Mod R has faithfully gathered your questions for the upcoming zoom, and I am going to ask you to rethink some of them. You’re asking things like who is the author, who Maggie ends up, and so on. Those are the questions that will be answered in the future books.
We cannot spoiler the story for you. Most of you probably made it past Chapter 23. How much less of a moment would it have been if you knew about it in advance? We want to give you as much excitement as we can.
Let us mess with your emotions. That’s what we do for a living.
We are also contractually precluded from telling you too much about Book 2. Tor is very specific that everything is confidential.
Plushies
We are very excited to announce a partnership with Andrielle of Phylogeny Unlimited. Andrielle is a biologist by training, and she has developed a line of prehistoric creatures for the Paleontological Research Institution. It’s called Paleozoic Pals, and they are hilariously anatomically correct, as in the number of segments on the trilobites and tentacles on the nautiloids is scientifically accurate.
Andrielle has a kickstarter right now, and I jumped on it so fast.
There are 6 days left, so if you are in the market for your own prehistoric sloth, I would get it now.
Right now Andrielle is working on a prototype of Sushi. We will likely aim for two sizes – a huggable friend and a desktop friend. This process takes time. We want to make sure that the toys are washable and are stuffed with fire-retardant stuffing, so they don’t catch fire if you throw them into the dryer.
That is a nightmare I didn’t know I needed, but from my research into plushies, apparently this can happen.
We know a lot of you have kids and pets, and stuffies might be stolen and may need to be washed. Actually, a funny story, while we were signing at Tropes and Trifles, the very good boy I posted before stole a toy from a customer. The toy was immediately recovered, and huge apologies were offered. The customer laughed it off, but just in the event something like this happens, we want the toy to survive the cleaning.
This process takes time, because we need to make sure the toy is cute, safe, and worth purchasing. We are aiming for Spring 2027 for availability. We know it’s a long way off, but we want to make sure that we do it right.
The App
We have an app in the works. It will allow you to keep track of the our books, it will offer feed from the blog, and have achievements, discounts, and some exclusive content. Nothing too ground-breaking, so please don’t go into full FOMO (fear of missing out.) It is being beta tested now. I have some screenshots for you.
This app is not a replacement for the newsletter. It will still be emailed.
This app is for people who want to make sure they don’t miss things and want to keep track of their reading. It will let you access blog posts and fiction. So if you are stuck in a doctor’s office and don’t want to go through the trouble of opening the browser and looking for the site, you should be able to just tap the app open and read the latest things.
We anticipate it going live sometime around the beginning of summer. We are launching for iPhone only, because coding for Android is different and more involved, and we don’t know what the response to this will be, so we need to see if people are interested.
The Game
So this very premature, but Kid 2 is working on a game. It is a sole-developer project right now, and it will be set in the Innkeeper Universe. Right now it’s a farming sim, where you crash land on a planet and have to survive. This project is a long way off. But she was very touched by how much everyone loved This Kingdom, and she made this little video for you.
So this is technically a Chi moment, because this little alien is a muckrat, but this was just a quick wave to say hello to BDH.
We will probably not update you on this until there is a demo. Right now it’s all core mechanics and technical challenges like making sure that when you chop a tree down, logs appear, and then you can put them into your inventory.
Merch Store
We are pushing the opening to May. There is just too much going on right now, and I really want to have vellum in my hands before we open. So the vellum has been ordered, and once I can actually see what it looks like in the book, we will be taking preorders.
We are still doing publicity. We still have interviews, and we are still signing things, and now we will be signing more things, because one special edition tripled their print run and another special edition has been just sold. This is…. #5? #6? I don’t even know. We managed to write twice this week, and it’s Thursday. Argh. I just want to get through this battle.
My philosophy is that if we don’t write, there will be nothing to promote, so we have to concentrate on the manuscript.
But if you are looking for prints, Helena’s store is open and Luisa’s store will be opening soon.
Someone asked before if it’s better to buy prints from us or the artists. If you want prints, please buy them from the artists.
We do not offer prints. We probably will not offer calendars.
