Normally I stay off Twitter except for the release week. I happened to be on and I saw that a lovely person named Elle wrote this tweet and another person named Beth replied to it and tagged me.
I clicked on the thread and saw that a couple of other people tagged me.
Challenge accepted. Here are stories of people’s lives as written by “Ilona Andrews.”
Then I had to quit, because Gordon and I decided to watch Venom: Carnage movie which was hilarious.
Lessons learned: it’s difficult to write flash fiction on Twitter. I tried to use information listed in the tweet or in the profile, but the character limit was a bit stifling.
Just dropping in to randomly say thank you, not just for the terrific novels (had a Kate Daniels reread binge last week, because reasons) but also for being an inspiration: just finished my first-ever urban fantasy, and I learned so much about pacing that kind of story, and about how to handle emotional undercurrents, and a bunch of other stuff.
You and your books have gotten me through a bunch of moments, and they are (curiously) quite hopeful, in the sense that characters in them don’t give up on themselves or the world around them, and that’s important to feel, especially lately.
Omg. If I were any of theses people I would blow this up and frame it. All of these were freaking amazing and I’d read a book about all of you. I bet ya didn’t realize you guys were so badass. Love love love that Ilona did this spontaneously.
Made my Tuesday!!
Oh my sweet lord, this is almost enough to make me want to be on Twitter. <3
Oh wow!!! Thank you so much, Ilona! These were such a treat to read! A lovely, beginning of Advent gift!
Oh good lord. I don’t do Twitter but would print and frame that if it happens to me :). How cool would a personal story from Ilona Andrews be?!
I love this! I am none of the above people, but I want to say thank you anyway, it was very enjoyable
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Awesome and hilarious! (Also a great idea as a writing lesson for my older students! Hope you don’t mind me using some of these as examples.)
Omg I so needed this. Thank you so much.
This was awesome! Completely and utterly awesome! So little info and yet you can see all of those worlds.
This is awesome and the distraction and giggles are very much appreciated…you’re the best! Hope you enjoyed the movie. ????
You made their days, possibly even their years!!
LOVE IT!!!!!
I loved these. They were so much fun to read. It made me wonder what you would write for a scientist. 🙂
Loved it!!!
You NAILED it!!! Great Job as always –
Fabulous! I also wish to let you know that Fated Blades was superb and I thank you so much! Doesn’t seem to matter what the storyline is, I love it all.
This is almost enough to make me want to open a Twitter account since the last book I read was Sweep of the Blade. ❤️????
Loved this!!!!!!
Loved the flash fiction! I’m sure they will be treasured by their recipients!
That was so sweet and very cool of you doing this!I too am not on Twitter so I appreciate your reposting these! Oh, so good!!!
Absolutely marvelous! All those fast flashes in a few scentences creating whole worlds in a few seconds! Loved all of them but hat to laugh most about Kat, your „single empress“! ????
Greets and a lovely stress-free christmas time from sleet-snowing Switzerland!
Inga
I’m kinda bummed I didn’t see this on Twitter and get written about. Need to be on Twitter more.
Love your writing! It just makes me happy.
This would be a dream cone true but im not on twitter. I’m very happy with the ones you did though. It’s a scientific fact that BDH would read your shopping list and love it 🙂
Your voice is amazing! I love everything you write… even when there is character count limitations!
I am sure your tweet responses were the highlight of each recipient’s December!
I am severely sleep deprived, and I did NOT understand about the Twitter thing at first. All I could think was somehow I’d missed some amazing books in the back catalog, and clicked links trying to find purchase info ????????????
I’m not twitter, those are amazing to have minds that can think up stories like that at a drop of a hat after finish a book and doing Q&As for another release.
These are awesome! You made their day…a bit jealous right now ????
Love them! And it’s awesome you took the time and energy to do it. Many reasons you guys are on the top of my list for favorite authors
I hope you do realize, that all of those flash tweets were amazing pieces of writing and they deserve their own novel.
OMG I want to live in your brain.
Oh that was very fun. Each scenario different and nudged open a door to new adventures for those portrayed. Bravo!
Your twitter flash fiction is AWESOME!
Thanks for posting these here! I don’t do Twitter, but every single one of these was a hoot. I particularly like “Do these people think the empire runs itself?”
I am NOT asking for anything, believe me, but I’ve often wondered what you would make of somebody like me in one of your stories.
25 years in the poorer sections of Los Angeles left me with a disinclination for unnecessary risks – and a realization that a fair number of risks that people think can be avoided can’t be for one reason or another. And I recently realized that most of the eventful changes in my life came about because I ran across something that needed doing and “Somebody’s got to, dammit!”
Ha ha ha. ROFLOL. Thank you, Ilona Andrews for the imaginative replies. They were hilarious.
Thank you! These posts were really refreshing!
This was fantastic. You can even make me LOL with a tweet.
I sometimes dream of living in a KD world – where I would have awesome powers of course.
You are the best!
Oh my, I am so, so envious! I would have loved that! Should you ever consider giving out prizes again, this would be so excellent.
These are all awesome, but the last one with the child hanging from the ceiling is the absolute best. 🙂 Having 5 children in our extended household, that is so very much like the last couple of years.
“My velociraptors are hungry.”
LOLOLOL
These are fantastic. I want the rest of the story on, like, four of them.
Heheheh, these are fun.
In other news, I started reading Kinsmen yesterday after dinner, and it was suddenly 4 a.m. I would be concerned about the time loss except there were no hulking, smoking corpses on my lawn nor any wraithly curses hovering above my toothbrush this morning so whatever I did, I must have tidied up after myself. And I finished just in time for my poor little to pee her bed and need clean-up so it worked out great!
How wonderful that you took the time and effort to do these!! They are awesome!
I was one of the lucky ones who got to have a life written by you… and this was the best thing in a pretty grim year. Some dancing in the kitchen might have happened… and some happy tears ????
For this one hopeful witch, the snippet hit just the spot. Thank you!
That was so amazing!!! I am in awe.
Oh my god!!!! That was wonderful… my only regret is that I’m not on Twitter
+1
I kinda want to read the story about the empress and her list of suitors. 😉
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Oh lord, now I want to read the complete story of all these tiny anecdotes…
I’m so mad, I took a break from twitter and missed this. ????
You guys are just so awesome!
Amazing Drabbles!
I echo many of the others – they almost want to be linked by Dina looking out of a corner of the room going….”nope, won’t open that door again for a bit” (a bit like the Hall of Worlds in Midkemia!)
You’re absolutely amazing!
These are amazing.