The Facebook fan group recently had a lot of fun speculating over the possible title of the second Maggie the Undying book.
Ilona confirmed in the comments that the title will follow this format:
This REDACTED Will Not REDACTED Me
Two blanks to fill and one challenge for the blog comment section!
Fill in the blanks and leave your title in the comments. Serious guesses, ridiculous guesses, ominous guesses, and titles that would make Steve proud and the editors concerned – all are welcome in the comments.
This is Only a Horde Game
House Andrews and Tor, the publishers, have decided the actual title through official publishing processes. It will be announced publicly at the right time. Nothing suggested here will become the title because it attracts the most chalant support or is repeatedly submitted in ALL CAPS. Ahem.
But even if we don’t get to name the book, we are still padding our Horde marketing CV! Before the final Hidden Legacy title was announced as Ruby Fever, we knew it would follow the gemstone + fire word formula. The BDH rose magnificently to the guess challenge and produced such enduring classical suggestions as:
- Pearlescent Phlogiston
- Turquoise Twinkles
- Chrysoberyl Conflagration
- Lapis Lazispalooza
Shockingly, none of these has been claimed by another author yet, but we’ll keep trying. Interested publishing professionals may contact the Horde through its official accounts. Serious offers and mango cupcakes-based royalties only.
In the meantime, give us your best suggestions for Maggie 2!
This Duke will not Claim Me OR This Family will not Disown Me
This Book Will Never Disappoint Me
Too prosaic? Too OBVIOUS?
This idiot will not frustrate me.
Just out of curiosity, what happens in the unlikely event someone actually guesses correctly? 😋
Eternal Horde glory? 🤣
Over 400 comments and no one has tho.
Well, I did say it was unlikely anyone would guess right. 😁
This night will not free me
– this knight will not marry me
– this death will not stop me
– this soap will not enrich me
– this knowledge will not define me
This author will not fool me.
These authors will not fail me.
“This Fate Will Not Devour Me” (Was tempted to put horde as a joke but I don’t want to jinx us haha)
This Magic Will Not Consume Me
Cause why not?
This Drezmur Will Not Eat Me – Solentine‘s POV
This love triangle will not define me.
This Battle Will Not Defeat Me
From MMC POV. I dont want to say his name to avoid spoiling others. Maybe one day in a distant future we will get his POV. 😃
This Damsel Will Not Distress Me
It’s me, just sitting here re-reading Sweep of the Blade for the umpteenth time and being melancholy about the abandonment of Klaus DeMille. Will we ever find out why the ad hals are being corrupted? Are Klaus, Maud and Dina’s parents dead? Will we ever get a mug with Arland Krahr on it? I just know that little Helen is destined for great things.
I believe at some point in the near future, we are to get The Marriage Book. I’m almost sure ModR and the AL promised.
And This Promise will not Pain Me.
This Blood Will Not Bind Me
But also…
This Phyalctery Will Not Phase Me! ✨️
This Wiggle-sticking Will Not Whammy Me! 🪄
This Romance will not Burn me…
This Numbnuts will not break me?
This Control Freak will not Marry me?
This book’s plot will not define me?
OK, serious thinking ahead… watch out!
Seriously Hordely P*tient Title:
This Power Will Not Corrupt Me
Amusing science-y title?
This Quantum Realm Will Not Entangle Me (Maggie The Undying Physicist)
Dog’s and/or Cat’s glitter title:
This Hair Will Not Choke Me
This Tail Will Not Trip Me
This Glaring Eye Will Not Unnerve Me
Dr. Demento-y title:
This Banjo Will Not Pick Me
This Piano Will Not Man Me
This Boss Will Not Run Me
Innkeeper Chronicles-ish title(s):
Barsa, Barsa, Barsa, Barsa, Barsa, Barsa! (This Barsa Will Not Barsa Me — [excessively wavy jazz hands])
This Werewolf Will Not Eat Me — Maggie The Undying Romantic
This Vampire Will Not Bite Me — Maggie The Undying Optimist
This Quillonian Will Not Cook Me — Maggie The Undying Sous Chef
This Empress Will Not Dare Me — Maggie The Undying Innkeeper
Kait Daniels-ish title: (Maggie The Undying Immortal)
This Kitty Will NOT Snuggle Me — “You’re a fool, Your Furriness.”
