccine so we can see other people again
I’m a healthcare worker and am looking forward to the vaccine returning our life to some normalcy in 2021. I am also excited to get back to traveling and visiting my family members out of state!
+1 ditto. I would really like to visit my near ninety aunt.
here’s to a year that gives me less anxiety about everything. Job, kids, house, life, friends. I want to practice more kindness, and be less affected by the lack of kindness in others. Overall, I just really want my kids to be OK. I have to believe that they will end up alright, but I keep coming back to that. I just want my kids to get through this. Thanks for listening.
I am looking forward to taking more time to communicate with others! Even if I cannot see them I can still reach out.
Seeing my family in Florida. Can’t wait for the release!!!! Thanks!
The vaccines! I know rollout is going to be slow, and that most of us will likely have to wait for a long time, but seeing the our most vulnerable getting protection has been one of my favorite things and I hope it only gets better
Looking forward to the birth of our 2021 litter of foster kittens ????!
What am I looking forward to most in 2021? My oldest son is graduating high school! I just hope we can actually attend the graduation.
I am hopeful that we can receive a Covid vaccine in 2021 and I will be able to spend time with my mom. She is high risk. (And maybe a family vacation? Is it too much to wish for?) Thank you for all you are doing to give us something positive to focus on. Here’s to a better new year!
I’m so excited to begin a new chapter of my life this year!
I look forward to more sewing and reading time. My head is at work a lot and I let myself be showered by the television too often. I hope to be able to change that in 2021.
I’m looking forward to hugging dear friends. Hopefully that will happen by sometime this summer. Until then, I’ll just be grateful for their ongoing health.
Bought! And shared! And e-bought!
What I am looking forward to most in 2021. (Assuming everyone gets vaccinated and the new strains of COVID are protected with the vaccine. ) I am looking forward to safely going to the movie theater with my family/friends again. We would make an event out of it, dinner then movies once every three months. It was a fun thing to do that did not require a lot of coordination between everyone’s busy lives. While some of the movies you can watch now at home, the feeling of going to the movies and watching it on the big screen is not easily replicated even with drive in movie theaters.
I am starting a new job on Jan 11th a bit nervous. My Husband is now an owner-operator truck driver as of Dec, and that has been new. The one thing I’m super excited about is Blood Heir.
Happy New Year!!! Hope it’s a great year with much joy.
I’m looking forward to hopefully travelling again this year and finishing my PhD.
2021? So many of the previous comments resonate with me! Especially though, I want my kids to be happy and healthy. One graduating from university and headed into her PhD program and the other still in university with big dreams just waiting for him. I look forward to all the potential a new year brings!
Wait, am I first? I’m never first.
I look forward to the summer festivals that are planned everywhere. Since the covid spread is limited in summer, i have high hopes that they are going through. Almost all of them are planned as open air events in my hometown. And that means …. music, music everywhere. Street theatre! Circus in the park, open air dance parties, renaissance festivals, hip hop crews and capoeira. I cant wait.
I’m most looking forward to hopefully getting to see my family again. My closest family is over 2,000 miles away and I haven’t been able to visit since several months before COVID even started.
But…a close second….Blood Heir. I’m SO excited to go back to the Kate Daniel’s world.
And I just found out another of my favorite authors has a book in copy edits, so I don’t know when it’s coming out, but excited for The Empires of Ruin by Brian Staveley.
Yay giveaways.
I’m looking forward to finishing my kitchen in 2021. Being homebound through covid I’ve done a ton of DIY, and right now my cabinets are half Sawmill Gravy and half original 2001 honey oak.
I am most looking forward to giving my mum a cuddle when all this is over.
I am looking forward to reading Blood Heir! I know it’s going to be amazing.
The thing I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is to finally take the trip overseas with my sisters we had to postpone.
I am most looking forward to doing some camping travel. My family and I plan to do more roadtrips this next year.
i am most looking forward to going to see my grandson and giving him big, huge hugs.
thank you for BLOOD HEIR, having something to look forward to really makes a difference to me.
I’m most looking forward to the possibility of going on holidays later this year, especially as Scotland has just entered full lockdown again.
If I say “what I look forward to most in 2021 is the end”, is that a bit too negative? It’s just that I’m really looking forward to CoViD really, really being past, and I’m not seeing that happen within the next eight months… I am lucky enough that I can work from home, but we are currently in a lockdown, and working from home with a teacher who needs to do online teaching and a kindergartner who needs help and support and cuddles is really less about working and more about trying not to go nuts… So if I’m not sounding too positive, well, there’s your reason ????
I’m looking most forward to seeing my family again. It’s been a hard year without them.
I think this year I’m just super excited for all the new books I’ll get to read. 3 of my favorite authors are coming out with new books, I just ordered a new bookshelf… As far as I’m concerned this is the year of the book, and I am Readyyyy!!
Happy New Year! I look forward to retiring in 2021, giving me more reading time! 😀
I got the Kindle copy for myself (in So. Cal) and the paperback for my sister in St. Louis. After the release I’ll order another paperback for my collection from my favorite bookstore, the Nowhere Bookshop, which is in Austin, TX. So looking forward to this book ????
I am looking forward to some family health improvements…fingers crossed!!
This is absolutely amazing!
Thank you so much for all you do for the BDH at these times as well!
Best of luck on the release!!
This year I am looking forward to finally getting my driver’s licence! Freedom, here I come.
I’m so excited for Blood Heir, thank you!
As for 2021… I’m so looking forward to giving and getting all the hugs once the vaccine is widespread!
This is amazing! I was lucky to receive an ARC of Blood Heir and just preordered a signed copy. I am most looking forward to the birth of my second kiddo, completing my yoga teacher training, and continuing to read amazing books!
Congratulations! I’m so excited to read the new books coming out in 2021.
The absolute #1 thing I am looking forward to in 2021 is going to eat at a restaurant called Boiled Dragon. This restaurant opened up during COVID and features crab boil fusion. I have an extreme aversion to ordering seafood for takeout, perhaps because hot seafood dishes taste best when you know either the tips of your fingers or the roof of your mouth are going to be scorched. Sometimes I regretfully open up the menu, sigh over the fried crab bao or mild boil crab with thai basil, and wish fervently for a better vaccine distribution situation in Texas (and, frankly, everywhere). 2021, please grant me this wish!
I am most looking forward to celebrating my 15 year anniversary with my husband. We were hoping to plan a big trip but with the state of the pandemic we will likely scale back.
In 2021 I most look forward to starting my new flower garden.
Can’t wait for the Blood Heir!
Is the attendance limit due to Zoom limitations, or simply for manageability? If it’s a Zoom limit you might want to consider Google meet . . .
The thing I am most looking forward to this year is hopefully getting to travel and visit family again before the year is over.
I’m looking forward to me and my family getting vaccines this year, so life can get back to normal and so I can quit worrying. I want to go to church again and go to the movies and go shopping and go do all the things I can’t do right now.
What am I most looking forward to in 2021? I would have said finally having enough money saved up to buy my first home but medical problems are likely to interfere with that this year.
So instead, I’ll say that what I’m most looking forward to is my (tentatively planned) holiday to the Dain Tree Rainforest in north Queensland. It’s not likely to happen until the end of the year but it’s been a holiday goal for me for a few years.
I look forward to spending time with my family! My brother and his family are moving in with me while they sale their home!
In 2021 I’m looking forward to giving myself more self care (working mother of 3 young kiddos), which means hopefully more time for books! It’s been over a year since I’ve found time for myself to read a book. Blood Heir is first on my list, and I can’t wait for it to deliver!
I am definitely very excited for Blood Heir 🙂 but also about the possibility of being able to see more friends in person this year!
Thank you for all your efforts ! I can’t wait for blood heir to come out ! For 2021, I hope to find a job so I can move in my own apartment and leave apartment-share. I wish you all the best for 2021, happy new year ! ????
What I’m most looking forward to this year? How about…
My son is getting married in December of 2021. I am so excited. I love is fiancée so much, she is simply the best. He originally planned on proposing during a trip to Japan they were taking during the first two weeks of March, 2020. We all know why those plans got derailed. So instead, they are going to make the trip their honeymoon. So yeah, I am really looking forward to Christmas this year and the special gift of a new daughter I will be receiving.
What I look forward most to? To meet people; family, friends and strangers. To talk to about books and everything else. To be able to visit the library and browse the shelves. I love my book club and we try to meet via zoom/Facetime but it’s not the same as meeting face to face, arguing and laughing about characters, plotlines and themes in the books we have read. That said, I would like to continue my interaction online with new friends and strangers around the world who love the books I love. I have seen more authors talking about their books and people gathering together online to give reading suggestions and talk about favourite reads.
I’m looking forward to turning 40 this year!!
A new president ????
Love everything you two write and I tell everyone. I even on rare occasions unlock the vault and share a book.
I’m not even sure what I’m looking forward to most, a return to somewhat normalcy, new releases (blood heir and hidden legacy 6 from the Andrew’s and other books by my favorite authors), or for spring so my feet will stay warm lol.
I am looking foward to physically going inside of HEB and smelling all their “Texas-scented” dish soaps. Weird, I know, but I miss it all the same.
I might be able to adopt a second dog! (My first is a very laid back schnauzer who is the best girl). Also looking forward to blood heir (obviously), picking up cross stitching again and a bonus at my job that marks my 8th year in the organisation.
I’m so glad we can get signed copies and the zoom chats!! As for looking forward to in 2021…I mean mostly books, more Lucifer, more The Last Kingdom and my work bonus so I can pay off debt…
In 2021, I am looking forward to hugging my friends and family again sometime.
I am looking forward to a move toward normalcy. If that means mask wearing and other changes even after the vaccination it would be great to be able to hug my extended family. I am also looking forward to some awesome reads, such as Blood Heir(:
I’m most looking forward to new opportunities this year, plus being able to read a bunch of new books coming out ????
Most looking forward to your success in 2021 in the form of more novels. And of course everyone’s continued good health ❤️
I look forward to there being something to look forward to, be it books by favorite authors, a vaccine available to everyone, but those shows taken care of the rest of us first, having some kind of sane government (please!!) soon!!! Well my list would only get longer, so I don’t know, maybe a puppy?!!?
What I am looking forward to in 2021– a decrease in panic and fear over something you can’t even see (a virus). For people to realize that out of this came unexpected personal blessings— what ever they might be. I look forward to taking a deep sigh of relief that WE survived and grew in unexpected ways and maybe tried new things because there was time….. as the quarantine lingered. I look forward to being grateful for small things like a well cooked meal, and large things like health, and the love of family, and helping someone….
Ahhh! Looking forward to so much in the new year. But what I’m most hopeful for is a sense of lightness. Or maybe it’s simply the absence of dread, and fear, and constant anxiety. Fingers crossed!
So excited for Blood Heir. I’m counting down the days.
This year I’m most excited about gradschool! I’m really hoping it goes well. It wasn’t in my plans at all but it suddenly became something I really wanted. I’m the first college graduate in my family so no one has similar experiences, too.
Number 2 thing I’m looking forward to is the end of the pandemic, but who knows when that will be…
I’m looking forward to expanding my knowledge in various subjects, create more and of course, all the new books releasing this year.
I love all your books and try to push them at my library where i work whenever I can.
As for what I am most looking forward to in 2021, I am looking forward to the birth of my first child.
I am looking forward to soccer games with my kids, but still having fun at home (not forgetting the bright spots of 2020)
I can’t wait for my preordered copy of Blood Heir!
For the giveaway question…I think honestly, what I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is for the vaccine to reach us, or at least our older family members (if it actually does in 2021) – knock on wood! What a depressing answer. But it’s true!
I am looking forward to starting my PhD program and hopefully still finding time to read lots (&lots&lots) of books!
So excited for Blood Heir and any other IA books in our future. Thank you, thank you for the giveaway and Happy New Year! 😀
What I’m looking forward to in 2021? Blood Heir! And returning to the office once enough people get vaccinated. Best wishes, everyone!
2021 Most looking forward to: Being able to take my 1 year old son to the play park without having to go at sun-up (when it’s empty) and take a bottle of disinfectant.
I’m really looking forward to reading blood heir in 2021 and finally able to give my friends a good hug 🙂
Happy new year !
For 2021, what I’m looking forward to the most is the end of my Ph.D thesis, and the beginning of my career as a scientist :p well, that and the massive vacation free of stress before I find a job. ????????
I look forward to the summer. A summer without disease, with sun, sea and everything nice.
I’m looking forward to expanding my knowledge in various areas, create more and of course, all the new books coming out this year!
I am looking forward to all the new book releases this year, especially Blood Heir. I’m off to pre-order it now.
Thanks for keeping me entertained through these “worst of times”.
Looking forward to a massive family picnic this summer ???? should have been last year but….Covid #crashed it lol
I am looking forward to all the Great 2021 book releases.
I am most looking forward to whatever the House of Andrews publishes this year, and if a new Innkeeper shows up, life will be perfect.
looking forward to getting my life back together this year. study more, get in shape, eat better <3
I’m most looking forward to getting “the” vaccine the first chance I have. In a normal 2021, though, I’d be most looking forward to my son’s first day of kindergarten this fall as his next major milestone event (sniff sniff growing up).
What I’m looking forward to the most is everything hopefully getting back to normal!
In-person school!
Hello Ilona and Gordon ! Thank you so much for these events, the book of course, and the give away !
What I most look forward to for 2021 is to my wedding, but also to get my law degree, and maybe that’s too hopeful, but to find back a sense of normal and security. Thank you for being there with us during these difficult times and doing your best at making us happy.
Hope all your family is okay and that you will be able to rest and relax for this upcoming year.
Love from France !
Looking forward to seeing people in person. Hugging my friends. Life without a mask.
Honestly, what I am really looking forward to in 2021 is new books. The world is still a dumpster fire, but with new books from my favorite authors, I may be able to survive.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to a better normal. Once this “pandemonium” (my 92 yr old mom’s word) is over I hope we can keep the best parts of what we’ve learned. Family and friends are more important than material things. Connection matters. A slower pace gives more time to enjoy the days. And more time to read and reread books. Including everything Ilona Andrews has written ❤️(Spoken from a healthy, financially stable POV)
I am looking forward to life getting back to normal and hopefully getting a vacation.
Also looking forward to spring, planted lots of bulbs that will be lovely too look at.
Enter me to win a copy of Small Magics. In 2021 I’m looking forward to a new administration that will have empathy for others.
I’m looking forward to visiting my twin sister in the fall who lives in Australia in 2021!
Ideally I am looking forward to a less stressful year overall. That. If Ruby Fever arrives in 2021, I won’t complain.
This year, I am most looking forward to things approaching some semblance of normal so that I can really get back into my martial arts classes. I’m still doing kali, in which keeps you separated from the other person with sticks, but you absolutely can’t social distance and do aikido or krav maga, and trying to do the latter with a mask on is not even a consideration for me, I’m always on the verge of collapse by the end of a class when I’m breathing freely.
(Second place is watching my six month old Malinois, Lightning- Light for short- grow up into an adult dog, and hopefully start acting like she has some brains. For a dog as smart as she is, she doesn’t have any sense at all.)
Looking forward to getting my family vaccinated for COVID. Also making more progress on improving my embroidery skills.
I am looking forward to maybe seeing my father by the end of the year. I hope.
I am most excited to take a weekend trip with friends to a lakeside cabin!
Im really looking forward to being able to spend in person time with family. Its hard when you have people you love who are high risk and you can’t be with them on special occasions.. so here’s to hopeing this year we will get that!
I absolutely CANNOT wait to be able to socialize with my family in person again. Time is precious and it is slipping away. I’m not a terribly social person to begin with, except with my loved ones. I’m so hopeful there is a light at the end of this very dark tunnel.
Ahh I cannot wait! Definitely will be pre-ordering a signed copy.
I’m most looking forward to moving to a new city in 2021. My partner and I will be moving cross country and though it’ll be a struggle, I’m excited.
I’m looking forward to the day I am allowed give my parents a hug, we had to cancel Christmas plans due to local lockdowns
I’m looking forward to the (possible) light at the end of the COVID tunnel so it would be safe to travel again I’d be able to go visit my family in Finland.
I’m so looking forward to reading Blood Heir. I’ve been reread all the books just to get ready for it
I’m hoping for a better year overall. Hopefully more new books to read.
Hugs.
In 2021, I am looking forward to seeing my parents again. Hopefully they will get their first vaccine shot soon.
I’m looking forward to Blood Heir of course!
Looking forward to the most is staying healthy and being around people who make me happy. Oh! And Blood Heir, of course.
Thank you for the giveaway!
What I look forward to for 2021 is going on the road trip we had planned for last summer in Andalusia if the situation will allow.
And of course, reading Blood Heir!
What I look forward to most in 2021 is new books from Ilona Andrews! Well, I also love the blogs.
Honestly the most exciting things in my calender for 2021 are book releases from my favorite authors. I tend to stay up and wait to download them so I can read as soon as possible…lol.
Looking forward to spending more time with family. (Hopefully!) Happy New Year!
2021! Looking forward to new adventures with my family!
I’m looking forward to many things in 2021. Blood Heir and a couple of other books out soon aso. But mostly I look forward to giving my parents a huge hug, as soon as we are vaccinated against the virus. I haven’t been within 2 meters of the both of them since february last year.
In 2021 I am most looking forward to moving my son downstairs to a real bedroom and getting my office back! He’s finally old enough to be on a different floor than us and is excited about his new space, and I’m over the moon at the idea that my computer can move out of the living room and go back where it belongs 🙂
This year, I am most looking forward to receiving my Collectors edition of Small Magics ????.
cannot WAIT for BLOOD HEIR. this is the most exciting. I’m sorry you guys won’t be able to tour but as someone who doesn’t live in the US I’m excited for the chance to “see” you. for 2021, I’m most excited for the chance I might see my niece (just turned one!) as things (hopefully) start to calm down. but very thankful for how lucky we’ve been despite all the challenges. hopeful for so much this year. all the best!
Release of Blood Heir is obviously a major highlight. Currently the best thing about 2021 is that 2020 is now in our rearview mirror. I love your writing!
Like so many – I’m looking forward to getting back to the “old normal” or as close as we can get to it! I’ve been working from home since March 16, 2020. My youngest son (19 yrs) is immunocompromised due to a medical condition, I’ve become the Queen of Curbside Pick up 🙂
Being homebound I have been re-reading and re-readings all your series along with Nalini Singh and your bestie – Ms. Frost 🙂
Looking forward to Blood Heir!!
I am most looking forward to finally defending my thesis in two weeks and getting my Covid-19 vaccine so I can stop being alone and touch people again. I want a hug.
Sorry that’s two. I’m honestly not sure which I’m looking forward to more.
Thank you so much for the post and all the information!
What I am looking forward to most of all in 2021, besides your book, of course, is the COVID-19 vaccine….my sister, who volunteers at a hospital, has already received the first dose a week ago and is doing great!
I am looking forward to a new year of reading books! I’ve been very excited for this one and a few others coming out this year such as Jeanne Frost’s Wicked All Night. I am also looking forward to COVID hopefully being controlled so I can finally take my 2 year old to all the places I wanted to start introducing him to at this age. First up would be the Zoo! Thanks for the Zoom events! I am going to try to attend one of them if it works around my sons sleeping time that day!
My first grandchild!
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to hopefully being able to see my loved ones again with the vaccine rollout. It will be nice to hug my friends and family again.
In 2021, I am most looking forward to getting out into social groups again. I MISS MEETING NEW PEOPLE.
Yay, registered right away. Thank you so much for the European friendly time. Oh, and I look mostly forward for Corona to be vaccinated away so travelling will be possible again. I miss the sea.
In the immediate future, I’m looking forward to getting my hands on Blood Heir! 🙂 After that, I’m excited about my grandmother’s 90th birthday in April, and hoping everyone will be healthy and together for it!
In 2021 the Blood Heir release is way up on the list! Otherwise, looking forward to a more deliberate approach to commitments as kids’ activities are ramping back up. Something’s gotta give, and a 2020 with fewer things going on was a highlight of the year.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to moving to a cheaper place and saving on housing costs.
I’m looking forward to traveling and meeting friends and family in person again. While waiting for this mystical future to arrive, having more free time to read is also cool.
I can’t wait for Blood Heir!!
What I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is *hopefully* a more normal year. Kids back to school, no more masks, everyone safe.
I am so excited for this book!! It looks gorgeous!! I can’t wait to read it <3 Thank you for doing the giveaway and the Zoom tour.
Being able to hug, shake hands and not wearing a mask so I can smile to lighten a strangers day, and feel good when someone else smiles at me.
What I look forward to the most in 2021 is the renewed hope of people turning to a kinder, smarter and more generous way of living. Perhaps with the passing of 2020 the permission that some have given to themselfs to allow baser instincts to rule their lives will fade a bit. My personal circle has certainly gotten smaller but there has in all of history been pivot points which dramatically change the direction of society. Here’s toasting 2021 with a vaccine, cool vibes and new entertainment!
I am looking forward to (eventually) getting a covid vaccine, borders opening again, and seeing my parents and my sister and her family again. Fingers crossed it does indeed happen this year. And Blood Heir. I’m very much looking forward Blood Heir!
I most look forward to reading more books. So many titles are coming out in series I read. I also want to catch up on Jeanine Frosts books. Sadly I’ve fallen behind and haven’t read her new series at all yet.
For 2021, I am looking forward to staying healthy and my husband getting healthy after his latest health incident. I am also looking forward to all the new book releases for the coming year. They help maintain my sanity in this crazy world.
I am looking forward to the vaccine so that at some point I can be with my friends and travel again.
Blood Heir release and it not being 2020 anymore! (And receiving the vaccine.)
Whoo hoo, I’m so excited! I’m looking forward most to (hopefully) being able to meet up with my friends again.
Great health for everyone, and respite for all of the healthcare workers!
Things I’m looking forward to in 2021 – release of Blood Heir and anything else you write but most of all, I’m looking forward to seeing my kids and grandkids once the vaccine is readily available.
I’m looking to really great books!
In 2021, I mostly look forward to the hope. With all the “2020 sucks,” people gave up on last year way before it was over and pinned all their hope on making it to this one. For better or worse, they wanted to wish away a whole year in history before it was half over. Well, that’s done, and now I look forward to not dismissing this year.
Great to hear from you and Happy New Year!
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021: Spring and Summer when I imagine it will be safe enough to visit my mom and grandmother out of state.
Wishes for book success, good health, & prosperity to House Andrews.
I bought myself a new bike over the holidays, so I’m really looking forward to getting out and riding it more ????
I’m looking forward to discovering some faith in humanity again. (I’m sure we’ve left it out there somewhere.)
Thanks for creating these moments of light in the darkness. They are sorely needed.
For January I’m looking forward to Blood Heir! As for the rest – bring on the vaccine so we can get this bloody virus under control.
I am most looking forward to traveling this year. I turned 30 last year, but didn’t get to celebrate. So, I am going to think of something fun to do this year. My society meeting is in Orlando, FL, so I may take advantage and spend some extra time there. Can you someone say Disney World? Or, finding a beach and just chilling with some alcholic drinks… not sure yet
I am most looking forward to visiting my family in 2021.
What I am looking forward to most in 2021?
Improving myself.
I am most looking forward to COVID being over, and for time with friends and family.
January 12th is my birthday, I’ve preordered a long time ago and can’t wait for my present! I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine and traveling to South Korea for lasic/smile in 2021.
I am looking forward to competency at the federal level and a vaccine!
Thanks!
I am looking forward to more people working together and showing kindness and compassion. This is the age of Aquarius and we need to reach our highest potential while we have universal backing. I know we can do this. We need to just Believe.
Looking forward into 2021…
First reading Blood Heir lol. But overall just hoping for a year of safe connections and events with family and friends!
I won’t say what I’m looking forward to most in 2021 because it involves politics.
Looking forward to reading all the new releases this year. A lot of plans were canceled last year but I think because we are more aware of the COVID situation cancelations are not more expected and it doesn’t hit as hard when your really looking forward to something.
I’m looking forward to seeing & hugging my friends and family again.
I’m most looking forward to finishing all my pre-nursing classes and then hopefully starting on the clinical part this coming fall. Also the release of blood heir as I absolutely love your books !!
I’m most looking forward toBlood Heir and the Black widow movie
I wish to travel again. A good friend died in 2020, and I was unable to visit her before her passing.
I am most looking forward to Blood Heir in 2021! I have had it preordered and CANNOT WAIT for it to arrive!!
I am most looking forward to getting together with family and friends I haven’t seen in person for months. And going out to dinner.
I’m looking forward to finding hope and love witching myself in 2021. 2020 showed me how important it is to find a balance within all over again.
I’m most looking forward to finally reading Blood Heir. I keep my expectations for the new year low and short term so I can be pleasantly surprised. I got my copy for Xmas last week and have been tearing through library loans first as they are coming due.
I am looking forward to taking more time for myself and enjoy reading from my favourite authors.
In 2021 I look forward tomany things : The release of Blood Heir and a couple of other new books. But mostly I look foreward to giving my parents a huge hug when we are all vaccinated against the virus. Haven’t been within 2 meters of them both since feb. last year.
I am most looking forward to being able to be around people. Basic things like eating dinner with friends, hugging, having real meetings not just online. I need human contact.
Thank you for Blood Heir, so excited!
Looking forward to a few (a lot) book releases! Blood Heir is top of the list, of course.
I’m getting married in 2021!! I have to rank it first out of many things I’m looking forward to!
Looking forward to possibly, hopefully, fingers crossed, seeing my parents in the late spring/early summer. Is that too optimistic? We’ve put off seeing them twice now.
What I miss most is meeting new people. I am very lucky to have surrounded myself with a small group of great friends who I sprak to regulary via Skype/text/etc. But learning new people and thereby new views of the world is something I really miss. I am very excited for blood heir! Something to keep give me a Nice escape from the here and now.
I am looking forward in 2021 to the vaccine being distributed and being able to spend time with friends and family again. To being able to leave the house without a mask and hug my loved ones. To sitting down to meals and campfires, kids having sleepovers, enjoying BBQ’s. Band Practice. To living life and never taking a day for granted. Here’s to the New Year!
In 2021, I’m looking forward to graduating from college and watching all my friends’ quarantine puppies grow up!
I’m looking forward to not being under self-imposed house arrest due to COVID. 🙂
I didn’t realize these were coming out!!! I’m soo excited!
Such great info. So looking forward to the book.
In 2021 I sm looking forward to getting the vaccine so I can safely travel and see my 85 year old Dad again. ????
I am looking forward to Blood Heir on Jan 12….and to being outside this summer in beautiful Maine. Thank you for sharing your creative genius with us!
I am so excited to get vaccinated and to get back to doing fieldwork, hopefully by the summer.
I’m looking forward to regaining my enthusiasm for reading in 2021. I had a hard time reading new-to-me books last year, after a lifetime of being a chronic readaholic. I’ve made some progress, finishing a new book already this year, so here’s to 2021 and all the lovely new books it may bring my way!
I’m looking forward to January 21, 2021.
Most looking forward to when my children can be with their friends and putting the pandemic behind us. Book wise – Blood Heir is my most anticipated book for 2021!
Can’t wait for the release!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEE!!!
Giveaway entry: I’m MOST looking forward to being able to have people over for dinner or drinks or movies. To see my friends in person. To get off the crazy rollercoaster that has been COVID-time. To a reduction in political squabbling (it won’t go away – people of all parties are too afraid and we are too divided as a nation for that, but at least 2021 isn’t an election year and maybe, maybe some of the hateful tirades on both sides will subside). I’m also REALLY looking forward to reading Blood Heir!
In 2021 I am waiting for my radiation treatments to be completed. And hopefully be told that I am now cancer free!!
Im most looking forward to seeing my two new (almost) nieces! My 2 best friends both had babies within a week of each other, so as soon as its safe, im going to get 6 months of cuddles in(or cwtches, we’re Welsh) with both of them!
I’m looking forward to things being a bit more normal but since I’m not sure that’s going to happen I’m looking forward to several book releases that some of my favorite authors are doing this year. Yours of course being the best.
for 2021, I am looking forward to getting married! Here’s hoping they figure out a better way to distribute the vaccine.
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Now for the post… All my brothers have moved to Texas, so I’m planning to move there sometime this year. Not looking forward to having to update my resume (first time in 15 years) or pack a house (even if I’m going to give most of it away), but I am looking forward to being in a warmer climate and closer to my bros.
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I’m looking forward to new beginnings in 2021! Surprisingly, 2020 helped me focus on what I really wanted, and now I want to go out and get it!
And I’m looking forward to all the new books, especially Blood Heir. All the squees!!
I am most looking forward to seeing my family in 2021. I haven’t seen them since last Christmas before the pandemic started. They live on the other side of the country and flying isn’t a good thing right now.
I am looking forward in 2021 to traveling more. I have new nephew twins that are only 3 hours away and I plan on getting to know them much better.
Other than Blood Heir, I’m looking forward to this covid situation ending and seeing my grandparents for the first time in over a year. I miss them so much.
I’m looking forward to finally seeing my folks in person. They live in other country and pandemic made me scared for them more then ever.I know it’s irrational because we video-talk, but I have this never-ending clenching feeling in my stomach I feel it’s going to ease up only when I see them in person.
Can’t wait to read Blood Heir. 🙂
Happy New Year. In 2021 I am most looking forward to doing things with my family and friends, nothing extravagant, going out to dinner at a restaurant or to the movies or maybe a big group of us getting together to play cards. I have high expectations for the myriad of vaccines being released, as I hope for the return of small events that I now realise bring joy and the feeing of connection with people I like and love. I am also looking forward to reading your latest novel which I am going to splurge on and buy in paperback (love the feeling of holding a book in my hands). Have a fantastic and fulfilling year
2021- New opportunities to interact with my friends even if it is different than what we’ve done in the past. I’m also going to try my hand at papermaking. I have no idea why but I’ve decided it’s a skill I need to perfect. It never hurts to try new things. You might find out you’re more interesting than you thought you were.
I’m most looking forward to getting the COVID vaccine and to be able to visit again with friends and family and to travel. Of course, any House Andrews snippets or books would only make that better. Thanks for your books and for helping to keep me sane (well, maybe saner) during this past year.
I’m looking forward to seeing my family in 2021! We are all very close and it’s been so hard these last 10 months. Also, books!
Wishes for 2021 besides Blood Heir? Being able to hug one of my best friends without fear for her or her unborn little girl.
I hope to a year where I can focus more on my mental health and doing things that are good for me. It’s pretty standard but necessary
What I am most looking forward to in 2021 is that I get to marry my boyfriend and start a place to build a home :3
Such great news! I highly appreciate that you thought about the European readers when organising the events!
I would love to enter the giveaway of Small Magics, so here is what I am looking forward to most in 2021: dinally being able to see our families. My boyfriend’s family is in Belgium, mine is in Hungary, and we live in Austria. Due to the travel restrictions and quarantine requirements (and in order to protect our grandmothers) we haven’t seen our families a lot last year (the last time we met with either family was in August), so we are really looking forward to be able to travel to our birth countries.
Besides the awesome book coming out soon, I am looking forward to being able to go outside soon with my husband without fear he will die due to being high risk. I am also looking forward to starting grad school next Monday after not being able to start my educational journey until my late, late 20s.
I’m so excited for this books to come out! My birthday is Jan 14th, so it’s an early birthday present for me! I usually read the digital kindle books, but as this is special, I’m going to order a signed copy. I’ve read the KD books since I was in college around 2011, along with all the other series, and I am so happy that Julie is finally getting her story. I loved reading the blog chapters, and I really want to see what happened! I’ve been in suspense for months!
In 2021 I most look forward to getting my three yr old potty trained. There, I said it… It is what it is 😉
I am looking forward to seeing my best friend! She lives in a different country and had babies at the end of 2019 and I haven’t been able to see her since before she got pregnant. I hope that once everyone is vaccinated we can finally get together!
I’m most looking forward to getting my vaccine shots.
I’m looking forward to seeing friends and family in person again in 2021! And traveling!
Thank you Ilona and Gordon for writing such amazing books that helped us make it through 2020. <3
I’m most excited about all the book releases in anticipating, blood heir included of course. Because I don’t dare get excited about real life events
What am I looking forward to this year…? I really hope that all the restrictions connected with covid will end soon. Hope people can go to work again and earn money and can buy things they need. I also hope that people will be happier than last year… that would be nice. Thank you for this giveaway:)
In 2021, I am looking forward to becoming vaccinated and being able to move more freely again! I miss browsing bookstores. 🙂
Julie
I am looking forward to seeing family in person and getting to hug their necks and of course reading your books. Thank you for all the amazing books. Rereading all of your books has helped during these trying times.
This is a little backstory to my 2021 wish. I live in a country called Malaysia. We are separated with Singapore by a river. Everyday, around 300 000 people from Malaysia cross the border over to Singapore for work. My boyfriend is one of the 300 000 people. Because of covid, the border has closed and I have not seen my boyfriend for over 10 months. We have bought a house and are supposed to get married this year, but… All I wish for 2021 is for the borders to be open and free again. Winning your book giveaway would be a balm for me in these trying times. 🙂
Happy New Year =D
I must admit I can’t wait to read Blood Heir (I’m going to love Damian I can feel it ><)
In 2021, I can't wait to be able to go swimming in the ocean (it's been a very long time since I went swimming due to covid and health issues and I miss it a lot ! So as soon as the situation allows it, I have planned a short vacation on an island near France where it will be swimming and reading every single day !)
Thank you for doing the giveaway! am looking forward to seeing if the Dahlia tubers I saved from last year have survived the winter. Somehow I’ve managed to kill the tubers for the last 2 years – the first due to mold and the second year due to freezing temps. Fingers crossed!
So excited to read another novel in the world of Kate Daniels!!
2021 – looking forward to traveling again, to getting a COVID vax, to reading fun new books. Julie and Derek are two of my favorites, and I can’t wait to see where this story takes them.
I am most looking forward to, possibly, maybe, getting to begin my PhD. I didn’t go to college as a kid – there just wasn’t the money, so I went into full-time work and wrote in my spare time, then became a freelance writer years later. But a few years ago I was hired to teach writing skills at a university and it brought back all these feelings about loving learning and wishing I’d stayed in education. So I saved up, saved up and saved up and this year I finally graduated with an MA in Creative Writing – with distinction. I’m really proud of myself for having the courage and grit, and now my mother finally has something that she can mention when she talks about me that doesn’t make her do That Face, yay! But if I want to teach (which I do) I need a PhD, so I sent all my applications out at the end of last year and now I have to hope that 2020 didn’t curse all of them… fingers crossed.
But the thing I am looking forward to NEXT most is obviously Blood Heir 😉
I’m looking forward to starting nursing school and it not being 2020 ????
I’m looking forward to just getting back to some sense of normality hopefully before the end of the year and maybe a better xmas in 2021 than the one we just had ????
Can’t wait to read Blood Heir! ????
I’m looking forward to more books of any kind!! Pandemic not withstanding, reading has always been my go to escape when I just need a minute to breath. Obviously current issues have made that more important than ever and it’s comforting to know that at least that part of my life hasn’t changed.
I’d love to be in the running for the Small Magics giveaway. <3
Besides looking forward to Blood Heir and Iron Covenant 2 and my hope we will see some more Innkeeper this next year too if it works with your schedule), I'm really looking forward to the astrophotography workshop I plan to attend this spring in the Big Bend area of Texas. It was canceled last year as the area went into shut down due to the pandemic. I'm planning to head down early for some day shooting excursions before the two night workshop. Hopefully the skies will remain clear, and I'm hoping for low water levels at Santa Elena Canyon and no recent rain so I can finally get a pretty canyon shot. My last attempt was foiled by flash flooding on the road to the canyon.
I cannot wait for the Blood Heir to be published. I just discovered your books about 18 mts ago and I have read and mostly listen to everything you have published. As I live in England I have had to do all kinds of digital acrobatics to find everything, all the short stories as some are only publised in the USA. I think I have everything now in digital, audio or writing ;). I am sorry to miss both your zoom as I am working as a Radiographer both days ;(, but I have already bought the book (digital) on preorder. You have such a intresting way of writing, exciting, suprising, funny and still make the persons soooo likable. Hope to see more from you soon. Good Luck
I look forward to many things.
Your blog
The release of Blood Heir. And spreading the word. ????
The cure for the pandemic.
The beginning of a hopeful new chapter in our history.
Being with my family.
Learning new things, meeting new friends.
And so much more!
What I’m looking forward to in 2021 is to hopefully being able to hug my Nonna again and attending my rescheduled concerts with friends (if they’re allowed to go ahead this year)!
2021 most looking forwards to: taking my one year old son to the play park without having to go at sun-up when no one else is there and having to disinfect anything he wants to play on first. I just want to let him play.
I’m most looking forward to seeing my parents and my in-laws. My kids haven’t seen either set of grandparents in a year.
I am looking forward to 2021 to being able to hug my parents. We are in different countries, we zoom and facetime but I just want to hug them
What I’m looking forward most in 2021 is being able to finally read Blood Heir.
I’m such a huge KD World Fangirl!
I would LOVE a copy of Small Magic’s since I don’t have one yet. I’ve been broke, sadly.
Anyway, Happy New Year to all members on House Andrews. I wish you all the best!
Best regards,
Barbara
Holding my new baby nephew in my arms for the first time. He was born in lock down and even though I’ve seen pictures I’ve never actually met or held him.
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is seeing my long-distance boyfriend again (covid permitting)! Also making more time for reading!
I am looking forward to my kitchen remodel to finally be done. My husband decided to make the cabinets and I have been waiting for cabinet doors for three months.
I can’t wait to read the entirety of this at last! I am very much looking forward to 2021! After dealing with (and almost not surviving) radical surgery for stage 3 cancer in 2020, I am starting 2021 off with an interview for my dream job — 20 years after I left the job market and became self-employed!
I am looking forward to traveling again in 2021!
I’m looking forward to possible mail going to Australia, so I can send Finnish goodies to my sister who lives there.
I am hoping that work will slow down. We had our busiest year even with everything going on, and I’d love to be able to use some of my vacation days.
My niece is due in June with her first baby, my first great niece. It’s been awesome being an Aunt, so I can’t wait to be a Great Aunt. That’s what I’m most looking forward to, as well as eventually getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
Hopefully I’m doing this right ????
My boyfriend and I are buying a house in April , so thats what I am most excited about in 2021! Thanks for the chance to win!
Reading Blood Heir, of course! That’s what I’m looking forward too in 2021!
What I’m most looking forward to in the upcoming year is finishing my master’s. It has been a rough journey (especially with covid) but I am thankful that I have been able to continue my education online.
I’m so excited to read this book. Thanks.
I’m looking forward to traveling in 2021.
I am most excited about having a healthy & amazing new year filled with new book releases by my favorite authors!
I am looking forward to some type of “normalcy”, hopefully, and Blood Heir!
Can’t wait for Blood Heir. That’s one of the things that I am looking forward to in 2021. What I am most looking forward to is covid being quickly managed so that life can get more normal (and continuing to work from home after things are the new normal).
I’m looking forward to connecting with my friend again once it’s safe to do so.
I am looking forward to…
That sweet sweet vaccine.
1) I’m anxiously awaiting Blood Heir and 2) being able to see friends and family again. I received my first Covid vaccine and will receive the second one end of January so hopefully I’m on my way to being able to do the latter soon.
Oh, I am so looking forward to this book !!!
Of course looking forward to Blood Heir and any of your upcoming books. Mostly I’m looking forward to spending some time with my kids who live out of state. Maybe by fall, COVID will have improved and I can travel again. Stay healthy everyone!
Looking forward to returning to my workbench in 2021. Been far too long (couple years) since I melted metal.
This is amazing! I can’t wait!
I am looking forward to the vaccine and the (hopefully) positive effect it will have on the world.
I am looking forward to the interaction between Julie and Derrek! I have been waiting impatiently for their story ever since you released Magic Stars.
I love all of your books and have read the KD series about 15 times at this point. (Hidden Legacy is close behind as I love Catalina too). There is so much depth about the side characters that it makes me invested in everyone’s life. I am so excited that we get to see more about Julie and the rest of the gang.
What I’m looking forward to in 2021 – getting a safe and healthy home. And HUGS!!!
I am eager to travel again. I miss the feeling of finding something new, experience new places, culture, cusine, etc.
I’d have to say I’m most looking forward to being around people again without being afraid. I know the vaccine will take it’s time before the majority of the population is inoculated, but there’s hope, and that’s more than enough for me.
I am looking forward to a graduation, travel, seeing my son who lives far away, dining in restaurants, shopping in stores, going to live events, but most of all – being around people! Hugs and smiles and conversations in person.
Thank you for helping me during the pandemic (I’ve read and then re-read all your books)!
Looking forward to the release!
I am most looking forward to a visit with my darling daughter in March of 2021.She lives half of Canada away and I am looking forward to seeing her in real life, spending time with her, hugging her, and even hearing the oh Mom!!! with the eye roll. We were going in February but delayed it due to climbing numbers…here’s hoping!!!
Lokking forward to reading your new book. I’ve loved all your books.
Thank you for the massive pub post. Those seem like s bugger. In 2021 I am looking forward to seeing my new small business expand and having the country open up a bit so my 7 year old can get out and explore more after school activities. (He’s tired of us now and looking for new adventures ????)
I am a teacher so I really look forward to having my students all back in class .
Looking forward to actually living again!!
Are we allowed to talk about politics? (HaHa)
Everything about this post makes me happy. Thank you for all of the effort and giveaways. I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine and with that an immunization passport so I can travel back home and actually see my grandma.
Hello
First of all : “Bonne Année”
I would like to enter to this contest 🙂
What I’m looking forward most to 2021 IS of course the release of Blood heir 🙂 and have a life back like going to restaurant ,bars , movie theater and most of all hanging with Friends and my family *__*
Thanks
Cheers from ????????
Severine
I look forward to travelling again in 2021. I need a real vacation!
Looking forward to reconnecting with friends and family. An end to all the social distancing BS, and a happier world.
What I am looking forward in 2021 is finally being able to see my BFF again we live several hours apart and with my health we don’t dare for her to make the trip too see me. We talk regularly but it just isn’t the same.
I’m most looking forward to eventually getting the COVID vaccine!
Fun! I’ve actually been counting down the days until the new book! For me, it’s bright spot to start the year.
I’m looking forward to traveling again. Preferably overseas (hope, hope). And visiting friends in person! And retirement. I postponed it due to lack of travel. I realize there are plenty of people hopping on a plane, but it just seems stupid to do so.
I’m also looking forward to not reading horrible horrible covid statistics daily. I think that one might top the list. It’s been such a depressing year.
Thank you for this chance! Best way to start 2021:)
I am most looking forward to our family trip to Yellowstone this summer. My youngest is 8 and obsessed with bison! I am wanting to savor and enjoy this time because when he grows beyond a stage there isn’t another kiddo. Also my oldest is 18 and will be going away to college in the Fall so this may be one of the last family vacations with all of us.
To a year with reduced stress and better health for everyone!! Hopefully be able to bring mom home for an extended visit in the spring. And I’m very much looking forward to Blood Heir. I’ll have my ebook copy to gobble up and then the paperback with the signed bookplate for the new book smell. 🙂
I’m looking forward to helping my Grandmother kick cancers butt. I know this year will be bumpy but we will do everything we can to laugh, love and cherish every moment. ❤
I am most excited about exploring Washington State. We moved here during the pandemic and have not been able to see/do as much as we would like. Soon though!
Honestly what I am most looking forwards to in 2021 is getting vaccinated. There are lots of other things I’m excited for but my top one really is vaccination.
What I’m looking forward the most in 2021 is to get back to my potter’s wheel and just throw some pots. It’s an excellent way to relax as well 🙂
Of course I am also looking forward to be able to read Blood Heir and Ruby Fever.
I am looking forward to Blood Heir coming out as one of the main highlighys of early 2021. Also for my birthday I should get given a few more books I’ve had my eye on for a while, like Benedict Jacka’s new book.
Love your writing, hope you stay safe and healthy.
Looking forward to socializing with my family again!
I am looking forward to starting over after my divorce and I’m going to keep saying it till i believe it
I am looking forward to being able to travel again and visiting my sister in Berlin once the Covid situation has calmed down here.
Spreading the word about Blood Heir as we speak 😀
I am most looking forward to Blood Heir of course! Secondly though would have to be starting my new job in Feb..
Happy new year! I’m most excited to move to Edinburgh for university and see my Granny. I can’t wait to read Blood Heir, I love Julie! I hope everyone has a great year.
Looking forward to seeing family and friends.
I most look forward to getting a vaccine and seeing my parents again! And also more IA books! 🙂
Excited for COVID to be over *crosses fingers*
Hi!
Thank you for the good work, you always give us so much pleasure with your written magical art!
I look forward to the end of confinement more than anything else to be honest. I miss seeing people in person (Videoconference has it’s limits).
If the confinement ends, I look forward to this summer! I would looooove to do BBQ with my friends and family! Nothing beats love 🙂
Have a really nice day.
I am looking forward to working in live events again and in the mean time reading new books by my favorite authors.
Definitely looking forward to getting the vaccines out to everyone and that first real post-pandemic trip (which might not occur in 2021, but I can hope!)
I usually hate crowds, but I am actually looking forward to being able to stand in a crowd again at whatever events will be able to be open. 🙂
One thing I’m looking forward to in 2021 one but also dreading is graduating high school, becoming an Adult and moving out to go to a college. I’m excited to live on my own and get the “college experience” but it will be hard to live without my parents.
I can honestly say that the most I’m looking forward to is celebrating my son’s first birthday with all our friends and family. As he is a COVID time baby, we didn’t get to celebrate his birth. He doesn’t even know his grandparents outside of the laptop screen.
So here’s hoping that in four months this COVID mishigahs will be behind us.
With lots of love to you of house Andrews❤
Yea!!! Will be ordering your book today!! So excited
I know it will be a smashing success.
I am looking forward to seeing people again in 2021, especially family.
I am nearing retirement and am most looking forward to having much more time to do projects and hopefully, post pandemic, travel!
There’s so many books I’m looking forward to coming out this year! My pre-order list is long.
Yay for Blood Heir and giveaways, thank you!! Can’t wait!!
I’m most looking forward to traveling – weather too to see family in California, or family in Europe or just getting out of Boston!!
I’m looking forward to see my family back home this year :’).
This is such exciting news! Can’t wait to see what Julie has been up to! And the Small Magics book – wowza! Looks beautiful.
Hi guys,
what I am really really looking forward to most in 2021 is to hug my grandparents again (at least I hope I can do that this year). I really miss them 🙁
Aaand can’t wait for my copy of Blood Heir *-*
Love, Nadja
2021 is about to be a year full of firsts for me. I’ll be graduating undergrad, starting medical school, and maybe moving to a new city. Though each part of that journey makes me nervous, I am excited to see where these new opportunities take me and how I will have grown by the end of the year.
I am looking forward to the ability to travel again and meet my friends without risk for their health.
Also, to concerts! I would love to be able to go to a public event. ❤️
Greetings from Bulgaria, Europe.
Thank you for the opportunity.
I am most looking forward to a get together with all my family to celebrate all the things we had to miss out on this last year. Gradustions, birthdays, xmas, etc.
Honestly, what I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is seeing my family. I live in Norway while they are back in Romania and at this point I have not seen them in over a year. Fingers crossed for this year
I’m looking forward to opening my own cafe in 2021 and a vaccine so it can be a place for people to relax read study and enjoy the drinks. And of course more Ilona Andrews books♡
Looking forward to the most in 2021: the birth of our new baby, and reuniting with family!
I’m looking forward to 2021 to move forward with hope in life and politics! To a better year for everyone!
I’m looking forward to see my family back home :’).
I’m looking forward to in person school in the fall for the kids. I’m not made for this. 😀
In 2021 the thing I am looking forward to the most is being free to travel again, even if it takes most of the year, and even if it means I only get to drive to the next state, I miss the freedom of seeing and exploring new places.
Hello ! Thanks for all, for being you, and your books. And thanks for your giveaway !
In 2021, I’m looking forward being able to hug my parents without Covid’s fear.
This is a wonderful giveaway and a great happy thought to start the year off right! I’m most looking forward to:
1) Blood Heir (already preordered!)
2)the inauguration
3)less political news blowing up my feed, and much less temper tantrum’s by all my peeps!
4) COVID vaccines!!!!
5) …and hopefully a thorough squashing of said COVID pandemic by the end of the year. (Hopefully- please Lord make it so!)
