From Mod R: If it’s Friday, it’s winner time! The much-coveted prize of last week’s Secret Giveaway was a galley of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying 1), the new fantasy isekai series by Ilona Andrews. A galley is a plain-bound (no illustrated cover, sprayed edges, very likely pre copy-edits version of
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A Secret Giveaway
We do not have a Hugh for you today. It’s been a very challenging week. My desk broke, and I bought a new one. I remember when standing desks were $3,000. I bought a height adjustable desk for $100. Then, when I finally decided to decompress and fire up Avowed, it helpfully warned me that
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All the Questions
Mod R presented me with a list of questions. Let us get to it. When will the preorder be availlable? We don’t know. Well, that was easy. The usual MO is to wait until the cover is done because people tend to preorder in higher numbers once the cover is up. Maybe having the cover
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Maggie The Undying: Title Reveal
We interrupt this scheduled broadcast with breaking news. Text of the Announcement: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews Game of Thrones meets Outlander in This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me When Maggie wakes up, cold, naked, and filthy in Kair Toren, a city in the kingdom of Rellas, she recognizes it immediately.
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Housekeeping, Discounts, and Polls
We have some housekeeping items for you thing morning. Graphic Audio Innkeeper Sale The Innkeeper series is 40% off on the Graphic Audio website. From their promo Her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave
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It’s Friday. How…
How? We have company coming. Gordon’s cousin is arriving to help out with the release and merch store. Frantic cleaning has occurred. We had added website log to all the designs in the merch store because there was a string of comments wanting it and now we decided against it. It doesn’t fit into the
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Maggie and Tor Questions
Look at the size of this question list. When is the release date for the first book? Tentative release is first quarter of 2026. Why so long? For a number of marketing and editorial reasons. Everyone wants this book to be the best it can be. Editing will take a little longer because this is
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Maggie the Undying: Acquisition Press Release
This was not the way this was supposed to go. ::looks at Reddit:: However, hiding anything from BDH is impossible Tor Books is thrilled to announce a legendary new acquisition from #1 New York Times bestselling author duo Ilona Andrews: an original epic fantasy romance saga that blends elements of heroic fantasy, romantasy, portal isekai, and D&D
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All The Maggie Questions
Mod R has compiled a very long list of questions you had about Maggie and self-publishing, so here are some answers. What are your reasons for going the traditional publishing route as I understood you were done with it? Self publishing allowing you more freedom over your writing schedule? We need to get back in
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