Anton Strout died yesterday. He was just online on the 29th, cracking jokes. He left behind a wife and two young children. It is a sudden and shocking loss. Our deepest sympathy and condolences to his family. We are both so sorry.
Monday, Monday
We will have a giveaway for you later either today or tomorrow, but for now some quick notes. Ingram Spark BLOOD HEIR is live on Ingram Spark. That number is 9781641971652. We are currently working with our bookstore partners to get preorders for signed copies up. Due to COVID, “signed” means the book will have
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BLOOD HEIR ARCs
Update: here is the ARC link. The ARCs of BLOOD HEIR will go live on Netgalley on 12/01/2020, so tomorrow. We anticipate a high volume of requests, so please be patient. Here is what an early ARC reader had to say. I read it and there’s great news & not so good news. The great
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Anton Strout and Claw & Order
Today I would like to welcome to the blog Anton Strout, USA Today bestselling author, a popular podcast host, and a seriously funny man. 🙂 Anton has a new Kickstarter project, an urban fantasy anthology called Claw & Order, and since a lot of you enjoyed his work in the past, I didn’t want you
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Blood Heir: Cover Reveal
Art by Luisa Preissler The front page has been updated with the appropriate art and excerpt. Luisa has captured the new Julie perfectly, and we are delighted with the cover. We have completed the first draft of BLOOD HEIR and sent it to our editor, so the book should come out on schedule, on January
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Title Announcement for Catalina #3/Hidden Legacy #6
The next Hidden Legacy book will be titled RUBY FEVER.
Rachel Caine
Rachel Caine, who has been fighting a long and awful battle with cancer, has made the decision to move to hospice care. This post was made on her Fan Page on Facebook, and since not everyone has Facebook, I copied it to reproduce it in its entirety. Links to Rachel’s other books are available on
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Flowers and Candy
Avon sent us beautiful flowers. The card reads: Not long ago, Jeaniene Frost also sent me flowers with a card for secret reasons. Here is what that card. Also someone sent us Russian candy. Thank you so much. The candy was delicious! Dear BDH, please do not send candy! We have no self-control. We mean
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Blood Heir Is Available for Preorder
A lot of people emailed us asking for preorder for BLOOD HEIR, since many of you chose to wait until it’s published and didn’t want to miss it. Here you go. From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an all-new novel set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring Julie Lennart-Olsen, Kate
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Starred Kirkus Review of Emerald Blaze
I am in a rare form this morning. I used common instead of come on in a professional email. And then, after Pam Jaffee, our Harper Collins publicist, emailed this review, I accidentally replied Dear Pam to a reader instead of using her full name and had to apologize. It will be this kind of
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First Innkeeper Pandemic Donation
In March we released the first three books in the Innkeeper series as a collector edition at a price of $0.99. It was meant as a gift, and we were never planned to make money from it, but it was faster and easier to release it at $0.99 than to release it free. This way
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Dragon Unleashed
Happy Book Birthday to Grace Draven, DRAGON UNLEASHED is out today. A dragon shapeshifter and a healer with power over the earth fight a corrupt empire in this thrilling and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance. Magic is outlawed in the Krael Empire and punishable by death. Born with the gift of
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