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.

Read my interview with Fasiq here.

Kate Quinn interviews me about SCORPICA for CHIRB!

This was such a fun interview! As you probably know, for the past few years, Kate Quinn and I have both been writing historical fiction featuring extraordinary women. But did you know that before that, Kate wrote a fabulous series set in Ancient Rome? So I knew she’d be a great person to ask for a Scorpica blurb, and she was kind enough to give an absolutely smashing one.

Like the sword fight between Inigo and the Man in Black in The Princess Bride, our conversation ranged all over: from the similarities between historical fiction and epic fantasy (“it’s more like dog/wolf than dog/cat”), to the role of men in matriarchy, how we feel about fact-checking emails, and some of my latest reading recommendations.

Read it all here.

GIRL IN DISGUISE makes an appearance at CrimeReads!

Just a little palate-cleanser here in case you’re tired of hearing about SCORPICA! This is the great thing about having multiple books out in the world — you never know which one’s going to pop up when or where.

Deanna Raybourn, who writes the fabulous Veronica Speedwell mystery series, recently put together a great list of her “favorite books featuring a question of identity,” and was kind enough to include GIRL IN DISGUISE. I’ve already told her I want the first part of this sentence on my tombstone.

Greer Macallister is always a great bet, but in Girl in Disguise she outdoes herself, fictionalizing the career of Kate Warne, the first female Pinkerton detective.

Read: Who Do You Think You Are? A List of Identity-Switching Mysteries over at CrimeReads.

Friends & Fiction tonight!

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.

Five Things I'd Like My Readers To Know About Me

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.

It’s all here.

My Favorite Bit of SCORPICA

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.

Take Five at Writer Unboxed: all about SCORPICA!

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.

Click here for the interview.

THE ARCTIC FURY only $1.99 in ebook today!

The headline says it all! BookBub! All platforms! Snap it up here!

Canadian readers, want a discount on SCORPICA?

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.

last chance to win SCORPICA before 2/22/22!

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.)