BDH: Ilona, what is this? Ilona: What? BDH: This thing over here. Ilona: That's a fall tree. BDH: Do what now? Ilona: Okay, you know how we put up Christmas trees? That's a fall tree. You put it up, decorate it, and then fall happens. BDH: It's plastic! You hate plastic. You
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What’s Cooking?
As House Andrews has taught us, sometimes fictional food refuses to stay on the page. Virginia Woolf's boeuf en daube has been haunting my kitchen recently. In To the Lighthouse, the dish drifts through Mrs Ramsay’s stream of consciousness: "... an exquisite scent of olives and oil and juice
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Give Me the Spooky
There are only 14 more weeks of 2026, which frankly fells like an attack. But at least Spooky Season, my favourite season, is coming next. I was looking over some ideas for themed posts and content, and I'm having trouble choosing. On paper, we read Ilona Andrews books and we've got witches
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Chatty Cathy and Treacle Tart
I read an article at the weekend about how many international readers interpreted everyday British things featured in the Harry Potter universe as part of the wizardly worldbuilding. Train trolleys, schools houses and prefects, treacle tarts, Christmas crackers - all things that even Muggles get
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Survive, get fated
We’re coming up on six months since the THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME release (woohoo!), so today we’re borrowing a little inspiration from Cute Knight to discover where the Horde's (sometimes questionable) choices would lead you. There are four questions. Pick the image that appeals to you most,
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Autumn watchlist
Happy Wednesday! To answer your questions, everyone here is still alive. There are a lot of work and projects which House Andrews are putting all their time and energy into, which we will hear about very soon. In the meantime, I require your collective entertainment wisdom, please. What
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Medieval Breads and Time Sink
This post includes recipe videos, so if you are reading through email, it might help to read online instead. People often ask about research: how does it happen, what does it look like, and so on. Authors do research some very strange things, so I thought I would share a small snippet of this
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Friday Rabbit Holes
Happy Friday, Horde! I come bearing procrastination. It is currently 32C (apparently 90 in freedom units) in my corner of England, which may not seem like a particular lot until you realise that British homes were designed to capture all of the heat and carefully preserve it for future
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In Progress and
Today we bring you a cute in-progress trailer for the Innkeeper game. If you missed these news, we are developing it in house, so this is not quite solo developer, but dual developer project. It will take a while for it to reach playable stage. We estimate about 2 years. To be honest, several
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Yo-ho-ho, and a Bottle of Rum
It is editing time, which means we are rewriting one sentence 7 times. Argh. Must brain better. We finished a small bonus bit for the trade paperback, our editor read it and pronounced it good, so full speed ahead. As always, the bonus scene is a true bonus, so you don't have to buy, but I would
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Rainy Day Post
Oh no, two posts in a row. This is what happens when we are not furiously writing. It is a very blustery day in Texas. The world is soaking in the downpour, and the thick rain hangs like a pale haze. The fat raindrops bubble up as they strike the ground and drum a steady, comforting hum on the
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This Kingdom Fixes Sticker Gate
I keep meaning to write a post with some content, but I keep getting sidetracked by the backlog of everything that had to be put on a backburner. This will be a super quick update. We did not realize the extent of the sticker FOMO. The stickers have created some anxiety as people to do not want
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