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Magic Tides Release- Zoom Q&A

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Hi everyone, Mod R here.

I salute everyone in the US celebrating Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” is getting more pertinent by the year.

She’s back!

In the UK today we have Blue Monday instead, said to be the most depressing day of the year. Grrrr, grey skies, you shall bow before my Vitamin D supplement. We can’t have any of that!

In the hope of chasing the bleakness away, I bring you the registration link for the Magic Tides release Zoom event with Ilona and Gordon, which will take place on Sunday, January 22, at 10 am US Central Time.

It will be a welcome home party for Kate, Curran, Conlan and company (I’m keeping it mysterious hehe). We’ve missed her, we thought about her, we reread her adventures until the pages got dog-eared and the e-readers begged for mercy. And here she is again, giving us a peek into her Happy Ever After!

I will be asking House Andrews your questions about everything and anything Kate Daniels World, so please use the Magic Tides spoiler thread tomorrow to share them, or email me directly at modr@ilona-andrews.com if you prefer.

We’ve extended the Zoom attendees numbers based on previous feedback, but please register, as spaces get booked really fast. Here is a website that lets you figure out Central Time as it relates to your time zone.

I will do my best to get the recording and transcript of the event on the blog next week for everyone who isn’t able to join us live.

Lastly, I leave you with a piece of minor admin: we’re aware the Apple Books page for Magic Tides has an error that says the books is “available on January 27” after recording the correct release day which is tomorrow- this is most likely a system typo, please don’t worry.

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  1. Well darn, I’m out of town next weekend and probably driving back about then. Will have to wait for the transcript, I guess. Y’all have fun!

  2. Thank you, Mod R, and happy “Blue Monday” to you. As always you are so very helpful!
    I am really looking forward to Magic Tides – as in I will start it as close to 11PM as possible and finish it before I go to sleep. (CST here, too.)
    (Watch that vitamin D supplement – It is bad for you in large doses.)

      • Even people in the US can have deficiencies. I did. I took the supplement as prescribed by my physician, based on results of the the test he had ordered, and it was effective. The main thing is to rely on testing and not self-diagnose.

        The therapeutic dose, prescribed by your doctor, gets you back up to the recommended level if you’re clinically deficient. The maintenance dose, which is generally half that or less, is what keeps you at the recommended level. If you continue taking the larger therapeutic dose once your level is back to the recommended value, that’s when you can get to toxic levels.

        • Vitamin D deficiency is endemic a) in the Western world because so many of us now work inside all day and b) above or below certain latitudes as they just don’t get enough sun at all. While you CAN overdose, it takes a LOT. You’d have to really try.

          Personally, I have found Vitamin D more effective than an antidepressant boost in treating SAD. The full-spectrum lights don’t really work for me because you are supposed to use them at very specific hours of the day — hours that are determined by sunrise/sunset and length of day in your location, not by your schedule. And there’s no way I’m going to be awake and out of bed at 6:45 or 7am. Not with my night-heavy schedule.

          Be careful in the US with vitamins. Neither the FDA nor any other agency regulates vitamins. It is completely legal to scrape dirt off your shoe, stuff it in a capsule, and sell it as a B-complex supplement (or insert the letter or mineral of your choice). Consumer Labs, which does random testing and analysis on food and vitamin supplements, used to be free *cough* twenty years ago *cough*. There may be a new free organization, I don’t know. I do know that they were very reliable, and I didn’t grudge paying when they moved to a subscription model (I also haven’t used them in over a decade, so YMMV).

          /vitamin speech.

      • That’s so interesting! It makes me wonder what products are vitamin-fortified in the UK that aren’t foritified in the US.

  3. Will there be an audiobook. I know this question has been asked but I don’t remember the answer!

    • Yes, there will be an audiobook :). All efforts are involved in finding just the right voice for Kate and getting the narrator booked. As soon as we have an official timeline, we will share the audio release day, we know audio fans are expecting it!

      • Loving Magic Tides—especially since my folks lived in Kure Beach. When a narrator is contracted, I hope she is given a pronunciation guide…it is painful to hear Kure pronounced Cure.

  7. Thanks Mod R for keeping the Horde in the loop.

    I just did a quick read/skim of Magic Breaks. The gang in Wilmington has nothing on Kate. Uh low profile? What low profile?

    From what snippets I’ve read on the blog, it sounds like Curran is going to have the Keep part 2. and a mini branch of Cutting Edge is about to open. The exclusive enclave expanded northeast. ????????????

    • I have to wait on the read until after work. I have this pesky thing called a deadline to update reports for quality directors. Cuts in on my Kate reading! ????

  8. My daughter has a cheer comp that day but we dont have times yet. I registered anyway, fingers crossed the go on before or after.

