had a blast on Worldbuilding for Masochists!

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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!

Give it a listen here.

ARCA buzz in Paste Magazine!

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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.

ARCA featured at PopSugar!

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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…

Writing habits for the new year!

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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.

Read it at Writer Unboxed.

Goodreads giveaway for ARCA galleys!

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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.

(Or here. Here works too.)

Good luck!

The Arctic Fury deeply discounted in December!

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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!

Barnes & Noble/Nook

Rakuten Kobo

Amazon Kindle