Spooky season doesn’t quite hit the same when everything is scary all the time, but House Andrews always make sure we still have treats in store.
Despite the atmosphere of deep, abiding mistrust (Horde, you fool of a Took!), there is in fact an Inheritance audiobook. It exists. It dual POVs. It will be released just as soon as the final audio edits are completed.
I’m bringing you proof with snippets of Elias, narrated by the very talented and versatile James Konicek. Yes, the same James Konicek who voices Mahon in the Graphic Audio Kate Daniels adaptation, but gorgeously hmmm-y here in a completely different way. Prepare your swoon receptors accordingly.
Three samples for you today, the last one with mild spoiler warning in case you have kept yourself spoiler-free until now:
Fatal Event:
Something happened to mom:
Do not enter if you’re spoiler-fasting. We found something:
If you want to imagine how the duets will sound before we share those teasers, Ilona previously shared a tour de force Ada sample from Hillary Huber here.
Winner, winner, Maggie Dinner
Our “This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me” ARC giveaway has a new winner, selected by the sacred ritual of the Random Number Generator.
Congratulations, Chrissy Bee!
They will be contacted today and have until Friday, October 10th to reply, or we will choose yet another lucky person.
A treat for the road
Ilona shared a surprise snippet from a short story extra over on Facebook, and as tradition goes, I’m pasting it here for everyone who missed it/doesn’t do social media.
“They reached his office, where Lina sat at a pristine desk, presenting the last line of defense to the visitors. The desk was crafted from polished metal with a single white orchid growing from a simple pot. His secretary chose to match the orchid today. A white dress hugged her body, perfectly tailored and form-fitting, yet elegant. Her deep emerald hair, wrapped in a trendy twist, shimmered with beryl highlights. Her eyebrows were black and shaped with laser precision, and she had selected green and black to accent her eyes and mauve to tint her lips. As always, the effect was stunning.
Unfortunately, his protege had referred to that precise shade of mauve as “hot dog lips,” and now he could not divorce himself from it. Mentoring Arabella came with its own annoyances.”
What will this be an extra for? That’s for us to wonder, and our chalant book-attracting pheromones to manifest. I’m sure no one will overreact hehe.
Thank you!!!!
yay! top 3?
*swoon* More Arabella! Congrats to the new winner 🙂
No overreacting here.
All the fluffiness.
All the chalantness and chalantitude.
I can’t squee because I could scare some folks . . . so a very quiet, fluffy, chalant happy dance . . .
I do so want The Shenanigans of Arabella and Augustine.
Quiet, chalant. Suuuuper chalant. Definitely no arm flailing and silent squeaky screaming over here. Very demure.
+1!
The epitome of chalantness
That’s me! Right there. Very Chalant!!!
Thank you!!
Im cautiously excited and hopeful for Arabella
Thank you v much. Happy Friday from the windy UK
hi any update on Hugh #2 ?
It’s all Maggie at the moment, but Hugh is in with a really good chance to be chosen as the next self-publish project 🙂
Yes please. Love Hugh.
I’ll add my many votes for Hugh…..
lol, back to being super fluffy
God. Yes, please.
Adore Hugh. And his and Elara’s Beauty-and-the-Beast relationship: so well matched, with each embracing their conviction that they are the beast. Part two is going to be delicious.
yay!!!
Woo!!
“don’t overreact, don’t overreact, don’t overreact….”
Augustine!
Thank you
I checked back 10 x’s today! I needed this post!
Thank you!
As always, you rock, Mod R! Hee-hee – book-attracting pheromones!
Hmmmm, who could mentor Arabella? I’m going with Michael, for now. Possibly Augustine, if we want to delight in driving him to distraction, heh. Let the Mentor Shipping (NOT romantic shipping) commence!
His assistant’s name is Lina, so that does narrow things a bit 😀
oh!! I thought Lina was Catalina, as Nevada sometimes called her, and the secretary was someone different who walked in with “him”
Not over reacting!!! Where’s the book! Super chalant!!! Need more books!!!!
We are chill…. Really!
I feel so sad for Cecelia 😞
It’s the first time we’ve had to do this and it was heart breaking, but we sent her 5 emails from 3 different email addresses and we called on her in 2 separate blog posts, one the scheduled winner announcement and one with her name in the title, and plastered it everywhere on Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Bluesky.
It’s as much as we can do in a week.
😍
ooooh exciting!!
got to add more to the collection 😍
YAY! thank you for the snippet! you guys are the best ❤️
OMG is this Pancakes’s short story???!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Always kind of wondered if Lina was an illusion prime working for Augustine. Perhaps one of his brothers or sisters. That whole MII place seems about as trustworthy as a chocolate tea kettle. There’s probably not even an office building. It’s just a vacant lot with a circus tent in the middle.
Hehe, as a dyed-in-the-wool Illusion mage hater, I love this!
Yesss Arabella and Augustine are my favs!!! Thank youuuuu
after listening to the GA audio books, I have a question…Is Leon a prime? and if so, of what?
He appears to have a combination of the aiming talent of his aunt, and the pattern recognition of his brother, is he just a dual Significant?
Not sure where to put this for answers.
Leon is a Dark Horse, so more than the discussion between Penelope, Nevada and Grandma Frida when they said he is definitely higher than Grandpa Afram’s “Notable”, we don’t know anything officially.
But he never ever misses, even trick shots, so I know which way my arcane bets are set.
As for what combination, if any, of talent he has beside his maternal line Sagittarius and where that secondary gift may come from…speculations have been made, it’s all I’ll say. It may be just an off-the-charts Sagittarius, a combo of Exemplaria from Grandma Frida, or something from his paternal line.
LOVING the audio samples!!! the voice actor for Elias is absolute perfection!
So many satisfying teasers! Thanks! Must now focus on staying fluffy and chalant.
Love James‘ dry, growly Elias.
And I‘ve always enjoyed Augustine‘s voice. There is sooo much going on under the surface there – both under the illusion and under his public-facing persona. Looking forward to any opportunity for a peek behind the facade. Also appreciate Arabella‘s irreverence messing with his mind.
Arabella!! Yes please
I literally jumped in my chair at the end of this lovely snippet. How very exciting!
Here for all of it! Thank you. It made me forget about the guys tromping around on my roof for a bit.
Yes!! This voice matches what I hear in my head for Elias!! Very swoon-worthy!
Hidden Legacy snippet!! Augustine is going to have an interesting time with Arabella as his student!! Poor Lina may find herself refereeing a lot of situations!
Arabella hooray! Let’s get this BearShip on the road!
Mod R, of course the Horde will get excited. We might be chalant on the outside, but squeeing on the inside.
Thanks for all the info and the snippet paste. 😊
Wow. Now I’m going to spend the rest of the morning thinking about *why* Augustine would be mentoring Arabella. How did THAT come about? I should feel sorry for one or the other or both? 🙂 This is gonna be a GREAT story!
Love the Elias voice. We’ll done!!
Yippee
So, it’s clearly told from Montgomery’s POV. Can we dare hope for an Augustine short story. And, if so, can it incorporate that delicious earlier snippet involving Montgomery and Diana Harrison?