
So I’ve been living under a holiday rock. The tree is still up. Yes, I know, but it’s pretty. I will take it down, leave me alone.
Anyway, I just now saw this.
I think Elizabeth Wheatley is in Austin and I so owe her a lunch and a coffee. Thank you for making my day! You can find Elizabeth’s books at her online home, at https://elisabethwheatley.com/.
Omg hilarious!
Woah. Is this where I am supposed to go “First”???
I love her! Book Goblin is my spirit animal for sure!
Certified!
Oh, I’ve linked it in the last December give away post! Saying that naither me nor Book Goblin can choose one’s favorite book. We love them all!!! 😍
She has mentioned the Kate Daniels series in quite a few video posts recently!
The BDH would totally get Book Goblin, she is a kindred spirit! I get updates whenever a new Book Goblin TikTok comes out.
Book Goblin had good Christmas
Love the book goblin. Now, I have to read her books. They sound interesting. (while waiting for our favorite author’s next book of course)
I also love the Book Goblin videos! So, I read EW’s first book, Daindreth’s Assasin. It is a slow burn and it reads a bit like a YA. I liked it enough that I will be reading book 2 once I get through a bit more of my TBR.
thanks for the review. I’ve seen her videos. I might try her books
I love her instagram posts where Book Goblin makes occasional appearances, and where different fantasy and romance genres (all played by her) have the most fascinating conversations.
yes! they are hilarious!
I love the Book Goblin!
Maybe she’s part of the Book Devouring Horde and doesn’t realize it. 😀
Book Goblin certainly is!
Very sweet!
Book Goblin is one of us!!! lol 😂
Also I read all her Daindreth’s assassin series — it’s great.
The Kate faction of BDH will especially like it.
I second this!
+1 Book Goblin is a member of the BDH!
I love the Book Goblin videos, they always make me laugh. i bought the first book in her series just on the basis of how clever her videos are. so funny.
Me, too! I periodically binge the videos on Instagram. I also bought a batch of the very cute Book Goblin stickers as sticking stuffers for family members this year.
She is both funny and someone who does her research. Love her blogs and Book Goblin is my sister from another mother ❤️
Danita
I adore book goblin! I have two book goblin mugs and a tank top. I enjoyed her book Daindreth’s Assassin, and I have the second book on my Nook.
Hi, take down your tree when YOU feel like. It’s your space and you are enjoying how the tree makes you feel. I was not able to put my tree up last year so I appreciate everyone who has time and energy to do so and think they should enjoy the result of their efforts for as long as they want to.
Dearest House Andrews,
My tree and all other decorations are also still up, so you are not alone. It is pretty and makes me happy.
I love Book Goblin!
i love her book goblin. it’s like she’s channeling my inner dialog.
Her content is pretty much all delightful! We love Book Goblin over here (though the five year old forgets and calls her “Library Goblin”…can you tell where we get a lot of our books?) and her Romance Characters sketches are also hilarious. The informative videos are great in a different way…and her books are good reading, too!
“Library Goblin” should be a book series for all age groups.
Yes! The Book Goblin! We looooove the Book Goblin 🥰🥰🥰🥰
She has favorably mentioned you/your books several times. I love her reels! The Book Goblin is genius! Bookhalla as well lol! I have some of her books in my TBR and if I quit rereading I might get to them .
I follow the book goblin. She is very Me. She appreciates plane rides because there is uninterrupted reading time! So do I! And she is a fan!
I say leave the tree up and change the lights and decorations for each season or upcoming holiday. 😉 I think you could have a lot of fun with Halloween decorations.
Or get a real tree in a pot so you have that fresh pine scent all year long. Then after a year or two when the tree is too big for the house or it’s outgrowing the pot, you plant it outside and get a new tree in a pot. Although I don’t know how long a pine tree would last in Texas.
Texas grows pine trees rather well – the piney woods of the southeast extend well into Texas – though the area that HA lives in is a bit dry for them. Don’t worry about the (possible) tree. It will be fine if it gets a little extra water until it’s established.
I second the tree suggestion. If it makes you happy, leave it. If you want to change the decorations seasonally, then bonus!
If something makes you happy and doesn’t hurt others, let yourself enjoy it, whatever and whenever it is. (As long as it isn’t causing Gordon stress to have it there, that might need a compromise.)
