The Horde proved its might once more this week, valiantly trying to crash the website with giveaway entries and amazing us all with how international we are. I don’t think there was a corner of the world left unrepresented. FOR THE HORDE!
The Random Number Generator did its job this morning and picked the lucky winners: a reminder that there were 2 domestic US winners and 1 international winner.
All the blog giveaway winners will be contacted privately, from the modr@ilona-andrews.com address.
PSA: Please don’t fall for scam comments on social media proclaiming you as the winner and giving you links to follow or asking for money – some of the scammers copy details like names and profile pictures on their accounts. We will never ask you to cover postage costs or anything else relating to a giveaway prize and you will always be contacted privately from official emails.
Grand Prize Winner
Michelle Bledsoe
December 4, 7:21 pm
Hi, I’m from Picayune, MS. I’m an hour north of New Orleans. Huge romance reader! Have a Merry Christmas
Michelle will receive Innkeeper Volume II (hardcover) and An Advance Uncorrected Proof of Innkeeper Chronicles I (b&w softcover), both Subterranean Press editions.
Second Prize Winners
- International Winner: Ruth Mantua
December 3, 9:51 am
wishing you a very cozy and stress-free holiday season from philippines
- US Winner: Muna
December 2, 3:18 pm
Happy Holidays to the Horde! I also desperately need a cozy Christmas, for fucks sake! I live in a St. Louis suburb called Valley Park, in Missouri.
Ruth and Muna have each won a copy of the Innkeeper Volume II from Subterranean Press (hardcover, colour).
If we do not hear back from you by Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 at 12:00 pm Central, we will chose a different winner in your place, so please keep an eye on the blog and your inbox.
Congratulations to all three, and to everyone who didn’t win: keep your eyes on the blog next Monday for the December Giveaway Week 2!
Congrats to all the winners
First ?
Certified! 🥇
+1! 🥳
Grats everyone!
Congrats to the winners, ya lucky bastards.
I saw the number of comments on the post. Just out of curiosity, ModR, do you guys track which posts had the most comments? I’m curious what the record is for most comments on a post.
So, the thing that is not obvious with the blog is how many silent readers it has. The number of comments are always something like 1% or below of the actual number of readers who access the posts- which is 10,000- 12,000 at the low end and 25,000 and up during blog serials or release periods. I think the absolute top number of comments was around 5k something, but Monday’s was definitely in the top 10 – some posts got archived and deleted throughout the years, so can’t confirm in the absolute.
It’s not unusual (to be loved by anyone) or to have 1-2,000 comments on big blog serials like Julie or Innkeeper and I remember a Hidden Legacy snippet post that got some of the Horde veeeery passionate about a certain topic, and definitely broke my inbox with thousands of comments :D.
The fluffy, mighty BDH! Always underestimated, until it’s too late hehe.
TOM JONES!! My jr. high heart loves this reference!! 💖
Thanks for the data. I’ve been wondering how big the BDH had gotten. We are mighty!
Love ya all!
Congrats!
congratulations to the winners 🙂
Congratulations! FOR THE HORDE!
Congrats to the lucky winners and congrats to the power of the Horde!!
Congratulations guys!
Congratulations to the winners! I’m sure I’ll win next time. 🙂
That’s the spirit!
I can’t believe I won! Thank you so much Ilona, Gordon, Mod R, and of course the BDH!
🤗
Muna, I loved your comment and wish you a cozy Christmas for f*cks sake as well
👏🏾
Congrats and enjoy!!
yay winners!
I got the phone call “package being held at customs” scam yesterday.
I always answer with a simple “hello”. when they introduced themselves as customs and asked how I was, migraine me’s response was “confused” which got an “I’m fine too thanks for asking.”
then they asked if I was waiting for a package from Mexico and (as someone within a stones throw of the Canadian border) I broke out laughing and told them to have a good day as if they called me as a joke. they hung up reeeeeeally quickly on the crazy but not gullible lady😁
that’s me!!!!!!! ack!!!!
***speechless
THANK YOU!!!
Congrats!
Congrats! Early Christmas gift! (Or for other special occasion.)
Congratulations to the winners! And yes, I agree, the Horde is mighty and global. You never know where you might meet us, hehehe.
Windy greetings from the Dutch coast everyone!
Congratulations to the winners!
Also. congrats to the Horde for almost breaking the comments section. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“We seek them here. We seek them there. The Horde seeks them everywhere.” From the Scarlet Pimpernel with modification. 😁
#Truth
This is an awesome reference I haven’t mentally checked in years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Phenomenal!
