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.
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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. The US
2. Lucy something. I’m not sure which world I’d want to go to though…
Aotearoa / New Zealand
Susanna the wise and many armed
United Arab Emirates
Jeanne the Dreamer of Salted Fish Life
I’m from the USA.
my alternate reality name is:
Alice Siefkenzandif
Servant of many cats.
USA
Tess, Oracle of Reason
1. United States
2. Eowyn (Real name. My parents were huge Tolkien fans!)
United States and my name would be Jenyfer Briggs ❤️.
From the USA
My alternate name would beMaeve.
United States
Arturro de Fregatii
😱
1. UK
2. I’d still be Nadia if I found myself transported into a book, I think it’d fit right in no matter the genre 😂
(Technically a repeat comment because I accidentally managed to post the original as a reply to someone else and wasn’t sure if that would still count, sorry for any confusion it was totally not intentional ❤️)
USA
Char of the Felix Order – I live to serve the Fabulous Fluffy Feline Federation
France
Eyline
USA
Kristin the Coward
I wouldn’t be proud of it lol
US
Marie
Greeting from Bulgaria 😀
Probably I would be lady Erin Frost. 😛
United States
Seja
USA
Lady Chocolate, Pâtissière to Horde
I wouldn’t know which name to pick.
I may want a gentle name like Marie or something more tomboy. Maybe Danika. hard choice. maybe Zarie. lol
I am from crappy old Ohio U.S. unfortunately been here all my poor life. Can I have money in my story. I’ve always wanted to go to Scotland or Iceland. So many places. but stuck.
Oh yes!
I’m from Australia
My name is Delilah.. I’d probably change to Lilah.
Tennessee, USA
I would either be Raven deWinter or Shadowen, like my email. Either way I’d be the morally questionable, mysterious type who helps out from time to time then wanders off until I reappear just in the nick of time to provide the crucial clues or help that saved me day. 🤪
1. USA
2. In every universe my OC is named Lyanthia Grae, she has lived a thousand lives and will live thousands more before her journeys end.
So excited for Maggie!! Thanks for giveaway!
I’m from the US and I’d probably be something like “Kait the curmudgeonly, treasurer of teas”
Canada
Veronica de Fauve
United States
Marwynn
Thank House Andrews for your gracious care of the Horde!
Thank you, Moderataria Rhae’zalyndrix, for your creativity and gracious wrangling of the Horde!
Country of Origin: United States
Moniker: Alexa (context : I have written (only in my mind) novel length adventures since I was in high school in the 80s with myself as the badass female who is typically going it alone with mad skills. Her name has always been Alexa whether she was WW2 fighter pilot, Viper pilot, X-Wing pilot, half elf mercenary or 1700s French assassin for hire.
Sending peace, health and safety to all!
Ireland
Pangur Bán (Pan-grrr bawn) , 10th of her name,
Untouched by Sun, cat sidhe
1. The Once-united States of America
2. Alexandria, Daughter of Doomed Knowledge
(So so much excitement for the giveaway, AND it’s on the day of a major exam for me…Hopefully I’ll get lucky in at least one sector of life that day lol)
The much beleaguered United(?) States of America.
Antastic, the tall.
USA – Glorfindel, like the head of NASA in the Martian. It is a name on which it is hard to improve.
From Chile! I’d love a name that’s very fitting for a fantasy world but has a cute nickname, like Tiffany (for Teophania). Really love that!
US.
Lyndiana
Soraya the Knowing, from Germany
U.S.A.
Thorne the Traveler
United States, Honestly
USA
My own name, since it’s unique enough that most people have a problem pronouncing it the correct way, and I end up with a bunch of different ones in the end 😀
Country: USA
Book Isekai Name: Jay Metalspine
Hello from Sweden!
I usually name myself Narorë in various fantasy settings
1.Belize
2. Cielo
1. United States
2. Kate
California, USA
Chasca the Transitional
France
Ush
I am in the US and I would go by Sami still because I dont think I’d remember to respond to a new name 🤣
US of A
I will be Zorayda Felix, an edger that travels both the Weird and the Broken as ambassador in the Edge Series.
USA
Anthora Yos Galen, Clan Korval
USA
Vaelis of the Wolves, House of Lee
1. United States of America
2. I would be known as Dr. Jordyn Selachielle, shark-whisperer, baker of morale-boosting pastries, consumer of alarming quantities of Diet Coke, and wielder of a PhD powerful enough to defeat both dragons and poorly designed assays.
I’m in the US, and if I were transmigrated, I’d probably be called the Witch Doctor, since I’m currently a medical student, and that’s my only marketable skill. Bringing my modern medical knowledge to a place like Rellas will likely get me branded as a witch or an apostate, especially as a girl, haha!
1. USA
2. Estelle, the Dark Paradox who shines the brightest light, Breaker of Doors.
US!
