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Because the election is coming up and because we are buried in deadlines, we decided to pare down our social media. It’s a time suck. Gordon deactivated his Twitter account for the time being, and I’ve converted my account to only post blog post announcements some time ago. Our blog posts feed to Twitter and Facebook automatically. During the release I had logged on a couple of times to retweet appearances, but that’s over now.

So to be clear: we are not available to respond on Twitter. Please don’t be upset that we do not reply. We are not there. We don’t see your tweets and DMs.

We are a little bit more there on Facebook on the official page and sometimes on the Facebook fan page. But our time is limited, so if you see someone being abusive and we haven’t noticed it, please let us know through our website.

In general, the best way to reach us is through contact form on the website. We may resume more active social presence after we claw our way out of writing backlog. šŸ™‚ To be honest, maintaining a social media presence isn’t part of our job and it’s kind of soul grinding lately, because there seems to be so much bad news, and we both want to spend more time on writing books and hanging out with our families. And playing computer games.

Thank you for sitting through this boring announcement.

Here is thank you snippet.

Order of Merciful Aid

The Citadel

Wolf Trap, VA 22182

14 Sep 2045

TRANSCRIPT FOR RECORD

FOR Grand Master, Angevin, Damian, 3rd Knight-Preceptor of the Order of Merciful Aid

INDIVIDUALS PRESENT: Grand Master Damian Angevin, Knight-Inquisitor Bruce Dolivo, Knight-Secretary Timothy Hanson (recording)

SUBJECT: Battle of Atlanta /Attempted Invasion by Roland aka Nimrod of Shinar

BD [Reading]:To understand the conflict that took place in Atlanta resulting in the Battle of Atlanta in August 2045, it is helpful to consider two theories.

First, the forces of magic and technology exist in a balance. Both must be present for life to survive. The complete absence of either results in a mass extinction event, as we saw during the Lighthouse Keeper incident in Palmetto GA. Using technology or magic through means of devices and spells increases its respective potency in the world at the cost of the opposite force. So, the more spells the population uses, the stronger is the magic and the weaker is the tech and vice versa. This continues until the imbalance becomes too great and the system auto corrects. This is known as the Balance Theory.

DA: Iā€™m well aware of this. Last time I checked, I wasnā€™t an idiot.

BD [Reading]: The Shift, the return of magic to our technological civilization is an example of such correction. The correction isnā€™t instant but gradual, which is why weā€™re now experiencing magic waves with periods of technology in between. That is also why magic destroys objects with a high technological concentration, such as tall buildings, aircraft, and computers.

DA: Bruce, my time is valuable. Get to the fucking monkey.

BD [Reading]: Second, the Shift isnā€™t the first such correction our world has experienced. Evidence suggests that several advanced civilizations existed in pre-history, based on the practice magic and that they obtained a level knowledge and innovation at least equal to or surpassing our own. They had experienced their own Shift, which brought waves of technology and ultimately resulted in their demise. This is known as Second Shift Theory.

 DA: Youā€™re doing this on purpose.

BD: Yes, you asked me to do this, I dropped everything, and now youā€™re going to sit and listen to my damn report.

DA: You always did love the sound of your own voice.

BD:  And thirty years later you still canā€™t pay attention to the lecture.  Iā€™m still doing your fucking homework for you, Damian.

DA: That is a lie, and you know it. I did my own damn homework. Itā€™s your job to investigate. Itā€™s my job to decide what to do about your findings.

BD: Oh no, Iā€™m losing my train of thought due to the constant interruptions. I think Iā€™m going to have to start from the beginning.

DA: I already know this. The kid knows this. Tim, is any of this news to you or were you awake during the classes at the Academy?

TH: No, Grand Master. Yes, Grand Master.

DA: Tim, tell me who Roland is.

TH: Heā€™s an exceptionally powerful wizard born in the prehistoric times when magic civilizations flourished.Ā  Itā€™s rumored that he is the basis for Biblical figure of Nimrod, the man who built the Tower of Babel. When the first Shift destroyed the magic civilization, Nimrod went into hibernation. The current Shift woke him up and he took the name Roland.Ā  He possesses god-like powers, he uses blood magic, and he may have created vampires. He seeks world dominion and is classified as extraordinarily hostile.

BD: How is it you have a kid who uses words like flourished? Give him to me, heā€™s too smart for you.

