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.

ARCA is now out in paperback!

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Hi there! Have you been waiting for the second book in the Five Queendoms series to become available in a soft-sided edition instead of the big ol’ chunky hardcover doorstop? Wait no more! It’s still chunky, but a bit less so. And still, thanks to Victo Ngai’s illustration on the cover, absolutely gorgeous.

In honor of the big day, I’m reposting one of my favorite interviews, the one that goes soooo in-depth on all things Five Queendoms. It’s a great read whether or not you’ve read Arca or the first novel in the series, Scorpica.

Read the fabulous Paste Magazine interview that calls the Five Queendoms “the best feminist fantasy series you probably haven’t read yet” by clicking here.

ARCA launching at Wellesley Books on March 7!

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ARCA is soooooo close to here! It comes out on Tuesday, March 7, and I can’t wait to have the next installment of the Five Queendoms saga out in the world.

If you’re in the Boston area, I’d love to see you at Wellesley Books on Tuesday, where I’ll be in conversation with Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman, authors of All of Us Villains. March 7 at 7pm, easy to remember.

Tickets are required to attend, so please get yours 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.

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…

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!