In case you hadn’t guessed it by now, I am one of the many Hugh Fangirls and this book delivers everything we could have wanted and more. Yes, he’s slaughtered thousands, hundreds of thousands maybe, and was directly or indirectly responsible for some main character deaths, kidnappings, torture, maiming, and more, but… he’s just so goddamn hot. Of course, there was the not so insignificant problem of a main character who was a serious player for Team Evil, but what must have become increasingly clear to Ilona and Gordon is that a good deal of their readership did not give two shits about any of that. Until recently, I thought it really was some kind of mean jest, a tantalising dream, a piece of wishful thinking. First introduced during Magic Strikes and responsible for all kinds of bad things in the Kate Daniels series, he was sidelined (by spoilery events I won’t recount here) until Ilona Andrews jokingly put out the idea of his story on her blog and everyone lost their damn minds. Hugh d’Ambray, Roland’s former Warlord and all round murder boy. The first in a new trilogy, set after Magic Binds, book 9 in the Kate Daniels series, Iron and Magic is wonderfully, brilliantly, finally….
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I hope you enjoy our conversation!ĭawn Huebner, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist, Parent Coach and popular speaker, specializing in the many faces of childhood anxiety. Dr. Dawn has a gift for creating practical, doable, interactive “toolkits” to help feel empowered to take control of their emotional experience and make changes that can make the way they’re moving through life feel so much better. Today Dawn and I are talking about her new book on anxiety called Outsmarting Worry: And Older Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety. Today is one of those conversations, as we’ve owned and have been using Dawn’s books like What to Do When Your Temper Flares and Wh at To Do When You Grumble Too Much for many years. Hopefully I cover the same things that you would ask if you were sitting in my chair, too. On top of that, I get to ask them everything I want to know. One of the coolest things about making this podcast is getting to continually connect with people whose work I’ve not only been following for years, but people whose work and books have literally impacted my family in a meaningful way. I’m very excited to be talking with psychologist, parent coach, and prolific author Dawn Huebner. |