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Hey guys, Brandi Bolden here. I have a super exciting question to ask y’all. As you may have guessed from the title, that question is about Ilona Andrews merch. Yes, I know, I’m happy dancing too.

But before I can make your dreams of Ilona Andrews merch come true, I’m gonna need some help from y’all. This is where the question comes,

What exactly do you want to see become available as merch? I need you all to write to my personal email and tell me! Tell me which quotes you want and what kind of items you would like ( ex. hoodie, tee shirt, tote bags.)You can also write it in the comment section. Write your suggestion as a comment, and if you like somebody else’s comment, you can reply to it with +1. I included my email in the post, but just stop be safe it’s brandi.bolden202@gmail.com.

Alright, start suggesting!

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  1. I want exploding vampire heads on a pillow. And may be a small statue of a blood fist holding a sword. And (because I am greedy and this is what I really want) a small soft Beast with ALL the teeth.

  2. I’d love a tank top or a tote that had some awesome circle work on it a la Hidden Legacy

  3. Kate universe ideas

    Plush ideas

    Baby Conlan in beast form
    Baby B
    A vampire

    Some t-shirt/hoodie ideas

    B’s Best Cider ( a picture of the bottle and maybe an orchard with a Bouda chilling)

    Cutting Edge Investigations (maybe something that looks like a work shirt)

  4. Artwork that shows the inn keeper inn but with characters from all the different series inside and out.

    You know the small, character stuffed type dolls that animes and games like Final Fantasy produce? Those for the main characters from the different series would be awesome. Even if they were mini ones. I keep picturing them on my desk or in my car and it makes me smile.

    A tank with hidden legacy circle work with flames that would represent Catalina on the front and Catalina’s ‘wings’ on the back.

    A tank with a quote from Kate Daniels. I’m at work and can’t remember the absolute full quote but it goes something along the lines of, “I can tie my shoes and carry my sword all on my own.” or something to that affect. Sorry, little to no sleep last night so on mental fumes

    An inn keeper cloak. An inn keeper broom.

  9. I would love large coffee mugs. Could make one as an souvenir from the innkeeper, “Top Ten Inn in the Universe” see reviews in the Innkeeper Directory. One could advertise Cutting Edge. One could advertise Baylor Investigative Agency.

  11. A letter opener would be cool, a sword for Kate and a broom for Dina and maybe a gun for Nevada.

    Speaking of Nevada… a replica of her diamond necklace (but please don’t charge $20+ million dollars of it ?). And maybe her wedding ring.

    Oh and if you put it in a blind bag I’ll buy it. No joke… like squishys! I love them!!! Ones of the shifters in Kate Daniels and the Bear, the kitty and the weird cat thingy from the Hidden Legacy series and Beast and the Chef from the Innkeeper Chronicles.

    • +1 Love the letter opener idea. Orro and Zeus (weird cat thing from HL) plushies would be so adorable.

    • I like shiny baubles, too, so I am all on board with a Tear of the Aegean replica and maybe the wedding band Hugh gets for Elara (I really like the description of it). Should be affordable, but at the same time not too tacky looking, so maybe silver with semi-precious gemstones (topaz, tourmaline, zirkon, apatite or something like that)…

    • Forgot some quotes!!

      Clean Sweap:

      Arland to Sean

      “I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.”

      Magic Bleeds:

      Kate Daniels to the Council

      “If you’ve come to remove me, come in force, because if you try to separate me from him, I will kill everyone one of you. My hand won’t shake. My aim won’t falter. My face will be the last thing you’ll see before you die.”

      Wildfire:

      Nevada

      “ I had been hugged by a super intelligent, pacifist bear. I could do this. I could do anything.”

      Or

      Linus to Nevada

      “Besides, things around you have a way of turning interesting. I do hate to be bored.”

      Or ‘unknown Ceaser’ to Victoria

      “ You like to do things that make life interesting. We both do so hate to be bored.”

  12. Id like a Quillonian and a Lees. Design or plushie :).

    How about your book covers available as posters?

