The plan was to put out another Innkeeper installment, but we have two interviews, a stack of documents – we are trying to sell our house, and a kid birthday today. We just finished copyedit of Magic Triumphs, which we turned in today, and we are fried. I am also quite angry, for professional reasons, and neither one of us can concentrate. Since we will be in NY most of the next week, where we are going to have business conversations regarding the future of KD world, I am not sure we will be able to come up with installments.
Sorry, life is getting in the way and we don’t want to put out something we would regret. See you in the beginning of May. If our plane’s engine doesn’t blow up.
Thank you for letting us know. Hope you get everything resolved to your satisfaction and are able to relax soon. Happy Birthday to kid.
As Jane said. Hope out all goes well. Happy birthday and safe travels.
I couldn’t have said it better. Best wishes for a favorable outcome for all endeavors.
I appreciated what both of you put in to our stories. This is a busy time. Take care to enjoy your child’s birthday. Don’t be pushed into anything on business side of things. My suggestion would be to take time out for a couple days, once you come back. All of us will wait. Take time out. ☀ ?
You guys fill me up with your stories. Best of luck with your house selling quickly and painlessly. Happy birthday Kid! When my mom would be angry, she would start to stomp around the house, breathing like a horse just finishing a race. Sometimes, (when I wasn’t the cause) I would remind her to breath… She says that helps. Safe travels, and may you be surprised by the way people want to aid and support you this week!
Bummer all round. Hope things improve for you ?
Ditto!
Don’t sit by the window!!! Have a safe trip and don’t worry about us. We have books that are just as good the second , third , fourth….. you get the picture, around. Stick to your guns about the business end of the deal. They need you. You can self publish.
I hope it all works out to your advantage.
Thank you, hope you get everything resolved in a way that makes you happy.
Looking forward to hearing how it all went (Innkeeper update aside).
Don’t worry about us, we can wait. The Hidden Leagacy news will keep us happy. Have a good time in NY.
Safe Travels. You deserve a happy ending for your negotiations. You have an entire horde supporting you. We’ll be fine and you should get love not stress from fans. Love ❤️ ? ?
Book Devouring hordes, Houses full of Readers Prime, Edgers Galore, and Covenants of Devotees. Take care of yourselves and best wishes.
Beautifully put Megan, and I could’ agree more. +1, ❤️
+1 i like all the other names which I’d not coffee across yet.
May the publishing God’s Bless your endeavours, my the real estate God’s bring good Buyers and may you Sparkle in the interviews!
Thanks for letting us know. Wish kid a happy Birthday. Try not to stress too much (I know, it’s hard not to) We’ll still be here when you get done with it all. Big hugs
Thanks for the heads up. Still here when you get back. Hope everything works out. Love KD world. Will totally support you if you self publish.
Goodluck and God bless!
I’m sorry for some of the bitter in your day. Hope things improve on the professional front – that’s always frustrating. Safe journey. Innkeeper can wait.
Sending hopes for calm, comfort and a quick sale of the house! Safe travels. We’ll read you in May!
No worries about no innkeeper for a few weeks 🙂 Sorry about whatever professional poo is causing the hard feelings. You guys work really hard and do great work and I hope you know that you and your work are valued and appreciated by many, many people. Thank you for what you do. We’re rooting for you 🙂 and good luck with the talks this week. Enjoy your trip together, take care and be good 🙂
Thanks for the heads up, and I hope the business stuff all gets straightened out in your favor. I know that no matter how it happens, you will keep writing awesome stuff, so it’s you guys I’m worried about.
Total side note, but….do any of your worlds have public libraries? I think a hidden legacy bool mentioned one in passing but no details. I’m a librarian….I’d love to see a Kate or Nevada world library. Kinda curious how it’d work in either world.
Kate has a library we saw it in gunmetal magic the witch’s run it . Andrea take the boy with her to get on computers
Hidden Legacy has a library containing House histories and such. We saw it when Connor Rogan and Nevada went to register the Baylor family as a new House. It wasn’t a proper public library, open to all, I suppose, but more a reference collection. Still, schools and universities would have libraries in that world, surely — it is in so many ways similar to our modern world.
