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Gordon is working on a new Rogan POV. If we give you the POV, do you think there is any possibility you will stop emailing about Hidden Legacy? Because we all know the answer is Kate 10.

PS.  RWA, Austin, tonight at 6:00 pm, Q&A.  Details are here.

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  1. *snuggles Authorlords and offers Tea and Scones*

    Heres hoping something fun happens to lighten the load.

    • ok not first but 3rd – 🙂 Kate 10 and still some selfpublished before right… the time will fly 🙂

  4. The whining will not stop until Kate 10 is released. Surely you know that. And probably not until thre’s a new innkeeper and a new nevada/rogan.

    But the POV would be great!

    Dawn (who is going to the NYS Sheep and wool festival this weekend, and is already high from the wool fumes.)

  5. Add to that all of the initials of the people who are editing the document, and that’s my thesis right now. XD

    Elk_draft_AF_final_GR_6-27.docx
    Elk_draft_AF_final_GR_LM_7-24.docx
    Ect.

    • My dissertation was like that. Add in all the different data sets used until the extremely final, absolutely going to use data set is completed, and that’s what I went through. 🙂

  9. Oh my Lordy – I click-bought that mug so hard. I’m freelance writing for an organization that doesn’t understand the concept of thorough review and prefers making last minute pants-on-fire edits at the most inconvenient of times.

  11. I love you, you are the best, Rogan POV please.

    But, um, ahem… for your own sanity, doesn’t this kind of encourage the idea that whining will be rewarded? Not that I would scorn the rewards!

    • Agree, agree. Sheesh, people, let them get on with their work!! I’ve got my cranky-pants on today.

  12. That is one point in favor of version control software is that the file name has to stay the same. Unfortunately, to be effective, it requires you to put in adequate comments. Otherwise you’re going “was is version 23? Nope. 22? Nope. 21? Nope. Come on people, put in the comments what you did! Let’s try 17. Nope, went too far back. 18?….”

  15. Just keep working on Kate 10, that is a contractual obligation. Ignore the questions and “whining”. We will be grateful for any snippets, POV, deleted scenes, etc. You have buying and moving to do. After you finish Kate 10 , there will be time to contemplate other projects. By the way are you going to RT in Reno?

  16. Don’t cave to the pressure. We will never be satisfied. With that said, anything you produced is wonderful.

  17. Rogan POV please. I haven’t bothered you with an email, but I will now officially promise not to 🙂

  18. Hangs head. So sorry you’ve been pestered. Anything you want to give, anytime you want to give it will be wonderful.

  19. Rohan’s POV very welcome ?
    As I haven’t harassed you guys about future released via email can we have a small snippet please? ?

  20. I’ll take Rogan POV, thank you!! I’m still unsure why people do t know the answer is Kate 10. I mean, reading. It’s the whole reason we’re here.

  22. A Rogan POV will tide me over for a little while. But I may need another before Kate 10 is available.

  25. Hmmm, I didn’t see the “total shit”, “absolute shit” and “what the hell” file names listed plus my personal favorite: “WTF.”

    • It needs a “F*ckIt_ItsGoodEnough”. Not that I’ve ever named a file that at work, but I could definitely see giving into that temptation at home.

    • I’ve been tempted to put “crap”, “crap, crap”, and “ultimate crap” for some of my files when I was in school. What stopped me was the thought of my professors looking over my shoulder and sees those names.

      • Well, we had a sys admin create a temp user named “Douche McGee”. On a customer network. Where they could see that name in the email directory. {sigh}

  26. I would love a Rogan POV. And I have never pestered you for release dates ever, nor am I planning to do so in the future. However, I mostly just happy you are more active on the blog again and if you want to gift us a snippet I’d be deliriously happy!

  30. Authorlords are the best! Personally, I’m satisfied with the blog and the occasional snippet. There will be books and I can wait for them. And then devour them…

    By the way, I seem to recall Ilona mentioning a new series pitch. Once Kate 10 is done it would be amazing to hear about it – even if the comment is as simple as “Approved. Coming. Watch this space.” In the meantime, Kate 10 😀

  31. Gordon has time for a Rogan pov? With house stuff/kid stuff/book stuff/life stuff going on? That man deserves a medal!?

