Hehehe. Happy Monday!
At Dragoncon, Jeaniene Frost and we gave away tote bags with a vampire on one side and a dushegub on the other. They turned out much cuter than expected. We printed 250 and they were gone – whooosh. For anyone looking into their own merch, we used 4imprint, and had a great experience. They are usually reliable and hit a nice balance between a good product and a reasonable price.
Anyway, both Jeaniene and I meant to keep a bag for ourselves, and I was sure I did. Then we got home, unpacked, and no bag. Bummer.
Luckily I still have access to the merch store, so I made my own personal merchandise.
I posted this on Instagram and so many people like it and wanted one that I decided to give one away.
This is your chance to win your own personal tote bag. It is 18 x18 inches, so large enough to hold many skeins. The word yarn can be replaced by a word of your choice, as in “Finish this project or no more fabric!” or “Finish this novel or no more books!”
To enter, comment on this post with your favorite Innkeeper quote or moment. Please comment on the blog only. Entries on Facebook/Instagram/Threads will not count, because it’s too hard to keep track. If you are seeing this on a social network or in your email inbox, click here to enter.
If you don’t read Innkeeper, put the favorite quote from our series of your choice. The giveaway is open to US and International readers. Winner will be chosen on Monday 23, 2024.
Please be aware that the bag will be printed to order, so it will take a couple of weeks to make its way to you. Just in time for Halloween if you are in US.
I have so many favorite scenes. I don’t know where to begin. I think the house burying the police officer is just one of many. Now I need to reread the whole series again!
We love the Innkeeper universe and Kate and Julie. Oh wait a minute..the rest of it,too..(says the the wife-demigoddess).
We routinely name cats, birds, bees and nickname humans after characters. Oh, there goes Curran..the local tom cat.
She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing…
“Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.”
Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.
I LOVE Inkeeper, but many of my favies have been used so…
I’m heading to Legacy
Rogan – “Yes. Dryer vents.”
Cornelius and the antics of his hoard make me endlessly happy.
MY word would be pigments… no more pigments :o)
“Here kitty kitty” Kate Daniels
Caldenia’s “Full Moon!”
I’d be excited to see that too lol
But I also still love everytime the inn takes Dina in when she’s hurt. It’s her first and best partner.
I love the scene when all is done and Orro is packed to leave and Dina asked where he was going and he was overwhelmed when she asked him to stay.
“Children leave…It is the greatest tragedy of motherhood that if you have raised them in confidence and independence, they will pick up and leave you. It is as it’s meant to be.”
Sweep of the Blade
The best mom advice ever…even if it made me cry.
I love Innkeeper, but the exchange on pg. 58 of Magic Claims from “When you find freaky sh!t in the scary woods, you don’t poke it with a stick” to “I’m going to poke it with a stick” cracks me up every time.
September 23rd is when Mississippi begins voting absentee – be a voter!
“Life gives us precious few opportunities to put our best foot forward, so when a chance to shine presents itself, one should always take it.”
Ripper cushions!
It would be great if you sent this bag to me.
“Do you wish to discuss?”
😉
This might be too late but my favorite quote from your whole collection of books is “ touch me with that and I’ll cut it off…Bad hobo!”
I love Lord Soren’s reaction to Arland and Maude’s practice session in One Fell Sweep.
Lord Soren closed his jaw. “Who is that?”
I gave him a sweet smile. “It’s an Earth woman.”
Ohhhhhh there are too many 🫣
Okay stay calm, pick one book from the series. I will go with Sweep of the Blade because I can’t wait for that door that opened on Daesyn to bring us full circle. So exciting! Okay the quote “Arland raised his eyebrows, “I’ve survived countless attempts at manipulation before I appeared to be too dense for it however, I am open to being seduced”
That’s my official entry, but I would also like to note that I love your use of imagery, for example, “Helen scampered off, like a bunny released from its hutch”
“For a moment everyone forgot to posture and just stared. She had pried Kure out of his armor. The humiliation was absolute.” Like an oyster being popped open. I love it.