2021: I look forward to interacting with people in person. Mainly, a more positive year.
In 2021 I look forward to go back to book signing. I miss connecting with readers and authors, having the chance to tell them about the impact their book(s) had on me. Thanks for the chance and congrats on the upcoming release 🙂
Looking forward to a new baby in June and reuniting with family!
The one thing I am most looking forward to in 2021 is the release of Blood Heir 😉
Other than that, I am also looking forward to becoming an empty nester (hopefully this year but it will depend on the housing market if my kids can afford to move out)
What I looking forward to most this year is getting rid of the mask, hanging with friends, and just be able to live without worrying about an invisible disease. Also the return of live music concerts and book signings!
In 2021, I’m looking forward to being able to hug my parents again. I also hope my kids are able to go back to school in person soon.
In 2021, aside from seeing other people, giving and getting hugs, and the exit of this dread disease, I am most looking forward to walking and running outside without a mask on!
So gorgeous!!! 100% have spread the word. We are excited for the release and to go back into the KD magical world.
What I’m looking forward to is getting my resolutions done. Trying to be my best self and treating my body better starting the new year. Obviously can do that anytime but it just feels easier with a a pseudo clean slate of a new year 🙂
There are so many things I am looking forward to in 2021, how can I choose just one+?!? After a lot of thought, I’ve narrowed it down to three (in date order): Blood Heir! The arrival of my new family member in March (being pregnant during a pandemic sucks and is really stressful!) and the COVID vaccine.
I’m most looking forward to seeing what happens next. These are interesting times.
I am very excited for the release of Blood Heir. I have tried not to read teasers so I can be totally surprised. Thank you SO much for the opportunity to win!
I’m looking forward to this book and a return to some semblance of life as we know it.
Looking forward to seeing family and friends in any way or format possible. Oh, and I plan to do more knitting and weaving. So more we time and more me time, I guess!
See my daughter and my niece. It’s been more than a year and miss them.
Thank you so much! I’m looking forward to spending more time with my horses this year!
Woo Blood Heir! Cheeee!
I’m most looking forward to my Kid2 graduating High School! Yay for adult kids!
In 2021, I’m looking forward to (hopefully) traveling again to see family and celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary in August!
What am I looking forward to the most in 2021? Seeing, hugging and kissing my mum. Living in a different country, flights repeatedly being cancelled, I am simply desperate. I miss her so much!
In 2021 I am most looking forward to is new book releases (of course), a fully potty trained toddler (fingers crossed!) and some overdue visiting in the second half!
2021..the year of “normal”. I could really take some boring old normal daily kind of life. No more sickness, no more needless death, no more sadness… no more anger, anxiety, strife, violence, lies……
I look forward to STRENGTH. In body, mind, and Spirit. The last couple of years I have been recovering from a TBI (traumatic brain injury). This time last year I could barely take a shower and making dinner for my family felt like climbing a mountain. Now I can do those things in so many more! I am hopeful that I will remain disciplined in my rehabilitation and that this time next year I’ll be able to leave the house for more than a few of hours without getting sick for days after.
P.S Your audiobooks saved me when I could do nothing else but lay in a dark room.
I’m looking forward to: vaccine roll-out to reduce worry about vulnerable family and friends. Ditto to enable return to parkrun, which helps so many people physically and mentally (I’m missing my parkrun community), and to in-person ultramarathons (I’m missing seeing all my ultramarathoning friends). Wonderful new books coming out. Our recently-adopted trio of semi-feral kittens learning that humans are not scary and have warm laps – and learning to purr; I’m really looking forward to their learning to purr.
In 2021 I am looking forward to getting everyone vaccinated for Covid so that our lives will move to some new normal.
I look forward to more family board game nights in 2021. This is something we started during lockdown and it is something I want to continue.
I am looking forward to a year where Covid19 is under control and we have all been vaccinated. I am also forward to being with friends again, going to the theatre and movies, eating in restaurants. I am hoping for a kinder and more honest future where we rejoice in diversity and keep our hearts open.
I cannot wait to see how these characters develop. I absolutely love the Kate Daniels world and have enjoyed following each and every tiny shift.
I’m looking forward to going camping in 2021 and reading. I’m also looking forward to the continued improvement of my health. But in reality I am really hoping that we can return to some semblance of normal soon.
I am looking forward to a lot of new books! Spending time with my husband and taking more me time. Thanks for the giveaway!
I’m most looking forward to visiting my family in Canada once COVID gets better and getting a more complete college experience 🙂
Thing I am most looking forward to is potentially finding my first job in healthcare after graduating last year.
I’m most looking forward to New books. What can I say? People have cooties and this is good for my ‘no touchie’ issues.
The most important thing in 2021 is a vaccination against Covid 19 . Then all the new Ilona Andrews books. That’s all, simple right? Be well and careful folks.
What I am looking forward to most is being able to go back to study and get my bachelors via distance learning . I am hoping it won’t be too difficult as I will still be working full time throughout the year.
Can’t wait for Blood Heir to be released! I love the audio books!
I am looking forward to hopefully getting back to normal!
What I’m looking forward to the most in 2021 is finally graduating college. It’s been a long tough journey, away from my family, with lots of obstacles and heavy impact on my mental health.
I am so excited about returning to visit with my friends in Atlanta on January 12th!! Also, I’m so excited to welcome our second baby in Sept!! ????????
More sleep lol! (Had a baby in 2020 )
I am looking forward to a year in which people can start dreaming and living again without the shroud of covid hanging over the world.
More than anything I am looking forward to visiting to a time when I can visit my father in his long term care home on the other side of the country again (and giving him the biggest shifter size bear hug ever) !
What I’m looking forward to in 2021 is reading more, and all of the new releases coming out this year.
Hopefully, seeing my mother.
And that my male puppy’s brain will finally end up between his ears. ;))
I am looking forward to getting another dog this year. Our dog Gus passed away years ago, we have cats of course, but hubby has been insisting that it is time and past time for a dog and I have to agree.
Photo is a very young Gus, the Best Dog Ever.
I am looking forward to catching up on backlist titles from some of my newer favorite authors in 2021!
In 2021, I’m looking forward to applying the lessons I learned in 2020: that time spent with family is precious, work can usually wait, taking care of my mental health is critical, and that a little kindness goes a long way.
I am most looking forward to hugging my aging dad after we are both vaccinated in 2021 (he lives on another continent, and I miss him a lot). Can’t wait to read Blood Heir, and thank you for running the giveaway!
I’m looking forward to seeing my family again in 2021!
32 years old, left home at 14 and never moved back, studied and traveled all over the world and didn’t know what “homesick” meant until COVID.
My family’s getting bigger in 2021, so I’m really excited for that. No one knows yet, either, so it’s all still to come!
I’m looking forward to a little travel this year (hopefully) and being able to give my dad a hug for reals once he and I have been vaccinated.
I’m starting yoga teacher training this year. I also have a new niece. So, I would say I’m most looking forward to most in 2021 is learning more about myself and spending time with family.
I’m looking forward to traveling again in 2021. And reading Blood Heir!!
What I look forward to most in 2021? The vaccine. 🙂
I’m looking forward to reading all the new books coming out in 2021! And of course hopefully being able to spend time with family!
Oh, and the new season of A Discovery of Witches and The Witcher, duh!
I’m looking forward to this book and a return to some semblance of life as we know it. Sorry if this is a dup post. Something wonky happened when I tried to submit earlier and since I did not see my comment posted I decided to do it again.
The website is cached every few minutes, which means that your internet browser saves a screenshot of the site and then serves it to you. Sometimes it means that your comments take about 15 minutes or so to become visible. I have removed the double post, no worries 🙂
This book and vaccine!
There are so many things I’m looking forward to this year. But I think the most important is the vaccine. My folks are in their 80s and it was hard enough only seeing them on Xmas-eve for one night (after all of us spent 2 weeks in quaratine and had ourselves tested). I want to be able to hug my mother again, to visit spontaneously, to spend as much time with her as I can.
So I would say it’s the vaccine. They, and I, are looking forward to receiving it as soon as we can (or are allowed to…).
I am most looking forward to a post-COVID world where we can see our friends and family and stop being worried about everything we do.
I am looking forward to starting grad school.
I am hopeful that we can receive a Covid vaccine in 2021, and I will be able to spend time with my family, who I have not seen in over a year.
I look forward to the lessening of the dread this virus brings to us . Happy normal! And more books to read!
Looking forward to seeing family and friends in person!
For 2021, I’m most looking forward to just simply being. And to not worrying about a devastating pandemic wrecking lives and businesses.
Looking forward to the vaccine reaching as many people as it can, so we can all be together again in person without worrying about getting each other sick. On a lighter note, looking forward to a great many books this year as always including, of course, yours !
I look forward to be able to visit beautiful monuments in 2021. I want to admire ancient architecture styles, see different landscapes 🙂
I wish 2021 will be a happier year for all of us! Finger crossed 😉
We just bought a kayak, so I am looking forward to using it this summer. Hoping for time with friends we haven’t seen in synchronized a long time, and fun days at the lake.
Looking forward in 2021 to a healthier country and world. (And, mayhaps, a return to _sanity_ in the US!)
I am looking forward to being able to leave the house without it being a logistical
nightmare. Just grab the car keys and go. I look forward to not feeling guilty when I hug my Grandkids. May it be so
I’m most looking forward to learning more at my new job, which actually uses my master’s degree! And hoping to being able to see more friends and family in person if possible.
Thanks!
I’m looking forward to each new day with the expectation that it will be better than the last.
I’m looking forward to the vaccine for all and see my parents again and without fear.
So, like a Pageant Contest Participant, I want world peace and health.
I am looking forward yo reading Blood Heir to my wife on her birthday the 13th of January.
I am so very excited for Blood Heir and another visit to the remarkable world of Kate Daniels.
To enter the “Small Magics” Give away: What am I looking forward to in 2021?
For me 2020 was stranger than any fiction I’d want to dream up. In 2021 I am looking forward to a world that is a little saner; a little calmer; and filled to the brim with all the mundane tasks we took for granted before 2020.
I’m most excited to be able to see how the world changes/adapts to the new “normal” after the vaccines are mass distributed (i.e. will corporate firms still allow work from home, etc…) I’m also super excited for a year in which I will focus on my mental health (reducing work stress, eating healthier, exercising more) and also excited to see everyone else’s growth!
I am looking forward to new things. Things to brighten the daily struggle. This book will be one of them. ????
I look forward to the NEW in the new year. New chances, new changes, new opportunities, new ways of thinking and doing. And mostly New books by you two. 🙂
I’m looking forward to traveling in 2021! Can’t wait for BH!
We got a six-week old puppy a couple days before Christmas. In 2021, I’m looking forward to developing an even more intense appreciation for sleep as the puppy begins to sleep through the night.
I’m looking forward to a few good books (Blood Heir, Rythm of War); a return to being able to see people in the second half of the year; maybe a job. I’m actually quite optimistic about the political situation for 2021.
Most of all, I’m most looking forward to not being in limbo anymore so that I have the spoons (mental capacity) to live life to the fullest again. Even if that means that I won’t finish AC Valhalla.
I’m looking forward to the end of the limitations from Covid. I can’t wait for my kids to go to school, see our friends and family, to go places like museums, and to go out for brunch with my friends. I love that I’ve reconnected with old friends and continue to look forward to our weekly Zoom.
Finally get to emigrate my husband this year
I can’t wait!!! I love all your books. I find it so amazing that you two do this together. What am I looking forward to in 2021? I am excited to meet my second son due in March. ❤️ He will be my second rainbow baby.
You guys rock!
So looking forward to Julie’s story!!!
I’m just glad 2020 is over. I look forward to teaching my two year how to talk. I tried to read him Christina Lauren’s In a Holidaze, but he brought me Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. instead. We’ll get there, ???? !
Good post, here is my entry for the Small Magics book, hope you had a great holiday, i certainly did.
I am most looking forwards to new books to read! I don’t necessarily love people (in general), but the characters in my favorite books are a different case entirely!
What I’m looking forward to most is seeing my family again. They live out of state and we just don’t want to risk each other’s health. My children are seriously missing their cousins. I would love for them to be able to hang out instead of just being a voice over a phone.
I’m looking forward to being able to spend more time with family and actually be able to hug them! I have a multitude of nieces and nephews and it’s hard not to be able to see them.
As everyone else “NO MORE LOCK DOWNS and NO MORE CORONIE V.”and lets add in “MASKS” (They do have one good to them, you can talk to yourself while shopping and no one thinks you are crazy).
Now on to what i want for the new year, “LOTS MORE ILONA ANDREWS BOOKS”!!
Thank you for the Kate Daniels and the Hidden World books, I have been waiting for this new one and can’t wait til it gets here. I’m so glad that you have decided to revisit Atlanta, and maybe we will be able to learn more about Julie.
Happy Reading.
I am most looking forward to resuming having the usual weekly coffee and natter with my SiL, I miss her so much, chatting at a distance with our respective husbands present is not the same – apart from anything else we can’t have shared grumbles about them!
What am I looking forward to in 2021? Taking control of my life again. Reading and knitting more. And never, ever hearing again how many people have died today. Because really, does that information help anyone in any way?
I’m looking forward to most is HOPEFULLY having my wedding in May!
If not that, then the chance to see my husband more than just twice this year ????????♀️????????♀️????????♀️. (He took a job overseas, we signed the papers at the courthouse before he left and planned to have the big to-do once he got situated… Then COVID)
In 2021 I want nothing more than to see and hug my kids and my granddaughter on a regular basis and to do so without masks and distance and meeting outside when the temperature is 18 degrees! Thanks for your books, re-reading them has been a huge help this year 🙂
What I look forward to this year is going out and this book. I literally can’t wait to read it. Haven’t been that excited for a book in a long time.
The thing I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is some peace. I’m hopeful that after everything in 2020, I and my fellow humans can let our shoulders relax and give each other some time and kindness.
After finishing my undergrad degree in the midst of the pandemic, I’m looking forward to starting and finishing my master’s program this year:)
Most looking forward to Blood Heir, and seeing my family again (I hope!)
Thank you for the giveaway!
I am looking forward to kick Covid’s ass and reuniting with my family and friends.
I’m most looking forward to (hopefully) finally traveling again and getting this virus under control with these vaccines.
I am most definitely looking forward to the vaccine of COVID coming out this year and receiving it so that we can see family and movies and concerts without worry of dying or killing my parents and aunties and uncles.
I am most looking forward to the vaccine and being able to see friends and family again. I’m also looking forward to taking care of myself and maybe getting to travel.
Honestly, as a resident of the state of Georgia, the thing I’m honestly looking forward to at the moment is an end to all the election nonsense.
(After that? Vaccines!)
What I’m looking forward to in 2021 is being able to do more walking. I spent most of 2020 recovering from surgeries and I look forward to being more mobile.
I’m looking forward to being able to go out without wearing a mask!!
I’m looking forward to more great reads and possibly some world peace? I’d really like some world peace. 🙂
I’m most looking forward to a widely-available vaccine so I can browse physical library and bookstore shelves again. Blood Heir is a close second.
For Ilona and the other knitting enthusiasts in the BDH, have you encountered Mad Scientist Yarns? (https://madscientistyarns.com/) It’s run by two UK scientists who think yarn-dying is a more creative outlet for their training than contract labwork. A portion of every sale goes to charity. It’s my sister ‘s favorite yarn store, and she’s promised me socks knitted in whatever MSY color I choose. Happy New Year.
We’ve been saving up for our dream gaming computer for 2 years now. Next month, we can finally order everything to assemble it! I’m so excited!
I’m looking forward to more Hidden Legacy books in 2021! Catalina and Allesandro need a fitting end!
I’m looking forward to reaching a point where I can leave my toddler alone for five minutes without worrying he is going to kill himself. Both of us have a lot of growing up to do in 2021.
I’m most looking forward to all the books that release this year! Aaaand I want the pandemic to end before 2022 ????
I’m looking forward to warm days and sunny weather! And reading books on the lawn on a blanket.
I hope we start to see things slowly getting better and covid numbers coming down. I want to see my family and travel… maybe by 2022 that can happen if 2021 is a better year ????
I’m most looking forward to hugs from friends and family.
Being able to travel without restrictions again. I have so many friends all across Europe and it would be great to visit them.
The release of BH was a HUGE boost to get through the end of 2020! I’m hopeful that 2021 will show some improvements on political and medical fronts for the nation!
I had many hopes for 2020, and due to the COVID fiasco… all that I was looking forward to and hoping for has now been shifted to this year. The only difference are the various books that I’m looking forward to releasing, to include Blood Heir. I’m looking forward to seeing my family, and some friends, for the first time in about four or five years. My grandfather especially. He’s had health issues, which have ended up with him getting half of his foot amputated and some complications spiraled from that due to him having diabetes.
I look forward to meeting my biological father, and his side of the family, in person for the first time in my 30 years.
I look forward to taking my child indoor skydiving for the first time, trying to get him to take crafting lessons with me, and helping him find more friends to play with since the few he has are moving shortly.
I look forward to figuring out how to finally go to college now that I’ve found a carrier field that I can get passionate about.
I look forward to fixing what broke on our house in 2020 and improving upon it.
I look forward to spending another year with my marvelous husband.
I hope that we all can find some sort of new normal, and all those things can happen. I hope that everyone else can achieve what they wish as well.
Also, thank you Ilona and Gordon. Your novels have been a welcome escape when things have gotten overwhelming, and I look forward to reading -whatever- y’all decide to gift us with. You both are one of the handful of authors that I will buy books from without needing to read the synopsis of the story to know that I will love what I’m reading.
I’m looking forward to seeing my grandparents. They are 91 & 93. I know I’m really lucky to still have them! Because of this dang virus, I’ve been afraid to go see them (3.5 hours away). I’m hopeful that they will be able to get the vaccine and then I can go.
Can’t wait to read Blood Heir!!
Looking forward to seeing my family in 2021. EARLY in 2021, I hope!!!
So excited for a new book!
I’m looking forward to graduating! Hopefully employment will swiftly follow & I can finally move out of my parent’s basement!
What I’m most looking forward to about 2021 is the hope that till summer it will possible to meet friends again, to get forward with my study of geology and a lot of great books.
For me it is smaller things I am looking forward to in 2021:
* To see my family again after month on month apart. Covid made it impossible for Christmas, but I have hope for Easter.
* Amber hunting with a friend. There is just something about going to the beach in the dark with UV light.
* The book club meeting again, so we can share some wine and a lot of laughter.
* New books coming out!
I’m most looking forward to becoming a grandma in July! And of course Blood Heir. So excited for this book.
Being able to slowly peruse a bookstore (without a face covering) is one of the things I’m most excited about for 2021. I didn’t realize how much I took that for granted- I hate buying stuff online. Additionally I’m excited for in-person book clubs with lots of snacks! Thank you for all your Julie chapters this past year – they were one of the few things that got me excited during dreary days.
Looking forward to hugging my 86 year old mother again…We are currently in lock down here in Ontario Canada…I haven’t seen my Mom in months due to covid and restrictions here….2021 can only be better *fingers crossed*
I have read and own all the books in your several series. From the start, you had me as an avid reader. I am 86 years old and have been reading sci-fi, fantasy for 70.Thank you for all the fun I have had reading your books and enjoying your graphics!
So without reading everyone else’s comments, I’m going to guess that I’m probably echoing everyone else when I say that, in 2021, I’m most looking forward to loosing myself in new stories from favourite authors and revisiting characters that feel like old friends 🙂
Luckily a lot of my favourites authors are due to release books throughout the year. Which I’m forever grateful for, as I suspect that these books will end up being drops of sanity, during what is likely going to be a continuation of a turbulent 2020 before we reach anything resembling a calm in the storm.
Opps forgot to say what i am looking forward to. At my age, waking up tomorrow is a big plus. Looking forward to lots of trips on city bus after i get my vaccine, i have been rigorous about isolating and stayin home in my tiny damn apartment and it is Shirley closing in on me, tighter and tighter, day after day, groundhog day syndrom in a hugely way.
My husband and I have been isolating since March 2020. I’m so looking forward to actually seeing my extended family face to face. I look forward to going thru stores, shopping for groceries, people watching and just being out in public. I look forward to going to the ocean, vacations and traveling. I will love sitting down with a friend and drinking coffee together along with conversation that is meaningful. I’m going to really enjoy going out to eat and not having to fix dinner.
I just need Blood heir, only this and nothing more. I mean… I’d love to win the Small magics giveaway. I’ve been checking the book out for a while and can’t buy it since it’s pretty expensive in my currency c.c
Looking forward to seeing my Mom in 2021. It’s a 12+ hour plane ride and I usually visit once a year, but we all know how 2020 went. Crossing my fingers that I’ll be able to visit by the fall.
Hello everyone, I would really love to have an edition of Small Magics! The pictures are beautiful !!!
For 2021 I’m waiting for Blood heir, that’s for sure!
Otherwise I wish us normality and the fight against viruses and stupidity!
I am looking forward to time with family and friends in 2021 and less stress!!
Congratulations on the book release!
And… What I’m looking forward most in 2021 is being able to hug my parents and in-laws, that’s good to begin with.
I am looking forward to reading new books (especially ones from you) and am hopeful that things can start returning to normal with the vaccine.
I’m looking forward to being in person with my hundreds of elementary school children as soon as it’s safe. We’ve been virtual and as a music teacher, teaching online is just dreadful. I want to see them and hug them and dance and sing out loud and play instruments with them and listen to their stories. Can’t wait.
I’m excited about all the upcoming book releases and looking forward to a potential career switch ::crosses fingers::.
Good luck with the career change!
Looking forward to getting back to the library. Thank goodness I like ebooks.
Yay giveaway!!! The thing I’m looking forward to most this year is allowing myself a chance to take better care of my health, mentally and physically. While I don’t do resolutions, I do want to start treating myself better than I have been the past year or two. That means going to the doctor for physical ailments and setting up a meeting with a psychiatrist because I’ve decided I shouldn’t ignore things anymore. So yeah, hope everyone else takes a similar approach that is able! Happy 2021. May the Gods/Universe/Alien Overlords smile down upon us all.
I am looking forward to planning a trip for when the pandemic is finally over.
I have vowed to make 2021 my Adventure Year…..I’m purchasing an RV and going out to see my bucket list states while travel nursing!
Already bought an ebook, paperback and signed paperback copy. Will get the audio version when it’s released. Your novels have helped me get through this shitshow of 2020 (I have read/listened to them all at least 3x each…) and am hopeful that we can keep going strong for 2021 – there are good things to come dammit! My goal is that my family and I stay sane, healthy and hopefully a bit more prosperous than before.
(Oh, and as I am a librarian, I already made sure we purchased multiple copies and will spread the word. Like a librarian should do!)
Looking forward to connecting more with friends and family. 2020 showed me that even though we might live far apart, it’s surprisingly easy to connect.
I am most looking forward to In 2021 reading new books (thanks for giving me a reason to be so excited in Jan), and fingers crossed going to Ireland in Sep with my sister (25th birthday) and cousin.
Also I would love to go back to my office for work…I’m ready to no longer be sitting at my kitchen table.
I look forward to becoming an aunt for the first time. I can’t wait to meet my niece/nephew! Thank you so much for the giveaway. =)
I’m looking forward to my baby brothers wedding – which will hopefully still take place in September. They had to postpone it from November due to the pandemic.
Fabulous giveaway. Congrats on your upcoming release. Can’t wait to read it ????☺️
My husband and I help run a small gaming convention that had to be cancelled last summer; I’m hopeful that this year we may be able to hold it, and looking forward to seeing friends and our comunity if it is safe to do so by summer.
So without reading everyone else’s comments, I’m going to guess that I’m probably echoing everyone else when I say that, in 2021, I’m most looking forward to loosing myself in new stories from favourite authors and revisiting characters that feel like old friends 🙂
Luckily a lot of my favourites authors are due to release books throughout the year. Which I’m forever grateful for, as I suspect that these books will end up being drops of sanity, during what is likely going to be a continuation of a turbulent 2020 before we reach anything resembling a calm in the storm.
I am looking forward to the vaccine. I’m hoping that my husband and I will be able to go on our mini vacation for our Anniversary. But it is dependent on the vaccine and outcome.
P.S. I decided to teach my self to knit because of reading your blog posts about it. I’ve only made a very simple scarf and not very well made ???? but I am enjoying it! My children are excited for me to make them scarfs. ????
My hope for 2021 is less uncertainty and more stability. A bit less turmoil and a bit more peace would be nice too.
I’m most looking forward to meeting my baby girl! And finally graduating my Master’s program!
I have to admit that Blood Heir is right up there with the thinks that I’m looking forward to this year. Second maybe only to getting the vaccine!
I am of course looking forward to ALL THE BOOKZ! But I’m also looking forward to the vaccination and to teaching my kid to drive.
What I am most looking forward to in 2021 is my husband returning home safe after serving our country. That first hug makes everything right with the world.
Looking forward to traveling and hugging/kissing/seeing family again.
I don’t know that I’m really looking forward to anything quite yet. Mostly I’m still cautiously waiting for things to quiet down and for us to be able to travel again before I really start looking forward and planning things.
I’m most looking forward to new opportunities in 2021. I’ve got some projects I’ve been working that I hope to finish, a new relationship and of course the new book in the Kate Daniels’ world! I reread this series at least once a year, so a new book it’s super exciting!
Being one of the fortunate residents of New Zealand, I’m looking forward to a month of travel around the country in our old and slow RV named (depending on how we feel) Ngāta Ara, Chateau Escargot, or Schnecke.
Looking forward to seeing family again, after not being able to see them for most of 2020.
I’m looking forward to the vaccine being generally available, so that our economy can start up / recover, and my senior center re-opens! And my son graduates from college, whoo-hoo!
It’s a toss up between visiting and celebrating with family and having the kids back in school. 🙂 2021 May you be all we hope for and more!
Other then the obvious, all of your books, the thing I am looking forward to this year is pacemaker surgery number 3. Fingers crossed third times the charm x x x
What I’m looking forward to most is the vaccine so I can travel home to Australia to see family!
I’m looking forward to getting my programming degree.
2021 is here already.. New years always give me anxiety knowing that there is always some underlying expectation to be better or do better than all the years before. For me, I am looking forward to managing my PPD and better mental health
I’m looking forward to getting married to my partner through everything, buying a house together, and getting my 2nd COVID vaccine.
A lot of people have said it, but I am also looking forward to finally graduating in 2021. It’s been a long ride, but I’ll finally have my doctorate. I’m excited to enter the workforce and do something new. Academia can be such a drain after a while. There are other things I’m looking forward to, but after being so excited for 2020, I’m trying to shelter my little ’21 happy bubble.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to COVID testing volume going down.
I hope that 2021 will be a great, prosperous year for new writers who are following their dreams.
Being able to do stuff with my Mom. She’s in a care facility. We did outdoor visits for a while in the summer, before everything went bad again. But I haven’t been able to take her out to lunch, or any of the other things we do together.
I’m looking forward to wonderful new books in 2021 and hopefully things getting a little bit closer to normal.
I’m just looking forward to it (hopefully!) being a better year for everyone than last year. And all the new books coming out. So excited for Blood Heir!!
I’m looking forward to (hopefully) it becoming safe enough to go to bluegrass shows again!
What I am looking forward to most in 2021 is the vaccine and starting my new job.
I’m looking forward to 2021 being so much better than 2020!! I’m looking forward to concerts, watching movies in theaters and vacations with destinations!!
The end of the fear, of each other and the danger we may inadvertently pose to others. The ability to hug and shake hands again. The joy of smiling and laughing without a barrier or distance.
What I am looking most forward to in 2021 is hopefully some global healing.
I live in New Zealand and we are basically at normality again with no spread of Covid-19 and have been for a while but the news around the world is heart breaking not just concerning covid but conflicts that are causing mass displacment, human rights violations and horrible atrocities like those in Ethiopia and Yemen and the escalating global migrant crisis. So yeah hopefully 2021 will see some global healing happen and i really hope my government is going to step up, considering the privileged position we are in in regards to our covid response, and contribute to that healing.
So yeah will be advocating for increasing the national refugee quota and providing aid to groups like Open Arms who are trying to save people that most governments have decided to ignore in what I consider to be one of the largest examples of global apathy of our time.
Lol sorry if that was intense haha
I am looking forward to seeing my whole family in one place at one time.
Am at a year and counting since I last saw my mum. I am looking forward to when I can safely travel back to see her – and maybe even give her a hug! Escaping into great books is a nice way to spend time.
What I’m looking forward to is being able to leave the house without thinking about anything! Not the safest way to dress (mask) shop, or see my friends and family
I’m looking forward to being able to travel with my family and go on vacations and create memories with my children.
Well, my initial thought about 2021, was that I was looking forward to no more trump but then who knows if that will happen, same with end of virus. I guess that I am, not so much looking forward to but hoping for, more love and less hate in this country I love.
The thing I’m looking forward to the most in 2021 is meeting a friend I made through the Ilona Andrews Facebook group in the summer. We bonded over our love of all things House Andrews and cooking (okay eating ????) and she’s now my best friend! Having a friend like her has made lockdown so much easier, and I can’t wait to meet in person, eat good food and drink some cocktails ????
Looking forward to new books to read and hopefully being able to travel to a book convention or two
My hope for 2021 is to be able to safely take a vacation that isn’t just staying at home. I also look forward to being able to continue to watch my toddler grow. It’s amazing to see how quickly they change.
Most looking forward to in 2021. My daughter just moved into a house, and looking forward to getting all of her stuff to her house, and clearing out mine! Can’t wait until the book release and webinar on January 12!
I’m looking forward to us all rediscovering our sense of togetherness that has been so stretched by everything that 2020 has thrown at us!
From your *fingertips* to the universe!
I am excited for all the new books this year! We are also currently remodeling our kitchen, so fingers crossed it goes smoothly!
+1 on the new books and good luck with the remodelling.
What I’m looking forward to in 2021 is getting a new job! I was retrenched at the start of 2020 with the first lockdown and it’s been a ROUGH 10 months to say the least but I’m so thankful that I made it and positive 2021 will only get better ❤❤
I’m looking forward to book releases with kick-ass heroines! I’m also looking forward to healing and being healthy. In October 2020 I became perilously ill, but after three major surgeries and seven IR procedures, I was finally able to come home to convalesce in December. Living is so, so sweet.
P.S. I heartily recommend re-reading all the Ilona and Gordon series when one is on the mend. They are so enthralling and entertaining, and those women with their trials inspired me to never quit.
Sending you good vibrations and healing thoughts.
I am looking forward to being able to travel to see family again!
For 2021, I am hoping that the covid vaccines will become widely available, and everybody who wants to get vaccinated will be able to. So much pain and suffering in the world because of the pandemic…
I’m looking forward to spending time with my kids, dogs, and family. Everything else is a bonus. Here’s to a better year and congrats on the upcoming release!!
I’m looking forward to my broken arm healing so I can get back to all the things I love!
I am most looking forward to waving bye-bye to Trump, eating out, and reading Blood Heir and Ruby Fever
I am most looking forward to being able to safely travel! (And seeing the people I love, as well as minor-spiting the people I don’t, in person.)
I am most looking forward to the new books from my favorite authors, you and Patricia Briggs. Your brilliant creativity allows me a break from life’s stress and worry. We have been fortunate to stay healthy and not have any major challenges so I also look forward to paying some goodwill forward.
I’m looking forward to seeing my friends in person and giving them all a hug once it’s safe again.
Can’t wait for Blood Heir. Already pre-ordered my copy.
What I am looking forward to most in 2021, is getting back to work. I work in theater and have been shut down since March, but there is hope of being onstage by June.
I’m looking forward to vaccinations for all. I really really want my 73 yo mother to be protected against Covid.
And finally meeting up with my family and friends after a year of being apart.
I’m most looking forward, in 2021, too being able to visit my family! Currently we are spread over northern Europe, The West Coast of the States and Central America and we none of us can travel and get physically together! My mother just turned 85(in a care facility in California) and I haven’t seen her in 18 months… I rally want to visit her and other loved ones! 🙂
I’m looking forward to mass vaccinations so I can see my family & friends. Hug everyone in sight! Sit with my friends while we eat, talk & laugh.
I’m looking forward to news headlines that don’t mention corona virus at all.
I can’t wait for my eldest niece’s wedding. To seeing my second eldest niece’s new house. I’m looking forward to seeing my 13yr old niece’s birthday party where she’ll be surrounded by piles of her friends, all grinning mischievously. Also having a front row seat to watch my 11yr old niece dance in a joyously outrageous festival costume as part of Bristols St Paul’s carnival parade.
I’m looking forward to dancing with my best friend & his boyfriend at Pride.
I’m looking forward to driving my parents to have a holiday at Robin Hood Bay where it’ll probably rain for 7 days!
Im just looking forward as I can’t stomach to look back!
I’m hoping that I’ll get to see my grandchildren, especially the newest grandson, whose only 8 monthes old. I miss them so much.
I want to say spending time with friends and family without out fear of repercussions. But that’s unlikely. So, instead I’m going to say finishing the projects we started in 2020 and are now carrying over into 2021.
I’m counting down the days to Blood Heir! I am so excited to read this next chapter in the Kate Daniels world!
(Besides IA books) In 2021 I’m most looking forward to the fact that it is a new year, full of things that have never been. I am hopeful to see what unfolds for me and my family this year and grateful to get to enjoy the ride!
I am hoping that we see a return to civility in 2020 in our social discourse. We are on the right track now for the vaccine so hopefully we can resume our normal lives. I have been listening to Eva Cassidy’s Blue Skies over and over to set my mood. Thank you for your books. I had my husband read all the Inn Keepers and Hidden Legacy in 2020. Next on my list for my re-read and for him is Kate Daniels.
What I am most looking forward in 2021…..travelling. Every year I attend an International Women’s Conference in March. Last March it was cancelled due to the pandemic and we already know for 2021 it will only be a virtual conference. I really miss it, friends that I only see once a year and now it will be at least another year before we can see each other in person.
Like the first poster, I am also looking forward to graduating from college! I first started in 1988, so it’s about time.
I’m looking forward to the choir tour that was postponed from last year to this. Fingers crossed it goes ahead this year!
I’m looking forward to a healthy baby (fingers X’d) and a quick, not very painful birth, and easy decisions about work, and a baby that sleeps like a husband… this night be hoping more than looking forward to, lol. Yay vaccines! And seeing people in person again!
I’m looking forward to traveling again (and reading any book published by Ilona Andrews this year, of course!).
I am most looking forward to hugging my friends and family after we all receive the vaccine!
In 2021 I am looking forward to The Magic continuing! These books have kept me sane in an insane world.
I’m most looking forward to vaccines and the ability to see my family in person again.
Looking forward to reading this book! Also trying to lose weight and do more sewing and knitting projects this year. Also get the vaccine so I can see my family.
I’m excited for graduating university and all the 2021 books!
What I’m looking forward to the most is getting vaccinated so I can participate in group bike rides again!
I’m looking forward most to seeing the new art that has come from those closest to me, and artists that have spent this time at home creating new things, and finding a positive creative outlet during a hard time.
I am so looking forward to being able to sit down and eat dinner out with my friends and to be able to hug them. I really miss hugs!
I am most looking forward to a healthy birth of my fourth child this May!
I’m looking forward to potentially getting back to normal to see family in other states, and meeting my niece! Also looking forward to blood heir and anything else IA plans to throw our way!
Besides books, hugging friends again! I miss the hugging!
I’m looking forward to being able to travel! Also would love to read a book about Derek.
I am most looking forward to being able to travel somewhere. Just absolutely anywhere. Once it is safe to do so.
The thing I’m most looking forward to in 2012 ( aside from the book release) is the Covid19 vaccine. The unofficial word is that we here in Canada should be well on our way by this autumn. So I am already planning a restaurant extravaganza and a proper Christmas celebration with family for 2021. Both things that I have missed in this past year.
I am looking forward to spending time out of the house and seeing my friends and family!
Other than books, I look forward to eating out and browsing through a store (book, grocery, cards, any kind).
In 2021 I’m looking forward to seeing my parents and Grandfather. On a normal year I drive the 12 hours from Texas to Kansas with my six kids to see them. I skipped this past summer and I miss sitting with my parents over a cup of tea.
I cannot wait for Blood Heir. I love this world and am excited to read more.
Woot! Been waiting (not too patiently).
Thank you!
I am looking most to traveling to see my family when it is safe to do so. I am a metastatic breast cancer patient so life and love is very precious. All my best to you wonderful people. Hang in there!
A Covid-19 vaccine is what I am looking forward to the most in 2021.
looking forward to the end of covid and being able to visit my extended family up in the metroplex
Looking forward to new books ;), traveling and visiting friends and family.
The thing I’m looking forward to in2021 is finding the strength to deal with how much I miss my son Sean.
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to continuing some of the good habits I’ve started in the past 10 months, which mostly revolve around reclaiming and reframing how I use my time, and realizing that when I want to just sit on the couch, I should just sit on the couch!
There are so many things to which I am looking forward in 2021. I think my most personal “thing” would be getting the results from whole genome sequencing. I’ve been struggling for years with chronic illnesses that standard diagnostic tests fail to identify. My health has prevented me from finishing my PhD as well as any ambitions to go further in my career. A really nice New Year’s sale on whole genome testing with a rare disease report ended up being cheaper than insurance (and that’s after the battle to convince them to pay for it). So I’m looking forward to the results. I may not get an “answer” but I can at least remove some possibilities from the table and perhaps get more targeting symptom treatment.
Just wanted to say that your books have been a balm to my soul. The banter, laughter, love, and tears always helps me to forget my pain and visit another place in my head. In these COVID-afflicted times, your books have been more important to me than ever. I recommend them to everyone. Thank you for bringing such light into the world.
I made some health discoveries last month and am already feeling so much better! So I’m looking forward to seeing how much better I get this year as I continue to heal ????
Thank you for the contest! The books look gorgeous.
I can’t wait until Blood Heir ????
Hi, i look forward to my new job and the two kitten i’m soon going to adopt.
Whats better than tiny baby cats!
I started rereading/relistening to all the Kate Daniels’ again! Must be three or four times this year. I missed her world. Strange thing is that I never was a Julie fan, but after reading about the older Julie, I can’t wait for her and Derek to meet again. Hurry up January 12th!!
I’m most looking forward to all the awesome books that 2021 will bring!
What I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is spring and the beginning of my work season. I teach gardening outdoors so covid doesn’t impact it too much. I can’t wait to teach kiddos to how to grow food again! Helping people design their gardens is good too 🙂
I’m also looking forward to hugs. Hugs will happen again this year. Definitely.
Thank you for this chance!! I’m especially excited at this chance as you’re my favorite authors ????.
The chance for change is what I’m looking forward to most this year. I’m hopeful for my kids going back to school in person, myself rejoining the workforce, and for life to regain equilibrium for everyone- in whatever form works best for them.
Other than the new releases by the IA team, I am most looking forward to seeing my grandma and family for the first time in over a year. As a healthcare worker, I will be getting the vaccine in the next month and absolutely can’t wait to finally see my loved ones outside of my phone screen!
I’m looking forward to using the degree I got in June 2020 when I get a job this year!
Looking forward to hugging my grandchildren with abandon, seeing loved ones once travel is safe again. And, of course, reading any of the magic you guys offer us in 2021. ????
Looking forward to finally getting my house re-modeled!
Sounds like great fun, thanks for the opportunity!!
I am looking forward to traveling and hugging people later this year. ????
What I’m most looking for in 2021 – less stress and anxiety, good health, more laughter and people just being kinder to each other.
I’m looking forward to Blood Heir, seeing family I have been away from for over a year (*shakes fist at COVID*), and learning to bake bread.
If anyone has advice for someone who has literally no experience with breadmaking (I have made cake/brownies from a box mix maybe twice ever – other than that I have a single repeatable oatmeal cookie recipe I make and that’s the sum total of mu baking skill) it would be appreciated. Super simple and forgiving recipes would also be appreciated!
I think I just wanted 2020 to be over. Am excited about blood heir coming out!
I’m excited for the possibilities. I miss going out with my son to learning play areas. ????
I am looking forward to starting this new year. I am hopeful that 2021 can’t be any worse than 2020. We are off to a good start with the release of Blood Heir, I get to read a new book from my favorite author!
I am really looking to see my family in person… Christmas was not the same this year!
What I hope for in 2021 is being able to find a job outside of my house, stay at home mom for 21+ years. I really want to get out and work in my chosen field. I also want to be able to visit family and friends. My aunts and uncles are in their 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. I would like to eat in a restaurant and not have to worry about wearing a mask every time I move around.
Im looking forward to running outside more in 2021. AND of course, Blood Heir, so so so so so happy this book happened, yay!!!
Next week can’t come soon enough! I’m most looking forward to the birth of my baby this year.
After 2020, working in a prison as a mental health therapist and getting COVIDS pneumonia, bronchitis and surgery, I am looking forward to retirement. It wasn’t what I wanted initially but I am starting to embrace the possibilities.
I am SO looking forward to seeing my friends in person again!
On a shorter term, I am looking forward to escaping reality when my copy of Blood Heir arrives. ????
Looking forward to traveling to see family and friends this year. Really, really miss seeing everyone, so hoping Covid vaccine works fast!!
Also looking forward to all the new books by my favorite authors. It’s so great to be retired, lol!
Thank you so much for a chance to win this fantastic book.
Wahoo… I am excited for the audiobook and to return to this world. As for 2021… spending time with my grandchildren and an end to this pandemic.
I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine and being able to see all of the people I missed so much this year – especially friends’ new babies that have arrived or are on their way!
I discovered these books, thankfully, at the end of 2020, and they’ve proved to be a life saver and wonderful distraction. In 2021, I’m looking forward to finishing the Kate Daniels series (although I want it to last forever!) and reading Blood Heir. And a vaccine. Definitely a vaccine.
Absolutely cannot wait to read this beautiful book
Awesome news! Just pre-ordered two copi for me and my circle <3
I’m most looking forward to being able to socialize again in 2021 once Covid is under control.
In 2021 I am looking forward to reading for a casual escape instead of an absolutely necessary one.
I am looking forward to a mew year of books and hopefully seeing people. 🙂
What I am looking forward to the most is holding my mother who lives 960 miles from me. And moving her down South so this does not ever happen again ????
Gosh, can I pick three things?
Mostly, of course, I hope enough folks get the vaccines that life can go back to something approaching normal. It won’t be the old normal, I’m sure, but a new normal could still be a heck of a lot better than things are now.
Then, I hope to get to travel again. My husband and I have had the travel bug our whole lives, so just a trip somewhere! Anywhere! We know we’re lucky to live in a nice place, so staying at home is not that bad for us, but we just miss seeing different places, meeting different people, and experiencing different cultures.
And third, of course, is Blood Heir!
I am looking forward to visiting with extended family most. I miss them all so much! And while I am waiting for that time to come I am, of course, looking forward to reading good books. I am so excited to read Blood Heir!
Happy New Year!
I’m looking forward to getting the Covid vaccine.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have been able to work all the way through the pandemic.
I’m a ECE and have a home daycare, and all 5 of my daycare parents are essential services workers.
I haven’t seen my elderly parents since this started in March because I didn’t want to risk them to exposure.
I think when this is over we will reflect on the unfathomable losses of loved ones, but also rejoice in seeing everyone we haven’t been able to see.
I wish you and your family a safe, healthy, and prosperous 2021!
Thanks for the chance. ????
I’m hoping 2021 – at least he second half – is the year of fun friend gatherings, hugs, impulse restaurant lunches, return of safe art and craft shows, family visits, and lots more Ilona reading. Have a safe one, toots!
I’m looking forward to starting a new career and trying to keep my kids from growing up too fast ????
Along with pretty much everyone, I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine and hopefully some return to normalcy (or figuring out what the new normal is), but mostly I’m just excited to watch my kids grow (4 and 5).
They are gorgeous! I am looking forward to your books in 2021! Also, I am hoping that we can all get vaccinated and be able to see family as a group again!
I think I’m most looking forward to (hopefully) getting to see my friends and family in 2021. I know it’s not a given, but a girl can hope!
I’m also looking forward to all the new releases (both books and shows) heading our way.
I am most looking forward to being able to travel to Amsterdam in 2021 to see my grandson.
Thank you for the giveaway opportunity and Happy New Year!
What I am most looking forward to in 2021 is hugging my Mom and having a get-together with my friends again with lots of laughter.
I’m looking forward to figuring out how to use my new Cricut maker. Not as easy as I thought it would be. ????
What I am looking forward to most is finishing my schooling. At 50 I decided to go back to college (while working full time, I might add) to do some upgrading as I was looking at furthering my career. August 2021 is when I will be finished what I began in May 2019.
I tell you folks, you are never too old to learn new stuff; however, I must say that I am so very much done with having to do homework. Laugh!
Thank you Ilona and Gordon for crafting such wonderful tales. I look forward to every new story you tell.
#1 – vaccines rolling out and (fingers crossed, knock on wood, etc.) life returning to “normal” – being able to see and hug family and friends. #2 – I’m planning on taking more cooking/baking classes this year (hello new years resolution), and am actually looking forward to them being virtual so I can learn from the comfort of my own kitchen (and not having to deal with traffic). #3 – Blood Heir (duh) and reading/re-reading my favorite books/authors/new releases.
Happy New Year and I’m looking forward to the release of BLOOD HEIR and hoping to see family and friends in person soon!
In 2021 I am looking forward to seeing family and friends more and a possible change of job
A vaccine.
Enough people vaccinated that life can go back to normal without risking lives, a new government in place that functions and will fix the post office, two new case files of Henry Davenforth, and, most of all, Ilona Andrews’books.
I have a lot to be thankful for, but I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine. I miss my grandkids and we’ve got summer plans to take them camping. I’m hoping that will happen! I also look forward to people being able to get back to normal…seeing friends, getting their jobs back, kids going to school. No more COVID deaths…everyone coexisting. I’m hopeful.
End of covid
Yay I’m so excited for this book!
What I am looking forward to the most in 2021 is more family time. My husband started working in the Middle East so we have not seen him since the end of November (we still have 10 days to go) and it has been an adjustment for myself and our two kids but we are glad that we will get more time with him when he is home.
I would like to say that I am looking forward to things going back to normal but I think our ‘normal’ is changing. I am looking forward to doing more sewing on quilts and reading great books!
Besides all the new books being published, I am looking forward to receiving my COVID vaccines.
Getting the vaccine hopefully this year and spending time with my family.
I’m most looking forward to moving! We are a military family and I’m ready to head out of the place we are and move on to different adventures. The thing I’m most looking forward is being there, not the move itself, because that is stressful. Best of luck to all in this New Year!
Love all of your books. Thoroughly enjoyed every one of them
What I’m most looking forward to about 2021 is hopefully seeing people again and being able to actually hug the people I love.
I am looking forward to my kids going back to school for real in the fall, and looking forward to maybe having the house to myself for a few hours each day – something that has happened only 3-4 times since quarantine started! This introvert wants her space!
I look forward to 2021 in general. I’m starting in a new position mid January, in February I’m moving and March is beginning of spring and so on. I want things to start happening and I look forward in participating in life.
I’m looking forward to receiving my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine and getting my copy of Blood Heir in the mail. Praying that this year is full of better surprises than in 2020.
I’m looking forward to wandering small shops for treasures. I usually look for things all year for gifts for family. Missed that this year. Shopping online is just not as fun.
Looking forward to the return of hockey the most in 2021. But also a few releases from my favorite authors.
I am looking forward to a time of no COVID, no wearing masks and being able to spend time with friends and family.
I am looking forward to getting the COVID shot so I will be able to visit and hug my cousins and 90+ year old aunt. Being able to go to the movies and eat in restaurants will be wonderful too.
I’m looking forward to being able to visit my 91 yr. old Nan whenever I want – she’s been in her new nursing home for a year now and I’ve only been allowed to see her a handful of times. It will be nice to be able to go in and see her room, meet her roommate, and of course, be able to HUG her!
In 2021, I am looking forward to seeing my sister in person, and my husband’s family who we haven’t been able to see in over a year.
I’m looking forward to the growth, challenges and opportunities this year is going to bring and learning how I come out a more magical person on the other side. I’m looking forward to spreading positivity and optimism. I’m looking forward to crushing all of the goals I set for myself.
And I’m deeply looking forward to reading Blood Heir. 🙂
Summer gardening! We moved in the fall and I now have a yard to landscape and obsess over instead of whether or not we will be able to visit family during the summer months this year.