  14. Plushies wearing quote tees, like Curran referenced in above picture, but for other characters(i.e. Dali, Jim, Mahon, George, Doolittle). Or if that is too pricy mini-tees for people to dress their own plushies.

  15. Rogan’s army id tag. Stationery with House Baylor, House Rogan and Gertrude Hunt Inn logo/House symbol. Wax seals would be awesome too. Official versions of Rogan’s and Nevada’s wedding invitations.

      • +1 I’d like some stationary. House Baylor, House Rogan with some magic circle or some cutting edge stationary. Let’s face it, every time I need paper or jot down a note… It’s gone. I’m not opposed to bright br Colour so I can find my favorite paper.

        • +1 to stationery for every series. Notepads, notebooks, pens, pencils, folders… I’ll buy it all!

  19. 1. Kate Daniels stationary with Julie’s quote from the wedding cards slogan she suggested “Gore, Swords and Severed Heads!” I believe that is the wording Julie used in Book 8, when Kate hated the wedding invitations that Roman created.

    2. Ilona and Gordon Keyrings figures of those awesome anime figures they use on the blog. I especially like the Ilona with horns.

  20. T shirts! With quotes or “ the book devouring horde” on them. Stuff for all her series!

    Good quality T-shirts with the soft stretchy material. Please have plus sizes available! Please!

  21. Baylor, Cutting Edge, The Golden Legion, Iron Dogs logo on buttons, bookmarks, stationary.

    Bookmarks with quotes, “Put your badass faces on and follow me” or “My own personal psycho.” A bookmark that resembles an innkeeper’s broom?

    Maybe bandannas with stylized circlework.

    I, personally, would adore a shirt that says “We are besieged by murderous poultry,” but I am uncertain that would have traction.

  23. T-shirts: “Proud member of the Book Devouring Horde” t-shirt (or just “Book Devouring Horde”), Today!, “Use Your Words”, “Ripper cushions”, “Why me?”
    Fart gun

    • Or Kate’s quote from when she was fighting all the challengers. My hand will not shake and my knife will be the last you see” I’m currently on a re-reading binge and everything blends together.

  26. Anything printed with some cool circle work. Shirts, books, bags etc that are made to look like actual company stuff for Gertrude Hunt, Cutting Edge or Baylor Investigations. Its so much fun to wear fan stuff that regular people would overlook. Only another fan would get it.

  28. My favorite merch has always been t-shirts that only other fans will get. I have a raglan tee of Mercy’s Garage, a v-neck with the molnija marks etc…I like the idea of Cutting Edge, Baylor Investigations, Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, Iron Dogs etc. logo t-shirts

  29. Shirt with Medrano Reclamations

    Wasn’t there a quote about fighting someone who is menacing the city so that Kate can get a little “me time”?

  31. Whatever you decide on please make it available in Canada as well . T-shirt seem to be the most universal merch .

  32. The line from Innkeeper that’s something like ‘yes, yes, the princess you came to rescue took her sword and went off to kill the dragon. So sorry.’ (Can’t remember the exact phrase, but it was brilliant.) T-shirt or Hoodie. Please offer plus sizes!

    • Yes! A tee shirt, large mug, or a tote bag with this quote would be awesome!

      Also these three items with the classic Here Kitty, kitty, kitty or with the BDH or any of the great quotes already mentioned above would also be god.

      I would also like a plushie lion wearing the Here kitty tee shirt like you have pictured above. I missed out on getting one a few years ago.

    • Wow, yes! Love that dragon quote …

      On another note, I wanted to note Cuddles, but not sure how to work her into merch.

      Also remember Marigold. Kate had good quotes about her fondness for, and appreciation of, her loyal and sensible …
      mounts? (horses, donkeys, giant-mutant-Paint-mule ??)

  33. I’d love to have the Pack sweats available (not as sets but top and bottom separate) and/or Order workout clothes (like shirts with “property of The Order of Merciful Aid”). Cutting Edge staff shirts would be cool too.
    Also Roman merch! Dude needs more love. A black t shirt with a Roman quote or two would be awesome.