  10. I have a question? Is there any equivalent of regular national or international newspapers and broadcasts in Kate’s world, available to normal people with normal power and contacts? I know it wouldn’t be up to modern standards but has it managed to survive at all?

    • Kate watches the news in the first book, TVs are still around, with anchors and Breaking Stories and all the usual 🙂 . Bono shares with her an article from a published magazine. In Magic Breaks, Kate takes an ad for Cutting Edge in the biggest newspaper in the city.

      Tech does still exist! It’s just not as reliable as now, but neither manufacturing, printing nor pop culture have completely disappeared 🙂

      • Speaking of the Cutting Edge ad, I’m wearing my Cutting Edge t-shirt tomorrow in honor of Kate’s new book. 🙂

        • I’ve just finished Magic Tides and it was everything I could wish for! Such a welcome return to my favourite characters and literary world.

      • Thanks! I was wondering how isolated all the communities would be from each other, and I realised I couldn’t remember if Kate ever saw the news. I clearly need a reread.

  12. Thanks for hosting the zoom and thanks for the vid and transcript for those of us who can’t make it.

  13. I am registered. Calculating sleep time versus finishing book. If it is available at 11 my time, will I have enough time to finish before bedtime? If I start it, I know I will not stop, so choices, choices. Tired at work but book completed or wait until after work on Tuesday. Knowing me, I will go with tired.

    • I wish you a restful post-Kate sleep, as brief as it will end up! But in that sleep, what dreams may come, as the Bard says hehe.

  14. So I will be at church for the Zoom therefore I will wait patiently (or maybe not) for the transcript. You are so awesome to do that for us Mod R.

    And I am wondering am I the only one trying to decide whether to stay up late and read after the release at 12:00am or go to sleep early and get up earlier in the morning to read before work? Decisions are hard!

    Can’t wait to read the book.

    Caroline

  15. I got my paperback on Saturday and would have devoured it in one sitting if it weren’t for children requiring stupid things like, oh I dunno.. food, interaction and love! Two sittings had to do. Love *love* LOVED it ????
    Not spoiling is very very hard!

    • Only until tomorrow, then you can unleash the spoilers 😀 ! You can do it!

      I’m so happy you liked the book!

  16. I got the paperback yesterday (Sunday)! The family was here for the long weekend and now that breakfast was cooked and eaten, adult kids and fur-babies packed, all have departed. Now I can sit and indulge without sneaking reading in between work calls tomorrow. Happy happy happy day!!! I mean, I will miss the kids and I was sad when they left this morning but now I have a treasure to distract me.

  17. Ohmigod, just one more night and it’s heeeeeeeeere! Kate!!! I‘m so happy right now! … actually, it’s just another four hours here in Germany until I get it in Kindle…. Squeeeeeeeee
    To sleep or not to sleep ????!?

  18. Thank you again for scheduling zoom-meetings at a time when Europeans can attend without having to get up in the middle of the night.
    I’m so looking forward to seeing House Andrews and Mod R again!
    It is always so interesting and fun.

  19. YAY! The webinar is on a day I can make it!
    YAYAYAYAY! I got a spot!!!

    Uuuugh. Did I just register for a webinar at 8:am on a Sunday?

    Oh well. It’s not like I need to be dressed, or even out of bed.

    • Does anyone else remember the Jetsons? The episode where Jane is on a video call holding up a picture of herself totally put together. She drops it at some point and she’s in her curlers, no make up, dark circles under her eyes, in her bathrobe……I seem to always think of that scene when somebody is mentioning early Zoom calls..????????????

      • The Jetsons were a lot of fun! Mr Mod R gently suggested about an hour before one of the more recent Q&As that I might want to “look…a bit more human?” 😀 . I could have used that trick hehe.

  20. Excited! got my copy of the ebook ready to enjoy and note take! oh the perks of living in a different time zone ????

  21. Well, I don’t think I’ll finish my Kate re-read in time, I’m only near the end of Magic Breaks! =) Oh well, I’ll still demolish the new book tomorrow anyway. This cold can take a hike, reading the new book is more important!! =)

  22. bummer

    thats 3.00 am monday in Sydney Aus

    10:00 on Sunday, 22 January, 2023 Central Time (CT)
    In Sydney the time will be 03:00 on Monday, 23 January, 2023. Sydney is 17 hours ahead of Central Time.

