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Amalia Dillin began as a Biology major before taking Latin and falling in love with old heroes and older gods. After that, she couldn't stop writing about them, with the occasional break for more contemporary subjects. She lives in upstate New York with her husband, and dreams of the day when she will own goats--to pull her chariot through the sky, of course.

Amalia is the author of the Fate of the Gods trilogy, and the Orc Saga, beginning with HONOR AMONG ORCS. She also writes historical fiction under the name Amalia Carosella.

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Amalia Dillin Hi Zoe!

Thanks so much for reading and I'm so glad you're enjoying the series! I'm planning right now for a 2017 release for Orc Saga 3, but how early …more
Hi Zoe!

Thanks so much for reading and I'm so glad you're enjoying the series! I'm planning right now for a 2017 release for Orc Saga 3, but how early or late in 2017 will depend a great deal on when other contracted projects are scheduled -- I don't want to cannibalize my own sales, and don't have the same control over those dates to firmly place book 3 quite yet.

I'm so sorry to keep you waiting, and I'm eager to get book three into your hands, so I hope you'll hang in there with me!

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Amalia Dillin Thanks so much, and I'm so glad you're enjoying it!!!

I'm working on it! It's a tough nut to crack, and I hate how long it's taking me--there have been…more
Thanks so much, and I'm so glad you're enjoying it!!!

I'm working on it! It's a tough nut to crack, and I hate how long it's taking me--there have been a lot of false starts--but I want to make sure I do it justice and I'm trying to make peace with the fact that it's just going to take the time it takes!

(And for the superfans out there also looking for more, there are a couple small sneak peeks on my Patreon.)(less)
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It's a weird time to be a human with a platform that involves public speech.I'm a small fry compared to a lot of people. My published works are generally less pointedly problematic (unless we're talking about Dominionists or Christian Nationalists, at which point I become an author of heresy on MULTIPLE levels pretty fast.) Anyone whose paying attention knows I don't shy away from issues of human
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“And as long as she lives, as long as she thinks of me with fondness and the memory of our life together brings her comfort, I will honor her for it. I will love her above all else in this world and the next. And there is nothing you can do to stop it”
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“Told so repeatedly that we were worthless, we could not see the truth until we looked into each other's eyes.”
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“If we're to have any peace, we must keep faith.”
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What should our March 2019 monster pick be? No undead, shifters, or dragons please.

Wintersong - S. Jae-Jones (YA fantasy, Goblin)
 
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Stolen Songbird - Danielle L. Jensen (YA Fantasy, Troll)
 
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Honor Among Orcs - Amalia Dillin (Fantasy, Orc)
 
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Bone Rider - J. Fally (Sci-Fi, Alien)
 
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“Wait." He paused, and she held out a hand to him. His thick fingers engulfed her tapering ones; his skin was warm and dry, and scorched her. "Before we go pick up poor Lieutenant Illyan again..."

He took her in his arms, and they kissed, for the first time, for a long time.

"Oh," she muttered after. "Perhaps that was a mistake. It hurts so much when you stop."

"Well, let me..." his hand stroked her hair, gently, then desperately wrapped itself in a shimmering coil; they kissed again.”
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“He shook his head and looked away, as if he was giving himself a firm lecture only he could here.”
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“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
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“Nay, father.
Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party.
- Thor, God of Thunder”
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“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
Sir Thomas More, Utopia

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