DA: Get your own smart kid. This one is mine. Just give me the Cliffā€™s notes version, Bruce.

BD: Fine. Think of magic as water and technology as a dam holding it back. A little bit of water always flows through, but itā€™s barely a trickle. Then we have the Industrial Revolution, a couple of World Wars, and the Space Race, and information technology. The more we progress, the greater is the pressure on the dam, until eventually the damn thing starts cracking. We think it really started sometime in the 70ā€™s, when all that psychic crap hit.

So, the magic keeps leaking through the cracks, the cracks widen, and eventually Roland wakes up, probably sometime in the 90ā€™s. He crawls out of whatever cave he was sleeping in and starts running around waiting for the dam to break. Which we know it did, and we have our apocalypse.

Nobody exactly knows what happened to Roland in the past, but it was some heavy shit, because the man is unhinged. Mad genius, megalomaniac wizard, crazy cosmic powers, the whole enchilada. Heā€™s obsessed with rebuilding his ancient kingdom, the Shinar. He settles in Idaho, creates the People, and sets about building the foundation for his kingdom.

Shortly after the Shift, he meets a woman, Kalina, and falls in love with her. She becomes pregnant, and at first, heā€™s happy, but then he decides to kill the child in the womb.

DA: Why?

BD: Heā€™s had children in the past, and it didnā€™t go well. They were powerful and every one of them died or turned against him and then died. No one knows how many of his own kids he nuked.

DA: Father of the year.

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  3. Thank you for the snippet! Good luck on the deadlines. Can totally understand about the time suck of social media. I am almost ready to drop my Facebook account as I donā€™t really use it anymore.

    • I left Facebook for four months. Went back for 1 day, decided everyone has become like Roland. Unhinged. Everyone is shouting, nobody is listening. Quit watching all tv except streaming, quit watching news just get it in snippets online. I have so much more peace of mind and time. If it is all going to hell, i dont have to watch. Good for you for taking break from social media. Everyone should. Its not good for us.

  4. Thanks for this. Iā€™m sitting here waiting for my blood to be drawn so reading something entertaining helps me not panic. (They screw up drawing blood from me a lot. My veins are awful)

    • Same here. They started using the veins in the back of my hands, which bruise more, but at least they don’t have to keep *poking* me.

      • Good luck with all you are up to. I totally support more writing time and family time ????! And, of course, some time to do what you want to do. Thanks for the notification and the snippet!

      • I tell them I have very fine veins that roll, so they have to use their finest needle to get my blood. Then I mention the time it took the technicians eleven tries to get a vein…

        Theyā€™ll take my blood for tests, but because of my veins Iā€™m not welcome to donate to the blood bank ā€” they use big needles to speed the process.

      • TL;DR see above and skip this.

        Thank you!! That matches with my calcs. To expand a bit (unnecessarily?) I’ve been re-reading KD from beginning to end with the express purpose of correcting my (wrong) guesstimates. Anyone see issues, already done this, feel like posting, know of an existing link? Here’s what I’ve got through book 3:

        Bk3Pp39-40: Curran became Pack Lord in 2024, at age 15. It’s been 16 years since, so book 3 happens fall of 2040, after Kate turned 25 six months earlier, born spring 2015. Curran is therefore ~31, born 2009. Julie is 13, born 2027.

        The 1st shift happened shortly after new Coca-cola bldg built in 2007 and happens every 7 years, so, 2012, 2019, 2026, 2033, 2040, there have been 5 flares.

        If Julie left at age 18 and it has been 8 real world years (and 11+ for her given that 4 years happened for her while she was in the 9-month magical coma??), then 2040 + 5 + 8 = 2053.

        OCD is not fun. Funny, but not fun.

  6. LOL. “Get your own smart kid.”

    Social media is crazy. My husband posted something about the exploding trees (how they don’t). One of the trolls in his audience pounced about how strange it is that there are only fires in California, and not anywhere else there are trees. I often want to rip that guy’s head clean off and so I have learned to just move along, nothing to see here…

    Best wishes for productive writing and work! It’s nice to hear your ‘voices’ every now and then, haha. Even boring stuff.

  7. I’m a bit bummed about Gordon’s Twitter. He retweets funny stuff and he introduced me to Randy Rainbow and Sarah Cooper. But I suppose if you have to crack the whip to get some work done then I’ll just have to deal.