  32. I have been good, I haven’t pestered at all. A Rogan POV would make my month.

    But….yeah, I get it. “Kate 10” now replaces 42 as the answer to life, the universe, and everything. ? All the best to my favorite authorlords!

  33. I have the same problem with my thesis, I have version number, date, who edited, and then started describing files with full sentences

  35. OMG, I just started trying to update my resume. Took less than three minutes to discover/remember I haven’t used an office program in the last fifteen years! Had to figure out how to download a printer driver, etc, etc. Spent a whole evening on that then needed to buy ink so I could print. When did ink get that expensive? Boy do I need an update class. Sigh.

    • You are not alone. At almost 33 ( apparently I am back to describing my name in fractions and degrees) I have been contemplating the need to take a computer course because I have forgotten what I was never really good at in the first place and what I do remember is most likely obsolete anyway.

    • Honey, my last computer class involved Fortran and punch cards. (1968!)
      My solution – no computer but Apple. Well, once they started making Apple computers, anyway. Also, I really couldn’t afford a computer until then…

      • I was the very last class to do Fortran and punch cards, kommiesmom — 1978. I dropped the box once, which is no doubt why I ended up doing things very, very, very far from programming.

        A POV in the midst of all those urgencies? What unexpected pleasures are to be found at this blog!

        • You didn’t number your cards? I would wait for my husband while he was compiling. Anyone who ever saw or heard about dropped cards started immediately.
          My sympathies. I did post punch card Fortran.

          • One college job involved hours inputting data about wheat growth rate to get those demm’d punch cards. On the up side, narrow strips of Fortran cards, placed in the coin receptacle of the washers and dryers in my dorm stopped the quarters from falling but still triggered the “on” function!

  37. Don’t care, love everything the two of you write, be happy, write loads, never stop!!!!!

    Seriously, everything the two of you write is golden and I will read it all so do what makes you happy xx

  40. Why does this bring back memories of the first computers I used in school. One solid square chunk of beige plastic. The screen a small square with large pixel white font on a black background. Then a blue background on a two pieced computer. And Dial Up connection sound is forever embedded in my head; right up there with nails on a chalkboard. Also does anyone else remember when television broadcasts would cease a little after midnight and your TV screen would either flash to a color testing stripes with a teeth clenching wine sound or gray particle moving pixelation/waves with the static shhhh sound.

    • SSSSShhhhhh!!! You’re giving away our….your age!! Remember that stuff?? Just saying the dial up connection put that sound in my head. AAAAggggggghhhhhh……

    • Oh my gosh yes! I also remember the really good Godzilla movies would be on very late. These were the ones where English was “dubbed” over the Japanese. It was hilarious to see the person talk when the English words were done.

      Commodore 64 computer anyone? Aaaaahhhhhh!

  41. If you offer the BDH a Rogan POV, we will ask for another Hidden Legacy book.
    If you give us a Kate snippet, we will want a Derek/Julie short story to go with it.
    An innkeeper blurb will invariably lead to needing another Edge novel.

    And why did you stop the kinsmen stories?
    And when is Hugh’s book coming?

    However, we will take a Rogan POV.

  43. Do we get a vote, if we all ready don’t send you emails???? If so, then yes I will take the bribe and enjoy it immensely.

  45. I’m so happy for Kate 10 because she is the one that brought me to y’alls books, but I have to say YAY too Rogan POV!!!

    just keep swimming just keep swimming

    author version just keep writing just keep writing tears rolling down your face

  48. No emails from this member of the BDH. Too busy with work and other stuff.

    Pov from anyone is fine with me. Thanks!

    Now I go to re-read Wildfire. 🙂

  49. If you give a mouse a cookie it will want a glass of milk
    =
    If you give the BDH a Rogan POV it will want a……

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