People sometimes ask about the admin side of things. People are interested to see what’s behind the curtain, so here is a small sampling of our emails. Looking behind the curtain is a huge mistake. Who is who: Erika Tsang, our Avon Editor (Hidden Legacy) Anne Sowards, our former Ace editor (Kate Daniels) Nancy Yost
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Preparing for Kiss Con Tomorrow!
Brandi Bolden here again! We loved seeing you all at the signing last night! Thankyou to everyone who came out, we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. Today, there are no events occurring for Ilona Andrews. However, tomorrow is the official start of Kiss Con! This going to be such an
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BN Signing Tonight – Updates & Info
SIGNING AT BN When :Thursday, October 24, 2019 , STARTS AT 7:00 PM Where: Barnes & Noble at the Christiana Mall Address: 340 Christiana MallNewark, DE 19702302-369-7050 Link to the event here. We will sign books and ramble about nonsense. Hey ya’ll, Brandi Bolden here! I wanted to remind everyone that I will be posting all of
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Giving Up
Worked on a scene for 3 days. Rewrote it 4 times. I had this scene in my head for months before we even started the book. Today, after yet another pass, I looked at Gordon and said, “Do you want to just cut it?” He said, “I think we should.” Three thousand words into the
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Kisscon
Gordon and I will be at KissCon New England in 2 weeks. When Sat, October 26, 2019 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT Where Mohegan Sun Cabaret Theatre 1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard Uncasville, CT 06382 who will be there Ilona Andrews, Loretta Chase, Tessa Dare, Megan Frampton, Caroline Linden, Sarah MacLean, Nisha Sharma, Joanna Shupe
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When You Spam, But You Can’t Be Bothered
We receive a lot of email. Here is the latest. Hello Nalini, I hope you are doing well today! Our company REDACTED is one of the reputed companies with 6+ years of experience in eBook conversion, book composing, design & typesetting. Till now we have work for many authors and publishers from all over the
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Passive Voice
Could you explain the passive voice to me?” J. Let’s make this short and sweet. In an active sentence the subject acts; in a passive sentence the subject is being acted upon. Why do people advise against using passive voice. vs The second example is clearer, faster, and reads better. When should you use passive
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Facetime
The phone kept ringing. Officially Linus Duncan, once the most powerful man in the state, was retired. In reality, he still served the state of Texas in a new, more frightening capacity, and I was his deputy. He always answered my calls. Beep. Another. Linus’ voice came on the line. “Yes?” …spoilers…. Leon ran up
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No
Brandi is sick. Gordon and I are hovering on the edge of sick. Kid 1 is patient zero who infected all of us. Because Brandi is sick, I decided to look at the emails this week. I had to reach for a bit of tranquility before responding to the one below, so here is a
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Damned If You Do…
A while ago I did a blog post answering the question about writing diverse characters. Among the points that were brought up were creative description of skin color and how people find it unpleasant to be compared to food and the fact that we now add a descriptor to our characters, pointing out when someone
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Sapphire Flames Hits the Lists
# 6 on USA Today. This is the big one – it means we had #6 bestselling book in US out of all the books for that week. #5 on NYT. #2 on Wall Street Journal. Our editor and the rest of the team at Avon sent us beautiful flowers. Thank you, guys. This was
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The Struggle is Real
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