  34. BRING THE COWS!!

    T-shirt please. Amazon Merch premium Tees fit small but are great. Readers just need to ignore the male/female labeling and buy according to chest size.

  35. Yes to anything, love tee shirts with quotes on them from any of the books, or Cuttting Edge or Gertrude Hunt Inn.
    or large mugs with Arcane circles Is that how you spell it.
    or maybe hoodies with logo or quotes. And maybe something with Honey muffins, or Aunt B Bouda crew, still miss Aunt B.
    Basically,I am so excited I can’t think .
    And I saw that Diamond Sapphire on sale at Amazon. !!!!!!!

  38. A note book with a hiru would be neat +1 to the plushies of all kinds +1 for the quote shirts or hoodies maybe a charm bracelet not sure what charms it could have and maybe something that says I’m a part of the BDH

  39. I like coasters and bags, but not a smal bag. One I can take to do grocery shopping. (When I was in the US 3 years ago, I bought one of vans, for a good cause I was told, and I still use it.)

  40. For Innkeeper, something that says “I stayed at Gertrude Hunt, and all I got was this xxxxx” (substitute in tee shirt, bag, etc for the xxxxx).

    For Kate, Cutting Edge Investigation swag (tees, bags, coozies, etc)
    maybe with a silhouette of the “here kitty kitty” moment?

  41. Would love t-shirts and/or sweatshirts with quotes from Roman (maybe with a graphic of his staff getting ready to bite). Also any shirt with “advertising ” for the different companies/groups from the different books.

  43. I’d buy a hoodie with that picture of Arland on the back… I’d even wear it to the RARE event in Paris

  45. I love a good spiral bound notebook with a really firm cover. there are great design ideas here already so im re-purposing some of the suggestions from tshirt/ bag ideas:
    -Sketch of Gertrude Hunt
    -Circle work imagery from HL
    -Pack insignia, Guild insignia, Cutting Edge Investigations, Iron Dogs
    -Here Kitty Kitty
    -Book Devouring Horde

    • +1 Mugs, Notebooks, Greeting cards with quotes signed by the BDH:

      “Amateurs!”
      “…so just the birds then?”
      “Ripper Cushions”
      “We’re besieged by murderous poultry.”

  46. Oh, man. Oh, man, oh, man. My brain is jelly right now. But I would really like a cookbook “written by” Orro – the best chicken in the world, etc, although I have a feeling it would be a difficult thing to come up with recipes matching the amazing descriptions in the book!

    Also “Hey, Asskicker” on something. 😉

    A work-out tank top or water bottle with: “No pain, no gain! That pain is just weakness leaving your body! Come on! Push! Push! Make that weight your bitch!”

    BAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

  47. A calendar with the cover art would be amazing! And key rings and/or pin badges as many different designs as possible! Anything that won’t attract huge amounts of overseas shipping costs ??‍♀️

  48. Hoodie’s and T-shirts.
    Cutting Edge Investigations small logo on front above left breast. Back has “Staff”
    Order of Knights of Merciful Aid on front above left breast. On back- “Knight” , on the sleeve, running the length of the sleeve, the words, “Diviner”, or “Protector” or “Master of Arms” or “Striker” or “Abettor” or “Archivist”.
    -Baylor Investigative Services on front above left breast. On back “Staff”
    -B’s Best Cider on Front above left breast. On the back a Bouda holding a bottle.
    Use Gildan hoodies and t-shirts, they are the best in fit and color

  49. Hey Brandi,
    Your email link isn’t working, could you please look into it? Thank you and thank you for putting together all this data!