We all need all the joy in life that we can get. 🤗
Gordon could choose a season (perhaps summer!) to do the tree as superheros or other types of collectibles 😃🤠🥸 🙈🙉🙊
You are brilliant! 🤩
I love Book goblin, they are hilarious ! The size of book ten bothered me too, but its laying horizontally under the other books.
My trees and Christmas village, now renamed Winter village is still up. I also left my 6 foot snowman out but put away the other Christmasy outdoor decor stuff. I’m pushing for a February take down when there is a little more light outside.
My tree is still up. I didn’t get it decorated until Christmas Eve and I wanted time to enjoy it. I’ll take it down around February 1st.
Me too!!!
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
I think in the Book Devouring Horde we are all a bit book goblins, I love her videos.
omg I saw it and it was so awesome 🙂
Ok that was cute! Thanks for sharing, made my day, too! Gotta love those stabby magical detective ladies and sexy lion shifters, but I think I love the book goblin too🤣
I love the Book Goblin. The most recent I saw was her trying to get Elizabeth to take her on a flight to Singapore then on to New York so she could have 28 hours of uninterrupted reading time.
I really enjoyed Elizabeth’s Daindreth’s Assassin series. I started the Sandsea series, but my book-buying-budget is limited right now. I just saw she released another book in the Daindreth’s series so I had to purchase that. I wish she participated in the Kindle Unlimited program, but I understand it doesn’t make sense for a lot of authors to do that. So I purchase when I can.
You might see if you’re local library participates in an online lending library. Mine uses Bridges and it’s a very, very tiny library. It lets you borrow e-books using your library card. I buy favorites that I’ll re-read or want to keep and borrow the rest. 🤗
Ack! A typo! *your*
I’m blaming the phone, but I should’ve double checked. I saw it right after hitting post comment. 🤦♀️
I love Book Goblin!! I follow here a lot. As soon as I saw her mention my favorite series I got excited to see it!
book goblin always cracks me up! glad to see she also has good taste in Books!
I love her!! I would love to be a fly on the wall when you guys met for coffee lol.
she actually did a video on hidden legacy too! I really enjoyed it.
https://youtu.be/0YjlqFd_Kz0?si=5N742P0HQrkvW9il
I follow Elisabeth Wheatley and I got so excited when I saw this! I was going to post and say “you just discovered my favourite authors!” but that felt rude because I do like her books too, so I didn’t…
Omg! That’s hilarious
I am *also* slightly annoyed by book 10 being taller book goblin!
I was CACKLING when I saw this hit my feed the other day 😂
worlds colliding is the best, haha
She is awesome!! You guys are awesome!! I’m always happy when favorite authors’ worlds collide 😊♥️
Her Instagram videos are so fun and worthwhile. I recommend all of them, not just Book Goblin! And thanks again to Ilona, because she was the first person to introduce me to this fun series.
Elizabeth Wheatley is an author I enjoy. And yes, she has spoken about Ilona Andrews books before. If you go to Youtube and do a search for ‘book goblin’ you will find many enjoyable videos. I don’t do tiktok or instagram. She also does amusing posts where she plays various romantic genres having discussions. Historical vs Modern vs Paranormal, etc.
I discovered her while looking for something to read between new books from HA.
I saw when she posted it and I screamed. Book Goblin has great taste. For Bookhalla!
I adore Book Goblin! And Elizabeth’s books!
I love Book Goblin! I haven’t read her books yet (I’ve put myself on a new book ban until Feb), but they’re on the TBR!!!
❤️ Book Goblin … sweet ! Book goblin fits right in with the BDH!!!
My tree is down …but half sized because of male dog . Have to raise tree or leg raised …good grief !
If it’s pretty and makes you happy you can keep it up as long as you rotate decorations .
Hearts for Valentine’s Day and Eggs,Bunnies, And Angels for Easter …etc.
I’m kind of surprised that Book Goblin and Bookhalla hasn’t come up before. I think my favorite one was “100 pages left.”
My 🎄 tree is still up too. It makes me joy-full! Plus, been sick and unable to breathe since Dec. 16, and finally today, getting shorter and shorter of breath, got diagnosed in ER with Mycoplasma pneumonia, which x-rays missed, CT scan caught. So got lots of actually be helpful meds, and will sleep for two days straight! This made me laugh, as did the Fool snippet! Ilona and Gordon, thank you so much for giving me something to hold onto!💜💜💜
I hope you’re asleep and healing now you have the proper medicine for what ails you.