We will be offering book-tie in items, like vellum, which is meant to be inserted into the hardcover. We would prefer that the artists benefited from their art through print sales. We specifically left those items to the artists’ discretion.
We will have a print round up for you when everyone sets up their stores.
App!
First? Need official Mod R word.
Official Mod R word 😉
If Sushi plushies exist, I will need to own one. That sounds adorable!!! <3
Oh my, a Sushi plushie! I have a mighty need! Where id the sign-up sheet? LOL
Plushies? I want all the Sushi plushies. Cannot wait.
App? Yes, please.
The game and video? All I can say is BARSA!!!
This is a bounty!!!!
Looks like Kid 2’s game will finally pull me into the gaming world. Maybe my grandkids will be interested in playing with me. My middle g-kid tries to get me into some of his games, but I don’t have the reflex speed or ability to absorb rules on the fly, necessary to enjoy playing (or even to survive > 10 seconds!).
A sims type game based on Innkeeper sounds right up my alley.
Oooh App and Game?! How exciting! I am an Android user, I will w**t patiently, but the excitement is there! Good luck to young Andrews on the game, it looks awesome!
I’m rather sad that it will only come out on iOS. This is a US thing, isn’t it? Only very few of my friends in Germany have an iPhone privately (work phones are a different matter), most people have an Android phone… So most of us Europeans won’t be able to use the app although it sounds awesome 😞
Please don’t say ‘most Europeans won’t be able to use the app’. There are literally millions of iPhone users in Europe and the UK (including me) so we can’t wait to get our greedy little hands on this 😁
I am in the UK and don’t even know anyone with an Android phone 🙂 , I had to rent one at some point for a certain document scan.
You’re both correct that millions of Europeans use iPhones but I did a quick Google search before posting originally and apparently Android has between 52% and over 70% market share in Europe (the sources vary and I didn’t want to pay for a more detailed analysis), which checks out with my personal observations, so…
Likewise. I have an Android phone and tablet and would install the app on both, so I’ll stick to the website until the app is available for Android.
Please be patient with us asking those spoiler-questions 😂 it’s just that we love the book so much and we really want to know what is happening next, that those questions arise on their own. Of course we want you to mess with our feelings and our thoughts – that’s why we love you!
Keep on going but please also take your time to regenerate and to relax. You have already so much on your plate and you’re doing so much for us! Thank you for all the info! Thank you kid2 and thank you for your books and your passion.
Love from Germany 😘
Sushi Plushie!! Squee and Happy Dance!! Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️
This post just kept getting better and better.
I need a sushi plushie, the app sounds phenomenal, and to have a game in the innkeeper world is what dreams are made of.
I am so excited about all of this!!
This made me lol: “ Let us mess with your emotions. That’s what we do for a living.” 🤣
Here are my questions, most of which probably cannot be answered BUT might be able to be clarified? *fingers crossed*
1. Have we met all of Maggie’s favorite characters from the novels?
2. Have we seen or will we see the man who chased Maggie into the Garden again?
3. The mages seem very much like mad scientists in Rellas, who don’t have much interaction or interest in politics or intrigue. What is their purpose? How do they make money?
4. If magic is absorbed environmentally, what kind of environments are conducive to magic?
5. Does farseeing run in Reynald’s bloodline?
6. Is Nightblossom tea a Selvan blend?
7. We know Maggie can’t die, but can she age?
8. Is there some kind of magic, or an amount of magic, that would guard certain characters from having ‘someone in their heads’ and that’s why certain characters have no POV chapters in the Rise of Kair Toren even though they’re major players?
9. Is there significance to the lunar calendar of the 3 moons?
10. Silveren uses his ‘song’ to control people, and that gift is from his father’s side of the family. Does the ability to control or influence people go beyond ’empowering them for battle’ amongst all the Savarics, or is that gift particular to Silveren?
11. Everard shows a very interesting lack of curiosity when it comes to Maggie, but we know he’s very canny. He also wants to know everything, but seems content to let things lie with Maggie, even when she makes leading statements. Do those conversations happen off page, or can we assume that every interaction between them is on-page?