  50. Hoodies and Ts… a group of multicoloured sunscreened vampires with ‘taste the undead rainbow’ on it!

  52. I’d like a poster/postcard with all the people that are important to Kate, then another one of Nevada’s people. Like a family picture but bigger but not as big as the superheroes all over the page

  54. I agree about the overseas postage cost, that is likely to limit what we can buy. I would like a member of the BDH tee shirt. Book cover posters, or tee shirts or even mouse mats! Bookmarks with quotes. Our most quoted line at home is now ‘pictures or it didn’t happen. ( I can’t remember the exact quote from hidden legacy series.)
    Tote bags, and of course here kitty kitty kitty on any merchandise. I would love a mug but we are overseas. There are so many things that can be sold, it is choosing the ones that will sell.

  55. Dang. Don’t know when this post came out, but there are over 200+ comments.

    I’m sure it’s been said before, but I’d love some T-shirts with perhaps a book cover image on the front and all the best phrases from that book on the back. Like “birds are assholes”.

  57. Stuffed animals of the shifters would be cute. Mostly, I’d love T-shirts, hoodies, pjs, etc with logos for things like Cutting Edge, the PAD, the Mercenary Guild, etc. I wish I could think of more, but it’s been a while and I need a reread.

  59. I would love sweatshirts – particularly with quotes like “all families have odd moments. Our family just has them more often than others.” – different sweatshirts for each of the series. ?

  60. Oh, darn. Too many choices. Just be aware that I WILL be buying at least some of whatever comes out of your fertile imaginations. It will be much better than my ideas anyway.
    Thank you. I appreciate you considering this.

  61. Also comments from wizard Luther. Or Kate responding “I thought you said I was besmirched for quitting?” Now that I write it – lame. But I really liked the repartee between Luther and Kate.

  62. I not sure this was mentioned. By I’d like a copy of some of the artwork that was commissioned for Innkeeper. Several of the artworks are beautiful and detailed. Dana, the market place and hands down the hot vampire, Arland would look great on any merch. ?

  63. “You gave a vampire coffee?” on one side of a VERY large mug
    and “Oh crap.” on the other or inside with Gertrude Hunt image/silhouette with a “Welcome to the Inn” sign.

  64. “According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.”

    ?

  66. I agree with sweatshirts and tees with funny quotes. Also tote bags if they are of the reusable grocery bag style. I like funny stickers for my laptop case too!

  67. I would like to see some of the funco pop type figures for all the main characters of all the story lines. My hubby has a bunch of that style figurine and they are awesomely cute!

  68. Some lovely suggestions above. T-shirts with various quotes/images (as suggested above) will always sell!

    I am about to suggest something that won’t fly, but would be so much fun: robust dog and cat toys of the various bad guys (and gals) in KD, Hidden Legacy and The Edge. Well…fun for us pet-owners (and pets) anyway!

    • Thanks for organizing this Brandi 🙂 And thanks to the Authorlords – merchandise is not an easy item as it can be quite time consuming.

      A were toy but instead of a squeekie it makes a fart sound lol
      Seriously though, tees would be great with funny quotes – with some Vneck options preferably pretty please.
      And the here kitty kitty Curran stuffed toy you have in the photo.
      I don’t buy too much stuff – house is full already.

  69. Bookmarks, aprons, tshirts and Ripper cushions is a must. what about transfers that can go on mugs and could be changed as one got used up – no issues on cost to post and transfers mean you can have many, many mugs!!!

    oh and what about iron on transfers so you get your own tshirt or hoody and cut out postage cost issues. OR badges that can be sewn on so could create totes or add to jeans or hats!

  73. This may be a little difficult but:

    T-Shirt, Sweatshirts/sweaters and coloring books of the circles that Nevada, Rogan and the others use in the Hidden Legacy series. The clothes can have the circles in front and some quotes on the back.

    Then obviously some Curran and Conlan plushie with an “Here, Kitty, Kitty” quote on the shirt that he will wear.

    Sarrat and Slayer replicas or plushies and/or drawn on some clothes…

  74. I’d like a t shirt with a picture of Conlan the black lion cub with a caption about singing the sad song of his people.

  76. I’ve seen tote bags come up a bunch, so I’m wondering if Chico Bags (or something similar) would be a possibility. I’m a fan – because I’ll actually use them, all the time, unlike most tote bags which will join my stack of tote bags. (Hey, I can’t stuff four of them into my shoulder bag, or clip them onto a purse strap.)

