Scorpica in paperback - a great holiday gift!
If you’ve been waiting for Scorpica to come out in paperback, wait no more! You can buy it from your local independent bookstore, Barnes and Noble, other bookstores, or online.
Want a sense of what’s inside? This was a fun little graphic to put together:
get in on this Goodreads giveaway!
The paperback release of SCORPICA is right around the corner! November 15, a couple Tuesdays from now.
To celebrate, my publisher is running a 100-copy giveaway of the paperback on Goodreads — so be sure to enter to win!
(But don’t rule out pre-ordering your own paperback either — there’s an announcement coming soon on what that might win you! Stay tuned…)
have you seen the cover of ARCA?
The paperback of SCORPICA is coming out shortly, but of course in publishing we’re always living in both the present and the future — so don’t forget that ARCA, second book in the Five Queendoms series, comes out this spring! Right now the release date is March 7 (but you know how release dates are.)
If you haven’t seen the absolutely breathtaking cover of ARCA, rush to check it out now! The official reveal was part of this Saga Press roundup post at Tor.com. Soooo pretty.
(And did I mention you can pre-order? You can pre-order anywhere you get your books, including my longtime fave One More Page.)
sharing surprises!
Hello! I know it’s been quiet around here, but surprise! I’m back. Hoping to get back in the saddle, updating this blog regularly. For one thing, the second book in the Five Queendoms series is now available for preorder, and it has a GORGEOUS cover, and I’ll be talking plenty about that in the months to come!
But for now, just a quick update! My latest Writer Unboxed post is about the power of surprise (hence the title of this post) — surprise for your characters, surprise for your readers, and surprise for the writer, too.
Read about the power of surprise.
(And stay tuned for more soon!)
Events coming up for SCORPICA!
Hi there! If you’re in the greater DC area, you have two chances to hear me talk about SCORPICA in the coming weeks! These are on my Events page also, but here’s the key info for the locals:
March 2 at 6:30pm — the Eldersburg Branch of CCPL, presented by A Likely Story. Register here.
March 9 at 7pm — One More Page Bookstore, Arlington, VA. Register here.
Hope to see you soon!
this interview has a lot of character!
So I’ve been an interviewer (many times) and I’ve been interviewed (many times), but this one is a first for me: I was asked to interview one of my characters! At first I wasn’t sure how that would work, but when I mentally flipped through a list of the characters in my most recent book (it’s a long list), I realized there was one who would lend herself perfectly to an interview.
Fasiq is many things: an actual giant, the leader of a bandit gang, a charismatic and confident speaker, a legend in her own mind. And when readers talk about their favorite characters from Scorpica, she often tops the list. So I realized she’d be the perfect subject for such an interview, and for a person who’s pretty secretive, she had a lot to say.
great review for SCORPICA from Booklist!
Yay, another great review to share! You can read the Booklist review in full on their site if you’re a subscriber — here’s the link.
But in case you can’t get behind the paywall, my publisher has pulled out the most exciting bit and made it oh so pretty! I love it when they do that.
Goodreads giveaway for SCORPICA -- enter now!
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!
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.