We have finally repaired damage to the office and yesterday and today was spent fixing it back up. Writing in a flood damaged office kind of sucked. So we are working on Innkeeper installment now and we will try to get it to you today. This installment is kind of a two-scene deal, otherwise it
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PSA: Typical Industry Practices
On a deadline, so a short post for the authors who are just starting out on their career path. Publishing industry has some typical practices. Established writers view it as the cost of doing business. 1. Reoccurring Titles. This is normal. Happens all the time. You can’t copyright your titles. Copyrighting your titles in a
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Sweep Of the Blade: Chapter 7 Part 2
https://innkeeper.ilona-andrews.com/2018/04/13/chapter-7-part-2/
Research: I love this so much.
IRON AND MAGIC and Contest
On April 1st, 2015, we’ve made an April Fools post. We thought we were being quite clever. Below are the contents of that post. The announcements just keep on coming. So without further ado, here is the cover and blurb. Click to enlarge. Hugh d’Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of
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Adventures of dogs & mud
Before Rain After Rain
Rainy Day
Texas has treated us to a classic thunderstorm today with lightning, thunder, and sheets of rain, so I am waiting another half an hour before braving the office, because I don’t know where the umbrella is and I don’t want to get soaked. So some answers to the questions. First things first: for those of
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Frustrating day
I had a really frustrating day. I’m going to vent. It started with the work PC not being able to run MS Word and iTunes at the same time. Tried to check task manager. After watching the cursor creep on the screen for about five minutes I finally got there and discovered 100% disk usage.
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Black Parade by Kyoko M.
The other day I was on Twitter, offering my opinion on the latest kerfluffle to the internet – because we all know how internet suffers without the benefit of my opinion ::eye roll: – and I ran into a self-published author who was following my Twitter account. She responded to my kerfluffle tweet and said
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Doctor Visits and Book Updates
Thank you to everyone who emailed asking how doctor visits went. For mammogram, I will be in limbo for a week or so. If they find something, they will call. Otherwise, I will get a note in the mail saying it’s clear, so no news is good news. It’s stressful, but it is what it
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Admin Monday: Numbers, Numbers
For business reasons, we had to pull together a traffic summary from the website. Turns out that Maud’s novella is our most successful Innkeeper to date. That’s pretty amazing. Thank you, guys. The comment section is blowing up at the latest Innkeeper posts, with some posts getting over 600 comments. That’s a lot of
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Frustrating
Very frustrating day today. Aside from the phone call from our agent and Grace Draven, everything went sideways. I’ve just had a crappy day all around. I am going to go and make steaks for dinner. Because at this point I feel like I need to compensate for all the crazy stuff that went wrong.
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