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Chapter One hundred eighty-three – Sew What Now?

The house was small but very tidy. The front door opened onto a small sitting room, with doors leading to the right and left.

A single chair sat next to one of the windows, where the light s...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-two – Bun and Switch

“I’m sorry,” Pandy said, at the same moment her companion murmured, “I really am sorry.”

They were forging their way to the other side of the square from ‘Needle and Treads’, a...

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Fun times and steep learning curves

So as you probably figured out, I got an offer to do the audiobooks for Broken Knife.

I truly had no idea how this worked, so when my publishers said, "They'll do $XX per book", I th...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-one – Haupe Couture

“Don’t their parents worry about them?” Pandy asked, taking another bite of something like brittle cotton candy.

A small horde of children were running among the carts, laughing and sh...

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Chapter One hundred eighty – Lettuce Be Friends

The carriage was crowded with two adults, a teenager, five children, a cat, a dog, and a rabbit stuffed into it.

When they reached Lanthorne Court, everyone except for Miss Cupcakes and Lord...

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Whose Voice is in Your Head?

So, just theoretically, whose voice do you hear when you imagine Kaz?

And, if there was another voice for Lianhua and Li, who would that be? For funzies, maybe choose from this list: View Post

Chapter One hundred seventy-nine – When the Moon Fills the Sky

< -and she refused to eat her asparagus!> Pandy finished, somehow finding this as strange as any of the rest of it.

Asparagus hadn’t been her favorite in her old world, but ...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-eight – Muffin to Worry About

The morning of the Open House dawned bright and clear.

The break in the rain the day before had allowed the ground to dry out enough that the lords and ladies who descended upon the school w...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-seven – All That Glitters Is Not Goals

The presence of the Reedsleys kept that weekend exciting.

It turned out that Lord Reedsley had attended Falconet for three years, while Lady Reedsley studied with tutors until she was eleven ...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-six – Sounds Like a Plan, Pan(dy)

The next stop was the kitchen, where they found that the cleanup from lunch was complete, but it wasn’t quite time to begin dinner.

Most of the staff were taking a break or eating their ow...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-five – Disguise the Limit

Only about twenty students remained at school that weekend. That was a change from Gacha Love, where all of the main characters and most of the secondary characters stayed around.

O...

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Pandy's New Name!

Eventually, Pandy is going to have to give someone her new name, and it won't actually be Pandora or Pandy, much less Miss Boxx. So, what should it be? Give me the funniest, punniest, most in-joke ...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-four – Bad Hare Day

Pandy managed to get back to Thaniel’s room just before seven, but some other students had already been awakened by their bowels and were wandering the halls, so she couldn’t shift and open it....

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Chapter One hundred seventy-three – Accent on Flüff

At just after five o’clock in the morning, Pandy opened the door to Ms. Wellington’s office, slipping inside and pulling the door closed again with a deep sense of relief.

If anyone was s...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-two – (Lago)Morph Than Meets the Eye

Augustus had been absent from meals far more often than usual over the last week, but he was there tonight.

Pandy was glad to see that the shadows beneath his eyes were entirely gone, though...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-one – Spud Outta Luck

The week before the Fall Festival was a long one. After all the excitement on Monday, the rest of the week seemed to drag.

Pandy couldn’t even distract herself by paying attention to Thanie...

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Chapter One hundred seventy – Save Point

Augustus waved to Professor Beeswick, who hauled the teacher back up and threw him over his shoulder, beginning the walk back around to the other side of the building.

Pandy wondered briefly ...

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Chapter One hundred sixty-nine – Pumpkin a Fight

Pandy spent several minutes explaining as much as she could to Thaniel and Isidor.

Thaniel actually seemed happy to hear that Pandy would be effectively restricted to rabbit form for a while...

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Timeline for The Broken Knife!

I got an email from my publisher today (ZOMG that feels so weird) regarding the timeline for TBK.

Anna has confirmed that her current project will end on Friday an...

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Chapter One hundred sixty-eight – Cloak and Rabbit

Small Group that day was run by Ms. Davenport, who seemed quite satisfied with the change.

The first thing she did was inform them that Ms. Wellington absolutely wouldn’t be returning. “I...

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Chapter One hundred sixty-seven – Bits and Bytes

The first time Pandy did this, it had come as part of Ismara’s Blessing I.

Or at least she’d assumed it did, since she got both the inventory and the blessing at the same time. But now, w...

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Chapter One hundred sixty-six – Hoppening a Can of Worms

<But that’s not… It’s not proof, It doesn’t mean Thaniel is- That he’s going to...> she whispered, staring until she thought the slashes and dots would be burned into her retin...

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Chapter One hundred sixty-five – <⊐⊐⊐≺ (\_/) <⊐⊐⊐≺

At lunch, Professor Beeswick called a pause to the interviews, and explained that he remembered each of the students he’d called as having become seriously ill at some point during their time at ...

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Hang in there...

This chapter doesn't want to go the way it needs to, so I'm going to have to fight with it some more. I'll finish it up and get it to you tomorrow!

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Chapter One hundred sixty-four – Crimi-nibbles

At this point, of course, Pandy was forced to explain – in front of the dragon – a few more of the bits Augustus didn’t yet know.

That really only left two tiny secrets she wa...

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Chapter One hundred sixty-three – #Asparagus

“Yes, I got pretty sick…what, almost two years ago?” Miller said.

He sat straight in his chair, posture erect but relaxed, everything about him reading comfortable and attentive. He’d...

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Chapter One hundred sixty-two – Betwiskers the Stacks

Elias’s lower lip wobbled, and this time when he swept at his hair, he actually revealed his eyes, which were large, and blue, and damp.

Not that eyes weren’t usually damp, but these were...

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Chapter One hundred sixty-one – Hare-raising Inquisition

Once Pandy had filled Augustus and Professor Beeswick in on what little she knew, there was no real need for her to remain in her human shape.

She doubted either Suzanne or Matilda were going...

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Chapter One hundred sixty – Phony Pheromoney

While they waited for Matilda, Pandy turned to Augustus. “Do you have the paper? The one with all of the pictures on it?”

When he handed it to her, she spread it out on the table in front...

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Chapter One hundred fifty-nine – In-tail-ogation

In the end, they decided to wait for morning, but sent messages to the other schools, telling them to send the five older students to the library at various times throughout the day.

Isidor a...

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