Tor doesn’t have to know, this will stay completely between us lol. We’re counting on you Gordon!
Just in case Mod R is still taking questions, I’ll second your #10.
I’d love a more user-friendly explanation on the Savarics’ Exultant Call, as the books describe it as a magic uniting and empowering people in battle, whereas Silveren’s brand of it looks like pure mind-control.
And launching off question #3, I’d love a clarification on how knight-based warfare (without magic) is the mainstay in Rellas when it comes to defense or aggression versus hostile neighbors, given that a powerful mage like Daemas or Isadau could incinerate an entire army of knights in seconds. And Daemas’ equivalent in the Crimson Empire etc. should be able to, as well. How are the borders of nations not decided based on the strength of the mages in that country?
Oooh, 7 is interesting since aging is cellular damage. At what point does the accumulation become critical?
Good questions!
I wondered about the significance of the moons and lunar calendar, too!
Looking forward to Saturday!
Oh, about n10, I didn’t even consider that controlling people might be Silveren’s thing, I just assumed all the Savarics had it, interesting…
My heart is broken. I want the app, but have an Android phone. So so sad. I am not an I-Phone girlie, but eventually I will stop pouting and get over it.
I’m so sad as well 😭 I think a lot of European/international fans will miss out on the app. Oh well, if it does well on iOS, they might consider Android after all.
Sushi plushie, oh boy! You are living in busy and amazing time!
So many exciting things! Will definitely get the Sushi plushie when it is available. As an android user, I hope the app is super popular enough to warrant an Android version, because I would download that so fast!
I’ve never been so early in the comments before! Squeezing!
I would love the app! But I’m Android. I hope hope hope you can do an android version soon.
You might be under appreciating the zeal of the BDH for an app!
“It will allow you to keep track of our books, it will offer feed from the blog, and have achievements, discounts, and some exclusive content.” Yessssss!
I am so appreciate of you both and ModR and the blog and social media posts. When I am feeling down or overwhelmed, I know I can go to the blog and find caring and humor that will lighten my heart. I can connect with other Horde members on Facebook, and feel part of something bigger than myself.
Thanks for taking such care of us, your Horde! Even when we are demanding all of the books now!
Speaking of books, I hope you are able to shut out the demands of the outside world and write today.
Oh, and the Game! How exciting. Thank Kid2 for us. And a plushie and merch store! I was so calm and fluffy about the last merch store opening, I missed it, so sorry I won’t be calm the next time it opens!
🤗
Just want to say that y’all are too modest. The BDH will devour the app. You’ll know within days that you need it for Android. Thanks for this idea, it’s fantastic
I would definitely buy a plushie 🥰 Please, please, please with cherries on top look into doing the App for android, I love the app idea, but I don’t have an iPhone!! Thanks to kid 2 for the little video game clip 😃
+1
+1
oh, the app sounds interesting. I hope that you’re writing on M2 is going well and the same for the promotional works.
all the best
I know it will be a while but I will try the game. I actually don’t usually play video games because I am terrible at them. My kids love video games and I tried to play with them a few times. It didn’t go well. I have no eye hand coordination, or any other type of coordination. However, I have always said that if there was ever a game based on one of your series I would learn to play.
I have the blog site set up as an “app” on my phone already! So yay!
Thanks for the updates!
I was hoping the store would open by my birthday at the end of the month. HOWEVER, since it may not open until May, this just means I can justify ordering MORE because I was p@tient!
Don’t try to figure out the logic; just roll with it.
The app and all the things sound cool. We appreciate how much thought you put into us not catching fire, etc.
Hopefully you can get back to messing with our emotions again instead of all the extra. 🙂
Android, PLEASE! Thankfully, I do have an iPad I can use so I can still indulge and I happily volunteer as tribute for app beta testing! I hope you’re recovering from all the traveling! Looking forward to seeing what merch there is and happy knitting from your Baltimore haul!
