What happens when an email from the publicist catches us, while I’m at the office, and Gordon is at the main house.
Gordon: I’m relieved and grateful, to be honest. If it pleases your majesty, let the sin be upon my head. 🙂
Me: Will you stop ending every communication with the sin on your head? Please. Or I will address you as mighty Laird and inquire about your battles with filthy English.
Gordon: Indeed Mistress,
As in all things, your slightest whim becomes my law.
It shall be as you say.
Me: I am coming over to the main house to discuss this. Prepare thyself. Also this is going on the blog.
Gordon: I shall prepare the hearth and the hunds,
they are both warmed by your arrival.
Hahaha
You guys are great!
That dialogue just made my day! Printing & having it framed ???
Love it!
ROFL
I like you guys so much!
Add a little Argentine tango dancing at the kitchen sink and you guys are living my dream.
LMAO
Relationship Goals
The two of you are never bored when you are together are you? Thank you for all the fun posts!
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This just brightened my dull, grey, dreary day. Thanks, I needed that. ?
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As you wish.
Prithee, hast thou smotest the brigand? 😉
Made me laugh. I can see Gordon and you in cosplay even. Y’all can go with Grace and family
ROFL!!!
Just giggling over here.
I love a good wiseass. Of course, I’m usually the wiseass in question, so I might be biased.
Bet it’s fun in your house ?
We’ll want a Video next ?
This reminds me of dialogue I invent to ascribe to our dog, a Lab from a strong hunting line, who is the fanciest thing we own and whom I imagine to have the sensibilities of an entitled aristocrat of some centuries past. In the mornings, for example: “You there! Peasant! Attend me! Bear me outside forthwith and witness my elimination!”
and is shall be MIGHTY!!!
Hahahaha on this is brilliant!!
Ugh. ” Omg this is brilliant”
My husband thinks it’s entertaining but sometimes feels the need to defend the dog’s honor.
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So verily apropos! ?
The fanciest thing you own, or the fanciest thing that owns you? ?
(I have dogs, I am pretty sure I am owned owned, or at least very well trained)
It started after my husband attended a HR training in which the topic of service vs. therapy animals arose. We realized that I am the dog’s service human, and my husband is the dog’s therapy human. So, yes, we’re staff.
Yep. Let’s release the hunds……
You two are so funny. Love it 🙂
Ha! Take that!
I needed the laugh!!!
As you wish. ???
Leave cookbooks open to recipes for haggis.
Vegetarian haggis.
That’s actually really good (the veg versions)! Burns Supper!
Nothing like a warmed hund to make a rainy day fine indeed.
Now we know who is the source of/ inspiration for Arland’s more picturesque speeches: Gordon!
( I am rereading Innkeeper series and have just completed Clean Sweep with Arland in full flow trying to impress Dina. With that story in mind , will we meet Soren’s daughter Renadra and her grandmother the Archimandrite? I really enjoy how the IA team reveals the structure and relationships eg in Vampire society as a natural part of the plot – in this case why Soren was to be a bonus kill for the Dahaka – rather than as an info dump. )
Thankyou.
Not much could make me smile today but you guys managed it. Just home from hospital & my 5th lot of treatment. Thank you for the gift of Maud (& Kate!) – they help me get through it. Much love from a weary but hopefully still sassy Brit xxx
Hang in there!!! Hope you start to feel stronger soon!
If he starts referring to anyone as “sassenach” it’s time to draw the line.
Just sayin’.
Seconded! Although, as a Gordon, he’s probably allowed.
Hahaha! Ahhhhh. I needed this. I love thee, verily I do!
This is so much nicer than what my husband would say…but I’m just as bad ?
Love it. What an interesting marriage you have.
Bwaaahahahaaa!
That was great!
Oooooh! Now I’ll picture you two as Fergus and Elinor from Brave! ??
Nice that you’re willing to warm the Laird’s hands – sometimes life echos a regency romance
??? Thank you for the laughs
You guys are so cool.
Sonwe can expect a Harlequin Historial as your next debut book?
How far from the house is the office? I am sure you said somewhere in the blog but I forgot. Be glad there isn’t a foot of snow between the office and the house. Your marital discussions are more fun then mine. You enlivened a snowy day.
Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh to start my day.
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Awww how sweet!
I hope you enjoyed the warm hunds!
OMG that is so funny. After 46 years my husband would just be saying “What? What? What the H are you talking about?”
And that, children, is how you make a marriage last. Save the Insta-lust and the alphaholes for fantasy fiction. It’s doing goofy shit together, giggling together, that glues you together so that you stay bound when the drama hits the fan. And, yeah, married since 1983 means my hubby and I know a little about tickling each other’s fancy. ;p
Yessss, same here. Been married since 1972 and we goof a lot. Hubby said that when we met I made him smile but that now he is roaring with laughter.
Ha ha ha ha ha. That was awesome!
It is so important to have a husband/partner with whom you can laugh! <3
Haha haha!! I love you two so much!! And I envy your relationship, it’s beautiful, and made me grin and laugh.
A good sense of humor is priceless!!! Thanks for sharing!
Snort! Now I really want to end my work emails with ‘let the sin be on my head.’
I know…me, too!!! hehehehehehe
Ditto!!!
I think I just might try that today.
Oh my gosh. You two are so funny!! No wonder your books contain so much humor. :o)
Love, love, love all of your books. Thank you for being so awesome!! You guys ROCK!!
I’m with you Amanda! All I can say is “Let the good times roll!”
Amen!! I think I might even have peed a little!! ????
Thank you for the laugh. Now we know where Maud gets her spunk, and Arland his flowery speech. ?
I have been trying to figure out who writes what and now it is clear. You are great together.
When we watch Netflix, we read the descriptions aloud because some are just amazingly awful. After sitting through two episodes of Riverdale, we began ending all descriptions with “Meanwhile, Betty struggles with her feelings for Archie”. This is also great for dove chocolate, tea bag tags, and fortune cookie wishes i.e. A unique job opportunity is coming your way soon. Meanwhile, Betty struggles with her feelings for Archie. 😀
LOL 🙂
Did we wonder where all the classic Ascanio dialog came from?
I could almost hear Kate saying, “And can you go ten minutes without being a smart ass?”
And the inevitable, “I don’t know, My Lady, I’ve never tried,” reply.
This exchange explains A LOT! 🙂
Wasn’t that Andrea, not Kate?
Possibly. Kate says that sort of thing a lot, too. 🙂
LOL! Outstanding! I’m learning so much! Loading for bear and all that!
Please…more!
Lol
HAHAHA!
It also feels like Kate and Curran are talking! If they were in the Victorian times!
Gahhh you two are too cute. My texts with my husband (together 13 years, married 2 I think) are 50% “What do you want for dinner”, 45% funny pics/updates on the kids, and 5% sexual innuendo/dad jokes.
OMG, you two are absolutely awesome!
Banter is the sweet nectar of a love life. ???
Agreed
I tried a text along this vein with my husband after reading this and laughing myself silly. He came back inquiring if I was hallucinating or had OD’d on some medication and needed to be rushed to the ER. Sigh!! Maybe he would respond better with something a little less flowery and more The Simpson’s!!
It is sooo important to keep the fun alive in a marriage, and from your wonderful writing I never had any doubt as to the great humor you both have and clearly share with each other!! I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall at one of your large family get together. I bet they are hysterical.
Thank you for sharing your wit and fantastic humor with us!! The world is a better place because of it and needs more of it!
Hope Kid 1 is completely healed now. Nothing more worrying than a sick child!
Now go warm Gordon’s hunds verily and let the filthy English have a respite from battle. ?
Agree.
Brilliant!!!! Will be chuckling on this long ‘ere the sun setteth!!
“Sin upon my head” = Modern version of “As you wish” ? You write what you live (I don’t know if I should congratulate you or send you consolation cupcakes ?)
Why are we always filthy?
We do our dastardly deeds perfectly clean, thank you.
LOL!!?
also lol
Oh Thank You for the chuckle this morning; I needed it badly.
I get the raised eyebrow of DOOM when I refer to my best beloved as ” she who must be obeyed ”
Her – You are not the female Rumplepole.
Me – Mea Culpa, Maxima Culpa!!
