Happy Friday!
The Random Number Generator performed its duty and gave us the winner of the vellum overlay set for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me:
Congratulations, Erin Phillippi!
I will contact Erin from the modr@ilona-andrews.com email address. If we don’t hear back by Thursday, May 14, a new winner will be drawn next Friday.
What are these?
For anyone who missed it, Ilona made a video explaining and demonstrating the vellum inserts, which you can find here.
Briefly: vellum overlays are not art prints. They are semi-transparent character portraits printed on softly textured vellum, which is a frosted, slightly cloudy specialty paper that lets the art show through while giving it a muted, layered effect. They are designed to be tucked into the hardcover book or placed over a page, not framed as standalone wall art.
The vellum overlays will be available as a set of six in the Ilona Andrews merch store when it reopens. I don’t have an official date for the opening yet, and House Andrews are still working out whether international availability is possible. The best way to make sure you don’t miss the announcement is to subscribe to the Ilona Andrews newsletter.
At the moment, the set will include only the six character portraits by Helena Elias: Clover, Solentine Dagarra, Ramond vi Everard, the Sun Margrave, Doran Arvel and the Man from the Garden.
If you are looking for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me art prints, reminder that many of the commissioned artists have prints available directly through their own stores, which is covered and linked in this post. Buying from them is a wonderful way to support the artists and their original, human-made work, taking a stand against AI content.
Speaking of AI and spam, a quick online safety reminder: please stay vigilant for scammers. House Andrews will never ask you to cover postage costs, pay fees, or make any kind of money transfer connected to these giveaways. Winners are announced here on the blog, and we will only contact you from an official Ilona Andrews account or email address, with the link to the public blog post as proof that you are indeed the winner.
May your weekend bring good times, good tidings, and yummy snacks!
Note from Ilona – we should have the first batch of vellum next week. We will be doing a trial run of 120 sheets, with 20 sets of 6. We have never acted as a fulfillment center before, so we want to make sure that we iron out any kinks before fully unleashing the Horde. If you miss the opportunity to order, don’t panic. We will be doing a larger print run, and this vellum is printed locally by a small business, so it’s not shipping in from overseas and it will be available much faster.
First?
Friday first! 🙂
Yay! Haven’t been in a while…. I know we are Maggie II 24/7, and w*iting oh so patiently like a good BDH member, but wondering if I can insert a Karat/Dagorkun (Karakun) “ship” at the wedding of the centuries? Kneeling former ex-MIL; Horde/Anocracy enemies to lovers; and finding Gerald & Helen…
I would also love Karat and Dagorkun to have an enemies to lover romance ❤️ Although they didn’t feel like enemies themselves but their cultures certainly are.
Congrats to Erin! I really hope the international shipping works out!
Also can’t wait for the store to re-open for the Maggie box!!!
Congratulations to Erin! 🎉👏👏👏👏
Onward to the next adventures of Maggie and friends whenever that may be. Hopefully it will be Tuna approved. 😉😂😂😂😂
Congratulations Erin….
Happy Friday everyone
Just finished reading TKWNKM again…and I adore this book. These overlays are a definite purchase and such a great addition to the book. Can’t hardly wait!!
Congratulations Erin 🥳 🎉
Looking forward to the store opening for Maggie goodies!
Seconded on both counts! I need the Ability to Even mugs…
Yes! You do! — In case you started second-guessing your need. You neeeeeeed it. Neeeeeed the “ability to even” mug.
I use mine at work. I have my fingers crossed for a “Survive, Get Paid” mug. I’d also like something about tea/blood of my enemies for a work mug, but maybe it’s best if I don’t have that. 🙂
aw man…..Erin is such a popular name (from the 80s in my case)….my hopes went up and then were dashed. yay for other Erin winning though.
Congrats to Erin! Enjoy!
Congrats Erin! 🥳😊
I’d love to purchase a dead tree book with the velum inserts??
The hardcover of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is available from all major and most independent retailers 🙂
Here are some useful links https://ilona-andrews.com/maggie-the-undying-2/#synopsis
Congratulations to Erin!!
And thank you House Andrews for supporting a local business for the production of the vellum sets!!
Those vellum inserts are going to be a “shut up, take my money,” aren’t they? I can already hear my bank account screeching. Oh well, YOLO (except Maggie)
Congratulations, Erin!
So excited to snag merch!
Sending peace, health and safety to all!
Question would it be possible to get Velum overlays for the other books too? I figure a lot would be involved with permissions and printing, so if not for this store opening maybe sometime in the future ?
I will add it to the suggestions 🙂
What size are these vellums? I would love if it would fit in my reading journal!
Also, would a vellum be available with Maggie in the future? Pretty please!
US hardcover size, 6×9 🙂
I can’t wait, a picture book!🤗😂
We get all the things! You love us, you really, really do!!
😊 thank you 🥷🤴🏼
I have a couple of curiosity questions:
1. Does Selva have a tower like Rellas that Isadau could be given?
2. Maggie said that she knew two secrets about the boys. One from their past and one from their future. Will the future secret come to light?
You must be conflicted about feeding the Horde more characters we love. On one hand, YAY they bought more books! On the other hand you probably have dreams of us chanting more, More, MORE under your window at night.
Eagerly salivating at the thought of TKWNKM2, but want to see Arabella go to Russia, and the Vampire wedding, and Diana gifting Pancakes with his own companion, and more dark Vholv.
Sitting here credit card in hand p@tiently w@iting for the next feeding