Hi all, Mod R here. I’m so glad everyone is having fun with the character Frinnterviews! It’s time to decide the next couple of guests who will visit Gertrude Hunt and tell us about themselves. Vote carefully, there are goodies made by Orro at stake. Let’s also clarify a few things about the Friday Talks,
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Friday Talks: Roman
Sean, reads: Once again, welcome to the inn. We are glad to have you with us. Today our guest is Roman the Black Volhv. Roman: She wrote you a script? Sean: No, I just copied what she said before during the interview. Coffee? Roman: Don’t mind if I do. Sean: So, I’ve got to ask,
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Life Salad
I made it to H-mart. It was glorious. I bought a duck. I bought frozen shucked oysters. I bought mushrooms. Best of all I bought banchan, the Korean vegetable side dishes. They had a tray with like 9 of them on it. I should’ve bought more. Our local Korean place doesn’t offer them, and I
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Friday Talks: Arabella Baylor
Dear readers, welcome to Gertrude Hunt for our Friday edition of Talks with Dina. Today, by popular demand, we have a special guest, Arabella Baylor of House Baylor. Arabella: Thank you for having me. The tea is delicious. Dina: It’s our pleasure. Arabella: Also, the little pastries with the strawberry filling are to die for.
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Guess the world
Let’s play a guessing game. Which world does this snippet belongs to and who is the main character? “… my second brother, Kody, but we call him Copper, because his hair is red, but mommy says that all of her brothers had red hair, but it turned blond when they got to be grownups, so
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Food, Family, and Other Things
Where have you been? Taking a breath. We are doing all the things we have been putting off. The house is getting cleaner with every day. We order out less and cook more. We have even gotten out of the house. Did you know you can go to this place called a restaurant, where you
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On Happy Ever Afters and Beyond
Hi BDH, howl you doing? Mod R here, creeping it real. Happy Halloween to everyone celebrating! If you take a peak at the poll results from last Friday, we will start the new Ilona Andrews character series with Arabella and follow up with Roman (always the banshee, never the bride with him hehe). As your
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New FrInnDays
Hi everyone, Mod R here. The blog has been a bit quiet this week, and that’s because a lot of surprises are brewing backstage. You will hopefully see all of them soon (like next month soon). But surprises take a lot of backstage admin tasks, and admin takes a lot of time out of writing,
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Conversations at Chateau Andrews
Gordon: Tuna has something. I spin toward Tuna who is crouched in a hunting position by the raised dog water dish. Me: What do you have? Is it a scorpion? Please don’t be a scorpion. Gordon: It’s probably a lizard again. Kid 1: What’s going on? Me: Tuna has something! Kid 1: Not again. Gordon,
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Need a Graphic Artist
I have a budget of $1,000. I need some designs for the merchandise store to be printed on T-shirts, mugs, etc. Mostly quotes with Canva and Adobe stock graphics. Stuff like Ripper Cushions. Save me from myself. Familiarity with Canva and Photoshop Ability to put fonts together that do not look like I (3-year old
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Man on the Road
Happy Monday! Today you get an old snippet from 2017. This was a non-starter at the time from the business point of view, but now you get to read it for fun. We’ve posted it once before, but it had been taken down, and someone asked me over the weekend to please repost it. The
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Language, What a Pain
We have a fun project we’re picking at, which involves a fantasy setting. We have to name a bunch of people and places, and we want to avoid confusion. We’d both feel we might benefit from a talk with a linguist. If you are or know a linguist who wouldn’t mind discussing imaginary pseudo-medieval names,
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