As one of the “filthy English” (although only 50%) – verily I say, custard pies at 20 paces for your calumny aspersions 😉
LOL – Needed that 🙂
You know, knowing that ‘hund’ means dog or is short for hundred, makes this even funnier. Why, pray tell, must Gorden warm the dogs?
Not warming the dogs, said ‘they’d be warmed by her arrival.’
HAHa made my morning!
Thank you! 🙂
I can’t stop laughing. This is as good as the conversation you two had about the ghosts & disappearing bacon…. Something to read when I need a good laugh 🙂 Thank you
Haha 🙂 may your life always be this funny!
…And the sound of chuckles echoed throughout the land.
Love the rapport between you both. You obviously share a admirable bond which enriches your writing to the benefit of all who gladly devour your books. All blessings to you both thank you for sharing this glimpse.
Too much Outlander? But there can’t be too much Outlander?
Loved it and you guys, even the rest of the “peanut gallery”.
Nice and good, but there is a question I really need to know the answer to. Is another episode of the Maud novella coming out this Friday?
You go Girl!!!!
Me thinks thine husband has lingered long with the Draven Clan and his behavior Roth bear the mark of it still.
Me thinks thine husband has lingered long with the Draven Clan and his behavior doth bear the mark of it still.
Darn non-Medieval autocorrect
Hi!
Got a question about Arland’s kind of vampires. I’ve read all of the Innkeepers Books, but I don’t get the impression that they are the die every night, live on human blood kind, or Kate’s books kind. Maud doesn’t seem to have been turned into one. If there is a reference in one of the Innkeepers books I will be glad to read it, if given the book title and chapter. Can’t get enough of the Innkeepers Books ( LOVING Maud’s new story) and looking forward to Kate’s, Hugh’s, and more Hidden Legacy books. Thanks for everything you write. I want all your series made into movies.
‘Vampirism’ is described in the first book, as well as how characteristics of the race contributed to human stereotypes. Don’t know chapter and page, but it is described when Lord Soren first appears.
Arland’s kind of vampires are just different “strain” of human, evolved to be more predator than Earth’s humans.
Dina explains how they got the “dead” reputation in Clean Sweep:
“They have thick skin. They don’t blush, their core body temperature is lower than ours, and you saw how pale their lips are. They also tend to put themselves into stasis in coffin-like modules when they know they’re going to be stuck on our planet and they’ll have to wait for a long time to be picked up. Sometimes they bury these modules because they don’t want to be accidentally found.”
Imagine some medieval villagers stumbling across a vampire emerging from his stasis pod and the exaggerated stories that would spawn.
Sorry, forgot the chapter…
The vampires are explained in Clean Sweep Chapter 8.
Thanks SO MUCH McMe. I’ll read Clean Sweep again, now, thanks to you. It’s been a while. Love your name, BTW.
And a might thewed Laird was he.
did he prostrate hiimself, beseeching your . . .
So much fun! Great stuff!!
I figure if you had said you had some mead with hearth and hunds that there should be a bog or bowler hat somewhere near.
Thanks for the laugh.
Thank you for the laughs and the so witty dialogue. It warms my heart , doing such dark times. I think a sense of humor is just as important as courage and faith. Sometimes you just have to laugh ?. And I need to get some hunds. And ale and a castle . And a knight or two to do my bidding.
What sin is upon his head? Has the publisher refused more Legacy books and now the Andrews but self-publish. Release the hunds! and the books! m’lady.
You make always laugh me so hard…. But today I made myself laugh
I SWEAR I did read “let the SINK be upon my head” and I spent really a long moment (way more longer I’d ready to admit) thinking “Wow, this must be a new expression I never heard before!”
It’s been raining ice here for the last two days- schools closed. Today we have thunder storms with a hissing icy rain with a low of 29°. Reading this blog and the comments has me laughing so hard that I’m warm and happy! Thank you AuthorLords and BDH!
Huzzah!
I love this conversation.
I’m so glad I joined. I either get joy, happiness or warmth every time and sometimes all three. I laughed so hard reading this and I so needed it. Thank you!
This was really hysterical. I loved it!!
You guys are awesome. That is all.