    {le sigh}

  8. I don’t blame you for cutting back on social media. Of course, I am one of those strange people with basically no social media presence at all. (No Twitter, no Facebook, no blog, no Instagram – no nothin’)
    I do understand that there are folks who enjoy those things and I am happy for them. I will just keep on doing as I have and let them.

    Thank you for the snippet. It was quite different and fun. I look forward to seeing it (and perhaps more of it?) in Blood Heir.
    Be safe and healthy in this messed up world. You make a lot of people very happy.

    • Ooh, another no Social Media person! Thank you so much. I am one of the 2 percent who never could figure out *why* ppl bothered with social media. So nice to know I’m not alone! .

      Anyway back to the memo… I am wondering why we need this information? Author Lords would not being giving us this viewpoint without a reason. Is the bright kid (the one recording?) getting sent into Atlanta?!! Ooh.. I see some fun times ahead if so…

  10. Iā€™m with you RE social media. I deleted my FB account over a year ago – donā€™t miss it one bit.

    Iā€™m still on IG, mostly for work. Otherwise, social media is not good for my mental health.

    Take care of yourselves.

  11. This snippet must be pre Blood Heir cause if this is the guy in love with Erra he must know more than he wants to about Roland by now šŸ˜‰

    • The snippet is date stamped as coming right after the Battle of Atlanta itself – still in 2045. Whereas Blood Heir is 8 years later. šŸ™‚

  12. LOL, you must be listening to some of the BA Tech walks I attend and have to document. Thanks again for you guys do. Social Networking sucks gravel…hoping things improve.

  13. Awesome, as always.
    I’m so glad you all took time for some R&R. Do whatever it is you need to keep yourselves safe and sane. And many thanks for this blog.

  14. I’m not on social media of any kind. When Facebook came out I thought about it, but something kept me back from signing up. I’ve been hearing about people dropping social media due to all the misinformation and depressing things posted. Don’t blame you for dropping it.

    As to the snippet, this reminds me of meetings I’ve been in at work. Made me laugh. šŸ˜€ Thank you!

  15. ā€œGet to the fucking monkeyā€ ????. Love that song! Take good care and weā€™ll see you on the flip side.????????????????ā¤ļø

  18. It’s hard to handle social media, while trying to focus on the real job at hand. The big companies have a dedicated team of employees, and everyone else has to try to keep up. It’s exhausting. It’s why a lot of folks hire it out.

    In your case, you guys already have a nice following so I would imagine you’re just trying to maintain the base, with some modest growth. That’s a lot easier than folks who are trying to significantly build and grow their base.

    Social media is so insidious, it’s on our phones, and with us nearly always, it’s important to find that work/life separation. Enjoy the time with family. And as much as it can be fun to see you and Gordon on social media, I’d rather have new shinies to read that you’ve written. ^o^

  19. Thanks for the snippet!

    I don’t have any social media accounts and yet, somehow, have survived šŸ™‚ I deleted my Facebook account about 3 years ago now and life has never been more relaxing. More time for reading and other things. The last few days I have been refurbishing my cutting boards, wooden spoons, knife block and spice rack.

    Hope the writing goes well and you enjoy some downtime. Everyone needs downtime.

    • I deleted my Facebook (the only social media I have ever had) about 3 years ago too! Happy social media deleting anniversary lol! I got rid of mine because I was tired of people trying to shame me for not wanting to post pictures of my, at the time, only child online where anybody could see them and because I was tired of seeing things on my news feed from what other people were posting that was totally inappropriate (ie cursing/lots of swearing, people’s political opinions that I really don’t care about, and once a pornographic video…don’t even know how that one got through but it did).

      I ditto the enjoying downtime! While all of the COVID stuff has shut down parks and playgrounds, I am still enjoying the time with my kids and it has just meant I have had to get creative in what we do outside at home, which isn’t a bad thing. šŸ™‚

      • Happy Delete-a-versary to you too ???? I wouldnā€™t post our pictures either and only tried to post good news stories I thought everyone could like. But as with you the newsfeed was mostly negative and then the FB security / privacy issues were the last straw. Enjoy the outdoors with your kids building fun memories ????

      • I am another person who refuses to post pictures of my child online. Some people just don’t get it, but there’s too many weirdos out there for me. I’ve allowed a couple of pics over the years by grandmas, but that’s it. I even quit sending pics to a family member because they posted a picture online without permission. ????????