My favorite moment was the sword fight between Maude and Ilemina. You felt the complexity and the genuine danger and then the resolution with Helen was really the perfect and only way to end it.
Caldenia ka ret Magren: “Bonus.”
Dina: “I can give you mom’s take care.”
Arland: “Say the liturgy of the fallen for me my lady.”
Sean: “I have to growl at …”
Dina: “…always get the permission in writing.”
Okay! This is not my ONLY favourite quote from Innkeeper, but it’s definitely up there. 😀
(Here’s hoping I caught all the ‘helpful’ spelling corrections and didn’t accidentally call Orro “Error” or “Oreo”. He’d be appalled!)
from One Fell Sweep, Chapter 11:
“… They won’t take Christmas from me.”
“Yes, but we don’t have a suitable male,” Orro said. “And only one dog.”
I looked at him.
“What is this Christmas?” Wing asked.
Orro turned from the stove. “It’s the rite of passage during which the young males of the human species learn to display aggression and use weapons.”
Sean stopped what he was doing and looked at Orro.
“The young men go out in small packs,” Orro continued. “They brave the cold and come into conflict with other packs and they have to prove their dominance through physical combat. Their fathers teach them lessons in the proper use of swear words, and the young men have to undergo tests of endurance, like holding soap in their mouths and licking cold metal objects.”
Sean made a strangled noise.
“At the end of their trials, they go to see a wise elder in a red suit to prove their worth. If they are judged worthy, the family erects a ceremonial tree and presents them with gifts of weapons.”
Sean was clearly struggling, because his head was shaking.
“Also,” Orro added, “a sacrificial poultry is prepared and then given to the wild animals, probably to appease the nature spirits.”
Sean roared with laughter.
I grinned at him.
He leaned back, shaking, laughter exploding out of him.
“Your culture is so complicated,” Wing said. “On my world, we just go on a quest to kill something big.”
“I suppose small Helen could substitute for a male,” Orro said thoughtfully. “I’m sure we can get her a proper gun.”
“We can’t,” Sean managed between gulps of laughter. “She’ll put her eye out.”
I loved the Dushegubs’ lines. Pretty much all of them. But the “Do you wish to discuss?” Is my favorite. . . I mean, at least then knew enough to know that they needed to allow other beings to say something in return.
She wore a white dress that really wanted to be a sleeve.
The tote bag is perfect. Thank you for the opportunity to win one.
l like the Innkeeper series but I really like all things Tremaine therefore ” we lie to everyone… and ” she stole Trevor from me…
“Chef wants to know if this is your captain and if your badge is on the line,” Droplet asked Marais.
I could not find the original interaction which included Orro’s donut(pink with gold sprinkles?) but the interaction between Orro and Marias is top a favorite.
My favourite Innkeeper moment is in Clean Sweep when Dina kicks Sean out of the Inn and he has his moment where he’s able to hold on and pull himself in the doorway before getting blasted out.
It was so hard to choose just one because there are so many… like in One Fell Sweep when Arland says to Maud to recite the litany of the fallen for him just before he goes after the world killer. Or in Sweep of the Blade when Maud and Arland are leaving the park after Arland picked a fight with everyone then he kicked their asses yet he is so injured but doesn’t want to show it – so they buck up every time they pass a window. Or when Maud gets back from the hike with the wedding party to find Arland and Helen with twigs in their hair … nope, nothing happened… nothing to see here.
Or near the end of Sweep in Peace when everything has gone wrong and Dina brings down the hammer – she comes out in her innkeeper robe and is all menacing as she holds everyone accountable. That was so very epic!
Apologies if I got any of the details wrong as I’m going off of memory, but hopefully you all remember what I mean!!
Anything Maud, Arlandand Helen…Absofuckinglutely love them! Time for a reread soon!
The discussion of the “vampire-werewolf love triangle” is definitely a favorite moment for me.
“Here kitty kitty” is my all time favorite quote from the Kate Daniels books
Much love to Maud in Sweep of the Blade.
“My lady,” he said in that deep cultured voice. “I apologize for not arriving sooner in your time of dire need.”
