On the phone with Jeaniene Frost Me: I haven’t done anything for a whole week. J: I hear you. Dragoncon was a lot. Me: I might take the next week off too. J: This is so unlike you. I’m starting the new project next week. Me: But why? J: List of reasons that make sense.
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The Time Between
We all have a routine that keeps our lives running. Get up, brush teeth, make coffee, drink a cup, get dressed, head out the door. Don’t forget phone-keys-wallet. We run our dishwashers, we sweep our kitchens, we vacuum our floors, and feed our pets. Being writers, we work from home, and our cycle of routines
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My Trope Fu is Stronger than Yours
“It’s a grumpy/sunshine book, and there’s only one bed! Eeeeeek!” Ever feel like book reviews or BookToks are speaking in a cryptic code that you can’t decipher? Something that goes beyond mere skibidi youth slang and “we’re-all-in-a-hurry” shortcuts like comps? There is one culprit for that, and it isn’t going anywhere: tropes. What’s a trope?
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Friday Foodies
“I live in constant terror that someone around me might be even a little bit peckish” said Nigella Lawson once, and honestly, she gets me. My Notes app is full of recipes that look good, my counters with food experiments, and my thoughts are occupied by yumminess I remember and want to have again. It’s
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Kate Daniels Quotes To Live By
Ilona and Gordon are leaving for Dragon Con tomorrow, and if you’re around you should go see them! Here is a post with their schedule, and you should also use the DragonCon app for last-minute changes. In the meantime, I thought we could all benefit from some wisdom. The world is confusing, and sometimes a
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Lord of The Rings in Oregon
Today I bring you a magical house in Oregon. It is way out of everyone’s price range, but it is so lovely, that it must be appreciated by the world. Oh my goodness. If I had 6 million dollars… You can see more amazing pics at this Redfin listing.
The BDH Tv Show Recommendations Thread
Happy Friday! The store is open today for last minute shopping. Here is a post from Mod R who is now off on vacation. – Ilona UPDATE: So apparently it’s Thursday. This Covid thing is terrible and needs to end. BDH gets an extra day to shop because I don’t know what day today is.
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Friday Horde Funnies
Happy Sanctuary Friday! First, the Pet Nechist Quiz is here for everyone asking for the link now that they’ve read the book. If you’ve ever dreamed about having your own chernoboggian menagerie, you can now find out which critter you should start with! And then, in the immortal words, what’s one a few more? I
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The Pink House
Today I bring you… the Pink House! 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,778 square feet of pure pink awesomeness. Its colors are blush and bashful. And coral, fuchsia, salmon, rosy, and Pepto-Bismol. The owner really made this into something special. I mean, it’s pitch perfect. For more amazing photos, go to the listing. This took so
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Linguistic Patisserie
Hi everyone, Mod R here. Thank you so much for all the get well wishes! I feel much better, the antibiotics and painkillers have kicked in and I no longer want to saw my ear off, which is always a plus. I did spend the weekend emulating “some bloke called Les, who is really miserable
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Karma, Crochet, and Books That Are Too Long
You know how we wrote that cute Arabella short? The cats have filled the fancy robotic litterbox overnight and then had a pee party. Thank you, Universe, and my husband, for the tile floor. I love tile. I love it so, so much. Then I logged into me email to find out that the our
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It’s in the cards
“Mod R, you can only tell me, I promise I won’t post about it but I neeeeeeeeeeeed to know what the spider-millipede-scorpion things in the tower are for in the Purpose snippet.” Reply to newsletter post about the St Marcos tornado: “Who is Elara? Who who? Or WHAT?!” Weekly posts in the Facebook fan group
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