EMERALD BLAZE is releasing on August 25, 2020. For obvious reasons, we can’t do a real book tour, but we are doing a virtual one, which means everyone can go. 🙂 Two things before I link our schedule. ZOOM/FACEBOOK LIVE All stops on our tour are using either Zoom or Facebook Live. You don’t need
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American “Bulgogi” and Russian Morkovcha
Oh noes, it’s a cooking post. I promised you return to a somewhat normal blogging. Today I offer you two recipes of Korean origin. These shouldn’t be mistaken for original Korean cuisine. It’s more of American/Korean and Russian/Korean fusion, but they are yummy and cheap. Bulgogi. When pandemic started, I bought a bunch of chuck
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Scythians
This is a film about Tomiris, the queen and war chief of Scythians who defeated and killed Cyrus the Great around 530 BC. We used proto-Scythian tribes as the model for the People of the Kurgan, so these are Julie’s people. Archeological evidence suggest that they were probably a bit more blondish, but the movie
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Komer, Kohen, and OMG
Hi! I don’t know if you already know this and you did it on purpose or something, but I’m from Israel and I speak Hebrew as my first language, and I wanted to let you know that in Hebrew komer/kmarim is specifically only a priest of the christian church, and a priest for every other
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Life, Surprise Guests, and Stress
Guests Gordon: Hey, come outside. Bring the phone. Me: ? They hung out in the front yard for hours. We were fifteen feet away. Stress Posted with permission from Kid 1. We are all a bit stressed out right now for certain reasons, and I walked into the kitchen to find Kid 1 particularly freaked
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Blood Heir Is Available for Preorder
A lot of people emailed us asking for preorder for BLOOD HEIR, since many of you chose to wait until it’s published and didn’t want to miss it. Here you go. From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an all-new novel set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring Julie Lennart-Olsen, Kate
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Office Repair: the Finished Product
By popular demand, here are the results of our office repair. if you missed the post, the previous owners of the house improperly ran the HVAC cables out of the wall straight into the rain trench, so when it rained and the water level rose, it ran straight into the wall, flooding the office. The
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Dog pictures and Admin news
Happy belated July 4th to those who celebrated. We had a nice time. It was just the family and we had all home sheltered for two weeks prior. Now on to boring admin news. We decided to limit the nature of our email form. If you look on the contact page, you will now see
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SMALL MAGICS Update
The retail copy of SMALL MAGICS has been updated with extra content free of charge. A lot of extra content. 🙂 If you purchased SMALL MAGICS from Amazon before and would like to get the new version, you have to do request an update. I prefer to delete the old file from the device before
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Are You Alright?
Personal post, do not read or you might get depressed. With rising coronavirus numbers in Texas, I just wanted to know if you are alright. Rita Thank you for checking. See that big red circle? That’s us. We made national news by going from 4 cases a day to 210 cases a day. For a
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Ryder on Monday
We have a chapter with a couple of slower paced scenes and we need to fine tune them a bit. So you will get a big chunk on Monday, but we don’t want to post something half-baked today. Here is Quincy.
Bombas: Part 2
O_O Which one of you forwarded my blog post to Bombas? Because I just Googled and I don’t see it anywhere in the recent google results, so how did they find it? Own up. Ummmmm…. A quick examination of the email confirms that Bombas sent us free socks. Well, now I have a moral dilemma.
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