Hell would freeze over before she would owe another vampire. “Not that dire, my lord. Please don’t bestir yourself on my behalf.”
She dropped, spinning, kicked a vampire’s leg from under her and stabbed her in the throat on the way down.
In Ruby Fever when Arabella is telling everyone about her car accident, she says she didn’t get a good look at the guy, then proceeds to give a detailed description. It’s too funny. Then Arabella starts poking about a very pregnant Nevada. That’s such a sibling moment.
“As they say: Somebody must make the doughnuts.”
Damn, that Gaston is right again!
“ I’m getting ripper cushions”
Nothing is better that “Kitty, Kitty” I love it. Kate Daniels is the best for me
I don’t have a favorite, there are too many wonderful ones for favorites.
Dragons, ripper cushions, stars in her eyes, Christmas, the end of SOTH.
Oh, there are so many Innkeeper moments. One of the best ones is here on the blog, it’s the snippet where Klaus comes to see Maud and Arland. Mauds response to his news is: “We need to go bigger”. Which can be applied to oh so many situations in everyday life. For instance when considering if one should use yarn from stash or by more. The bigger yarn stash, the better, right? Love the tote. If you ship to Norway, I promise to keep one of my unfinished projects in it.
It’s impressive to come to the rescue of your sister in the form of her stash of candles. Win-Win for everyone.
One of my favorite quotes is from Julie in her short story: The truth strength isn’t in killing or ignoring your opponent, it’s in having the will it shield those who need your protection.
Oops I missed one word: The truth strength isn’t in killing or ignoring your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection. this is sooo true
“A human goes off to walk the Lantern Vigil, while my cousin the Marshal stays home to babysit,” Karat said. “I realize now why I have never fallen in love. I’m entirely too sane for that.”
Maud teasing Dina about Sean as he’s bringing in the weapons during the Draziri seige. Absolutely sibling goals.
“Do you need a hand with all of that equipment?”
“OH sure, he totally needs your help with his equipment.”
😂😂😂
Somewhere out there, there is a subset of readers that needs “Finish this project or no more _fill in university degree or other credential of your choice_.”
I love laugh out loud moments. “I told him if he gets in trouble, he should try singing prettily so his woodland friends will come to the rescue.” Clean Sweep. One of many, many favorites.
I could probably pick almost any line out of any of the innkeeper books.
My husband and I reference “ripper cushions” and the other day “do you wish to discuss” came up.
from HL – I also love “I’m hilarious. Ask Peaches” (currently going back through Burn for me)
Ohhh I really like the tote bag! Such pretty murderous trees! 😍
One of my favourite scenes from Inkeeper is in Clean Sweep, when Arland tells Sean to back off, because according to his literature research vampires always get the girl 😂 it cracks me up every time I read it (and I read it often)!
Why did I have to love a vampire.
This is like trying to decide which of my kids is my favourite – all of the Innkeeper moments are my favourite! One that sticks out, though, is Deena’s passive-aggressive revenge when George destroys some of her apple trees. I have never related to a character more!
In One Fell Sweep Dina explains to Sean what it means to be an innkeeper. Sean asks “but would I get you if I were an innkeeper?” Dina “yes” Sean “that is all I want”
I love Roman´s series “This is going to be hell” she said, “Nah”. He grinned. “Hell is for Christians and the Norse. For us, it´s just another day in Nav”.
“It’s his wife. Bring all the donuts!” Gotta love Orro!
How exciting! I love this bag!! It makes me laugh.
In the Innkeeper books, I especially love Maud. So many favorite moments…the two I will mention now: when Maud rides Attura and the scene where Maud tells Arland she resigned because of the fraternization clause.
Thanks for the give-away!
There are so many marvelous moments, but a caffeinated Arland came to mind right off.
I adore pretty much everything Innkeeper (it’s one of my comfort-read series), but especially Orro, his dramatics, and his outrage at the lies on the cooking show.
Also – Arland running around nekkid, the fart gun, and “Ripper cushions”…