Congratulations! And thank you for sharing such a wonderful treat with us ♥️. I’m looking forward to finally being able to hug my sister, who due to covid had to give birth to her baby girl back in September on her own. Love you baby sis xxx
Well the first thing I’m looking forward to in 2021 is getting to read Blood Heir! But for the year in general I am looking forward to vaccines, more snowball fights, my son’s birthday, warmer weather with hopefully backyard BBQ’s with friends. Happy New Year everyone!!!
Looking forward to travelling again in 2021. Hopefully with the vaccine doing it’s rounds around the world, travel vacations will be doable again without the long and arduous addition precautionary measures. But for now, i’ll be content with reading your books.????
What I’m looking forward to in 2021, besides reading great books, is being a preliminary empty nester. Both of our kids will be away at college for the first time. Also awaiting the return of pre-2020 socialization!
What am I looking forward to…the end of the school year. This has been a hard year.
New books! New books! As much as I do look forward to reading your new books I especially look forward to being able to dine and drink with my friends again. I miss them all so much. I can’t complain because my husband and I are not ill but I just want to see other people.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to hosting our extended family in our new home. We’ve been here for 6 months but travel restrictions have kept the family away.
For 2021 the thing I am most looking forward to is to see and hug my adult children whom I haven’t been able to physically interact with in over a year. Good thing I have a new book to help keep me distracted.
I know it’s a cliché but what I more look forward this 2021 is to not get sick, sad but true^^
Thank you for making all better with your books and greatings from the basque country!
I am looking forward to taking 1 or all the Covid-19 vaccines in 2021 so that I can jump on many planes and travel internationally. I miss my family dearly!
Looking forward to a day where I can just wandering around a bookstore and my local library-
2021 will get off to a great start if I win one of the books in the giveaway!????
I’m so looking forward to being able touch and hug friends and family. It’s been air kisses and hugs, virtual chats. Basically I want the world before March 2020, except let me keep the remote work!
Happy 2021 everyone! Get the vaccine rolling out!
I’m most looking forward to my new job in 2021! So unlikely I know, but my new job will allow me to shape visits to the home of George Bernard Shaw and care for the collection he left behind. I’m hoping to start a major cleaning project, all his books! Weird I know.
I’m most looking forward to a vacation with my family, in a rented cabin with lots of hiking to avoid others. Aka, isolation from others in a new place.
I am looking forward to traveling to Canada (Covid willing) for my youngest daughter ‘s willing.
That should be wedding not willing.
I have to say, what I’m looking forward to most this year is succeeding in the goals that I’d been working on last year. I’ve lost around 60 lbs, and have around 35 more to go to reach my goal weight. I’m furiously studying for the MCAT so that I can apply to good med schools. All in all, I’m looking forward to succeeding in my goals! Happy 2021!
Other than more amazing books from the likes of IA, I’m looking forward to a new president, and hopeful for things starting to improve!
Many thanks for the book release events & giveaway! Long term I’m definitely looking forward to the time when everyone’s been vaccinated so we can return to some semblance of normal. It will be so nice to see people/hug family & friends in person. Hopefully that happens by the summer… Short term I’m most excited for Blood Heir’s release next week – can’t wait!! 🙂
I’m looking forward to spending even MORE time with my family. My last baby starts kindergarten this year and I am already dreading it. Love and hugs!!!
We are looking forward to hugging friends and family we’ve only been able to speak with virtually for a year. We can’t wait to start back on all the activities we did individually and as a family. Karate and swimming lessons for our daughter, classes at the Y for me, anything not work related for sweetie. I’ve loved all the time I have spent with my daughter, but I’m really looking forward to feeling safe spending time apart too. Oh and I will treasure every moment I can see through un-foggy glasses.
Mazel tov on another fabulous book! You have provided wonderful distractions for me and my family throughout the year.
Best Wishes to you and yours in the New Year. Health, Wealth, and Happiness!
Katie
I’m looking forward to different classes (hopefully more enjoyable).
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I’m most looking forward to being able to travel freely again in 2021
what i look forward the most in 2021 hum being able to see my friend and have our roleplaying game all was cancelled for more than 1y here already and i really miss our laughing moment
In my head the list was writing itself, like a broschyre of delisious dreams unravelling in seducing colors, just waiting for me to pick one of them. Promises of travel, spa weekends without kids and Zumbaclasses were fighting to end up being the true choice who would win me your book… When it all hit me, that what I look forward the most is spending time with my own mother again. To be able to visit her. To be able to finally bring her the amazing cake I had planned for her 80th birthday that covid put om hold. To be able to hug her and keeping her close without fear of making her ill. If that is what 2021 would bring me, I would cosider myself a true winner no matter what. Thank you for making me feel it. ❤️
For 2021 I’m most looking forward to widespread distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and a hopeful return to normal. I’m an ER nurse and we’ve managed so far but I worry how long we can continue to manage…. Your books have been a bright spot and I’m eager to read this latest foray into Kate Daniels world.
I am most looking forward to spending time with all my family; we’ve planned a short holiday where we can all get together in November 2021. I can’t wait to see them wearing the beautiful, practical gifts I made during the national lockdown here in England. I’ve even used up all my scrap yarn! Happy New Year!
IN 2021 I am looking forward to becoming a first-time homeowner! My own 4 walls are all I want for Christmas!
I am looking for a Happier New Year with everyone safe. Then I want to go to Disneyland. Disneyland was my walking place, got a lot of steps in. I like the rides too.
I emailed the Selector for Los Angeles County Library as soon as you announced ARCs were available!
OMG. I would love a signed copy. I already have the ebook in my kindle. But signed copy will be most welcome
I’m looking forward to Blood Heir, of course!
Having a friend sit at my kitchen table and just talk about everything and nothing or sitting at a friend’s kitchen table and just talk about everything and nothing.
I’m looking forward to learning more new things and some interesting challenges at work. Enjoying how friends and family have made time to talk with one another and connect better, be better together, and grow.
In 2021 I am looking forward to get vaccine and be able to enjoy time outside with family and friends.
Without worrying about currently trending virus.
I am looking forward to (hopefully) being able to travel again, especially my planned trip to Scotland in the fall. Everyone cross your fingers!
What I’m most looking forward to about 2021 is hopefully finding a steady job. It would make me deliriously happy. Also, looking forward to the book!!!
I look forward to releasing my UF trilogy in late spring. 😀 Thanks for the giveaway and Julie’s installment. Can’t wait!
I would love a copy of small magics! I’m most looking forward to your new book as well as Karen Marie Moning’s final book in her series. And hopefully more family time this year
Thank you, Ilona Andrews for the post. I appreciate the information.
What I want for 2021 is for USA to successfully navigate the chaos of present president into a more unified democratic nation without a civil war or lots of human lives lost. I think that fails under your ban of politics on this blog so I won’t fuss if you ban this comment.
I like massive PR posts!
I’m looking forward to figuring out a way to make a living. Well, a very good living, because I’m tired of scraping by and I want better for me and my family. It’s a big goal, but I believe in me.
I’m hoping & praying for big changes in our country. I’ve heard other people say this, so I’m hoping the sentiment spreads:
It doesn’t have to be this way.
There is enough food.
The technologies to replace fossil fuels exist.
There’s no reason for a few to have more than they can ever use while many struggle to survive.
A (not so) crazy thought. I hope it catches on.
I am looking forward to hopefully being able to travel again! …also books!
Without a doubt excited for new IA gems, specially this release! So looking forward to traveling without fear, and world being back to ‘normal’ so we can safely return to book events and signings! Miss meeting my bookish friends and all my favorite authors! Counting down the days! ????????????
I am so excited to read about Julie!
I’m so looking forward to being with my family again…sisters, brothers, in-laws, nephews, nieces, and all the little ones. I’m sick of celebrating holidays and birthdays alone! Go away, Covid!
I think the thing I’m looking forward to most is turning 40. There were times when I was younger I didn’t think I’d get that old
I am looking forward to my mother getting the vaccine so that I won’t have to worry about inadvertently giving it to her.
I just can’t wait for another part of this amazing series, so here is to 2021, hopefully a much better year!!
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is a Covid 19 vaccinated world! After that, it’s all gravy!! Be well, stay safe!
I’m mostly looking forward to getting together with friends and family once it’s safe to do so 🙂 I love your books!! I encourage everyone I know who loves to read to read your novels.
I want to travel again!
I am looking forward to more family time in 2021. We have some backwoods camping adventures planned.
I want to travel again!
The think I am looking forward most to in 2021 is going to a sit down dinner in a restaurant and also being able to go to the movies. I cannot wait.
Hi and Happy New Year to everyone!
I look forward that this year while be better than the last and hope that we can finally be done with Covid bit overall I hope that we can live all together no matter our differeces (physical, religious or political).
I HOPE for peace and safety for everybody.
And of course, more books 😉
I’m sorry if my english is not that good but I will now make my wish in French since I’m French (and a huge lover of Ilona books and Community )so:
Bonjour et bonne année à tous!
J’espère que cette année sera meilleure que la dernière et j’espère que nous pourrons enfin en finir avec Covid. J’espère que nous pourrons vivre tous ensemble quelles que soient nos différences (physiques, religieuses ou politiques). Je souhaite que nous puissions tous vivre en paix et en sécurité tous ensemble.
Et bien sûr, plus de livre 😉
Désolée pour mon anglais 🙂
What I am most looking forward to in 2021: a COVID vaccine that has been tested by a credible and neutral third party (WHO, NIH, CDC), with a known expiration date (i.e., it’s a yearly vaccine like the flu or because they can’t yet predict the mutations as well as they can with the flu, it lasts 3 or 6 months, etc.). So we can end lockdown.
And, from the high level to the low: thus an evening with friends for tabletop RPGing.
I am looking forward to going to Candlelight processional at Epcot.
Besides the release of Blood Heir and reading more of your wonderful books, I am looking forward to having a baby! It’s very early still, but my husband and I are so excited!
The thing I’m most looking forward to is the star wars larp (live action roleplay) that we were suppose to play a year ago, but then korona. Fingers crossed that we get to do that this year. Actually seeing my frieds would be so nice.
I don’t think this worked the first time so I am posting again. What I am most looking forward to in 2021 is (hopefully!!) taking my 16-month-old toddler back to Ireland to see family. We live in the US and he hasn’t seen any of his grandparents, aunts, uncles or cousins since he was 4 months old. There’s still a long way to go but we’re hoping a late 2021 visit can happen if the vaccine rollouts go smoothly.
Hi Catherine, the website is cached every few minutes, which means that your internet browser saves a screenshot of the site and then serves it to you. Sometimes it means that your comments take about 15 minutes or so to become visible. I can see both your comments 🙂
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Thank you for persevering with a virtual release! As if that isn’t enough to look forward to in 2021… I’m also looking forward to (fingers crossed) the relaxing of travel restrictions. I miss my family.
I’m looking forward to traveling and seeing live theatre again.
I’m looking forward to hugging family members again. Also going out and browsing in physical shops once more.
What I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is…don’t judge me…wearing make-up again once COVID is under control and my face masks can retire with honors to my trash bin.
In 2021 I’m most looking forward to the birth of my second child. It’s been tough going through pregnancy so isolated from friends and other moms, but I’m thankful for my immediate family and my work family (no work from home for me) for keeping me sane. Also, books. Books keep me sane ????
I’m so excited for this release and to see the Kate Daniels legacy continue!
I am looking forward to being able to buy fresh produce again and basically just running to the store to get what we need. I am looking forward to not worrying any more about keeping my husband safe from the virus. OK, I will still worry but maybe it won’t be so overwhelming.
I would say I have been more planning than looking forward to Blood Heir since it gets released on a work day. It will feel like the longest work day of the year.
I am looking forward to graduating from university this year, even though my convocation will be online. I also hope that I will be able to see my friends and family in person again at some point in 2021.
I look forward to returning to work at the library in my small Montana town. I miss interacting with my community so much — helping people find what they are looking for, get what they need and, of course, share the love of books with others every day.
Hi, i am really looking forward to go to mini vacation with my nephews as well as upcoming release of blood hier. My local library has already ordered one copy. Wishing for it to come soon.
What I’m looking forward to the most about 2021 is hopefully being able to travel home to see my family in person.
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So excited for this story of Julie !!! Thank you !!!
Looking forward to the release of Blood Heir! Yup…that’s actually what I’m looking forward to this year. That and the ability to travel south to see my family. It’s going to happen in 2021!
Date night! We have three young kids, and before COVID, we tried to go out once a month or so. Naturally, we couldn’t do it in the last few months and I miss it.
Getting out of the house without worrying about Covid!!!!
I looking forward to doing a few things just for me every week. This includes reading every night.
I am really looking forward to meeting friends and family for a meal.
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to my kids seeing their friends and family again.
I can’t wait to read Blood Heir! Thanks for the giveaway.
Looking forward to hopefully being able to travel again in 2021.
I am looking forward to the opportunity to leave my house and go out into public again. Eventually, I’d like to go visit family. Maybe summer? Fall?
While I am very appreciative that I am able to work from home and don’t have to go out, I’m ready for a little socialization. I’m not sure that I need to go back into the office, however.
I am also planning to get a new dog this year, after winter is over. My Suzy died last May, and it’s been lonely without her.
I am also excited for Blood Heir next week. New books are always a great pick me up. Thanks!
This year I am looking forward to overcoming trauma and building a life that I like! And continuing to explore new places and read great books.
What I am looking forward to most in 2021 is 1) Blood Heir being released, 2) Getting to a healthier state of being, 3) working on my goals of creating an animal sanctuary (but pairing it with something like a halfway house or a retirement home??
This year instead of making New Years resolutions (that I never complete) I decided to focus on a word. Reduce. I’m looking forward to reducing the clutter in my house, reducing my waistline, reducing the money I waste and reducing the amount of projects waiting to be finished. Reducing my excuses for why I’m not living my life to the fullest.
Great ideas! New Year’s reductions! I have been reducing my weight and hope for a lot less clutter too! Worthy goals! May we all succeed!
I am so looking forward to having lunch with my girlfriends again. We used to get together every 4-6 weeks to catch up and we stopped to keep everyone safe. I miss seeing them in person and giving them hugs! I will never take a hug for granted again. Wishing everyone the best in 2021!
Your book? Haha it’s true but I’m also looking forward hugging my friends again. I miss the human contact.
I’m looking forward to a lot this year. Life doesn’t stop, though engagement in the world needs a bit more care these days.
For 2021, I’m really, really looking forward everything 🙂
– Blood Heir and the other book you hinted at for later in the year
– Vaccinations, So I can see my parents safely again.
– My eldest sister’s wedding.
– My youngest sister’s engagement party.
– My nephews turning 1, 7, 13 and my niece turning 20.
– Hopefully being promoted at work.
– Maybe moving in with my boyfriend.
– Maybe adopting a dog.
– Travelling safely again, I really want to go to Iceland this year pandemic permitting.
– Just seeing the people I miss. I am really looking forward to hugging everyone when I’m vaccinated. I miss hugs.
I’m looking forward to finishing University and hopefully be able to travel to my home country and see my family again!
Hey! Sooooo very excited for this new book… I’ve got a few things I’m excited for alongside it though for 2021. The adoption certificate that verifies my little boy is legally mine (yay!), the vaccine (c’mon magic vaccine and solve all our probs – that’s thing, right?) And also news about Hugh and Elara?! I don’t mean to harp on but it’s my comfort book and my fave… if it wasn’t in my kindle it would be dog eared and coffee stained (not in a disrespectful way!) Yours faithfully and definitely not in a whiney way Lauren 🙂
I should say what I’m looking forward to most is Blood Heir and don’t get me wrong it definitely ranks up there. However what I’m most looking forward to is releasing the constant worry about vulnerable family members and friends, being able to hug my friends little girl who was born in April and hasn’t seen anyone outside of her immediate family and health care professionals and being able to start bringing the world back into a new normal one step at a time.
Blood heir is a close second to all that though!
Looking forward to getting married in September (whether it’s with 100 of our family and friends, or 20!)
Getting my medic alert dog.
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to seeing friends and family and hugging everyone!!!
I’m also looking forward to seeing restaurants, small businesses, schools and anyone else who has been impacted, to getting the opportunity to get back to “normal”.
Love, love , love all of your books! Happy 2021 to you and yours! ❤️
I’m looking forward to when you can again go to concerts in person. Happy New Year all.
In 2021 am looking forward to just being able see people when you want without worrying whether it’s safe to do so.
I’m hoping to be able to go to restaurants again and make it to my vacation to Hawaii in June and a friend’s wedding in October in Austin. I’ll be in your neighborhood (hopefully). 🙂
Love your books though only get e copies as living in New Zealand, too expensive to have shipped from USA and at the moment no guarantees that it will arrive!
I know I am lucky living in NZ but hope to have the vaccine by mid year and things are practically back to normal though still have closed borders so can’t visit my mum in Australia and she isn’t 100%.
Fingers crossed that everyone in the world will take this virus seriously and follow the rules as everyone is suffering no matter where you are in the world. (I say this as we get new reports where people are saying this is a conspiracy, it is fake news etc but with the amount of people dying I don’t think so)
Like most people, I am looking forward to being able to see friends and just be able to go out and do things again! I am also looking forward to finally being able to read all of blood heir. We’re heading for another lockdown, so its perfect timing 😀
You’re one of my favorites, and I’ve been looking forward to Blood Heir coming out for my birthday — Happy Birthday to me. ???? What I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is having my family get together, again. My out-of-state family had to cancel their travel plans this year, and my elderly father, especially, really misses seeing them in person. My daughter also really needs for her university program and jobs to start back up. It’s time to move forward.
I am looking forward to finally getting my bachelor’s degree. I will be 41 when I graduate but I am so excited and I hope there will be a graduation ceremony but if there isn’t I look forward to celebrating with my husband and children.
I am looking forward to warm (not hot) weather and so many new books that I’ve eagerly awaited.
I’m looking forward to seeing my daughter grow up another year in 2021 ????
I’m looking forward to living with less fear in 2021. Of course some fear is healthy and good, but I’d like a little less and balanced with more joy.
I am looking forward to getting the COVID vaccine. It has been so long since I have been able to spend time with my grandchildren! That is such an empty hole in my heart!!
I’m looking forward to Blood Heir, vaccine roll out, and being able to meet all my family at my sisters wedding in June (fingers crossed the social gathering restrictions will have lifted by then!) 🙂
Hugs, lots and lots of hugs and travelling…
I would rather re-read your books than any new book by another author.
In 2021 I am most looking forward to any new books from you, new episodes of Bridgestone, the Mandalorian, and the new All Creatures Great and Small. My wish for you ” Live Long and Prosper”, you are the best!
So looking forward to beloved authors gracing us with another chapter of INNKEEPER, but only if that meets with their approval and can be accomplished within the time frame specified by the blog codex. Where are the ‘rents? where is the big bro’? When is the wedding? (Dina and Sean’s) Inquiring long time old man fan wants to know, but hey, no pressure. (p.s. this was written for the sole purpose of leaving a valid comment for the blog giveaway. any relation to an actual comment is strictly coincidental)
I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir, getting the Covid vaccine, and being able to see the people I love I person again. Thank you so much for being a bright spot in such a dim period of the world.
Am I an exception to say I’m looking forward to work in 2021? Loved the holidays, vegging and re-reading the IA backlist, but I am grateful to get back to work and have a distraction from the suspenseful daily news drama due to COVID
I just can’t buy another book until another book in the inn keeper series is released.
Love all your books
Thank you so much for having a virtual appearance for European time zone also! Really appreciate it.
Cannot wait for the release, really love all your series.
In 2021 I am mostly waiting for is normal social contacts. After 10 months in home office I have newly found appreciation for the way most authors work always.
Going anywhere and not having to worry about the size of the crowd. 🙂
So glad Blood Heir is almost here. 2021 hopefully will result in everyone vaccinated and things back to normal
I am actually looking forward to working hard so I improve as much as i can, got a new job, some parts of it i do very well others not so much, because i still need to learn so much. but in conclusion i work to slow, so working hard is the only way to sucessed. Also, i finaly want to finish learning portrait freehand drawing basics so its not a matter of luck every time i try drawing a portrait.
Right this moment the thing that I can’t wait for is eating out. I know that in another moment that will change into some other desire but I want someone else to do the dishes.
I am looking forward to traveling and fewer presidential tweets
I’m looking forward to new beginnings and old friends. And some new beginnings with old friends!
Spring. I am looking forward to spring and putting forth a solid effort to take care of myself, which will include, walking, horseback riding and putting in a new rose bed.
I’m looking forward to becoming an aunt this spring! My brother and his wife are expecting twins, so I am going to have a niece and a nephew. My mother is beyond thrilled to become a grandmother for the first time, and has been knitting up a storm.
Happy new year, can’t wait to read BLOOD HEIR!
I am looking forward to spending time with family and friends again- specifically the “little” moments when you’re just together, making tea, goofing off, doing nothing important. Those little moments really are big <3
In 2021 I am looking forward to a return to life, having a little more wisdom and empathy for others.
It is going to be a year of Health after 2020 threw me into a tailspin. I’m going to make healthier choices not only in my diet and activities, but work and stress levels. I am hoping that this will lead to a successful IVF at the end of the year. 2021 is the year I hope to announce I’m pregnant after years of hoping and praying.
I am looking forward to working on my mental health in 2021. I’m cheating because there are various components of my life that impacts my mental health (marriage, family, finances, physical health, etc).
Prior to COVID, I’ve been working on myself for a couple of years. It’s tough because everyone smiles in relief when you say you’re in therapy, like it’s going to heal all of your troubles and you’ll finally be okay. But the reality is that therapy just teaches you how to cope with your psychological wounds so that you can live the rest of your life without too much trouble.
I’m looking foreword to hopefully having a real Birthday party in 2021! The last two years have been a bust so ????????
I am looking forward to going back to the movie theater and reading any new books you write.
I’m looking forward to being able to take my son to play places the zoo etc. He’s a toddler and he hasn’t been to one since pre-covid. I’m also looking forward to *hopefully* not wearing a face shield and mask all shift as a nurse in a hospital in Ontario. I remember when that was the exception instead of the rule.
I’m looking forward to leaving this house! I’m just hoping that this ends soon and we can go back to seeing family and friends again. Everyone stay healthy!
I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir and geeking out about it with my friends on a Zoom chat with a delicious cup of cafe de olla (I highly recommend if you love coffee), visiting a secluded part of Lake Tahoe with my dog so she can play in the snow, seeing my grandfather face to face after his long battle with COVID, and having my gym open up safely and continue to train in martial arts.
What I’m looking forward mostly in 2021 is the moment my parents, siblings and I beeing vaccinated and therefore able to meet and to celebrate my mothers 70th birthday that we could not celebrate last year.
If that wish is to great for the universe to grand, I would love to hug my father. He is very sick (severe COPD) and we did not touch for month. I am so afraid he might die, before I can hug him again.
I had my first child in early December 2020. I’m looking forward to my son meeting my and my husband’s families (We’re in Seattle and they are in the east coast). I’m looking forward to him meeting our community and knowing the love they all have for him.
I‘m looking forward to getting my Bachelors degree 🙂
I am looking forward to going to work in the ICU and handling our normal “very sick patients” vs. taking care of these enormously, overwhelmingly sick individuals (COVID) while trying to provide care in a moon suit, dehydrated, hungry, and having not peed for eight hours. Just normal ICU nursing would be a relief…
I’m looking forward to a little normalcy in 2021 but mostly visiting my brother, sister and their kids who live in a different state. ????
I am most looking forward to it just not being 2020 anymore. Hopefully, the new year will bring better things, big and small, throughout the year.
I am most looking forward to travel and being able to see people’s faces again.
I’m looking forward to all the new books being released this year, and maybe less stress as it becomes safer?
I am looking forward to being a first-time mom in 2021! A little nervous as well but excited for the times ahead
What I’m looking most forward to in 2021 is seeing my grandchildren and also my elderly parents who are in a retirement home. Video chats are great but I miss the hugs.
I’m looking forward to living in New Hampshire and having longer winters and more room for my fluffy pups to run around !
Just ordered my copy and am so excited! I am cautiously optimistic about 2021–looking forward to eventually going out without worrying. Thanks for the books y’all! Makes these rough times more bearable.
I’m looking forward to getting together with a friend in 2021 (fingers crossed!). I haven’t had a hug from anyone except my parents since March. I’ve been being really careful because we sometimes have to take my 95yo grandfather to the ER, and I really don’t want to give him COVID. I’ve gotten together with a couple of friends masked, outdoors, and six feet apart, but that’s less appealing in the cold. At least the weather has been mild for Massachusetts so far.
I cannot wait for vaccines, and vacations ????
More books and time with family. I am loving this work from home thing!
I am looking forward to Inaugeration Day which is also my 68th birthday! I was born on Eisenhower’s inauguration day and barely escaped being named Mamie after his wife. Debra is bad enough, but Mamie, seriously? Anyway, I have seen a lot of Presidents come and go. I am hoping to see a big reduction in the number of Covid cases in 2021. I am also looking forward to BookLoversCon which is scheduled to be held at the Omni in Champions Gate which is 2 miles from my house! I really hope it will not be cancelled, but I am not holding my breath.
what am I most looking forward to in 2021? An end to this global pandemic. That would be a wonderful development for 2021.
I am most looking forward to being able to see and hug family and friends. The seeing would be first after the vaccine is widespread and the hugging once we get the all clear that we are ready to resume normal life. I look forward to people getting back to work, mouths being fed, hope in our hearts and hopefully less stress for everyone. And finally I am looking forward to reading good books/escaping this world like Blood Heir.
I am looking forward the most in 2021 are two equally important items: Inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris. And the COVID-19 vaccine and herd immunity for the World.
for 2021 I am looking to “real” horse shows and catching up in person with lots of friends! But i am also going to try to remember some of the “Good stuff that came from this last year; doing more stuff as a family unit was fun, we actually convinced our 14 year old that sitting around the table and playing cards was fun and silly and a little cutthroat.
I’m looking forward to reading lots of great stories and getting to have a family party next holiday season.
I’m looking forward to all the new book releases! And hopefully being able to see friends in person again!
I’m looking forward to seeing friends and family i haven’t seen since the beginning of 2020. Hopefully.
Aside from all the lovely books coming out this year. The thing I’m most looking forward to is meeting my new great niece. She was born on New Years Eve. I can’t wait until I get the chance to meet her. She doesn’t have any grandmothers left so us aunties are as close as she will get. I have boys and no grandkids yet so I can’t wait to spoil her.
Like many others I am really, really looking forward to getting a covid vaccine and being able to return to at least some normal socializing in the next few months.
I am looking forward to a little less crazy and a little more normal.
I can hardly wait for Blood Heir and any other books by y’all – this past year really ended badly (like a Jerry Springer bad) for my family and I really look forward to things getting better – I even have Tuesday off to enjoy my ebook version of Blood Heir – please register me for the Small Magic giveaway!
I’m so looking forward to being with people I love, after we all are vaccinated, of course. Taking a vacation to visit or be with them! Also, with kids in school and a teacher husband, I long for regular school and schedules!
Will share the heck out of your book(s) because they are helping keep me sane!
I’m looking forward to hopefully spend time with all the people I wasn’t able to see last year and miss so much.
I’m also finishing my Masters soon and I’m equally excited and terrified of job searching and look forward to moving out of my parents place again into my own space 🙂
What I’m most looking forward to in 2021 (excluding Blood Heir) is visiting my grandparents who live abroad.
Thanks for doing the giveaway! I’m most looking forward to not being so afraid of doing any/everything anymore.
I get my boys for the whole summer this year I am so super excited for that time with them
I’m looking forward to zoom book chats with my mom. I gifted her Magic Bites and Clean Sweep for Christmas, and she’s immediately addicted.
I can’t wait to read Blood Heir! Thanks for making 2020/2021 more bearable for everyone.
2021 is looking like a good year. There are 2 book releases this month I’m excited about, I am hoping to finalize my divorce and I’m moving into a house this summer.
What I’m most looking forward to is getting vaccinated and being able to travel and see family but as I know that won’t happen till later 2021, I have to admit that the release of your and a couple other of my favorite authors books between January and March will help keep me happy till then. 🙂
I’m looking forward to people being vaccinated so that we can get back to socializing in person, going to restaurants, and having potlucks at work. Hmm, two out of the three involved food. Is this the way I socialize or am I just hungry?
Between COVID and the election, there was too much stress in my life. I am going to seek and find, since I can only find it within myself, more happiness and joy in 2021.
I am looking forward to seeing my grandchild. I have not seen him in a year. Thank goodness for Facebook!
Your book! And also i finally got a job! So thats two good things in january. I would also love a spring vacation for my kids, they are slowly going nuts indoors(and taking me with them????)
My 2021 started with my neighbor pointing a gun at my house, and now the first trial is Wednesday–everyone’s fine, but I’m looking forward to that being over, and I hope everyone else is having a much more peaceful year thus far.
What I am looking forward to the most in 2021 is bring peace and order to my home. I want it to be a sanctuary for my four children and my husband. COVID really messed with our routines and schedules. I went from 3 children learning out of the home and a husband in medical school studying at the school to everyone at home and needing their own study space. I also went from teaching 1st grade at a traditional school to homeschooling my own children. Which is honestly harder than I anticipated. So my house and my mental wellness have taken a turn for the worst. But we have slowly been getting ourselves together and it’s starting to show in my home and my peace. Happy New Year team Andrews! Thank you for amazing reads and an escape into a different reality where a sword and some grit get you through a crisis.
I’m looking forward to more time with my husband and kids. More laughs, more adventures (even if they are mostly virtual these days), more nerf wars, books, games, and bonfires, just more of the things that make my life fun. ???? ????????
This is just so…much YAY! I want to participate but I don’t have in mind too much of what I want this year…just want to keep all happy and/or at peace and see the ones I love, healthy. Guess that was a good answer after all.
Thanks for the chance!
What I would most like to see is a return to kindness and forgiveness and love of our neighbor in 2021! But for now, I am really looking forward to my basement library being finished and seeing and smelling all of my books I have had packed away! Good thing I have a kindle.
I am looking forward to being able to spend time indoors with friends again! Hopefully 2021 is the year for that!
This looks to be a beautiful book! Will it be available in book form with this great pictures? I have my ebook preordered. Happy New Year! Here’s to Hope!
2021? I had stopped painting for seven years, then created a pretty impressive portfolio in 15 months. My goal now is to find someone who will host a show for me.
So happy for a new year, and a new Ilona Andrews book! I’m the process of my reread.
Looking forward for the pandemic to subside and to spend have to face time with family and friends. Can’t wait for everyone to meet our new edition since last summer.
I’m looking forward to new wonderful books and hoping the world gets back to normal.
I’m looking forward to some uncertainty and risk in 2021…
I just resigned from a company I’ve worked for for the last 12 years, and even though I loved my job and most of my coworkers , this huge weight has been lifted and I feel free for the first time in a long time.
I have no clue what I’ll be doing after this, but I look forward to figuring it out…
I am looking forward to seeing friends and family in person again. I know I had some lapses in the build up to the holidays, but man, it’s been scary in southern California since then. I am looking forward to seeing how employers approach working from home changes after last year, and a bit terrified that AB5/Prop22 app-based gig-working will destroy gig workers’ ability to negotiate with employers.
My Husband and I have started a book podcast that will be going live at the end of January. I am super excited to start this 2021 journey with him doing what I love most, erh besides him and the animals lol. We have done practice episodes and I have mentioned you guys in a bunch of them since you two are one of my favorite authors. The podcast is called For The Love Of Books ❤
2021 will be a very different year as I lost my mother to Covid 2 weeks ago today. I am always striving to make her proud, and I want you to know that she loved your books. I will miss being able to discuss Blood Heir with her, but I have no doubt that she will be reading it with me. In general I am looking forward to being able to see people more often, give hugs, and live life to the fullest. Every day is precious.
Gordon and I are so sorry for your loss. We are also in the motherless club. It doesn’t get that much easier but time does dull it a little. ::hug:: We hope 2021 is a happier year for you.
Travel. omg I need to do it :))
I’m looking forward to hopefully being able to get my hair dyed again and regular manicures and pedicures.
I am looking forward to most in 2021 is being able to touch and comfort my patients when they need comfort.
I can’t wait to read it! I think for me it’s a toss up about what I’m most looking forward to between just a better year than last year or that I should be done building my built in bookcases soon this year. Gotta love more shelf space!
Beach yoga
I’m looking forward to starting a new chapter in my life!
What I’m looking forward to the most is getting back to a somewhat normal life. I’m looking forward to working more and living life. Not just being.
I would love to leave the house, travel outside of town and it would be amazing if my kid gets his high school graduation this year ????
Looking forward to herd immunity to stop this pandemic in 2021!
Such a beautiful picture! Thanks for sharing!
Health! Hopes and prayers that small business can survive. Cheryl
I’m looking forward to having my grandchildren tucked under my arms and on my lap while I read to them.
I am looking forward to Blood Heir in 2021 and being able to travel and see family!
Ah, 2021. I’m definitely looking forward to the release of Blood Heir to kick off the new year and looking forward to my friends and family in frontline positions getting the new vaccines and keeping them a bit safer in these uncertain times. And then hopefully, all of us can start getting the vaccines and the world can become a healthier place throughout the whole year. My guiding word this year is HOPE. I have so much of it compared to last year and I’m going to hold onto it as hard as I can.
I’m super excited about a socially distanced/safe beach trip in March and ???????? DragonCon in August/September.
I look forward to getting the COVID vaccine and finally being free to live my life again and see friends and family 🙂
Hopefully, God-willing, we can visit with our kids again and share a hug or three (or twenty).
We are most looking forward to our two socially distant vacations in Gatlinburg in 2021. The first is just before Easter, it’s our 10th anniversary, so, we’re going sans kids, and then in October, we’re doing a second WITH the girls. 2020 was a hell of a year for us medically, so, we need the break. 🙂
I am looking forward to our daily life under hopefully soon „controlled Corona conditions“: being able to hug friends and family, presenting my newborn daughter to my siblings and letting them actually hold her.
Thank you for doing the giveaway and opening it to us international readers ????????????
Cheyanna,
My Husband and I live in southern NH and it is beautiful here right now. It is truly magical in the middle of the night after a snowfall, so quiet and so breathtaking. Tho I do wish we had more choices in the restaurant department lol
I preordered my copy of Blood heir. Looking forward to reading and adding it to my collection. Reading fantasy is a great escape from current conditions. I was able to attend the TLA conference in Austin several years ago and have a picture with you both as a great memory. Keep writing.
This year I’m looking forward to better health. Big bdays this year all across the board. I’m looking forward to a better year all around. The best way for that to happen is for me to make it happen. God willing and the creek don’t rise.
I’m looking forward to hopefully being able to hang out in bookstores again!
I’m looking forward to reading books released from my favorite authors while the world will slowly recuperate around me *happy sigh*
What I am looking forward to… Lots of hugs and really good books!
I’m most looking forward to the hordes of life-defining work waiting for me in 2021. I’ve been waiting for this year for years and it will both be a relief for it to be over as well as incredibly stress inducing. However, it is all better than 2020. I hope ! ????
I’m looking forward to hugging my Grandma when we will be finally vaccinated. She is an eighty six year old with COPD, who had been shielding since the start of March, and the wonderful lady who brought me up, and to hug her again without the worry that I could her serious damage is what I want most out of this year.
Have fun! I won’t be there – I’ll be too busy reading the book! Probably over and over again – your writing does have that effect on me.
What I am looking forward to most in 2021 is being able to meet my new grandson who was born before Thanksgiving. We can’t visit due to the virus and want to be able to hold and kiss him. We also want to be able to hug and kiss our 3 & 4 year old granddaughters.
P.S. We are only in our mid 40s and blessed with 3 grandkids
I’m looking forward to several new books from favorite authors that will be releasing this year.
These books are so amazing! I can’t wait to read bloof heir.
In 2021 I am most lookinh forward to buying a house! It’d been a long time coming but I can finally afford it! Yay!
Looking forward to new books, new adventures and hopefully, good health.
I’m looking forward to getting a new job and crawling out of this covid depression.
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021 may seem simple to some but for me it’s the possibilities a new year holds. To be honest I have this same aspiration every year. I’m not a starry-eyed dreamer who’s always spouting glass half full anecdotes, I’m more of a realist but positivity gives you fewer wrinkels.????
I think most of us could agree that 2020 was not your average year, in fact it was kind of a shit show and because it was so incredibly trash can worthy I find that more than ever before I’m looking forward to any and all positive possibilities that 2021 has to hold.
Hopefully this year will find you happy, healthy and full of possibilities too.
Warmest Regards,
Cathy
I can’t wait for a 2021 summer with no Covid restrictions
Yay! Thanks for the oppurtunity
I am looking forward to hopefully being some what back to normal with vaccine
I am looking forward to being able to visit my 94 year old mother again once she recieves the covid vaccine and her memory care unit allows visitors again.
That had to be a hard one to abide by! I hope you get to see her soon!
for Covid-19 vaccines to be readily available to all people all around the world irrespective of wealth, starting with the most vulnerable including health and care workers. Happy New Year.
I’m looking forward to graduating medical school and finally being done with school in general. I’m looking forward to not needing to move every month or so for school. I’m looking forward to not needing to shout so patients can understand what I am saying through 2 masks and a face shield. But most of all I’m looking forward to life returning to normal or as normal as it ever was, fingers crossed.
I have great hopes for 2021 – I’m looking forward to getting a vaccine so that our suddenly not-so-little quarantine baby can finally meet his grandparents and we can do things like take our toddler to the dinosaur museum. 2020 was one heck of a year.
I am looking forward to seeing my children and grandchildren after I get immunized! It has been over a year!( And buying myself a pony!)
Thank you from Europe. Just registered. I am so happy. One thing to look forward to during this lockdown.
I am looking forward to a new year where I can have book groups and be social again, ????????
I’m looking forward to adventures with less fear and more hope.
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021? Actually getting to go to the library, poke around the shelves and sit and decide what books in the pile I end up with I really want to check out.
That is what I have most sorely missed in 2020. My other usual activities haven’t been all that seriously curtailed.
I am actually looking forward to two things in 2021:
-Getting back to regular work, finally
And
-Seeing my 92 year old grandmother in the person. (Her age + risky travel = no visits… ????)
In 2021 I’m most looking forward to dinners with friends, eating with friends in restaurants, and reading new books.
I am excited to have honeybees at our farm this summer!
Okay all of these have been rhe bomg, but bees is so wonderful! Can we have pictures sometime?
Congratulations on the launch of Blood Heir! I pre-ordered it and can hardly wait! Your books have been a great help in getting through this cataclysmic time–thank you very much! Am looking forward to being vaccinated, hugging my Mom, seeing friends, relatives, students and co-workers not just on Zoom, and getting a haircut.
Good morning!
Thank you for the exciting post! You made my day.
What I’m looking forward to most for 2021 is harness training my cat. I finally have a cat. He is adorable, he is curious and the cuddliest fuzzy monster in the world. My apartment doesn’t have a balcony and I often find him staring wistfully out of the window. So! Harness training. I have no doubt it’ll be hilarious and will take forever for him to accept the torture device as part of his life but when he does, he’ll finally be able to go out!
2020 was a mess, so keeping my hopes low and manageable. All the best to you and my fellow book devourerererererers (sorry, forgot how to end the word so I had to go overboard)!
First,thanks for the awesome giveaway !!! In 2021, I look forward to the end of lockdown to be able to see family and friends again. Then, I am very excited for new book releases from my favorites authors including you (obviously), Nalini Singh and Patricia Briggs 🙂 I wish you a great 2021 year both personally and professionally! Cheers from a Belgian reader
I’m excited about the possibility of a fall camping trip.
Looking forward to Blood Heir.
I am most looking forward to everyone being able to get the Covid vaccine.
I work with kids at a public library and I’m wishing for the day that we can have in-person programs again. Virtual programs just aren’t the same.
im looking forward to Patricia Briggs, wild signs, your blood heir, (hopefully another innkeeper book too….) and laurel k Hamilton has been teasing about a new series. lockdown means nothing to me, as long as i have my books!!!
As sad as it is, I’m looking forward to my divorce being finalized this month in 2021. As painful as that outcome was in the beginning, it’s time for a fresh start and new beginnings with my new person. Here’s to the Date Daniels universe living on.
I’m looking forward to seeing my family again. The last time I saw them was late in 2019. Since they live in Arizona and Texas, I won’t see them until I get the vaccine (hopefully by mid year, but probably later).
Don’t have an Eagle and horse, but I do have a Hawk and a Spear, where is Saimans grave
In 2021, I’m looking forward to seeing my cross-country and international family again!
I’m looking forward to finishing so 3 tasks I have been putting on the back burner. Things I was scared to complete. First up is the edits on my dissso I can submit it for publishing. Second is practicing my coaching technique with my teachers. I want my own building, I have to step up my game. Third is publishing at least one scholarly article.
I’m getting to be the best me I can without regard for the what if’s.
You two are among my favorite authors. I’m almost 79, live alone, and miss my family so very much. 3 of my grandkids live less than 5 miles away and I went from seeing them 3 – 4 days a week for a few hours to 1 – 2 days a month for < 2 hours. When the panoramic backs off.. there will be closer ties again but I'm frustrated to have lost so much interaction, selfish of me. Your books and others help keep me sane, or as sane as I am able to be. I actually enjoy being one of the square pegs in the round holes and encouraging my kids and grandkids to be the same. I recommend your books to all that will l listen, even too telling the stories and giving them books. Ta, Dragonbogle
I am most looking forward to going to live music shows in 2021.
Thank you for the giveaway!
also though, disappointed there’s no shipping available from the 2 options listed for uk readers. shouldn’t need to contact them for special arrangements. if there the only stores selling them, everyone should have the chance to pre order them.
What am I looking forward to in 2021? Going back to Renn Faires (working and visiting), likely later half of the year so I can see my friends and family. Seeing my parents. Reconnecting with people I have not seen in over a year. Hoping my son can go in person when he starts as a freshman in HS in the fall of 2021. And of course reading a ton of books, not just ones from Ilona Andrews but all the ones from my favorite authors that are coming out in 2021!
I am looking forward to a vaccine that allows me to hug my 84 year old parents who, for their safety, I cannot travel to see.
I’m looking forward to social gatherings not on a screen! Sure, zoom backgrounds are fun, but it’s just not cutting it anymore.
I’m looking forward to driving for the east coast to the west coast with my dog. We’re going to do a socially distant trip to show my pup a good time across the country and to finally see the ocean.
Looking forward to live hugs in 2021
This year I am looking forward to a balance of people in the world social distancing, getting the Covid vaccine, and making smart decisions. I still have hope.
Please accept my entry into your contest as long as internation entries are accepted.
By far, what I’m looking forward to most is the ability to see my daughter and son-in-law whenever I want to once more. Thanks to the vacine which should be widely administered by summers end, we will hopefully see the back end of this horrible, horrible disease.
I can’t wait for some normalcy. Being able to celebrate birthdays and major holidays with my family again. Allowed to hug friends. Maybe go on a vacation, I would be happy about a small one too. But most of all, not being afraid anymore.
I’m looking forward to…going outside. Maybe jogging…hugging friends and family. Moving out of this weird stasis state. Thank you so much!!!
I have to be honest, right now I’m looking forward to the books coming out this year: Blood Heir, the next Chicagoland Heirs by Chloe Neill, more by Bec McMaster.
Mostly Blood Heirs tho. I can’t get enough of your writing, it really helps me through the dark times.
I’m looking forward to being able to hug my family again.
I look forward to spending more actual, rather than virtual time with my family. And to having the whole election debacle over with and a new president sworn in peacefully.
My wish is that the health and happiness of all in House Andrews increases in 2021 and beyond. Thanks for creating amazing worlds filled with inspirational characters and doing this over and over in new and wondrous ways. There are never too many Ilona Andrews books in the world!
I am looking forward to visiting my grandparents in Brazil again. Hopefully 2021 will be kinder to all of us.
I am looking forward to going to the movies – the last one was opening day of “Onward” in early March 2020. Also working on the tech crew for community theater productions – “Beauty and the Beast” is tentatively scheduled for late May 2021. And of course, new books!! All the new books!! And “Blood Heir” is only a week away!!!
The Small Magics book looks wonderful. I always love illustrations in books that authors approve as it is more likely to be close to what the author invisions.
I’m so excited for this release!! Alot of people hated 2020 … we all know why. I was lucky enough after 6 years of slogging through fulltimw work and studying at university to finally get my Bachelors of Nursing. I am in Australia so I know that I am more than lucky to not be in other areas of the world.
What I am looking forward to in 2021 is being a registered nurse. Of finally being out on the floor fulltime at an aged care facility. I had to make a decision as a nurse in the Covid world. We are not allowed to work for 2 different sections of health because of the risk of …. let’s call it cross contamination. This means that alot of people .. the majority.. are going to work in the hospital system. Though that is needed ans necessary it also means that there is a mass shortage for those in our community who are at their most vulnerable. Very few people are going into aged care. Families are not able to visit or are restricted in their visiting. This means an entire generation of people, most of whom don’t understand what is happening are being left and on occasions forgotten about.
For me 2021 is about giving back. My family consists of myself and my daughter. I have no parents, grandparents, aunties or uncles ( I mean I have them but they are strict Christian and Jehovah Witness.. and I’m a guy single parent out of wedlock… enough said) so being in a position where I can give those people who don’t have families, or can’t see their families, quality healthcare, decency and basic human contact means the world to me.
The world will never be the same and sometimes I feel guilty that I had reason to celebrate in 2020… but knowing what I’m going to do in 2021 and in the years to come makes everything worth it for me.
Your guys books have brought me light in more than one instance and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that. Your humour in your blog posts have lighten more than one dark time for me too!! Lots of love from an Aussie Nurse
I am looking forward to being with kids and grandkids whenever we want with no restrictions. I hope the year brings that. I miss hugs!
I’m most looking forward to taking a road trip once things are open and safe again.
Can’t wait for Blood Heir!
I’m looking forward to starting my career, paying off student loans (a big chunk of them anyway, and I have a plan so I have optimism all the way), starting a portfolio to help my parents buy a retirement home & start planning a family! Absence of the virus is wished ofr & welcomed, but either way this year is going to be epic. The year in your life you refer to – its been 3 years since we bought this rug honey, remember it was right around when I threw that virtual party from my first salary & that was in 2021. Like that. (It goes without saying all of us look forward to reading your books!!)
I’m excited to travel again! Hopefully…I miss traveling to new places and finding comfort in old haunts. And I miss the massive amounts of family I get to see when I travel. So that’s what I am most looking forward to in 2021.
I am looking forward to giving hugs.
What am i looking forward to most in 2021……More to great reads – especially from YOU!!…….and not having to wear a mask all day.
Looking forward to getting better after a nasty bout with covid-19.
I’m looking forward to being able to see and hug family and friends! And reading all the new books from my favorite authors!
I am looking forward to life becoming more “normal?” in 2021. I am also looking forward to the release of Blood Heir. I have ordered BOTH a copy for my Nook and a paperback. In anticipation of the release, I have started rereading all of the Kate Daniel’s books to refresh my memory.
In 2021, I look forward to new book releases, low COVID-19 cases (preferably none), seeing friends & family, dining out, new book releases, walking in a mall, going on vacation, new book releases, new book releases … think that about sums it up … oh and new book releases, that’s all.
Thank you for the giveaway! ????
I’m looking forward to forward to finally sorting my house and garden after 20 years of making do. The kids have grown up and at last the hideous carpets will be junked; a beautiful bathroom with fabulous shower installed and absolutely nothing will be child friendly!!
I’m looking forward to visiting my 90-year-old parents again! (I’m in Baltimore, they’re in Texas) During my most recent trip down to help them out, in early March of last year, I fell ill on the 2nd day with a COVID-like illness (people like me weren’t being tested at the time, so diagnosis remains unclear). Immediately quarantined and masked and did extreme disinfecting, and managed to not pass whatever I had on to them (huge relief when 14 days had passed and they were still healthy). I would love to visit them as soon as possible, but don’t want to bring any extra risk down on them. So — post-vaccination, maybe?
OMG it is such an amazing news 😉 I heve missed your stories. Fortunately Kate books are now realeasing tranlated to polish so I can finally read them in my first language. I really hopr 2021 would be better than 2020 and I could acctually made to the USA as planned. And I hope I would find Blood Heir in a bookstore somewhere in Chicago 😉
Yeeei! Thanks for the opportunity! I’m looking forward to passing my Qualifying Exam for my PhD… so wish me luck ????
