SPOILER WARNING: We will going to be talking openly about This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me characters and plot points in the comments.
If you haven’t finished the book yet, consider this your affectionate BDH nudge of encouragement to do it and come join the Horde party. Come back when you’re ready!
Because the Maggie vellums have been arriving in Horde homes, a very important question has emerged: where is everyone putting them?
There is no official placement for the vellums. They’re character art of Clover, Arvel, Sleepless Duke, Solentine, Man from the Garden and the Sun Margrave – where they live is entirely up to you.
Based on comments and the Facebook fan group though, the BDH wants to compare notes!
Have you already found the perfect home for each one? Vote below for your general vellum philosophy, then come tell us the specifics in the comments.
And if you’re still making up your mind, this is the perfect place to browse everyone else’s choices and be inspired!
If you missed out on vellums this time around, don’t despair! There will be future opportunities to get them. You can use today’s debate to plan ahead and have your placements all picked out by the time they arrive.
And as a treat to send you into the weekend, I didn’t want you all to miss this Insta reel. Look, look, Fatefire, sqeeeeee!
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Friday First 🏆
Squeee!!! It’s been a week – something to smile about starting the weekend and Sunday birthday (57). Thanks Mod R for everything you do to keep House Andrews running and herding the might Horde!
Hi Darlene, we share a birthday. I will be 59 so happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday Darlene and Caroline!
Mine are going to be displayed in a frame on my wall in my yarn/home office (3 years & counting til retirement!) so I can look at All My Pretties whenever I want. 🙂
I was going to put them in the standard Amazon copy of the book but I read it so often – randomly picking it up whenever I have a moment I think they would be damaged. So I bought an Owlcrate edition but it’s all sealed! So I didn’t open it. Then I got in on the Midnight Whispers edition. Maybe I’ll out them in that one!
Please unseal the plastic from your Owlcrate special edition. The plastic is not “archive grade” so your book could get mold from humidity building up inside the plastic. The plastic is only meant for shipping.
I haven’t ordered vellum, but they are really cute. I am, however, still obsessively checking the internet for a copy of the owl crate edition so I can read the bonus chapter. I’m sure I am in good company with many in our Horde. Sigh. Must continue w*iting. Hope everyone has a great Friday.
We are ALL hoping to get an owlcrate edition. Those people are jacking up prices left and right bc of the demand. I wished they make more.
What bonus chapter?
The OwlCrate Special Edition contains exclusive content, a short story that describes the events you will discover in the first chapter of Maggie 2. I wouldn’t call it another chapter, but that is the name that seems to have stuck. https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-special-editions/
The content will be exclusive to OwlCrate for a period of 2 years.
I put mine in the front of the book together and next read through will likely put them into the pages!
I’ll have to come back later to tell you exactly where I put mine but the thicker ones I really want to put into frames and have them on my bookshelf or hanging.
I don’t have the vellums yet, but plan to put them at my favorite scene for the character.
Cool. Canadian, here. No vellum. LOVE the books. Follow the blog since early COVID, and thank you from the bottom of my soul for it. It was a tough couple of years. Snippets?
I placed my vellums where each character reveals themselves in significant ways. Clover when she tells her backstory and then asks if the food is not delicious. Everard and his fatefire in the square. So not the first appearance but when you really see them for who they are.
Same!
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Same!
My placement is a mix of first appearance and meaningful scenes, because I place the vellum in the first scene that matches the art. I placed the man from the garden at the dog market scene and the Sleepless Duke at the big reveal, rather than when he first technically appears. Clover is placed at the beginning of the chapter when she is sharing her back story, etc. I’ve moved them back and forth between facing left and facing right so many times. These were so fun to place!!!
”Sulks in european who have not yet had the chanse to get Vellums”
If i had them i would place them in were the characters first show up at least to begin with.
Do you have any news regarding a possible postponement of the *Beast Business* audiobook? I can’t find it anywhere.
The preorder is not live yet, that’s why you cannot find it.
The audio files are complete, the book exists. However, there is a lot of work happening behind the scenes to sort out distribution for it atm. We will update as soon as we have news, thank you so much for your patience 🙂
I didn’t get the vellum copies. At the time I didn’t have the physical copy of the book. 🙂
That Instagram showing of Fatefire was cool. Dangerous but cool. 🗡
I’m still w*iting p*tiently for UK orders to start. I guess I’ll be evntually putting mine either where the character first appears in the book, or the scene where the pic looks like it is happening 😊
My Imagine books TKWNKM arrived today I’d forgot there were 2 vellum included so *happy dance!!* I didn’t have to decide where to place them because they put a note in saying which pages they go.
Also SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE at seeing Fatefire in action!! 😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩
That reel was SO cool!! Really puts into perspective how terrifying that would be on a battlefield.
I’m putting the vellums at my favorite scenes. THE reveal scene for you know who, the ball for Arvel, etc.
I’ll get vellums on the next go around. At the first offering, I didn’t have a physical copy, wasn’t sure if I’d get one, and was trying to A Responsible Adult and not just grab the preciouses because they were the preciouses.
