Number one Stariel fan

I'm so normal trust

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I simply cannot stop making side blogs, it seems. My main is @orchid-merryweather so you can call me Orchid!

I won't cease to post about the Stariel quartet on my main, (quite the contrary), but any post I make about the books on my main will be reblogged to here. A place for all three people in this fandom to discuss the books!

Feel free to send me an ask, or a message though I would prefer an ask, to chat with me about the books!

(Asks and tags stuff, lists and ect. Below the cut 👇)

Send me asks! Anything! PLEASE! Ask me my opinion on any ship, tell me about your headcannons, anything, I'd be glad to receive it! Also, request me ANY fic ideas you come up with and I'll write at least a chapter about it to post to my AO3. My writing may not be good, but I try my best.

Ask games:

Lab partner, elevator, employee trainer.

Tags:

shadowcatsmere: the ship name I invented for Catsmere x Sunnika, (see this post)

It's a tragic thing that there exists so little a fandom for this series! It's seriously amazing and I need more people to know about it. While I have you here, let me recommend you the few (litteraly only two in existence that I could find) fics people have written for these amazing books:

Stormcrow, Shepherd Us by Rikku on AO3, an amazing fic of Irokoi x Penharrow. I didn't understand the appeal of the ship before, but I sure did after I read the fic. I'm still crying over it.

And uhm. I'm writing a very normal definitely not mpreg fic about Marius and Rakken that currently has three chapters posted as I'm writing this, it's called Yet Another Half Faerie Child and my AO3 handle is Orchid_Merryweather.

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Who am I even posting to

Idk one day these books will take off as they should and I'LL be the defacto Tumblr authority on all things Lancaster

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Lord of Stariel hardcover coming November 19th

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just saw someone say "a fandom is small, so like only 1-3 fics posted per day" . you wouldnt survive a day in the place where im from

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There are exactly two fics on AO3 last time I checked and I wrote one of them

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According to all known laws of #the stariel quartet, there is no way a #aj lancaster should be able to #character.

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She does! She does character! She character's so well!

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Okay guys there's a thing I kinda forgot to tell yall don't throw tomatoes at me

So, here's some late news!

Lancaster has been picked up by a publisher! Tor uk!

This makes Lancaster, in her own words, a "territorially-complicated hybrid author, part indie, part trad, depending on where you live and which book format!"

Stariel ebooks are still indie in the U.S. and Canada, otherwise, things are now traditionally put out!

There will be hardcovers of How to Find a Nameless Fae (August) and The Lord of Stariel (November) coming out, with the other books following after with their own hardcovers.

The new traditionally printed paperbacks will be different in size than the original versions, so act fast if you have an incomplete Stariel set and don't want them mismatched.

The hardcover of How to Find a Nameless Fae has a lovely golden background color to it

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Stariel quartet special editions have been printed, and are being sent to backers now!

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Keeping a doubly sharp eye on this now... I simply cannot wait for the day I'm able to buy these myself.

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The A Rake Of His Own special edition is in pre-launch in Kickstarter!

Coming soon: A Rake of His Own: Gay Fantasy Romance Plant Crimes

Beleaguered botanist meets arrogant fae prince. Cozy MM romantasy special edition, sprayed edges, foil, illustrations. A Stariel novel.

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BIG STARIEL NEWS

There's another short story for people subscribed to the newsletter! It's eleven pages long, and takes place two years after the events of A Rake Of His Own. It's called Flying Lessens, and is about Wyn teaching the twins how to fly after he finds that Aeryn has managed to fly up to the top of the Wintersol tree by herself! It's from Wyn's pov and is a very sweet story

While the Stariel special additions aren't yet available for purchase, the newest newsletter teased that A Rake Of His Own will be having the special edition Kickstarter going up soon

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In my next life I will be reborn as #the lord of stariel.

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My body is but a #stariel temple.

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Remember me? Well, I'm here with more news!

