Happy release day to everyone receiving the Tor UK edition of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me today!
If you want your own copy, here are some of the retailer links:
I know it meant more w*iting for us, and the two extra days were torturous enough to make the stiffest upper lip wobble.
And there’s even more good news to celebrate: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me has been named one of Amazon’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of April, while also holding a strong lead in major categories like Epic Fantasy and Romantic Fantasy.
Huge congratulations to House Andrews on such an outstanding launch and to the Book Devouring Horde for coming out in force to welcome it!
I have lists of all the great questions you shared on the spoiler discussion post and I love how everyone is interacting with the story. While we wait for House Andrews to come back from the signing tour and join the discussion, you can read this interview they did for the April issue of BookPage.
One more hype and I’m done: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me has also been selected as part of Book of the Month’s April lineup! It’s so exciting to see it included, and we’re grateful to @bookofthemonth for the support.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I will be heading to my local Waterstones to ever so subtly nudge their copies of This Kingdom to their best, most visible lives on the shelves. Public mod service.
UPDATE FROM THE SIGNING TOUR:
House Andrews are signing extras everywhere they go! In case you didn’t manage to make it to the events, but are in the vicinity, you can still grab your own signed copies:
The Barnes& Noble Arboretum in Austin, Tropes and Trifles in Minnesota, and Joseph Beth in Lexington have numerous signed copies of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me.
In addition, B&N Austin has signed Hidden Legacy copies.
Tropes and Trifles has signed copies of Beast Business, Inheritance, Sanctuary, and Innkeeper and Hidden Legacy (including the little paperbacks which are being phased out).
Wow
I do this whenever I see their books
So glad to know our dear Mod R is involved in the same Horde-level shenanigans as the rest of us when it comes to reorganizing bookshelves in service to our Authorlords 😀 A very happy UK birthday to Maggie and all her companions!
Since I have the arc, I have been deciding which special edition to get and Im very jealous of the waterstone edition. Im glad we horded well and jumped the book to the top of mountain of amazon. I have been slowly listening to audio book and really enjoying it
I got my signed copy yesterday(UK) extremely happy, ordered Kindle too, to keep the book looking lovey 🙂
Thank you for the pretty books xx
Oooh a signed version lucky you!!
Bought a signed waterstone copy to gift my friend for her birthday – I am so happy, I got one. Sadly only one since it was a one order limit per customer, but I might splurge on a special edition down the road. I keep hoping Subterrean Press will do one with all the pretty artwork inside. Then I will spend as much on shipping as on the book, to get my grubby mitts on it 😀
I got my signed copy (my precious, my pretty, pretty precious. must not be read, to keep it pretty, my precious) today.
Just started on my Kindle version.
I think my local Waterstones was confused as I got my hardcover yesterday but had to wait till my kindle edition downloaded to start reading as the hardcover went straight into my display cabinet with my Arcane society Hidden Legacy
Wow, the art is awesome. I am on my second read, even better
The UK hardcover is gorgeous! I ordered it instead of the US and Blackwell’s kindly shipped it to arrive a week early. Had to stare longingly at it for another 5 days before reading but that’s all in the past now!
Wow, that was incredibly chalant of you. I am impressed you held back!
Oops I meant NONCHALANT!
Life got in the way. I wanted time to properly devour in one sitting
I snagged the last copy in my bookstore the day it came out!!!! So enjoying this – I find myself sipping it like tea to make it last 🙂
Thank you Mod R.
I received my audiobook at 3am today on Amazon. Next time I plan to use Kobo for all future IA books because everyone gets the book at the same time irrespective of location.
I am still listening to my audiobook- it is all kinds of wonderful. I cannot w*it to get Maggie 2 in my hands…….
Thank you House IA.
Gotta say congrats again to Ilona and Gordon for batting it out of the park! I’m very excited for them.
UK folks, I feel your pain. Because Steve and the ferrets let me down, I have to w@it until the weekend to dive into Maggie.