Congrats to the BDH winners!
15th?
😂I’ll never be first, I like to stand back and see what happens😜
Anyhoo, Congrats to the Horde winners!! So happy for you guys, it’s a nice surprise this time of year. Actually, anytime of year🥳
Congratulations to everyone. Enjoy your special books 😎
Congratulations to the winners. I am sure you are all very excited.
I found Mod R’s comment about number of blog readers versus number of blog commentators very interesting. I am an avid blog reader sometimes commentator and was excited to read about the competition. However I thought about it and concluded I should let entering this one go since I already own Subterranean Innkeeper Volume 1 and was waiting for Volume 2 to arrive ( I’m in Australia so it takes longer to get here).
It then occurred to me to check the tracking to see when it was being delivered( what a good service that is) and , to my delight , I saw it has been delivered that day so we checked our mail and there it was!
Since I was too busy unpacking, oohing and aahing over Luisa and Doris’s illustrations and having several little reads I never got back to the blog to wish everyone luck and say I don’t need to be included in this competition but I will definitely be there for the next.
I love my Innkeeper Volume 1 and Volume 2 books and am delighted some other members of the BDH can now enjoy the experience of these beautiful books.
Yay! So happy you love the books and got a timely delivery 🙂
Congratulations winners 🎊
Congrats to the winners and Happy F*cking Holidays to everyone. Go global BDH! We are everywhere.
woohoo! someone from Mississippi won! being from MS myself makes me feel like a winner also. Love your work, and maybe I can win next time. Thank you for being so generous with your time and your books. Happy Holidays.
Congrats to the winners! I bet if we put our minds to it we could crash the website! Good thing none – probably none but maybe just most- of us want to!
Congratulations!
congratulations everyone, looking forward to see if we all nearly crash the Web again on Monday 😄
FOR THE HORDE!!! Congrats to the winners and greetings from Germany 🙋🏻♀️
Congratulations Michelle, Ruth and Muna! Happy holidays to everyone!
Congratulations to the winners… 😀
Congratulations to the winners! Thanks for running contests this is fun!
Congratulations to the winners! Enjoy!
Thank you House Andrews and ModR for offering the contest and then continuing to wrangle the global Horde! It is wonderful to see this reminder of the fact that we humans are truly a global community – not isolated by artificial borders….
Thank you to all in the Horde who hold a safe and kind space on the ‘inter-web’ for those seeking respite from the craziness! I appreciate you all!
Sending peace, love and safety to the House Andrews, ModR and the Horde and those they love!
+1!
+1
Congrats to the winners and luck to everyone on this coming Monday.
Congratulations to the winners!
Ever since you switched over from the last internet whatever I get the all blogs a day later.
I live in Florida is it a territory thing?
Is there anything I can do?
Thanks for all you do.
Hi Lynne,
Delay of up to 24 hours is normal- the newsletter goes out to about 50,000 addresses. It’s the luck of the draw sometimes, but nothing to be done on your end, I’m afraid.
I know your pain. I am in NW Ohio and I use to get the email the next day. I canceled the newsletter and now I just check daily to see if there is a post.
How does that affect your stats Mod R?
Congrats to the winners and thanks to HA for the offerings!
How wonderful we can celebrate the good fortune of our fellow BDH – this is community – when one wins we all win!!! 🙂 Yay!!!! May we all survive the crazy holiday season.
I love to hear the stats about how hugely awesome the BDH is and how we interact with the Authorlords. Fascinating. Thanks, Mod R, for the dets.
I love, love your books and have been a fan for years. I do hope that we will hear more about Maud, and what happened when her brother showed up. Excited that the sisters can easily visit now that the doorway is there.
So many people in your worlds that I want to know more about, Julie and what happened, will Roman find happiness
Have a very Merry Christmas
It’s awesome to win! I am very jealous (in a nice way! mostly:)
Congratulations
Congrats lucky winners!
congratulations to the winners …
this is Huma from India and sending glad tidings and jolly wishes to all the members of House Andrews and all the fluffy horde(-ers) too!
blessings be upon you✨💐✨💐🎉💐✨
Congrats!!!!!
How fun – congrats to winners
congratulations to everyone who won, bloody depressed that i saw this after they had closed the give away, i LOVE the innkeeper chronicles and would have loved a chance to win the international one (i live in indonesia). there is always next time 🙂 happy holidays everyone xx
The giveaway for week 2 is already open for entries – until Thursday! https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/giveaway-week-2-kate-daniels-edition/
Congrats Winners! Happy Reading!