Solentine Dagarra. Bastard son of a hero margrave, secret head of the Shears, devoted older brother, cousin, and son. Urbane, charming, ruthless. Noble by day, assassin by night, effortless thirst trap on all occasions. Favorite quote: "Nothing is more annoying than a man who doesn’t have the
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This Kingdom: Lots of Stuff, Read This
It's Monday and I can't think of a title, because Sookie Jean woke up at dark o'clock and then proceeded to wander about. I took her outside, thinking this was a bathroom emergency. Sookie walks very, very slowly now. She is of advanced age, and I have to hover in case she wipes out. She is 80lbs,
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Can We Go To The Hireling Temple?
Mod R has been painstakingly gathering your This Kingdom questions and here are some non-answers. Will there be any art in the ebook? The official hardcover and ebook from Tor will have a black and white map. Is this art (Candice's Landmarks and Leesha's Sushi) in the hardcover? No. We
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This Kingdom Has a Voice
And that voice is Kristen Sieh. Audiobooks are, by nature, transformative. It is very rare when the author and the audio performer's vision perfectly aligns. When you listen to your own book on audio, there are always little things that jar you out of the experience. A line that is spoken with
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This Kingdom Has Received a Librarian Award
The first installment of Maggie's adventure is a Library Reads Hall of Fame book. Click here for shameless bragging. There are many awards a writer can get, but getting one from the librarians is special. We are very grateful. To celebrate, we bring you Hall of the Hireling, one of the
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Clean Desk, Clean Shelves…
For some surprising reason, pictures of my cluttered desk and shelf generated a lot of questions and excitement. The desk is now clean. In order of appearance, left to right People asked about the keyboard. It's a custom keyboard that I built for myself. Keyboards are our main tool of
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Cats, Books, and Chaos
I don't do well in chaos. My workspace is relatively organized, my clothes are usually folded and put away, and my house is clean. Not holiday clean, but if unexpected visitors showed up, I wouldn't be embarassed. And then comes the last third of the book. I have this little yarn corner
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Ar-Mug-edon
The pace of the mug orders finally slowed down. BDH has ordered 965 mugs since they went on sale. ::sigh:: With that amount of mug sales hitting at once, we are probably going to have some issues. Things we've encountered in the past: The resolution for both of these is to email the
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The Great Re-Muggening
Essential information: today is the Preview Day where you look at the mugs and plan your purchase. We uploaded mostly what people asked to be replaced and some new stuff. If the mug you want is not available or is in the wrong size, please comment below and we will add it. So if you want a latte
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Merch Admin Note
Hi Guys, A reminder: B.A. Bookish is NOT our business. We licensed merch rights to them and we let them carry some of our designs, but they are a separate business entity. They pay us a percentage of their profits. Their creative decisions are their own. They also have their own stuff and
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All the Questions, Some of the Answers
I'm lost, which series is Augustine from?/ I've read everything I don't remember an Augustine? /Is Augustine someone from This Kingdom? Augustine is the character from the Hidden Legacy series. We first meet him in Burn For Me, which is the first book. Is the baby tiger ok? Who do you
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Augustine Cover Reveal, This Kingdom Preview Preorder, and This Kingdom Goes to Spain
We have three announcements for you today. First, the most important announcement. To recap: Tor is offering a very long free preview of This Kingdom on KU and other retailers. It will be released at the end of January and the "preorder" is up now. Right now we are seeing it on Amazon and
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