    Oh well, will wait patiently for the transcript (with all the spoilers please)

  23. Thanks to HA for being willing to do a Zoom Q&A – I hope that means that you are both feeling well!
    Thanks Mod R for setting it up – excited that I am registered!
    Still a long wait for the book to drop into my Kindle… sigh…

  24. I am so excited!!! I just finished rereading the whole series this past Saturday. So this is like perfect timing!! I do have one question, we have Curran’s POV volume I and II. The last one being right after Curran wakes from his coma after they defeated Erra in Magic Bleeds. I really wish we could get Curran’s POV from Magic Slays, maybe about his thoughts when he calls Kate late that night while she is sleeping after their fight about Ascanio or when he is on his way to Cutting Edge while they are after the Render. What I would pay a lot of bucks for is Curran’s POV during the whole of Magic Rises!! And his POV during Magic Breaks, when he is hurrying back to the Keep because of Hugh and then the hunt for Kate and the first few days after he finds her at least. We have his POV from the first five books. It would really be awesome if we could get Curran’s POV from the last six. And you could make it a whole complete novel of short/novella’s from the last six books. Or maybe two novels of Curran’s POV since there is a lot of material in those six books. And charge us for it!! I would pay for it and I know all your fans would too! It gives me hope that you have written a new Kate and Curran book, you both love their world too and are having a hard time letting them go. So are we! So since you are back to writing about them, what do you think about some more of Curran’s POV’s?

    • Well, if it’s more Curran POV you’re interested in, I think you’ll be very happy with Magic Tides ????
      There are no plans at the moment for revisiting the POV from the main series, but please check your copy of Small Magics for Updates, as there is extra material added periodically. (For example, there’s a Magic Breaks POV and a letter from Curran to Jim etc) – I don’t know if you’ve seen those ????

      • Thank you for responding! And yes, I’ve read those. This is just one of my favorite series, and the bad part of that is that I cannot get enough. But I will keep checking on that. Thank you!

      • I did not know Small Magics was updated. I just went in and read all the POVs. THANK YOU for this, because somehow I missed it.

  25. I have jury duty tomorrow. which I was annoyed by, because they never pick me and I sit around bored all day. but now I will have a book to read! awesome timing.

  26. Can’t wait for midnight, this is SO FUN!!

    Question: When will Conlan’s little sister get started/be born? Within the next 2 years or further out??

    THANKS!!

    • Magic Tides happens 2 years before Julie’s return to Atlanta in Blood Heir.

      The vision that shows Kate with a baby girl is in Blood Heir’s future, Sienna sees it as a prophecy. So the baby sister is relatively far away from the current timeline, just a glint in a cave lion’s eye hehehe.

  27. YAH!!! ALL the excitement!!!

    Just finished Magic Tides and having lots of squeeeeeeee emotions.

    Thank you so much. Loved it. Loved it, loved it, loved it.

    You guys rock.

    Not giving any spoilers, but talk about your parental goals!!!

    Also, Mod R love the knitting.

  28. Q&A questions:

    do you think you will write the story of how and when Nick & Desandra become a couple? (novella, FrInnterview, backstory in the Magic Tides or Blood Heir Series)

    does Nick reconcile with his mom Anna?

  29. It is my fault for not looking at overall map and allowed google maps to take a 4 min longer route that costs money and gives you a scenic tour NC around wilmington. All i kept thinking when driving in the middle of nowhere at night is, i understand why kate settled here, all the roads are windy and easy to defend

  30. Dear Mod R, Ilona once hinted the shop might open again around the release date. I missed it the last time (crying silently in my tea). Have you any news on that? Pretty please

  31. Woo-hoo! Just finished reading it. It’s my birthday, I have a new KD story and a bottle of bubbly – all is good!

  32. I just finished it and it reminded me how much I missed Kate, Curran and Conlan. No spoilers, but loving the new characters and where things might go. Now I need to go to bed because I have to go to work in a few hours.

  33. Congratulations for Magic Tides book birthday!
    Oh my, it is just wonderful. I wanted to cry being back home in the Kateverse. Thank you!

  35. I just realized why all your stories are so special. All the side characters had life and depth and individuality and they contribute to the story even the bad guys.

  36. Omg just finished and absolutely loved it! It’s like a beach episode in an anime but with Kate!

  37. As a citizen or Ireland, I wish to make it known that I approve of the character of Caolan/Keelan. Eire acknowledges their child and claims him, though he may live in a far off land.

    I have only read one scene with him in it but I love him. He is now my new favourite shifter. He reminds me of my older brother.

    I literally giggled out loud as I read his scene on the farm, which, considering I am currently on the bus to work is a little awkward since it made me seem a little crazy.

    All loyalty first to the Beast Lord and the Consort…but then, loyalty to Caolan/Keelan, descendent of the Ossory.

  38. Stayed up till 1:25 am, just finished.

    Oh Gods, how I’ve missed them. *so happy*

    Thank you for this book. *bows three times*

    Now I can go to sleep, content.

    Wonderful stuff. Nights.

  41. Just FYI, I received the paperback edition of Magic Tides from Amazon this past Sunday (the 15th). In case that is an issue with them and their agreements.

    • Hi Brent,

      Happy to report there is no issue. The trigger for the paperback was pushed a bit early to make sure it populates across the different Amazon country platforms 🙂

  42. Magic Tides was wonderful. Thank you so much!

    Hope you will give us a place to discuss MT without worrying about spoiling it for those who haven’t read it.