Being with family and friends. I am looking forward to traveling again now that I am retired. One good thing about 2020 is the $$$ I saved NOT traveling or eating out much.
I’m looking forward to our 50th wedding anniversary.
I am looking forward to traveling more.
I’m in Japan for work and I’m most looking forward to coming home to Virginia in February. I’ve been desperately looking forward to reading Blood Heir, too, as living out of a tiny hotel room during a pandemic on the other side of the world from home is not great and I need something to look forward to.
I can’t wait to see all my co-workers who have been WFH since March 2020.
Really looking forward to the end of Covid in 2021and more importantly being able to hug close friends and family again (air hugs via social distancing/zoom are just not the same!)
For this year…I’m exicted that i should, have my enitre dissertation written my October 31. That’s my target date. By December at the latest. In non dissertation excitement, I’m excited about the Dallas Comicon and possibly getting vaccinated. I would really like to hang out with my siblings and their respective children without worrying if we will al get sick.
I am looking forward to new books from all of my favorite authors.
2021 has nothing planned so glfar but if everyone is vaccinated/Covid dies down, I’m looking forward to flying out to see my brother!
And see Dune in cinema… XD
for some reason I keep getting restricted to post – so trying once more.
I am very much looking forward to some sort of balance where the vaccinations will assist in slowing or stopping the spread of the virus or any variation of that and we will see the numbers of infected and deaths drop to zero.
I also selfishly want to go to a movie – in a theatre with a big screen and some movie popcorn!!
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I am looking forward to a better year. Most things should be better.
I’m looking forward to maybe taking a summer vacation with my husband. Our 20th wedding anniversary cruise was cancelled last summer due to Covid so here’s hoping we can reschedule.
I want to see friends , sit down with them, have a conversation get-/ give hugs.
I miss going to my library, talking with the librarians, looking for new books.
Looking forward to all that and of course your books.
Pre-ordered Blood Heir, happy it will be here soon.
I’m looking forward to seeing my family again who live in another province. Plus I can’t wait for hugs, lots and lots of hugs!
I want to be able to travel outside the city/state I live in and be safe.
Sitting at home in quarantine made me feel pretty helpless during Covid… 2021 will be my final year in med school, I’m looking forward to finally contributing my bit in healthcare service 🙂
The thing I’m most looking forward to is new books, starting with Blood Heir. Such a great way to start the new year!
I’m also hoping to get a doggo someday soon. Mine passed away in October, the cherry on my 2020 Sunday of horribleness, but I think I’m finally ready to start looking to adopt a new dog.
Love hearing about yours! Also love that you include awesome dog characters in your books. :3 If only someone had a Shih tzu chi puppy…
My mom is a nurse and is retiring this year. I am so grateful for everything that she has taught me (I followed her footsteps in healthcare). I look forward to giving her the biggest post-retirement hug and flowers when safe to do so in 2021.
I am most looking forward to traveling again. I got a Global World Travel Pass and then COVID hit. I miss my kids, who live far away. (One lives on the other side of the country and one lives across the ocean.
I am looking forward to watching my (currently 3mo) infant crawl and walk and explore!! Lots I’m hoping for but keeping expectations realistic right now!
I’m looking forward to reading lots of great books this year!
TBH- the thing I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is getting some in person time w my long distance SO. I can’t hardly wait!!
What I am looking forward to in 2021 is the end of COVID. As a Nurse Practitioner I am so very tired of watching people die.
Next would be a great big party with my family so we can do a long group hug.
I’m so excited to (hopefully) finish my college degree
I look forward to traveling to Canada to see my cousins for Canadian Thanksgiving and visiting the old family homestead. Hopefully we can travel again by October.
I look forward to singing with my choir again. I miss my friends and making music.
The most I am looking forward to is to see my family again after the pandemic is gone, after we are all vaccinated and happy to be alive and together. And my new nephew that my bother is expecting with his new wife!!!
I’m looking forward to a semi normal year and see the people who couldn’t cause quarantine. And i want to see more understanding in the people to safety measures, here a lot are relaxing and forgetting this sh*t isn’t over.
I am looking forward to being able to take my Rangers (like Girl Scouts) out camping again. While Covid lockdowns have been challenging, I do have to say that I have really liked engaging in webinars like your Virtual Tour – it’s been so exciting to have the opportunity to be connected to people from other parts of the world!
Im looking forward to visits with family we cannot see right now. Im also looking forward to my upcoming 30th birthday and hoping the hubby got me magnetic paint hahaha!
I’m looking forward to some normalcy for my family and getting to spend time in person with loved ones.
I don’t know if it’s “looking forward to” as much as hoping the schools open. We’ve actually been getting along with the remote learning and our school district has a really good program. My kids are learning but we’re in a rural area and we just moved here this summer and my kids miss having friends, making friends, playing, and just being kids. They miss school for the social interaction. I’m pretty introverted but my kids are social butterflies and I’m looking forward to this for them.
Hello! I am hopeful that my toddler may actually sleep through the night in 2021. She turns 4 in the spring and that is far too long to go without a full night of sleep. This momma is lacking the energy to read for fun after bedtime. I’m hoping to get back to some of my old pre-baby traditions. Travel, books, and a cup of flippin coffee that I did not have to microwave 85 times.
I look forward to maybe finally getting a job and just going to a bookstore and browsing around however I want. I know a lot of people are talking about restaurants, concerts, travel etc. But just going to a bookstore would be wonderful (with or without a mask I don’t care!).
Having my family all together on our back deck, lots of good food, wine , conversation and that absolutely unbelievable joy of seeing them all. Watching my 2yr old grandson , come eye to eye with his uncles St. Bernard ,Bonnie who loves children. Just the unmitigated joy of family.
I look most forward to moving into my career this year. I completed my BS in Environmental Geology over the summer 2020 and I’m SO glad that’s over. In order to get the designation I had to go through a year and a half of graduate level courses on top of the regular four year geology curriculum. Doing that during a pandemic was cringe worthy at best (and led to many sleepless nights *insert minor cringe here*). There have not been many jobs thus far that have opened up, but I’m staying positive!
For one, I’m looking forward to all the new releases that are coming (especially Blood Heir). They make quarantine more bearable.
I’m also looking forward to spring, (which is my favorite season) and all the gardening I can do.
I don’t have anything in particular planned, besides college(which will be virtual), but I’m glad I can look forward to these things.
I’m looking forward to hopefully regaining some normalcy and taking a breath this year.
In 2021 I most look forward to giving hugs to all the people I wasn’t able to hug in 2020.
I could say traveling, going to my martial arts classes, dining out and resuming the usual day-to-day activities would be No. 1, but in the end, all I want, and what most of us want I suppose, is for me to be able to see my family or for my family to be able to come see me. :/
This new year for 2021 I’m most looking forward to spending time with my family and friends with a little more ease and hopefully some hugs!
I’m looking forward to being able to meet my youngest nephew for the first time. He’ll probably be one by then, but maybe I’ll get to see some of his first steps. I’m also looking forward to a whole lot more time for reading my favorite authors now that I’ve finished my master degree program.
All works of Ilona andrews!
Exploring more knitting with my virtual craft group.
I’m looking forward to new beginnings in 2021. 2020 dealt a very bad hand to my country, Armenia, and we need to rebuild the post-war and post-COVID country.
Anticipated high points for 2021:
1. Blood Heir
2. Inauguration Day
3. Vaccines available for all
4. Hugs and handshakes available for all
5. Ruby Fever
and snippets throughout the year!
I am most looking forward to a year of “firsts”–my first year of marriage, my first house (fingers crossed), and Blood Heir (of course!!).
I’d like to enter for a chance at Small Magics! I’m most looking forward to having a better year than last year. I’m determined. We started the year off right with stuffed salmon on New Year’s and steak on Jan 2. I’m greatly looking forward to making some pastries as part of my “better year.”
I’m looking forward to seeing a new movie in a movie theater.
I’m looking forward to being able to attend large family gatherings again.
I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir and many other books.
I’m most looking forward to being in the office again, where furry co-workers don’t plot to steal your lunch when your back is turned. ????????
Thanks for the chance. I wish to buy our first home this year.
I’m looking forward to spring, it is a promise of positive things that can’t be stopped, regulated away or outlawed. Even if I have to view it through a window, it will still come.
Oh, Amazon.de must have made a mistake – I ordered the book on December 22nd and got the paperback book on December 29th… I thought that I must have remembered the release date wrong and happily devoured the book – a great end for 2020 😉
I just checked, and now amazon.de correctly shows the book only for preorder.
Some print copies always end up early overseas! No worries. We are super thrilled you enjoyed the book <3
Thanks, I really enjoyed the book! Couldn’t stop reading, finished at about 4am – and had a pretty hard day taking care of my toddler after that 😀
But it was totally worth it!
And of course I want to participate in the giveaway!
I’m looking forward to (hopefully) a lot of normality as soon as enough people are vaccinated. I would love to go to a small local festival with a really good line-up, but it’s scheduled for the beginning of July so it might not take place after all.
What I’m looking forward to most: meeting my friends again, in real life, not on zoom etc
I think that what I’m looking forward to most this year is being able to go back into the world a bit, though that will probably be late in the year, and visit with my family. My extended family usually gathers at my grandmother’s house every Sunday, it’s a very large and noisy gathering, and my mother comes to the US twice a year to visit, but that’s all been a no go since the beginning of las year. I haven’t seen any of my extended family all year. It’s been really weird.
I’m looking forward to all the potential 2021 holds. We still have a tough road to travel, but there’s hope on the horizon!
In 2021 I am most looking forward to hugging the family that I have not seen in person since Thanksgiving of last year.
Please allow me to begin with the essential butt kissing moment.
I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir.
Now that that’s out of the way…
I’m really really really looking forward to January 20th. I hope we all know why.
I’m hoping that we as a community, a country, and a world can gain some amount of control over COVID this year. I’d like to have a few more options with friendly gatherings this spring and summer. I miss my board game nights with friends where we get drunk and forget the rules to our favorite games and then spend the rest of the evening arguing over who’s too drunk to be having a rational disagreement about what you need to cure a disease in Pandemic.
That would make this year significantly better.
I’m looking forward to the END of Covid! Congratulations on the release of Blood Heir!
I am most looking forward to a sh*t ton of self care. 2020 was quite the shadow work kind of a year and has made me want to be the best possible version of me that I can be. So here’s to 2021 and to a better version of me!
I’m looking forward to picnicking with my friends in the botanica again. We will bring our blankets and homemade muffins, and lie under the trees.
I’m looking forward to seeing my mother in person again!
I’d like to look forward to a week out of the shop, but I don’t know when that can happen. I guess I look forward to the possibility of it.
My hubby and I have been in some form of lockdown since March. I want to go out. I want to go to a restaurant and eat a meal prepared by some NOT me person, throw money on the table and flee the building like it’s on fire.
I can’t wait. I love their books and refer them to everyone.
Thrilled another KD Universe adventure is being released!
Other than blood heir being released, I’m most excited for my son’s first birthday. He’s only three months so I have a bit of a wait.
I’m looking forward to finally join univeristy after working my butt off the past two years after highschool to earn money for it.
I’m looking forward to seeing my sister and niece again. The last time I saw her, my mom had just passed.
Thank you for the chance to win and for signing book plates so we can get a signed copy! I look forward to getting the Vivid vaccine so I will feel safer. I’m also really looking forward to Blood Heir.
I look forward to finally seeing my parents and brother in Serbia and them seeing my 3 year old son. I hope this year doesn’t create any obstacles and I get to hug my loved ones.
My first major excitement of 2021 is the release of Blood Heir of course! Beyond that, I’m cautiously hoping for a more effective COVID management strategy including the deployment of the vaccines. Am I naive to hope that the political rhetoric can be toned down and that we can go back to some some sense of normalcy? Yeah? Bueller Bueller . . .
I’m hoping that in 2021 we will live more normally and without fear. I am looking forward as always to new books I will read too.
Happy New Year!! Happy release day!!
I can’t wait to read Blood Heir!
What I’m looking forward the most is to get to freely see my friends and eat out on restaurants!
What I’m looking forward to in 2021.
Our global community was united under a banner of tragedy in 2020 by COVID-19. I’m hoping that we will be even more united by the success of the vaccines. I’m also really hoping the USA can push forward to a positive ecological thumbprint. I’m really looking forward to my daughter’s career success as well. That would make me very happy. Fortunately it is an at home career. There were beautiful acts of kindness during the first strike of COVID-19 in which people cared for their neighbors, friends, and strangers. I would love to see that continue…that outpouring of kindness and caring.
I’m a special ed. teacher and this year has been really rough. Instead of a rock and hard place I’ve been stuck between wanting to be the teacher my kiddos deserve and wanting to stay safe. Social distancing with teens who have extreme needs and maladaptive behaviors is impossible and no one seems to get that (our school system went remote for three weeks before the superintendent caved like a termite infested roof!). Anyway, I’m looking forward to the vaccine. I don’t care if it turns me into a flippin’ dolphin. I’ll be the best dolphin-teacher on the Gulf Coast. I’m also looking forward to dining out, hibernating over the summer, and meeting my newest nephew!!!!!
P.S: I have a random question that you may or may not have answered in the past. When you’re writing, is there something specific you listen to or watch, maybe for background noise or to get pumped up?
2021- looking forward to travel locally, discovering more of the beautiful Australia
My husband is a doctor who treats covid patients. He’ll have his second dose of the vaccine next week, and it will be fully effective a week after that. I am so looking forward to knowing he is safe!
My boyfriend and I are planning on buying a house this year and we are both super excited
I am super excited about being alone for a day at some point in 2021-just one day.
I’m looking forward to eating dinner out again, concerts and get-togethers with friends and new neighbors!
I’m looking forward to new books, and hopefully just a more pleasant and peaceful year.
Any idea why Blood Heir is still not showing up in Audible for pre order?
Hi Christy,
While BLOOD HEIR has already been recorded, the files have to be approved and processed by Audible before they can appear on their site. Due to the large volume of audio books, Audible has been taking longer than usual to process the files. We expect the audio to be available within 3-4 weeks of the release 🙂
I’m really looking forward to seeing how my kid will settle into his new school.
Regular school has been one long uphill struggle.
Now he’s finally been accepted into one for ASD kids.
I am looking forward to taking my grandson out to the park and playground without wondering if we brought home the nasty covid.
Being able to see my extended family and friends in person again!
Super excited for this book and all the new movies
I am looking forward to puppies and college in-person again.
I hope this year is going to be a little bit more normal, with the possibility to see our families and friends more regularly, but on the other hand I hope we will keep the positive effects of this situation (for example, more Home-Office, more digitalisation – especially in bureaucracy -, less consumption, and so on).
Thanks for this opportunity and stay healthy 🙂
I am looking forward to celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary in October and seeing family
I’m eagerly looking forward to Julie’s book. This Subterranean Collector edition of Small Magics book looks fantastic!
Hope everyone in your family is well and that your holidays were all they could be in Life in the time of COVID.
At the moment? As the UK is once more under a National stay at home order I am REALLY looking forward to Blood Heir!!
Then if we conquer Covid I’m looking forward to a week of coastal hiking with two friends in June.
I’m looking forward to come back to see my family (my dad and sister and nephews)with my kids, last time I was with theme was Christmas 2019. And I’d love to see new amazing places with the kids without fear of everything. Now it’s a lot of stress going everywhere with them (no touching, no this, no that, wash your hands, the mask…) Pure madness
I’m looking forward to a new administration, vaccines, and hopefully seeing my family again.
I can honestly say that I’ve never loved any other books the way I love Ilona Andrews books. The fact that I get to go back to a world I love? I’m so excited I’ve forgotten all the words to explain how excited I am. While everything about the COVID situation sucks, I’m disabled and this gives me the chance to participate in the book tour and be involved in this release in a way I wouldn’t usually be able to, so thanks for choosing to do it virtual and for keeping on.
Also, did we ever get the rest of Hugh and Elara’s story? Will we?
The last 3 lines should make you happy 🙂 https://ilona-andrews.com/2020/fandom-tea-party/?fbclid=IwAR2aSZurZyKAJ71bsxJz2L0fsi1hCQwmEtC08h3H_DFHCfKR1333ja6-F-c
The best part of 2021 is a vaccine for the virus. We are pretty much on the go all year long so that would really be wonderful. I also look forward to your post and really enjoy your wonderful books
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Happy New Year, everyone! May it not be a repeat of 2020.
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Thank you!
I’m looking forward to a fresh start to the year and hopefully getting to see my family in person this summer/fall 🙂
2021 i hope to be allowed to go see my children and grandchildren who live the other end of Australia only state borders are closed at present to stop the spread, we had hoped to get there by end of February for my son in laws 40th then stay for our sons 40th in April but they have just shut us down again and wont lift til we go back to 0 cases.for your country i hope thet get control over this pandemic and you dont end up with a civil war with your outgoing president and his supporters from here that looks very likely i pray we are wrong and things settle down for you, and that the world gets a handle on covid before 2022
Thanks for the giveaway!
I look forward to you will continued deal with french editor MxM Boookmark, they are amazing.
And I hope to see you one day in France.
I like all your characters.
I’m looking forward to hearing that my brother finds a new job. He’s been out of work for a few months and covid’s making job searching tough.
I am looking forward to Blood Heir, of course, as well as being employed again.
I’m looking forward to getting my students through the winter quarter healthy, whole, and still loving learning.
I’m most looking forward to being able to see my family again, new outdoor adventures with my husband and dogs, and all the new favorite books that I know I’m destined to find and read this year.
My sister had a baby last year who I’ve only met once as a newborn right before Covid hit, and my mom lost both of her parents. This has been such a rough year, but it feels better seeing everyone have hope again.
I’m hoping that before 2021 ends that we can move about without social distancing (I miss handshakes and hugs), without masks (I miss seeing people’s faces, especially their smiles), and that small businesses can go back to normal operation. I’d hate to imagine a world where only the big corporations remain.
I am looking forward to moving out and giving my cat a dog-free home. I love dogs, but she does not and at 15 she is not so able to defend herself (the doggos we have are prone to chasing). Now that I’ve graduated, I want to give her her own place to roam around 🙂 And of course, I’m looking forward to reading all the amazing 2021 book releases….and maybe one or two from my endless TBR
I’m looking forward to spending time with friends and family again!
Post-vaccine, I’m looking forward to seeing friends in person again and giving actual (versus virtual) hugs to each other. I’m also excited about the stories that will be released in 2021–stories through books, podcasts, and movies have kept me going since the start of the pandemic, for which I am grateful for.
I am looking forward to continuing my education towards my degree and living life with the reset of mindset as to what’s really important in life that the 2020 challenges provided.
I feel and see in many others that there’s a change in outlook as to what’s more important and what is (in the end) not really that valuable at all.
People, creativity, connections, experiences, appreciation, self reliance, work – these are important. Things, status, more, more more – are not.
Hello! Thank you for bringing back another book in the Kate Daniels world. This past year has been very hard for me. All the shelter in place and living with unknowns gave me so much anxiety. Not until I had to really accept some harsh truths about myself did I finally be more comfortable living in so much grey. Nowadays I really try to be more accepting of others because everyone can be so unyielding in their beliefs and we all still have to occupy the same earth. In going deeper into my own weirdness I found compassion for others and am more present for my family. What has drawn me to your work in general is that the characters are so human and committed to their family whether by blood or by shared values. Each and every one of us has the power to succeed in life if we believed in our selves. I hope in 2021 I will no longer live in fear that I will be brave in this new time. That I will see the truth and that doing the right thing no matter how inconsequential will be what I care about when looking back. Coming through to the other side in 2021 , I want to walk with grace and dignity and not to someone else’s hype or dictates. Bless you! I can’t wait for the new book!
I’m most looking forward to hugs, and seeing my brother and his kiddos. But hugs – god I miss them.
I’m very much looking forward to meeting my baby. And hopefully still finding time to read!
As just about every other comment has said: An effective Covid 19 vaccine and the potential to visit my West Coast family (in person and not on ZOOM!).
I am looking forward to a safer year for everyone. Good books, good food, family and walks in nature.
TRAVEL!!
Woo hoo! Blood Heir is almost here! Woo hoo! Giveaway! Okay, that’s all the exclamation marks for me right now.
What I’m looking forward to in 2021 the most. That’s a tough. The vaccine is up there, as is the election drama finally being over. But at the top of that list is the hope that we will gain control over the virus and being able to see people in person again. Mostly, I want to see my closest friends and get a hug. I miss hugs.
I look forward to not wearing a mask ????????.
I’m looking forward to mastering my own TIMELINE!!!…No more externals wagging this dog.
What I am looking forward the most in 2021… I think it’s summer without all the craziness we have now. 🙂
Thank you for giveaway! I hope the book will be smashing success! ^^
In 2021 I look forward to making more art, and reading some great new books!
I am looking forward to all the new and wonderful things my son will learn and experience this year. He’s turning 1 in February, so I’m sure it will be an eventful year.
I am looking forward to the warmer months this year. Summer last year, when I was “forced” to work from home, was a blessing, and I’m hoping for the same this year:-) I want everyone to be well and the pandemic to be over, but being home during summer, able to take short breaks in the garden throughout the day, was the best.
Looking forward to normality aka pre-COVID and binge reading the entire Hidden Legacy Series. After reading Blood Heir.
Thank you for your wonderful stories, Hidden Legacy is the only cluster I haven’t read. They are my secret escape world from reality, and I love them. Keep well in 2021 and all the best. Liz in Queensland, Australia.
Can’t wait to get my copy of Blood Heir! I’m hoping 2021 is the year we find and buy our first house *fingers crossed* so I’m really looking forward to that. Thanks so much for the chance and congrats on your upcoming release!
This year I am looking forward to getting the vaccine and hopefully being able to see family I haven’t been able to see and go places I haven’t been able to go
I look forward to getting the vaccine so I can move on with my life (and do all the things I was supposed to do last year.)
Like most, I am looking forward to the COVID-19 vaccine flattening the curve and making it possible for me to socialize with family and friends.
Im most looking forward to (hopefully) traveling! There is a beach calling my name! It’s been calling for a year now & we are both confused about this missed connection.
I’m looking forward to all the new books releasing in 2021 (Blood Heir is just one of many) and getting my COVID vaccine when they’re done giving it to the frontline workers.
Looking forward to writing my first book (fingers crossed)! And reading your new books! Thanks for your quality products.
I want see my family and friends and hug them. See my sister in Australia who is expecting a baby this year. I would love to go to a restaurant with friends and celebrate life!
I’m looking forward to hopefully visiting my family sometime in 2021!
Most looking forward that it’s not 2020. Which was particularly hard on me COVID aside.
Just want to take each day as they come knowing each new day will be different from yesterday. Thank you for this fabulous chance.
I’m most looking forward to the vaccine being distributed and life finally returning to normal! In the meantime, I’m glad that Blood Heir will help provide a much needed distraction from the pandemic.
What I’d would like in this new year is of course this horrible pandemic to end and never return. I’d also like you to publish more in the Kate Daniels universe. ( you can publish in following years just don’t stop)
Happy New Year!
Is it cheating to have two things? I’m most looking forward to hugging my family, my folks and cousins and grandma and friends – it’s going to be a PG lovefest, once everyone has had their vaccines. But I’m also looking forward to a vacation that isn’t a staycation, when enough of the world is inoculated.
I hope 2021 doesn’t tell 2020, here, hold my beer….
Happy New Year! This year I’m looking forward to a vaccine that saves lives and is made available to all, worldwide. I’d like to stop living with constant fear and worry. And I am also hoping for a puppy!
I am looking forward to getting more needlework done with reading through my TBR pile.
I am looking forward being able to see people’s smiles again (maybe by Halloween?).
This year I am looking forward to seeing my oldest son graduate from high school. Hopefully we will be able to have an in person ???????????? graduation!
What I’m looking forward to the most in 2021 is a return to normalcy, it might not be the normalcy of 2019, but I would really like to be able to hug my friends when I see them.
I am also looking forward to Blood Heir, it’s such a great story.
Most looking forward to my Covid vaccines! And everyone else getting them so life can approach normal again.
I’m most looking forward to things hopefully going back to normal after the vaccine is released! And being with friends and family again 🙂
I am hoping 2021 is just better in all but I am most excited that I will be graduating Nursing School in May!! It has been a long hard road, especially with all the unexpected hurdles that popped up. Aside from that, I am excited to be able to get caught up on all my actual fun fiction reading since nursing school and texts have dominated my life 🙂
What am I looking forward to in 2021…. well Blood Heir of course and other books too and my 53rd birthday in February .
Looking forward to see my family again
My wife and I are looking forward to being able to go out without a mask in 2021 and being able to go to weddings again.
First YAY! So excited to read BLOOD HEIR and hopefully get to “see” ya’ll on zoom!
Second, I am most excited to get to see my daughter and son in law in 2021. They live just outside of Seattle, Washington and it has been a VERY long year and a half without their hugs! Good news is one way or another they only have one and half years left till they are home for good. although I’d rather not wait that long. This momma needs to see (and hug) her baby!
Thanks so much! Fingers crossed!
I can barely wait for this book! In 2021 I’m stoked to actually plan a road trip! Camping, not staying in hotels or anything, and probably not until this latest wave is over, but it feels like we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
As an introvert last year was pretty good for me, staying home without having to make excuses for it, reading an awful lot of books. I’m hoping I get to read just as many new books this year!
That book is gorgeous! ????
And I’m really looking forward to finding a new normal in life!
I think it goes without saying that what we all are looking forward to in 2021 is the Blood Heir release.
Sign me up for the giveaway!!
I’m looking forward to traveling 2021. One of our kids moved to Europe last year and I’d like to be able to visit her.
I’m looking forward to seeing my family.
Looking forward to your new books in 2021 and finally getting in some safe travel.
I live alone so I’m looking forward to seeing friends in person, eating in restaurants, going to the movies, being able to browse through a store, traveling again but most of all I hope that in 2021 the world is kinder place. It seems like everyone is so angry right now. You would think the global crisis of COVID-19 would have brought us closer together but that didn’t happen. I hope that in the new year hate, anger, pessimism and inhumanity are replaced with care, kindness, tolerance and love. I hope that we celebrate our differences and learn from each other.
This year I’m looking forward to watching my youngest child learn to walk and be able to keep up with big brother.
I’m looking forward to travelling again and hugging all my extended family. Even just getting out of the house!
Cannot wait for this story! Julie has been patient to have her own story!
I would like to get my sense of wonder back in 2021. I miss feeling like everything is possible, miss believing in miracles, miss believing in magic. I look forward to… not feeling like everyday is exactly the same.
I am most looking forward to getting married 🙂
In this new year I am looking forward to meeting my 10th grandchild. Like his brother and sisters and cousins I know this little boy will be unique and amazing!
Ughhh, just the day I had decided not to cyberstalk your website… I come too late to register to the zooms.
Crossing my fingers the taping goes well and I can watch it after!
First of all, I wish you a great 2021, with a bestseller record breaking book release!
For myself, I’m hoping that vaccination against COVID will spread even better than the virus and that we’ll get back to almost normal business.
And looking forward to finishing most of what needs to be done in our new house, where we moved already last June (but you wouldn’t be able to know it).
Cheers,
Laurence
2021 is starting with new IA, new Cat & Bones and Patti Briggs. This WILL be a good year! Dammit!
Keeping my fingers crossed that everyone will get their dose of the vaccine, so that we can travel again. Then I’m looking forward to seeing my 92 year old father. I haven’t seen him since my mother died in 8/2019. Thankful that the Covid-19 relief package passed; my Kid2 is a pilot so he got to keep his job as a result. And as a senior, I can fly his airlines at a discount. Happy New Year and Congratulations on your newest success, Blood Heir!
I’m looking forward to travel resuming so my husband and I can see his family, who we were supposed to visit last year.
Very excited about the book release!
In 2021, I’m looking forward to getting the COVID vaccine so life can return to normal and I can get back to travelling. In the near term, I can’t wait for the release of Blood Heir.
I am looking forward to new books by my favorite authors this year.
I’m looking forward to all the new books coming out in 2021 and hopefully, our world getting to a somewhat normal state.
I’m excited about my favorite authors new books coming out in 2021 (you both are on that list!). I’m looking forward to the changes in 2021 (including the vaccine)!
This year I am looking forward to teaching in the classroom safely rather than bouncing between online, hybrid, and unsafe in class teaching!!!
This year I’m waiting forward to being able to visit my Grandmother, I miss her a lot.
I’m looking forward to my family, friends, and I getting the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 so that we can get together in person again!
I’m looking forward to reading – always. Whatever you guys write is on my auto-buy list. I keep changing my favorite series to whatever your most recent offering is. I guess I’m fickle! Or you are just that good. 🙂
Seriously, looking forward to better health, wonderful stories by my favorite authors and maybe winning the lottery.
Happy 2021!
I love love love the Kate Daniels series!! I’m most looking forward in 2021 to getting the Covid vaccine and trying to get back to normal!
Looking forward to excellent reading for 2021 and looking forward to working with students face-to-face again. Students are struggling!
*laughing* Hope you didn’t hurt yourself when you fell over! I’m looking forward to new books by favorite authors and the possibility, fingers crossed, of an early retirement. Hope the new year is happy and healthy for all!
Looking forward to read new books from Ilona Andrews in 2021.
I’m looking forward to getting healthy.
I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine so that I can travel to see my brother and give him a hug. We lost our mom to Covid in October and didn’t get to say goodbye to her or hold a funeral. Hanging tough until then.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this amazing book!
There’s no one thing I’m looking forward to, more like the little things.
Spending time with my husband and 4 kids, some awesome books are coming out by my favourite authors, and some movies that didn’t get released last year due to Covid.
Wahoo! This book is one the things I am looking forward to in 2021. Other items are more books by favorite authors, Ruby Fever, Patricia Briggs, Nalini Singh, etc. Also, getting settled into my new home and playing more with my nephew’s this year! Thank you both for all you do!
I look forward to each new day. When you live with metastatic cancer, you’re grateful for every breath and the corresponding time with family and friends.
I can’t wait for this because I adore the whole universe of books. I hope this books sell tons so we get a whole series!!
Thank you so much for this post (something for everyone!). I’m looking forward to finding a “new normal” that will still feel “safe”, yet will empower me and those around me/the world. So many things have changed since Covid, and I am so very grateful for what I already have had, yet so many issues/complications are present. Now I need to figure out what the “next steps” are, while acknowledging our “web of life” and interconnectedness. “Feel globally, yet act locally.”
I am looking forward to a better “new normal” in 2021. Also, Blood Heir!!! (jumps up and down)
I am most looking forward to eating my aunt’s homemade chocolate mousse. Seriously, it’s heaven, but I can never make it right. I had been hoping for it since all of it was eaten, but those dreams of chocolaty confectionary perfection were temporary smashed????. But I did start liking pancakes more, so not a complete loss.(& of coarse future books I’ve been anticipating).
Course, not coarse. Opps.
I am looking forward to my kids getting a bit older. Looking forward to a little bit less excitement in the coming year, and more freedom. 🙂
I am most looking forward to getting a vacation. As a nurse they froze vacation requests for part of the year. Hopefully in 2021 will be able to go on the cruise to Norway my sister and I have planned. Thank you for the opportunity to win Small Magic’s. Thank you for all the books to keep us all entertained and give us escapes when we need them. I love all your series and am looking forward to Blood Heir.
I am most looking forward to getting a vaccine, gaining immunity, and eating INSIDE a restaurant!
looking forward to getting the vaccine, the first step towards life getting somewhat back to a “new normal”
Sending my kids back to in-person school!
Looking forward to reading Blood Heir. I’ve been re reading this series but I needed new content from this world, which included Kate and Curran’s future info, which Conlan’s presence does.
I’m looking forward to my baby sister’s 21st birthday this month.
My best friend is in labor right now and I’m looking forward to meeting the new baby. 🙂
I am looking forward to new beginnings in 2021: to Blood Heir and all the other wonderful new books just waiting to be read. Thank you for creating wonderful worlds and characters.
I also hope to look forward to the day when I’ll see my mother again in person instead of via FaceTime or Zoom, and give her a hug.
Can’t wait to read blood heir and hopefully take my daughters on their first holiday abroad!
I am most looking forward to having a chance to see loved ones more after vaccines.
“most” in 2021??? where to start??
Being able to eat out and actually sit *inside* the restaurant. (Somehow, I doubt I’m the only one hoping for this!!)
My husband and I are looking forward to his 60th birthday (now a takeaway dinner) and our 40th Wedding anniversary in October. Hopefully we can have a weekend away by then!!
I’m super excited for Blood Heir, and I’m looking forward to getting out of the house a little bit for some local socially distanced traveling! I’m thinking airbnbs near a national park or the beach…
I’m looking forward to being able to see my family in person.
What am I looking forward to? A return to normalcy. I was tempted answer SMOD.
Alas, neither virtual tour is something I can manage. I hope they go well, and all involved enjoy it.
Hoping 2021 sees the end of this devastating virus
In 2021, I am most looking forward to a) getting vaccinated and b) feeling safe walking into a store. I will continue to wear a mask after vaccination but to feel safe again would be amazing!
I so can’t wait for Blood Heir but what I’m looking forward to the most is passing my exams to qualify as an Architect in the UK! Thank you for the chance ????????
What I’m looking forward to the most in 2021 is my friends, family and myself getting vaccinated for Covid-19 along with (hopefully) billions of others.
Looking forward to the return of the kate daniels world as it it my favorite
I live inLas Vegas, and it’s been slammed by covid. I’m looking forward to the hundreds of businesses and thousands of workers being able to return to some kind of normalcy.
I’m excited for your new book release! I’m most looking forward to the Covid vaccine in 2021. My daughter will be able to resume college life with her friends (instead of from the spare room), my husband can return to teaching at school (instead of his weird mish-mash of online and in-person teaching), and I can resume life outside the home (instead of my weird mix of housekeeper, chief cook, and room monitor).
Thank you for all your wonderful snippets and posts, they have helped me in these glum times! I am most looking forward to being able to spend time in my local bookshops and libraries! Hours and hours with books all around…obviously I am hoping the virus will be taken care of and people will be free to move around and resume regular life, which means my kids will be back in regular school and I’ll be able to pop out, browse & READ again!!!
It looks like in 2021 I will finally be settled enough to adopt a pet (my partner and I are both essential so funnily enough we had to wait for covid to calm down to be home enough for one!) Pre-2020 I volunteered at a shelter with some of our “special snowflakes” so I’m excited to finally take one of my small fur babies home! Not enough space for a pittie yet but I’m working up to it 🙂
Wishing everyone all the best this year!
I’m excited for this book, and several others by authors I enjoy.
I’m hoping for a vaccine so I can see my family again.
And, I want the year to be over; my job ends in September and I’ll be job searching. I just want to make it through the uncertainty.
Thank you for doing this!
This year I hope to finish my degree and get a job! (though I’m not looking forward to job hunting in today’s economy)
I’m looking forward to being mask free. And many thanks for a chance to win such a beautiful book. Looking forward to reading Blood Heir straight thru. One of my gifts was an Amazon gift card so now I can catch up on everything of yours that I haven’t been able to afford yet. Thank you again for all you do for the horde(which I am a proud member of). Blessings to you and yours for this new year.
In 2021 I hope to give a brother or a sister to my little son, last year didn’t gone well… I hope to restart reading A LOT, because I miss to lose myself in some fantastic wor(l)ds
And I really want to travel! And go back to my family that I don’t see since Christmas 2019 🙁
I look forward to you guys. Your books, your blog, Rossanna -anything to do with you
I’m looking forward to hugging and kissing my family and friends like we used to. Without worries.
I’m most looking forward for life to go back to normal or at least everyone being able to see everyone again.
Wow guess I’ll have to wait for the recording since nothing works for GMT +8
I am looking forward to your book of course but I also want to be able to go visit my brother in another state. So I hope either we get shots or covid slows down so it could happen.
I’m looking forward to reading all your blogs and snippets of books we don’t even know about yet, and being able to get back to doing arts and craft shows so I can maybe have discretionary income once again.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to being able to look at a picture and NOT have the first I think be “that persons not wearing a mask” (even though it’s a drawing of Mickey Mouse or a person on the cover of a book).
But I also want to wish everyone a happy and safe new year.
I am most looking forward to spending more time doing things with my family.
I’m looking forward to more great books by you and your PWF group!! I am also hoping to be able to visit my family in Oregon. Praying the vaccine gets out and we are able to travel again.
I’m looking forward to having our first baby (due in February!) and of course lots of fun new books to read like Blood Heir!
A return to some form of “normality” – not sure if that is realistic or even what “normal” is anymore but anyway…
Patiently waiting for the paperback to be available to buy in Canada. Just got a couple of my girlfriends started on reading hidden legacy and hoping to segue them into the Kate Daniels world. Looking forward to having book friends read all your amazing work in 2021!
Hi Meghan, the paperback preorders are already up for Canada, please check the Amazon, Bookshop and Book Depository links on this post 🙂 https://ilona-andrews.com/featured-release/
I am 100% most looking forward to getting the covid vaccine in 2021
This year, I am looking forward to break my carryon suitcase out of jail and take them with me on trips. I most looking forward to see my friends in person and share a cup of coffee/meal like we used to.
Thank you for your generous offer.
I am looking forward to a new job, spending quality time with my three best girlfriends in the boonies somewhere, hugging my mom whom I have not seen or been able to touch since last January due to COVID-19 and her being in a nursing home in another state, doing dumb and beautiful everyday things with my husband,
In 2021 I’m most looking forward to being physically in the office and (at some point) interacting with colleagues face to face.
In 2021 I’m looking forward mostly to getting the vaccine. Once that’s done, its the little things: sitting in my favorite coffee shop, browsing in stores, visiting friends homes. And not being afraid every time I leave my apartment. Thanks so much for all the blog posts during 2020. The BDH is a great source of support. Can’t wait for Blood Heir. It will be awesome 🙂
2021 means hugs from family and friends. Can’t wait!!!
I want to travel in 2021. Get vaccinated and I’ll go visit my daughter so often, she’ll get tired of me.
Honestly? I don’t know what I’m looking forward to in 2021, other than some book releases. It’s hard to get excited about things these days.
I’m most looking forward to my children going back to school in person! They’ve been home since March.
I’m hoping 2021 will be a better year than last year. I’m hoping for the pandemic to be over, to return to a somewhat normal life. To be able to see people and go out without social distancing and wearing a mask. To enjoy being with my family more
I hope to read a lot of wonderful books to let my mind rest from 2020 and fly to amazing worlds full of exceptionals characters. 2021 is not starting that well but I hope the moment the holidays end we’ll work harder and try to return to a normal life.
I think that I am most looking forward to Traveling to visit my family out of state. We haven’t seen them in person now since the summer. We are a doing our part to contribute to social distancing but we miss everyone. FaceTime and zoom are sometimes just not the same.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to seeing other places than my home, the grocery store and my work, but most importantly Blood Heir!
I am looking forward to traveling again!! Seeing live concerts and going to the movies!!!
I am so excited for Blood Heir and really psyched about the giveaway. Y’all are the best!
Visiting my sisters and nephews and nieces in Germany and Israel (I moved to Switzerland and could not visit them the entire year due to Covid)… also looking forward to lots of reading and traveling
I am so looking forward to Blood Heir. You won’t be surprised to learn that what I am looking forward to in 2021 is more of your books! Of course, I’m also hoping for an end to the virus and shut down, and most importantly getting back to normal life again. Here’s hoping in 2021 we’ll all be less judgmental, more tolerant and caring and try to help others wherever we can.
Ordered my physical copy just now! I am looking forward to feeling better. Last year was rough health-wise for both my husband and I. We have started to feel good again, and it’s like a new door has opened up!
Really looking forward to as many as possible getting vaccinations, reducing the number of folks getting really sick and dying. Hoping my family will be able to get covid vaccination soon (I had mine, really not anything to worry about, flu shot hurts more) so I can see them again. Also (though never thought I would) traveling again for work (during flights is an excellent time to read the new books we hope you will be publishing over the year :)). Hoping to have a ‘real’ vacation. Overall, looking forward to the majority of folks getting vaccinated to reduce the pandemic.
Many great new books, of course! As a socially challenged introvert I didn’t mind the Lockdowns too much…
I’m looking forward to visiting my mother, I haven’t seen her since summer when we could meet outside.
Looking forward to my brother buying a home on the east coast after living away for 20 years…if that comes to pass maybe I can get the other whose been gone 30 home too:)
Looking forward to being able to spend time with my family in person.
No question, being tangibly, tactilely, truly, together with those I love.
Looking forward to the vaccine shot so I get get back out into the world again! Also looking forward to new books to read!
Thanks so much for all you do. Tried to register for the Zooms but registration closed already. So Ill wait for the mods to put up the recording. Really looking forward to reading Blood Heir, I took the day off and one kid has a doc appt but I should be able to inhale it undisturbed for the most part.
PS in the event my comment is picked for the Small Magics. You can give it to someone else. I own two copies from Subterranean Press. I bought one myself and hubby purchased the other not knowing about my purchase.
I rarely win anything ever, but just in case I do this time, please share it with someone else. It is a beautiful book.
I’m excited to have another one of your books! Your books are on my “I love this author and whatever they write about will be great…one-click!” Am most looking forward to living without fear. Fear for myself, my family, and my friends. Hopeful for the future. 2020 has sucked.
What I’m hoping, no, yearning for in 2021? It’s huddeling around a table with friends, tightly packed, putting together our heads even tighter, wispering about how we’ll finally slay that evil sorcerer and SUCCEED, because we didn’t have to shout over our masks and the 4-year-old from next door didn’t overhear and blabbed it all over the place…
Hum I posted a comment at 9:30 but don’t see it anywhere?
Anyways thanks for the virtual tour and giveaway!
What I’m most looking forward to is sitting in a coffee shop with my bullet journal. I miss that so much
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What I am looking forward to in 2021 – wow -that could cover so much ground! A kinder, gentler world would probably be right up there. Hope that the experiences of 2020 will lay a foundation for personal growth. Joy in the anticipation of new life (the birth of my grandson).
Thanks for asking!
I am so excited for Blood Heir!! I am also looking forward to a vacation with my family this summer.
The thing I am most looking forward to in 2021 is getting to see my extended family again. We cancelled vacations, holidays, and get-togethers due to Covid but I am optomistic that the vaccine (already got my first dose!) will make seeing them in person possible again.
I’m looking forward to vast expanses of boredom in 2021. Fingers crossed we don’t have any more excitement!
I’m looking forward to doing lots more reading in 2021, it has been my escape during the pandemic and I intend to continue living in books until further notice. Also maybe some camping trips.
In 2021, I’m looking most forward to the birth of my second son in March. Otherwise, the release of blood heir is high on my list!!
ICU nurse here. I’m looking forward to going back to having “normal” sick patients and not having so many die under my care. Sorry to make it morbid but joy has been hard to come by lately. On a positive note I’m really excited about Blood Heir!
In 2021, I am most looking forward to the arrival of our first child!!! 🙂
This year I am looking forward to getting back to school and finishing my education!
I am looking forward to the vaccine being distributed all around the world, so things can return to normal. I’m also looking forward to Blood Heir release and hopefully, more of Kate Daniels universe. Thank you for your amazing work!
I’m most looking forward to investing more time in knitting and needle point. I can’t wait for more Inn Keepers books because they are absolutely my addiction. I reread them and listen to the audiobooks non stop. Please and more. I also can’t wait to read with Nevada’s baby!
I am so excited. I’ve finally (finally!) gotten my sister hooked on the KD books. She just finished Book 3 and excitedly asked me if Book 4 was out. Oh, she’s in for such a treat…
In 2021, I’m really looking forward to meeting my nephews. I am so fortunate to have a niece, and this year my cousin and SIL are both having boys. I can’t wait to help greet them – they will be so loved. I’ve missed my family so much this last year (blood, legal, and chosen). Reconnecting with them all is at the top of my to-do list.
Watching all the new things my son learns as he grows and (hopefully) my sister’s wedding ????♀️????.
Can’t wait to read Blood Heir! I am looking forward to traveling to see my family that lives abroad, it’s been too long, hopefully with the vaccines rolling out that will be a possibility this year.
I’m looking forward to a year where I can travel to see family. Missing them. In the mean time zoom!
I am looking forward to being able to leave the house and have a life again. And to a return to some semblance of normalcy and relief to those who are suffering from job losses and illness.
Looking forward to traveling, for new experiences and for growth in my career!
I am looking forward to all the new book releases; specifically, Blood Heir!
I would love to win a copy of Small Magics. I love every single one of your books!
This year I’m thankful for the vaccine, and looking forward to adventures in our teardrop camper once we get it.
2021 – Looking forward to being able to go to the movie theater, going out to dinner with other couples, ditching the mask. I have discovered that different doesn’t mean better because 2020 was very different and it wasn’t better.
I am most looking forward to spending more time with my granddaughter in 2021. She turns two this year!
Thank you for the giveaway, and the opportunity to enter.
I look forward most to being able to safely visit family and friends here in Texas (eldest cousin) and in Florida (father in assisted living), in North Carolina (eldest sister and family), in Virginia (the other two sisters and their families) and assorted cousins throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Zoom is nice, but does not replace being there.
Once everyone is vaccinated and we can be together- I am looking forward to big family dinners. I miss the 3 generations together sharing their day and just talking face to face.
Didn’t realize how much I’ve missed traveling. Just get in the car and GO! Well and don’t forget to bring the dogs 😀
Travel is #1 in 2021 for me.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to moving into my new house. My vacations are still up in the air, but I’m sure I’ll be plenty busy moving and trying to figure out how to rent my old place out.
What I look forward to in 2021 is seeing a repeat of the scans done in December that showed that the cancer I had in me is no longer alive and growing. First one is in March, then depending on what it shows, either 3 more months or two until the next scans. If that works out, I can travel 200 miles to the nearest place to have the surgery I need to correct my broken jaw, which has been waiting while the cancer was treated, and perhaps be able to eat real food and enjoy life without having to cut tiny bites to fit into a mouth that doesn’t open properly and being able to chew without agony. And if the scans show the cancer growing again back where it was, I look forward to figuring out what I want to do before it kills me. If it grows anywhere else, they can cut it out, I’m told. So I guess I’m looking forward to either a lot of surgery for my jaws to be rebuilt with bone grafts or a smaller surgery to remove any new tumors, but mostly I’m looking forward to hearing that I can get on with living without terror.
I recommended Blood Heir to our library here the instant it hit the list, so I am hoping I’ll be among the first to get it from them because a recommendation is an automatic hold on the book when they get it in. And if not, I’m buying it because life is uncertain for me and I want to read it before I can’t read anything anymore. Of course, I need new glasses because apparently, chemo makes eyesight change. Who’d have known that would happen? But I can manage that fairly quickly, I think. I just have to wait until the oncologist tells me all the affects of the chemo are done making things wonky.
I’m looking forward to being alive when 2022 arrives, more than anything else. The end of the pandemic would be nice, too, because grandchildren don’t wait to grow up, and I’m missing it all. 2020 was not a banner year.
Oh you have had a very rough 2020. I Pray that you will have good results in March and are able to get your jaw surgery done so that you can actually have some good food.
Hugs from a stranger but fellow BDH
Looking forward to being able to hug friends in real life
To being able to visit my Mother whenever I want and leave the house just for the sake of it.
Thank you for this wonderful opportunity! I’m looking forward to new releases from my fav authors………nudgenudge winkwink!! and I’m looking forward to seeing an end to this virus. I had the week of Christmas and New Year off, and actually found myself being depressed since you couldn’t visit anyone or go anywhere. However, I’m thankful to be healthy so far, thankful I have a job and I’ve been able to keep working, and thankful for all the blessings God has provided.
Hope you and yours have a great year to come! Thanks again!
I’m looking forward to working on building and re-building relationships in 2021. And I hope we get COVID under control!!
Thank you for your work–your books bring joy to my life!
I hope 2021 is not worse than 2020. We still have a long way to walk and hopefully it will be a bit better.
We have learnt to value what we took for granted before. I hope we don’t forget this either.
Bless normality.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to the end of this pandemic Isolation catastroph, going where I want and take my two children along. Visiting familie& friends without fear and going on vacation to locations where the air is clean and fresh and the gras is greener than at home.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to a kinder and more empathetic world filled with connections with friends, family, people, pets, values…everything we’ve missed because of the global pandemic. And, since I’ve been laid up with a broken foot the last 9 months, I’m definitely looking forward to it finally healing.
