This morning:
Hi Anne,
Please find enclosed the manuscript for Magic Triumphs.
— Gordon Andrews
The book is done. Or that is, the first draft is done. Now it’s time for a beta read. This will have to be the NDA to end all NDAs, because it’s the end of the series and it cannot get out. I am wondering if there is any way to add, “If you leak this, we reserve the right to kill you with a spoon” clause to this agreement.
It’s done. Yays! Done. It done. We did it. We done done it. It’s done. Ten years. Done.
Our agent called in the middle of the final battle scene and I don’t think I was quite coherent, because I responded with something like “Kill bad guy, die book, die.” She laughed and hung up.
Did I mention that the book was done? It is.
Congratulations for work well done. Kate’s tale was the beginning of my affair with your words. You have made my reading enjoyable. That enjoyment is sustained by your succeding series. Even though I have read most if not all of your work, I could not be a good Beta reader. I would have to shout it it out. I don’t need or want a death by spoon.
Exactly!
Congratulations on your achievement. It must have been such a wonderful decade for you guys. Mucho gracias! – for all your efforts, hard work and creativity.
Congratulations!! ???
My name is Anne, and I LOVE pretending you were sending this book to ME!!
Congrats!! I look forward to reading it, I know this has been a very long journey.
Thank you both so much.
Congratulations!!!?? How time flies when you are enjoying yourself, is true.
Looking forward to your final Kate book and feeling gutted that it’s the end. (I felt the same about the Edge series) I hope some characters pop up in your others books like George and Jack in the Inn Keeper which was awesome.
I wish you both all the luck in the World and hope you have another best seller. ?
Congratulations!
I am so excited to read it! I’m also a bit sad, as so many others have mentioned, this is my favorite series, bar none. Each book is better than the last and I’ve reread them so many times that I’ve lost count. So, I know that this last book will be absolutely amazing!
I look forward to reading whatever you decide to write next, whether it’s in this universe or another. Heck, I’d happily read your grocery lists.
Yayayayay!! So happy for you!
Uhhh you haven’t perchance seen this have you?! https://youtu.be/jkJ6HIX4k3E
I haven’t seen/thought of this video in ages but your NDA spoon clause sounded like it was inspired by it!
I look forward to reading this! You have taken us all on a wonderful journey. Though I admit I felt a slight frisson of fright when you said this is the end of the series. At least I know you have other books in the pipeline.
Henry phrased it well…an affair with your words. I have been enjoying that affair for years now. ❤️
Congratulations! I must be in denial though, because I am stunned that this is the last Kate book. Such sweet sorrow.
Congratulations! Happy Happy for you. Kind of sad to hear no more Kate, but she still lives on with all of us! And, we can, of course revisit whenever the spirit, or too much reality, moves us.
How awesome! I just can’t wait! They have become just like friends
Congratulations ??? but I’m so sad Jate Daniels series is coming to an end!! She was one of my favorite heroines. Her relationship with Curran makes it even better!!!!
Congratulations! This feels weird.
End of the series???!! Say it isnt sooo. I cant imagine there wont be more Kate Daniels books. But seriously Ive loved each and every one. *sniff* Thank you for all of your hard work.
Congrats. Tears ? Can’t wait to read it, but I don’t want it to end.
Yessss! Can’t wait to get my hot little hands on that final chapter.
Oh well done! Congratulations!
Now take a brief, well deserved rest before you gear up for the next stage!
I just realized, I’ve been reading you guys for 10 years!
I wish I could be a beta reader!!
I’d love to be a beta reader. Please let me know if I can help!
Congratulations! Maybe you should upgrade your NDA weapon from a spoon to a spork? Good luck! I look forward to this whenever it comes out.
OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!!OMG!!!! Thank you guys for bringing this world! I hope you can get some more books in Kate’s Universe!
1) Congrats
2) Awesome cover
3) I eagerly await the opportunity to read it myself.
4) Feeling conflicted, because New Book! But Last Book!
Still, every series has an endpoint. At least here we will get to read it in a relatively timely fashion. Unlike some other authors/series.
Congratulations ??? ! I hope you 2 can take some relaxing time away before the editing starts. Thanks for all the lovely stories. I’m reading Gunmetal Magic again….biding my time…
What an amazing accomplishment! You guys rock and deserve all the congratulations. Pop a bottle of champagne and know that we are all waiting with baited breath. It will be amazing.
“Hurray! The book is done! Done, I tell you!”
Now please, relax a little, sleep a little. Just hearing about your last few months was exhausting. We want our author lords to be healthy and strong for a long and glorious reign.
Are you, in fact, accepting new beta readers for this? I’d love to do it anytime, but I’m going to be out for several weeks after surgery Friday, so… OMG how amazing would that be?
Great news! Look forward to reading this . . . and re-reading the rest of the series first. 🙂
Enjoy your achievement. You guys have created a great series and deserve a reward. Thank you so much.
Hurrah! Can’t wait to read it!
If you’re looking for a beta reader, I’ve read all your books and live close enough to be killed with a spoon. If I don’t successfully defend myself with a fountain (ahem) pen.
Cheers!
Wait… This is the LAST book. No more Kate after this? That makes me a little sad but I can’t wait to read this. Congratulations on completing another book and developing such a wonderful world. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Congratulations! You made it. The story arc is complete. (I bet there were some times you thought you’d never say that.)
I’m going to miss the crew in Atlanta so much. If you should happen to dream up a side journey for one of our friends from there, I hope you will let us in on it. I swear to preorder any such item as soon as I see the link…
In the mean time, we have other friends to visit. Thank you for letting us in on their adventures.
