new year, new giveaway for SCORPICA!

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Hello! It’s 2022! It’s snowing like blazes here in DC. My kids couldn’t be more excited. I couldn’t be gladder that we don’t actually need to go anywhere today. Heavy snow like this is very pretty to watch… from inside the warm, dry comfort of the house.

And here’s some more good news—if you can’t wait until February to get your hands on my matriarchal epic fantasy debut SCORPICA, you can enter to win a copy at Goodreads!

Speaking of Goodreads, though I probably shouldn’t read my reviews there—these reviews are for readers, not authors—I can’t help it, and it puts such a smile on my face to read praise like this:

This is more than a woman's story or women's stories. This is a woman's world. The Drought of Matriarchal Fantasy is over. And I am so here for it.

When I say everyone, I mean everyone needs to read this book. I don't care if you don't like fantasy, I don't care if you hate women—actually, I do care; women are gorgeous, talented, unstoppable beings and they deserve everything—just read it.

Want to win a copy and read SCORPICA for yourself? Click here for the details.

best feminist fantasy books of 2021 at CHIRB!

A narrowing-down, in list form:

  • I read so many great books this year

  • So many of them were published in 2021

  • So many of those published in 2021 were in the fantasy genre

  • So many of those shone a light on women’s rights in a way I’d categorize as feminist

So lo and behold! My round-up of best feminist fantasy books of 2021 was born. I pulled together a short list for Chicago Review of Books, ranging from retellings of myth (The Witch’s Heart, Ariadne) to YA stories of war (The Gilded Ones) to a completely re-imagined version of The Great Gatsby (The Chosen and the Beautiful).

Check out hthe full list here.

SCORPICA makes its first Most Anticipated list!

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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.

new Goodreads giveaway for SCORPICA!

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The headline says it all here, people — you can win SCORPICA from Goodreads! 50 advance copies are up for grabs. Enter by November 29.

Don’t know what SCORPICA is about, by chance? It’s all the strong women, powerful emotions, and twisty plots you loved in my historical novels — but taking a turn into classic epic fantasy, with magic and gods and monsters in a matriarchal world.

Enter here!

Goodreads giveaway for SCORPICA -- enter now!

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When I said the good news keeps coming I didn’t realize even MORE was coming today! My publisher Saga Press is giving away 100 advance copies of Scorpica over on Goodreads, so if you’re reading this and it isn’t October 4th yet, you could win one of them! But not if you don’t get your entry in. (As the lottery commercials used to say, you can’t win if you don’t play.)

Hop over to Goodreads and enter now!

pre-order your signed copy of SCORPICA today!

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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.

Request an e-galley of SCORPICA from NetGalley!

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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.

Here’s that NetGalley link.

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!”

DRC of SCORPICA up at Edelweiss!

What’s a DRC, you might be asking?

I was also not familiar with the term until I saw a tweet yesterday that a DRC of my upcoming fantasy novel SCORPICA is now available on Edelweiss!

(And for the follow-up question, Edelweiss is a digital catalog system primarily used by booksellers and librarians to figure out current and upcoming books and order them from the publisher. I think.)

If you have an Edelweiss account, you too can get your mitts on a DRC—which stands for Digital Review Copy—of my feminist spin on Game of Thrones set in a matriarchal world thrown into chaos when girls stop being born.

Click here to make it happen.