Midnight Whispers edition is on order, so Woo Hoo! I can make an argument (to myself) that getting the vellums is now A Responsible Adult decision. Because I will have a physcial copy and the physical copy neeeeeds vellum.
Of course, I didn’t think about the agony of deciding where to put them . . . right now I like Gericke’s approach.
If we get vellums in the UK, mine will be going in my favourite scene for the character – and of course that scene might change from time to time but that’s why the vellums would be so fun to have. Is there any update on progress with the non-USA vellums please?
I’m with you in the UK and this does sound like a plan. well wait until the store opens on the UK once a supplier is found. but hopefully if that has to be postponed because right now things postage wise are a bit crazy in UK and Europe, and the books in progress have to take presidence, I’m all about the books so will have to wait Pat*ently for extra goodies
I placed most of mine the first time Maggie describes the characters as they are depicted in the velum image. I also got the imagine books velum as well as the ones from the Ilona Andrews shop, so here is where I placed all my vellums:
Map: the map page lol
Man in the garden: page 34
Solentine: page 49
Clover: page 110 right at the start of part 2
Everard(s)(one from IA site and one from imagine books, I put the IA site first): page 233 and pages 243
Lord arvell: page 430
Everard and Maggie (from imagine books velum): page 441
Sun margrave: page 454
And I put my sushi and Maggie bookmark at the beginning when they first meet too!
I think that’s it!
Squuuuuuueeeeeeee!!
That was awesome!!!
Love the green fire reel! so much better and more dramatic than I was imaging. 😊
I’m probably going to frame mine (with a white piece of paper behind so the image shows better). I just love this artwork, especially of Clover and the Sun Margrave. Those 2 are done really well.
Mod R, do you think there will be a vellum of Maggie herself?
My vellums are scheduled to arrive today.
::checks tracking::
It’s at the P.O.Box! Yea!!
Argh! I don’t have time to go to the post office today! Boo! It will have to wait until Monday…
::pout::
I havent pyt mine in yet but I plan to put them in for first appearance on all characters except for Clover.
For her, I’m debating on where to place because the tense situation she’s first seen in doesnt feel right for the more assured and self-possessed representation of her in the vellum.
I’m thinking in one of the earlier times in organizing the house, maybe when she is particularly bossy or instructive to Maggie!
also still debating which I will place in the book and which I will do something else, since I got both sets!
They are staying in their packaging as I am moving early next year. Safe and sound
I literally just got/opened mine!! Omg they look AMAZING!! Such quality. Super pleased. Thank you so much 🙂
My vellum collection is proudly displayed on my Author Lords section of the bookcase!
I ordered a thingy from a different book special edition that displays vellums like in a window and you can put an electric tea light behind it so it will be illuminated. That’s where I think I’ll put 1 and rotate them. I did get both sets though, so I will probably put 1 set in the book, where the character feels impactful and also matches what they are depicted as doing/wearing. 🤷♀️
Thanks for the clip!
Well that was a fun video. Thanks! I keep moving my vellum. Haven’t decided where they’re going to live.
Love the green fate fire!🔥 I haven’t received my Vellum yet but expect to place them near the character’s first meaningful scenes.
That really puts into contrast reality versus fiction (or I guess versus old school warriors from history). He looks super fit, yet just swinging that big sword a few times and he sounds winded.
I bought two, one went into the shredder so my other one would be more valuable. (Sorry, I could not help trolling a little).
Loved the fatefire!
Is there any chance of us getting our greedy hands on the full story of Solentine going back home and Everard’s aunt extra until the end of the year or the extras can only be released after the last book in the series is published?
Sorry for the anxiety! Major abstinence vibes here! 😀
I’m in Canada, and I plan to buy the vellum version when I can. Is there any chance you’ll also offer it as a regular illustration? If so, I’ll definitely buy both.
For regular art prints, please head over to the artist’s website 🙂 https://www.helenaillustrated.com/artshop
Mine are going on the wall in shadow box frames with LED lighting behind them.
I got both sets (with and without border). the set without the border is going in the book at the character’s first appearance. The set with the border is getting framed.
That Fatefire is very cool, but had it been really wielded by our Duke he would have got all the pallet at the end!
Opened mine yesterday. Currently, they reside approximately where they first appear, but I expect things will move a bit the next time I reread the physical book.
I usually reread the ebook, since it’s less wear on the book, easier to haul around, and I can switch from the iPad to the phone if charging is needed or I am not home.
Well, one set is in the book. I haven’t decided what to do with the second set…
GREAT topic. I wanted to know the answer to this question or if there was an official placement.
I’m in NZ so won’t be in this particular party unless I can order them and you bring to Australia because if I can get a ticket will going over to meet you.
Has there been any progress on selling it in Europe? I hesitated with the first batch because I kept waiting for that and am kind of frustrated with myself for that. More local shipping would be great, but I don’t want to miss out on these waitig for that.