These titles are getting longer and longer. Ahem. Drum roll, please! Apple books thinks that This Kingdom is the Best Of the Year So Far. Here is the link, but I think it only works if you are signed into Apple Books. “Explore a new world in this wickedly inventive portal
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The Special Editions and Horde Anxiety
The context of this post: Owlcrate released a premium edition of This Kingdom. It is a gorgeous book. It went out to their subscribers, and it is highly sought after on resale sites. They recently released the left over copies for general purchase and the copies sold out in something like 3 hours.
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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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The Vellum Media Preorder Is Open
::braces self: If you missed the previous post, here are the highlights: You can find the link to the store in the banner above or you can click this button. Update: as of now, the orders have exceeded the initial print run expectations by 50% 150%. We are at 500% 800% 1,200% of the
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Life, Merch, and Other Trauma
It is the weekend so Mod R is off. You are in my moderating hands. - Ilona Important merch news first: we will be opening for the vellum preorders on Monday. Availability Right now it is US only. Canada: The cheapest shipping is $20, takes 4 weeks, and there is no guarantee it gets
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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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Pack an Order with Us
I have a couple of posts I would like to write, but they must wait till tomorrow. A difficult scene is coming up, and it must be done right. The only way to do it to live through the emotions it requires. We will walk this path with Maggie, because that is the price we pay for
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This Kingdom Sells Vellum
UPDATE from ModR: "They've sold out before I got the chance to format the pictures and write the caption for Instagram…" Level of BDH chalantness: 100. Okay, let us get this processed. Here we go. ::deep breath:: We are doing the first trial run of This Kingdom Vellum Overlays. This is our
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This Kingdom Vellum Overlay Giveaway Winner
Happy Friday! The Random Number Generator performed its duty and gave us the winner of the vellum overlay set for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me: Congratulations, Erin Phillippi! I will contact Erin from the modr@ilona-andrews.com email address. If we don’t hear back by Thursday, May 14, a
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Cats and Bookmarks
I overslept, and my day started with an outraged cat. Over the past few days, a road crew has been working on the street next to our house. They are repaving it. The road is closed, and Gordon observed the workers having heated words with a driver of a delivery truck this morning. We might be
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This Kingdom Gives Away Vellum Overlays
We have beautiful overlays from Helena Elias, and today is you chance to win a set. We made you this video explaining what the overlays are, so you have a chance to listen to me in my Sell Products Online era. If you are reading this in your inbox and can't see the video, here is a direct link
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