I didn’t think getting my building shut down would be that difficult. Maybe I didn’t fill out the form early enough for ferret shenanigans? DID STEVE GET LOST? Are he and the ferrets wandering aimlessly trying to free various Horde members from work so that they can read? Do I just need to stay in line?
(If you can’t tell, I have undying love for the idea of Steve and the ferrets.)
Fortunately, it’s a holiday weekend for us, so yay! reading time!
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Snorted peppermint tea reading this. Have 4 hour train this weekend. Been holding out. I won’t see a bit of scenery, but looking forward to devour time.
Snorted peppermint tea reading this 🤣🤣
I was in my local Waterstones this morning and searched out the book… not easy to spot as it the pile was in need to topping up… not bad going considering I was there not long after opening time!
The Waterstones copy did look pretty but mine is equally beautiful with the added advantage of being delivered last week. ( I also have the kindle edition and audible)… not a member of the Book Devouring Horde for nothing.
Congratulations House Andrews!! And to thanks to Mod R for all the extras for us on the blog this week. Ferret funs!
I’m so impressed with our UK horders for l*ast those extra few days. I was at my end on Monday night. 🙂 Now I’m just happy and sleepy. And brain is so full. I’m going to start my re-read and maybe put my favorite highlighted quotes up on the spoilers post. Except, yea, right. Gotta work to make up for not working here on Earth for 2 days while I survived Kair Toren.
Such as amazing book! Thank you!!
Poor me. I live in France and I will receive my book only end of next week. I’m avoiding all spoiler discussions. Weep with me.
But your book is so beautiful!!
Je suis désolée. I weep with you in solidarity. —Paula
Congrats HA on the wonderful press! And thanks to Mod R for the extras and keeping the horde engaged as we chalant our way through the week!
I don’t comment online, I’ve read most of Ilona Andrew’s books. I was utterly captivated by This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me. I’ve read it twice already. My congratulations to the authors on the epic world building. Thank you.
Congratulations, House Andrews on the great book launch!
The BookPage interview was interesting. BookPage also has a very positive review of the book.
What a lovely edition! I ordered a regular old hard copy from Barnes & Noble and have had the fun reading some pages hard copy and also listening while I take walks. Titrating it out to read a bit by bit… Reminds me of the joy of having a physical book in hand. LOVE IT! THANK YOU HOUSE ANDREWS!
Congratulations to House Andrews on a huge success! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Now the UK faction of the Horde will now understand why we of the US faction of the Horde couldn’t say a particular name in the spoiler section. Mod R didn’t want us to ruin it for the rest of you.
I’m re-reading This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me for the second time from the start. No skipping the chapters this time like I did for the first read since I had bought the teaser chapters before the entire book came out.
Now, we need Steve and the ferrets to sneak Maggie #2 out. 😉
All the Best to House Andrews.
My masterplan was torpedoed by Amazon Germany today, when instead of delivering my very pretty flower edges UK edition, they send me an email postponing in to April 26 -.- .
Luckily I also spent my money on a digital copy which I have already read. But my cozy real-book second read through won’t happen as planned now.
Well, at least I didn’t have to w**t for the story.
Now I will only have to practice p*tience until I get the physical copy.
Yeah, I ordered the UK version instead of the US version because of the edges and the darker cover. Blackstone was very reasonable on the book / shipping to the US. I’m having to wait, but oooooo those edges!!
Great interview with BookPage!
Maggie is soooooooooooo good .
Bravo our horde overlords Ilona and Gordon.
Bravo !
What a great interview and awesome that This Kingdom is one of the top Science Fiction Fantasy books on Amazon!
I really love this book! I’m close to the end, but going slowly now to savor it. Then I need to go to the spoiler posts and add specifics.
When I went to my local bookstore to pick up my hardback copy that they had waiting, I noticed that they didn’t have any copies on the shelf. When I asked about that, they looked it up in their computer and the 4 copies they had on hand were all being held for someone and they already had 4 more on order. For this local independent bookstore, those are a lot of copies to have on hand. I’m going to keep working on them to get more copies in.
I clicked on my Barnes and Noble app–was going to make sure my (5 star) review made it–and an Ilona Andrews author spotlight popped up. Yay! Hoping this draws more inductees to the BDH.
