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Bestselling author of historical fiction including THE ARCTIC FURY and the Five Queendoms epic fantasy series (SCORPICA, ARCA).
One of my favorite ongoing book event series (serieses?) is Friends and Fiction, and I’m beyond honored to be participating in their show for the second time! The main event tonight is V.E. Schwab (who I looooove) talking about her new book GALLANT, and I’ll be on the 15-minute aftershow, my first public virtual event for SCORPICA.
It’s all on the Friends & Fiction page.
Another fun interview as we celebrate the release of SCORPICA (yaaaaay!) I talked with Female First to share five things I’d like my readers to know about me. So check it out if you want to know, for example, just how tiny my hometown was, or what the R in “G.R. Macallister” stands for.
I’m honored beyond belief to have SCORPICA featured on Mary Robinette Kowal’s blog in her ongoing series “My Favorite Bit.” Now, the bit of SCORPICA I picked is pretty spoiler-y, but on the other hand, it only spoils things that happen in the first 50 pages. Basically, it’s a birth scene like no other.
Ready to read? Click here.
You’ll see a lot of interviews popping up about SCORPICA as it hits shelves this week (!!!), and here’s one of my favorites: Take Five at Writer Unboxed. I’m a longtime contributor at the site, writing monthly about everything from gifts for the writer in your life to the responsibility of world-building to tips for a great cover reveal. But every once in a while, instead of writing a post, I get to be the interview subject! So I answered five questions about SCORPICA.
The headline says it all! BookBub! All platforms! Snap it up here!
Too much going on! It feels excessive to post more than once a day, but I don’t know how long this deal will last, so I’m posting now — Indigo has a 30% pre-order sale going on select “Most Anticipated” titles, and guess who’s included? That’s right! So if you’re in Canada and you want your copy of Scorpica, hurry up and pre-order here.
You may have entered a Goodreads giveaway for SCORPICA before, and I’ve even seen reviews on Goodreads from winners, which is great! And a new giveaway just launched that’s different from the previous ones — this time you can win finished hardcover copies! I just got my own box and they’re beautiful. Here’s a snapshot, in fact.
Click here to enter on Goodreads!
(And this one’s US-only, but there’s an Instagram tour going on this week for the UK edition, and there are UK-only giveaways associated with that! So you can search the #Scorpica hashtag on Instagram to turn those up.)
Obviously I’m not the only one who fell head-over-heels for Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” a moody, creepy-tense dual-timeline thriller about a girls’ soccer team marooned in the wilderness and driven to extremes to survive. Now that the first season is over, what can fans do to fill the vacuum? Well, Paste Magazine has some great suggestions of books to read while you wait, and you can imagine my delight to see THE ARCTIC FURY on the list! And Lacy Baugher Milas’s summary is on point:
A dual timeline thriller about 13 women who are tragically stranded in a remote wilderness and the fallout that ensues when not all of them return? Is this Yellowjackets: The Novel? No, it’s Greer Macallister’s The Arctic Fury, a thrilling piece of historical fiction that follows a group of extraordinary women sent in search of the lost Franklin Expedition.
Check out the whole list, including Alma Katsu’s Donner Party-inspired The Hunger and Grady Hendrix’s horror remix The Final Girl Support Group, here at this link.
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!
