The Five Queendoms in the spotlight at Fangirlish!

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Lots of fun new things have been happening and I know I’m terribly behind on updating you all, so here’s a little tidbit for starters. Loved seeing Scorpica (and really the whole Five Queendoms series) highlighted at Fangirlish as fantasy they’d love to see on TV!

This series (with two books currently published and more planned) feels made for a lengthy TV show. Its complicated, morally-gray characters are cast across several locations and storylines, which occasionally intersect and then diverge again. Both brutal and beautiful, it’s a vibrant, cinematic, and complex world that seems like a natural fit for a long-running adaptation.


Obviously, I agree!

Read the whole piece here.

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.

enter to win a signed galley of ARCA by pre-ordering SCORPICA in paperback!

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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:

get in on this Goodreads giveaway!

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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!

Here’s where you do that.

(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…)

coming to the Texas Book Festival!

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Hi there! Such fun stuff happening this fall! First of all, New York ComicCon was an absolute blast. Also, did you know SCORPICA will be available in paperback in just a couple short weeks? Yay!

Last but not least for today, I’ll be appearing at the Texas Book Festival this weekend and I absolutely cannot wait! It’ll be my first book festival in quite a while. I’ve got a panel on Saturday, November 5, in conversation with Rebecca Roanhorse: it’s called “Big Fantasy” and it’s going to be awesome.

Hop on over to the festival site for details!