Happily my Waterstones were obviously a bit confused and my hardback arrived yesterday so naturally I read it instead of waiting for Amazon to send my ebook.
Bloody loved TKWNKM (the acronym is seriously giving me HWFWM), but I need the sequel now, and I do mean now. That ending was so unbelievably shocking, I avoid cliffhangers normally and it was just so unexpected from House Andrews!
As a result I’m feeling extremely BDH. As in – Steve storm the publishing house ‘horde’; or Steve pull out the ripper cushions ‘horde’; or Steve fetch the ferrets ‘horde’.
Just basically really damn bloody ‘HORDE’.
So pleeeeeease, (yet also at your own pace, and on your own schedule, and of course, please don’t overdo it either), but please write (like an unholy demon from the darkest depths of a demented hell) and provide book 2 (maybe also book 3 just to be safe?) as soon as humanly possible (immediately, maybe yesterday even).
Please. For the sake of myself (my sanity) and the horde (and Steve. And so the ferrets can have a well earned rest). I’m not begging (I’m pleading with extreme vehemence and lack of dignity and considerable desperation), but I just feel a polite warning that I’m probably not the only eager (anxious and extremely delusional) horde member that is really wanting (urgently needing) the sequel soon (right the hell now). So it’s actually a public service announcement (cry for help/emergency alert/urgent warning) that your excellent book (really, really, really excellent book) has unleashed a potential (unquestionably definite) problem (tsunami of monumental proportions) and the sequel should resolve this (the sooner the better).
By the way I really enjoyed the book and am really looking forward to book two, however long it takes. (In case that wasn’t clear 😉). And of course I was just joking. . . mostly. . .
😂😂😄😄
Love the way you put things. I’m 100% in agreement.
Yes, very well stated. Complete agreement here.
Yup, what she said!
Can we request a velum bundle with all of the amazing art for this book? I just want to illustrate my edition of Thos Kingsom 😅
Yes, that is coming, the right printer and quote has been found and the artist is finalising the last 2 illustration 🙂
Thanks for the info! I can’t WAIT!
So glad everyone has got their copy at least most everyone! Happy overseas book birthday! I’m on my 2nd reading of TKWNKM now. I’m excited about the book signing in MD sat and can’t wait. I have a train ride and I’m taking knitting and the audiobook for the ride. Also does anyone remember when the store is supposed to opening with the Maggie extras? I’m trying to budget but not sure for when and how much approx? Thanks
Mid-April for the merch opening and Maggie merch 🙂
HA may need some extra help in midi April. Just saying …
Thanks Mod R! Will be on lookout!
Thanks Mod R for the info.
Hi Mod R,
I read the Book Page April interview with House Andrews you posted above. Thank you!
1. If House Andrews is 1/2 way through Maggie book 2, does that mean we have a chance of seeing the sequel next year?
2. They happened to mention they were working on a Hidden Legacy novella. Is that Beast Business? Or is there another one in the works?
(We’re the Horde! We want all the books! But also the health, happiness and sanity of the authors and moderators, so I will settle down…)
I don’t know any official information about the release of the Maggie sequel.
The HL novella was indeed Beast Business, yes, the interview happened back in January 🙂
Beast Business, Beast Business, Beast Business. Rah, rah, rah! YES. Loved it and the additional scene with Arabella at the end.
I saw they hit number 1 in Romantic Fantasy books yesterday on Amazon. So pleased for them!
A cliff hanger/cliff teaser ending?!?!!!. When is Maggie II coming out. The Kate Daniel endings made me more patient for the next one. Cliff hangers make me want to wait until they are all out.
The first draft of Maggie 2 is nearly completed 🙂 – including “the most intense figh scene” House Andrews say they’ve ever written.
An official date of release has not been decided as far as I know, however.
“Most intense fight scene”? I couldn’t breathe during a couple in Sweep of the Blade — I may faint from lack of oxygen if more intense is possible!