I am looking forward to slowing down (as odd as it sounds). It’s been a hyper stressful year and I am getting a better handle on things. So, it’s all about taking deep breaths and slowing down
My first grand baby!
I want 2021 to be boring. Last year was a crushingly hard year for us with lots of health issues, financial issues with a start up business, and, of course, a pandemic. I want to not go to the doctor all the time. I want to go out to dinner with friends. Do family things with my wider family. Hug people. Spend time reading when I’m tired from work or outings not just to pass the time. And I really really want to get a puppy…something I wasn’t healthy enough to do last year. Ok, a new puppy won’t be boring, but I’ll make an exception for that.
Hoping that as vaccinations are given, and quarantine and isolating declines for our country, that the mental health issues caused by the stress of COVID related issues also declines. Job loss, parents trying to work and supervise children at home, kids unable to do their “normal” activities have all contributed to mental health issues, including suicide, murder, and other violence. We’ve had so many different issues reflecting our differences, I’m looking forward to discussing what we have in common and working TOGETHER again. See friends and family, and going out like again will be great but we have to get past the stress that COVID has placed on our communities and nation as a whole.
Im looking forward to more new music from my favorite band, Archers of Loaf. And to possibly seeing the show, Whose Live Anyway?, that i bought tickets to last year for my daughter’s birthday, but they rescheduled for this year. And to 2021 not sucking so hard.
Happy new year!
After spending months in lockdown in Melbourne (Australia), I’m looking forward to a more “COVID-normal” which includes being able to travel around the state and getting into a routine so 2021 is my year of fitness ☺️
I am looking forward to being able to travel to see my grown children and to seeing how Derick and ‘Julie’s’ relationship developes
I look forward to the activities of spring and summer… And all of the lovely new adventures my favorite authors have coming out this year!
I’m looking forward to seeing growth and maturity in my own life in 2021 as well as to be less stressed. I’m also looking forward to people taking covid seriously enough to be cautious about their gatherings and actions because as a nurse in the critical care area, I’m exhausted, stressed and stretched out too thin caring for patients. I’m looking forward to seeing increased health awareness!!
I don’t exactly look forward to anything this year because I don’t want to be disappointed too much. My only hope is that everything will be better than last year.
With that said, I do look forward to reading Blood Heir. That definitely will not be a disappointment.
I’m looking forward to finally having the very delayed (thanks to Covid) house build done and moving out of building limbo this year!
What I’m looking forward to the most this year is living each day more mindfully … and figuring out more about who I am.
I am SO looking forward to things getting back to normal this year (please let all this COVID crap end this year!)- being able to talk to people without masks, HUGGING people again, kissing the grandkids!! – without risking our health. And for businesses to get back to normal hours.
As of today 1/4/21, my greatest anticipation is for release of your new book: Blood Heir. You two are my favorites and I eagerly await your new releases and I am sure many would say the same. Thank you. (Also looking forward to end of Covid-19 epidemic!)
For 2021 I’m looking forward to hopefully, fingers crossed, being able to travel again and go to at least a couple of places that we had planned to go to last year. Also, the release of Blood Heir. Go team Julie and Derek!
Looking forward to seeing either of my parents (one lives south, one is west coast).
This year I am looking forward to the return of dates, playdates, and life in person!
I’m looking forward to doing some of the things I have written today in my first bucket list! Starting with baking a Pavlova and finishing with whale watching, an opera by Puccini and the northern lights. Ah, and Hugh, I always look forward for him. ❤️
I am looking forward to getting my own place. Quarantine with family has made me crazy(er).
So much to be excited about: Eating out. Having drinks with friends in a crowded venue. Couples trip. Multi-family vacation at the beach. Salad Bars!
Can I be honest? The thing I most look forward to in 2021 is seeing my grandparents in person. I have always been so close to them, though I haven’t lived nearby in many many years, we are all happy to travel back and forth. I have never in my life gone this long without getting hugged by my Granny and Gramps. We talk at least three times a week, but it’s just not the same…
Just for the gift of snippets during my Covid shutdowns, I’m going to get a copy. Understood that this is not the same story.
I am looking forward to my sister getting a bone marrow transplant hopefully in January. She was diagnosed with AML Leukemia in October and has done amazing in her chemo treatments. We are hoping for a match from the registry because none of the family is a match.
Thank you for continuing to write books that help take us to a different world when our world gets too hard.
I look forward to hugging people (starting with my MOM and possibly branching out recklessly from there!)
I look forward to continue watching the world through my daughter’s eyes, bringing new wonder and excitement to things that are mundane. Listening to her non-stop chatter as she informs me of her latest pre-school thoughts and sings loudly off key.
I’m looking forward to reading more books in 2021.
I’m looking forward to the pandemic hopefully ending as well as some of the classes I’m taking in college.
I’m looking forward to (please God!) an end to this pandemic and having to wear a mask every day at work. And hopefully a better year for my eyes. 2020 gave me 2 operations on my left eye, shots in my right eye, and, as a last parting shot, a hemorrhage in my left eye on New Year’s Eve. Diabetic retinopathy sucks. ????
I am looking forward to the end of the pandemic of course! But also iron and magic 2 … maybe?
I am most looking forward to the return of HUGS!
I really, really need to hug: my parents, who I haven’t seen in person in over a year, my new sister – in – law & brother (who’s wedding I did not get to attend last Spring), meeting & hugging my new, month old niece, and seeing the smiling faces (instead of masks) of my wonderful middle school students and giving them the hugs they so desperately want and need.
I am looking forward to the potential of this year and all the memorable moments and changes it will undoubtedly bring!
For 2021 I am looking forward to being a healthier more confident me!
I am looking forward to getting the Covid vaccine, and then driving with my mother from Georgia to visit my brother in Austin who has been battling lymphoma away from his family.
Hello, I am looking forward to getting the vaccine plus hopefully most of the U.S. getting it. I would love to see family and friends in person. I would hope to see some relief from restrictions soon but am not holding my breath (I live in the Bay Area of CA). I am happily waiting on a bunch of new releases from favorite authors this year.
I’m looking forward to seeing *all* of my students’ *whole* faces, in person, *at the same time* at some point in 2021. Those sad, confused, bored, disengaged, lonely faces peering at me from the zoom screen and/or over the top of a mask are really starting to weigh me down. (And of course, desperately hoping for new releases… Ruby Fever? If not in 2021, then maybe some teasers to tide us over. So enjoying each new book!)
Really looking forward to a world without three things: covid 19, Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte ( Filipina here). Also eagerly looking forward to winning and receiving books from Ilona Andrews 🙂
I’m looking forward this year for so many things: for the vaccine, for finally visiting my family, for so many new books and tv series releasees and my 18th birthday????
I’m looking forward to hopefully be able to go somewhere other than my home and work. I’m looking forward to getting closer to Iron & Magic #2!
Looking forward to visiting family & friends as soon as we can do so safely.
I look forward to 2020 being hindsight.
Now that it’s 2021 (finally) I’m looking forward to folks getting the vaccine so we can all freely travel again. Plus going to events like concerts and street festivals ????????
So excited for Blood Heir! Mostly I look forward to hugging my daughter again in 2021. She is a covid ICU nurse, so even thought we live in the same town it is too risky to get closer than 10 ft. It has been hard, I really miss her.
I’m looking forward to life getting back to normal. I miss going out to dinner with friends.
It’s rather hard to decide what I’m looking forward to *most* in 2021 because there is so much—but to keep it simple, I’m looking forward to the end of the pandemic and the resumption of the best parts of life.
I’m looking forward to moving down to Cornwall, I hope (somewhat dependent on if I can do it safely with the pandemic). And I’m looking forward to taking a sailing course (again, when it’s safe). I hope the Andrews family has a good year!
I can’t wait to read Julies story and anything else I A release
I am looking forward to getting vaccinated and reading new books!
I am looking forward to moving into a new house this month.
I’m looking forward to your book release next week, of course! Outside of that enjoyable few hours of reading, I’m looking forward to one of my children finishing her associates degree and going on a religious service mission this year. More room in the house for her sisters to spread out and more worries for parents having one of their babies out of quick reach. ???????? Having fewer of my patients get COVID-19 infections will be great, too, when we finally get to that point.
Happy New Year!
What I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is enjoying the outdoors with my daughter. She’s almost three but due to a genetic condition, has just started mastering walking in the last few months. Can’t wait to experience the warmer weather with her new skills – beaches, splash pads, playground!
I’m looking forward to safely being in crowds again – standing shoulder to shoulder, next to some loud tourist in Times Square.
Hello and greetings from Poland. In 2021 I am really looking forward to my birthday, I will be 21 years old and finally will be able to start my driving license for trucks. I wish you guys Happy New Year and more strenght for more books<3
I’m looking forward to trying to get pregnant with my first child (before my eggs give up and run out) and hopefully seeing my family more. We live in different countries so it has been hard as I’m used to popping back for a visit. Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful looking book!
Is it corny if I say this?! That’s my immediate excited ????????
I have so many hopes for 2021 – world-scale and smaller hopes. One of my smaller hopes is to visit the ocean and breathe salty air as I catch come waves. But I have to share, I am over the moon and dancing happy thoughts that you wrote Blood Heir and continued Kate’s stories.
Happy New Year from Singapore!
Looking forward to seeing my family in Malaysia (1 hour flight away) and giving everyone big hugs. It’s the longest period I have not been home. Hopeful that we can travel again soon.. what I would give to just sit on the beach and do nothing for a couple
Of hours..
Hello!
I am looking forward to progressing in my new job after last years layoff.
Looking forward most to transition of political power!
I’ve had two friends give birth during quarantine (one with twins!) and I’m very much looking forward to meeting the new babies! I’m grateful to have celebrated with the new parents over FaceTime at least but I can’t wait to finally get to hold them! Just counting the days until I can get vaccinated.
What am I looking forward to? Hm happiness, health, family… I’m thinking abt having another baby in 2021 ???? and I can’t wait for Ruby Fever even tho I know that’s supposed to be 2022
Why, I am looking forward to the best birthday present I could hope for: the release of Blood Heir!! On my actual birthday!! What more could one ask for? Well, besides a rapid rollout of the COVID vaccine and a smooth transition to the Biden presidency, that is. Love you both and can’t wait for Blood Heir!
Thank you for the giveaway opportunity! I’m most looking forward to getting back in shape in 2021! I’ve got a plan and am excited for more energy and hard work and feeling good. Happy New Year
There are so many things I want to get back to doing but most of all I want to be able to be with my family like I used to.
I am looking forward for health and hapiness!
Yay! Something else awesome to look forward to! I am having surgery in 3 days and Blood Heir is one of the hinge I am looking forward to this month. You guys are awesome and I may try to register for the Saturday zoom. Although I hate being on camera. Can have my cats stand in for the video and I do the voice only?!????
I’m looking forward to winning the “Small Magics Giveaway “
I’m looking for ward to reading Blood Heir, hugging my friends and traveling!!! Thanks Ilona and Gordon. You blogs, books and web site have helped keep me moderately sane????❤️
My birthday is Jan. 13 so I think of this as my present. I have ordered the Kindle version, and plan to have B&N print a paper copy for me.
I’m looking forward to having many vaccines and being able to see people talk in 2021. I’m ok with the not hugging everyone, though.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to (hopefully) traveling again. I really want to see my Great Grandmother (106 next week!) and my Grams who’s one of the most important people in my life. Neither of them have met my daughter who was born in Jan 2020.
Looking forward to finally getting some projects done, both in knitting and remodeling, and starting some new ????.
Oh yay! I just ordered. Never heard of Media mail from USPS before, that’s cool, hopefully gets here with all of the mail issues.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to… not being stressed all the time because of work. 2020 wasn’t great for mental health, but was finally able to take a vacation at the end of the year and feeling a lot better. Not very exciting, but there it is.
Thanks for doing the giveaway 🙂
There are so many things I’m looking forward to. I’m hopeful that my postponed plans come to fruition (climbing Kilimanjaro & visiting Zanzibar) in June.
All the new books from ongoing series
I’m looking forward to my daughters first birthday, being able to sit in a coffee shop and see my sisters who live in the UK and all my nieces and nephews born in 2020 (5)!
Getting vaccinated.
I’m looking forward to and working toward better health, well-being, and plain old love this year and what I can do to better the lives around me. Also, accountability…talking about you know who. On a side note, thank you to Team Ilona Andrews for book after book that carried me through some pretty bleak times.
Basically, I’m hoping for as little drama as possible in 2021.
I realize my hopes are unrealistic, but I’m old and not willing to shut up when I see things could be better.
Don’t:
Please – No screaming about how to help contain a deadly illness and whether or not it is your responsibility to inconvenience yourself a little to do so.
I beg of you – Resist the temptation to organize a violent demonstration to promote your political views. Peaceful boring protests only this year.
For pity’s sake – Avoid attacking anyone, for any reason. There are better ways to manage things.
Do:
Be thoughtful – Everyone is not the same. Others have the right to their views, just as you do. Remember this.
Be helpful – Many folks were devastated by the pandemic. They are going to be struggling to return to some kind of normal. Don’t wait for someone else to get around to it. If you can help, do it.
And above all, be kind. It costs you nothing to refrain from insulting somebody – on social media or in person. (And you really don’t seem more powerful when you troll something or someone…)
Okay this is a cliche, but one of the things I’m most looking forward to is the release of Blood Heir. I learned from 2020 that planning just doesn’t work during COVID times, so there’s just not much I know to look forward to in 2021 yet. Blood Heir is one of 6 items in my future log in my bullet journal – the rest is exams. What I also look forward to is my grandfather and a couple of my friends (healthcare workers) to be vaccinated soon! And I look forward to starting my new job soon!
I am looking forward to my husband coming home from the hospital!
OMG I would love to win this for my sister a DR who adores this !
I’m looking forward to having all my worldly goods in one place and unpacked after 20+ years. Oh, and Jan 20,2021!
I’m definitely looking forward to Blood Heir more than anything this 2021. In addition to that I’m really just looking forward to finding full time work. Been unemployed for the whole 10 months and counting due to the whole Covid-19 shutdowns. But keeping positive. The Kate Daniel’s series has helped so much with that! ((Hugs to all))
Hugs.
We finally moved back to the states after 5 years abroad, and I cannot wait to hug my mother, and have her hug my new baby. I need to hug my best friend, just a four hour car ride away now, she lost her in-laws to covid. And I want to hug my brother, who’s been a rock after our father passed last month. Thank god for zoom, but I can only imagine my relief and joy from actual, physical affection without fear.
I’m looking forward to being able to visit my family normally and go back to my routine, having a “Small Magics” book would be the perfect way to start the year.
I am looking forward to seeing either covid being under control or people stop behaving like idiots and actually starting to take precautions so things like bookstores and book signings are safe again. And yay for your new book!!
hopefully I’ll find a job and be able to see the illustration of Small Magics!
Happy New year!!
Hopefully the world will go back to making sense again soon..
I had plans booked to fly out and see my parents and family last summer after a very long time (almost 8 years). I’m really looking forward to being able to visit this summer and see my nephews in person for the first time. And reading and far-reaching old books and new by my favourite authors! ????????????
I’m looking forward to seeing my kids in 2021. They live in Brazil and I live in the US. They were supposed to spend a month with me in July of last year but Covid happened. So they didn’t come.
I am most looking forward to the possibility of what the vaccine will do for everyone. Stopping the virus, saving lives, and getting back to normal.
On a smaller, personal note, I am renovating my bathroom and am very excited to update from the 40yo shower I have been using in my new-to-me home.
I am looking forward to 2021 being happier and healthier than 2020 for everyone.
I’m looking forward to being able to travel again once the pandemic is over (from Singapore and the only outward bound travel is for business). Feel like I have cabin fever not being able to go beyond my small city-state!
I’m also looking forward to releases from my favourite authors which thankfully I know for sure will happen!
Looking forward to eventually getting back to a more normal life. Miss seeing family and friends.
Looking forward so much to this book and getting to eat in restaurants without worrying!
Blood Heir, wide distribution of the vaccine, hugging my mom and eating out.
I’m really looking forward to getting the vaccine and to hopefully safely be able to attend my son’s high school graduation and buy a new home.
I’m most looking forward to traveling again in 2021. Reading is my favorite way to pass the time in airports.
Getting vaccinated & stopping the nightmare that is COVID 19 this year. I have this paralizing repeating nightmare about catching Covid without knowing and my elderly parents getting it from me ….
I can not wait for Blood Heir! In 2021 I’m looking forward to (hopefully) taking a vacation that isn’t at my house. Lol I’m looking forward to traveling again!
I’m so excited for the release of Blood Heir!! Besides looking forward to reading it in 2021 I’m also hoping for more social interaction this year.
I am most forward to resolution and end to Covid 19 epidemic and things returning to close to normal. Goods reads are always. A boon
I’m hopeful for things getting better on the pandemic front this year. I’m also excited about new book releases by my favorite authors!
I am most excited for remote education to end! I’d much rather see students every day!
Thank you so much for all that you give us! I am always recommending you guys to any of my reader friends and coworkers. I am looking forward to more books, blogs and other works from you on this coming year! ????
I am looking forward to getting vaccinated. Assuming that happens, I am also looking forward to being able to travel to see friends and family at some point this year.
I’m in my second year of college and just started learning Arabic last semester and am excited that we might be able to meet in person this year!
What I am most looking forward to in 2021 is to finally finish my teacher training and become a proper teacher after (hopefully) passing my exam in February. To say that 2020 was challenging is quite the understatement!
I am so excited for the new book! I can’t wait!
Looking forward in 2021 to reading Blood Heir and hoping for relief from COVID-19.
I’m looking forward to a whole new crop of memes about the calendar year. Current contender: 2020 turned 21 and started drinking.
2021 is going to be a big year for my family as my husband and I will be welcoming our first (human) child! As exciting as that is I am way more excited for Blood Heir than going through this birthing process ????. I have been looking forward to this book for months and can’t wait to read it!
I’m looking forward to covid19 numbers diminishing over the next year. I want to see my family and friends.
I’m looking forward to this book release; I need some magic in 2021.
I am looking forward t o the world gettingback to normal or as normal as it can be, hugging friends and family, enjoying restaurants and nights out with my DH and moving on from the pandemic if its possible.
In 2021 I am most looking forward to the birth of our new addition (August) and the return of hugs 😉
I am looking forward to getting the vaccine in spring 2021!
I am looking forward to spending time with family and friends without a mask in 2021!
I’m most excited about my upcoming wedding in May!!
It will be outdoors, and the weather in theory should be lovely. I found a dress the other day and it just felt magical. 🙂
Thank you House Andrews for all that you do. You helped keep me believing in romance and strength before I found my future husband!
Looking forward to this year bringing peace and solutions to problems world wide. Also maybe
Starting a family! Hopefully.
Can’t wait to read the new books!
I am looking forward to my nephew’s first birthday. It’s in March. Like holy cow! How did it go by so quickly?
Thanks for being my favorite writing duo!! You guys have really kept me sane during this past year!
Lots of love and well wishes ~
I’m most looking forward to finding peace with myself, letting go of what isn’t working and learning new interesting things. Looking forward to the pandemic to end, and being able to go out without worry.
New great reads=BH!!
I am looking forward to a covid free world so I can hug family and friends again and traveling! Also looking forward to reading all the books I have pre-ordered.
I’m looking forward to finishing my MSIS in May. I’ll finally have time to binge-read again!
Today we cleaned out the refrigerator, showing that so far this year nothing is too gross to straighten up and organize. I hope we can surf this Marie Kondo wave for a couple weeks, finding joy in order and tidiness. Also, I was inspired by the guest this weekend on the radio show This American Life, English teacher Ross Gay, who kept a Delight Journal each day for a year. When the interviewer asked him whether he had discovered the meaning of delight, he replied, “Delight is the butterflies that land on joy.” I hope that 2021 gives everyone more opportunities for delight.
I’m looking forward to being with family and friends again!!
Hello. I think for 2021 I’m most looking forward to going out to eat again, and the (hopeful) end to my credit card debt!
I’m looking forward to going hiking in the Lot Valley in France – and reading your book.
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Kat
Such a shame I wasn’t quick enough to register, hope I can still participate when the day comes…
As for 2021 it is not an exaggeration to say Blood Heir is at my top list of things I am looking forward to, but also some of the art I’m excited about making maybe getting the vaccine at some point as well.
We are building a new house so I’m most looking forward to moving in to it when it’s ready – which probably won’t be until October or November but still!
You guys are awesome! In 2021 I am most looking forward to going back to college. I had been putting it off but it’s time for a change and bettering my life and this is my first step. Thank you for all of your writings and giving us the opportunity to win something as cool as the physical copy of Small Magics!
What am I looking forward to in 2021? I am really hoping to get to take a trip to the beach. It’s been a long time since the fam had a vacation, and, Covid willing, it will happen this year.
I’m really looking forward to returning to post soft atlanta and seeing how her education with Erra has changed Julie
Hoping to be able to say, “do you remember when we couldn’t…” all over with all sorts of people I haven’t seen in too long.
I look forward to people watching at the zoo. I like to take the grandkids to the Nashville zoo… they watch the animals and I people and grandkid watch.
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I’m looking forward to spending the year convincing my husband that we need a cat. I figure I should be able to wear him down by fall, just in time to sit by the fireplace and read with my new cat snuggled in my lap.
Be very sure you get a cat that likes to go on laps… some do not! It is great if you can go to a rescue where they let you interact with the cats and can have one choose you. We have two… one goes on either my husband and I when she wants to and the other one is all over my daughter, but is skittish with us.
I am looking forward to seeing my sister in law, niece, and nephews again. I am looking forward to a dinner of chicken Marsala, wine, and laughter
First up I’m looking forward to catching up with Kate, Curran, Julie, and the whole Kate Daniels gang!! Best surprise ever when I thought we weren’t getting any more!
I’m also looking forward to recommending a relationship with my ex-partner from 3 years ago. May we both be older, wiser, and able to finally address the problems that crippled us last time.
I’m also looking forward to going up a level in my job as a Registered Midwife – more responsibility and more opportunities to teach!
And finally I’m looking forward to my apartment FINALLY being finished/built. 2 years in the making thanks to Covid and everything else.
Thanks guys, Happy New Year!!
I’m looking forward to having chocolate as my crutch, my shoulder to cry on, my creative outlet and most fervent supporter. . . so no great break from the usual.
Can’t wait to take a real vacation!
2021 is bringing changes! retired now and traveling – looking forward to seeing more of US in the coming year. We are in Florida right now, and I understand why you both want to move here! I do know that whatever I do, it will include your books – anything new (just a few more days!!!) and rereading the rest of the collection. After reading your books, few others will do. Thank you for all that you give us!!!!!
I am looking forward to traveling again, seeing friends & family live in person, and hopefully a return to rational thinking, leadership & integrity.
This year I am most looking forward to focusing on how I spend my time. My goal is to focus on making the most of my time. Prioritizing my family, my friends, and myself. I’m tired of missing out on floor time with my kids, snuggle tome with the hubs, and margaritas with the girls, and wine/book time alone because I wasted my time on unimportant filler.
I’m looking forward to this book! And also hopefully leaving the house once in a while ☺️
In 2021 I’m looking forward to being vaccinated for covid. Fingers crossed for your grocery store workers.
I am most excited about all the new books in 2021! And a few new movies too 🙂 as a storytelling nerd I’m super stoked for the continuation of so many series and all the new characters I’ll get to learn and love ????
Looking forward to reading more books 🙂
Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!
I am definitely falling under the spell of avarice with gimme gimme fingers side effect.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORLDS, YOUR THOUGHTFUL BLOGS, YOUR WONDERFULNESS…you both bring me so much joy and I am truly happy that you exist and that you share the magic with us.
I’m looking forward to seeing family and friends and traveling again!
I am looking forward to an end to Covid 19 and enjoying all the new releases coming out in 20 21 from my favorite authors!
I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir!!!
Also, seeing my partner after having been separated since the end of 2019.
Darn it! Zoom registration (both) already closed. C’est la vie. ???? Really hoping you will put either or both on YouTube……pretty please?
I’m looking forward to hugging and being with my family and friends again. Travel, hugs, and kisses! And of course, every great new book I find!
Sigh, tried registering for the Blood Heir events and registration was already closed for both… darn… 🙁
Those filled up fast!
What I am looking forward to the most in 2021 is going to a brewery with friends and having a hot (not cold from take out) burger and a good draft beer. I am looking forward to teaching my students in a face to face format and not behind a plexiglass barrier with masks on so you can’t hear what they are asking. I am looking forward to seeing a friend and giving them a hug.
I will retire on the last day of the year, followed by starting a new career growing food for people.
I most look forward to a year of healing after not one but three serious health diagnoses in 5 months (you know,like the threat of COVID isn’t enough to worry about LOL!). Cheers to the health care workers who risk themselves and their families to take care of me and others;Bless you.On the upside, being confined to the house lets me have time to read/listen to all of the Ilona Andrews series again and again (seriously). I have them all so I can just cycle through the list.I love the Subterranean Collector edition and keep it in my wish list for the special day I can order it. Please don’t ever quit writing your amazing stories.And, just for the record, I’m so happy you didn’t become a scientist. The world would have lost a most amazing writing team. Can’t wait for Blood Heir and the next book in the Iron Covenant series.Here’s to a better year ahead for everyone.
I had no idea that Julie was going to get her own book! I’m so damn excited. My sister and I will definitely be doing a readathon of this once we each get our hands on a copy!
What I am looking forward to: taking my Beaver and Scout troops camping. We have been restricted to online meetings for a couple months and no camps at all since March. We can do so much more with the youth at camps. Plus the fellowship with other Scouters. I really miss getting together with them too. I am in Canada.
I hope that we all can move forward Work Hard Be Nice as my fav songster says and treat others as we ourselves would like to be treated Read a book Learn a lesson Be better Much positive energy Sign ups were closed so many good times to all who are in !
I am looking forward to going to the movies again! And more new books!
I am looking forward to finishing my PT and to getting more fantastic books to read. Also to life getting back to a more normal pace.
For 2021 I’m looking forward to:
1. My son’s new milestones (he’s turning 3 on May)
2. Finishing and moving to our tiny house
3. Release of your new books!
I am looking forward to moving into my first home this year. Windows with enough light for my plants to thrive and for sleepy kitties to lie in while I curl up and read the Kate Daniels series for the bazillionth time.
I am looking forward to change. Social change, educational change (I’m a teacher), political change- all of it. I’m just looking toward a brighter year.
In 2021, hopefully getting over to Western Australia to visit my daughter. With state border closures, that’s been nigh impossible in the last 10 months
Besides reading Blood Heir, I’m looking forward to a year where it’s easier to simply breathe. Even with the vaccine, I doubt things will go back to ‘normal’ all that quickly, but I’m happy to content myself with thinking about all the small things that will make this year so much better than last year.
I’m looking forward to changing times. Hopefully for the better. Vacationing, family, and life hopefully returning to a somewhat normal.
I am looking forward to my son graduating high school. I am extremely proud of him. I am also looking forward to home living in dorms so I can hire someone to remove his stench — teenage boys smell.
Hi!
I’m looking forward to the end of elections! I’m in Georgia, so we’re still going through it! I’m slowly going crazy from the political ads. I’m looking forward to the vaccine, and I can’t wait for Blood Heir! The sneak peek’s were a real treat. I can’t wait to see what Julie and the Kate Daniel crew have been up to. I love the world you guys created!
Honestly what I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is having a piece of paper in my hands saying I finally finished my associate’s degree and am really working towards my BA. I know it may sound silly to a lot of people but I’ve worked a long time for this and just getting an email I did it doesn’t feel real.
I am looking forward to spending time with my 2 year old grandson, since I’ve had to limit my contact with him. And, of course, Blood Heir.
How can I get this book in India? I do have the kindle versions of all your books, but I would love to get the hard cover too. I have tried different bookstores in India but sadly never been able to find one.
Hi Mary, there is no harcover version of Blood Heir, but a check on https://www.amazon.in/Blood-Heir-Kate-Daniels-World/dp/1641971657/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1609811189&sr=8-3 shows you can get the paperback. I hope this helps 🙂
I am looking forward in 2021 to blood heir book and rereading all the Kate Daniels books (in progress now). This year is all about hopes/dreams. I am hoping for a better self care regimen and more proactivity to reaching my goals. I am also hopeful for less chaos in my life. I do feel like things are already looking up this year.
I most excited about hugging my grandmother and my mother and father without fear that I may be the unwitting instrument of their death.
A close second is eating at a restaurant where I neither have to cook, clean, or feel rushed to move onto something else like chores.
A distant, distant third is graduating from my Masters program.
I’m looking forward to seeing my mother and family
Looking forward to seeing family and friends again after getting covid vaccine
I am in Australia and am very thankful that we have a lot more freedom and control during this pandemic than most. This year, I’m looking forward to seeing more countries worldwide *hopefully* experience the same sort of reprieve we have felt here. On a personal note, I will complete my teaching degree at the end on 2021 so am looking forward to reading more books for leisure after four very long years of studying full-time in between dealing with some exhausting personal issues. I’m especially looking forward to reading Blood Heir, and completing my personal mission of reading every single IA book I can find!
Happy 2021 to you all ❤
I am looking forward to seeing my relatives in person (they are in Boston) and maybe traveling.
I am looking forward to outdoor activities. We love to camp with our dogs and ride the ATV trails.
I’m looking forward to stepping even further out of my comfort zone to reach and work with more people. Looking forward to figuring out even more what brings me joy both alone and to share with others. I’m really looking forward to starting the year with Julie’s story and with being more creative myself this year. Must decide what to do with all these metallic watercolors I couldn’t help myself from purchasing! I’m looking forward to a time this year when perhaps travel might be safer and I can explore where I next may want to settle some roots. I’m looking forward to using all these crazy certifications I got in 2020! And I am looking forward to fun, exploring life and seeing where it takes me.
Happy 2021! I might not be an Inkeeper!, but I am a Zookeeper! Like so many of us affected by Covid19, my travel to see my family has been limited due to state-by- state quarantine procedures. The same is true for my zoo fur kids (I work with mammals) and transferring our fur kids to other facilities in order to facilitate breed comservation has been greatly impacted because of these necessary orders. So, in 2021, I look forward to moving on. Moving animals to new homes, bringing in new residents to our Zoo Home as well as visiting my human family. Thank you for your stories, they have been keeping me sane.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir, of course! Also, to life getting back to normal or as normal as it can be!
I looking forward to reading more of your books and spending time with my husband more in 2021 🙂
I’m looking forward to firstly a camping trip with my husband and fur baby and doing a bit of traveling in NZ. Secondly to the borders reopening at least with some countries and possibly getting away. I am also looking forward to seeing my family at Christmas as they were unable to visit me last year. Hopefully this year.
I am also looking forward to focusing on myself and my mental wellbeing more this year. 2020 made me realise that I need to focus on my own mental wellbeing and make a conscious effort to put myself before my work.
Hi guys!
I am looking forward to all of the new books coming out this year!
Can’t wait for Blood Heir!
I’m looking forward to summer here in TX (first time ever looking forward to that haha) and toward a new season of Formula 1! Also v excited for Blood Heir. I love Julie. ????
I am most looking forward to seeing my son! I haven’t seen him in person since early March of 2020. This is the longest time that I have been separated from him. FaceTime and Zoom are great, but I really miss seeing him in person.
I am not sure what I am looking forward to most. Honestly that 2020 is behind us seems like enough of a blessing.
I’d like to say, seeing family, but until Covid is under control or at least mass vaccine available I am not sure that counts.
So…final answer… being able to escape to my favorite fictional worlds while having close bonding time with my child who lives with me.
So yes, sign me up for a possible prize of Small Magics and ‘may the odds be ever in your favor,’ or at least no ‘ripper cushions’.:)
Thank you Ilona and Gordon for the joy you’ve brought me over the years.
I am looking forward to being in the classroom with my students consistently again. And I just started a pretty big home renovation project, so that will probably be the background activity that spans most of 2021! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity, and I can’t wait for Blood Heir!!!
Looking forward to the roll out of the COVID vaccines. Definitely a big step in the right direction!
Looking forward to a dear friend’s wedding (definitely 2021, but date tbd) …
Looking forward to world more interested in coming together than falling apart …
Looking forward to new book(s) from my favorite authors (I’ve had Blood Heir on pre-order *forever*, is there no way to get a bookplate without ordering another copy?) …
Looking forward, not back!
May 2021 bring everyone the blessings of health, happiness, and harmony!
I’m looking forward to hopefully having things return to a new normal. Seeing my family and maybe being able to take an actual vacation! Definitely looking forward to Blood Heir as well!
I am a part of a book club that has been meeting since around 2001. I miss my friends. I miss talking about books and movies; catching up with daily lives and small moments every month. I hope in 2021 to hug my friends again.
Hello, I’m looking forward, or more like hoping for normality to return. 2020 was rough, tough, and kicked us all in the butt. With ever-changing work routines/standards, family members getting sick and my grandma passing away, I’m looking forward to a better year. I’m grateful for all the help and love I’ve received in 2020 and hope to do better for 2021
Looking forward to being able to sit INSIDE my regular Starbucks to enjoy a breakfast sandwich, a latte, & my kindle on a weekend. I know…simple things.
I have many things I am looking forward to in 2021: remote working remaining a “thing” so my hour long commute stays tolerable, going back to full time band mom and actually getting to watch my kids perform again for their senior year, and seeing my Dad in Jersey as his health is failing. On a side note- Thank you for being a light of laughter and joy in 2020. Good books and great characters are my escape ????
In 2021 … I’m hoping to go shopping, and to getting funny looks from other shoppers cuz I forgot I don’t need to wear a mask anymore.
I’m hoping for beautiful weather on inauguration day, and for widespread reports of people suddenly exploding under the pressure of their unvented spleen.
I’m hoping for peace
I’m hoping for civility
I’m hoping for happy
Looking forward to all the new books!
I am most excited for all the books being released this year! 2020, horrible as it was, gave some of my favorite authors (you included) so much extra time to write, and I am so grateful and pumped!
The thing I’m looking forward to the most in 2021 is returning to some semblance of normality (meeting friends for lunch at a restaurant)!
I have honestly been looking forward to Blood Heir more than the holidays this year. The vaccine has also been a bright spot. I’m excited to finish up my degree, and leave a toxic work environment.
In 2021 I’m most looking forward to being healthy. The end of 2019 and all of 2020 my body did it’s best to fail but finally at the end of 2020 I got a surgery that will most likely help me become healthy again!
I’m looking forward to reading your books and traveling. Hoping that covid will be mostly gone by years end so I can indulge wanderlust to see the world.
I am highly anticipating being rid of Trump and a return to some normalcy in 2021.
Please add me to giveaway list, and I will be telling everyone! Can’t wait!
I am looking forward to visiting Croatia in September 2021 assuming I get the covid vaccine
I live in a very small town in Australian Northern Territory. The town exists purely as a tourist destination and usually has a population on 1200 people (not including guests), as you can guess that has changed this year, we currently have about 200-400 people. It is an amazing place and is on most people’s bucket list to visit and if you have the time google Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. There are times the town feels deserted and it often feels like a post-apocalyptic movie. I am looking forward to people being able to visit again, complaining about the flies, the heat and the distance to the next town but still loving their time here. Also I will be turning 40 in a couple of weeks. I was originally going to be in Ireland visiting family I haven’t seen in years and staying at a castle to celebrate however that was not to be. It is usually +40 °C on my birthday and I was really hoping for snow. To make up for this lack my friends and I are going to the local town (500 km from us) and spending a couple of nights relaxing at a spa. The best part of this trip and also the thing I am looking forward to most so far this year is that I will be able to read Blood Heir on my birthday.
Good luck everyone for 2021
I am hoping 2021 will be a year of changes for me; work, home, and mental. Here’s to that ol’ trope, new year, new me.
So excited!
I’d love a chance at a copy of the book in the give away, because I missed getting a chance to buy it for several reasons. Except I can’t think of anything I’m looking forward to in 2021. My ability to make goals ahead of time is totally hamstrung. So I’ll just say thank you for your wonderful books that kept me sane during a library masters program and worry over friends and family this past year. May the new year bring everyone a lot of good things, and not so much of the bad.
Other than your book release, I’m looking forward to being able to go out and just do nothing. Every trip has been so purposeful the last (almost) year that it will be nice to be able to just be outside.
Family. I’m looking forward to family. Close and far. In person and on a screen. To hear their voices,see their faces and know that we are together. We can get through another year.
I don’t think my previous comment posted (please remove if I double posted!). It’s a tie breaker between seeing the end of 2020 and almost having my new built-in bookshelves finished! Then I can start filling them. 🙂
Blood Heir of course! Other than that, I really can’t pick just one, there are too many as I love to read!
Thank you for the opportunity to wish one of your books!
I am so looking forward to seeing, and hugging, all of my family at our next family reunion! It should be in August, and hopefully we won’t have to postpone it until next year.
I’m looking forward spending time with my husband and cats at home with books and scrabble games!
So happy that 2021 is here and 2020 is in the past. I am looking forward to the time I can finally leave my house and go into public spaces again. I have been sheltered in place since early March and have only left here on a few occasions and remained in the car the whole time. Would love to take the grandkids to the bookstore then out to lunch. It is one of things I did for their birthdays – until 2020 and I owe them the trip.
I am looking forward to getting thru this month’s first anniversary of my son’s suicide and continuing to find ways to honor his life and grieve his loss. While I ‘noticed’ Covid, it was only icing on the crap cake of 2020.
2021 will be about finding out who I’m supposed to be without him and how my next chapter gets written. So, thxs to both of you for your books/POV about life/snippets/and sharing Kid 1 and Kid 2 with all of us. Those reading breaks were always timely and lifted my spirits.
Setting my intention that I/we will do more than just get thru 2021!
It may be hard to say/hear but 2020 was a great year for me personally. I got a dream job, was able to move out of my parents house, and finally was able to get off anxiety medication. In 2021 I am looking forward to being able to live my life. Once it’s safe, I want to go out and meet people.
In my head 2020 was a year when there was nothing to do but write. Soon 2021 I am looking forward to all the wonderful books that will become available to read while we wait to be vaccinated. Blood Heir gets us off to a magical start.
I’m looking forward to traveling again hopefully and meeting random strangers.
Blood Heir!!!! LOL… and a lot of new releases from some other fav authors 🙂 Happy new year!!!
In 2021 I’m looking forward to finding new authors and supporting my local library and book stores.
What am I looking forward to most? I graduate from grad school in May. I’m really looking forward to graduating. It’s been an uphill battle to get this far, as I’m a woman and I come from a conservative family, so they never understood why I wanted to get my Master’s degree. But here I am, about to start my final semester. I also have an amazing job waiting for me when I graduate. Things are really looking up for me after so long.
Looking forward to new book releases by my favorite authors! Blood Heir is such a gift, thank you!
I am looking forward to being able to have a babysitter for the kids again.
I am looking forward to hugs, and seeing people in person, and hopefully fewer people having to choose between risking their health/lives and being able to eat.
That Subterranean Press book is gorgeous!
I’m looking forward to new books and Summer ! We are in the thick of Winter here so sunshine and sandle weather sounds like heaven . Thank you so much for this book and returning to this world. I have missed all these characters so much, there are only so many re-reads one can do ????.
I’m looking forward to being able to go about my business without having to wear a mask. ????
I am REALLY looking forward to a 2021 where I can hug my friends, where my awesome teenager can hang out with her friends in person, and we can all help get America back on its feet.
Looking forward to having book club in person again and so many new books this year!
I’m looking forward to my step-sister’s wedding. Whether we get to be there in-person or via Zoom, I’m just happy to see her finally marry the man of her dreams!
I’m looking forward to seeing my Grandma.
Honest to god, I’m looking forward to Blood Heir most this year. Followed by the release of several new seasons of my favourite tv shows. Staying at home and reading my favourite author’s newest novel that I’ve been so excited for since I first found out about it will for sure be the highlight of 2021. I’m positive about that.
I’m looking forward to seeing my family in person again, not having to wear my beekeeper suit with all my patients, and being able to smile at my coworkers and they actually see it.
Hopefully looking forward to the end of COVID. Also, trying to read more books than I did last year.
Hello, the thing I’m looking forward to the most is widespread vaccinations so that my kids could possibly do things with friends. We moved during the pandemic- unavoidable as my husband retired from the USAF– and it’s hard to get established in a new community when YOU.CAN’T.HANG.OUT. Not so bad for me- I’m an adult and too darn busy with work and parenting to care much, usually I topple over in complete exhaustion at night– but it’s hard for my tweens. Praying for a speedy vaccination distribution. For everyone!
Looking forward to my friends, family, and community to be vaccinated!
I am looking forward to seeing my mother in person.
It’s less what I’m looking forward to and more what I’m hoping for- I started doing lyra (aerial hoop!) classes in October 2019- and would really, really like to be able to go back to them! I miss my friends! So I’m hoping that with vaccines becoming available, the covid pandemic will die a swift death.
Of course, I am always looking forward to book releases- after Blood Heir (it’s so close!!), the next big release I’m excited for is Patricia Briggs’s new Alpha & Omega novel!
I lool forward to being able to attend our niece’s wedding in 2021.
Thank you for the lovely giveaway. I am looking forward to being able to see my out of town and out of country family and friends. It’s hard enough going a year without seeing them, but making it through two years on top of all the stress 2020 brought has been brutal. Also hoping to make some concerts and festivals this year. I miss Faerie Worlds and live music.
Looking forward to both kids finally being back in school and I don’t have to homeschool via zoom anymore! Oh and hopefully traveling this year?
The things I’m looking forward to are the simple things, like having friends over for to play board games while we enjoy dessert and coffee, having a girl’s day out shopping, lunch at my favorite restaurant, browsing the book store for my favorite author’s newest releases, hugging the kids in my classroom… the things I used to do in everyday life pre-C19. I’m most looking forward to everyone being safe, happy, and connected again.
From 2021, I expect happiness, freedom, health. And lots of good books to read.
I am looking forward to not hearing about the US President every day.
So 2020 was a crazy year for me, between dealing with a pandemic to trying to figure out in which direction to go in my life. Reading your books during quarantine was one of the highlights of my 2020 year. In 2021 I’m most looking forward to pursuing my dreams. I have applied for masters programs and I am very excited to start this next step in my life!
I am looking forward to some rescheduled trips and new books from my favorite authors!
I’m hoping looking forward to possibility that the pandemic will end once vaccinations become more available to the community. I can’t wait to spend time with friends and family that has been limited due to the pandemic.
Hello! I’m looking forward to continuing my medical school journey in 2021 and hopefully actually being allowed in the hospital for training after 6 months mostly remote 🙂
So much to look forward to, but mostly, I want to safely hug and hang out with my friends and family, whether indoors or outside.
Look forward to reading more books!
There are so many things I am wishing for 2021 but the most important is to be able to see my friends in person and give them hugs again. I am Canadian but my parents were born in Italy and, one thing Italians due a lot of, is hugging and kissing when meeting with friends and family. I truly miss that. I will never take the ability to do that for granted again. There needs to be a lot more hugging in the world.
Thank you for doing a giveaway. I am looking forward to being able to visit family in 2021. We all live in different sections of the US, and couldn’t see each other in person all 2020. Even my engagement was announced via Zoom. It’s tough staying in a small apartment all day, every day, just 2 people and a cat for 9 months, but we’re grateful to have stayed healthy and kept others from getting sick.
I would love to be able to travel again, so that’s my thing I’m looking forward to: getting in the car and going out to see our beautiful country.
I think for this year I’m most looking forward to my miracle rainbow baby turning 1 and finally closing on our very own house after a difficult year of dealing with banks in a pandemic crazy world.
I’m looking forward to hopefully having some better leadership for our country and getting Covid under control. I am also looking forward to starting up a side business that I am excited about.
I am so looking forward to visiting Kate Daniel’s world again!
I’m hoping to finish my degree and find a job in 2021. Fingers crossed!
We are very lucky in Australia, particularly where I live. We were meant to be in the US right now visiting my brother who is working and living in Florida. I am hoping that we will be able to travel and visit soon. That’s what I am looking forward to – our world going back to some semblance of normal.
Oh and I am looking forward to reading Blood Heir, which I pre-ordered the minute I was able to! Usually I read with this little scruff on my lap.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to when the three spacecraft get to Mars and start to send back data. Yes, three – United Arab Emirates, China, and NASA. It’s going to be a Martian traffic jam.
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/upcoming.html
I am most looking forward to (hopefully!) wide spread roll out of a safe and effective Covid vaccine.
Thanks for the giveaway. Can’t wait for Blood Heir!
I had a milestone birthday last year. To celebrate, I was treating myself to a trip to Hawaii to relax and visit friends. A month before my flight, COVID-19 hit. I am looking forward to finally traveling to Hawaii. Once the pandemic is under control, I am also looking forward to spending time with family and friends freely, in person, and without being afraid of giving them the virus or getting ill myself. By the way, thanks for all your work. I look forward to all your books!
I’m looking forward to the vaccine! I continue to hope that people will take their own precautions by wearing a mask and social distancing, but I’m glad our healthcare workers will be able to be inoculated soon. I also hope those who need it most will get it before it becomes available for the wealthy to buy 🙂
Happy New Year to everyone! Last year was the first time that we did not get to see our daughter at Christmas. She lives in NC and we live in OH and are no longer able to travel. Our daughter usually flies home at Christmas, but, because of the virus she was unable to come home. Going a whole year without seeing her is very difficult. So I’m really hoping that the vaccine works well enough and the virus is gone by Christmas 2021 so she can come home.
I’m generally not a hugger, but I’m looking forward to embracing my best friend of 20 years after the vaccine has been disseminated. I haven’t seen her in person in almost a year because she’s immunocompromised. We talk on the phone every week but I miss her facial expressions and her presence and the soul-deep comfort I feel when I’m around her. I can’t wait to hop in the car with her and chat about nothing and everything; it doesn’t matter where we go, so long as she’s laughing in the seat next to me. Bring on the hugs, 2021!
Dear 2021,
I am so looking forward and hopeful to eventually getting in quality time with my extended family and friends without the worries we suffered in 2020. I am looking forward to a year of possibilities and continued growth. I am looking forward to the release of the books from my favorite authors and maybe a vacation to binge read.
THANK YOU for this amazing giveaway!!
I’m mostly looking forward to finally getting the vaccine and seeing and hugging my friends and family again.
Looking forward to hugs, and long overdue visits with friends and family, and vacations, and freedom. And absolutely, more books from some of my favourite authors.
Thank you for the ray of sunshine that is your blog, and this chance at a Subterranean edition.
I am looking forward to seeing my 2 year old nephew for the first time in a year and in person so that I can give him an Eskimo kiss and remind him that he is the love of my life and I will always be there for him if he ever needs anything – anything at all.
Happy 2021!! I hope the beginning of the year has treated everyone better than 2020 so far. Needless to say it’s been a trying time for a lot of us. I work in healthcare and it has been unimaginable. I’m most looking forward to a healthy society! I hope we can come together this year and make some real positive change. I would love to see my friends and family again.
Here’s to a good year! 🙂
I’m looking forward to major distribution of the COVID vaccine and being able to see my family (in other states) once again! Also, legitimately, the thing I’m most excited about for the next few weeks is the release of Blood Heir.
would love to win and hope to have a very good 2021 ahead
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I am looking forward to my to watching my oldest child’s graduation and watching her start a new phase in her life and I appreciate, if nothing else about this covid situation, the time I got to spend with her this year. I was fortunate enough to be at home with her during the first year of her life, and home again, for the last year that she was technically a child.
I am most excited about finishing college this year! It’s been a long time coming and I could not be happier or proud of myself!
I am really hoping the vaccine is widely available in 2021 so I can safely hangout with friends, even when my allergy symptoms are mimicking my initial covid symptoms and I currently must pass “just in case” I’ve caught it again.
In 2021, I will try to be kinder to myself and accept that sleep deprivation is a valid reason for not being able to function 100%. Let’s all cross fingers my kid will finally stop waking every night (often multiple times) and my brain will be able to resume its regular activity.
Restaurant bars with delicious cocktails. Lip stick on the rim of the glass, then lots of delicious food & desert.
Over & over again!
I’m looking forward to hugging my mother and having a cold beer (or three) with my best friend…on her couch…while our children and husbands are doing something else…far away.