What? We can volunteer for things?? Hey, I volunteer for app beta testing, for manuscript (non-professional) editing/ consistency or for stating extravagant demands so they can practice shooting them down; anything really😀
For the first time in my adult life, I’m disappointed I have an Android 😩
+1
I’m so down for the game!
The app sounds lovely. 🥰 I’m going to BookCon NYC this weekend, will Tor ( or anyone else) being doing something to advertise This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me?
Games 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤪❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ yes, but please not much killing. I am not good at those games. 😱
And an APP😱
Thank you for all the ways you pander to the mind boggling requests of the BDH. Love the community that you have built. Love the stories, humour and the creativity.
Barsa, barsa,barsa.
Barsa, Barsa, Barsa? Barsa, Barsa! 😂
The APP leaves me breathless! It has all the things!, in one place! I can’t, I just can’t 🙇🏻♀️thank you!
I’m sure 50 people have already commented on this, so I’ll be happy to be the 51st:
Assuming Sushi-Plush goes well, the hoard will need ALL THE PLUSH!!!
A Cookie plush and a ferret in a harness plush and absolutely a plush of whatever vampire puppy Helen adopts and just all of them. I know you sorta had an Orro plush a long time ago, but was it *really* a quillonian, or just a hedgehog with a hat?
I don’t love apps like I love stuffies, but if the app can tell me the 100th time I’ve read Innkeeper, that would be funny.
I second that. I want all the plushies! 🥰
(But as a cozy gamer and huge Innkeeper fan, I’m also looking forward to the game!)
+100!
I wanted to ask how they came up with the names? KT names are not like anything I’ve come across yet. Germanic?
Another mysterious special edition? At this point, I have no idea how this additional new special edition could add any more bells and whistles than the previously announced special editions. I’m sure I will buy it though, just in case.
The game looks great! I’ll definitely be playing it when a demo/game is released!
Super excited for the plushies, especially the desktop one.
thank you so much for this post, I immediately went on Kickstarter and backed the project, I really want a prehistoric giant sloth stuffy! I’ll be looking for the app when it’s available, and the game looks super cute!
can you tell us whether the mysterious SE (that has just been sold) will be in english? i wanna know if I should buy a third copy 🫠
It will be in English but I don’t have any further info than that 🙂
Maggie is amazing.
Sushi plushie, yes please!
Bummed the app won’t be on Android…
Barsa Barsa Barsa
App! Game! Plushie!! Wow this was a crazy awesome blog post.
That game is totally up my alley. When she feels it’s ready, she should post about it in the cozygamers subreddit. It’d probably get a lot love there.
Questions-
What are Maggie’s real world parents’ and brother’s names?
What was done with the iron Maggie found? Did they keep it or turn it in?
Does Maggie’s magic have a physical sign (other than regeneration) like eyes glowing when resisting/breaking mental magic?
Does Everard have a secondary power? It seems at times like he is expecting something to happen but it doesn’t. Or maybe he’s just trying to figure Maggie out when he’s staring so intently?
Was the knight Arvel brought with him to visit Maggie the same one we met in the bonus scene?
Do we have even a general (obviously way too long) estimate for when book 2 might come out? 2027? Or are we looking at least 2028? Or is there any bribery of Tor we can do for a late 2026 release?
I think the artist’s print store may have a spoiler on it in the label of one of the prints.
If you are buying prints, you have likely finished the book. 🙂
I know you said this new app will be for iphones only but is there any chance there will be a version for androids sometime in the future (I’m an Android user so… 😢🥺)? Also the app won’t contain anything other than what we can find on the website right?
Pretty much. There might be some minor exclusive stuff. We will see about the Android if a bunch of people download the Apple one.
What do you mean “if” people download it? 😂😂😂. The BDH will probably break the Apple Store 😁
The Apple Store won’t know what hit them.
I really hope so! I’m sure many people will like it though!
I’m not a game player but excited for the app!!
You are doing so much great stuff for us – truly spoiling the BDH!
Please don’t let that take away from having time for yourselves and continuing your amazing writing! 😍
Chi chi Chi on the Sushi plushie!
Thank you for all you write and do!! We are grateful.