Soooo, read Maggie 2 in bed only. Got it! 😉
I had such a lovely evening. I sat on the sofa with tea, pizza, chocolate and Maggie. I laughed when I got to the bit describing her perfect day off, which was exactly the same. I was gripped by every page. Just finished it now. Thank you!
dear Mod R:
I need a stuffed that is red Stella named Sushi. really, really need it.
but not one with real teeth.
If we order the UK edition now will we get the sprayed edges? Because when I see the amazon/panmacmillan websites they just show the cover without the edges.
The book page link is showing as forbidden in India.
403 error. FYI on apple iphone safari.
The link works for me, probably a regional availability issue 🙂
Happy birthday to Gordon.
Hope they managed to get out of the airport and into a decent bed.
House Andrews definitely made it to the event! But I don’t know if they left it yet 🙂
Weee!
Even though my book is “on its way to your country” and have been that since Tuesday >.<
Time will tell if I can dodge the spoilers till it arrives! 😀
hi, bought the ebook and devoured it, thank you for the gift of your imagination. it is different to your usual books but was an amazing read. I’m from Australia and I’m confused regarding the different hardcover editions from Pan Macmillan. I want to buy the hardcover with the patterned edges pages but there seem to be 2 hardcover editions, 9781035089376 and 9781037400674 and I don’t know if they are the same as the images for them only show the patterned edges on one ISBN. can you please advise if both have the patterned edges or just one of them? thank you
Hi Suzanne,
I personally am unable to help you based on those numbers. Could you get in touch with the retailer customer service and ask, which would give you the fastest answer 🙂 ? Or if you want to paste the links I can try to assess other details.
I have emailed the bookshop I’ve ordered from but due to Easter holidays unlikely to get an answer until next week. if this helps here are the links:https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781035089383/ and https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781035089376/.
I have asked, but please be advised similar Easter period and holiday delays are likely to happen on my/publisher end.
Thank you for your patience 🙂
Hi Suzanne, the correct international ISBN for the sprayed edges is ISBN 9781037400674 🙂
Hi Suzanne, I have ISBN ending 376 and that just has ordinary edges, not sprayed edges at all… sadly.
The hardcover I received isn’t as shown, The contents are brilliant but no fancy edges as shown …..help…..my bookseller says his suppliers website shows it as not available in UK……who do I send a note to?
Thank you for coming to Lexington for the book signing! I know you both had to be exhausted from your travel and the delays at Chicago airport, but you two are such troopers and carried on despite the late hour. Please believe that the Lexington KY BDH were both honored and thankful for this opportunity to meet you! I hope you can catch up on your rest and wish you had more time to visit.
I‘m still waiting. 😬
I orderd with Amazon Germany, because normally they are so fast.
But they have Problems with the UK hardcover edition.
Don‘t know, if or when i will get one.
Good i now have my new chalant T-Shirt from BAB.
Just to let you know, The Waterstones special edition, non-signed book edges are the same as the signed edition edges, I went into Waterstones in Grimsby yesterday to cancel a saved book request, (as I ordered the signed edition online) and had a look at the Maggie book edges they had on the display. Loved Maggie 1, now contemplating the w**t for Maggie 2 😘😘😘😘😘
I’m waiting for my copy to be delivered from Waterstones,sadly I missed out on the Autographed copies as they were all gone by the time I got into the Waterstones site but I did still manage to get one of the special editions. I’m so looking forward to have my copy delivered on Saturday.
I got my uploaded E-book on release day. I went to the local Barnes and Noble to purchase a hard copy yesterday (April 2). although it does not have the pretty hard cover edges like the UK and other special editions have, nor is it signed since I am not near anywhere that House Andrews will be visiting.
However, I am so happy to have the hard cover to add to my collection.
Happy Easter to all.
No! The last answer in the interview – They say that they’re finishing a novella in Hidden Legacy world and for a minute I was so exited! Then I thought, well how is it that I did not know that??? Then it hit me. I already read it. I mean, I can re-read, but I thought we were getting a new book really soon…
There should be a disclaimer about interview timeline for the members of the BDH and seriously what were they thinking, doing the interview a while back and only printing it now??