    I’m a fan of the more subtle things – I’d like Biohazard insignia, or circle work, or whatever 🙂

  77. I would like picture on t-shirt. Two towers with burning bridge under stormy sky. On top of these towers shoud be sharrum and sharratum screaming their heads of at each other. Preferably in old language. There could be Barnabas triyng put out the fire on the bridge. And some crosse siluets in background.

    Hmmm. Do you think it is tooo much?

  78. Totes and collapsible grocery bags
    Magnets
    Decals
    Stickers
    I use Helmers (metal drawers from IKEA) for storage and love to decorate them.

    I would pay a lot of money for an Innkeeper project bag for my stitching.

    I would love an abstract image of an inn keeper in a cloak with a broom as a magnet or sticker. Or just the broom in active mode, with the blue.

    Something with Andrea and Raphael

  80. Funny slogan shirts, possibly with corresponding images? Example of the plushie lion at the top of the page, only on a tshirt. And for all series, not just the KD verse

  81. I would love all kinds of things that say “You’re more like a crazy aunt that gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.” 🙂

  82. I would love a travel knitting bag with the phrase “Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we’ll kill everything.” from Fate’s Edge on it.

  83. I’ve seen a couple suggestions for t-shirts with logos for Cutting Edge, PAD, etc and had a sudden image of the BDH as Harry Potter fans divided into factions. So +1 to whoever suggested badges or shirts with logos of each of the Atlanta factions and Cutting Edge. I’d wear a shirt with Aunt B’s cider logo too. I also really like the Hidden Legacy circle work suggestions. There are so many quotable lines in all the series… I’m loving so many of the suggestions, but totes and badges are my favorites – useful and let you decide how/where it goes.

  84. I can’t remember the exact quote, but the one where Kate kicks the door open, kills the wolf alpha, and was all, “If you come for us, you better make sure you kill us. My hand won’t shake, my sword won’t falter…”

    Favorite scene in a book. It was the moment Kate became IT for me. Just not sure how to incorporate it with merch. Maybe on a black tee? With a pic of a knife through a table? Or something with “the ultimate ride or die”?

  85. Roman’s staff and “careful, he bites!” or similar, would be great on a hoodie.

    Mercenary Guild, Baylor Invetigations, Clan (Cat, Wolf, Boyd’s, etc), Cutting Edge, House Rogan Security, (Knight of) House Krahr, “My honored ancestor visited Baha-char and all I got was this crappy T-shirt” T-shirts

    Innkeeper themed bathrobes

  86. I will buy anything that says “book devouring horde.” Just love that! But no longer wear picture Tshirts.

  87. It’s hard because you have so many good stories, so many fabulous quotes, but one I didn’t see is anything about Kate and Curran’s wedding day. Not sure which quote, or even which merch item, but that achievement seriously deserves merchandise immortalization. Maybe a quote by the Volhv. S(orry if I didn’t spell that right.)

  88. Maybe some enamel pins, which are in right now (so says my 24-year old son). Images of Gertrude Hunt, a broom, a sword, a lion, an arcane circle….there are a lot of companies that produce the pins wholesale.

    I would love a mug with a sign that says “Welcome to Gertrude Hunt” with a broom leaning against it.

  90. I love all the ideas so far. I’d like to recommend decals instead of bumper stickers though. 1. If you change vehicles it can go with you and 2. My husband paints cars and they are sacrilege to his people so I’m not aloud to have one. Thanks!

  91. How about merch with pictures of the vamps from KD in sunblock with “Taste the undead rainbow”. Love that one.

    Also, maybe fridge magnets or bumper stickers (which I just put on my fridge with magnets anyhow). But the magnets more like those 3×3 inch ones that are plastic coated (like the ones that you see that have 1950’s quotes & pics). They would be easy and cheaker for the UK BDH.