Ok that reads odd, but I hope you can breath properly again
OMG FEATURED ON THIS BLOG TWICE I MAY PASS AWAY.
Thank you so much for sharing!
You should take her offer of lunch up or the book goblin might never forgive you! And then the rest of the BDH can live vicariously through you. 😁
Really enjoy your work! 😊
I heart this SO much!!
Welcome to the Book Devouring Horde! We love Book Goblin…Book Goblin is us!
LOL Book goblin is very relatable
Book Goblin is fantastic. I have followed her stuff for a while now.
she must be at least an honorary member of the BDH 🙂
Welcome to the Book Devouring Horde! We love Book Goblin…Book Goblin is us!
I squealed when I saw Book Goblin reading your books !
YAAAAAAAS!!!!!! Love Book Goblin!! Love that Book Goblin is a part of BDH!!
Thanks for the laugh! When I go for a walk, it makes me happy to see Christmas decorations still up.
I will check out Book Goblin’s offerings, because she clearly has a great sense of humour!
My christmas tree is still up too.
Once upon a time I always put up the tree the day after Thanksgiving and took it down New Years Day. This year I set a new record by not getting it up until like 2 weeks before Christmas, so I don’t feel bad about the fact its still up….. The overwhelm was a lot and I was sick for a couple weeks after Christmas.
So I ‘m re reading the KD series and I ran into a problem that I had no way of knowing that it WAS a problem until after reading the books and understanding how Kate’s world works. It’s a minor thing really, Kate is at home in Savannah, and a vampire visits her there piloted by Ghastek. The problem? Savannah is 240 miles from Atlanta, and my knowledge of vampires and navigating them is that the range of a navigator is a LOT less than 240 miles. So I am regretfully confused. I suppose I can put it down to artistic license, but I wouldn’t take it amiss if someone had a better answer than that. Yes, Mod R I’m thinking of you.
And why is Ghastek nailed down to Atlanta in your scenario? He travels when the occasion calls for it, I’m sure you’ve encountered scenes to confirm it 🙂
Actually, it wasn’t MY scenario. I believe House Andrews was the author of record. That was what I was considering, but it didn’t seem very Ghastek like to me to leave his very comfortable work space to deliver a bit of bad news to Kate (that Greg was dead) In fact, there just aren’t any travels that I remember where Ghastek had ever left Atlanta. Can’t really count that teleport to Mishmar? as Hugh was responsible for that. However, I will bow to your logic and greater knowledge of all things having to do with House Andrews. 0-0
Michael, Ghastek is perfectly capable of travelling by car and other means. This matter was important enough that he made a trip down to Savannah, to one of People owned locations, and then sent a vampire to see Kate. 🙂
Book goblin is truly great. I also love her fantasy genres sit down for tea videos. Hilarious and insightful. She did a literary analysis video on Burn for Me a while back too(on her YouTube )so I would say she’s totally one of the BDH!😁
I love her Insta! My little book goblin middle schooler and I watch it together.
that’s brilliant.
re tree, if you’ve got the room and the fur family don’t seem to knock into it, I’d leave it up the whole year round. saves taking it down again next yr! I once left my tree up for 3years 🙂
I’m yet another person with my tree still up, because it’s too pretty (and also because I don’t have the energy). Why rush?
I love the Book Goblin, and would happily buy the stickers/merch Elizabeth has had made, but the huge shipping cost to the UK has deterred me from purchasing.
The twelfth day of Christmas, aka Epiphany, aka Three Kings Day, was January 6 so you’re not as late as all that.
Elizabeth Wheatley is very much an IA fan. She has posted several videos featuring IA books. I really like the one she did about social power dynamics in Burn for Me. Plus her channel has some very interesting posts about history. I love a history nerd!
I laughed hard when I saw this on TT a couple of weeks ago. I may have added a comment on it about Iron Sanctuary. 😁
I usually keep my Christmas tree up until February. It makes me happy. 🙂
I love her Book Goblin posts! They always make me laugh.
I saw this the other day and I was so excited, she’s so funny and your books are so dang good, they deserve the attention!
Haha. The comment about the book height got me.
Love book Goblin. And I too struggle with the bigger size of the Magic Triumphs MMP. Why can’t we just have a matching set, publishers?!
I keep Christmas up until February- have to make it through those terrible no sun days with some kind of joy! And then the tree gets switched out for a smaller tree and it becomes spring themed!
I love it! She’s so cute!
Hilarious!
