It’s Giveaway Friday, squeee!

House Andrews have witnessed the Horde’s long-suffering battle with our most relentless adversaries, W*iting and P*tience.
To fortify morale, they are gifting This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me: 1 hardcover copy will go to a lucky US winner and 2 PDF ARCs to international winners.
To Enter:
Comment below and let us know:
- which country you’re from
- what your name would be, if, like Maggie, you would find yourself transported into a book (any book, by any author).
You can use your own name, make one up, or go full fantasy-protagonist and keysmash a lot of “y” and “z” into the usual unpronounceable creations. Have fun, Horde!
Giveaway Admin
This is a blog-only giveaway, only answers in blog comments count.
Winners will be chosen next Friday, February 27th 2026, with the aid of a random number generator.
The international winners will have to sign an NDA before receiving their PDF copies. This is not personal, but standard publishing practice to ensure the file will remain private with the winner. We appreciate your understanding.
For readers who are receiving this post in their newsletter email and don’t know how to get to the blog to make a valid entry comment, you can click here.
Comments are paginated, so the BDH chalance doesn’t break the blog (again lol). If you don’t see your entry, it means it’s on a previous page. Please do not resubmit, it is one entry per person.
Happy weekend and good luck!
Signed: Moderataria Rhae’zalyndrix, First of Her Name,
The Untouched by Sun, Lady of the Soggy Isles


1. USA
2. Ethan, with an appropriate surname
1. Germany
2. Ileyn
1. United States
2. The Devilishly Dashing Dark Lord Darren
I’m living in the UK
I’d probably get some misheard version of my name, like Wren
1. Israel
2. Ella, I think I’ll keep a part of me in a new world full of new things
1. Singapore
2. Yasmin
US
The Wyrdcat
1. Australia
2. Duggu the Cunning
1. Belgium
2. Paulien
1. US
2. Ursula
1. Israel
2. Ella, I think i’ll keep a part of me in a new world full of new things
USA
Lady with the Lamp
1. India
2. Ash ( which I like to use as gaming name)
New Zealand.
Ria en’fox
yowzer that’s a lot of comments 😃
1. UK
2. Sivi (the sleeper – reflecting my current inability to leave bed!)
US and I’d stick with Misty
Lady Moirae of the Southern Province, She who withstands Water.
The Netherlands
I’m from France
And I would be called Alysse
1. Turkey
2. Gleam Bee which is a kinda direct translation of my name.
Australia 🙂
I would be Shea O’Halloran (from the Broken Lands (T.A.White))
France
I would be called Phoenix, pretty self-explanatory for a rebirth!
1. US
2. He Who Knows Stuff and Drinks Less Than He Used To (because he’s on a diet)
Switzerland
Panini would be the name 🙂
1. USA
2. Lenor
I am from the US. My name would be Lindra.
1. Sweden
2. Morgana
1. France
2. Gorki The Intruder
Lady Doesna Containa Patiencey, of the Ravenous Literacy Isle
At your service.
Muuuch love from, Australia.
From the UK, but live in Seoul, South Korea!
I would be Annabelle the audacious~
1. USA
2. Rita
1. Netherlands
2. Mistria, I dunno why. Just like the sound of it, I guess 🙂
1. Scotland (although American by birth)
2. Magdalen, never Maggie (sorry, no offense meant; my favorite book not by HA has a protagonist who is Cass, never Cassie)
1. United Kingdom (England! Yay!)
2. Finden Parril
1. Bulgaria
2. Xynaria Nyasa-Aril Hollowfur, the Silent Leopard Worm
(my favorite from that one time I played around with a random fantasy name generator)
1. New Zealand
2. Catherine – I think it would be a historical, so we’ll go with the more common version!
1. Philippines
2. Ilona (hee hee)
1 Australia
2 Jane
New Zealand
Nykairian, saw it in a book and always liked it. I don’t care if it’s technically a boys name, I steal, I’ll dress as a man and be majestic and dapper in a fantasy land
1. US
2. Simone
I’m from France and m’y name would be Amber. I always liked that name. Thank you for your books, they helped my mental health a lot theses last months.
1. India
2. Misha Maud (my name and one of my fav characters from IA Innkeeper series)
Spain
Coriolana, she who lives in darkness
I’m from the UK, and my name would be Tilly – a nostalgic and completely random nickname that came from my Grandma!
Poland. It would be hillarious to be a scary necromancer named Ben.
First of all, I love your books so much, you have a true gift and appreciate all you do for your Fans!
1. Germany
2. Tari
1. Australia
2. Lady Hel of the Broken Mirrors and Lucky Stars
My luck has recently been wildly unlucky but not outright disastrous so this feels appropriate.
USA
Rebecca
1. Romania
2. Galateea
1. USA
2. Rose the Inquisitive
1. France
2. Soleil ☀️
Because it’s raining a lot right now, I’m going to become the one who’s missed and maybe he’ll get jealous and come back. 🤣
Thank you 💜
UK
Calpurnia the Brave
Sending lots of love from the Netherlands!
My name would be Evangeline.
I always loved that name and sound a bit fantasy-ish
1. UK
2. I think I’d keep my name, Zara, in a fantasy world, but I’d want some cool add on like Zara the Brave or something.
USA
name would be Felis, because I like cats.
1. UK
2. Satu the whimsical
United States Of America, my birth place.My name would be Stephanie, the curious, for I wonder about all things known and unknown to me.
1. Germany
2. Cana (pronounced Dschaana), my second (Turkish) name…
Hallo! I am an Italian living in Germany (Berlin) and if I were to move again – but in the land of books – my name would be Naima. Ciao!
