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Bestselling author of historical fiction including THE ARCTIC FURY and the Five Queendoms epic fantasy series (SCORPICA, ARCA).
Have I mentioned the hits just keep coming? They just. Keep. Coming. Each day brings some fresh delight. It’s been a really great way to start the month, to say the least.
Today’s spark of joy: Scorpica is on Bustle’s list of Most Anticipated Books of February 2022!
This good news brought February in with a bang! The Washington Post named Scorpica one of its “10 Noteworthy Books For February” — the Post is my local paper, and there’s always something extra-special about seeing my name and book title in their distinctive font.
And I love how they introduce the book: “If Brienne of Tarth or Éowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan, are your girls, Macallister has something for you.“
Subscribers can read the whole list here!
Yikes! All of a sudden, it’s February 2022, and I can say that my new book is coming out THIS MONTH!
And others are saying it, too, like this Tor.com list of February fantasy releases. And look how gorgeously the amber cover of SCORPICA pops out in the intro graphic! Love it, love it.
A kind reader just brought this deal to my attention: SCORPICA (and other forthcoming books) can be pre-ordered right now from Barnes & Noble for 25% off! That’s a nice discount!
Here’s the SCORPICA page. Don’t forget to use the code PREORDER25 for the discount.
The offer ends Friday, January 28, so get clicking!
Somehow I seem to have forgotten to mention that SCORPICA got a starred review from Kirkus. Possibly the shock of the good news knocked everything else out of my head for a bit. You can read the whole review here, and as usual, my publisher’s fabulous team has pulled out the most exciting and relevant bit to present in graphic form. Not everyone is reading my blog daily and knows all about this book, after all — we’ve got to get the word out to other readers who would love to read feminist fantasy set in a matriarchal world and just haven’t heard about SCORPICA yet!
It has been A Week around here and I have honestly lost track of what I’ve posted about and what I haven’t. Thank goodness I can look back at the blog itself and see.
So it looks like I haven’t shared this particular bit of good news yet: SCORPICA made The Nerd Daily’s list of Fantasy and Sci-Fi Book Releases to Devour in 2022!
The books are listed by month of release so you can set up your schedule for what to devour when, and I love seeing SCORPICA’s gorgeous cover (with art by Victo Nghi) pop out of a row like this:
Want to see all the other good stuff coming in the first half of the year for SFF fans? Take a look here.
I often get a heads-up on reviews, honors and other book-related news items, but not always. And sometimes the unexpected discoveries are extra-fun.
Like today, when I got a BookBub email with a link to “Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2022,” and of course I opened it and skimmed it, looking at the familiar names, and then — BOOM! Scorpica was right there with the likes of upcoming books from John Scalzi, Melissa Albert, Mike Chen, Tamsyn Muir, and other SFF luminaries.
Check out the list of 23 awesome reads here!
With the holiday season upon us, I know a book coming out in February seems like a really long way away — but December is also the time of year for Most Anticipated lists, so of course I’ve been keeping an eye out to see what lists SCORPICA might show up on. (Yes, it’s an unhealthy thing for writers to keep track of. A lot of us do it anyway.)
And yay! Here’s a fabulous list from FanFiAddict, rounding up FFA’s Most Anticipated Titles of 2022, with SCORPICA right there with other great company in February.
Check out the whole great list here.
And the good news just keeps comin’, y’all!
The link for signed copies of SCORPICA is now live at One More Page!
And on that page, there’s a little box so that if you want, in addition to the signature, you can get it personalized — to you or your cousin or your mom or whoever! it’s your show!
I’m on record about DC-area bookstore One More Page being my happy place, partly because in addition to books they also sell chocolate (!) and wine (!!), but in this case there’s an extra-relevant reason I’m directing readers their way: for a book that’s about women in charge, it just seems right to support a bookstore owned and staffed by, well, women in charge.
Here’s that link again. Pre-orders really move the needle on how much support a book gets in the months leading up to release, so it’s never too early to put in that pre-order, and it’ll ship to you the instant it comes out in February. Tell all your friends.
Fabulous news! My epic fantasy debut SCORPICA is now available as an e-galley from NetGalley, if you just can’t wait for February. You put in a request here, and if it’s approved, boom! Happy reading.
Want a reason to read? Here’s the utterly wonderful blurb from fabulous bestseller Kate Quinn: “Scorpica is Game of Thrones for all the ladies out there who loved Game of Thrones but hated its disappointing mad-queen finish: a richly-drawn fantasy world peopled by fierce women, smart women, warrior women, women to make you stand up and roar. A matriarchal quintet of queen-led nations is thrown into chaos when baby girls inexplicably stop being born, and the result is an intoxicating brew of court politics, deadly magic, family rivalry, and enough swashbuckling female swordplay to delight Wonder Woman's entire isle of Amazons. Macallister’s turn from historical fiction to historical fantasy is a gem--I can't wait for the next installment!”