I am looking forward to relief from the relentless sadness, grief, fear, and anger brought daily to my life by each new news cycle. Along with just enough news to stay informed, I force myself to read the covid numbers daily because I feel the need to “bare witness” to the death and suffering, in the same way I felt compelled to the beach to watch the empty skies, with no planes flying into Logan Airport for days after 911. Going out to dinner, traveling so my 83 year old mother can see the rest of her family, going to a concert, talking to neighbors… as someone else stated… simple things…
I am looking forward to hopefully being able to travel and see out of state family in 2021.
I am looking forward to reading you books, and to getting over Covid soon. Okay, getting over Covid first and then reading your books. My Grandson, who lives with me, is graduating High School this year and we are going to hook up the travel trailer and see the lower 48. We had meant to do it last summer but, his Grandad(my husband) passed away and then Covid 19 came. Rough couple of years but, we are plotting and planning our new adventures. I am finishing up rereading your Kate Daniels’ stories just in time for Blood Heir
I’m looking forward to seeing my friends and family in person at some point this year (probably late-late-late 2021.)
I’m looking forward to preschool storytimes at our library again with 2 and 3 year olds falling over each with excitement because they KNOW where Spot is hiding.
At the moment we’re having storytime in the local gardens with the children sitting in hula hoops – that’s the theory anyway – give a 2 year old a hula hoop and the idea of sitting really doesn’t feature.
Truth be told there isn’t much to look forward to especially in January, but the release of Blood Heir is giving me something to look forward to. On bigger scales Im looking forward to the pandemic being over, whenever that maybe. And I’m looking forward to school being over so I don’t have to look at zoom for a while ????
Looking forward to in 2021–I hope to not wear an N95 for 7-12 hours a day to care for my patients. I hope to get a COVID 19 vaccination so that I can hug my friends and have tea with them even if it is less than 45 degrees outside. I hope my daughter’s welding classes start again so she can get certified. I hope to jump on an Interstate Highway and drive 5 hours…west to see my mom or south to see my husband’s mom(and I hate distance driving). I hope to volunteer to work at or donate to a Red Cross blood donation site without fear. I hope to enjoy a science fiction convention without risking my, or my family, friends and co-workers health. I hope we all survive and learn. I hope you two continue to write books that intrigue, entertain and amuse me.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to better health for myself and my family. 2020 brought major health concerns. In response, my family has gotten serious about our health. We’re following Bright Line Eating and love it. No exercise required and we’ve lost a cumulative 50 pounds in 19 days! During Christmas!
Can’t wait to read it!
What I am looking forward to in 2021, #45 to go away and no longer have such a negative effect on the US.
I am looking forward to hanging out with friends who’ve had to go through a miserable year without any hugs or in person hangouts to tide them through the rough days.
I’m looking forward to being able to visit with friends and family. Fingers crossed that we may be able to travel for fun again as well.
Seeing my Mom again.
Not expecting things to go back to normal yet this year so I’m looking forward to new books from my favourite authors, including Blood Heir 🙂 I’m also looking forward to online calligraphy classes. The pandemic ended being a bit of boon , because I can now learn from lots of amazing calligraphers from all over the world.
Getting to see out of state family and the public pool being open!!
I am not looking forward to anything. I do not have high hopes for 2021. I expect my income to be lower than 2020 after 2018 & 2019 being great years. Actually very pessimistic.
I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir and my daughter (hopefully) starting school in the fall .
I’m looking forward to meeting my boys enjoying 4-H and camping.
I’m looking forward to the border opening so I can see my parents (and go to Tim Hortons).
Thank you for this give away <3
What I’m looking forward to the most in this year is to meet my first baby.
We all have been through enough this last year, so hopefully I can make my baby happy and proud to be born in a better and safer world.
I would like to tell her when she is older of a dark time and how the whole world came together to help each other and overcome this problem, so that we not only remember the sad times but the goodness that came after.
I am looking forward most to the continued time with my kids and exploring new things with them.
I look forward to hopefully more people getting vaccinated and seeing a decrease in the amount of people infected from this virus. Praying for a better year than last year.
I’m looking forward to being able to return to the US, see my family again, and moonwalk away from a job with terrible bosses!
For 2021, what I’m looking forward to the most is hugging my mum & sister again once we are all vaccinated!
Obviously, I am looking forward to reading anything you two publish. But I also look forward to traveling again, and maybe one day, not wearing a mask when I leave home.
In 2021 I am looking forward to celebrating my daughter graduating with her HA degree and her AA degree. She has done move her AA degree online during the pandemic. I also look forward to us being able to travel to celebrate, also.
I’m looking forward to seeing my extended family this year. I haven’t seen my mom since mid November 2019 ???? and she usually stays with us for a few months every year. My siblings have been 2-4 hours away and we haven’t seen each other since Sept/Nov 2019. Same with my Dad and he was saying he can’t wait to give hugs again.
My niece is a nurse and she got her 2nd shot of the vaccine today, the first group to get the second shot! So even though I hate shots (can’t look when they give shots) I’m looking forward to the vaccine so we can visit family again.
Can wait for the 12th.
Most excited about the COVID vaccine and being able to visit my octogenarian loved ones without fear of making them sick. I have been blessed in my quarintine house-mates and I am enjoying working from home, but I’m excited to be able to visit my parents and in-laws without the worry of taking them a deadly virus.
Looking forward to real life getting happy enough we can get the rest of Hugh’s story 🙂
Looking forward for a Roman novella series.
In 2021 I’m most looking forward to graduating from my grad school program!
I am most looking forward to vaccines for everyone and new books while we wait for them. Thanks for the blog posts as I get excited every time I see a new one and they were a highlight during 2020.
Can’t wait for this new book!
Hello!! This year I’m looking forward (firstly) to the vaccine and (secondly) to being a teaching assistant, once I pass my qualifying exam for my PhD. Online learning has been very difficult for many students and I hope to make it a little bit easier for my students.
I’m looking forward to hopefully seeing people smile again once vaccinations are widespread and people can maybe go in public maskless!
I am looking forward to being able to go out in public without having to wear a mask. Also looking forward to reading anything and everything the Andrews’ are willing to share
Registration is closed so I’m really looking forward to you posting the recordings.
I’m of course looking forward to your books Blood Heir and fingers crossed Iron Covenant #2.
Mostly I am looking forward to my children being vaccinated so they can see grandparents & friends & attend dance class & have people attend their birthday parties in person. They are so socially starved, it is heart wrenching to watch.
Luckily my DH who is a front line health worker is getting his second dose of the vaccine this week so we don’t have to live in fear of him bringing the virus home. But we’ve been so worried about him taking it to his patients that since March our kids have only left the house to walk around the block.
My 5 year old is dreaming of traveling the world.
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is to be able to meet up with my friends again without the confines of a mask and social distancing, as well as seeing and catching up with my family in person instead of zoom calls.
I’m looking forward to traveling…once the current craziness has subsided, of course!
I am most looking forward to the possibilities that 2021 represents right now. I just quit my job to usher two small children through the harrowing adventure that is virtual learning. I’m hoping to be able to have some time leftover to work on personal projects and maybe, maybe, maybe swap careers at the end of it. Here’s to a fantastic 2021! *crosses fingers desperately*
I’m looking forward to finishing off my CDA (child development associate).
I’m looking forward to my first grand-nieces—2 of them in the same summer!—and to a vaccine so I can travel again.
Thanks for Blood Heir! I’m so excited!
Thank you for the chance! The book looks beautiful. I’m looking forward to life returning to normal ????????and traveling with my family.
I’m looking forward to doing the normal things I took for granted – hugging a friend, eating dinner with my family, going to the movies or talking with my neighbor in 2021. No one wants to think that simple communication with other people might lead to death. The vaccination can’t come fast enough.
I am looking forward to being able to interact with others (in person) and have them see my expressions!
The thing I am looking forward to most is being able to hug my parents. Hopefully soon <3
I most look forward to not being afraid any more when Covid is under control.
I am looking forward to reading more of your books! And hopefully, safely, transitioning my kids back into a real classroom ????
I came across your books last year and have since devoured your Innkeeper and Kate Daniels series. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. As a kid I loved Charles de Lint and now as an adult I’ve fallen in love with the worlds you’ve created. So yeah, I am so looking forward to reading more of your incredible books!! ????
So beautiful!! I’m looking forward to a more positive year overall in life, and in how people interact. And I’m looking forward to some steps forward in my writing.
I am looking forward to a year where I can venture further than 5 miles from my house & hug people. Not strangers because that would be weird. Unless they really need a one and ask in a non-skeevy hug-trustingly way…
I am looking forward to the fruits of the hard work by several fabulous authors.
I am looking forward to schools opening. I work a before and after program at the public schools. I miss the kids and worry about what is happening to those who are “at risk”. I would also love to see my sons and sisters in person again. I miss hugs!
2021 i guess Blood Heirs is the thing I’m looking forward the most at the moment and the second would be to get vaccinated and be able to travel again so I can see my family. 🙂
I am looking forward to Iron covenant 2, and of course life getting back to normal and people being kind and caring and considerate of one another and giving our healthcare workers a break by everyone getting the vaccine. Thanks for all of your stories they get me thru life!
Is Iron Covenant 2 happening in 2021? Why was I thinking it was temporarily bumped for being too dark for the times? Will go sleuthing but that is such a wonderful thing to look forward to as well!
Getting vaccinated, a new president, delayed movies and rescheduled concerts. I’ve been vaguely worried Elton may die before I get to see him! ????
Looking forward to starting grad school in the spring after I finish my last semester of college:). I’m also excited to see my friends reaction to reading Blood Heir. I convinced her to read the entire Kate Daniels series (and Hidden Legacy) in December.
Noooooooooooo
Registration is clooosed.
Whyyyy!
Ok. I’m done. Pouting like a 2 year old, achieved.
Sorry, missed the giveaway part! In 2021, I think it goes without saying, I am looking forward to reading Blood Heir. Also hugs. It would be nice to be able to hug my extended family again.
Best wishes for a happy, healthy new year.
What I’m looking forward to most is being vaccinated against covid and being able to work, socialize and travel without fear of contracting the virus or infecting anyone else.
Right now, what I’m looking forward to is Blood Heir… Might seem sad or overdramatic but I’m just trying to enjoy life as much as I can so thank you.
I am looking forward to more Ilona Andrews books of course. Counting the days till Blood Heir. Looking forward to teaching my painting classes again and getting together with family
What I most hope for in 2021 will be the absence of constant chaos instigated by the powers that be, and that there will be healing, not only of our bodies, but also of our spirits.
Thank you so much for the giveaway! In 2021 I look forward most to hearing back from graduate schools, I have applied to 5 in the PNW for speech-language pathology!
Side story: I just had the paperback of blood heir pre ordered through my local bookstore and they thought the publisher was “fishy.” I had to explain it was a real book, told them about your blog, and how I was 99% sure this was being self-published. Pre-order is officially in!
Im looking forward to all the new milestones my baby will accomplish in 2021. He is currently 6 months.
I am most looking forward to getting a home. I don’t mean buying a house. That’s not in the cards now, but after staying with relatives for a year. I really want a home, just a little cozy apartment for us and the mini-dogs.
I’m so excited to be able to see my parents and grandmother again.
In 2021 I am most looking forward to planting a garden in my yard!
I’m most looking forward to my 2 year old son attending daycare/preschool. We isolated in 2020 at the tail end of February and remained strict throughout the year due to our second child being born. My son only saw his same-age cousin 4 times during our entire isolation and no one else. I’m so glad he will now get the social developmental benefits of a community after almost a year of only nuclear family time.
I’m looking forward to getting vaccinated so I can play with my brother’s grandkids again, and being able to pick Mom up from her assisted living facility to go see her great grandkids. My nephew and his wife are having their first baby in April and I’m hoping I’ll be immunized by then. I love to cuddle little babies, and goodness knows they don’t stay that size for long. Next best is when they get big enough to interact with you. Now that holding little ones can be difficult for Mom, we have a joint act where I hold the baby and Mom plays with them.
The only thing i’m looking forward to in 2021 is the release of Blood Heir.
I have no idea what will keep me going for the rest on the year 🙂
My work contract is finishing July 4th and I am looking forward to being unemployed for a bit. (Will worry about getting another job later – after a month or so 🙂 )
Hope everyone has a great 2021.
Looking forward to making time for myself this year. I’ve been giving a lot of time and effort to my work and this year’s resolution for myself is to make the time to travel more and make sure I celebrate good times and cherish them.
Thank you for the chance to win Small Magics. Looks beautiful. I think I’m looking forward to this year because I’ve set out on a “get fit and healthy” adventure. I had a knee replacement in 2020 and then had nothing but trouble after. The whole of last year was just crap, without the added “bonus” of Covid! Thankfully books always make me feel better. I have most of your books in Audible and re-listened to everything! ????????
I’m looking forward to being able to meet with friends outside of my house (pod) again. And maybe, someday, being able to go out of the house without the checking for mask/sanitizer in my purse.
It sounds petty, but I really look forward to maybe…MAYBE…going to a food festival in 2021. All of the local festivals were cancelled this past year and I had finally saved up for some of the big ones. Maybe we can consider them towards the end of the year? (Tacotopia ftw!)
I’m looking forward to spending time with my family and friends in person rather than via telephone or computer. I even miss my co-workers. 😉 Wishing You All a Healthy, Happy New Year!
I’m looking forward to reaching a point where I can leave my toddler alone for five minutes without him trying to actively kill himself. I have big expectations of 2021 ????
I don’t want to worry you, but some children never grow out of this stage.
The thing I am most looking forward to, hopefully in 2021, is return to normality. As someone who suffers from anxiety I have experienced an abnormally high number of attacks last year. I’m also looking forward to the easing of travel restrictions so I can go visit my nieces (and unknown gender #3) in Australia. It’d be nice to see my brother and his wife again too, but it’s my nieces I’ll be putting up with the flight for, lol!
I am looking forward to see so many friends. 2020 has given me a new appreciation for friends who travel to see me, and the ones that I travel to visit (many of these overlap).
Going to the movies and eating in restaurants, attending school sporting events (and I do not even like sports).
Looking forward to a new president. Thank you for your books!
Looking forward to traveling again in 2021. Including going to Disneyland. My family had 1 trip booked in 2020 that we rebooked 5 times. Oh, and still rebooking.
I am looking forward to two things and I can’t choose between the two. The first is to be able to bring my husband home from the hospital. He has been there for weeks and I’m not sure when he will be able to come home, but it can’t be too soon. The second is the birth of my first grandchild, a boy, in June. When I found out that he would join us this year, I was reminded of what it means to be surprised by joy.
I am looking forward to the returning use of my left foot and ankle after a particularly bad injury last year.
Travelling
Honestly the thing I’m looking forward to in 2021 is being with my family and friends again.
Also, I have no idea how much work it is but it would be awesome to have signed copies available in other countries. International shipping sucks esp from the states. I got hit with a $60 brokerage fee on my $30 book last time I tried it.
Thankyou for the giveaway. You are always very generous to your readers and this reader wants you to know how much this is appreciated.
I am eagerly anticipating the release of Blood Heir and hope it proves very successful for you. I plan to support you by downloading the ebook to read on the day of release, buying a print on demand copy for my IA collection( and to read when I feel like a reread of Julie’s/ Aurelia’s adventures) and downloading the audiobook as soon as it is available on Audible. To adapt to the frustrations of having to stay at home as much as possible my husband has rented me a walking machine so I plan to break it in by listening to all my favourite IA books, including Blood Heir.
2020 has been a weirdly trying year with this pandemic threat and I suspect our lives have been changed permanently by the events of last year. As an Aussie who will eventually benefit, I want to say Thankyou to the research scientists in the USA and Great Britain who have developed the vaccines which give us hope of a more normal future.
I wish I could participate in the Zoom bookstore events but the time differences are too difficult. Would you consider recording them and uploading them later to Utube or your blog so we can all hear the Q and A?
I am looking forward to actually be able to go to work and see my colleagues after a year of working from home. Also looking forward to go to the zoo with the kids and hopefully not have to wear facemask and perhaps just do some of all those things i took for granted a year ago.
I am most looking forward ti continue my battle with PTSD and Fibromalygia because even though they both epically suck the dark times remind me of what a utter badass I am. I have survived things that would make most peoples hair curl but being a part from society gives me the ability to really see. Books give me a genuine Ray of light so my calendar is littered with book releases to help my journey through the year. So I hope to continue to survive. Love and light from Oxfordshire UK X
I’m looking forward to moving into a apartment with 2 of my friends.
Currently I’m living in a dorm where renovations are going on, and will be for another half year, wich is really uncomfortable when I’m forced to be home all the time.
I have a online exam in 4 hours and I can hear them drilling in the concrete walls right now ????
Looking forward to a hopefully more social year and good books to take my mind off other problems 😀
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to seeing my family who have been halfway across the country throughout the pandemic.
I am looking forward to everyone being vaccinated. I can’t wait to take a vacation from work and not worry about friends and family getting sick from Covid.
Getting to see my parents again
The thing I’m most looking forward to is hopefully getting to dance in person again and meet with my friends
I’m looking forward to the world being better. For everyone. If you can think of something to move that project along then do it. Big, small, in between – it all counts!
Well, I did as I was told and stayed at home for most of 2020, to flatten the curve.
But my curves did not flatten at all, it was quite the opposite actually.
I do not know what everyone else did, but I cocked, baked and enjoyed some vine.
I spent a lot of time hanging out with Kate, Andrea, Dina, Maud and Nevada.
Some days I had tea with Caldenia by the window on the second floor overlocking the street.
In the end of 2020 the only pants that still fit was my yoga pants.
A few days ago I started my new healthy life, that includes actual yoga and a lot less calories.
I’m looking forward to the everyday normal to come back. To see my friends. And my bellybutton.
I really look forward to see my bellybutton again and to fit into my regular pants.
I am looking forward to spending time with family and friends and of course, reading the books due to come out. 🙂
I’m most looking forward to getting the 2nd covid vaccine so I can go to California and see my grandson
I am looking forward to New Zealand staying COVID 19 free. It was wonderful having my elderly mother in law to stay over Christmas and to go out and about over the Christmas break. I am also looking forward to a year of great books being released including blood heir. Thank you for the opportunity to attend a book launch.
What I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is shaking off the “This is too much, I’m barely keeping up” mode that I’ve been in since the pandemic started, which means starting to do things (however small) to take back control of my life. In other words, I’ve been in “autopilot” mode for a while as a coping mechanism, and I finally feel ready to take control of the wheel again. Exactly how things will turn out remains to be seen, but I think I’ll be much happier once I make progress on this.
What I’m looking the most forward to in 2021 is to actually be able to visit my family that I haven’t seen in more than a year.
The thing I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is HOPEFULLY getting back to some normalcy!
I told a friend that I hoped 2021 was better than 2020, but let’s face it: the bar is low.
Thanks so much for all your work, it has really been my bright spot and my escape during some dark days. God bless!
Yay for the live chats. Can’t wait for the record. My most anticipated book release in 2021 is obviously Blood Heir. In general, I’m looking forward to the vaccinations. Hopefully life will return more normal for everyone by the end of the year.
Greetings and hopes for relaxing and mental well being for you and your family.
I am looking forward to being able to visit my father at his assisted living facility, they have been on lockdown since the end of April. He has finally been able to get the hang of video calls just recently but it is not the same. I am also looking forward to being able to hug people and touch people. Thank you for your time and your efforts to help during these trying times and I hope y’all have nothing but peace and happiness so you can recharge.
I am looking forward to our world getting back to normal and getting some me time and to read lots of books ????
Looking forward to everyone getting vaccinated, tbh. I have a kid who’s immunocompromised so we’ve been cooped up for a year. Freedom (and safety) will taste oh so sweettt
I am looking forward to hugs. Comfy and safe hugs.
Hello!
What I’m looking forward the most for 2021 is implementing a new rhythm of work. 2020 has proven we can worked differently (part time, remotely…) and I look forward to make work schedules evolve to something more adapted to individuals!
I’m looking forward to a cure for Covid because my family has been sheltering in place since March since I’m very high risk.
Looking forward to my growing into my new role at work, transferring to finish my Bachelors degree, and annoying the crap out of the small human I help create.
I’m looking forward to Blood Heir and other books. I’m hopeful for the vaccines and getting back to a more normal life with less worry for far away friends and family. I’m looking forward to not having to wear a mask everywhere.
I am looking forward to pushing through the medical challenges our family has had in the rearview mirror and having surgery so I can walk. VA is not easy to work with! I really want to go for walks with my daughter and do a fun trip as soon as we are past all the COVID stuff. 🙂
Hi,
in 2021 I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine shot and then hopefully have a “normal” summer after. This is an optimistic wish because I’m in Europe and I hope there will be vaccines available for common people (meaning not medical staff and first line workers, army…) by then.
Lots of love to everyone!
I am looking forward to finding a job I enjoy 🙂
Looking forward to flying to San Francisco to see for the first time in almost 2 years my father, stepmother, aunts and uncle — all of whom are over 70, live independently, and need a hug! Also looking forward to meeting friends after work to sit in the sunshine and drink a glass of wine, spontaneously, without masks, hand sanitizer or sitting six feet apart…
I’m looking forward to some positive changes. I’m looking at changing my career, and maybe make a move. I’ll be getting away from poisonous people who are out for them. I look forward to meeting my niece who was the only good thing in 2020, born dec 30 2020. Looking forward to things getting back to normal.
I am looking forward to traveling again this year.
I’m looking forward to when the vaccine has been administered to the vulnerable in the UK and I can finally meet up again with friends and family. Hopefully we will be able to get back to some semblance of normality.
I’m looking forward to seeing my family and friends again, live and in person!
Ilona & Gordon thanks for the links for the signed version HC pre-order.
The second link is either to the non signed version or that company doesn’t mention it in the listing… whatever makes no difference to me but I was surprised when the link to a signed copy doesn’t mention it.
Thanks for the giveaway of Small Magic’s I’m looking forward to the return of normalcy in EVERYTHING. … LOL
Stay safe and sane everyone lots of <3
Hello! The thing I’m looking forward to is the ability to travel without restrictions and to hug our loved ones without fear.
Looking forward to exhaling, when the pandemic is behind us both medically and politically. Thank you for creating worlds that we can slip into to get away for a bit.
For 2021, I’m looking forward to the ability to meet with my friends and family in person, without fear.
What am I looking forward to most in 2021? A less pandemic/more ‘normal’ life. Less masks required and more social gatherings. More travel opportunities. And less political rants…so tired of all the posturing!
I look forward to my daughters 1st birthday! Yay!
I am looking forward to going on vacation with my eldest nephew and his three kids this summer. He is recently divorced from a wife who did not like him having any close relationships with his family. He has finally succeeded in arbitration that allows him to take his kids on vacation with his family, which she previously refused. So I will finally get to know them better after all this time. His oldest is twelve.
We will be going to Disney World if Covid-19 is better controlled by then!
In 2021 I’m most looking forward to the vaccination of my family, especially my parents and grandparents, so I may finally take a full breath in what feels like a decade. What I’m most hoping for in 2021 is for my children to be carefree again.
Hello and happy New Year everyone! I am looking forward to handshakes, high fives, and hugs becoming safe and welcome again.
I’m looking forward to all the new books coming 2021.
I really LOVED this series, I actually read it twice because it was so good and fun. Best series of books I have read in a long time. Thank you!
I am looking forward to an end to Covid. I am a nursing home administrator and the last 10 months have been traumatic for my employees, my residents and myself. We need hope. Fingers crossed that it comes in the form of a vaccine.
I’m looking forward to my library reopening !!
What look for in 2021?
Practical side of me says finish your diploma, find a job you like.
The feeling side says find a good friend, maybe even love.
For this year, I am looking forward to see my boyfriend. We are in a long-distance relationship and he is living in another country, so I hope we can travel to meet each other again. I really miss him.
I’m looking forward to meeting with my friends without social distance.
In 2021 we hope to cure this evil that has plagued us since 2020. Hope always prevails and with it the inspirations of Ilona Andrews’ books, where whenever there is air in the lungs one can fight. There is no better example than Kate Daniels, Julie, Elara, Dina and many other heroes. May we be as warriorlike as these fantastic characters.
I’m looking forward to getting out of my comfort zone this year.
Thank you for the update!
I’m looking forward to my family of 3 becoming a family of 4 this year. I’m excited to give my toddler a little sibling in a couple of months. (Also super scared about how everyone will adjust.)
What I’m most looking forward to in 2021: healing. Healing of our racial and cultural divides, COVID, our crazy politics to get our country and world to a better place…and more Catalina and Alessandro and more Innkeeper adventures, even if they’re just Twitter snippets. Love your worlds!
The thing I am looking forward to the most in 2021…probably my PTO days with my kiddo. My work has been so crazy busy with mandatory overtime, unsuspected 12 hour shifts followed by 10 hour shifts, increased workload with less staff, no free time. I actually took a handful of days off early this year to spend time with my kid (2yrs and amazingly fun) and my family.
Covid changed my focus and slowed me down, which wasn’t entirely a bad thing. I am hopeful that I will retain some of the lessons I have learned this year and will work to build my Etsy shop into a sustainable business.
Oh man, it’s hard to decide which I look forward to more. Getting my next book out of edits and into the ‘published’ category, or finally getting to visit family after nearly two years (much less likely because *waves at world*).
On the other hand, yaaaaaaaaaay, the book is nearly here! Wheee! Cannot wait!
Omg already +1,5k comments so I feel I am very late to the giveaway party but here goes!
There are many, many things I am most looking forward to in 2021! The nearest ones to date is the release of Julie’s book “Blood Heir” then trying the gluten free Oreo that is said to be launched this January (though it might be awhile before it’s available in my place).
Then, hmm, I want to eat a lot of good food! Delicious and healthy ones are better. I plan to exercise more. I am looking forward to apply for a fully funded master program. I wish the covid19 vaccin will make differences in the coming months and that for my family to stay safe x
*vaccin : vaccine
Happy holiday season!
I see that one day in and the registration is already closed for the Saturday event 🙁 so I look forward to recording!
The thing I look forward the most to is being able to travel without limitations again!!!! Staying at home drives me absutely crazy! So people, be safe, be healthy and hope that this madness goes away one way or another!
In the UK we’ve just been put into Lockdown again. So for 2021 I’m looking forward to seeing friends and family, actually givjng them hugs & being able to visit a cafe or bar with a friend for a long natter ☺️ (& ps Blood Heir will be getting me through thus lockdown)
I’m looking forward in 2021 for COVID-19 to finally be over and I can finally go to concerts, authors signings, and return to Comic Con! Here’s hoping for a way better 2021!
Very excited to hear about new stories from you guys. Both the Kate Daniels and the Hidden Legacy series/worlds are so creative and unique, and I just love them both to bits.
This year I’m looking forward to finalizing the dissolution of a marriage I should have never gotten into. This will hopefully also involve a path toward better personal finances and savings to continue to build a better home and life for myself and my pets.
I am looking forward to seeing my family again. I live alone was blessed to be able to purchase my first home and have not been able to share with my family and most especially my nephew who is a nurse and on the front lines. I miss him and pray for him every day. Looking forward to sharing with family soon and nephew soon.
I look forward to drinking a beer on tap at a local brewery.
I’m too late for the FAQ… so sad…. maybe it’s for the best, I’m terrible at english language and I’m horribly shy, so better for me to watch the youtube late-viewing… I’m sad anyway…
For my wish for 2021…. enjoy all the simple things, keep watching the sunlight passing through the tree in font of my window, be in peace with the past and not fear the future. And maybe, finally get a puppy after 10 years without my beloved Bobby.
Happy New Year everybody !!
I’m looking forward to meeting family and friends again. A friend of mine has a new flat. I would like to see it. And I miss traveling. I would like to a go abroad again. 🙂 The whole of 2020 seemed like a time warp.
I’m looking forward to my students being able to graduate with real celebrations and doing field research, and hugging people.
As a frontline healthcare worker I haven’t been able to see my parents. I’m looking forward to the continuation of vaccinations and to be able to hug them again!! I have lots of hope for the new year!! <3
What am I looking forward to in 2021? Like everyone else who has posted visiting my brother and sister-in-law. Getting vaccinated for COVID, finally going to a concert that sold out in less than 1 hour last year, and looking forward to all the really, really good books coming out.
Plus, I really want to stop hearing about all the political crap going on in Washington D.C.
Looking forward for the corona virus to stop impacting everyone’s lives so much and to the economy getting better.
I’m looking forward to see and hug family and friends again.
I am most looking forward to having a healthy baby and of course the end to this pandemic! Also the release of Blood Heir and getting closer to the release date for Ruby Fever 🙂
Last year might have not been what we all were hoping for but I still find myself Wishing for 2021 to leave me with as much time to read as the last one did. Also, I hope to find as many great reads as I did the last few years, what a great adventure I find myself on from time to time again while sitting in my comfy armchair under a blanket…. ☺️☺️
In 2021 I’m looking forward to vaccines allowing for travel again. Then my 20 year old son can take a trip and get out of the house and away from the computer ????
I am looking forward to live without fear in 2021, and to get superpower from the vaccination 😀
I am looking forward to all the wonderful books I’ll be reading in 2021!
Looking forward to more people caring about other people. Good work, everyone who cared last year!
Along with all the usual hopes and dreams for 2021, like being able to hug friends and go out to dinner again, I’m looking forward to all the amazing books coming out this year!
Thanks for the giveaway. In 2021, I’m looking forward to feeling safe eating out.
1) Congrats on your latest book????
2) Thank you for all the laughs this year
3) I’m most looking forward to finally being able to see my mom again! ????
I looking forward to the new possibilities. Each year comes with them and I look forward to them.
Besides being excited for Blood Heir, I am excited that 2021 has a vivid vaccine and I might be able to travel to Germany to see my sister.
Quite honestly, right now Blood Heir is what I’m looking forward to the most in 2021 (and have been looking forward to for a while now, lol). But that is probably because my wife and I don’t really have anything monumental planned for the coming year :). Just continued work and PhD program and raising the kids. So Blood Heir is very looked forward to. Might go on a boating trip with my family in the summer if Covid doesn’t object, but we’ll have to see.
Thanks IA for everything you do! We love your books.
I’m looking forward to seeing family and friends again when it’s safe for all of us to get together.
I would love to recommend that my local library purchase Blood Heir, but I’m not sure the vendor is on their approved list. Will it be published as an e-book as well? If yes, where will it be available for purchase?
Hello Brenda, preorder links for the ebook version here https://ilona-andrews.com/featured-release/ for Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble etc ????
Can’t wait!
The main thing I’m looking forward to is being able to see my dad, step mom, and siblings again. My mom is only 2 hours away so we are able to meet up and go for a walk or some other outdoors activity at least once a month, but everyone else is 4 hours and 2 states away.
Other than the “being able to see people again” wish most people have, one thing I’m looking forward to in 2021 is dog shows, assuming they happen. The puppy I waited 3 years for came home this summer, but all the shows were cancelled due to covid. Next summer’s 2 shows will be the first and last chance for my 2 dogs to compete against each other before the older one moves into the Veteran category for conformation and racing. (For anyone curious, the only money involved in these races is the entry fee I pay to watch my dogs do what they love. If your dog wins, you get a fancy rosette ribbon. If they come in last, you get the “Turtle Award” which is a fancy green rosette and a turtle dog toy!)
Wow, coming in last almost sounds better than coming in first. Turtle dog toy!
I am looking forward to hanging out with my friends in the new year as well as all the new books by my favorite authors coming out.
Honestly? I’m looking forward to finding the goodness in the world and passing it on. I have made an internal commitment that I will share every shred of good news I hear and try to build a beacon of positivity. A mentor I admired used to tell me that “The world is full of good people trying to do good things” and I honestly believe this. We hear so much of the dark, it’s easy to get lost and forget all the goodness, so I’m going to search out and share that goodness and spread a little love for 2021. I know – it’s a little cringe-worthy, but even if it only improves the day of one person once, then I made a difference. Today’s good news is in my bio-link thingy (hopefully. Not sure how that works lol)
Also, I’m due to become a grandmother in September, which I am absolutely looking forward to. Can’t get much better than that!!
Okay, so it didn’t work – here you go https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-21/platypus-whisperer-pete-walsh-hobart-rivulet/12986552
I’m so excited for the release of Blood Heir! I’ve got my book pre-ordered and can’t wait to read it. Stay safe and healthy.
Since my daughter and her husband think your book series is a good one, I know I will enjoy it too.
My wish for 2021 is to hug all of my loved ones!!!
Thx, Mom! Miss you! Love you!
Looking forward to seeing friends and family in person again and life going back to (more) normal.
Enjoying all your books – discovered them in my library’s e-book collection during Covid closures.
Love your blog posts as well (Roomba story was a favourite ). Thank you!
I’m looking forward to hugging people again. I was hoping for release zoom but registration is closed
I look forward to good books (Thank You!!), a vaccine that hopefully will help to bring COVID case numbers down, possibly being able to take a time off work, possibly being able to visit my parents. Hoping for more peace, less poverty, less drug addiction, less hate in the world.
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021 – a chance to see my family again. 2020 was my first chance to visit my parents and brother in nearly five years, but because of the travel ban, that has been postponed indefinitely. I know I’m incredibly lucky that everyone is safe and healthy, because I know many aren’t so fortunate, but I still hope 2021 proves to be happier year for everyone.
I am looking forward to taking an in-person class at the local community college. It is one of the things I had planned to do during my retirement.
My mother is 86, and she now lives with me and my husband. She doesn’t get to go ANYWHERE until she receives the vaccine, so I’ve been cutting her hair. Her 2021 goal is to get her hair cut by someone who knows what they are doing!
I’m looking forward to reading more books, particularly in the fantasy genre.
I’m looking forward to traveling and seeing older relatives again when it’s safe
I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir and hoping for the second Hugh book, but COMPLETELY willing to wait.
On a more serious note, I can’t wait until I’m able to get the vaccine. I haven’t been inside a business or with my family since March 2020 (there are very good medical reasons for this). I just want to be able to grab some milk from a store myself again.
I am looking forward to seeing family and friends succeed in 2021, getting promotions, travelling, seeing loved ones, anything that will make them happy.
I’m looking forward to our daughter returning from a church mission. She left in 2019 and we wanted her back all of 2020, but she is doing good work and loving it. Counting down, only 50 days left!
I’m bummed the registration is closed already! Will it be live broadcast to the other platforms, or just recorded and shown later? Basically, is there a way just to watch the Q&A live? Regardless, I’ll be watching eventually so thanks for doing it for us.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to more empathy for each other and the vaccine!
I am looking forward to connecting in person with my friends and family – but most especially to be able to see my mom and give her a hug.
I am looking forward to being vaccinated and having friends over for dinner inside.
Of course, first things first: the release of Blood Heir! I’m also looking forward to graduating from my Masters program and starting my full time position in June. Because I will be the first to successfully graduate from college (with a Masters at that!), this has been my proudest moment.
Looking forward to being able to travel and see family and friends again when it is safe to do so (hopefully this year!).
I am looking forward to hugging my students and seeing their faces without masks. (Also Girls Day’s out)
I’m looking forward to read Blood Heir and stay a little longer in KD’s world 😉
But all over this, I’m looking forward for a year without Covid for everybody and to being able to have dinner outside with friends I can hug.
I’m looking forward to read Blood Heir and stay a little longer in KD’s world 😉
But all over this, I’m looking forward for a year without Covid for everybody and to being able to have dinner outside with friends I can hug.
I look forward to another year of homeschooling my kid, running around the yard chasing my kids, and reading books (mostly House Andrews of course!) when I can. 🙂
I’m looking forward to having the freedom to do normal things without worrying I will make myself or others sick. I’m a homebody most of the time, but even I’m feeling closed in.
I’m looking forward to a new president, some real peace of mind and maybe just a very small chance that all Americans will come together with a smidgen of natural affection for one another.
I want to get everyone vaccinated to be able to visit with and hug my family and friends again. Who knew having a cup of tea with a neighbor would ever be such a big deal?
Definetly travelling.
Looking forward to a new year, new books to read…. a little more normality and kindness would be welcome as well 🙂
I have a group of friends I’ve been playing dnd with online every week for 3 years now. We’ve never met up in person. If covid dies down by Halloween the plan is for us all to meet up together in Texas and play in person for the first time ever!
I am so excited!
I am looking forward to having big gatherings again.
I’m looking forward to all the new books coming out this year!!! Very excited to start the year with Blood Heir.
A long-time friend of mine, from rural Virginia, used to correct her daughter’s bad behavior by saying; “Heather honey, don’t do that, that’s ugly!” (imagine hearing it in a soft southern accent!!) In 2021 I look forward to, and hope very much for, a less “ugly” America! Oh, and a signed copy of “Small Magics”!!!!
Getting engaged (I helped pick the ring so it’s hard to hide that it will happen from me ;)), hopefully passing my Step 2 test (part of us medical licensing exams), finishing up my 3rd year of medical school, and to hopefully seeing more family and finally mourning together the losses we have had in our family.
Hello Ilona & Gordon!
I am so happy about the release of Blood Heir. Your books and the chapters you posted of BH helped me cope with the most terrible year of my life -worst than loosing my husband, leaving me on the brink of bankruptcy.
What I hope for 2021 is getting back on my feet, completing my recovery out of the hospital and getting back on the track I was before Covid brought my life to a halt. I want to get a job in my field -I got a Master in History of Art after all- that will allow me to live by myself again, not out of my friend’s couch, and finally going back to Uni to complete the PhD project I’ve been dreaming about all this time.
Blessings upon you, my dear authors and my deep gratitude for the gift of your wonderful stories.
Kindly,
Socorro
My wife who works in a hospital lab getting a vaccine
Thank you for your amazing books. I’m looking forward to meeting my new daughter-in-law in person My son and his wife got married during lockdown and I haven’t been able to travel there due to covid.
I’m looking forward to not being afraid every moment of the day that an insane despot is going to start WW3.
I am most hopeful that we can hit a reset button on life. I’d like to see a year where we take care of each other instead of tear each other down; where we value different opinions and cultures instead of using them to degrade each other; and where we work synchronously instead of divisively on global issues like climate, poverty, and equity. That’s my wish for 2021!
What I’m looking forward to most (and praying it will be possible) is play dates and birthdays parties for my kids. I’m not very social, but my kiddos are. They’ve had a hard time with social distancing. So I’m looking forward to having a house full of my kid’s friends.
Being able to see and hug my family, have dinner with friends, and reading Julie’s story.
In 2021 I am looking forward to all my book pre-orders. Also, there is the possibility of a kitten, since I lost my 2 oldest in 2020.
I am most looking forward to exploring more of the outdoors with my kids. They’re legs are long enough now to start going for some bigger adventures.
Looking forward to the birth of my son! (And the end of pregnancy ????)
Looking forward to all the excellent book releases happening this year and finding new and creative ways to connect with people.
Yay! Totally excited for blood heir! As far as 2021… I’m really hoping covid numbers will go down so that we can safely travel again. We miss going on adventures. Especially ones that let us visit family since we live quite far from ours.
I am most looking forward to vaccinations and hugging people again — lots and lots of hugging.
Happy New Year!
I’m looking forward to peace and consistency. Your book is such a wonderful thing to look forward to! Thank you for this gift.
Okey first of I am really excited for the new book! :3
Secondly sorry for bad english 😀
and third i am really looking forward to marry my boyfriend this year and all the new books that are releasing this year and the following years to come 😀 and that we might get to build our own home (my boyfriend(soon husband) and I)
Last i really love your work!
Hope you had a nice and relaxing start into the new year
(i am not sure if i allready left a commit on here so better safe to do it again if i havent done it allready :D)
I’m looking forward to seeing friends outdoors again once the weather starts warming up, and hopefully giving them huge hugs later this year! Man, I miss hugs.
As everyone I am looking forward to the vaccine so I will not pick that.
I am really looking forward toward PS5 with the Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster. I loved these games so much and am looking forward to playing them again with better optics
Long term, I am looking forward to Covid vaccinations being available to everyone with minimal cost (cup at half full since I’m in the US)..
Near term, I am looking forward to my birthday, Jan 12, since the book is being released that day. Then I can stop failing to pre-order something that I already pre-ordered.
Love all your writing, I love the BDH, and I wish you all the very best year.
Hi all. For 2021 I’m really looking forward to getting out and about. Due to health issues I haven’t left the house in nearly a year.
Thank goodness for books!
Love to all
I’m looking forward to resuming our large family dinners in 2021!
Travel!
Looking forward to all the new books being released this year.
I’m looking forward to… *gestures broadly at everything” this all getting better. COVID, distance learning for my kiddo, going to eat at a Mexican restaurant and having all the chips and salsa, the last full year of my 30s. And the books, sweet sanity saving books…
Looking forward to COVID 19 not being in the news and a return to some form of normality. Meeting colleagues, friends and relatives socially again; theatres, cinemas, the olympics, a vacation somewhere other than my backyard…
I think I am most looking forward to the end of the political and pandemic chaos. We need some peace and quiet to recuperate from the mess of 2020.
Looking forward to vaccines, hugging folks again and travel!
I’m looking forward to getting vaccinated and (hopefully) helping take my grandmother on her (probably) last trip to Texas. If we all get the vaccine soon enough, we might even make it in time to see the blue bonnets! 🙂
I am looking forward to spending time with my parents, sisters and niece. COVID has kept us from spending any time together in person. I miss them.
I’m looking forward to returning to work in 2021!
In 2021 I’m looking forward to touching things:
I want to hold my father’s hand in the care home. I want to touch my adult children.
I want to pick up things in shops and look at them closely without having to buy them because I have touched them. I don’t want to only buy stuff via the internet and then feel guilty because I’m putting small shops out of business.
I want to touch a gate on a walk without pulling my sleeve over my hand and then wiping my sleeve in the grass.
I don’t want to use hand sanitizer again for quite a while.
I am looking forward the spring seeding in the greenhouse of my cool new job at an organic farm! I have had the gratifying opportunity to contribute to feeding my community at a local level by working at a small farm. There is more food insecurity in my neighborhood than I realized before Covid-19. The work can be difficult; physically demanding, dealing with all types of weather and the small population of the public that is horrendous, but I love it!
In 2021 I am looking forward to hugging people again. Also reading more books, including Blood Heir.
Looking forward to hug my nephews again. Hopefully everyone will stay save.
Looking forward to seeing friends and family in person again when it’s safe. Not looking forward to having to go back into the office though lol ????
I’m most looking forward to finally putting some work into losing weight, being healthier and loving my body. 2021 is the year!
Can’t wait for Blood Heir. Unfortunately can’t make Zoom, but hoping there will be a recording for later watching. Thanks for the giveaway!
Honestly, I’m just hoping for my dad to get fully well. He spent Christmas in hospital with complications from surgery (blood clots and bleeding issues). There’s plenty I’d love to have happen but mostly I just want my dad well and back to his usual strong, super active self.
Aww what a sweet way to start the year! ^^
In 2021, I’m praying and looking forward to seeing my family and loved ones with no restrictions and no fear! I hope we all get the chance to hug our special people before the year is out.
Looking forward to hugs!
I am looking forward to the release of Blood Heir (of course) and life getting back to normal.
Looking forward to trying to convince my significant other to get puppies and kittens in the house (unlikely but one must try!). Other stuff for 2021 – get married, stay in good health, learn languages.
Thank you guys for hosting all of this and for doing a giveaway!
I’m almost done with re-listening to the series again! Can’t wait for the new one. Does this mean that the Grey Wolf series won’t continue? Magic Stars was listed as book 1 in the Grey Wolf series I thought I saw somewhere.
Not at this time ????.
I am looking forward to eating at restaurants again, going to the gym, and live entertainment ( concert, plays, festivals).
Most looking forward to getting vaccinated and going camping!
Thank you for helping entertain us, especially during this crappy year.
In 2021 I am most looking forward to the ability to travel to see my family, and possibly travel to Europe for vacation since our Norwegian fjords cruise last April was cancelled. I am also looking forward to being able to go out to eat to support our local restaurants (those that are still open).
I am looking forward to a summer without being masked. Here’s to hoping the vaccination is effective and rolled out ASAP. Thanks for your creativity!
Looking forward to being able to open up my clinical research project again (currently paused due to COVID numbers) and not being stuck as a postdoc forever.
Looking forwards to our family Summer vacation which we had to cancel last year.
Looking forward for my nephew/niece being born this summer. My brother is having his first child and I cannot wait to babysit and to spoil the baby))))
I commented yesterday in order to be entered into the giveaway but it seems to not have posted.
I’m most excited about finishing my DIY kitchen renovation. It’s already been about 3 weeks and it’s looking good but it’s going to take me longer than I realized…
I think what I most looking forward is a hug. A big warm hug from my friend and family. As I’m living alone it’s what I miss the most.
What I am looking forward to most in 2021: (1) worrying less about family members dying – we have our first COVID case in the family right now (my mother, who is asymptomatic, thankfully) so this is front of mind. ; (2) the world (hopefully) opening up again. I want to go to Morocco, Scotland, and Lake Baikal, in Russia. Fingers crossed; (3) hopefully, finishing my book. Fingers crossed on that too. and, (4) New releases from many of my favorite authors, despite the crisis in the publishing industry over the last year.
Just adding: (5) Seeing / hugging my grandma. She turned 100 on September 5 and I usually go see her 4x/year. We did a zoom party for her, but she didn’t really understand what was going on. Because of COVID, I haven’t seen her in person in over a year. To be fair, I’ve been super lucky this year compared with a lot of other folks, so you should pick someone else for the prize. This was a good exercise though.
I am most looking forward to getting the pandemic under control and getting life back to some sort of normalcy.
I’m looking forward to taking more trips with my family. We’re getting a minivan so that we can take more road trips. I’m not looking forward to parking it in the garage since it’ll be a tight fit but maybe I’ll get better at parking 🙂
I am looking forward to a good amount this year, including Blood Heir, it being winter right now though, I am mostly looking forward to the spring
I’m an elementary music teacher. Been teaching a LONG time. My days are normally filled with hugs and singing and dancing and playing instruments and listening to my 800 school kids. Teaching from home is always dreadful, but trying to do music in a pandemic is just the worst. I look forward to the vaccines and to things being safe enough for us to be face to face making music together. Can’t wait.
I am looking forward to continuing my Yoga practice
For the giveaway : looking forward the birth of my second child 🙂
Looking forward to a year of newfound appreciation–for hugs, guests in our home, smiles we can see, handshakes…hoping we’re better people for what we’ve endured!
I’m looking forward to seeing people again. And new books!
I am looking forward to spending more time with my family in 2021
Happy new books for 2021. Can’t wait to browse inside a real bookstore again.
This past year has not been the worst year I’ve personally had in my life, but it’s been a collectively awful year for the country. 2021 brings hope of correcting an awful lot of that terribleness. For myself, I look forward to building my real estate business into something that lets me be financially independent, as well as allowing me to start working towards mitigating homelessness in Houston. I have so many ideas and plans, and my intent is to integrate those plans as I grow.
I’m looking forward to my first year of true recovery after a really tough divorce that left me feeling like I had lost last of my identity as a person. I’ve spent nearly four years rebuilding myself as an independent individual, and I’m finally standing on my own feet.
I’m looking forward to traveling again. There’s so much of the world that I haven’t seen. It’s so big and beautiful out there. It’s time to go experience it.
Happy New Year everyone!
I wish you all happiness and health as I’m looking forward the end of this pandemic and hugging the people that are precious to me!!
In 2021 I am most looking forward to a trip to visit my in laws in May. Hoping this will be a good year!
I am looking forward to hugging people, especially family and friends. I miss hugging so much! I’m really looking forward to a vacation, any vacation, anywhere, please. I’m hoping for a calmer and more positive year.
I’m also looking forward to good books and continuing to read thus blog. This site has been a life saver for many years of really bad stuff, not just covid for me ;). So thank you House Andrews and BDH. Happy New Year, goodbye 2020!
Looking forward to blood heir ???? and hopefully being able to go places again
Thanks for the giveaway! I am so excited about your upcoming book releases.
*In 2021, I am looking being able to give real hugs to my parents, my niece, my brother and the rest of my family and hang out with them in person instead of just video calls.
I am looking forward an happier year than 2020. I wish for a “normal” life again, so we could go on conventions.
I’m also looking forward all the book release in 2021 !!!!
I am looking forward to traveling again.
I am looking forward to finishing building our house and moving in. 🙂
I am looking forward to seeing my family, being able to go out to different places, and good books (of course).
