ILONA ANDREWS

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Cooking: Tips and Tricks

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Do you have any cooking tips or tricks? I just have the usual home cook stuff.  Let’s see. Um. Giving cooking advice is always slightly controversial.  For example, I do not cook our pan-seared steaks in a bath of butter.  One, we don’t need the extra calories and saturated fats and especially lactose; two, steak is
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Friday Tea and Coffee Grinders

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A few days ago, Gordon said, “Look at these pretty cups.” I came to look, and indeed the cups were very pretty. That’s where it ended except that said cups now arrived in the mail and were presented to me by my husband as a surprise. I’m drinking Zhang Autumn Oolong from Verdant Tea, brewed
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Busy Week of Writing

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We have a week of digging into writing up ahead. I’d decided to poke around the next chapter on Sunday and once I finished it, I realized that I had forgotten to do what I originally planned to do with it. Instead I got distracted by pretty monster descriptions. One drawback of working in a
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Crafting and Other Weirdness

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What kind of crafting projects are you working on? Magic Claims, grumble, grumble, grumble. Things I have made recently: a sweater/T-shirt for Kid 2. I don’t have a picture of it finished, but it is. Here is in progress picture. I wanted a very simple pattern, like idiot proof, because my brain was very fried
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Gloomy Friday

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It is gloomy here in Texas. It doesn’t quite rise to the levels of blustery, but it is definitely grey, overcast, and slightly chilly. Mod R is out today for a medical procedure, so you have to put up with me prattling on about random business and life nonsense. First, I have some great news.
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AI Innkeeper Characters

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From Ingrid in the comments: I recently ran the character descriptions for the innkeeper chronicles through an Ai – though it might be fun to share 🙂  Link to the post. Okay then. These images are for entertainment purposes only. As beautiful as they are, until we have some sort of legal clarification regarding copyright issues
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The Refined Art of Tsundoku

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Oh that wonderful feeling when you walk into a bookstore, dead tree or electronic, and find an embarrassment of riches. This book is great and that one is great, and you have to have this one, oh and that one must come home with you. You take your precious loot home and then you read
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The Dead Brain and the Immortal Life

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Personal ramblings, nothing book related. I think I might be really tired. Normally I’m an idea factory. I generate plots and ideas randomly, sometimes at ridiculous speed or during inappropriate times. 99% of them never see the light of day. I have an entire trilogy plotted about a merchant and a gladiator set in a
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Festive Q&A Recording and Transcript

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Hi BDH, Mod R in the house. Behold, the recording of the Zoom Q&A hosted by House Andrews on December 17th is here! It contains all sorts of goodies about Magic Tides, Innkeeper present and future (don’t watch it yet if you don’t want spoilers or haven’t finished Sweep of the Heart), merchandise store, projects,
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Tea and Hammering

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::taking a figurative hammer and hitting the holiday project:: Get! Into! Shape! I should do that to myself. I haven’t worked out in 2 weeks. I haven’t walked either. It is super crappy. It’s like Portland, Oregon weather over here, grey and dull and depressing. We mostly have two seasons: awful heat and gloom. We
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