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Is the new thing a holiday serial?

Yes.

How long?

Not very long. Probably short story range.

Every Friday?

Every Friday.

Can we get it in audio/when will it be published/why is it not Innkeeper…

Here is tea and cookies. Please have some. I can’t have cookies because I have to watch my blood sugar so you can have mine.

But!

It has been a packed year for us on the professional front. We wrote many things. Some of them familiar, like Wilmington adventures. Some of them odd and off-brand, like Maggie. Dear BDH, we couldn’t have done it without your support. Your enthusiasm, your comments, and your humanity allowed us the luxury to work at our own pace on the projects of our choosing without the oversight of a publisher or fear that we won’t succeed.

Thank you so much for making our year wonderful. You are the best!

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  2. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. I will take anything you give us with NO COMPLAINTS. May 2024 be Happy and fruitful.

  5. Merry Christmas from rainy Oregon. It’s pouring and the wind is blowing here on the coast in Coos Bay. I love your style of writing and will happily wait until you feel like writing whatever you desire. Take a break and enjoy yourselves. 🙂

  7. ❤️ it’s been a tough year in that everything’s ok kind of way. thanks for giving me a place to feel connected.

  9. YOU are the best! Thank you so much for all the adventure, angst, humor, suspense, aggravation, elation, love, hate, and just sheer joy that your books have brought into our lives. Have a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and a wonderful Holiday Season!

  10. Hope you both get the rest you deserve.
    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.
    Best wishes for 2024!

  11. Happy Holidays from our vacation to visit my family! My daughter spent the night puking, but this news put a smile on my face. The stomach bug will end, but we can read your new serial FOREVER! (Thank goodness.) Here’s to a happy and healthy new year! The food may not be as decadent, but I hope you get joy in spades.

  13. Thank you so much for the tea and cookies and story. I am taking a needed break from an extraordinarily frustrating workday capping a frustrating week. All three hit the spot.

  14. You both are so awesome! All the sharing of your lives: the troubles with doctors, the kitties and doggos, the grown up kid stories and your personal dealings with skunks and other wildlife. And, you find the time to satisfy our thirst for stories and more stories. The freebies! Thanks so much and Merry Christmas!

  15. Thank you!

    I will look forward to Fridays.

    I have a house full of children and grandchildren right now. My heart is happy and my cookie plates are getting depleted more rapidly than I expected. I need to make some more.

    But first I need to get the breakfast donuts cut.

    Have a wonderful Christmas!

  16. Thank you for doing what you love and adding joy to our lives! Very best wishes for a wonderful holiday season.

    I shall enjoy your holiday offering. Since I am alone in the office today, I am going to read it write now. With tea. (No cookies for me either)

  17. What a wonderful lovely happy perfect present!! HA, you are amazing and the BDH is sooo blessed to have you!

    Thank you for all of your hard work, creativity, and love!

    Now I’m gonna go read!! Weeeeeeee!!

  18. Nope, thank you! It’s been so much fun reading your work and this blog! And being part of the BDH is a high point in my life. Wondrous holiday wishes to all!

  19. Happy Holidays to you and your family and the four-legged furballs!! Thank you for this nifty surprise. Its always nice to have something to look forward to as we move into the new year and this is an excellent treat.

  21. Thank you for stories! I can’t give you actual cookies, but here’s my favorite cupcake recipe.

    Chocolate Keto Cupcakes
    2.5 cups (300g) blanched superfine almond flour
    7 tbsp (52g) cocoa powder
    2 tsp baking powder
    90g butter or Miyoko’s buttery spread (softened)
    2/3 cup xylitol (140g)
    4 large Eggs
    1/2+ cup unsweetened almond milk
    2 tsp vanilla extract
    Mini or regular keto chocolate chips–Lilly’s is a great brand. Follow your heart for amounts. Technically optional.

    Instructions
    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (176 degrees C). Line 16 cups in a muffin tin with paper liners. Beat butter and sweetener together until fluffy. Mix dry ingredients and then beat into butter mixture. Beat in eggs, almond milk, and vanilla extract. Add chocolate chips if you’re not a monster. Bake for 20-25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Allow muffins to cool completely, then frost with keto frosting.

      • Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

        Thank you for all of your gifts and writing! Your work is important, and we really appreciate it.

        I was dealing with bereavement these past couple weeks, and there were times I took refuge in your writing. For comfort. For a respite.
        Just to settle myself, before diving back into the fray.

        I had a longer note to send, but I did not want to post in public, and was note sure where to email.

        Key point: Thank you for all you do. Your work is meaningful. It is art, and it is comfort. We cherish it.

    • Xylitol isn’t safe for dogs! Erythritol is fine though. Yes, I know chocolate is bad for them as well but xylitol is much worse. Besides dogs can be tricky, so best not to have it around.