        That being said, I do still have 1 because I use it a couple times a week to look up the lunch specials at the local coffee shop. ????

        I completely understand about wanting a break from it. Deleting, blocking, and hiding people and then not even checking the feed was a good thing for me. (No judgements though to any who like it. My 89 year old grandmother loves it. ????)

        • I donā€™t even have screensavers or wallpaper of people/children I care about. If itā€™s not passlocked, itā€™s a physical picture in my home. I may be a little extreme, but my grandmother tried to kidnap me twice, makes you paranoid.

          Iā€™ve actually had several bosses talk to me about my ā€œdepressionā€ because my space was so uncluttered. When they finally got around to asking me why and I said something like ā€œthereā€™s crazies and pedophiles in society, and given the size of our company thereā€™s at least 2 in the building…ā€ the silence is hard to describe, but itā€™s awkward enough to make me want to laugh in that stressed out kind of way.

  21. Family first! Thank you for the snippet, At last an explaination for the 70s!

    One of the few good parts of Covid is hanging with people I love.

    It would be great if you shared knitting when you have time. I really enjoy those posts.

    Stay safe!

  22. ???????????? Heā€™s too smart for you, give him to me. …. Get your own smart kid! This one is mine! ????????

  24. Idaho? I don’t remember Roland being in Idaho. My state is pretty boring so I usually remember when it gets mentioned.

  26. Thank you for the snippet! ????????

    Someone referred to the constant pressure of social media as “doom scrolling”, which sounds really grim. I don’t have any social media accounts, but read posts on a couple of blogs. My favorites are critters: kittens, puppies, baby goats, etc. Always love the posts with your fur-baby crew! Life is better with pets!!

    • Thank you !
      I was trying to find a word for what I’m going through: doom scrolling is perfect.
      And once you’ve started, believe me it’s soo hard to stop.

  27. Thank you! Since I have practically no social media presence, it bothers me not that you have reduced yours but even if I did, Iā€™d much rather you spend your time on the 3 Rs: ā€˜riting, reading and relaxing… and not necessarily in that order. ????

  29. I desperately need the rest of this Transcript.

    I am dying to know the Order’s assessment of the Battle & Curran et al.

  30. Ooh I can see now how Damien would like Erra. No beating around the bush there šŸ™‚
    Looking forward to their first scene now!

  32. Very fun! Thanks for the snippet.

    I have a terrible memory. Is DA the one who is in love with Erra? And basically gave Julie her credentials?

  33. Im realy realy realy sorry but I need tĆ“ say this. I need the rest of this TRANSCRIPT FOR RECORD… I know bad fan but I had tĆ“ let out of

  34. Thank you for the snippet!!

    Possible continuity error?

    This says Roland at up camp in Idaho, but the Swan Palace is in Iowa. Did he move?

    • I think it’s a small mix up. When were writing this I added a line that said something like Roland was “living in his own private Idaho.” An obvious reference, if slightly obscure, to the B52’s song. I do think you’re right about Iowa.

        • I was just getting ready to type something similar to a comment above! ???? All those edge states just lump us all in the middle together. ????????

          (Hope the derecho didn’t get you too bad! )

        • I beg to differ. I live in Ohio, and it’s absolutely not flat as far as the eye can see. Drive 60 miles in any direction, your ears will pop from going either up or down too fast on the freeways. The foothills of the Appalachian mountains are here, and they go a long way. Also, Ohio has the great lakes to the north and fishing is good everywhere in all the rivers and streams. The only thing that actually matches with Iowa and Idaho is that we have serious farmers here who grow an abundance of field corn and soy beans. The snow stays mostly north, the storms stay mostly south because the great lakes stop the storms as they try to sweep in. Lake Erie keeps the northern sections warmer in winter and cooler in summer, but the snow belt coming across the lake tends to pile up a LOT of snow by picking up moisture over the lake. We have a lot of weather in Ohio, not all the same everywhere. Those are just a few differences between living here and living in the middle of the country where people just fly over and look to see nothing worth seeing because it’s all farms.

  35. Thank you so much !!!!!!!
    Oh, I think I like him ! We knew he was powerful, and now we know he is sarcastic and smart
    Like the idea of this Damian with Erra !

