#stariel

[analogue-dragon]

Love when people post about The Character and people tag it as their The Character. Love seeing who's plaguing everyone's minds

[stariel-posting]

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.)

[slime-the-awesomeguy]

the Sun and the Moon

(or something)

@what-its-rio

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

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.

[caporushes]

I recently binge-read all of the Stariel series by AJ Lancaster (which are REALLY enjoyable gaslamp fantasy books with FAIRY NONSENSE, my favorite kind). So have this portrait of the main character Hetta! I'm still sort of figuring out her face, and also how to draw that late Edwardian/Titanic-era Lewk. (This is the Earth equivalent I've settled on in my heart, anyway, due to relatively common car presence but no radios.)

[annieisyourfavourite]

[ID: a pencil drawing on notebook paper of Star and Ariel from the Septimus Heap / Todhunter Moon books dancing together. Star is a tall, black woman with short, gelled-back black hair, dark skin, and dark eyes, wearing a tuxedo. Ariel is a shorter, Asian woman with long curly hair, light brown skin, and dark eyes. Ariel is wearing a fur-lined long sleeved dress.

The drawing shows Star holding Ariel in a tango pose, with Star's back to the camera. They are holding each other closely and gazing into each other's eyes, smiling.

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Heard it was lesbian week so I had to draw my favourite lesbians ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[dashreads]

I will forever love any author who goes out of their way to make one of a kind chapter title because some are just *chef's kiss*

Some of my favorite examples from just one book (AJ Lancaster, you are a genius at these):

Mild Kidnapping, For His Own Good

Inconvenient Jealousy

Is it even a Goblin Market if no one gets Abducted?

Botany Nerds Unite

This is your Rake on drugs

Everyone Gets Sentimental

(My personal favorite) Sausages for Justice

Outstanding Decision-Making, Everyone

Even More Bad Things Happen

[malicedafirenze]

I read a good book series and I am once again making it everyone’s problem. This is spoilery and disjointed and unedited, just everything I wrote down while listening. 

Proper review post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/ycizz8/review_discussion_the_lord_of_stariel_stariel/