I’m excited about all the books that I know are coming out this year and where they will take me while isolating
I look forward to learn from past mistakes and to appreciate more :).
I’m looking forward to the privilege of another year. I hope to use it wisely. Thank you for bringing joy to so many with your wonderful books. I’ve been a fan since your very first publication and truly appreciate your work.
Thank you for all your hard work, diligence and artistry. I appreciate your books for the fantastic worlds and characters that allow me to escape reality and return refreshed.
I’m looking forward to reading more of your books (and rereading your series) and crocheting in my free time. I don’t have a whole lot of free time with remote learning kids at home but I am thankful that I can get lost in a book or yarn work!
I’m looking forward to seeing my friends and family in person instead of via Zoom. However, my friends and i have had some awesome drinking parties via Zoom.
I’m looking forward to taking a vacation that is restful.
I’m looking forward to the new job I got that starts in 2021, and I’m really hoping that by the fall of 2021 I’ll be able to travel out of the country!
Thanks for the giveaway
and looking forward to a vaccination
I am looking forward to getting two pokes in the arm! And then going on a nice, long road trip the month following.
Looking forward to the most? Blood Heir! Anything else by House Andrews! Oh, and hopefully life in general and healing for the whole world. 🙂
I’m very much looking forward to books in 2021! Not only yours (though I very much am), but also new books in several favorite series, such as A Court of Silver Flames and The Iron Raven! So! Many! Books!
I’m looking forward to all of the wonderful books being released this year!
For 2021 I just want my children to be able to have a normal school day program. With 3 kids all in elementary I’m exhausted trying to keep up.
I am looking forward to going on vacation again!
Oh, and being able to give my parents a hug in person.
I look forward to hugging my elderly mother. I’m a COVID ICU RN and she lives states away from me. I haven’t seen her in over a year, which is forever for us. Thank goodness for Facetime!
Oh, I’m looking forward to being able to rest more consistently, I’m super hoping this year is less chaotic *fingers crossed*
I am looking forward to the new books being uploaded for 2021.
Frankly I am looking forward to most is the cessation of election crap. I am also really looking forward to Blood Heir. I have always loved Julie and still can’t understand the anti-Julie crap. You, Nalini Singh and the Chateau Diaries (You Tube) are what kept me going last year. Thank you so much for you worlds and words.
In 2021 I’m most looking forward to getting vaccinated! And possibly going for a real vacation, although I don’t have high hopes.
I’m looking forward to this summer, by which point I’ll hopefully be able to finally take a vacation and relax with a good book or ten, after a year of double shifts and working weekends due to COVID. My hope is that the world will begin to recover enough by then. Fingers crossed!!
I am most looking forward to a visit from our alien friends! Beam me on up. Just kidding… I’m most looking forward to another year of growth, 2020 was hard but it was a great learning experience. I want to carry that into 2021! Many blessings.
I am looking forward to being able to hopefully go somewhere besides the grocery store lol.
I am looking forward to getting my sister hooked on your books so then we have something to “zoom” about instead of just talking about kiddos.
I’m looking forward to going out to restaurants, movie theaters, and anywhere that is not home, work, or the grocery store. I’m always on the look out for new books.
I look forward to moving. Not the task itself with covid, but a new being in a new and different place.
I’m looking forward to getting to see my family again after we all get covid vaccines!
I am looking forward to seeing my family for the first time in almost three years plus going on holiday with a big suitcase full of books 🙂
In 2021, I am most looking forward to my mom finishing chemo treatments! (And of course looking forward to people getting the vaccine! ????)
I’m looking forward to spend more time with my family when it will be safe to see each other again.
I used to visit my parents or siblings very often. So right now I’m really missing the family time.
I’m really looking forward to Blood Heir being published, because of well, obvious reasons.
But, I’m really looking forward to getting a puppy. Our last fur baby ended up very suddenly passing last year and it was only a few days after his 1st birthday. He had seizures and we thought we had them under control. They were getting less in number and longer in between episodes, and then… yeah. It was utterly heartbreaking. He was my very demanding buddy but very much like one of my kids.
Anywho. Happy times now. We found out that our past pup’s parents just so happen to be having another litter. (And no there is no known history amongst his family or litter mates for seizure disorders. Most likely our last fur boy had idiopathic seizures- meaning we don’t know why. The brain and all its glory is still relatively unknown.) So, in a few more weeks, we will be welcoming a new fur baby. (wish us luck on coming up with a good solid name and strength for all the crate, potty, and general puppy obedience training to come)
I am looking forward to spending more time with my family, discovering new books et hopefully being able to travel abroad again.
I’m looking forward to longer days and more sunshine and time outside, hopefully starting somewhat soon! And, you know. Books, family, good food, music. Stuff. 🙂
I am looking forward to my 24th birthday. I’m planning on staying up for 24 hours doing fun things. Hopefully the world will be a bit less crazy when that time rolls around.
In 2021…I’m looking forward to finding work that I want to do and creatively developing my music and writing skills. I’m a recent grad and am terrified!!!! Take care, Andrews fam~
I’m looking forward to Blood Heir and a stable/new job *fingers crossed*
I’m looking foreword to a successful end to my first year of teaching which has been overwhelming at times and hopefully being able to start next school year safely and eventually see all of my students faces.
Also looking foreword to letting my children play at parks and with other children and have a normal childhood.
I look forward to the possibility of taking my 2 year old out into the world again. We go on walks outdoors in my neighborhood but that’s pretty much it. I miss taking her to the grocery store or to visit family. I want to take her to the library. We live in a state without mask mandates so I try to avoid going places. The world might never go back to normal. I accept that. However, I hope that 2021 will bring me less fear and anxiety. I hope it brings my daughter more opportunities to explore and have adventures.
I’m looking forward to it not being 2020! 🙂 Actually, I’m excited about my first foray into bullet journaling.
Thank you for the joy your creativity and imagination has given us. A healthier, kinder 2021 to all.
In 2021 I am most looking forward to seeing science history in action as the vaccine rollout really gets underway. Of course this will (hopefully) lead to something else I’m looking forward to, seeing family and friends again without worry!
In 2021, I want to go to a movie theater and see Dune. Frank Herbert’s series is amazing and deserves a good adaptation.
Besides looking forward to lots of new books, I’m looking to expand my family, there is a wedding , a birth (not to the same couple), a big family reunion (post pandemic) in which I will be finally able to hug and kiss everyone.
Thank you for your books and to an enjoyable blog.
I am looking forward to taking my quarantine puppy home to meet my parents for the first time.
Happy New Year!
In this moment, and above all else, the release of Blood Heir is what I look forward to most. 12 midnight on 12 Jan!
I have been counting the days. ????
I am looking forward to many things in 2021! First and foremost is the covid vaccine.
I’m most looking forward to the kids coming back to school. At this moment, I’m sitting in an empty school building and it’s surreal–buildings that are meant to cater to many people are very strange when they’re not filled.
I miss my kids, and I know that for a large number of them, school is valuable beyond simple academics.
I’m looking forward to May. I have booked the month off work (never had so much time off) and have been saving up to go travelling for the month but with Covid that might not happen. So May will be filled with plenty of good food and great books to read while snuggled in bed. Can’t wait.
In 2021 I’m looking forward to us hopefully getting Covid under control so we can all leave the house again, and I can have a wedding reception. (Fingers crossed) we had a cute little ceremony but I’d love to be able to celebrate with all of my friends!
I’m also looking forward to any books you two publish, because you’re awesome! 🙂
More than anything I’m looking forward to being able to see friends and family. To have a reduction in the tremendous fear that I will be the one to bring something home that kills someone I love, because my job might make it unavoidable. My wife and I are both first responders and our city FDs were able to already administer our first dose of the vaccine. We feel very fortunate.
When our at risk family members get their vaccines as well, we can finally have a house warming party. Return to a semblance of normalcy.
And I look forward to a news cycle that might bring us hope, and the promise of change and progress, instead of fear and hate. We have had more than enough of that for a lifetime.
I’m looking forward to the possible end of year-based memes.
The Julian calendar may be the root of some problems. But c,’mon, not ALL of them.
I’m looking forward to politics dying down to a dull roar, new books and to my job being continued to work from home.
I’m really looking forward to painting a picture for the living room.
Also gardening, and summer swimming.
A real bonus would be being able to travel again to see the family. Being an expat is hard when you cannot travel.
The thing I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is for all my anime/manga that was put on hold to finally be released into my loving embrace.
I’m officially retired as of yesterday, and I’m looking forward to traveling! Much traveling.
I’m looking forward to officially meeting my best friend’s new baby. She lives in the country and, being from a city, I didn’t want to risk passing any evil viruses their way.
2021 Anticipations:
Increased hope
Time to enjoy the moment
Excellent reading
Quilting
Hugs
Saying goodbye to the year of firsts without my mom
In 2021 I look forward to being able to travel to visit friends and family, most especially my baby sister who is in Egypt and hoping to get married this year!
PS Thank you House Andrews for getting me through the pandemic. I’ve just finished re-reading everything again ^_^
In 2021, I am looking forward to meeting our third daughter (due next week!) and hopefully reading a ton on my maternity leave (probably wishful thinking with three kids). Also, looking forward to my extended family getting their Covid vaccines so we can finally see each other again.
I’m looking forward to seeing people at work again! And completing AC Valhalla and playing more Borderlands. But not at work.
And reading! So much reading. Also, not at work. (So sad…)
I am looking forward to meeting my new niece/nephew and watching the end of COVID so I can experience being a doctor while not in the midst of a pandemic.
Really looking forward to reading Blood heir.
As to hopes for 2021, our family suffered a lot of loss in 2020. This coming year I hope for the easing of grief and the chance for a rainbow after so much rain.
It was a rough year for many though. Wishing for 2021 to be a brighter year for everyone.
For 2021, I’ve always had a passion for an inclusive, collaborative and just world. I see myself as a ripple of change; someone who skips stones across multiple ponds of communities, creating a ripple effect through dialogue and the interrogation of reality. Knowing that being a peace-stirrer means walking through conflict to dismantle the walls that can divide us as people, so that we can better acknowledge our similarities and appreciate our differences. I want to do what I can to see our nation live up to its potential and I feel so many people are willing but don’t now what to do. Needless to say with this amount of intensity- I’m looking forward to reading all of your books. thx.
The thing I’m most looking forward to? Seeing my parents and my father-in-law in person. We haven’t seen my FiL since May of 2019 – he was supposed to come to us in April of 2020 (he’s in Canada and we’re in the States), but we all know how well that went. Video calls are great, but he’s late 70’s, has about four known ‘co-morbidities’, and our kiddo is his only grandchild – video calls don’t do hugs.
My parents are ALSO in Canada, and we put them on a plane March 17th – they were supposed to be with us another two weeks, but the cases locally were going up and we were worried. They were on the plane, pushing back from the gate, when Trudeau announced that the border would be closing in 24 hours…
We knew they’d miss the regularly scheduled May trip – but we figured we’d see them for the September trip. When August came and went, we booked to go home for Christmas… but the flights were cancelled, and the quarantine regs meant we couldn’t go. This February’s trip is already cancelled – my mom is holding out hope for May, but me? Maybe September, if the vaccination programs go well.
I miss my family. My brother and SiL and their kids live an hour from us, so we do the occasional socially-distant outdoor visit, but the clock is ticking for our parents, and 4000 miles and a federal border is just too far.
I am looking forward to keeping up with both old friends and new ones that were brought closer in 2020. 🙂
Whew!! Looking forward to the vaccination and getting back into my classroom (I’ve been teaching remotely since March)!
I am looking forward to a good year as we continue to find our new normal.
I’m most looking forward to the Blood Heir release and being able to binge all these books at home ????????
I am so looking forward to Blood Heir, just one more week! So far the best of 2021.
Thank you so much guys for this book, to say I’m looking forward to it would be an understatement. I have been waiting for it ever since Kate’s ended and thought it would never come. To receive chapters during this ordeal meant so much and to now be getting a whole book its the best Xmas present ever!!! Thank you!!!!!!
But what i am looking forward to most this year is hopefully families being able to see each other again safely.
Love you guys!
looking forward to being a university student and majoring in my favourite subject!
Love all the books. Rereading them during Covid. Can’t wait for the new book.
I am looking forward to things getting back to normal and actually following a plan!
I am looking forward to seeing my friends and family in 2021
For 2021, looking forward to all the books being published! I’ve preordered a bunch and it’s a wonderful surprise when I get the shipping notification. Also looking forward to the pandemic crisis to no longer be a pandemic.
Dear Ilona and Gordon,
that was a hard question, so I decided to split it up – hope that’s not considered cheating! Professionally, I look forward to finishing my PhD and five hard and sometimes grueling years of self-doubt and self-depreciation. Personally, I hope to be able to visit my extended family, who live on another continent, more often this year – so let’s hope the vaccination rate rises further 🙂
I wish you guys a happy new year and am looking forward to Blood heir!
Best,
Yu
I am most looking forward to seeing (and HUGGING) my siblings again. They are all considerably older than I, so I have been careful to stay away from them. Phone calls just don’t cut it. Have already told my boss I’ll be off from Dec 22 to Jan 5 so we can all be together NEXT Christmas
In 2021, I am looking forward to less hate, and more compassion, more people doing what they can to help each other. Better health, less strife. Towards COVID19 becoming less of a threat as more people are successfully vaccinated. I know it will be slow and not an instant fix, but I am looking forward, with hope.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to getting (& starting) a job, managing to get my house organized & some improvements done, & *hopefully* being able to safely travel to visit with family & friends.
I’m looking forward to seeing my friends again in 2021, it’s been nearly two years due to distance and COVID.
We hope to see you back at Murder By The Books in Houston Soon…..
Desperately looking forward to the first weeklong vacation since I started my first big girl job ever last year. I had no idea what I was getting into with healthcare and the pandemic is the icing. My staycation conveniently begins on Blood Heir’s book birthday. We know what I’ll be doing all day hallelujah
I’m looking forward to making 2021 the year we stomp a mud hole in Covid whilst proving we are a strong adaptable group of people. I’m kicking off by taking my second vaccine tomorrow. I look forward to seeing my patients smiling faces again. ❤️
I am most looking forward to in person schooling. Working from home while doing virtual school with 5 kids is for the birds.
I am looking forward to setting up my garden as a desert oasis habitat for the desert tortoise I plan to adopt once hibernation season ends. And the local birds, gophers, butterflies, bees, and opposums, lol!
I’m looking forward to so many new releases.
I retired in October of COVID-19 (that’s what I call 2019 now!) and have re-read all my favourite books, which needless to say, are all of yours, every series, in both hardcover and e books. I love everything you have written! So my 2021 “looking forward to experiencing” wish is to enjoy any new books you grace us with, as well as any new books by other authors I enjoy. Reading your blog is one of the ways I find new authors, like R. J. Blain, or Jesse Mihalik to read and enjoy their works, and to be reminded of favourites I have forgotten, like Jeanine Frost.
Thank you for your imagination, your amazing writing skills, and your boundless energy! Wishing you both a great 2021!
I’m hoping for good health and stability for all my family, friends, my husband, and myself. Both of those have been some things we have had in short supply this last year.
Going Home… Balik Kampung.
The thing I’m most looking forward to in 2021 is (hopefully!) getting the vaccine, so I can browse at the library again! I requested that my library purchase Blood Heir
Other than Blood Hier, looking forward to life getting back to so e semblance of normalcy!
Reading more books! 🙂
2021 started horrible for me and I don’t have much hope for it to be honest. As much as I miss my family and friends right now due to Corona, I really hope I will be able to go to Finnland, visit my favourite sled-dog camp, having long walks in the woods with my favourite huskys and time with just the dogs and me, who patiently listen to any silly stories I tell and thus give all the love and cuddles they get from me right back.
I want to go there early autumn…so, I just might be able to take Ruby Fever with me and read it in the evenings in front of the fireplace.
Right now that’s all I wish from this year.
I am hoping to learn french this year!
That’s so cool !
The free app Busuu is quite nice for it and allows you to be corrected by native speakers (such as myself)
Good luck !
I am most looking forward to, hopefully, being able to visit friends and having friends visit us. If that’s still not possible I’m always looking forward to reading new books!
To enter the Giveaway! What I am looking forward to in 2021 is maybe, hopefully holding my wedding reception. My husband and I didn’t delay our wedding. We had it at the church and I wore my lacy dress and my sister and BFF their bright flowery dresses. My bouquet had the peonies. We played a tape of my husbands nephew singing Ave Maria. And of course My Man was there! But we do want to host all our family and have our friend’s band play and dance and eat the 9-layer 5-filling cake my husband designed with the very adventurous baker. Heck, I rented a giant Jenga!! If only only the virus will cooperate. If not, I’ll still be married and happy. But married, happy, dancing, cake-eating, Giant Jenga-ing is even better!
Subterranean Press’s illustration-filled limited editions are sometimes not quite to my taste (calling me picky about portraits is an understatement, and I’m not really into comics-style drawings) but Small Magics looks “absolutely gorgeous” indeed! I definitely want in on this giveaway!
I am about 96% positive I didn’t comment before, so apologies if I’m wrong — it
wasn’t on purpose.
Now, what I’m looking forward to most in 2021? I’m afraid to say I look forward to going out without a mask and without worrying about other people’s carelessness, because I don’t want to jinx myself/ my state (NY)/ and wider.
Tbh, I can’t think of anything particularly cheery to point to. Personally, most of all, I can’t wait until I’m no longer dealing with all the straggling details of insurance and account-changes/-closures, etc., related to my elderly father’s death a couple months ago. COVID makes everything more complicated: telephone hold-times, getting signatures, … and I’m not the most organized person to begin with.
His final illness was quick = better for him, but difficult for me, and for my sister, who was/is stuck in a different state, given the travel restrictions. Vidcalls were only a bit better than nothing, given how out of it Dad was. I’m still living in the family home, and it’s got decades worth of STUFF accumulated, but that (cleaning/clearing) is a separate issue, other than the confusion of his [non]-filing.
Anyway, I wish everyone a MUCH, MUCH BETTER 2021!
I am looking forward to doing some cross country skiing and sledding now that there is finally some snow on the ground where I live. 🙂
I’m looking forward to a year where I can listen to the news, and not be depressed. Hopefully not so stressed every time I hear anything political. New books coming out so I can be transported away from everything, even temporarily. 🙂 Covid vaccine so my high risk family members can stay safe.
I am looking forward to answered questions in mundane as well as in literary life. Will corona go away, please???? Will Derek finally tell Julie he knows who she is? How will Ascanio finally realize he loves Barabbas’ daughter? And why is Roman secretly looking for Mouse? I have no idea even what questions to ask but 2021 has got to be better than 2020.
Looking forward to Blood Heir and wishing you a runaway hit!
Being able to visit my Dad in Australia without quarantining for 2 weeks on the way back… Fingers crossed ????
Please enter me in giveaway. Happily counting down the days to the release and spreading the news about the new book to everyone!
What I am looking forward to is JOY. The ability to enjoy the company of our friends and family. Whether it is in a night out, or simply sitting around talking and/or playing games. Want a time when we are not constantly being reminded of all the infected people and the deaths but simply a time to enjoy our lives and those we love
Looking forward to whatever this year throws at me.
I would love to go to see my extended family once again. We are huggers.
I am looking forward to the end of social distancing, especially for extended family! And Blood Heir, of course ☺️
I’m most looking forward to seeing live music again. Here’s hoping it actually happens!!
Happy New Year!
Expanding my flower gardens, once the nice weather gets here.
Never thought I would miss grocery shopping.
Reading Blood Heir, my pre-order is in, can’t wait to read it!
I am looking forward to no more “surprises” from 2020. In fact, 2020 can just go sit in a corner. I’m hoping for better health and some normalcy for everyone.
Looking forward to more books to read this year!
…. those by House Andrews and Nalini Singh the most.
Being able to visit my sister again.
I’m looking forward to being able to do stuff! I hope everyone is able to get a vaccine, so we all don’t have to be fearful of getting this virus any longer. I am also looking forward to seeing family (in person) and giving hugs!
I am most looking forward to the fear to do with Covid being over. I would like to not be afraid to congregate with people, hug friends, and travel to places without fear of getting Covid, or passing it to someone else. I like being a homebody, but I don’t like being at home and afraid to leave.
I’m looking forward to getting back into crafting now that I finally made the leap to invest in the tools I needed. Homemade wardrobe, here we go!
I am hoping for heath and happiness for my family in the new year, and I want to be more organized like Marie Kondo , and maybe go to Europe on vacation after covid settles down.
2021… I’m looking forward to (hopefully) meeting my niece Molly for the first time, as we live in different countries, so my plans to visit her in 2020 were not to be. Fingers crossed for a smooth vaccine rollout!
2021 – I’m wishing for a healthy year – for everyone. And hugs; we all need hugs. And time with family and friends. I want to be able to play games with my grandchildren – and exchange Christmas presents. And cuddle my great-granddaughter!
And read Blood Heir. I’ve been looking forward to revisiting Kate’s Atlanta forever as some of my most favorite “characters” live there.
Peace.
I’m most looking forward to getting a course of vaccines.
I am looking forward to waking up each morning with a calm and peaceful mindset. Every day this past year has felt like carrying around a 50 lb emotional backpack that you can never set down. But in truth, I think we won’t see this pressure ease up this year, because all the things that sucked about 2020 will still be ongoing through at least summer to fall. But that is my wish for 2021, to have my spirit lightened.
self care self care SELF CARE! <3
I’m looking forward to being a bridesmaid for the first time at the end of 2021! (Hopefully.) The wedding will also give me a good excuse to hang out with everyone I’ve missed in 2020!
Being able to go places and see people.
I’m looking forward to new book releases by my fav authors.
I’m most looking forward to seeing my parents that live in a different city. Also to be able to have a night out without kids just my wife and I.
Wait, Samhain is dead? *gasp* is it a joke or have I missed this?
Anyway, in 2021 Im really, really looking forward to seeing and playing with my board game group tribe again. Hopefully soon!
After getting vaccinated, and my (adult) kids getting vaccinated, hugging them. So tired of the air hugs. Oh and getting my monthly pedicures again!
Looking forward to new book and tv releases!! Always a fun escape from reality.
What I’m most looking forward to? A return to normality. Blood Heir. Getting a pint of beer in a pub. Figuring out what my next move in life is. 🙂
Can’t wait!! In 2021, the one thing I’m looking forward to is doing new things (new work schedule, new ways to ‘vacations’, etc).
I am most looking forward to moving my elderly parents to within 5 minutes of me instead of a 13 hour drive and ferry ride. Big family Christmas with us all. The end of quarantine would be great as well.
I’m looking forward to gardening and reading more this year. Taking back some of my more mentally relaxing things.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Looking forward to my kids going back to in-person schooling. One is graduating middle school and the other high school this spring. I have given up hope of either getting an in-person graduation, but I’m hopeful that by the fall they will be able to socialize and be in classrooms again.
Most looking forward to enjoying the world beyond these four walls. Until then, I rely on books to take me to other worlds and other times because “there is no frigate like a book …”
I am looking forward to be able to spend times with family and friends who are not in my current bubble.
I am looking forward to camping! I live in one of the most beautiful places in the world and I want to explore more of the glacier lakes and deep silent forests and watch my kids play and climb and chase each other all while breathing the crispest mountain air you can imagine.
I’m in the process of leaving the army, and looking forward to being free from constraints and able to take some time off to hike and spend time with my family. And of course read 🙂
I’m looking forward to (eventually) being able to use the pool and spa at my local gym. It’s a little thing, but being in the water gives me such joy.
Hi! I’m looking forward to the vaccine and *hopefully* getting back to some kind of normal! I have students who are high risk as am I. They haven’t been with me in person all year and I can’t wait to see their little faces!
I am most looking forward to having my students face-to-face and being able to have a real discussion.
My 10 year old and I were driving somewhere the other day and he remarked that before COVID he didnt see his friend Marcus a lot because they are at different schools with different schedules, but now they play all the time. And his friend Brendan wouldn’t have moved to his school and they wouldn’t be friends except for Covid. I said yes, you are right. So, he says, in the end I’ll be a better person and all the bad stuff will eventually go away. Yes, that is a good way of looking at it I say with tears in my eyes….
So I’m looking forward to being a better person and all the bad stuff going away in 2021. Or at least trying to be as good as my 10 year old…
I’m looking forward to spring/summer of 2021… all the books I’m waiting for will have come out by then since everyone seems to have January/March release dates… then I will want to be outside again ( while I love New England I really don’t like cold anymore) and can hopefully take some
Meaningful vacations with the kids… and no more remote learning!!! Seriously…. I know i don’t have it as bad as others but managing kindergarten for my youngest and freshman year of high school for my oldest and the between a while working from home is making me batty. I’m still amazed at how good my district is doing teaching kindergartners to read remotely and keeping them mostly engaged throughout the day. Though my “normal” sanity is questionable I would like it back!!!!
And hopefully other normal activities… there used to be tons of community events and activities in our town that we miss. The littles miss museum and activity visits too and while they are open I’m too afraid to go! Definitely looking forward to the end of being afraid…
I’m most looking forward to a successful widespread rollout of a covid vaccine, which will allow us to return to a level of normality. While I feel lucky to be living in Australia where we have avoided large numbers of cases and deaths, we sacrificed a lot to do so.
I am hopeful for some stability this year.
Gosh I’m looking forward to having a day off in 2021.
I am looking forward to being able to travel again.
Wishing everyone excellent health along with a turnaround in the economy so that small business owners can once again achieve their hopes and dreams.
I’m really looking forward to that ever present feeling of impending doom that accompanied 2020 finally lifting.
Wow, thanks for the opportunity to win such a beautiful prize! In 2021 I am most looking forward to working on (I typed “finishing” but let’s be honest…) the dollhouse I spent a large part of this year rebuilding. A lifesaving stay-at-home creative project in 2020 🙂 Happy New Year and I wish you and all your readers all the best.
I’m looking forward to being a small business junior partner!
Please enter me for everything! So excited for the new book!
I’m looking forward to seeing my family in person again. It’s been over a year since we’ve all been together. After we all get vaccinated we’re having a party to celebrate.
I am looking forward to being able to go out without a mask.
I’m looking forward to getting a Covid-19 vaccine. Yes, it’s sad for a shot to be the thing I’m looking forward to, but what can I say? 2020 has really lowered my expectations. ????
Comfort tacos and devouring all the 2021 books!
I’m looking forward to, hopefully, regaining a better health.
Looking forward to this dang book release.
To the possibility of getting my first house – Nothing fancy like Julie’s pile of rubbish but my own pile of rubbish with a garden.
Looking forward to maybe starting a family too???? (Trying not to be ambitious in 2021)
And finally looking forward to maybe Covid settling down and giving humanity a break… But again, trying not be ambitious, just hopeful.
I heard a wonderful sermon about how Christmas is a disruption. The message was that interruptions force us to refocus. I hope that 2021 continues to disrupt my normal in surprising ways
2021 is a clean slate for a new job. I’ve always been wrapped up in consistency, the same job, knowing where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing. But now I have the opportunity to step outside my comfort zone and search for new jobs. I have 2 interviews on Wednesday! (Tomorrow!)
Good luck! I hope that either or both are what you’re looking for 🙂
Im looking forward to having my budget finally work out- hopefully the covid vaccine will be wildly spread enough and my budget will work out that maybe I can finally go on a honeymoon!
What an I looking forward to most, a new President and Vice President and reading Blood Heir, of course!
Looking forward to new beginnings and spending more time with my family.
I’m most looking forward to the world being able to turn the corner with COVID-19!
I am looking forward to complete sentences and more intelligent thinking in the White House in 2021. Also more weekend relaxing with the resident cat.
I am most looking forward to hugging and kissing my nephews and mom and all my family I have missed so dearly this past year.
I’m looking forward to quite a few things. Quitting my current job and starting to work for my family’s business. Looking forward to Blood Heir. I’ve been lucky in only having to wait a little over a year, since I finished Magic Triumphs last fall.
I’m most looking forward to the end of Covid. Of going outside/to public places without using a mask, of eating at restaurants again, of doing grocery shopping and just chuck them all in the fridge or pantry without having to spend an hour to disinfect everything first.
Stay safe and healthy HA & BDH
What I looking to the most in 2021 is my student teaching practicum in the fall. Changing careers after 19 years has caused a roller coaster of emotions but I’m more than ready for the new adventures that await me.
Looking forward to a true date night with hubby, kids in actual school so I can work without interruptions.
I am looking forward to going to live music events. We had planned on going to a few music festivals last year and just couldn’t believe that they would be cancelling a September festival in April!?! We had no idea what 2019 was going to become.
What a generous giveaway – thank you! I am looking forward to more normalcy in the world and continue spending more time with my family in 2021.
Gosh, I just saw this post and missed registration for the tour but that’s ok, I’ll watch the recorded sessions! 🙂 Super excited for the new book in the KD world! Ty Ty House Andrews!
For Small Magics Giveaway: I am most looking forward to reading Blood Heir and finishing the Master’s program I am in! Hope 2021 treats us all better than 2020 did! ????
2021- I am looking forward to teaching kids in person again- hopefully without masks, but apparently that might not be 2021.
I am looking forward to Blood Heir- I am team Derek and can’t wait for him to admit he’s known it’s her the whole time (think Taylor swift song)!
I am looking forward to spending time with my family and a return to some semblance of normalcy in this new year.
You mean other than the list of books I want to read that are coming out this year? :p
In all seriousness, I’m definitely most looking forward to being able to go to school in person for the first time. Isolation and a recent move have made it extremely difficult to build on previous relationships and create new ones. I’ve practically lost the (non-familial) ones I had. I’m hoping that, even with the pandemic precautions, I’ll be able to connect with a few people more effectively than this last (online) semester!
I am looking forward to remodeling our garden and to reading a lot of books.
I am looking forward to learning to embrace my anxiety and achieve my goal of ziplining over Cedar Creek Canyon, Tamborine Mountain (Qld, Australia).
I’m looking forwards to the vaccines success and actual human contact as a result!
The very light amount of new release books this year. It’s a nice safe space.
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to new releases in several of my favorite book series, hugging my friends, leaving my home, and eating out at restaurants again. Here’s to hope!
I’m really looking forward to being vaccinated. I’m not high risk or an essential worker, so it will be a while, but it’s the #1 thing on my 2021 to do list.
I’m really looking forward to seeing real life people again, rather than just through a screen 🙂
I look forward to hugging my mam again. My cat is wonderful and has given me lots of attention but it is not the same. I still want to thank him and all the other pets all over the world for giving us their love and attention during this difficult time.
After 19 years of living in our current rented home it has been sold last year and will be demolished by the new landlord. Finding good and affordable places to rent near and around Munich is a bit of a challenge and, next to the tidy out of all the stuff collected during the years, takes up a lot of our time:
Therefore, I looked forward to finally finding a new nice and affordable place to live in and, once we moved, having finally again more time to read all the new fabulous releases.
Hi from Czech Republic. Right now I am rereadion Kate Daniels Series and its soooooo perfect. Thank you very much. Small magics is perfect and I am looking forward to read Blood Heir 😉
I’m looking forward to Mahjong dinners.
We are four women from four different countries who meet up once a month. The hostess serves us dinner, we gossip then play a friendly game of Mahjong.
Self isolating rules prevent us from meeting.
I am most looking forward to releasing as many destructive beliefs as I can – beliefs about how life and I “should be” that I picked up from other people, which only serve to make me tense and anxious.
I’m most looking forward to hopefully seeing my family again. I live several states away from them, my mom is an ICU nurse, my dad has about 5 comorbidities, and i live in a hotspot city working with kids, so there’s been no opportunities to see them since last Christmas.
I’m also liking forward to hopefully being able to travel in general, to go to a restaurant, a sporting event, or anything where i can interact with people in person.
2021 is going to be an amazing year!
I retired early, in December, to take care of family medical needs. Binge re-reading the Kate Daniels, Edge, Innkeeper, and Hidden Legacy series has kept me sane. I’m looking forward to a healthy 2021 fir family and friends!
I’m most looking forward to reading Blood Heir and then getting the vaccine, so I can hopefully stop constantly worrying about my family and friends. Or worrying a little less 🙂
I am most looking forward to doing the work that allows me to typically happy in my current moment.
What am i looking forward to in 2021 ? Like everyone, the end of Covid and back to normalcy. I miss and CANT WAIT for date nights and go to the movies in the theaters again! Im a huge movie buff and strongly feel thats the only way to truly enjoy a movie is in a movie theater with popcorn. And dont even get me started on missing concerts and live music. OR book signings !
I’m hoping that we’ll finally have COVID-19 under control so that i can see my elderly family members in person. The last time this happened was the end of 2019. I look forward to hugging them.
Really looking forward to the start of a new year!
Hello,
I am looking forward new adventures. In real life, with real people, but also, in stories, in new books to read, in my kids dreams, always so full of life.
It has been years since I read as much as I did this past year, and I was missing it. As much as staying at home could be taxing, at least, it has giving much too.
Looking forward to marrying my fiancé! He’s in the UK, I’m in Canada, and covid has wreaked havoc on our wedding/ immigration/moving plans. I hope we’re able to see each other this year, get married and finally life together!
Most looking forward to getting by mind blown and/or questioning my views with some amazing books!!
Dont know if it is late but…
Im looking for the summer.Where I live the summer is the best time for everything.Add to that it seems last summer C19 wasnt so bad and people got to enjoy it fully Im just counting the months .My family enjoy short trips to historical places and caves and pools and whatever is worth seeing.So this is it.
Omg the small magics book is so pretty! For 2021 I hope to conclude my PhD thesis ???????? and I can’t wait to read Blood Heir, in just a few days ????????
I most looking forward to being able to see my friends and family in person and give them a hug.
I am looking forward to the 2021 vaccination roll out. I’m looking forward to being able to visit family and friends. Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone. Kind regards, Suki
I can’t wait to read on the beach or in the park or on a plane in 2021!!
I just got my second dose of vaccine this morning, so I am looking forward to some freedom in 2021!!!!
I just want to be able to visit FL to see my parents in person. Facetime is not cutting it anymore.
I’m not sure it will be able to join the Zoom virtual tour, but I’ll try to watch the Youtube recording later.
As for 2021, I look forward to make a big change in my life. I have a plan A and a plan B and I’m excited to know which one will pan out.
I am looking for all the amazing releases to watch and read this year. Also looking forward to getting out of lock down and seeing people in person again!
I’m most looking forward to being able to finally see my family again. It’s been over a year and I miss them greatly.
In 2021 I hope to hug again. Hopefully, the vaccine will reach everyone who are interested and we will be able to hug friends and family again.
I’m looking forward to life going back to normal in 2021 – being able to go out for dinner, hang with friends and most of all being able to visit the family in Europe! It has been too long.
It would be wonderful to get back to get back to in-person school and life. I have been in Hong Kong going back and forth with lockdowns since the middle of last January and we are so tired of online classes and social distancing! People need in-person physical contact, but of course they should do it responsibly and wear a mask and socially distance. God bless us all. In the meantime, I feel happy to have authors like you two who release your books to help bring pleasure back into our lives!
I’m most looking forward to the birth my first child in May!
See what happens when you don’t read your email everyday? You miss being able to register for one of these vietural events. Darn it! Oh well. At least Blood Heir will be out soon. I am looking forward to it!
For this year, I am really looking forward to (and hoping) that I could spend time with my parents and siblings without having to worry about our health. My family lives all across the United States and we usually fly to my parents’ place. The past Christmas was the first time in my life that we didn’t celebrate it together in person. I didn’t know how much I was looking forward to this event every year until I looked at my husband and said “Oh, we’re not going anywhere this time.” It was nice, though, just spending time with the two of us for a change. Usually family comes with its own set of stress, and mine isn’t any different. There’s even ongoing drama between two of my family members and they refuse to talk to each other, it’s a whole headache. I’ve just come to realize that the stress is worth it for the few days I get to see them.
Besides that though, I am really looking forward to continuing wearing masks outside beyond this pandemic. They can look pretty cool.
I’m looking forward to going out for the day spontaneously, instead of hopefully booking something at least a week away and waiting on tenterhooks to see if it will be cancelled…
I am looking forward to being able to send time with people (happy people).
I am looking forward to the possibility of schools perhaps opening up a bit more than two days a week. My kids need the socialization
I am really looking forward to meeting friends for lunch or coffe again and gernerally just walking around town and window-shopping. I think the last year has been a rather serious and lonely one and I hope 2021 will be better.
So excited about my favorite authors releases this year! I’m an avid reader and for some odd reason never followed authors on social media till this past year. Seeing the updates makes everything so much more exciting!
In 2021, I am most looking forward to proactively meeting goals instead of reactively reeling from the unexpectedness of last year. 🙂
Being vaccinated because I’m a healthcare worker in Houston. This means I can see family members I haven’t seen in over a year because of distance without guilt and fear that I might inadvertently expose them to the virus. Particularly, my nephew who has autoimmune crohns disease. Catching the virus would mean hospitalization for him. I don’t have to worry about that now. I can visit for Easter like I planned last year with the same enthusiasm and greater joy at being together.
I’m looking forward to a calmer year. 2020 was too much!
I am Soo excited for Blood Heir! I have re-read and re-listned to this series countless times. You guys are my favorite Authors!!
I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine so I can visit with my friends more.
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021… Other than your books, simply having dinner at my parents, with my kids (2 and 3) enjoying spending time with their grand-parents.
I absolutely cannot wait for Blood Heir. I’ve been rereading (for the thousandth time) all the Kate Daniels books so I am READY
A new baby!
I am looking forward in 2021!
No looking back, building myself to be a better person, helping those around me and living life again without fear.
AND expanding my garden and book collection!!! 🙂
Here’s to a great year!
I’m looking forward to getting a pet snake, a Stimson Python.
What I am looking forward to most in 2021 is a less hectic and eventful news cycle/national stage. I want to read an article on something that does not spike my anxiety ????.
SO EXCITED for more books! The new covers look FANTASTIC. I’m an artist so am very picky when it comes to covers- but this actually feels like Kate and Julie!
What I’m looking forward to the MOST in 2021 – is simply the feeling of a ‘fresh start’. I have my own small business and work from home as well – and this year I want to be more ‘in control’/intentional with my time – instead of reacting to the things around me.
I’m most looking forward to possibly being able to go back to medical school in person.
I am most looking forward to my rescheduled honeymoon. My husband and I got married on March 14, 2020, 2 days before the governor ruled out no groups over 50! We made it in the knick of time, but had to cancel our meticulously planned honeymoon to France. Hoping we get to go towards the end of 2021 to frolic around the country and eat all the croissants.
In 2021 I am most looking forward being able to hug my parents again!
I am looking forward to in-person school starting again in the spring…
Excited to read the next fantastic story. Kate Daniels is my most favorite book series ever. Your a wonderful team and I am grateful for all your books.
I am looking forward to devoting time to ME this year. I homeschooled my kids for the first time this year. I take them to their activities, teach them, cook for them, my husband has his things. This year I’m taking a Krav Maga class, and I’m thrilled!
I am looking forward to the world going back to normal. I can’t wait to walk outside and not need a mask to visit a store. It is too hot in Texas for that.
I am looking forward to being able to see people again, and not worry about what little diseases are floating around in the air! 🙂
I am looking forward to many things but two that stick out is welcoming a new granddaughter and downsizing my home.
Happy New Year to all.
Hope that 2021 will be better than 2020.
Hope to have more time to read / reread your books.
Hope for HA to have more time to write their stories.
Hope for everyone to get what they are asking for, for better or worse.
I’m looking forward to reading more books!
Not that I don’t love magic, but I’m looking forward to science being treated as real again.
I am most looking forward to my beloved doggo recovering from her accident so we can once again enjoy long walks together.
I’m looking forward to seeing my family again. With all of them living in areas that were hard-hit by the virus it hasn’t been safe to visit in person, and I miss the in-person so much (Zoom isn’t quite the same)!
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to the new release from House Andrews!
As of current, Blood Heir is what I am most looking forward to. Also summer and maybe getting a handle on the pandemic.
I know this may go against the norm, but I have enjoyed my time working from home and homeschooling my kids. Since homeschooling started I now have complete insight into what is due for each of them and their grades have never been better. Plus the money I have saved on afterschool program and on gas driving to and from school and to and from work has been a huge help. I am kind of hoping we can finish this school year out virtually.
I’m looking forward to being able to travel again!
What I am most looking forward to in 2021 is that it isn’t 2020. Hopefully, it will have a better Administration, Congress, Cabinet, and governmental appointees.
I am looking forward to brain surgery! No, really. I would love for the headaches and the numbness to end. Waiting on it is making everything worse. I want to rip this band-aid OFF!
I am also looking forward to Blood Heir and several other books that are coming out this year! 🙂
I am looking forward to traveling again and enjoying new books that are being written.
I’m most looking forward to a new President in the White House, one who will hopefully have far more respect for the responsibilities of the position and actually do the work that goes with the title. I’m also very much looking forward to the return of Science playing a role in government policies and a hopefully subsequent increased vigor in gaining a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Difficult question. But I think it’s finishing my education and training in law and finally choosing the legal profession I want to start in (after ten years – law studies sometimes take longer in Germany). Changes are always possible, I know. But I’m so tired of all the question “And where are you going to work?”. First step: The results of my exams. Only 1 1/2 month of waiting left!
On 12/31 2019 I convinced my husband to make a vision board of our 2020 goals. We drank Champaign, dreamed up goals, and tried to find visual representations of those goals in the only two magazines we had on hand: the Economist and Better Homes and Gardens.
The results was… weird but we hung it up in our bedroom to remind us of those goals.
Then 2020 happened.
That goal board has stayed up, mocking me, laughing at my ‘date night’ goals, my ‘more dinner parties’ goal, and ‘travel’ goals. At least we were able to check off the “spending more time as a family” goal…
So I am looking forward, in 2021, to maybe being able to check off at least one more goal from our 2020 vision board.
If COVID allows it, I’m looking forward to a whole day spend with my best friend. I want to invite her on a day trip to the north of Italy where there is the medieval Castle Hocheppan, with a huge bow shooting parcour.
OMG Obviously the things I am most looking forward to this year is Blood heir, third book for Catalina and an announcement on when Hugh’s second book is coming out. Also, (fingers crossed) for you to announce there will be more books in Julie’s series. And who wasn’t putting down that cow?!
I am looking forward to this book release and all other book releases from authors I love this year!!
I am most looking forward to getting to hug my 2nd son and his bride, who were married in April 2020 in a micro wedding when the quarantine crashed among us. My grandson from my older son is definitely due for many hugs too.
I am looking forward to selecting a Dissertation lab in 2021. I am on my third lab rotation in a Microbiology focused lab! So far I love the lab and I hope that it will become my permanent home for the duration of my PhD work. In addition, I am looking forward to reading the paperback of Blood Heir during wait times in between experiments!
I’m so excited about Blood Heir and also hoping you have something innkeeper up your sleeve (crosses fingers!). In 2021, I’m mostly looking forward to meeting my family again 🙂
In 2021, I am looking forward to traveling to and hugging my far away family! We’ve got family in the middle of the country and on the east coast, and (for obvious reasons) haven’t been able to travel to them as we normally do. Can’t wait for it to be safe to do all the traveling, hugging and celebrating being together!
I’m looking forward to being able to see and hug friends again. We’ve all done virtual and a one off socially distanced picnic if possible, but it would be great to go back to being able to joke, tease and not feel scared that we could be harming each other inadvertently!
Looking forward to 2021 sucking less than 2020.
I’m looking forward to new things getting released this year that maybe got postponed last year. And hopefully things will get a bit more normal this year.
I look forward to seeing my grandchildren grow, spring when I can garden outside, and taking my dogs to the beach. And of course all the new books coming out!! And I am really hoping we will not have to wear masks all year.
I’m looking forward to more great books from my favorite authors like you.
I am most looking forward to being able to meet up and eat amazing food at a restaurant with my friends again – hopefully once the vaccines have been administered and we get out of lockdown!
I am most looking forward to vacation at the lake and spending outdoor time with my kiddos.
I am always happy when y’all have a new book out. I just wish you could be cloned then there would be another set of you who could help write the books. Thanks for entertaining me. I love your posts & definitely love your books. I am looking forward to just being able to go out without a mask & actually see people’s faces & to just smile at them.
For 2021, I am looking forward to finishing the building of my house! I cannot wait to set up my office/library and a craft room :). I know my dachshund, Kalliope, is very excited to have a yard to run around in as well!
Like a lot of people, I’m looking forward to seeing and hugging family and friends again. And I’ve missed traveling a lot. Whenever the vaccine is publicly available, I’d like to take a vacation out of the country, but really anywhere outside my apartment sounds exotic!
In 2021, I’m looking forward to the decrease of covid patients and the safe reopening of places. I’d love to physically go back to work, commute and all – never thought I’d say that!
I miss Kate! It’s a great getaway during these difficult times.
I look forward for this new release. I can’t wait to see how Julie has grown and evolved.
I can’t count how many times i’ve read the series! And will do it again.
Thanks for continuing this adventure!
In 2021, I am looking forward to learning how to play the ukulele and eventually being able to hug people again.
I’m most looking forward to a (hoped for) return to normalcy in 2021.
I am looking forward to meeting up with family and friends but most of all being able to hug my parents and grandchildren again
I am looking forward to the sense of hope and renewal the new year brings.
In 2021 I look forward to translating a fantasy book to Spanish! I would love to have that opportunity after translating many role-playing games and board games 🙂
I’m looking forward to hugging my family and friends that I haven’t seen in person in entirely too long.
I am looking forward to sharing and selling my artwork after years of only making it for friends and family!
I am most looking forward to seeing and hugging my parents. They are in their 80s and having to stay away for such a long time has been tough. FaceTime, Zoom, and phone calls only go so far. I also want to cook a great meal for them with my family’s Colombian empanada recipe.
I am looking foreward to celebrate my mothers 70th birthday we were not able to celebrate last year – will only be possible when me, my siblings and the extended family got vaccinated.
If that’s to much to ask I’d love to hug my dad who has severe COPD, so we were not allowed to touch for month. I’m so afraid he might die without me beeing able to touch and confort him.
Sounds so negative – I am also looking foreward for spring, seeing the new soft green in the trees and rememering, that live always goes on.
I’m looking forward to a fully unpacked and edited household in our fully remodeled to age-in-place condo with a functional home gym in the garage. 20 months and goal is in sight by end of January.
Net-net covid has done wonders for our marriage. I do less; we do more together.
However, having a place away from home (garage) will give both of us a bit of that ultimate covid luxury-solitude. IA books and audiobooks will keep me company.
Normalcy- that’s what I’m most looking forward to (Winston Churchill wouldn’t approve, but hey! It works;). Strangely enough, I’m actually thankful for covid in a way… it really made me appreciate my family and friends, and being able to actually spend face to face time with them in the future will be a blessing.
I’m most looking forward to all the new books being released this year from my favorite authors.
I am looking forward to better days and getting closer to being Covid free.
Small Magics Giveaway Post: I am looking forward most in 2021 to smiles. You can’t see them with all the mask wearing and I’ve really missed them.
This is all so great, thank you!!
Probably not very original, but what I’m looking forward to is more books, to read and to write. Whatever happens, books and stories help us cope with our problems, so more books for everyone!
On a more personal note, I’m looking forward to my dad’s health exam results showing that he’s got nothing serious and my mom finally allowing herself to go on vacation.
I would love to be able to have a family get together this next year. Just to hug all of my kids and grandkids would be great.
What I’m looking forward to is working on myself, making more money, and impacting people positively in their lives and mine!
I am definitely looking forward to having a family BBQ in my backyard when everyone is vaccinated and the weather gets nice. No physical distancing, no masks. Just hugs and laughter.
I am looking forward to rationality in 2021.
I am looking forward to safer socialization and finally getting a chance to travel, and the world to go back to normal
I am most looking forward to the vaccine rollout and my Mom getting her shot/being protected so that I don’t have to worry (as much) about her catching COVID and we will get to spend quality time together again!
I’m looking forward to the dinners with friends in 2021!
I’m looking forwards to
1. Reading more about Kate, as I have just started her books
2. Music Festivals and
3. A vaccination!
I’m looking forward to getting the vaccine and hopefully everything slowly getting back to a more normal normal.
Traveling again!
I am looking forward to getting some quilts completed. The whole quilt (quilting, binding, and labels), not just the quilt tops, which is what I mostly managed in 2020.