Stariel special editions and a promise of a new release announcement coming soon (maybe?)!

Let's start with the special editions!:

The Kickstarter for the special editions featuring art, beautiful reversible dust jackets, and more, is now only less than 600$ away from the goal with a little less than a month left to go! Donate if you can! We're so close to getting these beautiful editions! (If I had a job, I'd push the project over the edge myself! Unfortunately, I am seventeen and unemployed)

A vauge promise of an announcement:

In a recent email of her newsletter, Lancaster compares writing to gardening, how seeds spend so long in the soil, then sprout up and all of a sudden grow like crazy. In this she says she doesn't like to say much about her works in progress until they've "sprouted into the sunlight and grown a few leaves" and continues to say that her current project is "about an inch below soil level" below the "weeds of distraction" being the delightfully successful Kickstarter ("delightfully" being my words here, in part because this information came before the Kickstarter went live). Surely, this means we're getting news soon, should Lancaster's current project bloom in good time! Is it something in the world of Stariel, such as what has been alluded to on her website? Or perhaps the next installment of Fae & Firstborns? Maybe it's something entirely new! We just have to wait and see! (Sigh, waiting.) If you don't hear it from the newsletter directly, then you'll surely hear it from me!

(bonus parenthetical on the special editions: Kickstarter doesn't say when the project first went live, but I think it's only been up for like two days? either that or a week and that's still crazy! If we keep going at this rate, we'll certainly reach the stretch goals! Patterned edges, a bonus scene, and ribbon bookmarks? I'd kill for those!)

(bonus bonus parenthetical: I double wish I could donate now, the rewards are so enticing! A bookmark with art, and stickers? And if you donate a lot you get to name one of Plumpuff's kittens and get a one of a kind printed booklet of the bonus scene that'll be written about your kitten! God I hate being poor.)

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Update: the Kickstarter has surpassed the goal! That's right, as of writing this, it is 1,000$ over! Looks like we'll be getting some of those stretch goals!

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Correction, that wasn't over the course of two days, that was ALL yesterday! (And now it's 3k over!)

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Very normal person obsessively checks Kickstarter of thing that's already fully funded

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Remember me? Well, I'm here with more news!

Stariel special editions and a promise of a new release announcement coming soon (maybe?)!

Let's start with the special editions!:

The Kickstarter for the special editions featuring art, beautiful reversible dust jackets, and more, is now only less than 600$ away from the goal with a little less than a month left to go! Donate if you can! We're so close to getting these beautiful editions! (If I had a job, I'd push the project over the edge myself! Unfortunately, I am seventeen and unemployed)

A vauge promise of an announcement:

In a recent email of her newsletter, Lancaster compares writing to gardening, how seeds spend so long in the soil, then sprout up and all of a sudden grow like crazy. In this she says she doesn't like to say much about her works in progress until they've "sprouted into the sunlight and grown a few leaves" and continues to say that her current project is "about an inch below soil level" below the "weeds of distraction" being the delightfully successful Kickstarter ("delightfully" being my words here, in part because this information came before the Kickstarter went live). Surely, this means we're getting news soon, should Lancaster's current project bloom in good time! Is it something in the world of Stariel, such as what has been alluded to on her website? Or perhaps the next installment of Fae & Firstborns? Maybe it's something entirely new! We just have to wait and see! (Sigh, waiting.) If you don't hear it from the newsletter directly, then you'll surely hear it from me!

(bonus parenthetical on the special editions: Kickstarter doesn't say when the project first went live, but I think it's only been up for like two days? either that or a week and that's still crazy! If we keep going at this rate, we'll certainly reach the stretch goals! Patterned edges, a bonus scene, and ribbon bookmarks? I'd kill for those!)

(bonus bonus parenthetical: I double wish I could donate now, the rewards are so enticing! A bookmark with art, and stickers? And if you donate a lot you get to name one of Plumpuff's kittens and get a one of a kind printed booklet of the bonus scene that'll be written about your kitten! God I hate being poor.)

