Someone emailed asking about Kate Daniels series being available as a DRM-free download. It is not. It is published by PRH, so they control DRM. But while tryin to find the Wilmington Years books - because those are self-published - I realized that Small Magics and the Wilmington series are not
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This Kingdom is Best So Far
Tor sent over a little something, and by “little something” I mean THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME has been featured on not one but two of Amazon’s Best Books of 2026 So Far lists! Maggie is at number 14 on Amazon’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2026 So Far And also
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The Vellum Media Preorder Is Open
::braces self: If you missed the previous post, here are the highlights: You can find the link to the store in the banner above or you can click this button. Update: as of now, the orders have exceeded the initial print run expectations by 50% 150%. We are at 500% 800% 1,200% of the
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Life, Merch, and Other Trauma
It is the weekend so Mod R is off. You are in my moderating hands. - Ilona Important merch news first: we will be opening for the vellum preorders on Monday. Availability Right now it is US only. Canada: The cheapest shipping is $20, takes 4 weeks, and there is no guarantee it gets
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BDH Crosswords
Friday is Horde enrichment activity day, because otherwise we start to think Steve ideas make sense. Behold, the Ilona Andrews crossword for June 5th: Across Down This is a static image, not an interactive puzzle, because the blog is many things, but not a puzzle app. You can copy
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A Public Apology to Becka Moon
When we were first working on Kair Toren, we commissioned a map from Becka Moon of Becka Designs Cartography. Becka is a map artist who works with Inkarnate. To clarify before some misunderstanding might occur: Inkarnate is not generative AI and has never been one. It is illustrative software
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The Golden Butterflies
Warning: this post contains mild non-essential spoilers for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me and a discussion of insects. The golden butterflies of Ciste. So lovely, so deadly, and surprisingly rooted in reality. This is Calyptra thalictri, otherwise known as vampire moth. It is thought that
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Out of Office: Please Advise
From: bookdevouringhorde@ilonaverse.galaxyTo: ALLSubject: Completely Hypothetical Assistance Inquiry Hello, This is Steve. I don't think this is an emergency, everyone is still breathing. Unfortunately, so is that weird artifact we brought back on the last Horde raid. Before
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Austin event with Caitlin Rozakis
On Monday, June 1st, at 7 pm, Ilona will be joining Caitlin Rozakis at Barnes & Noble Arboretum in Austin to chat shop, ask questions, and help celebrate Caitlin's new release, STARTUP HELL. Tickets are free and available at TicketLeap. Purchasing the book from B&N Arboretum on event
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Hello, Hello
I've received a concerned email asking if Something Bad happened due to my prolonged blog absence. This is the actual wordcount. 7 scenes left. This is a massive epic story. This sounds terrible, but neither one of us want to take anything out. We could tighten some scenes, but taking
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Happy Book Birthday to A Curse of Beasts and Magic
By now everyone probably knows that Jeaniene Frost is my BFF, so I am very biased, but I loved this book. Raine Stone is living a nightmare. Ever since she survived the attack that killed her family, she’s been hiding a terrible secret–and a Beast inside her. It feeds on violence and chaos,
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Pack an Order with Us
I have a couple of posts I would like to write, but they must wait till tomorrow. A difficult scene is coming up, and it must be done right. The only way to do it to live through the emotions it requires. We will walk this path with Maggie, because that is the price we pay for
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