A poll about kickstarter, marketing, hardcovers, and many other nonsense things.
Admin Note: Innkeeper Delayed
We had an animal emergency today. PSA: snow globes contain antifreeze in the amounts highly toxic to cats. If for example, the cat breaks a snow globe, and the liquid splashes on their paw, and they lick it, it’s enough to kill them. Ethylene glycol causes irreversible renal failure. It’s 10:34 pm as I type
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Happy Anniversary!
Magic Bites was published on this day, exactly 15 years ago. Technically we sold Questing Beast to a magazine before that, but it was published much later. Magic Bites was our first professionally published work, and it launched a series of 10 novels, with 3 novel-length spinoffs, not to mention numerous novellas and short stories.
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Print Editions of Small Magics and Kinsmen Universe
Hi everyone, Mod R in the house. House Andrews are celebrating their Ruby Fever submission with tea and admin tasks, so I thought I would pop in and give you an update I’ve been promising for a while in the comments. THE KINSMEN UNIVERSE The print editions of Small Magics and Kinsmen Universe originally announced
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War
We’re starting to get emails about this, so I decided to address it. I am Russian but I am also at least a quarter Ukrainian. My maternal grandfather was from Lviv. My maiden name comes from Poltava, a city in central Ukraine. My paternal great grandparents spoke pidgin, which is a farmer dialect that was
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Our Apologies
We accidentally named our antelope-like alien after an existing Native American Tribe. We were messing around with the phonetic variations of a word auroch, meaning prehistoric ox and made an unfortunate error of not google vetting the word due to fatigue. We had selected aurochs as a model because surprisingly bovines have a very large
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HA Update: Coming up for Air
I like how serene the above image is. That’s how a lot of people picture writer’s daily work. They do not picture me laying on the carpet in the study, because I’ve been in the chair for the past x hours and my back was beginning to hurt, and saying things like, “It won’t work
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A Quick Admin Note
Apparently there was some sphinx drama, which I found out about only after the fact. How much do I love Mod R? Thiiiiis much. To date we have written 28 novels and a handful of novellas and short stories. If we ballpark it at 100,000 words per novel – some are less but the novellas
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Things!
We have fun news. If all goes well, we should have some free fiction available for you on the blog soon, hopefully before the month’s end. We’ve received edits for Ruby Fever. They are extensive, as we expected, so Ruby Fever will be ready for the beta read in late January/ early February. We also
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Hiatus: We mean it this time :)
::looks over the flood of messages of “what happened?”, “who dared?”, and “can we beat them up?” , and “did something bad happen to the family?” Nothing big happened. If something happened, most of the people reading the blog would not see it, because Mod R would yank it from the comment list. However, the
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Hiatus
Mod R and I need a break. BDH was too much these last few days. The blog will be shut down for the next week.
Friday Basics and A List
Hi everyone, Mod R here 🙂 I thought I would answer some questions about the blog today. The longtimers will know all of this, but please bear with, I may have something for everyone. Glossary Of Nicknames: IA, HA, House of A, ALs, The Artists Formerly Known as AL Ilona and Gordon aka Ilona Andrews.
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