So many of you asked this question, that we decided to fire off a quick post. When there is a D in front of a name that starts on a vowel, they are glued together in pronunciation. That is the correct way to pronounce it and when Steve asked about it, we confirmed it. But
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Audio Sample of IRON AND MAGIC
Behold! Hugh has a voice. Finally. Finally, finally, finally. Okay, so the audio file is amazing and it has already been submitted to ACX, meaning that in less than 14 days it should be up for sale. The actor’s name is Steve West. Here is his website and Twitter.
The Trunk Is Open
B. writes, a) Is there a particular story you started, didn’t finish and would like to return to it, one day? b) Any story you wrote and loved it but the agency didn’t want it? I’m imagining you have lots of treasures at home, kinda like Prince did with so much of his music. c)
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Diamond Fire: Clarification
To answer some of the questions: Diamond Fire is a bridge novella. It is roughly 30,000 words long, so about a third of a typical book. It features two viewpoints. We start with Nevada, but move on to Catalina, who is solving a mystery during the wedding. At the time of the wedding Catalina is
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Finished. And a Snippet.
Putting final touches on Diamond Fire novella. Yay! We will be done today. The draft is finished, we are just cleaning it before sending it off. Here is some Leon for you. # Valentina’s House Catering was in New Braunfels, a very German town in the middle of Texas. We had interviewed larger catering firms
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Die, Book, Die. Ow.
It has been one week since the typing ban and my joints and knuckles are one hundred percent better. My fingertips still hurt like all get out. ::sigh:: I tried some experimental typing and ow. Ow. I am so tired. So tired. We’re at 22K on Diamond Fire and it’s time for the exciting finish.
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Celebratory Post
Hey Y’all, We are all super thrilled at the announcements that Iron and Magic has placed #8 on USA Today Best-Selling Books top 150 and also #9 on NYT Best-Selling list. I wanted to not only share the good news with you all, but thank you as well! You have all been such an amazing
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MAGIC TRIUMPHS Netgalley
If you are waiting for Netgalley, today is the day. It should go live in the next few minutes.
State of the Hands
Hi, guys. I am writing this by dictating to Dragon Naturally Speaking. Wheee. For those of you who missed the twitch chat, I got my doctor results back. The good news is that I’m neither diabetic nor pre-diabetic, which was my biggest fear. My glucose level is normal. In fact, it was so ordinary, my
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IRON AND MAGIC: Ingram paperback and Q&A sessions
The Ingram edition of IRON AND MAGIC has gone live, which means if you would like to order the book from your local indie or BN, they will be able to do that for you now. If you are ordering from a local indie store, they might find this number useful: ISBN 978-1641970402. Livestream Q&A We
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Live Q&A Twitch Session
LIVE Q&A, When Are Y’all Free? Hey guys, Brandi here. I’ve been on standby and answering all of your questions and emails, but now I have a question for y’all. Ilona Andrews will be hosting a live Q&A session on the streaming platform Twitch. What date is this awesome event happening? That’s where you come
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Happy Pub Day Everybody
Hey Everybody, We wanted to thank you all for supporting us through this journey from April Fool’s joke to actual book coming out today. We are both so grateful to everyone who encouraged us, waited patiently and even ordered or per-ordered the book. We couldn’t have done it without you. A huge shoot out to
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