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Book Three

All Hail Chaos, book 2 in the Time of Iron series, is out May 12 and book 3 is out July 2027. So we thought you guys might like to know the title…

I called the book that because Imma do it. Trust me, I’m telling you stories.

literally-literate

believe it or not "kill your darlings" is a reference to an obscure piece of writing advice that encourages authors to emotionally part with phrases or ideas that they are attached to (i.e. "darlings") and delete (i.e. "kill") them to improve the overall cohesiveness of a written work. SRB is foreshadowing that she spent a lot of time editing the third book and likely removed a number of superfluous metaphors. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH KILLING CHARACTERS WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE GETTING THAT IDEA

sarahreesbrennan

I don’t understand metaphors… all I know is kill.

galaxyspark-6e16

me reading Long Live Evil: yes yes YES YES yes!

me reading All Hail Chaos: no no nonono NO NO NOOOOO!!

then my reaction at the ending:

byjove

this is a highly controversial opinion, I have no doubt King Arthur was bisexual but I think he was one of the few people in Camelot not interested in fucking Lancelot. he wanted to retain him as an employee but it did not cross his mind that Lancelot was fucking his wife because Lancelot is such a weird little twerp that he did not perceive him as a sexual being. my interpretation.

byjove

So true. The Galehaut/Lancelot relationship was like a dynastic marriage to resolve the conflict between two imperial powers. I like to imagine Galehaut was like “I have decided to abandon my plans of capturing [what is now] all of southern England and surrender to you despite my military advantage, all for the love of my achingly beautiful and spectacular new male wife, Lancelot du Lac.” and Arthur was like “Okay. Weird. Not homophobic or anything but Lancelot? You’re in love with Lancelot?”

byjove

Co-signed. That’s some real shit you said. Also, unlike Arthur, he was willing to yield and share his lover for everyone’s benefit. And then he died for love. A real freak. One of the best freaks in 13th century French literature.

byjove

he’s the most interesting gay wifeguy in literary gay knight history

elodieunderglass

I started a mental sentence with, “well, when we diagram the Arthurian polycule-“

And then realised that would be such a good title for a paper. “Diagramming the Arthurian Polycule: Mapping the Dynamics of the Round Kitchen Table”

thesaltofcarthage

yo @elodieunderglass tag me when you post that paper

elodieunderglass

I ought to!

seadeepspaceontheside

these were the rejected ones

manyblinkinglights

Yeah, but what charming little piece of xenonite jewelry can Rocky clip on Grace somewhere to get the same effect for a listening Eridian?

echokelly

I love it when people describe something that's too big as "fuck off". like this thing is so large. leave.

hellsitegenetics

String identified: t c tg tat' t g a "c ". t tg ag. a.

Closest match: Halichoeres bivittatus genome assembly, chromosome: 3 Common name: Slippery Dick

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katjohnadams

goodgrammaritan

Oh hey, just rereading Long Live Evil to prepare for the sequel and

goddammit, Sarah 🙄😬

sarahreesbrennan

I’m a wild card who cannot be tamed

captainhaterade

Found this on instagram and now I’m gonna be singing it all day:

(@thepacificpals on insta)

sarahreesbrennan

USA TODAY CHAOS REIGNS!

So… EVIL WINS… somehow? AGAIN! ALL HAIL CHAOS is currently the 21st bestsellingest book in the land of America!

This is my weird book with the musical, sold for an advance I spent entirely on promo, written when I was sure publishing was done with me. Nobody more pleased than me when people were BAMBOOZLED into buying it but I spent this whole week expecting and dreading that the sequel would fall off a cliff. And it didn’t! THANK YOU TEAM CHAOS.

My rogue’s gallery of villains back for their encore, worse than ever, in an epic fantasy adventure that is both camp and tragedy. I hope. When is a fictional character real? Oh, when you love them. Thank you for loving them and making my dreams real.