Leave the tree up! I haven’t taken the tree down except when we moved in 16 years. I love being able to see all the ornaments that the kids made or that were gifted to us all year long!
Thank you. So funny! Somehow missed this author. Now buying a sweatshirt and mug and looking at Ms. Wheatley’s books. Might hold me over (while rereading Kate) until GraphicAudio’s “Magic Shifts” is released. So happy
with your tree, put on some red ribbon and keep.red and white ornaments, and it is a Valentine’s Day tree! we have a small tree we are doing that with. Our main tree is still up, we have been slowly taking down the holiday decor,we need the cheering up:)
We never used to get our tree down till easter, which was very bad cause it was real so a ton of needles fell off. John would drag it into the woods late evening so no one would see from the street. LOL
I love book Goblin. I didn’t realize she wrote.
Book Goblin became a classic *snap* THAT quickly!
I love Book Goblin! I was so excited to see them squeeing over your books!
The tradition among natives/very long term residents of Denver is to leave Christmas decorations up until the end of the Great Western Stock Show. This year that’s January 26th–so you still have time!
Great! I just put her on my list of authors to find. I think I am more of a book dragon. I also love the pic of the book-houses street.
I don’t see a Christmas problem here. I put up the decorations and the tree right after Thanksgiving. That’s about a month before Christmas. I figure leaving it all up until a month after Christmas is just fine. Let’s me enjoy Christmastime a little longer.
And, Elizabeth? Right on, Book Goblin!
I feel stupid, Today I Learned that Book Goblin that I follow on Insta/Youtube is actually Elizabeth Wheatley the Daindreth’s Assassin author. How did I not notice this in the past 3 years? Where have I been? What is going on with my life?
my tree is still up, because it is pretty, too. and it is dark and cold outside and there are sparkling things on the tree and pretty lights and it will stay there and be pretty and help me against winter depression.
I love my tree.
Wait till you see her having the different tropes talk to each other – – the fantasy queen, the Regency lady, the gal who married a vampire, etc. Hysterical!
I leave Christmas lights up around the house for a while. They are pretty and make me happy. So yeah — that tree makes you happy? That tree STAYS.
Love Elizabeth Wheatley’s videos – though I only see the when someone takes the time to post or otherwise share elsewhere, because I don’t do social media. I didn’t realize she was an author in her own right. Will have to look those up.
Love it
Your newsletter came through with nothing but blue code. I thought it was a joke until I went to the blog and opened it there.
The newsletter doesn’t like links to social media or quizzes, unfortunately. Glad you found your way here 🙂
I hated it when all the publishers changed the size of paperbacks too. Suddenly, my long-running series didn’t match.
omg, that’s great, made me laugh
😹😹😹
***Pyrane***
I ADORE Elizabeth’s Book Goblin character. She is sooo me.
I actually found her by accident when she was talking about some of your books. the book goblin is such a great character too.
*giggles self off chair, startling one of the cats*
This was hilarious, I’ve been watching book goblin since Christmas. I cannot watch these while drinking for fear of snorting liquid.
She’s hilarious.
Our tree is still up too. Hush, y’all! I like the lights.
https://elisabethwheatley.com/ does not even let me peek at the page because is not avalaible in my region.
I know I must be reasonable but my gut reaction is anger. Picture elmo with flames.
Which region are you in, None?
I can see it fine from Europe. You may have some blocked cookies you need to change 🙂
I too love shabby magical detective lady and sexy lion shifter. I still think “Here kitty kitty” was the best introduction ever.
I wonder if the Book Goblin has experienced the thrill of the audiobooks?
Could be a new obsess- errr, collection opportunity!
I love Book Goblin. Clearly a BDH member. 😆
What more could you want?
More books!
I just started reading some of her books. Really good so far!
Really cute!
Funny aaaaaand so relatable 😂! The BDH feels the Book Goblin 🤓. Welcome sista and…. erm, goblin, join our ranks!
I too received all of Kate Daniels for Christmas… it was the only thing I asked for and my beloved husband obliged, bemusedly I might add… I too am very excited. We won’t tell him that I also bought myself the Graphic Audio set too….
Hahaha! I agree, Book Goblin! What more could you want?
This is ME! LOL! I read the whole series over the holidays and was sad when it was over. Like, well now what…
Love the book goblin, so hilarious
I love her posts, and this one is how I found your Kate Daniels series, which is my current reading obsession 💜