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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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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Reminder: Ilona Andrews chats with Veronica Roth tomorrow
This is your reminder that tomorrow, Friday, May 15th, at 6:30 pm, Veronica Roth will be at Half Price Books in Dallas for the release of her new series debut, Seek the Traitor’s Son - and Ilona and Gordon will be the ones moderating the event! Seek the Traitor’s Son is book 1 of the Burning
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Veronica Roth with House Andrews in Dallas!
Attention, Dallas-area Horde, I have a special announcement. On Friday, May 15th, at 6:30 pm, Ilona and Gordon are emerging from the writing cave (trademark pending) and heading to Half Price Books in Dallas to moderate one of Veronica Roth’s signing tour appearances for her new book, Seek the
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Happy Book Birthday to BEAST BUSINESS
STANDARD VISITOR NOTICE You are leaving the comfort of a magic-free existence and entering a world shaped by powerful Houses. These dynasties control corporations, command private armies, and enforce their own rules. Their rivalries are long-standing, their resources vast, and their disputes
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Silver & Blood, Zooms and Innkeeper: The Reprintening
I hope everyone made it through the worst of the cold. We'll have lots of good news and releases this coming week to help lift spirits! First bit of happy: against all odds, Subterranean Press has softened its policy before the might of the Horde and is republishing the Innkeeper Chronicles,
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The Moment Everything Changed: Part 3
Today we bring you two more stories of writers realizing they wanted to be writers. Alyssa Day The moment everything changed for me was when I volunteered to pick up an editor (Kate Seaver, then at a small indie publisher, now at Penguin Random House) from the airport for a writers'
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The Price of Magic Zoom with Jessie Mihalik
Happy Monday! Today we are bringing you the sign up form for a Zoom Chat with us and Jessie Mihalik. Jessie's new book, SILVER & BLOOD, is coming out on January 27, 2026. I really loved it, and now we get to talk to her about worldbuilding and the price magic exacts for its miraculous
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The Moment Everything Changed: Part 2
Jeaniene Frost I wanted to be a writer since I was eleven. I began with poetry, and moved onto novels around age thirteen, but I could never stick with an idea long enough to finish an entire book. My first inkling that I had talent was my senior year in high school, when a friend asked me to
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The Moment Everything Changed: Part 1
Every writer has a moment when the world shifted. For me, it happened when I was 14 years old. Once the Iron Curtain fell, Russia was flooded with bootleg translations. I had plenty of exposure to hard science fiction, but what I got after Perestroika was fantasy, sword and sorcery, sword and
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A Mug, Appearance, Math, and a Snippet
And it's Monday again. My adventure in seeing clearly continues. Except that I can't see the texts on my phone with the eye that was operated on. This caused some concern, so I bought reading glasses, although today I was able to read a text, kind of. My biggest issue is remembering eye drops. I
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Warning: May Cause Shelf Lust
How it's started: How it's going: And this: And also thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis: I mean... DING DONG! Ask not for whom the Mad Rogan smoulders: I cannot stop staring at the detail one incredibly talented @helena.illustrated has brought to Nevada and Rogan’s world. For
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