A long-running series is an interesting thing. As the story continues through multiple books, readers form a relationship with the characters, and opening the new installment feels like coming home to spend time with old friends. As authors, we are very grateful for the opportunity to touch people’s lives through our writing. At times that
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The Every Day Mysteries
It’s Monday. How did this happen? Most of the renovation is over. We have some shelves that need to be put up, and the front of the house needs stucco repaired and a new coat of paint, but mostly we are done. I’m waiting for it to sink in, so I can exit the crisis
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Pop!
Would you rewrite parts of the first KD books if they get picked up for tv adaptations before they get turned into scripts? This crops up a lot, so I decided to burst that bubble. Amount of influence you have as a writer when you work is optioned for film or tv: Zero. Zero. None.
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The Deer in Blue
Our house has finally been repainted. It looks lovely. It was a lot of lost productivity, but it couldn’t be helped and the final result is great. Also our GC gave us an inconvenience discount. One of the big parts of the renovation for us was getting a new mural in the dining room. The
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Ilona Andrews chats to Grace Draven at Ashland Library
Hi BDH, Mod R again! A while ago, Ilona wrote a Just Life blog post about making fajitas because Grace Draven was coming to dinner. Many were the fans who wished they could be a fly on the wall at that get-together and spy on everything that was being discussed hehe. Say no more! Ashland
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Clean Sweep Epilogue at Graphic Audio
Hi everyone, Mod R here, not from Unicorn Lane this time, but from what feels like Moloch’s very citadel of misery in the King of Fire. Hope everyone is keeping hydrated and at a comfortable temperature. I have some good news for you: Graphic Audio have released the Epilogue update of their Clean Sweep dramatic
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The Craft Room Saga
It’s hot here in Texas. The upstairs AC has been out for a week. The replacement coil arrived Friday, but was defective. AC coils are sealed containing a bit of nitrogen. When the seal is broken, they make a whoosh sound as nitrogen escapes, which let’s you know the coil is good. There was no
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Monday PSA: I don’t have a mother.
I had my annual mammogram this morning. My mother died of breast cancer. She had “a bruise on her breast that wouldn’t heal,” and she didn’t go to the gynecologist. In fact, she hadn’t gone since she had given birth to my brother, which at that point was over 20 years. I don’t even know
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House Today
Cranky Author is Cranky
Sometimes you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. That’s me today. I don’t want to work. I just looked at our bank account for motivation, and let me tell you, that cleared that fantasy real fast, heh. I don’t want to clean. I don’t want to cook. I don’t want to put
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Covers and Genre
A while ago we’ve done a Genre by Cover Quiz, where we showed you covers and had you guess the genre. I was looking on Amazon for unrelated reasons, trying to find something for Mod R, and stumbled on this. To be clear: THIS IS NOT A BOOK RECOMMENDATION. I have not read any of
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Question Ladders
Ladders actually don’t have much to do with questions, but our house is full of scaffolding again, so at least I can get a catchy title out of it. How are your pets? The household is in a bit of a disarray, and all of our animals are weird after being boarded. The cats are
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