Viridia
USA
Renzie Yos Galen, Clan Korval
I am Anne of the Snows (due to the unusual icy snow we recently had here in Northern Virginia) and I am a resident of the sometimes benighted USA. By the way Anne of the Snows was pulled from a minor character in a cosy mystery MURDER AT THE WAR by Mary Monica Pulver which I lately re-read and enjoyed as much as the first time I read it.
Anne in Virginia
USA, Ann Blue.
UK, specifically Wales
I like to think it would be a slightly off version of my name, like Elyza or Lizbith. Or I’d reinvent myself and become Alanna, because that’s a name that knows how to survive trials
united states
Lynn of the stevensons
Australia
Dilga of the Desert
Runs with Emus
united states
Razelle
Rider of Black Dragon Rayith
of Sky Weyr of Pern
1. From the United States
2. Helene Wildwarden – Speaker for the Voiceless.
Thank you so much for this opportunity!
1. USA
2. Kat the Curious (Because I am both inquisitive and strange! Especially, I’m sure, to whatever culture I end up isekai’d to.)
USA (unfortunately, at least right now 😞)
I feel like I would be called “Lena the Traveller” as I’ve lived in two continents, four countries, three states, and eleven cities all before the age of 25 so I feel I can be pretty much be dropped anywhere on the globe at this point and find my way / adapt. 😆
From the US:
I’d be Annyeni the First of the Mighty Horde
US
Reina of the Woodlands
US and Kildar
USA
Joy – Hoarder of Books
since I would still want all the books
Caprice from the Harmony series by Jayne Castle and my dust bunny is Pansy.
Cathy from USA
I’m from the United States. Since knowing someone’s name gives you power over them in some stories, I’d probably pick a new one that reminds me of home, like Lillie of Larksfield or something.
Can’t w**t for the book’s release!
Australia
Celeste, She Who Walks in Fire
I’m from the US and I would probably keep my own name, Brenna.
1. USA
2. Barking Squirrel
Thanks for the contest.
USA
Poopsie Gigglebrains
USA
Nana would be my name – it has become my identity and well earned title, lol, and it is very precious to me.
I am Ethel Molly, named for a cow and a dapple grey horse so I would be useful and nurturing wherever I dropped 🙂 True story about the name, by the way, just not mine. I am in Canada.
USA
Breeze from the Mountain
United States
Silva
England, UK and Liriel, although really I would have to choose something similar to my actual name or I would never answer to it…
From the USA!
My name would be Lalena Luna La Bruha
The Moon-Called Fire Witch of the Southern Swamps
USA
I would be Dawn of the New Shinar.
USA
Kath the Elder
Canada
Kat-chakai a beautiful deep violet and silver Tairen.
I’m in the US. My name would be Isabelle, Isa or Izzy for short.
I’m from the US and my character name would be Iliana Marie.
USA
Kaylin
USA
Kamea of the water
I’m in the USA. I think my name would be Mel. Thank you for the giveaway.
I am from the USA. My name would be…
Esmeralda
The
Great!
Thank you
USA is where I am from, and I would be Sarah. I am named Sarah, but I chose to be called this when I was 6 years old. Prior to that, my family called me Marie, (my middle name) and I was known as Marie to everyone. However, after school one in 1st grade, I came home and announced that Marie was a name for little girls, and I would be called Sarah since I was no longer a little girl. I am so strong willed and stubborn, even at 6 years old, that I forced this name change on my family and school…I could never give this name up!
USA
Keleigh the Red, well former red, more blonde/white now…
Elise the Enchantress. Because why not?
USA
USA. Big McLargeHuge. 🙂
USA
Eerein, though goodness only knows what world I’d want to be in.
I’m in Canada. Really looking forward to immersing myself in “This Kingdom…”.
My name would be Memory.
Country USA
My name would be Barbara. Greenwood maybe for a surname if needed and a hedgewitch by profession. Not Barbie, definitely not Barbarella, although BarbaraEllen would be ok.
United States
Lady Sage
USA, here.
Name? Well now…that would be tellin’…
Ireland – Autistic Gal
USA,
Ra-e-sa,
the Kitchen Ruler
Thank you for all you do for us!
The UK
Francesca, Lady of the Lake that Used to be My Back Garden until the Never-Ending Rain began to Fall.
I’m from Sweden, if I were to end up in a book my name would be Caymille Lazou
From the U.S.A. –
Bee, the Sin Eater of Burning Springs
North Carolina, USA
Lady MacGripesalot
Land of NoMatter How Much I work Out
Its near ‘round about the middle, and far from Nimble be Quick.
I am married to Sir Eatsalot, he was born in the land of Never gains an Ounce.
If you are wanting to visit just win a golden ticket and come on down to The Chocolate Factory! 🤣
It sure sounds like ModR may be from the familia Vampira?!
Lady Teressa, Leader of the Pack, Sayer of the Strange
New Zealand
Evelynn the Introvert, Hoarder of Books