Congratulations on awesome launch, House Andrews and everyone who worked on it!
I am like many here, devouring book over tea this long weekend. Barsa, barsa, barsa!
I recommended KD to the bookstore employees while picking up my Maggie copy yesterday and explaining how the Fandom had been excited about this book for two or three years!
Mine arrived on Monday and ai can confirm it is a gorgeous book. I have sadly managed to get spaghetti bolognese stains on it because I did not think my life through properly. I am devastated.
Isn’t that what the antiquarians call patina, Maria? 😉
What a blessing you are for the collectors two centuries hence, especially if you can come up with a Steve-and-ferrets tale to explain it with. A few mysterious words on the subject jotted in a margin or in a corner of the endpaper should do nicely to nail home the legend…
Got mine. Devoured in 24 hours. Book 2?
Is it possible to order this darker uk hardcover version in the US? Its gorgeous!
I loved the book!! As a avid member of the. BDH I want the next one now!!!!
(When there a lot of characters I sometimes get confused and a Cast of Characters would be helpful.)
Hi Horde!
A tip from my local librarian- if you are in the United States, and you want one of the UK versions with the darker colors, and pretty page edges, Blackwells will ship to the US. I don’t think they have the Waterstones one, but the one they do have is very pretty!
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/This-Kingdom-Will-Not-Kill-Me-by-Ilona-Andrews/9781037400674
Just received my very own Tor UK Copy of This Kingdom!!!! I have been p*tient, w*ited and Chalant.
I have not gone on the spoiler thread!
I have not even peeked!!!!
My Chalantness and Flufiness have paid off. I have This Kingdom in hand!!!
Off to the reading cave and I can once again be a member of the Horde heeeeh (evil laugh)
I am LOVING this book!
I bought the ebook from Kobo the day of release but I won’t let myself start it because I can’t afford to stay up all night reading it (which I know I would) because I prepare taxes and it’s April 3. Twelve more days and then I can binge read!!
Reading everyone’s comments is making it harder to w*it!!
Is there a reason Google Play books is not among the retailer links?
I hope it’s not because Google doesn’t pay the authors.
Google is the only one selling Adobe DRM epubs, which I can export to my PocketBook.
All the other retailers only let you read on their own ereader or an their app on your phone.
This Kingdom is available widely at hundreds, if not thousands of retailers. We cannot possibly link them all on the blog 🙂.
If you have a favourite book retailer, please search their catalog, you will likely find Maggie.
Patricia,
Try Kobo, they also sell the ePub version. Not DRM protected so you can read it on any ePub app, including Adobe Digital Editions.
just got my water stones exclusive copy and the spine has delaminated super bummed. but still beautiful sprayed edges!
My delightful little sugar lumpkins ate my beautiful two day old book.
He is a precious white mountain rabbit who looks like he’s planning a heist. He once tried to explore the chimney, which being a white furried the little man met with immediate suspicion. He looks at me with ruby eyes, like a scene from the Godfather
“What you gonna do…?”
I made it to chapter 11….buying book again….. This time I’m not going to fall asleep while Bun-NY is out free from cell on good behavior/daily yard time.
I have e to wait for it to be delivered to Sweden, so it’s not coming until the 8th!!
How is the release going? Is Tor happy?
I finished it!!!! I devoured this book. I have read everything over the years that you two have put out. I wait on pins and needles for anything to come from you. I have only really recently gotten to sigh up on you blog. I have been reading your books for over 25 years. When I want a really good escape I reread your books. Please keep it up. I know it is a lot of pressure but we love the world’s you create so much that I can’t wait to go there again and again.
On to the real question.
When are we getting the sequel?
Loved the book but could I suggest a cast of characters page be included
This may be my favorite of your books! The ‘into another world’ genre has gained popularity and I really love it, but as a genre it’s generally not written with the same kind of depth and complexity as other genres and I’ve found that a bit disappointing until now. Well, problem solved! A resounding success! It just needed to be written by you two 😂 apparently. Thank you so much for Maggie’s book, I can’t w*it for the sequel 💕!