Hidden Legacy-ish title: (Maggie The Undying Prime)
This Prime Will Not Break Me — “Eat dirt and die, Mad Rogan.”
The Inheritance-ish title(s): (Maggie The Undying DeBRA)
This Breach Will Not Trap Me
This Combat Talent Will Not Betray Me
I have more ideas, but I probably need to rein them in a little…
Cheers and “Barsa, barsa!”
+ 1 for the barsa one, hehehe
This Isekai will not Immolate me!
I think I have a decent guess. This Kidnapping Will Not Derail Me! Maggie still has shit that needs to be done. You know she will find a way.
This World Will Not Kill Me!
I must say that the Horde is very clever!!! I was very impressed with the entries 🙂
So mine is:
This wait (for the next book) will not drive me to distraction (or at least I need to keep telling myself that!)
Apologies if it has already been entered…
My serious guess is This Magic Will Not Change Me.
But obviously it SHOULD be This Alphahole Will Not Bamboozle Me.
This Kingdom Will Not Defeat Me
-or-
This Sambokat Will Not Tempt Me
… who am I kidding. It will always tempt me.
This Snippet will not Satisfy Me
This Bastard Will Not Marry Me
(only submitted because we’ve been getting Solentine snippets)
or my favorite:
This Author Will Not Spoiler Me
I hope no one else posted this one. I was trying to read through them all but there is a lot. lol
This Book will not emotionally destroy me.
Just got this in my inbox, from a favorite author of mine Meghan Ciana Doige, she “Absolutely adored Ilona Andrews new release: TKWNKM”. We might have a new Horde member. ;o)
This Kingdom will not Keep Me
Oooo! I like this one!
This Knight Will Not Know Me
This Duke Will Not Distract Me
This Intrigue Will Not Destroy Me
This Kingdom Will Not Rule Me
Try again? May I?
This Lifetime will not Limit Me.
Umm This BONDAGE Will Not BREAK Me?
This Dying will not Conquer Me!
This Timeline Will Not Defeat Me.
This Crimson Wave Will Not Devour Me (for when they battle/defend Rellas from the Crimson Empire).
This Maelstrom (bedlam?) Will Not Unmoor Me.
Now I know how hard it is to try to be a writer, dang, it was fun to try to create some though👍👍, even if I end up feeling like I just used a theasarus and it shows as a try too hard result lol.
This psycho will not end me or this nutcase if you prefer
This Family Will Not Boss Me (Much)
I’m totally in it for the fam, lol!
This numbnut will not ruin me
This Battle Will Not Break Me
This Dumdum Will Not Destroy Me (Silveren does not deserve our respect ‘cos’ he’s a meanie!)
This Duke Will Not Dominate Me (Ramond – get yourself in line!)
This Stelka Will Not Submerge me (in fish)
This is fun!
This World will not Break me
THIS PLOT WILL NOT STUMBLE ME!
THIS DURSAN WILL NOT EAT ME!
THIS MAGE WILL NOT OUTLAST ME!
This is fun:))
This War Will Not Defeat Me?
This Stelka will not feed me
This Hellhole Will Not Defeat Me
😁🤪
This heart will not betry me
lota of great ideas! love them!
This Future will not Break me
This Future will not Unmake me
This Dursan will not Eat me
This Kingdom will not Eject me
thanks for the funsies!
happy writing, IA fam.✒️
This Horde will not ‘ship me
This Triangle will not Trip me
This Steve will not Ferret me
This War will not Warp me
This World wil not Change Me
This Plot will not Steamroll Me
Apologies if already suggested, but with this summer weather, how about “This heat will not melt me?”
Fun post! Thank you fellow Hoardians for your creativity and humor.
This Wait will not Consume Me.
This World will not Destroy me
or, really – This alphahole will not constrain me
Though I will say, barsa barsa barsa barsa barsa barsa has been my favorite title submission comment so far!