Plushies…I want at least 4 small Sushi plushies. Cannot wait.
App…Yes, please in Android. We never seem to get anything first.
The video was great. A game would be awesome!
Send love and hugs as a Thank You to Kid2!
Android user here who would love an app! And plushies. All the plushies.
+1
Thank you for all of the goodies! Im always excited for all of the things! I can’t imagine how cute a sushi plush would be! I hope a bunch of iPhone users get the app. because I have an android. I will cross my fingers and wait pat#!%ly. I truly can’t thank you enough. 2025 and 2026 haven’t been kind and your books and blog posts help a lot! Also thank you to mod r! I appreciate everything you do for us!
is there going to be a zoom recap? I would love to attend on the day of, but I havent had a chance to read the book yet and am wondering if it would be too spoiler-y?
I believe it will be posted to their YouTube channel at some point a bit later on.
Whoa let the fun commence! An app and a game! Will look forward to their debuts. I believe will wait for the Sushi plushie and also on what the vellum things look like. Those are both intriguing. Thanks for the info!
Though plushies are adorable and now ordered. I’m on my third reread of Maggie now, this one I’m doing slower and the hardbound edition so I can enjoy physically turning the pages. (My Waterstone edition is locked in a cabinet so the mice can’t get to it–the housing construction next door has caused an influx of refugee mice). I hope you can get some rest soon, thank you for taking care of us.
Thank you! very excited for the bookplates, vellum, plushies, app and everything!
Thank you! So many wonderful things to look forward to!
Well, this sounds like literally everything I asked for plus a game, so thank you🙂, I will try to put some “non” in my chalant for a while 😊
Right, so I may have to marry Kid 2. Or just pledge my undying love and appreciation for putting two of my most favorite things together. Innkeeper and farming sim? *Swoon!*
Ahhhck!!! I *daydream* about seeing your works adapted into game format – a cozy game in the Innkeeper universe?? Are you kidding me. Count me in, ahhhh!!!
So I’d love the app – but am on android. Please don’t make me buy an iphone 🙂
We cannot say it enough. You are the bestest authors ever! You are so good to us. As if Maggie’s amazing story isn’t enough, there will be art, vellum, a Sushi we can call our own, and what looks like a great app. But wait, there’s more.
A game in the Innkeeper world?! I squeed like a little kid with cake! I’m sure the Horde can be mighty for Kid2’s game. Just tell us when and where. In the meantime, sending all the positive thoughts my stunned and reeling mind can muster for success with all the things!
Well said! Thank you Ilona, Gordon and ModR for all you do for the Horde! All the impending goodies…..
Off to practice grateful anticipation as w@$!ing p@t!ently is too difficult….
Sending peace, health and safety to all!
A desktop Sushi friend sounds awesome! I would totally buy that and I’m the type that don’t buy stuff and consider them all junk. But a Sushi plushie that sits on my desk is super exciting! 😁
You just gave me the BESTEST gift idea for my autistic friend, who loves dinosaurs, and is trying to work up the courage to test for her black belt test, but will have to deal with mid-test PTSD if she goes through with it. She’s gonna love these plushies! Might get other friends to bribe her with a collection…
You’re such a good friend!
I try sometimes
Will the app track how many times we’ve reread a book? Not that I need it but it might be fun to note this is my 21st reread of Iron and Magic, for example.
Very cool stuff coming. Thank you!
Barsa Barsa Barsa! What an adorable game 😍
Please. Pleeeeeaaaase make the plushies available for shipping to Asia, specifically the Philippines. Have been sad to miss out on all the merch, though happy for my fellow BDH members who got them. (And while I’m wishing… Maybe a plushie of baby Conlan? That would be so cute!)
Meanwhile, am happy to anticipate the upcoming app 🥰
Oooo plushie of baby lion cub Conlan! With companion attack poodle Grendel! Plus Sushi, two sizes!! We might need treatment for an overload of cuteness. What a way to tranquilize the BDH. Although one must assume that Grendel would smell better in plushie form…
Plushies! And the game (if testers are needed, I volunteer! 🙂
And I w*it for an Android app, because I never had an iPhone and highly doubt I’d ever get one.