When I read this post my heart went through a myriad of emotions. My stomach sank. I went from sadness to relief to happiness. I’m so excited and happy to read the last book but at the same time I get that devastating feeling when a great series ends and a chapter of my life is closing.
When I started reading this series I was in such a different stage in my life. I remember the day I picked up the first book in this series and was instantly hooked onto the works of the Ilona Andrews duo. I remember sitting at my desk in my old room and then having to rush back to the library, lug all of your books back to my house to binge read through the night.
The characters grew, the storyline grew and I grew as well. I moved three times, graduated, started working, got married, had two children, and all through this time this series grew with me. I’m a completely different person now but my love for these characters and this world stayed a constant in my life. Now the series is ending and I feel this bittersweet emotion raging through me! I know I’ll be bawling when I finish the series and will go back and reread the last couple pages then continue sobbing some more. I’m dreading the moment but at the sane time I can’t wait to read it.
Your post just made it all the more real and brought it to the forefront of my mind. I’m preparing myself for the closure that is to come and already hoping for more spinoffs! AND I would like to say yet again that my favorite of all time that I cannot get enough of is the Kinsmen series so I’m hoping for more books in that series!!! You will not believe how many times I have read Silver Shark and Silent Blade… over and over and over.
But more importantly… congratulations!!! I look forward to reading new series, imagining new worlds and continuing on this literary journey with you two!
Thank you for all your work on the Kate Daniel series!!
Joanne, I thought the Kinsman series should have been continued also. It was, almost, in an alternate Andrews universe The Hidden Legacy.
Henry,
Yes! Which is why I also LOVE that series as well. The Houses with their politics, magic rankings, and hereditary magic are fantastic reads! But the Science Fiction setting of the Kinsmen series put my imagination into overdrive.
The Innkeeper series and the Kinsmen illustrates how well the Andrews duo can write Science Fiction and make magical worlds and weapons come to life! I just can’t get enough of the Kinsmen series and just can’t lose hope that one day there will be more!
YAYYYY!!!! Congratulations. I cannot imagine how amazing this must feel for you two. I hope you celebrate.
Ten years. Like, getting a kid from birth to middle school. Good luck, book!
I love your books. Sad that the series is ending. But I definitely understand and look forward to more from you. I could be a beta reader. Been reading for over 40 years!!!
Well, I’d love to beta read and will sign any NDA you’d like. I’ll take every secret to my grave if necessary! NO SPOILERS!
I read all of your books twice in a row, once to rip through it to get the high points (and find out what happens at the end, usually followed by cursing because now I want to read the NEXT ONE and have to wait) and again, more slowly to catch the nuances I missed – sometimes followed by starting back at the beginning of the series because did I forget something or did I somehow miss that nuance somewhere along the way….. Did I mention I spend my life in hotels and airplanes so at times I have a LOT of time to read on my hands? LOL
Either way, I can’t wait to read it! And congrats on getting it finished!
Now take a breath, and a day, and get cracking on the next Inn Keeper installment. You’re killing me slowly 🙂
Woo hoo for you guys!! Kudos on what will certainly be the epic completion of an epic series. Sad for us but I’m confident you will continue to treat us to new and amazing adventures! ?
You got me with the Twinkie one (Edge #1). I stayed for Kate and loved the heck out of everything else that’s come along the way. You both so totally rock! Noggin! Duuuuuuuuude!
It’s gonna be epic. Happy sigh.
Congratulations! You’ve done it! I love every world that you build, but I think Kate’s world has a special place because this is how I found you and became a member of the BDH.
I’d never want to be a beta reader for this book; I want to wait for the polished, finished product to dive into. I don’t want to read a version and then have things change. I’m looking forward to enjoying it when it auto-downloads onto my device.
And, just to show I’m a member of the BDH, then there is Hugh’s book! ???
But seriously, I hope you can relax and enjoy setting up your new home now.
I think I woke my husband up when I yipped as I read this. OMG. Like so many others here, I’m torn. Not that that changes this being the end. I feel like cussing a little, but that won’t change anything either. I keep telling myself, this means you will be on to other things, like more Hidden Legacy. But….but…..
Congratulations. You should feel proud.
Hugs.
Congratulations! It has been a wonderful and enjoyable and pleasurable and lovely and addicting and an adventure and just EVERYTHING to read Kate Daniel series. I cant wait for the last book to come out. I am like an addict itching needing for it. I am very very sad this series is ending. WWWHHHHHYYY?? ?????PLEEAASSEE make more. Thank you for making the books.
RJ
Congrats! It has been an amazing ride, and I have loved the entire experience. I am so excited to read Magic Triumphs and then see what happens next.
I volunteer as a beta reader! I have a little bit of experience and I would love to to gain more as oned of yours.
P.S. I am more than willing to sign a NDA with any death clause you wish to add.
Wow. Congrats. On preorder since…since I could. Now going to buy the last 2 ebooks from the KD series that I do not have on my Fire. I have hard copies, but the ebooks are with me always for immediate reading anywhere. And an extra external battery just in case. Will be busy this weekend (3 days off) rereading KD again.
Congratulations the relief can imagine even if there will be changes puts me in mind of my daughter finishing her PHD
Wow. Congratulations. I guess. I mean… uhhh… I’m excited to read the next book. Really. But also, the idea of not getting any more installments of Kate and Curran, and their child, and all the rest of the fabulous people you have created? What about Derek and Julie? Andrea and Raphael?! What…but, I mean…Okay. Calming breath. Still. Gonna miss checking in on my favorite married couple. Their repartee is just so much fun. And all that attitude being directed at doing good. Oh well. Congratulations on a phenomenal ride.
Ditto to everyone’s comments. Unless they were negative comments. I have standards; I only steal positive comments. Or insightful comments. Or comments that make me sound smart. I especially like those.