  22. wohoo…the best Christmas present ever.
    thank you for all the work ypu have been doing and happy holidays

  24. Merry Christmas to you & the whole family.

    Anything Roman, it doesn’t matter how long or short, will be received and enjoyed with great enthusiasm.

    Thank for a great year of reading & looking forward to Maggie and more.

  26. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to both of you and your family. Thank you for bringing joy, laughter, tears, wonderment and all the feels to your readers in every little thing that you write. I hope that you have a relaxing and happy holidays despite the diet.

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and thank you also to Mod R for all the hard work that she puts into her job helping you to manage the incorrigible BDH!

  27. Thank you thank you thank you and have a happy Christmas 😍 just working my way through every book you have written and it is bringing me such joy after a horrible year.

    • Thank you from Germany, where we have heavy rains and strong winds. Really unpleasant, but the dog hast to be walked… and my Kid 1 is sick, my nephew who is living with my 91 year old Mom came down with covid this week, so this distraction ist truly appriciated.
      Love you guys and your beautiful stories – I don’t care if it’s Kate’s world, innkeeper or something new (looking forward to that!)
      Frohe Weihnachten!

  30. Thank you for your wonderful writing and blog posts. You have been an oasis for all of us when life gets too much.

    Thank you for the Roman present. However long or short the Friday reading is, it will be cherished.

    Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and happy whatever holidays the Horde celebrates this time of year. 🎄🎁🎆

    May 2024 be a lot better than this year

  32. Merriest of Christmas greeting to you and your family, from over the Pond in the UK. Devoted reader of everything.

    Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year. Found this a useful sugar substitute for cooking and baking- looks like sugar:
    NKD Living Stevia & Erythritol (1:1) it has no calories. Im not linked to the company in any way. Made a lovely steamed sponge with blueberries using it.

    Found various supplements that helped control/lower the sugar, and blood pressure, so for a while went back to being pre-diabetic. Did research via AI asking for ones where there were research papers or trials looking at results, and which wouldnt clash with prescribed medication from my GP.

    Slipped back, because a) I LOVE rice (Caribbean background)
    b) cant get it together to exercise regularly!

  33. We love you two and want you around for a long, loooong time. Thank you for all the books, snippets and blog posts. You make our lives happier with you wonderful writing. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2024!

  34. Thank you for all your hard work. I like many others love everything you write, so sit back enjoy Christmas and The New Year.

    MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

    I WISH YOU AND YOURS ALL THE BEST IN 2024

  37. Thank you Gordon and Ilona for wonderful stories and this blog!! You are so generous, and you truly enrich our lives.

    • That’s the plan. Instead of the golden carrot that we strive to in the future, I will be working to reach the golden cookie. 🙂 Actually, cookies are not my favorite, believe it or not. But I do love watching movies with popcorn, so that will be my snack when I get to the right numbers.

  41. Thank you both for your wonderful books! I am so glad I somehow stumbled onto the Innkeeper serial of Clean Sweep which led me to all the rest of your work. These days your books are my absolute comfort reads – and I’m going through some health issues these days and just finished a re-read of Hidden Legacy (again).

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and the rest of the BDH! 🎄🎅

  42. thanks for the cookies 💜. and all the delicious literary treats this year. y’all have kept me sane through the loss of my job and prepping the holidays on a much reduced budget. I hope you feel all the love we digitally send your way this year!

  44. You are the best- thank you for everything you do! I am eagerly ( and greedily) awaiting anything and everything you write!
    Have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!

  45. Thank you, House Andrews, for making the world a better place.

    I have some chronic health issues that I am dealing with, and I’m supposed to keep my feet elevated as much as I can. I have spend thousands of hours (quite literally) with your books playing in audio format as I do other things (work, craft, drive, build in Sims 3) and they keep me company when I am taking some feet-up time. I’m doing a complete Kate reread as we speak and I love those books at least as much now as when I first read them.

    God bless and here’s hoping you and yours have a very Merry Christmas!

  46. Roman, Innkeeper, Maggie… even nothing at all. I will gladly accept whatever publish and but I’d rather you keep yourself safe and happy and healthy than have more books. Wishing you light in the dark, warmth in the cold, and love throughout the year.

  48. thank you for this lovely gift.

    as some ppl have already mentioned – to help my blood sugars I use monkfruit sugar (there is no after taste experienced with stevia – my opinion). very dangerous for pets is the only word of warning…be cautious of food dropped. am in love w anything from G Hughes – sugar free bbq sauces and dips – again monk sugar be careful with the fur babies. when baking it is one for one.

    happy holidays to you and yours and to all the BDH. be safe and enjoy the time with family and found family.

  49. Happy Everything to House Andrews, House Mod-R, and the BDH!
    I will gladly take care of your cookies for you as I read the delicious new serial!
    LOVE it!

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