I’m looking forward to the possibility of spending Easter with my family.
And I’m hopeful that my hunt for a new job will be successful. *fingers crossed*
I am looking forward everything being opened back up in 2021.
I’m looking forward to 2 new grandbabies!!
And spring, summer, birthdays, anniversaries, and all the beautiful inside every day.
I’m looking forward to being able to hang out with my friends in real life and not just on a zoom screen
I am most looking forward to my kids going back to in-person school! ESPECIALLY the 1st grader.
I am most looking forward to connecting to new people and growing a new tribe outside my small bubble. My optimism is strong that this world in contraction can begin the journey towards expansion again (sans uber-contagious bugs!).
I am also looking forward (with much hope in my heart) to a world that is more tolerant and kind, and less inclined to divisive polarized viewpoints that exclude all other thought or beliefs. Imagine being able to discuss something without fear of being bashed over the head by an opposing view … yes, yes, I know it sounds like I’m dreaming 😉
Hello all,
What I am most looking forward to in 2021, is hopefully moving back to the province of my birth (I live in Canada.) One thing that 2020 taught me, or at least harshly reinforced, was the importance of family. I can’t wait to move back and have the ability to spend time with the people I love most in the world.
As a side, I want to thank the Andrew’s for the lovely worlds they create. I avidly look forward to each and every novel they produce. I sincerely hope their 2021 wishes come true.
Best wishes to all in 2021
Jackie
Once we’re all vaccinated against COVID-19, I look forward to seeing friends/family in-person. I’m also look forward to traveling again. I’m also looking forward to a new President and Democratic-majority in the House and the Senate 🙂
I am looking forward to looking forward. Instead of worrying about what I have behind me. I am also looking forward to being able to smile at people and see them smile in return.
I’m looking forward to being able to go on a vacation!! Also having friends and family over that I have not seen in almost a year.
The kids are looking forward to going back to school. I never thought I would say that.
I’m looking forward to so many things!
1) vaccines for everyone and getting back to a new normal.
2) taking my kids to see my parents.
3)Getting my kids being back in school.
4) An end to making masks for teachers and students.
5) Reading awesome new books by my favorite authors.
Thanks for giving us things to look forward to. 🙂
With the new vaccines out, I’m looking forward to visiting family/friends by the summer. I really miss eating out at restaurants and traveling. We were supposed to get married and travel around China/Japan getting fat off all the food, but then covid happened ????♀️ I’ve been so fortunate this year that I feel like my wishes are the epitome of first-world problems, but I hope everyone gets some kind of normal back.
I am most looking forward to widespread vaccination for the covid-19 and being able to hug family and friends safely. Since this will take quite a while, getting Blood Heir is next on my list. Thank you House Andrews for helping me cope.
I am so thrilled that Blood Heir comes out soon. Aside from that I’m looking forward to building a house on our new land and settling in and taking care of my family. Thank you for all your fabulous works that I re read all the time. ❤️
In the coming year if we see the end of COVID an are once again able to see folks in person, attend live events and never have to zoom a funeral on a friend or family member or a wedding, it will be a better year. To not be able to be at the side of a friend who is ill, or having a baby has been awful. If nothing else it has given me an appreciation of my family, neighbors and acquaintances that I lacked. Just to hug or shake hands with someone. To have no fear of swinging a child up in your arms. I miss the connection and I want that so much. I want that, this year.
The Vaccine!
Would love, love the ability to travel, and not worry about what can be done once the destination had been reach.
It might seem a bit repetitive but I’m really looking forward to new great books this year. 2020 was an odd year for me and the great reads were very few which made me sad :/
Thanks for the chance!
I’m looking forward to new books!
Happy new year. I love your books, thanks for keeping them coming, especially in these crazy times. I am looking forward to going back to University to get my masters this year, new books and the nebula quilt along.
I am looking forward to no longer wearing a face mask and hoping that my kids can go to in person school for the 2021/2022 school year ????. Virtual learning is not their friend!
I am looking forward to finally achieving a balanced budget in 2021 and being out of debt. On a more altruistic level, I am hoping that 2021 sees the corona virus under control with people back at work, and our lives back to where we can visit with friends and neighbors without being fearful about catching anything. And, I am also looking forward to reading Blood Heir and anything else Ilona Andrews puts out to be read.????
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to feeling an absence of melancholy and panic when politicians appear on social media. Thank you for your inspirational world-building during this time.
I’m looking forward to spending time with family. Eventually.
So looking forward to the next installment!
Oh 2021!!! I look forward to seeing my family again. 🙂 I look forward to a new president and hopefully a covid free summer.
I’m looking forward to more balance in my life!
I am looking forward to being able to travel once again. For the past decade I have been lucky enough to be able to travel out of the country for vacation once a year and it’s the only time I feel truly able to disconnect from work besides the once a day email check.
I am looking forward to a career change.
This is a truly exciting contest and opportunity, thank you! I’m looking to spending more time reading and writing (for my own pleasure) in 2021. 🙂
I am looking forward to cross-country skiing and then long outdoor walks as the temperature warms up.
Honestly I’m looking forward to Blood Heir release, Hidden Legacy 6 release and the covid vaccine. In that order.
In 2021 I am looking forward to summer. Hopefully this covid sillyness will let up enough I can travel to see my poor mother who is not getting younger. Travel is difficult as as a disabled person It takes alot of arranging etc. I also am looking forward to reading many more stories. and getting outside again, Northen winters are long, cold and can be depressing. At least for me.
God bless you all and your families! Благодарю Вас.Спасибо за помощь. You are such a blessing to so many painting a world we can travel to get away. May god bless you hundred fold for your service!
I am looking forward to your blog and books! Thanks for sharing so much love and joy with us! I love hearing about your exploits and your daily challenges. Hearing some of them bring back fond memories of my family.
Unfortunately my grandfather did not allow my mother and siblings to learn the many languages of his family and my grandmother’s due to the high racial tensions and cruel discrimination following World War Two. I wish I was fluent in Russian, Polish, German and other languages like both my grandparents but atlas I am not. I used to understand a few words of Russian, Polish, German and such but over time without my grandparents alive to occasionally remind me I am so useless and utterly lost to this endeavor now. I LOVE the reminders of your family heritage as it brings back warm memories.
Спасибо, что поделились
Eu simplesmente espero que em 2021 tenhamos mais livros de vocês publicados no Brasil. Amo. LOVE YOU.
Figuring out what to cross fingers for is a bit tricky… Even being cautiously optimistic feels scary, doesn’t it? But today, I’m looking forward to Humanity at long last heeding the call of basic common sense. Civil War in USA CANNOT happen. And Gods do I hope that I’m right in thinking that intelligence and goodness will prevail…
I am looking forward to spending my stimulus check in 2021 on an annual platinum membership to audible, an annual guest library electronic membership to the Orange County Public Library in Florida, and an annual Kindle Unlimited membership because 2020 isn’t done with us yet, and books = sanity.
I’m most looking forward to being able to see my family in person rather than just over zoom. It made for some strange holidays. I also would like to get rid of this constant nagging worry that’s always there, lurking in the background, sort of like Eeyore’s cloud of gloom.
I am looking forward to finally being able to get my oldest daughter the counselling and help she needs to succeed in life. She was finally diagnosed with ASD in November. Despite Covid making things difficult this year is going to be about growth and love as a family.
I am most looking forward to new opportunities and ways to grow. I have hope for 2021 and all that it will bring.
I am looking forward to (safely, of course!) returning to my original position as a school nurse and no longer having to case investigate for COVID!!
I am looking forward to visiting family and friends in person this year. If that is still not possible I’m looking forward to all the new books that are coming out, to help pass the year.
Am looking forward to reading Blood Heir. Would love Small Magics also.
What am I looking forward to most in 2021? I should nominate something uplifting but no, this is all about me. My dominate hand has been in a cast for the past 4 weeks with at least another 2 weeks to go. After that I will need months of rehab. I never realised how difficult it was to use a mouse left handed, butter bread, cut a bagel using my left hand (held in place with my right elbow, but did end up cutting myself). It means I cannot write or drive a car, or garden.
Sometime in 2021, I am looking forward to being able to write, to drive, to wash my hair, hang clothes on the line, cook …
I’m looking forward to hugging my dad who turned 79 in 2020 and isn’t in the best health and is the only parent I have left. I’m also wanting my dad to be able to hug his grandson (my son).
I am looking forward to being able to hug people once the pandemic is over. I always thought I was stand offish until I realized how much I really do hug people who also want to be hugged in return. When I see a friend who hugs, the arms go up and then down in dejection when I remember I can’t hug right now. Human touch really is so essential to our well being. I miss my cousin Steve’s bear hugs. They are so awesome and comforting. I miss hugs.
I am looking forward to hopefully getting a raise at work so I can feel a little less stressed. And maybe get ready to have a little one…
I’m look forward to having my 1st child’s 1st birthday in June and having my second child in July. Two Covid babies…it’s been a crazy unforgettable experience.
I can’t wait!
I am MOST looking forward (in 2021) to anything Ilona & Gordon Andrews release for me to read (or listen to as I also buy the Audio books). They are my favorite all-time authors!! (And I think Rene Rodman is one of the best EVER “readers”!) Hoping all of our 2021 year brings pleasant, hopeful surprises and blessings!
I am looking forward to meeting my new niece Laure in 2021 after an aborted trip last summer and seeing my girls play with their cousins and hug their great-grandmother.
I’m looking forward to getting to the point where it is once again safe to gather with family. We PCS’d back stateside a few months ago, and I’m really looking forward to being able to maximize now living driving distance to family.
Thank you for your generosity in giving of your time and words. Your blog has been a light and source of levity this past year.
I’m looking forward to / hoping we’ll see the world start to recover from COVID in 2021. Very much hoping that I can give my friends a hug in person by the end of this year.
In 2021, I am looking forward to travel. Especially, travel that includes attending conventions. I am looking forward to introducing my kids to the joys of Anime, Fantasy and Science Fiction Conventions.
I’m looking forward to traveling!
Most looking forward to VACCINES and GETTING TO FINALLY SEE MY FAMILY!!
I’m looking forward to seeing the sun rise everyday out on my patio!!
I am looking forward to getting my first first author paper out into a journal and getting my F31 submitted. : ) Why you ask? Cause then they’ll be done. Hallelujah! Then I can move on ????…to more exciting research.
I am looking forward to the end of lockdowns and a return to normality for my children and friends.
Seeing my family who I haven’t seen since February, and reading Blood Heir!
I’m most looking forward to seeing family across the country that we haven’t seen in person since 2019!
Thanks for adding a little joy into the work with your stories!
My most anticipated part of 2021 is becoming comfortable in my new job as a nurse. I’m going to finish my nursing residency in March this year. It’s been absolutely crazy having my first year as a nurse be in COVID land, but with the vaccine here things are looking up!
Also more books as I am sure everyone here will agree! 🙂
I’m looking forward to a slower pace with space to enjoy beautiful sunsets, time with family and friends, creating some lovely quilts, cycling to work and lots and lots of reading…
What I hope 2021 will bring: my husband, daughter and I completely recovering from covid19, continuing to lose weight (most has been lost in 2020) and reaching, along with maintaining, a healthy weight, the vaccinations making it possible to: see my out-of-state daughter, being able to visit my aunt in Florida, being able to spend time with friends and family, eating in restaurants, going to see movies at theaters, and no longer needing masks, etc. Also getting rid of a lot of clutter, reading and listening to many books, walking, sleeping better, the house painted inside and out, more badly needed repair work done, for an end of the riots, violence, destruction, division, etc., and for a good economy, unity, peace, good solutions for the many issues facing us, and an end to the pandemic. This is not in order of importance.
I am looking forward to the COVID-19 vaccines bringing myself and my husband more safety at work. I’m also looking forward to (hopefully) being more free to travel again so we can see more of our extended family and friends.
I love giveaways 🙂
I’m looking forward to being vaccinated!
I’m looking forward to indulging in some hobbies that “I’ve been meaning to get to but can’t seem to find the time to do”. I want to finally finish that origami dragon, crochet a love blanket for my nieces and nephews, and sign up for roller derby classes.
I’m most looking forward to getting my vaccination! Everything flows from there, so I can’t wait!
In 2021 I’m looking forward to finishing my PhD (hopefully!! Fingers crossed my science cooperates)
Good luck and hopefully congratulations! That is a tremendous accomplishment and I hope you take some time to feel pride in yourself.
I have a paper out for peer review, so I’m hoping for a good science year for us both.
I am finally able to take O. Chem II this semester, and I am looking forward to being back in the lab. Also, we are getting a puppy in May and I’m looking forward to my 3yo daughter experience the love of a dog.
I’m looking forward to family in 2021. My older sister is pregnant with her first child which is weird and wonderful all at the same time. So I’m looking forward to a healthy baby boy and being the cool aunt. Your posts about yarn and knitting helped me get back into knitting again, so now I’m quickly trying to learn how to make all the cute baby things. Thank you for helping keep us all sane this past year. I can’t wait for the new book to be out!
I am looking forward to getting my COVID vaccine shot next week. I would like the government to spend this type of money on finding a cure for breast cancer and ovarian cancer. I look forward to seeing all the changes people make in their lives since the world shut down. We all got a once in a lifetime reality check. A huge block of time to think. A blessing in disguise. Won’t come again. Can’t wait to see what happens. Don’t blow it…
I’m looking forward to spending more time with my family and friends this year, making them my priority. 2020 made me realise I need to slow down, look around me and appreciate all the little moments. I’m reading more, talking on the phone more, commenting more, rather than just “liking” a post. This year I’m moving to the slow lane 🙂
I just want to see my family and hug them. Same with my friends. And that they’re all still alive.
I’m looking forward to graduating university and all the 2021 books I’ve preordered!
I’m MOST looking forward to the Covid vaccine, but I’m really looking forward to great new books to read too!
I am looking forward to seeing my family and hugging them again. Also waiting on constructing our new garage so we can finally get some space in the house by moving all the bicycles and tools out of the house.
Thank you for everything you do, the blogs posts make me happy as do the books, just wanted to mention that as well 🙂
I am most excited for the new books coming out in 2021 by my favourite authors!! With Blood Heir the first cab off the rank!
Most looking forward in 2021, is the birth of our 4th daughter! (and not being pregnant any longer- I’ve definitely reached beached whale status and the seagulls are circling) ????
I am looking forward to the hopeful end of covid and things getting back to normal.
I am 5 months pregnant as of today and am looking forward to delivering a strong healthy baby, fingers crossed without the additional stress of Covid, although i think the latter might be wishful thinking on my part. After that i will be longing for the day i can actually physically go to a bookstore and hoard up on my favs to read during my maternity leave.
Hopefully, once COVID calms down, I can make some plans to travel internationally to Taiwan, and Japan. Also, travel within the states to see my nephew!
I’m looking forward to all the new stories I get to read this year and to a new job as a teacher.
I’m looking forward to the world resuming a more normal order of business. I realize things hasten every year, but 2020 felt like several years ago crammed together.
Happy New Year. I look forward to a healthy new year and lots of new books.
I am most looking forward to watching my kids grow – possibly into even more adventurous, mischievous little people, but I am so curious to get to know them even better with every day that passes.
Also I can’t wait to hug my best friend again. We have been meeting on and off over the past months, but have strictly kept our distance. She wasn’t in a good place at times, and so was I … So, that first hug (and many more) is something wonderful I look forward to.
Needless to say, the same goes for my family, which I haven’t seen for half a year and which I am missing terribly.
I’m looking foreward to hopefully return to normalcy and an end to the shutdowns.
Also the new books that are released this year from my favourite authors and the return of physical meetings with family & friends.
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Ooopps, my 2020 year ended badly. My mom died on 12/22/20 (she was 92). My dad died in 1/2/21 (he was 98). They were both at a facility in CA. I’m in Wyoming. Neither died of Covid-19.
So I guess I get to look forward to their funerals… ????
I’m looking forward to getting vaccinated, lockdown lifted and going on holiday! Hugging friends and family. And going on holiday! Having a braai (BBQ) with everyone in the summer TOGETHER in person so we can all shout to be heard over everyone else and bore everyone silly with holiday snaps! Hugging friends and family!
I’m looking forward to keeping democracy intact in the US, moving forward politically, and having a safe 2021 (both physically and mentally). Bring the vaccines on!
What I am looking forward to most is being able to walk again after breaking my leg last year. Also to the continuation of my new relationship which started 2 weeks before I got kicked by that horse!
Thank you, once again, for all your books. They are a pleasure to read.
What i am looking for most in 2021 is to return, hopefully, to some resemblance of normallity (ihope i spelled that correctly).
I hope with the vaccination of general population, we will be able to meet with our friends and family like before, go out and travel in new places.
I also hope that ill be able to take (and pass) my spanish language exam.
I’m definitely looking forward to being able to meet up with some friends whom I missed during the holiday season (hopefully, if the covid is more under control) and catch up with them!
But I can’t forget Blood Heir, which is another major thing I’m looking forward to. I think I might have reread chapter 1, 2 and the prologue at least 10 times already, and no doubt I would have read all the chapters of the old version multiple, multiple if they were still up. *screams in excitement again*
Well, I’m off to reread Kate Daniels in preparation haha.
I’m looking forward to having hot water in 2021. My water heater has been broken for a month and I’m hoping the part arrives soon.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to seeing some family members again for the first time in a long time.
My fervent hope for the new year is that we all start to get along better. Listen with an open heart. Speak with restraint. Assume good intent. Be well.
I am looking forward to seeing family again after successful vaccination!!
Hello, my favorite authors. Happy New Year! For 2021, I”m looking forward to Health and Joy for me and my beloved ones. I miss my children. We are in the third month of lockdown here in Greece, due to (I hate you, you terrible )Covid!
I’m hoping that 2021 will be the end of covid hahaha that is true for everyone, I think.
Besides that I really want to finish my masters degree, start a company and move! I also hope that everyone in my family makes it through this tough time and that I have many years left with my currently 87 year old grandma.
It’s gonna be an adventure, but when things are tough I always have your books to take me away for a little while, so thanks for writing!
Happy new year!
I am looking forward to my American friends to come and visit me in Japan again so that we can go on our annual hot spring trip. It was the first time in 20 years for me to spend the new year without them. It just doesn’t feel the same without them.
I am looking forward to seeing my family next summer.
I’m looking forward to traveling to see family, friends, and anything else that interests me. I am a fan of traveling to author and reader events and can’t wait until we are all able to do this again.
I mostly wait for the summer to come and hopefully I get to grow some tomatoes this year. Also I hope some of the events this coming year is going to actually happen, instead of them to be cancelled or moved forward (again).
I love all your books! Greetings from Finland. 🙂
With COVID still going strong, I’m looking forward to so many of my favorite authors releasing new books this month. And my other vice, Sims is releasing more cool content. Yay! Escapism ✨
I’m looking forward to being able to give and receive hugs from family and friends up I haven’t seen in person.
I’m looking forward to making more time for reading. I upped my book goal to 52 this year.
Looking forward to the small things like being able to hug my parents and friends again. And calling my fabulous husband Dr Foster as he’s managed to finish his PhD despite the UK lockdowns!
Also to finishing my own book (200,000 words and rising) on a museum collection in Ireland, and being able to consistently type the ‘museum’, even though I can manage ‘Sekhukhune’ and ‘whakepapa’.
Oh and Blood Heir of course!
Im looking forward to more IA books, more sunshine, less viruses, and less choas!
I’m looking forward to finally becoming an M.D in 2021 !
I know things are not going back to how they were anytime soon, but I’ve had several personal things that have been exploding across my life the last year and they were finally resolved towards the end. I hope those things being resolved with help me go forward with the coming year and a balance being restored in my personal life.
I am looking forward to trying to get our kitchen renovation started. City approved the plans 2 days before state shut down in March.
I’m looking forward to starting my masters in America. Just got here from my country and I’m so excited!
I’m most excited to *hopefully* getting into (and starting!!) my masters in social work. I want to be a school counselor in a high school in Boston.
I am looking forward to being done with my CPA after 10 years of attempting to take it! And of course more Ilona andrews gems…:)
I’m looking forward to this pandemic being over and things getting back to normal.
I am so looking forward to travelling again. I am hanging out to hug my sister who lives in another country.
I’m looking forward to seeing happy smiling faces again. I am a new teacher and I haven´t seen my pupils faces so far, which is so terrible, because facial expressions are so important for communication and building trust. I hope that with time, love and affection we can overcome these difficult times, which are so difficult for all of us, but also for our kids and youth.
What I am looking forward to most in 2021 is our planned summer (socially distanced) picnics with friends in the park whilst we read the same book, eat good food and drink iced drinks.
Would love a copy! Thanks for the giveaway! Cannot wait for Blood Heir!
I’m looking forward to watching my son grow in 2021 – he was born this December and came home on Dec 24th! Also, we will be moving to Cape Cod in the summer, a place my family took me each year as I was growing up.
What I’m looking forward to is not only the books I’ll read but all the books that I’ll be getting too.
Looking forward to less stress for everyone’s health and to travel (hopefully).
I’m looking forward to being able to chat about Kate & Company with my daughters (both of my teenagers have made the decision to start reading them) and my best friend who is finally listening on audiobook! I’m so happy that Kate’s world is continuing– the magic apocalypse is so interesting, I love the premise and I can’t get enough of the books!
2021 gives us the opportunity to be better and do better. I hope for compassion in the new year
In 2021 I am looking forward to making memories with my hubby and kids, be that having marathon pillow fights at home or finally getting to go on the beach holiday that got cancelled last year. No matter what I am looking forward to life with a fantastic husband and two girls I am really proud of. Bring it on.
I’m looking forward to more in person friend time…
I am looking forward to my 30th birthday and warm weather. I’m also looking forward to Blood Heir!
I am looking forward to the vaccine making it possible to see family again. I have an elderly father who has had a terrible time (health wise) & I wanted to visit, to help him,…but alas, I was not allowed. I’d also like to visit my elderly mother.
I love the image. I just finished rereading the first Innkeeper book with cat on my lap and one leaning against my leg on the recliner, the dowdy version of the girl who loves cats and books.
Thank you for doing this giveaway – it made my day! What I’m looking forward to most this year is getting the vaccine so that I can maybe see my family all together again. If all goes well, maybe we’ll even be able to hug each other!
Hello from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada!
I’m looking forward to finally buying a new vehicle this year. 2021!
Well, I hope that this year would be less chaotic than 2020. I hope that the governments and the citizens all around the globe had learn the hard lessons that this pandemic gave us, so the next year less people will fall ill and die because of Covid. That’s all, just here, hoping for the world to get a little less disappointing.
I wish you, amazing autorlords, a ver happy and healthy 2021!
And I am waiting for Blood Heir to be released, because I’m out of interesting UF books to read right now. Isn’t that sad? I’m accepting recommendations for new amazing series.
Love you all! Happy 2021!
Looking forward to my surrogacy journey in 2021!
I’m looking forward to being able to have a big party with friends and family to make up for my husband’s & my 50th birthday, 5th anniversary, and hubby getting his Bachelor’s degree last year (after going back to school). It doesn’t even have to be that big a party. Just getting together for a meal with a few friends or family would be great. Or going out to a restaurant. So much to look forward do.
Doing house work and fixing up our new house!
I am looking forward to growing my African violets and orchids. I’m looking forward to spending time with my family and friends without fear or tension.
I look forward to hopefully getting a job, and finding good books to enjoy!
2021 anticipations: Routine. Rituals. Daily moments that cycle in and out.
It’s a bit of an odd thing to look forward to, and def not what I’d expect of my no-plan personality. But covid displaced me and my family too many times last year. Quick count has me in over 7 houses.
Finally settled in my flat, I find myself most looking forward to daily anticipating the morning sunshine that sloshes across my kitchen counters. The teabags I can reuse in a cracked dish on the windowsill. And the click of a lock in a front door that is my own.
So here’s to looking forward to daily moments that soothe my wander-weary soul. I hope that as I anticipate, enjoy and treasure these snippets of home, I will find myself fortified to handle the chaos of life when it comes.
I am managing the development of a new hospital, scheduled to open at the end of the 2029. Here’s looking forward to delivering the hospital on time, on budget, to serve the community and my country, with total commitment from the project team.
Thank you!
I am definitely looking forward to the release of Blood Heir! However, the event I am most looking forward to in 2021 is my daughter graduating high school. The last 4 yrs have been an emotional roller coaster ride for her. Last yr things started turning around and she started getting excited about college and making plans for life after high school. I am excited for the adventures and self discovery that lay ahead for her ????
I’m too uncertain as to what 2021 will bring to say what I look forward to. I would like to say that I look forward to a return to a normal life, but I’m not sure that will ever happen. I look forward to a day when I can turn on the TV and nothing of any consequence will happen, no new covid death numbers, no riots, no protests onany side. I fantasize about a world where leaders care more about the people than protecting their careers or parties.
I’m looking forward to moving to a new home in a state that’s new to me. I’ve owned the home for over a year but COVID put a damper on things. This year I’m moving no matter what happens.
I’m looking forward to my family getting back on their feet again after a series of consecutive health issues.
I’m looking forward to getting together with my fellow geeks at a couple of local cons & going to DragonCon again.
What I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is being able to physically hang out with my friends and go out and have dinners and movies together. I’m mostly a homebody, but I love doing things with people also. A lot of my friends have health issues and have been in “lockdown” due to the pandemic. It will be nice to see them face to face and to spend time together.
I am looking forward to walking in snow, to curling up with a pile of new books, and to gathering with friends (it has to be possible some time this year, yes?)
I’m looking forward to:
– moving closer to friends and family
– having more free time being able to focus on my health and fitness
– Blood Heir
– winning the Lotto
– New Innkeeper ????
– a baby
Ok, so last three are not confirmed but if I put it out to there, the universe will provide ????
Looking forward to getting our place all settled in. Boxes are still unpacked.
One thing has already happened: 2020 is over. (Yay!) Apart from that, I’m mostly looking forward to having meaningful in-person interactions with people who don’t live in my house. Even if I can’t have it for myself, I really want it for my children.
How very exciting!! I can honestly say because of COVID this last year, I was able to read even more than I normally do but also had a rough time being separated from family and friends. People don’t realize how scary it can be for those of us with immune diseases especially anything to do with your lungs as I do, so I’ve been very careful to keep “socially distant” from everyone, which has been downright depressing.
I am looking forward to 2021 to bring some new doctors into my life to help with my health problems! I’m sure most of us are praying for a MUCH healthier year, for everyone and it’s my (personal) daily prayer!!
So hopefully, better health as well as time to spend with my family!! Who I’m missing a lot!!
I would like to succeed in finding a job. Badly.
Thank you for the chance ✨
Our new puppy will be ready for pickup at the end of January. She is a standard Bernedoodle. We’ve never had a dog before. The kids and I are so excited. The great name debate is still going. Hopefully we’ll decide on one by the time she’s ready.
Hugs.
In 2021, I am most looking forward to hugging friends, family and co-workers – real hugs, not vitual.
Happy New Year. I am most looking forward to taking long hikes while listening to audiobooks. I am really thankful that so many authors are starting to do audio versions of their books.
I’m looking forward to starting the second semester of medical school! We’re on our hematology unit now and will move on to respiratory health next, which will be especially interesting in light of COVID.
I love reading all of the books (Kate is my favorite series) and keeping up with the blog! Thank you so much for all that you do! 🙂
Thank you for the chance! I’m most looking forward to moving closer to my parents. We moved because of the military & now that we are out I can’t wait to be able to see my parents more than every couple years.
For 2021, I just want Liam, my Sister baby born at 4,5 month, to be ok forever and ever .
What am I most looking forward to in 2021? Getting the Covid-19 vaccine! 2020 was awful for my entire family. It seemed one bad thing after another happened. I was so happy to see the end of 2020 because I’m hoping that 2021 brings up some much needed good luck. The vaccine would also help bring a much needed sense of normalcy back. My family has experienced a myriad of health problems and other bad luck. Doing something fun like going to the beach or (dare I dream?) going out to eat at a restaurant would be fantastic. Also, well essential for now, masks are hard to breathe in!
Looking forward to sharing covid survival stories, laughter, good food and drinks with friends in 2021. I can’t complain as I have been able to spend a year with my daughter, but it would be nice I am sure for her to spend less time with me 🙂
I’m definitely looking forward to Blood Heir but honestly struggling to find anything in my life right now that I have to look forward to in 2021, hopefully a job and safe place to live will be in my future. But I truly hope you have a great 2021!
I’m looking forward to being able to travel, we have a Monsters of Rock beach party in Punta Cana scheduled in May and I’m praying it doesn’t get canceled.
I’m most looking forward to getting a vaccine and hugging all my friends again! And finally feeling comfortable going to browse bookstores in person again :).
Looking forward to your books in 2021 & beyond. Oh! And world peace!
Love you guys!!
I’m looking forward to a year with (hopefully) a return to some normalcy.
I’m looking forward to hugging my family and friends again. I miss the connection. Let’s get the world vaccinated!
I am from India so I don’t think I’ll be eligible but still. I am looking forward to go back to my college and meet all my friends. Quarantine has been a terrible phase for me, having to live in a toxic and abusive household. So I can’t wait to leave this place and go back to the people who make me happy. 🙂
I’m most looking forward to getting my GED. Next step SATs!
I hope we see Covid 19 infection rates drop and resulting deaths as well:'(. Then, maybe, we can see a return to normal.
I’m looking forward to being able to see my nephew again. To be able to take him to/pick him up from school, dining out with my family and being able to gather with my friends. All the birthdays we celebrate take place in the last half of the year, so they were all scrapped.
Most importantly, I’m hoping that my aging parents can get vaccinated soon for their own protection, or at least that I do so in order to keep them from getting it from my doing the weekly shop.
I’m looking forward to being able to meet people and make new friends! I moved from the College Station, Texas to northern Alberta, Canada for work (my first big girl job!) in Feb of 2020. While it was perfect timing in many ways, it is difficult to make new friends and meet new people during a pandemic. All of my family, other than my canine sidekick Stella, is in the US. I can’t wait to meet and make new friends in 2021!!
Here is a mandatory Stella pic because I love pet pics, so maybe others might enjoy too. The weather change has been a surprise for her, hahaha.
(By the way, your books were a bright spot of sanity for me in 2020.)
I am looking forward to better health: spiritual first, and a healthier lifestyle
I am looking forward to visiting my family in other states again.
Looking forward to getting “back to normal”. Seeing family and friends. And hugs!!
I look forward to work, travel, and hugging people (this from someone who is *not a hugger*).
I am looking forward to transfering to a university and pursuing my bachelors ????. Wish me luck ????????
Lol. What is that squiggle beneath Ilona’s signature? It’s cute.
I am looking forward to more people showing their better sides. I hope to se people giving grace and kindness to those around them, because everyone is struggling right now. And I am so grateful for your books bringing me a way to survive and thrive through the struggles, myself, each and every day! Thank you!
2020 was such a hard and heavy year that feels like it lasted a decade! I am looking forward to so much. By my top are having my little brothers be in a better place after we lost our dad few weeks ago. Being able to travel again so I can see my niece who is 14 month now and I haven’t been able to see her in person yet because of covid. Hopefully seeing real change in addressing the injustices in the USA! Having my student flourish in this unprecedented school year! Overall just looking forward to a better year and definitely always great books to read from favorite authors 🙂
I’m looking forward to 12th of jan as its my sons 6th birthday and Blood Heir is out…and to eventually seeing my family
I have already planned my holiday vacation for 2021. Definitely what I am most looking forward to about the year at the moment.
I am looking for meeting my family and grandparents. Sometimes I visit my grandparents but I stay outside while they stay on the balcony. I miss them so much. My grandpa has Alzheimer’s and it’s really hard when he didn’t recognise me and I really really want to just hug him so bad…
Mostly I just look forward to being able to hug my kids again.
I got a tiny cough on december 30th, got tested the next day, and happy new year! I started the new year way more positive than I would have liked… This is the first day that things are starting to get a little better instead of worse. Hopefully I can tacklehug my girls again real soon! 🙂
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Hello and what a lovely idea for sharing and promoting positivity into the new year. I’m sure I’m not alone in looking forward to the time when I can spend time with my parents, family, and friends. I can’t wait for the day I can safely hold them close to me again! ????
Wishing everyone health, wellness, and the promise of better things to come in 2021!
Looking forward to the release and a healthy new year! Spending time with family and friends looks a lot different now, and I’m excited about the prospect of seeing everyone in person again later in the year.
Lots of love and well wishes to everyone!
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I’m looking forward to visit my family and friends without limitations, celebrate the birthdays of our Kids with their friends and of course we want all healthy and save.
And also i’m looking forward for all your books coming 2021 ???????????? .
Hi Ilona and Gordon, I wish to you and your family the best for 2021 ! I greatly enjoy your books and always hope for more of the Kate Daniels world. In fact, I read all of them twice and think of starting my third round soon. Through your blogs, I developed a kind of fondness for your family and, in fact, you are the only authors of whom I read all the posted blogs, although I receive blogs from many others. I’m quite passive, though, and never commented your blog. This is why this one is so long!
For 2021, regarding YOUR BOOKS, I hope to read book 2 of Hugh’s story as well as a new book in the Innkeeper’s chronicles (will Dina finally find her parents, or at least, learn what happened to them ?) Not to mention that I am waiting for my printed copy of Blood Heir to arrive to my door, so I can read it (and then, lend it to my son who also enjoys a lot Kate Daniels world). And I do hope that Julie/Aurelia’s story will be developed into a full series. I was horrified by the nasty comments trolls had said regarding Julie about two years ago and I am very very happy you decided to keep writing about her story regardless.
I want to mention how much I appreciated the finesse of the psychological development of Hugh’s descent in hell and of his coming back from it. As a mental health professional I can assess how truly accurate the description was.
I would be pleased if Hugh’s story and Innkeeper’s Chronicles, as well as Julie/Aurelia’s story, were translated in French, as many people around me (family and friends) do not read English.
Regarding THE WORLD, I do strongly hope that we will soon get rid of the Covid virus and resume a more normal life. Until then, I hope more people will understand how damaging and lethal that virus can be and learn to be more careful.
And, finally, regarding MY OWN LIFE, I hope that my oldest son’s family and I will find and share a multigenerational home so that I spend my retreated life very close to my grand-children. I now have a 12 months old grand-daughter who is absolutely the best child parents and grand-parents wish for. In fact, she grows too fast, almost like Conlan when he was that age, lol !. Here is a picture of her, at 11½ months old, “singing” along some young children animation on tv.
Thank you Ilona and Gordon for your work and for your blog sharing with us.
About Hugh’s emotional descent in hell, I used the word “assess” while I should have used the word “confirm”. English is not my first language and it’s after I sent my message that I realised I didn’t use the right word for what I meant.
I’m looking forward to healing! Emotionally, medically, mentally, and physically. Overall healing for everyone’s well-being!
I am most looking forward to getting a Covid Vaccine, and never taking the smallest things for granted ever again.
Wishing Good Health and Happiness to all!
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Wow. What to look forward to in 2021? Quite a few things. People getting along better and healing in all ways from the past year. Read more books. Better teaching people not to hate what they fear. Continue expanding of my library. Hope that our economy rebounds for all of us under the 1%. Hoping my husband’s writing takes off in the mini-stream. Hoping that small businesses rebound and really take off. Read more books. Yours and other authors that I have found and am enjoying immensely.
Wish you the best in this new year. May your ideas flow smoothly and your editing be easy.
I’m looking forward to most in 2021 is more of your lovely books and hopefully an end to pandemic life! Reading your books is one of the few things getting me through this crazy time in history!
I’m looking forward to hugging my grandkids, even babysitting for them. Should be getting the covid vaccine in February. And I’m always looking forward to reading anything Ilona Andrews writes. My preordered book should be arriving soon.
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I’m looking forward to many things in 2021, but the thing I’m most excited about is becoming a first-time homebuyer. I’m thrilled about the added space, safety, and privacy. I’m incredibly ready to have a large backyard for our doggo to zoom to her heart’s content, and our plan to get another pup soon after moving in. Lastly, I cannot wait to cook every day in the kitchen.
I’ve lived in small apartments for years, saving up for the day when we could get into a house, and I’m really looking forward to moving in.
Thanks for everything you do. ❤
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What am I looking forward to in 2021?
My wish for 2021 is that it is BETTER than 2020. I am not hoping for good…simply better.
I’m looking forward to a year when I don’t have to tell my friends and coworkers they are being furloughed. I’m hoping for a year when I don’t spend Christmas morning and New Year’s in quarantine, separated from my children. I am wishing for a year when my children can hug their grandmother, rather than waving to her through a window.
I am looking forward to a better year than our last. It truly does not have to be good. Just better.
Looking forward to traveling again.
2021 will be a year of healing and thanks for the ability to hug deeply ALL our loved ones
I am very much looking forward to a safe beach vacation with my family in 2021!! My mother was recently diagnosed with a terminal cancer and I would love to have one more vacation with all of us before she moves on.
I’m looking forward to Julie’s book and to some authors as wonderful as you. I hope for the vaccine and a lighter year for everyone.
I also wish health to all, that we would be kinder out of this pandemic.
Thank you very much for the escape that your books provide, you are incredible.
Hi all! I’m looking forward to spending time with extended family again (fingers crossed!), as well as a number of book releases from some of my favorite authors – starting with Blood Heir!
I’m looking forward to trying more ambitious baking in the née year. 🙂
In 2021 I’m most looking forward to shopping in my local bookstore again. I really miss being able to browse for myself and for gifts!
Happy New Year! What I’m looking forward to the most is getting Covid in check so thing can go back to normal.
It is always the highlight of my day when I receive your posts.
In these times of confinement and limited human contact, reading your news both serious and hilarious is like meeting with cherished friends.
Your books are so great because in them humanity is present in all flavours, good and less good, with very little judgment and a great deal of insight from your part.
Thank you!
I’m looking forward to walks outside, yoga beside my dog, continuing to work from home, and good health for my family and our world. And, of course, Blood Heir and more from Ilona & Gordon!
Looking forward to the blood heir book!! Wanted to sign up for the Small Magics Giveaway
We are giving away as well!!
What I am looking for in 2021 is hopping it will be better than 2020. I quilt so my goal is to finish the projects I started and didn’t finish last year. I am also looking forward to reading as much as I can.(your books are at the top of the list) I would like to have an uneventful year, because last year was full of stuff that happened. I am hopeful that I will get a different job than the one I have now. I would like to think that I’m not asking for a lot this year.
Hello hello Ilona & Gordon! One thing I’m looking forward to this 2021 year is starting my journey as a New Grad Registered Nurse ????????⚕️ Unfortunately, I was Class of COVID so I didn’t have a chance to walk across the stage as a 1st gen college grad. However, as we try to move forward and rebuild from this time, I’m reminded of why I chose this profession. So I’m going to keep my head up, devour Blood Heir, and prep for my nursing orientation on 1/18/2021 ????????
✨Thank you for doing this little Small Magic’s Giveaway! Stay safe, stay strong✨
What I look most for 2021 is to find out where I’m going to stay (massive renovations were planned, but it could end up I’ll need to find a new place) so that I can finally unbox my beloved fabrics and books: e-readers are great, but nothing can beat caressing spines and covers, leafing through the pages of your favorites finding all the bookmarks you left for particularly loved quotes!
And having space to finally sew again would be very helpful (financially too).
In the meantime, I can’t wait to download Blood Heir, and luckily it is only 2 days now! Going to reshare on Ig right away!
I am looking forward to going back to school, because I can’t learn properly at home and my final exams are coming nearer and nearer every day.
Hi,
Besides looking forward to Julie’s book I am looking forward to more time with my two teenagers. 2020 gave me more hours of one on one time with them at home starting in March 2020 to present day. I spent more time in ten months with them do to hybrid homeschooling made mandatory in NY then I could of spent with them in four full years with normal regular full day school with July and August summer vacation. But I wish almost 400,000 United States citizens didn’t have to die in ordet for my husband and I to get this extra time with our teenagers. I reread my entire book collection of all your series in past months I’m looking forward to what you have in store for Julie. We all want more of our lion beast lord in the future too! Wink
In 2021, I’m looking forward to getting back out there and exploring/hiking. There are so many places in my new state that I want to see and had planned to in 2020. Those plans were somewhat derailed thanks to the virus, so it’s back on for this year! In the meantime I am reading, reading and re-reading (guess whose books)!
I’m looking forward to seeing my grandson for the first time.
I’m so excited! Once you announced publication of the full book I made myself stop reading the chapters. I LOVE Julie/Aurelia and cannot wait to read this story! Only two more days…yay!!!
Ooh, like a New Year’s wish!
I am looking forward to the vaccine and a Mulligan on my 60th birthday. It would be great to celebrate with all my fellow rats (2020 was year of the rat). And I thank you for my early birthday Mulligan gift: Blood Heir.
Best wishes for health and success in 2021.
I am most looking forward to the release of Blood Heir this year. Don’t get me wrong, there’s lots to look forward to in 2021, goals have been set, vision boards created, etc. But, a new book by my favorite author? That’s like winning the lottery, going on vacation, dropping two dress sizes… you get the picture. And it’s pure pleasure, no work for me. The only downfall is that I’ll finish the book in about 4 hours and then have to find something else to look forward to for 2021. It’s a cross I’m willing to bear.
There’s lots to look forward to in 2021, but I think what I am most looking forward is to get a vacancy to work as a teacher.
Thanks you all for your work, its amazing. I loove all your books you have an incredible imagination. Don’t stop writing please.
Best wishes for this 2021
I’m looking forward to seeing my grandparents in person again after such a long time.
So looking forward to travelling again!
Tuesday, Georgia elections. Wednesday, the inevitable, unbelievable, happened. I forgot about needing to make my comments for the SMALL MAGICS giveaway. Today, while reading about yarn, fabric, etc. (books, and the paper monster here), I realized that the giveaway ends tomorrow. Last chance!
I am sooo looking forward to the release, and the arrival of my copy of Blood Heir, this week. It is an immediate picker-upper that is needed now, more than ever.
Most of the other things I was thinking about are related to COVID-19, since that affects the economy, people in health distress, financial distress (food, shelter, etc), schooling distress, job and business loss, loss of tax revenue for public services, vaccine rollout, being able to visit family and friends. Hope for overcoming too many people not caring enough about others to wear masks, and social distance – but I realize that it is a symptom of what is going on across the U.S.. I had some hope that we could become more caring and compassionate of others in 2021.
Now, however, there is the non-COVID-19-related hope that, to help our democratic Nation heal, and prevent further treason and bloodshed, we will see/hear the members of both Houses of Congress speak the truth about the 2020 election. I’m afraid it is too much to hope that certain news sources will also begin to speak the truth. If President Trump’s loyal followers don’t understand and believe that President Trump’s claims of a landslide victory and stolen election are wishful thinking, not what happened, I fear that there will be repeated attempts to bring down our democratically elected government – I look forward to the truth, and acceptance of the truth, in 2021.
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What I am looking forward to most in 2021 is the release of the vaccine! As a nurse I am looking forward to decrease in COVID numbers as a result of the vaccine and an increase in being able to see those I love!!
Getting a shot for the covid vaccine. That will enable so many other things like traveling and seeing my family…
Truly some of the most excellent writers I’ve had the privilege of reading. I am extremely looking forward to Blood Heir. Their books never disappoint.
I am looking forward to another year of family time and making the best of things. It isn’t easy but amazing personal growth comes out of these tough times.
Happy New Year to you guys!
That’s easy. Looking forward to more books from you.
In 2021, I’m most looking forward to graduating from college. It will look a lot different than I’d always expected, but it’ll be the start of a new chapter of my life all the same! Hopefully we’ll all be able to get back to something resembling normal again soon. Your books have helped me get through some hard times and I just want to say thank you for writing them. Have a great year!
I’m looking forward to spending time with my friends & family in-person again. I’m mostly just looking forward to a fresh start & a chance for a much better year!
Reading a lot of great books.
What I’m looking forward to most this year? If you would have asked me that about the last three years my answer would have been clear, there has always been one specific book that I had been desperately, anxiously waiting for, longing for for months or years. This year that’s not the case, which is a bit strange to me, but I’m excited for all the new (and beloved old) stories I’ll read nonetheless.
However, one of the things I’m looking forward to most is probably the new shelf I’m planning to get to have more space for my books. And the new wall decor I’ll be setting up in my favourite room. I always love to make my surroundings at home more beautiful. And starting a new important project I have been thinking about since probably 2018 or 2019. And seeing my friends again from face to face. We actually managed that only once in 2020 …
I’m looking forward to enough people getting the covid vaccine that it will be safe to resume “normal” life without worrying if the simple act of spending time with loved ones may kill them.
Small magic – hoping for peace of mind and heart in 2021. Feels like that’s big magic now!
I’m looking forward to discovering new hobbies in 2021. I know this is something that most people started doing with lockdowns in 2020, but it’s a goal I’d like to have for 2021 to be consistent with at least 1 new hobby!
Another thing I’m really looking forward to in 2021… all the new books that will be released!
Thank you for this! I’m of course really looking forward to seeing friends again but most of all, to personal growth and new accomplishments 🙂 I’m thrilled about a job opportunity I found, and hope to read more this year.
Dear Ilona and Gordon,
The thing I actually want most for 2021 is change and health. Change for the world, for the people and for myself. And mental, social, physical and ethical health. I’ve been stagnating for far too long and I want to actively allow myself to hope and dare this year.
I am looking forward to the birthdays of my loved ones and to be able to celebrate them with them, because my mom will be 50 this year and that wants to be celebrated properly. 🙂
And as for pleasure, this year I hope to see at least once the sea and once mountains and always have a book from you with me. Because to be completely honest, and without wanting to come across as super slimy, you are my absolute favorite authors and I look forward to your stories as to hardly anything else. <3
So I will try not to devour Julie's story within a day and enjoy it more and even if I can't win Small Magics for myself (I know the probability is very low after all) I am very happy that it gave me the motivation and courage to write this long overdue, outrageously long comment. (Because I have never done something like this before).
I wish you only the best in the world and especially health for you and your loved ones.
And of course also for everyone who has struggled through my commentary up to here and everyone of us who proudly counts himself to the BDH.
– greetings from a girl from Germany, but born in Russia and who learned English mainly through your books, because she just could not wait for the German translations 😀
I’m looking most forward to being able to travel again.
I am looking forward to be able to visit family and friends again without having to weigh potential risks first.
I am hoping that we are all coming through this global pandemic as well as possible.
And I am really looking forward to this evening when I can start reading Blood Heir, after being giddy with anticipation for weeks now!
Looking forward to opening up our communities again! Thanks for ALL the fun reads!
I walked round and round whether I should participate or not because I never win. But the slim chance to get a gorgeous signed book from you is just to good to miss.
So thank you very much for the oportunity.
And to you all let this year be a good one
In 2021 i’m Looking foward to the release of blood heir and manh other books. I also want to be able to go out with friends and to travel. I also anti to finish my degree.
Hello! I am looking forward to the hopefulness of life returning to a new normal in 2021. I hope I can spend time with friends and look forward to going out to the theater and dinner
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I’m looking forward to continuing my education to become a Doctor of Occupational Therapy!
Love your books!!
I hope 2021 brings y’all joy and better times.
I’m looking forward to starting my first lawyer job (after going through both officer training and specific training) and settling into my first non-college/school adult home. I hope to be less worried for our health and safety. Also hopefully seeing some friends for the first time in years once we’re all vaccinated. And reading Blood Heir after I hit “post comment”!
I’ve just finished Blood Heir. It was as expected; absolutely excellent. I loved it. Now I’m also reading your blogs. I can draw a line from the human writers to the humor in the books. Many thanks for you wonderful stories and glimpses of real life.
I’m late but I had to add my nickel worth of comments:
1st For 2021, I would love to not wake up and go to sleep in pain… to have the active of hands and limbs to complete a few home repairs.
2nd The released date had passed when I thought about the ebook I ordered. Because I was being totally me, I read the end 1st and then started the book from the beginning…. I LOVED It!!!
3rd After reading the [EDITED FOR SPOILERS- Mod R] after one chapter, I ran a hot bath with episom salt, lemon and peppermint oil and had the best sleep I had in months. I didn’t wake up to [EDITED FOR SPOILERS- Mod R] but I did wake up with less pain. Thank you so much for the reminder of what a good soak with herbs can do!!!
Here’s hoping 2021 will be focused on family, friends and great books. The pleasure all your books makes me a devoted follower… bring it on for 2021 and the future!