The first installment of Maggie's adventure is a Library Reads Hall of Fame book. Click here for shameless bragging. There are many awards a writer can get, but getting one from the librarians is special. We are very grateful. To celebrate, we bring you Hall of the Hireling, one of the
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Clean Desk, Clean Shelves…
For some surprising reason, pictures of my cluttered desk and shelf generated a lot of questions and excitement. The desk is now clean. In order of appearance, left to right People asked about the keyboard. It's a custom keyboard that I built for myself. Keyboards are our main tool of
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Cats, Books, and Chaos
I don't do well in chaos. My workspace is relatively organized, my clothes are usually folded and put away, and my house is clean. Not holiday clean, but if unexpected visitors showed up, I wouldn't be embarassed. And then comes the last third of the book. I have this little yarn corner
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Ar-Mug-edon
The pace of the mug orders finally slowed down. BDH has ordered 965 mugs since they went on sale. ::sigh:: With that amount of mug sales hitting at once, we are probably going to have some issues. Things we've encountered in the past: The resolution for both of these is to email the
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The Great Re-Muggening
Essential information: today is the Preview Day where you look at the mugs and plan your purchase. We uploaded mostly what people asked to be replaced and some new stuff. If the mug you want is not available or is in the wrong size, please comment below and we will add it. So if you want a latte
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Merch Admin Note
Hi Guys, A reminder: B.A. Bookish is NOT our business. We licensed merch rights to them and we let them carry some of our designs, but they are a separate business entity. They pay us a percentage of their profits. Their creative decisions are their own. They also have their own stuff and
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All the Questions, Some of the Answers
I'm lost, which series is Augustine from?/ I've read everything I don't remember an Augustine? /Is Augustine someone from This Kingdom? Augustine is the character from the Hidden Legacy series. We first meet him in Burn For Me, which is the first book. Is the baby tiger ok? Who do you
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Augustine Cover Reveal, This Kingdom Preview Preorder, and This Kingdom Goes to Spain
We have three announcements for you today. First, the most important announcement. To recap: Tor is offering a very long free preview of This Kingdom on KU and other retailers. It will be released at the end of January and the "preorder" is up now. Right now we are seeing it on Amazon and
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Lavender Sunsets, Crocheted Hedgehogs, and Other Small Things
A while ago I posted a hedgehog on Facebook and I received several requests for the pattern. This toy was a little bit of a challenge for me. I've always thought amigurumi was out of my league. So full disclosure: this is toy #3. The first went to Kid 2, the second to Kid 1, and this one
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The Backstory
J writes: I'm wondering if it was ever mentioned what had happened to end the Penelope's PI career? This question popped up again in Facebook fan group. Facebook is just not set up to be a fan forum, so people keep missing things. We've posted it before, but just in case, here it is again
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New Year, New Challenges
Happy 2026, everybody. ::looks at her Inbox:: Aaaaa! We are just going to pretend the emails don't exist for the next hour while I write this. How did your holidays go? Ours were quiet and peaceful. Because of the kids having other commitments, we pushed the gift giving to New Year, and it was
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Happy Holidays
This year we thought we would be by ourselves for Christmas, but plans fell through and now the kids are coming for the Christmas Eve dinner and I'm so happy. We missed Thanksgiving because we were sick, and although we are all meeting for New Year to celebrate my birthday, I'm looking forward to
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