  92. “There will be ripper cushions” with a picture of Helen, Beast, and the cat peering out from under the table cloth. I know it’s mixing timelines but I laugh every time I think of that trio.

  93. I would like a black cushion that says “ripper” on it in white letters. I don’t know if that’s been suggested because there are like 400+ suggestions already, but that’s what I want.

    Of course, I also wanted to name our dog “Peeve” but my husband wouldn’t let me because he didn’t want to have a pet peeve.

    Well, I think I’m funny.

  94. I dunno if it has already been suggested but I don’t have enough time right now to look through all the comments (homework to be done ahah) and I’m scared of forgetting if I wait for later. Sorry in advance if I just repeat someone’s else ideas.

    For the Hidden Legacy series, I’d love something that can be use in a business-like environment/workplace. My first thought was a diary, or the type of notebooks that can be used to write down all sorts of information (like contacts, notes, with a calendars, etc…) so that we could use it at work on a daily basis.

    My second thought was a clipboard.

    I haven’t thought about the design yet but I’m pretty sure Nevada’s rules (the three ones, especially being able to look at yourself in front of a mirror at the end of the day ?) would fit somewhere =)

    • “Once bought, we stay bought.”

      Yes, that one has come to mind a few times. Steered me through some situations.

      3 good rules. Especially that one.

  95. A t shirt with a girl squatting down in a big dirty building with her hand held out and in one corner gold eyes is all you see and under it here kitty kitty

  97. I NEED the lion on your pic: “Here, kitty, kitty”
    And
    A black cushion with “there will be ripper cushions”. Perhaps some “fangs” hanging/standing out on two sides.

  98. I TOTALLY need something/anything with Ripper Cushions!!

    Logo Tee or hoodie with Kate’s business Cutting Edge logo.

    Pretty much all snark from Kate, Curran, Andrea, Maude.

    Action figures of the Horde, stuffed animal of the lees (with apron of course), and Orro (squeeze him and his quills stick out?!).

  99. How about ornaments? Flat ones with various designs or quotes so the shipping won’t be too much for international fans. Or one of those flat pack type of ornaments that you can unfold and pop-up.

    I’d also be interested in skins for technology (phones, laptops, tablets, e-readers).

    Oh, travel mugs or water bottles. I think the company Tervis does custom business orders.

    Or (and this would probably take a couple of years) a world of Ilona Andrews desk calendar. One of those day to day ones. That way we could have quotes and artwork from each series. Or a blank planner, where you can fill in the day, month, year, and there’s artwork or a book quote on every page.

    Last one: Garden flags. Or tapestries. Not the giant ones, but the ones that are about 20” x 27”.

  101. It would be neat to take the quiz that determines what you are in the kate daniels world and then not know until you get the coffee mug with the answer and an appropriate picture and saying.

  102. A stuffed animal range from the Kate Daniels series for the shifters, as well as ones from the Innkeeper chronicles (Orro would be awesome).

  103. I love,all the ideas and would shop it all, especially calendars dull of snark. Just wanted to share we have a Very small scrub brush in our kitchen named ripper cushions. My grands love it! It’s just their size and is used to both help Papa Bear clean stuff and to also serve out ripper cushions if necessary. (Grin)

  104. I’d potentially buy womens fitted t-shirts, shot glasses, magnets, coasters or funko pops and cuddly toys.

    I like quotes or references you have to know the books to get eg.
    ‘Not my circus, not my undead monkeys’ or ‘Necro in the hole’
    Eahrratim, the Rose of Tigris – picture of a rose.
    Sharrim – maybe underlined with a sword or with a picture of a broken tower, but to be honest, just the word would be best.
    Iron Dogs: Building Moats Since The Shift – maybe a picture of a castle
    ‘Amehe’ – maybe with a picture of a wolf (I like the idea of a word of power on a t-shirt or set of shot glasses with Amehe, Hessad and Osanda and another one Kate likes for example).
    Yellow lettering on a black background saying ‘EVIL AND CONFLICTED ABOUT IT’ with an arrow pointing upwards.