There are three separate pieces of Horde Friday business today, so let’s start with the shiny book!
Giveaway Winner
The winner of the Innkeeper Chronicles Volume 1 collected edition from Subterranean Press is: Virginia Franco!
Congratulations, Virginia! I will contact you from the modr@ilona-andrews.com email address to make arrangements. Please check your spam folder if you see this but have not received the email. If we don’t hear back by Thursday, July 16, a new winner will be drawn next Friday.
Thank you to everyone who entered. If you did not win this time, do not despair: the blog will host more giveaways this summer! And if you had your eye on this particular prize, you can also download Clean Sweep, Innkeeper Chronicles #1, completely free from the Ilona Andrews Store.
Columbus Book Festival This Weekend
House Andrews are featured authors at the Columbus Book Festival in Ohio tomorrow, Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12.
None of the House Andrews events require tickets, yay!
Schedule
Today’s schedule for Columbus Book Festival:
BOOK SIGNING
Steamy Lit Bookstore Booth
11-11:50 AM
Location: Booth #31
PANEL
Spirits, Spells & Swoons: Romantasy. Location: Stage 2, Topiary Park
1:00 PM
Panelists: Shalini Abeysekara, Jeaniene Frost, Kris Hickey (M), Ilona Andrews
BOOK SIGNING
2:00 PM
Reading Room, Main Library, 2nd Floor
See you there.
PS. For those of you who are waiting in customer service response, we will jump on it on Monday.
- Sunday, July 12 at 10:30 AM Speed Matching | Room 2A
During Speed Matching, readers meet authors in small groups for quick five-minute rounds, receiving a personal introduction to each book before the authors rotate to the next table.
- Sunday, July 12 at 3:00 PM God Complex: World-Building | Stage 2
Returning to Stage 2 for a conversation with John Chu, author of The Subtle Art of Folding Space, and K.X. Song, author of The Dragon Wakes with Thunder.
And, because this has become the most frequently asked question:
Yes, House Andrews will be signing books on both days
Ilona and Gordon will sign for one hour after each of their scheduled appearances. That means there will be a signing before and after Saturday’s panel and signings after both Sunday sessions.
House Andrews will also bring a few of the trial vellums, stickers, and a small quantity of presigned bookplates. These will be available first come, first served while supplies last.
The festival’s signing guidelines are:
- You must have a book to enter the signing line.
- You may bring a book from home or purchase one from the Official Festival Bookstore, which will be supporting local independent booksellers.
- There is a limit of two items per author.
- Posed photographs may be allowed in front of the signing table if time permits.
- Each signing lasts for up to one hour.
Festival Info & FAQ
For any questions and last-minute updates, the festival website and FAQ should be your first stop:
The main website is here.
The FAQ for the festival is here, part of a very well-organised and informative Event Information menu, with visitor information regarding full author lineup, schedule, parking information, accessibility guidance, and tickets.
House Andrews are guests of the festival. The authors themselves, the Ilona Andrews blog, me as the moderator, or the Ilona Andrews Facebook fan group do not organize the event and cannot override its policies, schedule or provide authoritative answers about festival logistics or the book stock of invited retailers. Thank you for your understanding.
For everyone attending: have a wonderful time, please be kind to the festival staff, volunteers, and the authors, and please send us pictures! The rest of the Horde would love to experience the weekend vicariously.
Achievement Victory Lap
Finally, the lovely Heather wrote in with a request after Ilona’s very concise announcement that the initial draft of Maggie 2 had been finished:
“Any chance we can get a celebratory thread for Maggie 2 being finished so we can give House IA all the praise and hopes?
Maybe… a thread where the BDH can post all their hardest efforts at getting something hard done?”
That seems like excellent Friday energy, thank you Heather!
There has also been a sneaky update on the Release Schedule page that did not create nearly the waves I expected.
Second half of 2027! Habemus release period for Maggie 2 – The Redactening.
So this is the BDH celebratory thread – tell us about something difficult you have recently finished, or survived, completed, submitted, repaired, organized, endured, or finally crossed off a very long list.
All victories count here!
