Hi Everyone, Mod R here. Hope you are all enjoying the festive season! First thing first, since some of you are still wondering: please check the blog on Friday, 31st of December, for the second instalment of This Sweeping Heart, the new Innkeeper blog serial. We will find out more about Sean, the most coveted
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Switching Sides
We have some fun questions from you. I will try to do it justice. ::girds her loins:: Will there be a blog serial this year? Waiting for “magic Friday” when Ilona posts the serial update is the best feeling! I told you, those who attend the chat will get to read the first chapter early.
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Fated Blades Q&A Video and Transcript
Hi everyone, As promised, here is the recording of the Fated Blades release virtual session with House Andrews, in all of its zombie body heat, bastard wasps and secret one-eyed French Bulldog pirate baby glory hehe. I also made a transcript, if you want to follow along or have trouble hearing or understanding something. Yes,
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On Time, Weird Perception Of
I was talking with a friend – not Jeaniene, before you ask, heh. This is a friend with whom I have a weekly phone call. Last Friday we found out that Fated Blades had peaked at #4 on Amazon, which surprised the hell out of me. The series is 10 years old. By every measure
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Baylor Family Tree
“Do we have a family chart for the Baylors and all their cousins? Even one with unnamed relatives/ unknown people listed? I have a really hard time when reading the books or the blog comments connecting everyone outside of the Grandmas, Mama P and three sisters.” T. Ok, strap in! 🚨 There are no spoilers
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Choices
Yesterday. Editor: Marketing Blurb 1 or 2? Art Department: Cover 1 or Cover 2? Agent: Alien 1 or Alien 2? Kid 2: Sentence 1 or 2? Optometrist: Better 1 or better 2? ::sigh:: Quick answers: The map was made with Inkarnate. Watch Tulip and I is grammatically incorrect. Watch I do things is not English.
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Innkeeper Questions, Part 1
Since we linked that podcast, here are some answers to your Innkeeper questions. Will there be more Maud centric novels? Yes. Will Maud’s ex-in laws get their comeuppance? Yes. When could we possibly learn how Maud and Klaus meeting up at the end of “Sweep of the Blade” went? That’s a more complicated question. We
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Dialogue and Drones
Do you ever take dialogue heard in real life and use it in your books? Absolutely. We steal from the blog comments as well, although we always say when we do it. Hey Hannah. ::wiggles fingers in Hannah’s direction:: Credit will be given in Acknowledgments. When co-writing dialogue, do you split characters between you or
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Hours and Hours
In any number of careers you would need to take training courses or maintain qualifications. As writers, have you done anything more formal, after university, to hone your talent or is there something you plan/want to do in the future? Anything you found really helpful? Aside from just putting in the hours and hours actually
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Hidden Legacy Questions, Part 1, the Silly Edition
Is there a possibility that the Baylors’ dad was actually a Prime with a subtle ability to increase the magic potential of people around him? All of his descendants are primes and the boys he helped raise seem to have higher-tiered abilities than one might expect. If there is no indication that his wife and
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Kate Daniels Questions Day, Part 1
What was the incident that resulted in Curran’s broken nose that never healed correctly? Does that mean he snores? Curran’s nose was broken by Andorf. After he killed the bear, Curran realigned his nose himself and he didn’t quite do it correctly. By the next morning, the nose had healed, because Curran’s regeneration is very
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Questions on Writing, Part 1
What’s it like to write funny stuff? As someone trying to learn to write, I’m confused about how you do it. The way you guys are funny seems to me like a ‘foibles and contradictions of human interaction, well narrated’ type of strategy, but how do you come up with that stuff? Is it part
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