+1
I use Android as well. I will w*it.
Where will I put more plushies? I love the plushies! Yah for Sushi! I fully expect my grandchild to attempt to steal. Might need 2.
The game clip looks really pretty! No pressure obviously but I would be very excited to try the demo when it exists!!
Ooooooo! The app looks so cool!
I love and want all the things so this is so cool! thank you for all your hard work!
I’m just going to mention how cool it is that your daughter knows how to create a game!!! I have no idea how one would even begin but it’s so amazing!
Oh my goodness (or rather yours), if I were a dog I would have the zoomies right now. Already drooling over the Sushi plushie, (a small one for me and one for my Papillon mix). The app, the game; Christmas is coming! So many new and wonderful things coming our way. The BDH…you like us, you really, really like us!! I rarely wish time would fly faster, but it cannot get here soon enough. Squeeeeee!!!!!
If you are having a plush of sushi made, I want one!!
Sushi as a plushy? Sign me up.
You probably would have mentioned it if you could, but just in case: Can you say who had to triple their special edition?
Oh, so many good things to look forward to! App, Sushi, game, more re-reads….
Quick question, and so sorry if this has been stated many times – Are all the special editions signed?
This feels like a trick question!
Please always look at the description on whatever retailer website and product page you are on when contemplating to buy 🙂 . If the book is signed, they will tell you so very clearly.
Okay just in case y’all are still taking more questions (:
– Will book 2 still be just from Maggie’s POV, or will we get other character POVs?
– How much does Solentine know about Maggie’s undying? I don’t believe it’s ever discussed directly on page, so does he know, or suspect, or have no idea at this point in the story?
PLUSHI!
I was just thinking yesterday while holding my cat that I need a stelka in my life.
And an App! I was thinking about switching back to Apple anyway, and this clinches it.
The IA blog has a permanent home in 2-3 tabs of my phone browser at all times so I can read old posts I missed while reading new ones. An entire IA app? I bet it’ll be like a fortress run by an Innkeeper 😁
You provide such refuge and delight. Thank you x100.
Barsa barsa barsa PLEASE make an Android version of the app. Those of us in the BDH don’t all have iphones and intentionally excluding us feels like betrayal. Not a happy camper.
I don’t know what to say that the rest of the Horde above has said.
The app reminds me of dashboards I see at work. I really don’t need an app telling me how many times I read one of your books. I have those numbers in my head. It’s the way my brain is wired and trained.
Good luck with the writing, promotions, and all the things Tor wants you to do. Remember the saying “No good deed goes unpunished”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh boy, so many things to w@it for, and I will be chalant. I so want a Sushi plushie.
Barsa barsa barsa! I’m excited for the quote of the day in the app. It and the game look great!
Farming sim???!!!! Oh wow, my catnip! How exciting!
Oh, I hope the app will come to Android someday! I would love it!
Are there any news about the international versions (EU for me) of the store?
Who is the merle doodle(poodle?) in the picture and who does he own,Ilona and Gordon? Bookstore?
He is not one of House Andrews’, I believe from what the readers were saying at the time he is the bookstore pupper 🙂
Thanks. He’s gorgeous!
omg! So many yummy treats. You are so good to the hoard! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Please, oh pretty please develop the app for android. Did you know the world stats are: Android: ~68%
iPhone (iOS): ~31%
I bet you can guess my vote. Please, please, Android. I will w#*!t patiently, and I will try not to complain. (every app I want the most isn’t available in android) Ok, I know, that was a disguised complaint. No more, I promise~
Kid 2 is Awesome!!! This is going to be so much fun!!
Melissa, just another Devoted Hoard member!
Oh my goodness, the museum of the earth (paleontological research institute) is right down the road from the library where I work. If you ever take your paleozoic pals on a road trip, stop by the library for a free pass to the museum (and to say hi!)
Also yes please, more fluffy plushies!