    • We will have news, either this week or the next 🙂 . No efforts are spared backstage, but a few things need to be ironed out, like international shipping and exciting new designs!

  44. It’s pretty nuts around here right now. I’ll have to read the transcript. (and thank you so much for those Mod R!)

  45. Was checking the Amazon rankings for both the ebook and paperback and the paperback has a notation that it is out of stock. Must be a glitch in Amazon’s system since the book is Print On Demand but thought you should be made aware. I got my Paperback copy last Friday…loved it!!!!…and my ecopy this morning. Another winner, as always.

    Anne in Virginia

  46. I started reading last night as soon as the book showed up on my Kindle app. Then I had to stop and try to go to sleep. I have Covid—I am so annoyed that I made it this long without getting it. Both of my roommates currently in our new house have it. We think the roommate who didn’t move with us gave it to everyone around the time we were actually moving. We told our fourth roommate to stay at her brother’s: her sister-in-law is having a baby any day and we do not want to spread it back to her.

    So now I have this shiny new Kate tale to comfort me while I cough my lungs out. It’s too late for me to take Paxlovid, unfortunately.

  47. Raise your hand if you are experiencing – like me – “Book Hangover” AKA – short night due to reading Magic Tides until the wee hours of this morning?

    ARGH, more coffee, and a reread later today – This book devouring horde, is giddy from the story, sleep deprived and slap happy.

    Thank you House Andrews for another awesome look into KD’s World!!!

  49. I read Magic Tides today and I’m delighted. Thank you a million times! It’s a wonderful story and I’ve missed Kate and Curran so much. And Conlan is going to be very interesting!

  50. I ordered a hard copy when I saw it was coming out the Friday before the e-book date. I devoured it. Last page I was like “NOOOOOOO! More!!!!! It’s not done yet!”

  51. The book is great. like walking into a warm house with all of your friends, hot chocolate and a lovely fireplace. Thank you so much. Happy book birthday ????

  52. Hi Mod. R.,

    I’m hoping you can help me with my spoty memory. I know you said something about the chronological order for the Kate Daniels world books, but I can’t find it. I think you indicated that Magic Tides comes after Magic Triumphs, and before Blood Heir. Is that correct? Does Iron and Magic also come before Magic Tides? (I’m thinking yes because Magic Triumphs has both Hugh and another Iron character in it.
    Thanks for helping me figure this out. These stories are so rich in terms of both plots and characters that I enjoy them best when they flow from book to book.

      • Thank you so much for your help. I had the book order down cold, but didn’t know what order the chronology of events put them in. Seeing your response makes all kinds of sense. Much obliged!

  53. I loved Magic Tides! I’ve missed Kate and Curran. Now I want to reread the series again.

    I couldn’t register for the Zoom. It’s full already? ????

  54. Just finished Magic Tides. It was so good! I tried to pace myself and make it last awhile but ended up reading straight through it. Now the long wait for the next book begins☹️

  55. Mod R, I know this isn’t possible for all people, but I moved from the Northern part of the USA to the Southern. More sunshine = more happier people. Or that has been my xp in TX.
    Is there going to be a place to drop questions for those of us who missed the deadline to sign up?

  56. Adored Magic Tides. I know HA said that Kate and Curran deserve their HEA — and they DO — but I did always wonder how boring eternal HEA would be for them. I don’t think it was ever established how long shapeshifters would live, but since Kate has the Gift, I suppose the answer for Curran and Conlan is “as long as they want to.” I just can’t see them being 500 years old and still physically young and vital and sitting around watching the tide come in (pun intended).

    My only complaint is that it’s too short! A tantalizing taste to whet but never satisfy the appetite for KD.

  57. I can’t make the Q&A, but I really, really hope that there is a future POV for Thomas??? Would be incredible to see Magic Tides from Thomas’ point of view, especially since based on the way he is described as the type of person who keeps everything inside.

    • Other great reasons for a Thomas POV – would be great to see the world from the eyes of a human and because of what Rimush said about the family becoming loyal to Kate for all eternity.

      • I’ve always thought that the whole loyalty thing with Kate and “entourage” is based on mutual friendship. Quietly grown as many friendships are. Rimush is offering loyalty based in perceived power rather than personal experience. I think this is part of why Kate dislikes it. Curran is a little different, having that whole “charismatic & competent leader” thrown in the mix. Wider spread but a little less personal.

  58. It was fabulous to get both the latest Sweep and a brand new Kate, Curran & Conlin books to read! I loved the new Wilmington years plot. Thanks so much for bringing them back. I’m hopeful to see a new Iron Covenant in the works in 2023. Life is rough, reading House Andrews takes us away to special places.

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