This Fish Will Not Scare Me
This Cliffhanger Will Not Kill Me.
This Treasury Will Not Tax Me.
This Soap Will Finally Clean Me.
No seriously, I’m a bit concerned about the Treasury of Rallas. There are mentioned several times as highly dangerous, and Everard warned Maggie right at the beginning that they would need to figure out the books until Treasury knocks on their door.
This Duke will not Rail Me
This Duke Will Not Save Me. Maggie the Undying can save herself which she has proven several times.
This Horde Will Not Perceive me! *hide face emoji*
This Struggle will not Stop Me
This Man will not Move Me
This Magic will not Master Me
This Blade will not Buy/Break Me
This Quest will not Quell Me
This Fight will not Finish Me
This Death will not Defeat Me
This Evil will not End Me
I love the last three. Kudos.
This Darkness will not Suffocate me
This Selka will not Take Over the Kingdom
May cool winds blow to those that need them.
This Timeline Will Not Erase Me!
This Duke Will Not Dupe Me
or more realistically:
This Kingdom Will Not Break Me
This Future Will not Hold Me
ooo, this one is good
The Proofread Will Not Find Errors
Mod R, now I want Mango cupcakes. Surely some Horde member has a good recipe… (also enjoyed the BDH creativity and silliness 🙂).
This City Will Not Crush Me
This Love Will Not Change Me
This Empire Will Not Envelop Me
This Wait will not Kill me (probably!)
Loving how everyone is getting into this 🙂
This Crown Will Not Corrupt Me
This Timeline Will Not Thwart Me.
…. and there were so many great suggestions that made my week really, go BDH!
This Setback will not stop me… thinking of that ending 😆
This Villain Will Not Kiss Me
my suggestion for the title:
This Decision Will Not Limit Me.
can’t wait for the real title. looking forward to the book.
This duke will not marry me
This Empire Will Not Crush Me
This World Will Not Burn for Me
ok,it is an extra word but the book cover would be so cool!
A reference back to Hidden Legacy too!
This Exultant Call will not hold me.
This chronology will not defy me.
This Duke will not forget me.
(And forget to mention that he’s alive)
This welcome will not be reinstated.
This World Will Not Burn Afore Me?
These Worlds Will Not Burn Before Me?
just trying to get the wording right….
This Realm Will Not Restrain Me
Catching up on the blog and basking in the horde‘s enthusiasm after a real life mandated interruption – so, late to the party, but very good to be back.
This Beast Will Not Best Me
OK. Now this title challenge will not release me. I‘m obsessing a bit here.
We need emotion, we need ambiguity, we need Maggie‘s indomitable spirit, we need Silveren’s choices between redemption and revenge, and we need … alliteration!
This Wrath Will Not Ruin Me
this long wait will not break me
this book 2 (and 3 and 4) will not be enough for me
this SOAP will not SOFTEN me!
This SHOE will not BREAK me
Late, but here goes nothin’:
This Villain Will Not Slay Me
This Love Will Not Stop Me
This Magic Will Not End Me
This Editor Will Not Delete Me
This Sambocade Will Not Tempt Me
ooooh, a small chance to one of them: “This Magic Will Not Make Me”
This man/voice will not control me
This Domain will not Diminish Me
This Battle will not Break me…
Very late to the party so not sure if this has been guessed already??
This King Will Not Keep Me
I’ll go with a small change to the first books title – This kingdom will not break/change/mute/love me
This Empire Will Not Save Me
This plot twist will not deter me. Alternatively, This death will not destroy me.
This Conflict Will Not Conquer Me
This War Will Not Weaken Me
This Dursan Will Not Devour Me
This Stelka Will Not Snack On Me
This Sambocade Will Not Satiate Me
Here goes nothing:
This situation will not bore me
This Tower Will Not Take Me
This Hope Will Not Forsake Me
Late to the game but
This fire will not burn me.
This Duchy will not consume me
This Reality will not Erase me.
This business will not bankrupt me
This Magic will not Corrupt Me
This author will not side character me
This isekai will not return me
This Horde Will Not Guess Me