  38. Yummy snippet! Ohh the possibilities! <3
    Thank you so very much, I'm really grateful.

    And regarding Twitter, you are right! I started because you were on it but I got really addicted due with COVID and now US elections (where I should not feel concerns as French, but it impacts us still).
    I've now put a timer of my phone to limit and will try to stop completely: it's not because I refresh all the time that I'll finally get some good news.
    And when there's finally good news, it won't be only on twitter.

    xoxo

    Laurence

  42. Hee hee, enjoyed that and thanks! Keep writing and weā€™ll keep waiting with our individual levels of impatience in full gear.

  43. Do what you need to to take care of yourselves! Social media is extremely disheartening right now šŸ™ We love you <3

  45. Writing + happy authors > social media by a huge margin. If this is the balance you need, then this is the balance you take.

    lol @ “get your own smart kid”

  46. Beautiful, you write it and I’ll read it šŸ˜€

    Love the “monkey” & the “smart kid” bits!!

    I’m only on fb to connect with school friends & my vast array of nieces & nephews from around the world, otherwise I’d be a mushroom. I agree that it is also full of crap, I scroll fast now. LOL

  49. I have found that I am far more productive writing the less I engage in social media. Especially Facebook.

    You know, if you had called him Duncan instead of Roland, he could be Duncan Idaho.

    Don’t get up, I can see myself out.

  50. Great snippet!
    Now, about Maude and Arland’s wedding . . . .
    How about a screen shot of the invitation, at least!

  51. Best authors ever. Thanks for keeping me hooked on your writing through your blog posts and snippets like this. Better than cigarettes or alcohol- a pleasure.

  55. Grand Master Damian Angevin is hilarious. šŸ™‚
    Some food for soul is good. Thanks for taking time to let fans know, we don’t deserve you.

  57. social media seems to have been overtaken by the slightly unhinged and the deeply unhappy. I congratulate you on bugging out.

    Stay safe

  58. If you want a fun game to play with the family – check out Among Us on steam… weā€™ve been playing it for a few weeks and itā€™s hilarious ā¤ļø

  59. Love it! Also, I was not sure of the timeframe involved in the Kate Daniels stories. Now I know, or at least have a much better idea – THANK YOU!!!

  60. Thanks for the snippet!

    A few months ago I found myself arguing with a stranger one night on FB (a very rare occurence for me, as I have a long standing personal vow not to do that). I suddenly realized that the post generating this fur ball was something selected for display to me by the algorithm. E.g. my attention was being directed by the algorithm. Duh. NOPE! Enough of that. I put up a post telling all my friends that I think they were awesome, but that I was taking a week’s break. Checked back in a week later and everything was pretty much the same as I had left it. A week turned into a month. And now here we are. I look in once every couple of weeks for about 20 minutes. I like a few cute, low key posts from friends, see the latest “UPS Dogs” posts, and then I’m out. Not missing the angst for profit generators at all.

    I find it wildly interesting that so many people here have reached about the same conclusions about social media. Those beasts are for profit enterprises, and they are capitalizing on the tendencies of human brain chemistry to maximize profit. While they may also serve to maintain community connection (debatable, but I am in closer touch with a number of people through social media than I would have been otherwise, which has been a positive thing), I think we must keep the primacy of the profit motive inherent to social media in mind.

    Best wishes on your wrangling of commitments and deadlines. If there is fun to be had in any of that, hoping you may also seize those opportunities.

  62. I totally understand your position. I have been limiting my time on Facebook because of the current socio/political climate. Basically, I got tired of being attacked for my views of the world. I ready notifications, check on a few friends, and close out.
    Thank you for the snippet! It was hilarious!

  63. Thank you! I used to be on FB but Zuckerberg, et al, have sold their souls to the “almighty dollar”. I will not be back there (oooo! I think they’re scared about that ????)

  64. Thank u! Appreciate so much your taking time to share snippets that keep us addicts breathing! I remain in awe of your world-building.

  65. Thank you, House Andrews for the post. I found myself chuckling several times. Thank you for a light moment today.

  67. OK, so I bought a book by Rachel Caine as per y’all’s recommendation. Don’t worry, I take full responsibility for the purchase. Book one of the series about weather. I always get a kick out of reviews that complain about too much sexxxy time or foul language. I’ve actually bought so-so books because prudes complain.