Are you in Ithaca, NY? Because I also live there which is where PRI is located. I have been searching for BDH in the wild for a while
It’s worth delaying the store opening until the promo and signing frenzy calms down. You can only do so much!
I was excited about the upcoming app, only to see that it’s Apple only. BDH Apple users (except Steve), I implore you to use the app enough that an Android version will be worthwhile.
I am still excited about a desk-sized Sushi stuffy! It will be safe up there, whereas a full-size stuffy would become an instant dog toy. I will w@!t with all the p@t!ence I can muster.
No worries. As an Apple user, I plan to get the app when it’s available. Having seen the BDH in action, I have no doubt that those who can will leap upon the opportunity. Not just for themselves, but
For the Horde!
Kid #2 is working on a game!! Very cool!! Looking forward to updates when they happen.
Sending soothing thoughts for your signing hands – tripled print run! Oy!! But also, yay!!, because the demand for a magnificent book has increased!!
Wishing you uninterrupted writing time and lots of the new tea!!
I have a request for the app/somewhere;
please, pretty pretty please, can you create (or do you have and i have somehow missed?!) a glossary of name pronunciations.
Roman was a real wake up moment. So was Edokia.
You have so many great characters/things. I NEED, it is nearly an OCD thing, to pronunciate the names correctly.
Even better is if you create an audio file with all the potentially confusing/easy to mispronouce names (add Chernobog and various other gods I am sure I don’t say correctly).
I am on my 3rd read of Maggie. So good.
Many thanks.
So excited about everything. Also I know the plushie designer so I can attest the Sloth is very cute and I look forward to Sushi prototype at some point.
Very excited about the game even if Im an android user who mostly plays games on PC.
An author I follow has worked with a designer to create a custom tea blend when her blue alien book came out. I wonder if we can ever get custom tea blend in the future. Not right now because I know authors are tired ans we are getting so much stuff.
I am hoping that they will do something with the teas and soaps in the future…they sound wonderful!!!!
This post made my week. Sushi plushie? Yes, please! App with achievements? Yes, please! I am an Android user so will be p@tient. Cozy game? Yes, please!
Please, Mod R, just in case someone else has not asked: will there be a book of illustrations in the future?
Thanks so much for all you do for us!
Yes, a self-published companion article book is in the works 🙂
An app? Yes, please! 😄
Android user here. Definitely will want the app!
I’ve been a game developer professionally for 15 years and I’m super impressed with what kid 2 has done so far as a solo dev!
I work as a technical director or software engineering lead, and do a lot of mentoring and career development. If kid 2 is at all interested, I’d like to volunteer an hour or two a week of technical consulting and mentorship – things like code review, design review, or just advice and feedback on technical challenges.
If there’s any interest I can provide my LinkedIn over email, and some references to confirm I’m legit. I know how challenging it is to work on a project like this solo, and mentorship is one of my favorite parts of my job.
I would love a link to the FB group and reddit group on the app! I keep forgetting to check those and they often have little spoilers or early images of things.
I am excited about all of the things. But I am most excited about Maggie #2!!
Android please, please, please! I don’t do iPhone
Loyal Android user here. Would love the App to be part of my world too. As I tell my friends and family, I refuse to go to the Darkside and join team iOS.
I adopted a puppy last week and opted to name her Maggie instead of Molly, and she needs a Sushi
An Innkeeper GAME?!?! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
Are there plans for the store to be available in more countries? I believe the majority of stuff was only available in the US, UK, EU & AUS last time.
The merch is currently only available in the US and there are no official updates on regional expansion 🙂
I actually gasped when I read you were developing an app – I am such a geek for y’all 🤣
BDH.. does anyone know if there are any special editions available to order?
Some are sold out, but for others like Broken Binding I can’t even tell. I don’t have any subs to any of these special edition boxes, so it is kinda overwhelming to sort through it all! 🤪
Can’t wait for the plushie. Mod R ,can I add still add a question for the Zoom Q&A??
How many Aspects of the Divine are there and it seems like there are sub-aspects? Like the Warrior-Conqueror, Warrior-Defender etc?
