Didn’t get a lot of sleep last night, so let’s hope I will make sense. Can you explain how the publishing industry has changed in the past two years? I keep hearing about problems and issues and I don’t understand what’s going on (except the obvious toll on authors, but that doesn’t seem to be
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Bread Machines and Other Things
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve realized how many people I know, because all of them called and emailed wanting to discuss the situation in Ukraine and Russia. It’s war. It’s a nightmare. No, nobody is okay. All I can do on my end is rage, feel helpless, and donate money. It’s hell over
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Quincy: A Very Important Announcement
Most of you know that Quincy was a rescue. He was confiscated from the breeder due to abominable conditions and had come to Kid 2 and her bf with serious problems. Despite training and much love, Quincy has been exhibiting some un-German Shepherd like behaviors. For example. That and some other things convinced Kid 2
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Paint, Names, and Fussy Chancellors
BDH has all the questions. Some were paraphrased slightly for clarity and conciseness. I’m wondering how much this massive redecorating is draining the Inn’s resources. Hopefully the magic of the 300 guests will more than make up for it? Or will the Dominion pay for the upgrades in addition to giving access to Karron? Emily
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War
We’re starting to get emails about this, so I decided to address it. I am Russian but I am also at least a quarter Ukrainian. My maternal grandfather was from Lviv. My maiden name comes from Poltava, a city in central Ukraine. My paternal great grandparents spoke pidgin, which is a farmer dialect that was
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Honest Review
Monday, 1 star. Woke up on time, brushed teeth, pulled hair into a ponytail, put on work out clothes. Walked out into the living room ready to head to the elliptical. Went to get my airbuds resting in a baby Yoda case by the charging station on a side table next to the couch. Cat
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Sweep of the Heart Questions
Dushegubs? Love the name, literally means soul killers/strangelers in Russian. Curious, how often do you guys use foreign language words to name an alien species? Juliana We do it quite a bit, because the inns are international. They are located all over the planet. Some species, like the koo-ko, have easily pronounceable names and some,
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Our Apologies
We accidentally named our antelope-like alien after an existing Native American Tribe. We were messing around with the phonetic variations of a word auroch, meaning prehistoric ox and made an unfortunate error of not google vetting the word due to fatigue. We had selected aurochs as a model because surprisingly bovines have a very large
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Muffins, Trucks, and Deleted Scenes
I meant to post this earlier, but I’m sleep deprived and behind my schedule. Last night Gordon had trouble falling asleep. Normally when that happens, he turns on TV, usually something like Ancient Aliens. We listen to the magic aliens who used a vimana to fly to Antarctica and build secret pyramids, and it puts
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Regina
We are treating you to a deleted scene from Ruby Fever. Mod R would like us to remind you that Fated Blades is released in print today. Michael Latimer was a very large man. It was an unfair description. There were other things one noted about him, things that were more concerning and carried greater
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Ruby Fever Cover Reveal
And here it is! Here is a wallpaper Gene did for us. Amazon Australia has adjusted the price to a much more reasonable $9.99, and it is safe to preorder now. I walked over to Alessandro’s office. He leaned back in his chair, his feet on the table, a phone to his ear. I rapped
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My Name Is Ilona…
Hello, remember me? After the marathon of 60-hour weeks, Ruby Fever has been rewritten. I do not remember when was the last time we worked so hard. Mod R read a little bit of it and she sent me an emoticon of a kitty with hearts in the eyes, so it must not totally suck.
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