1. France
2. Sunny the Merry, to travel a Thousand Seas !
1. From Auckland New Zealand
2. I visited the US last year and was called Nayumie so I might go with that 🙂
Yayyy an international giveaway!
1. Sydney, Australia
2. Rusudan- to honor my Georgian roots I will go with a classical Georgian name and Rusudan was a queen of Georgia!
From Brazil and I once created a character named Cowgirl Mimi, who could smell adventure, so I’ll stick to that name.
1. Canada
2. I would be named Spartacus, in honour of my cat, who fought to survive after being abandoned as a kitten
Oh my oh my!
Israel
My name is Suzanne. I would be Syzeene the Arie (Lion). My husband who has passed, was Arie. I am roaring at life and battling forward.
New Zealand, is where I’m from.
My fantasy name would be Aurora’ of the Zealandia Tribe.
USA
Kittara
From the US and my name would be Verfalla. My main has been named that in WoW for years.
Germany
Alocin
Name’s Su Mei Karen and I’m British by way of Malaysia and Singapore.
If I were ever stranded, I’d like to go to Discworld during the time of Brutha (Small Gods by Terry Pratchett) the amazingly down to earth prophet and I’d call myself Kaerz (the curious or kurios).
Thank you for your amazing books – I started reading your books during lockdown and never stopped. Been a comfort, solace and joy since x.
1. US
2. Jasmine Felidae-fae, Cherished by the Sun and Consort of the Night
Hi, I’m from Italy. My name would be Lynn. It is the name I used in every videogame also.
uh international give away… yeah..
1. germany
2. Volpina Ladra
it my favorite name of my table top RPG chars that I played over the year. I use it for gaming too. it’s my little joyful thief who always uses too much bubbles in the bath. because more is always more 🙂
1. American Samoa
2. Fantasy name would be Iliyah the Unlikely
New Zealand! When it comes to release dates I often forget we are ahead in time zone, and have to squeeze out a few extra dregs of p*tience.
My name would probably be something like Catrin, as a variation on my name. I think I’d struggle to see myself in it otherwise (or forget what I was supposed to be answering to).
USA
Erin go’Bragh (maybe Eryn) of the Pisceans
1. Spain
2. I would totally go for a Japanese name like Yuki or Sakura in a series like Red Winter or InuYasha where there is fantasy, gods and Yokai.
Hi! I’m from the Philippines 🇵🇭
And if I were transported, I’d be Jenny or Jean.
Love from India!
My fantasy name would be Hrydia (which my mother always wanted to name me meaning Beloved)
From the United Kingdom – though sometimes I really doubt the Unity!
My name would be Joules. It’s the name my late husband and late mother in law both called me, one left alive calls me that now.
1. USA!
2. Empress Flume 😌
USA & I’d be Rose, Keeper of Curiosities, Canines and a Cat.
I am from Germany.
I love the colour blue and have blue eyes, so my name would be Maris (for the Latin word mare = ocean) or Azura (again Latin for sky blue).
Fabulous Giveaway, btw.
I am from the UK and would like to be named Gin
Australia!
My name would be Penelope, Princess of the Burning Lands!
U.S.A.
My name is Indignant Monkeya and I’ve been dropped into The Truth by Terry Pratchett where I will wreak havoc writing book reviews for publisher William de Word.
I’m from the US, and I’d like my name to be something mysterious, known to most people as “Librarian of the Annals of Doom, Keeper of the Forbidden Catalogs, the Unseen and Unnameable One” and known to friends by the innocuous name of “Frank”.
I am from the US and would continue to use my real name Dorothy because I like it, and it means “gift of God.”
Moderator wins best rename contest!
Signed,
Soon He’ll Wear A Tan Suit To The Funeral
United States of America
1.Italy
2.Antigone, the book and chocolate devourer
1. Germany
2. The Dreamer as the one dreaming the next reality.
1. USA
2. Gigi the Spoiler
Australia
Zebadiah Winters
Hello from Denmark 🙂
I would choose a Nordic name: Saga ( translated means story/a tale
Hello House Andrews!
1. Singapore
2. in solidarity with Lady Wexyn (her name looks like hanyu pinyin!), I’d go with Mengjia.
It’s hanyu pinyin for my Chinese name; naming convention in this sunny isle usually demands an English name as well as a name in Chinese for those of Chinese ethnicity. ◡̈
Writing from France.
I would like to be Xeres the Mysterious Alchemist, someone with a cape and some potions.
You deserve the win with that name lol as another lady of the soggy isles I salute you 😂
Best wishes from Germany.
My name would be Shananja as it is one of my Role Playing Game Names from my youth.
Greetings. Having exhibited the proper patience while awaiting my long anticipated copy of This Kingdom Will Not Kill me, I humbly submit this post in hopes that good fortune will deign to bless me with a sure to be treasured copy of the Overlord’s newest offering.
Signed Rose Knows. (The designation bestowed upon me by my then 16 year old daughter’s friends who were constantly amazed that I always knew what they were up to.) 😉❤️
Hi, I’m from Milan, Italy.
I’d love to be called in a book Ciri, a nickname used for me from my friend
1. United States
2. Echo (after one of my favorite characters)
1. Germany
2. My name would be Veronica Sabino. That’s the name of a singer from my home country, and when I was 8-9 I thought she was the prettiest woman in the world and that was the most amazing name! I could also do a fantasy glow up and name myself Verønykah the Dauntless or something (because I have no filter and people tell me I have no respect for authority figures)
1. USA
2. Virien the Dark Siren