And here it is! Here is a wallpaper Gene did for us. Amazon Australia has adjusted the price to a much more reasonable $9.99, and it is safe to preorder now. I walked over to Alessandro’s office. He leaned back in his chair, his feet on the table, a phone to his ear. I rapped
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Hidden Legacy Trivia Quiz
Hi everyone, Mod R in the house! Ilona and Gordon are deep into Ruby Fever edits (has everyone found the preorder on the first page of the website? The Nook version is finally available!), so you get me today. As the saying goes, when the cat’s away…the mice will reach another quintessential quiz moment: How
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Event Postponed
Going to start this morning with an apology. I know some of you were getting ready for a Zoom event with us and Grace Draven hosted by Ashland Library in conjunction with Bank Square Books, but there was an unexpected development in our schedule. We have to postpone it for a bit. It’s not cancelled.
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Ta-Da!
Dear Erika, Please find enclosed Ruby Fever. It is not the best book we wrote, but it is finished, and we know that you will guide us toward making it even better. Gordon and Ilona Andrews The book is done. Well, the first draft is done, which will likely require substantial edits. But, as of
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Chapters: Burn for Me
Hi everyone, Mod R here 🙂 I have just finished playing the Burn for Me game Ilona told you about in the previous post. It’s out, it’s gorgeous, and I’m going in for a second play with different choices right after I finish this post! The link for the game is here for the Apple
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Burn For Me
This hiatus is not working. Do you remember choose your own adventure books? Well, now they have been adapted into games you can play on your mobile devices. One of the companies offering these games is Crazy Maple Studios. One of the games they will be offering on October 30th is Burn For Me. Full
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Friday Things and Snippet
Patrick and Grace Draven are coming over for dinner tonight. I’m making fajitas. Quick, easy, and customizable. Need to write a big battle for Ruby Fever. Am very sleepy. Need to drink some coffee. Need to run an errand. ::Throws snippet. Runs off:: I found Linus in the motor pool. He had carved out a
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Hidden Legacy Questions
I’m re-reading BFM and saw this: ”You are an animal mage.” They were so rare that I’d only met one before.” “Yes. I’m not a Prime so you shouldn’t worry about me summoning a pack of wild wolves to rip you to shreds.” Lie? So Nevada knew about Cornelius since then? I love this question
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Tiny Snippet
No time for a blog post. :: Throws the snippet and runs away:: “It’s like talking to a wall,” Leon said.Arabella turned her head and hit him with a death glare. “Did you even try to negotiate?”“I did.”“How did that go? Walk me through it.”He shrugged. “I went in and met Michael. A somber looking
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We Are Dumb
This weekend Gordon and I finally figured out Catalina’s character arc for Ruby Fever. We had written it in. We had grounded it in the previous novels. We had dove-tailed Alessandro’s conflict into hers. And neither of us had recognized that we had done all that, because in one of the pivotal scenes we had
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Snippet from the Awful Book
The hill around the Compound was pitted with large holes, as if someone had tossed a handful of grenades about. A crushed metal wreck that might have once been a vehicle smoked slightly on one side of the road. On the other side, three other wrecks, wrinkled and smashed like discarded coke cans, formed a
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Back to Life, Back to Reality…
Gordon and I spent 4 days at South Padre. We needed a break. This was our first South Padre and it was great. The water was clear, we had a calm day, a wave day, and a choppy day, and we both really enjoyed it. Huge thanks to Mod R for holding down the fort.
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