Also is the Divine the only religion?
did Ilona and gordon have discussions about the number of times Maggie should/would die? about how many would be too much? about how many would be too little?
Am I understanding correctly that you are possibly going to make plushies of all these new creatures in the Maggie books? Because as I was reading the descriptions of all these new species, I was thinking how cool it would be to get stuffed toys of them all. The descriptions of these animals just sound amazing! Let me make it clearer – WANT THEM!
Question for the interview-how do some of the characters (specifically Solintine and Ramond ) see Maggie? What are their thoughts on her?
The Q&A was yesterday, Rachel 🙂
I’m now genuinely curious at the split of iPhone and Android users who access the blog, as almost everyone I know has an Android (and I believe is significant overall market majority). App does sound exciting, so hopefully it does become available to everyone at some stage.
The main thing I’m wondering is if there are basic bathhouses that poor folks can access if they scrounge up the coins. I remember one in the early version of Maggie. I really worry about their poor. There doesn’t seem to be any organized charity like soup kitchens or pantries.
Barsa! Barsa! Barsa!
Help please! Is the preview of the Quote of the Day maybe not from Magic Rises? I can‘t find it in my Kindle-version…
The app is still under works, it is addressed above in the article 🙂
Sushi stuffie? Found a Christmas gift for youngest grandgirl, who has been “forced” to listen to Maggie on the way home from school and got hooked in spite of herself.
(She is “not a fantasy fan” she likes horror and mythology. But she’s made an exception for Maggie)
code for Android 😂😂😂
I totally get why you’re holding back on the Maggie question and other plot details—Chapter 23 clearly hit hard, and spoiling that moment in advance would’ve robbed us of the experience. That said, the contractual silence around Book 2 is killing me! At least the Phylogeny Unlimited plushie partnership sounds like a fun consolation prize while we wait.
Wow, the game looks sooo beautiful. I would totally buy it. Take my money! 🙂
Yesssssss, merch & game! I will purchase
Omg, I’m so excited for the game! That is so cool!
I want to start the Inheritance books starting with This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, but I’m feeling a little gun shy because of the loose ends on the Innskeeper Chronicles and the Aurelia Rider series. I don’t want to start something new an then be like “Wait! Will Dina find her parents now that we finally have a clue?” only to shift to a different POV and then stop the series. Or to be like “Will Derek and Julie finally end up together now that I’ve gotten over my age difference ick betweeen them?” And then ther’s only one book? “We absolutely need to take a break from the Kate Daniels series for a while,” is totally understandable, but these are separate. Will there be finishes to those books and, if so, will they come out on audible.com where a blind person like me can read them without them sounding like Stephen Hawkings? I just don’t want to start something new and end up feeling a little unsatisfied, no matter how much I enjoy the individual book.
Hi Jenni,
Just to clarify first: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is not an Inheritance book. These are two separate and very different series.
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is the first book in the Maggie the Undying series, a portal high fantasy. You do not need to have read any other Ilona Andrews series to enjoy it.
The Inheritance is the first in the Breach Wars series, you can read more about it here https://ilona-andrews.com/other-fiction/#inheritance. While there are openings for a sequel, and one is expected, The Inheritance was written to be readable on its own, the finale resolves the plot. The genre is sci-fi and LitRPG-adjacent.
House Andrews are aware readers are waiting for more Innkeeper and sequels in the Kate Daniels world. They have not forgotten them. But books are not written on a conveyor belt, and the authors have to balance contracts, health, creative energy, publisher schedules, and what makes sense for their career and business at the time.
Very gently, the “I won’t start until the series is finished” approach can unfortunately become self-defeating. Publishing looks at sales and reader interest. If everyone waits until a series is complete before buying book one, the later books become much harder to justify. Early support is one of the ways readers help an author’s career continue.
As for audiobooks – every single Ilona Andrews release, whether traditionally or self-published, has an audio format and will continue to do so, as accessibility matters to House Andrews, and audio availability is part of that. At the moment, the only one we are awaiting as it is still being recorded is the Beast Business novella in the Hidden Legacy series.