Are you moving to Maryland? No. We have received a number of emails – please stop abusing the technical issue report form – about why and when we are moving to Maryland and whether our books will be now set in Baltimore. Sorry, this is one of those cases where I was really asking for
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Living in Maryland
First, brief update on Ryder: yes on print and yes on audio. We will provide links to you when they are available. Second, at this particular time, we do not provide signed books. I have a question for you: what is it like to live in Maryland? Also, why is it that with all that
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The Siege of the Evil Bobcats
Kid 1, running down the stairs last night. Me: What’s going on? Kid 1: I ordered food and the driver can’t get out of the car because he’s surrounded by bobcats! :dashes out the front door:: Me: Did she just say bobcats? Gordon gets up and heads to the door. I present to you the
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Sunday at Home
In the middle of EMERALD BLAZE release, Gordon told me, “I booked a vacation.” I just sort of turned around and looked at him. COVID is going on, we are on a crushing deadline, we’d have to board seven animals… He said, “It’s a house on Santa Rosa beach. It has its own private access
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Watermelon Bandits
Yesterday we ordered grocery delivery and the only slot we could get was between 8:00 and 9:00 pm. Normally, the grocery delivery person texts us right away after dropping our purchases off on the porch by the front door. This time the text took a little bit to arrive, maybe 10 minutes. I don’t know
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UPS Bitching and Quincy’s Lament
I ordered some yarn from Purl Soho. It’s an alpaca blend, which I don’t normally use, and so I wanted to try it. It was shipped by UPS. Behold my tale of woe. It’s been sitting at the UPS for 2 days. Pre-Covid, shipments from California came in 2 days, door to door. I want
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Long Week, Factories, and Kids
A terribly busy week. We wrote Ryder on Monday and Tuesday, and then on Wednesday, after a discussion with Avon, a decision was made to write Arabella’s very short story bribe. By the way, thank you to all of the OB-GYN who responded. We got our two experts, but we deeply appreciate your help. We
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Personal Post and Upcoming Promo
On July 12, Kid 2, whom some of you know as “Brandi,” sent a video of herself squirting hot sauce into her mouth followed by “Look at this, I can’t taste or smell anything.” This has never happened before in her entire life, not with colds, not with flu, not with any infection she’s ever
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Life, Surprise Guests, and Stress
Guests Gordon: Hey, come outside. Bring the phone. Me: ? They hung out in the front yard for hours. We were fifteen feet away. Stress Posted with permission from Kid 1. We are all a bit stressed out right now for certain reasons, and I walked into the kitchen to find Kid 1 particularly freaked
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Office Repair: the Finished Product
By popular demand, here are the results of our office repair. if you missed the post, the previous owners of the house improperly ran the HVAC cables out of the wall straight into the rain trench, so when it rained and the water level rose, it ran straight into the wall, flooding the office. The
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Dog pictures and Admin news
Happy belated July 4th to those who celebrated. We had a nice time. It was just the family and we had all home sheltered for two weeks prior. Now on to boring admin news. We decided to limit the nature of our email form. If you look on the contact page, you will now see
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Are You Alright?
Personal post, do not read or you might get depressed. With rising coronavirus numbers in Texas, I just wanted to know if you are alright. Rita Thank you for checking. See that big red circle? That’s us. We made national news by going from 4 cases a day to 210 cases a day. For a
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