Safe travels. Sit near the exit!!
Take your time. We’ll always wait. I’ll just look forward to the next installment of Innkeeper and savor the wait.
As for KD, as long as the world continues in some form, I’ll be happy, but in the meantime, I’ll just re-read…and re-read… ?
Well, clearly you need to go read a book so you can forget about all the unpleasant things. Kerrelyn Sparks just had a new one come out at the end of March. And if you haven’t read the first two in the series then you might need to read 3 books….
Safe travels. Fingers crossed on the house sale.
Good negotiations. Hopefully a few hours at least to see a sight or two while in New York.
Looking forward to Innkeeper when it resumes.
We will be fine! Eat chocolate andknit! Relax.
First, Happy Birthday, Kid ! Second , your well being is paramount I can wait a couple of weeks. Third, have some fun in New York !
Best of luck with everything! Remember laughter helps everyone and stress is a killer! So smile and laugh! We’re devoted fans and will happily wait for your amazing books! ☺
Hope it gets better and you are able to enjoy NYC or at least have the opportunity to behead your enemies. 😎
Hope your professional issues are resolved to your satisfaction and that you get to enjoy some of your time in New York. Safe travels.
Take care of yourselves. We will be here.
Thank you for the update. Thank you for creating this blog for The Horde to interact and keep up with you. You and Gordon are amazing!
Ditto with all the above.
Keep safe and hope everything works out for you both. Enjoy New York
See you when you both get back?
I wish you both safe travels, advantageous negotiations, and lots of recharging on your trip. Oh, and I hope that whatever it was that ticked you off disappears like cotton candy dropped into a vat of acid.
Three deep breathes and chocolate….a good amount!!! Take care of you and yours, we can wait and we understand. Happy Birthday to your daughter
Hopefully all will improve and in the meantime enjoy and eat cake, birthday cake! I have decided that a child’s birthday, no matter how old, is a time for parents to celebrate the fact that someone they made has lived another year and is looking forward to the next.?
Well this is saddening and disappointing. But I understand. All is forgiven. I hope y’all can figure the business/professional stuff out and return to the writing rejuvenated with story flowing like mad. Still … the installments will be missed (for a whole week and a half or so ??????).
Website comment or bug report:
The blog posts that are linked into the Inkeeper section sequence have a different set of Comments than the same blog post reached from the “Blog” heading on the authorlords’ web page. That implies there are two copies of those particular Blog entries.
dclewis, the Innkeeper serial is housed on a separate website: https://innkeeper.ilona-andrews.com. The blog posts are on the main Ilona Andrews website: https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/. Some blog posts announce and link to new Innkeeper chapters or chunks of longer chapters, and so have separate comment threads on the specific blog post about the chapter and on the specific chapter itself on the Innkeeper website.
Thus we have chapter 7 part 2 on the Innkeeper website (https://innkeeper.ilona-andrews.com/2018/04/13/chapter-7-part-2/) and the blog post announcing and linking to chapter 7 part 2 (https://ilona-andrews.com/sweep-of-the-blade-chapter-7-part-2/#comments).
I hope this helps, and I’m not just repeating things you knew. I came to the Innkeeper site first, and only discovered the main site much later, so this is hard-won knowledge for me.
Happy birthday to the kid. Have safe travels. Knock ’em dead in New York. And let there be qualified house buyers who will offer above listed price. Maybe a bidding competition. =)
I love the inkeeper books and am rereading them in my effort to cope with the weekly wait for Maud,,,,!,,,,,,,,! Just love the weekly chapter . Thank You so much. I enjoy the blog and other comments. Your creativity is fabulous. And you have had to cope with a lot of negatives lately. Both you guys are fabulous. I hope things improve as you brighten our lives. Even your bad news is explained so nicely and we all gain insight into your writing process and you as fellow human beings from reading your blog.
Cannot wait to buy Maud’s book !!!
