[1][2] He attended Western Carolina University to study history and political science where he met Ilona in a writing course and they began collaborating and editing one another's work and essays.
Similarly, Andrew stated that he wrote a failed "James Bond-y fantasy" series that eventually ended up partially inspiring parts of their future novel Bayou Moon (2010).
[4][8][9] Ilona started writing what would eventually become the first entry in the Kate Daniels series as early as 2002, but it went through multiple edits before they managed to find a literary agent and get published.
[4][9] After the immense success of the first book in the Aurelia Ryder series, Blood Heir (2021), they have indicated that they are considering moving away from traditional publishing contracts in the future since they now have a large enough audience to make a living off of self-publishing.
[20] The various entries in the series include conflicts with monsters, gods and beings from Slavic, Celtic, Islamic, Jewish, indigenous, Hindu, Greek, Nordic, Babylonian and Assyrian mythologies.
Featuring beings such as upir, formorians, djinn, golems, wendigo, rakshasa, greek gods, draugr, and lamassu alongside a modern take on werewolves and vampires.
[27] The first novel in the series, Blood Heir (2021) began as a serial work on the Ilona Andrews blog in 2020 originally titled "Ryder" and was later edited for self-publication.
The Kinsmen Universe is an unconnected series of self-published novellas set in a sci-fi spacefaring future where human genetic modification has resulted in a select few families possessing deadly and dangerous abilities.
The ongoing Innkeeper Chronicles series is composed of a variety of novellas and self-published novels that all started as free weekly online serials on Ilona Andrews' blog.
[38] The Innkeeper Chronicles is a sci-fi and fantasy series which follows Dina Demille, a young woman who presides over an old Victorian mansion and bed and breakfast called Gertrude Hunt in the quiet town of Red Deer, Texas.
Gertrude Hunt is secretly an intergalactic waypoint known as an "inn" that offers refuge and lodging for a vast variety of extraterrestrial visitors during their visits to Earth.
[40][41] After achieving modest success on Tapas, the first season of webtoon will receive a graphic novel print release on March 5, 2024, through Andrews McMeel Publishing and Simon & Schuster.
However, after the eldest daughter Nevada is assigned one fateful job, the entire family is swept into the cutthroat world of Primes, politics and the magical elite, and end up getting entangled with very dangerous (and very attractive) men in the process.