Yesterday Kid 2 called me, visibly exhausted. She is finishing up her second manuscript. We trunked the first one because while it was good, you can only debut once, and this new one is much more her. I’d sent her Maggie and she really loved the way it’s formatted. In case you’re wondering, this is
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Sanctuary, Chapter 2 Part 1
Happy Friday everyone! Hope you will enjoy the continued adventures of Roman- there is now an easy-to-follow link at the top of the website which will take you straight to the chapters. I’m also happy to announce that the Magic Slays dramatized adaptation coming from Graphic Audio is now available for preorder and will be
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Sanctuary: Chapter 1, Part 2
Logs crackled in the fire, sending an occasional burst of orange sparks into the air. Warmth permeated the house. Roman set the squirt bottle with the saline solution aside and gulped his coffee. It was bitter and hot. He’d gotten used to drinking it black while in the service, because cream and sugar had been
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Holiday Serial
Is the new thing a holiday serial? Yes. How long? Not very long. Probably short story range. Every Friday? Every Friday. Can we get it in audio/when will it be published/why is it not Innkeeper… Here is tea and cookies. Please have some. I can’t have cookies because I have to watch my blood sugar
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Sanctuary: Chapter 1, Part 1
Happy holidays! Chapter 1 Snow crunched under his feet. It spread in front of him like a glittering blanket, a foot deep, sheathing the vast plain he was crossing, and he sank a little with every step. Above, a night sky gaped like a hole in existence, a spray of stars floating in its black
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Admin Post: Schedule Going Forward
Hey guys. So the new book was kind of complicated and tough to write, this year was really busy, and everyone on the business and creative side of House Andrews is tired and super happy for the holidays. We know you love us, and since we keep getting concerned emails about why we stopped posting,
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TMI and Other Things
First things first: whether you celebrate Christmas or any other holidays, or just want a pick me up during this unseasonably warm and wet winter, we want to let you know that there might be something fun for you on the blog this Friday. Now onto a more personal matter. I hesitated about sharing this,
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
By now some of you have probably heard about the Cait Corrain controversy. To summarize the facts: Cait Corrain was a debut romantasy author. Was being an operative term here. Cait Corrain seems to have dealt with her pre-release anxiety by creating numerous fake accounts on Goodreads and using them to trash the books of
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Tenses, Distance, and Persons
I don’t understand all the tenses… No worries, let’s clear this up. POV, point of view, is the perspective from which the story is told to us. It is characterized by three things: person, distance, and tense. Person POV can be first person, second person, or third person. First person First person uses pronoun I.
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Present Tenses and Unhappy Endings
I wonder about how more and more books are being written in the present tense. I have a hard time getting into something written that way. Past tense is where it’s at for me and I’m so glad you write that way. Maybe I’m just getting old, but what’s up with that? I’m not sure
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Comfort Read Winner
Happy Friday everyone, Mod R here! I’ve had a lot of fun reading all your answers to the Comfort Reads giveaway. I now want to do All The Rereads, which is very timely, because winter holidays are my Kate Daniels period. There is something so perfect about those liminal days between Christmas and New Year
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