Ditto, though I went back to Burn For Me in honour of the upcoming novella and three book deal (!!! Kudos to the agent who negotiated this!) in that universe. 🙂
Thank you for taking time to let us know what is going on, with all that you have going on! LOL! I had really just assumed with the NY trip you wouldn’t have time for Innkeeper. I will simply look forward to the next installment even more (if that is possible!).
The most important thing first – happy birthday to your daughter! ???? Let there be cake, lots and lots of cake!! ??I hope you all have a wonderful celebration and get to enjoy each other! Family is ALWAYS first! I know that I am richly blessed in my family, and I cherish each of them and the time I get to spend with them.
Next, sorry for the business grumps. Whoever has your panties in a twist doesn’t know who they are dealing with! Your work is almost like another child of yours in a way, (not NEARLY as important really, but you get the idea) – you created it and nourished it, so go get your Mama bear on and slay those dragons!!! If you need any back-up, threaten them with a deluge of angry emails, posts, comments, twitters, etc! You know the BDH has your back, and that we are more than capable of creating that deluge – we do it to you to whine for more all the time! ?
As to your NY trip itself, may the wind be at your back and the Sun on your face!! I hope all interviews and negotiations go smoothly and in your favor. I also hope you two are able to take some “me” time, and just unwind and enjoy! You really deserve it.
Finally, may the housing gods smile upon you and grant you a quick, advantageous, and hassle free sale. ?
Sending virtual hugs and wishes for good karma all the way round.
Best of success on all fronts! Oh, and health – the older I get the more I wish everyone health :D. Although I hope you mean to sell your old house, not the new one, that would be such a sad end to a happy beginning from what you’d written before.
Thank you for the notification. Hope everything goes well in N.Y.C and that you have a great time for your daughters’ birthday. We will all patiently wait and perfectly understand that life gets in the way of the bets layed plans. I really wish for things to get better and go smoothly.
All the best!
Look after yourselves and make sure you get some rest in the next weeks.
You have been generous and I’ve enjoyed everything that you’ve written. I will just have to reread everything (Innkeeper, Hidden Legacy, Kate, etc) and try to wait patiently for May to come. 🙂 (It cannot come soon enough!)
I hope everything works out to your satisfaction!
Take care of yourselves.
We will be fine and Maud will be even more awesome because we had to wait and you had space to create.
Enjoy NYC and I hope the talks go well. Safe travels.
I hope everything gets better. We’ll try to play nice when you are working. Lol
Happy birthday to the daughter. The BDH has your back!
Doris
Take care of yourselves. And always remember the great (albeit fake) wisdom of Ancient Rome: NON ILLITIMATUM CARBORUNDUM!
Take care of yourselves!
May you be filled with Grace and all positive outcomes flow easily to you.
What? Why can’t you drop/ignore all of your issues to cater to my happiness? (That’s sarcasm, BTW.)
I am sorry that you are having stress. I love your stories and I am SO grateful that you post serial freebies. Yes, I wish that you could have posted a new installment, but I am not *actually* going to die, no matter what dramatics I indulge in.
Deep breaths. Take care of you and *then* cater to your spoiled fans (that’s me and few thousand others).
Sending love and best wishes your way.
Based on EW, and kindle rankings I think spoiled fans run in the hundreds of thousands.
We’ll try to behave while you’re gone.
And tell your publishers that at least one reader buys your books 3 times: hardcover to save, mobi for reading, and Renee for listening. Tell them to not piss us off!!!!
Life gets in the way sometimes but thanks for the update. Good luck with the negotiations and I hope you manage to get some fun and relaxation in too while you’re in the big Apple. Happy birthday to your daughter too ?
You are the best authors ever! The Innkeeper installments are worth the wait! Safe travels!
We can wait!
I really appreciate your creativity and all the effort you put in to supply us with our weekly fix….
First and foremost enjoy the family birthday. As a member of the BDH I wish you both every success with your negotiations and the sale of the house. Last time we moved I refused to ever move again, that was nearly 20 years ago.
I look forward to May. If you choose to self publish we will support you.
Happy birthday! Safe flights! Rest! Have fun! Eat! Drink! Sleep! Discover Gordon and Ilona again!