This is a general clarification due to a few hiccups we had in the last couple of weeks. Sometimes blog posts generate issues: an unfortunate word or name, a wrong image, a dead link, etc. You have two options to report these issues: by emailing Mod R directly through the contact form or by commenting
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Chains and WIPs
Hi BDH, Mod R here with some light housework whilst the cats are away- just kidding, Tuna is always watching! If you missed yesterday’s Q&A with Grace Draven you can watch it here – lots of yummy food conversations, Tuna photobombs and announcements! I will let you be surprised by Ilona and Gordon as is
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Admin: No Innkeeper this week
Hi everyone, House Andrews are on holiday this week and what most of us wished for them has come true: they have entered vacation mode! Which I wish for all of us this weekend. They’ve shared with me that they have had a very productive week creative-wise, and made progress on several projects. Apparently, allowing
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Sweep of the Blade Graphic Audio – Sound Editing Errors
Hi everyone, We received your feedback about the Graphic Audio adaptation of Sweep of the Blade released yesterday, we are aware of the editing issues and we apologise on behalf of Graphic Audio. The delay in release and the editing issues had a common cause, which was COVID cases in the sound editing team. Graphic
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I Said What I Meant and I Meant What I Said
The guidelines for posting on the Book Recommendation thread mention one book per comment. That was not a suggestion, guys. We really do need you to keep it to one book. In the interest of preserving as many comments as possible, we will expand this to one book/one series/one author but anything that mentions more
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BDH Marketing Poll
A poll about kickstarter, marketing, hardcovers, and many other nonsense things.
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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