  68. Good luck on your deadlines. Iā€™ve actually been expecting the SM downsize or hiring somebody for that alone like the A Listers do. It is a time suck and authors donā€™t have that much time to poor out to it, especially when you grow and start doing more shows/signings. You guys are great and a great couple. You need that time for yourself.

    Thanks so much for the snippet. Canā€™t help but wonder who the smart kid is.

  69. Dear House Andrews,

    You do what you need to do for your sanity, happiness, ability to spend time with family, play games, write, etc. General quality of life and work/life balance really.

    Anything on here or social media is a bonus. I will wait patiently to purchase anything you publish I am very grateful for any snippets, chapters, excerpts that you share with us. Thank you for the one today. It made my day quite a lot better.

    Thank you again.

  70. I remembered one positive thing on social media that I like! It’s the Facebook group “For The Love Of Old Houses”. I just love their posts. I don’t read the comments, so I don’t know if some people are mean, but just looking at some of those beauties makes me smile. I think I looked at the most expensive one that I’ve seen. It was for $47,500,000.00 (No, that’s not a typo folks. Forty- seven million, five hundred thousand dollars. ????????ā˜ ) Plus, I saw one today in Ireland that had a moat and a drawbridge! They also have fixer-uppers. ????

  71. One day, I tried to open a Facebook account. Like an idiot, I put my real name on it. Before I had finished filling it out and making it an official account, I got an e-mail from Facebook. My sister, who has my home phone number, my cell phone number, my private e-mail address, and my street address, was asking to “friend” me. Before I had even signed up completely, I realized what a huge error it would be to open that account, and I backed out. I realized before I even started signing up that Facebook began as a dating site for a college. Suddenly, every business offers you specials if you “friend” them, news channels on TV offer you more information on Facebook if you “friend” them, and the only way to do that is to have an account. Those things are closed to me, and the thing I have always wondered is just how Facebook took over the entire advertising world and when it happened.

    I did sign up for a twitter account, but I have no clue what password I put on it and I have never read or posted a thing there. Once, I considered starting a blog. Then I realized that my life is not interesting to anyone but me and I had nothing that the world needed to share to post on it, so I wisely backed away from that, too.

    My older cousin avidly follows Facebook accounts of people she has never met in person, and has totally ignored e-mails for years, other than for the holdout friends and relatives who won’t use social media. She uses their messenger app on her phone, and that phone never leaves her hand. Her entire life is wrapped up in what someone else posts to an account somewhere. I have a full life offline, and when I shut down my computer, the online world goes away because all those apps track every move you make in life and follow you like a lost puppy everywhere you go.

    And God help you if you post that you are ill, because everybody knows somebody who had something that sounds like what you have, so medical advice comes pouring in on what you “should” do about it. When your doctor orders chemo for your cancer, you’ll hear how horrible it is and how you should have it cut out immediately and forgo all the chemo and radiation, and never mind that what you have is wrapped up around arteries and veins which, if cut, will kill you! Find some other doctor and someone will make the attempt to cut it out for you so you can survive without all that poison! If you get a splinter, they’ll tell you the best way to remove it. Break a bone and hear what foods will make the bone heal faster. Everybody on Facebook is an expert in every subject, never mind that none of them went to medical school!

    Social media is a time suck. There’s nothing on it worth reading, although some post fun stuff to make you laugh, which is always worth doing. It’s a bad habit. I have enough bad habits to fill my life. You’ll find, once you shut down those accounts, that you suddenly have time to do things in real life that have waited for you to have time to tackle them.

    Good luck to the authors with breaking that away from your lives and staying where you are needed by so many people who love your work so much that every release you make goes to the tops of the charts. Your blog is the only one online worth reading. Your books are worth reading over and over. Keep writing, and keep being together with your family. Those are things worth doing. Social media is not. I’m looking forward to reading Blood Heir in order and finding out what you have in store for the characters I’ve loved since I found the first Kate Daniels book. Have fun writing it, too.

  74. love love love everything you guy’s writing!!! I’m your’s biggest fan in Israel!!!

    can’t wait for more releases on the blog and books!!1

  75. I love that you are pulling back from Social Media. I am trying to abstain for the month of September myself. I want you writing more fabulous novels not wasting time on Twitter. Good Call! Now get back to work. hahaha. Love you guys, stay safe.

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