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Update: the Kickstarter has surpassed the goal! That's right, as of writing this, it is 1,000$ over! Looks like we'll be getting some of those stretch goals!

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Correction, that wasn't over the course of two days, that was ALL yesterday! (And now it's 3k over!)

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I do fanart for not dragon age things sometimes. This is for a book I read recently. The Lord of Stariel by A.J Lancaster was the perfect cozy fantasy romance I needed. Life has been a bit stressful recently and Hetta being just as stressed but doing her best really hit me when I needed it.

I am trying some new art nouveau/tarot card styles(ala dragon age >_>) so I had this idea in my head about a piece for this book. The main character is basically trapped between two worlds (metaphysically and mentally) and burdened with a choice. So I wanted to represent two sides she has to choose from in this piece with the purple and green. Also she's can use magic, specifically fire! So of course I had to add that in. Also featuring the star of Stariel haha

I really enjoyed it and have a few more in the series to work through!

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!!! Love!!!!!

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Title: Stariel

Author: A.J. Lancaster

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2018

Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery

Blurb: The Lord of Stariel is dead. Long live the Lord of Stariel...whoever that is. Everyone knows who the magical estate will choose for its next ruler...or do they? Will it be the lord's eldest son, who he despised? His favourite nephew, with the strongest magical land-sense? His scandalous daughter, who ran away from home years ago to study illusion? Hetta knows it won't be her, and she's glad of it. Returning home for her father's funeral, all Hetta has to do is survive the family drama and avoid entanglements with irritatingly attractive local men until the Choosing. Then she can leave. But whoever Stariel chooses will have bigger problems than eccentric relatives to deal with. Winged, beautifully deadly problems. For the first time in centuries, the fae are returning to the mortal realm, and only the Lord of Stariel can keep the estate safe.

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Only real baddies sit in an empty fandom blogging to nobody and liking their own posts

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Remember me? Well, I'm here with more news!

Stariel special editions and a promise of a new release announcement coming soon (maybe?)!

Let's start with the special editions!:

The Kickstarter for the special editions featuring art, beautiful reversible dust jackets, and more, is now only less than 600$ away from the goal with a little less than a month left to go! Donate if you can! We're so close to getting these beautiful editions! (If I had a job, I'd push the project over the edge myself! Unfortunately, I am seventeen and unemployed)

A vauge promise of an announcement:

In a recent email of her newsletter, Lancaster compares writing to gardening, how seeds spend so long in the soil, then sprout up and all of a sudden grow like crazy. In this she says she doesn't like to say much about her works in progress until they've "sprouted into the sunlight and grown a few leaves" and continues to say that her current project is "about an inch below soil level" below the "weeds of distraction" being the delightfully successful Kickstarter ("delightfully" being my words here, in part because this information came before the Kickstarter went live). Surely, this means we're getting news soon, should Lancaster's current project bloom in good time! Is it something in the world of Stariel, such as what has been alluded to on her website? Or perhaps the next installment of Fae & Firstborns? Maybe it's something entirely new! We just have to wait and see! (Sigh, waiting.) If you don't hear it from the newsletter directly, then you'll surely hear it from me!

(bonus parenthetical on the special editions: Kickstarter doesn't say when the project first went live, but I think it's only been up for like two days? either that or a week and that's still crazy! If we keep going at this rate, we'll certainly reach the stretch goals! Patterned edges, a bonus scene, and ribbon bookmarks? I'd kill for those!)

(bonus bonus parenthetical: I double wish I could donate now, the rewards are so enticing! A bookmark with art, and stickers? And if you donate a lot you get to name one of Plumpuff's kittens and get a one of a kind printed booklet of the bonus scene that'll be written about your kitten! God I hate being poor.)

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Update: the Kickstarter has surpassed the goal! That's right, as of writing this, it is 1,000$ over! Looks like we'll be getting some of those stretch goals!