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Bestselling author of historical fiction including THE ARCTIC FURY and the Five Queendoms epic fantasy series (SCORPICA, ARCA).
Have you been listening to Worldbuilding for Masochists? What a fab podcast. Thrilled to be an invited guest, especially when the topic is near and dear to my heart. I had a great time recording this episode, talking about how gender intersects with other world building concerns. Because a god complex is a terrible thing to waste!
Ooh, here’s another fun one! Paste Magazine did a roundup of the most anticipated fantasy books coming in 2023, and guess who’s there? ARCA, by yours truly!
Couldn’t agree with this more:
“Too many people slept on Scorpica, the first installment in G.R. McAllister’s sweeping Five Queendoms series, an epic tale about a matriarchal society in which a decade passes without a single daughter being born. Time to fix your life with sequel Arca, which deals with the political fallout, as multiple powerful women scheme and maneuver against each other.”
Check out the whole list here.
New year, new book, always an exciting time! And I’m thrilled to see ARCA popping up on lists of books to watch for in 2023. It’s not out until March 7, but you can of course pre-order it now, and the buzz is building…
Here’s a fun example! ARCA is one of “13 New Fantasy Books to Make Your Year Extra Magical” at PopSugar.
Check out what they have to say about ARCA: “It's ‘Game of Thrones’ without dragons but with a matriarchal society packed with power plays and epic battles.“ More here.
Check out the full list here.
More to come…
Ooh fun! If you’re excited for the next book in the Five Queendoms series, you’ll want to get your entry in on this one!
Advance copies of ARCA are up for grabs on Goodreads — enter to win!
Welcome to 2023! Hope we all have an exciting and productive year ahead. I’ve got ARCA coming out in March, so you’ll see a lot of talk about that, but I hope to be able to share some other news soon as well! Secrets, always secrets, shhhhh.
Anyway! I’m kicking off the New Year at Writer Unboxed by musing about habits, good and bad, and how we can cast off some of the latter for the former, especially where writing is concerned.
When I named one of the five queendoms in my new fantasy series Arca, I did not foresee that the second book in the series would be named after that queendom. Because I would probably have called it something different if I had thought about how awkward it is to say “Hey, do you want an ARCA ARC?”
(ARC stands for Advance Readers Copy, the copies they print ahead of time for reviewers and booksellers and buzz, and it’s always capitalized, and… sigh. At least we can also call them ARCA galleys, which sounds less goofy.)
Anyway! If you loved SCORPICA and want your own advance copy of ARCA, great news! You can enter to win on Goodreads here.
Good luck!
Yes, I do tend to focus on my new releases around here, but of course, all my other books are also out there in the world! I’m particularly tickled that right around this time of year, when chilly weather descends, The Arctic Fury sees a big spike in readership. (In particular, it looks great against the backdrop of newly fallen snow on Instagram!)
So this is particularly well-timed news: The Arctic Fury is deeply discounted in e-book form during the month of December, and as of this writing, you can pick it up for less than $3 on several fave e-book platforms.
Links below!
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:
Hello! The paperback of SCORPICA will be here before we know it, on November 15!
Need a little nudge to get your order in before then? Well, if you pre-order and enter this giveaway, you’ll have a chance to win a signed galley of ARCA, the next book in the series! Which means not only a rare signed advance copy of the book, but you’ll find out what happens to these characters several months before everyone else! Cool, right?
Click here for the thingamabob for entry (not glam but it does the trick).
And remember, they’re only pre-orders until November 14, so order your copy before then! Where should you pre-order from? Literally anywhere. Here are a few of my favorite options: