The festival was amazing. We thought we were well prepared. I brought 175 pieces of vellum, 10 maps, 100 bookmarks, 250 bookplates. I thought we would have to drag some of it back. We were not well prepared. So imagine this old library with beautiful marble facade in the middle of a
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Winner of the ACOBAM Giveaway, Australia, and Orders
Congratulations to Ntombi, the winner of US Hardcover ACOBAM giveaway. Congratulations to Tajanka, the winner of the International Ebook ACOBAM giveaway. We will be reaching out to both winners asking for contact details. If we cannot reach a winner in 3 days, a different winner will be
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This Kingdom is Best So Far
Tor sent over a little something, and by “little something” I mean THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME has been featured on not one but two of Amazon’s Best Books of 2026 So Far lists! Maggie is at number 14 on Amazon’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2026 So Far And also
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A Public Apology to Becka Moon
When we were first working on Kair Toren, we commissioned a map from Becka Moon of Becka Designs Cartography. Becka is a map artist who works with Inkarnate. To clarify before some misunderstanding might occur: Inkarnate is not generative AI and has never been one. It is illustrative software
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The Golden Butterflies
Warning: this post contains mild non-essential spoilers for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me and a discussion of insects. The golden butterflies of Ciste. So lovely, so deadly, and surprisingly rooted in reality. This is Calyptra thalictri, otherwise known as vampire moth. It is thought that
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Hello, Hello
I've received a concerned email asking if Something Bad happened due to my prolonged blog absence. This is the actual wordcount. 7 scenes left. This is a massive epic story. This sounds terrible, but neither one of us want to take anything out. We could tighten some scenes, but taking
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Happy Book Birthday to A Curse of Beasts and Magic
By now everyone probably knows that Jeaniene Frost is my BFF, so I am very biased, but I loved this book. Raine Stone is living a nightmare. Ever since she survived the attack that killed her family, she’s been hiding a terrible secret–and a Beast inside her. It feeds on violence and chaos,
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Diamond Fire GA is Out
Hello, everybody. Mod R is taking a few days off, which are very deserved. The blog is now back in my incapable hands, muhahaha! I owe you a tour write-up, which will be posted tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who came to see us! I will report on cities, hotels, funky travel, yarn, and delicious
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Admin Stuff
We are getting closer to the release of This Kingdom and we are still very snowed in with the deadlines. Quick news and admin things: We are in the internet blackout for the next 2 weeks, while we work on the book and tour. Mod R will be taking the wheel. Our store is closing tonight and
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Art, Owlcrate, and Other Things
Good morning. By now most of you probably have seen the Owlcrate edition announcement for the special edition of This Kingdom. For those of you who haven't, here it is, I stole it for you from Instagram. If you are viewing this post through your email, here is a direct link. View this
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25 Minutes
That's how much time I have for the blog post today. I have a fancy and semi-intelligent post in drafts about Fantasy genres and it need more braining than I have at the moment. So this is a rambling salad of randomness instead. On Monday we got a massive attack of Chinese IPs and the site has
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