Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 447
January 26, 2016
Yes! Thank you for planning on putting the next book on Amazon UK, too! I was gonna ask and all, but thought against, knowing-- okay, hoping you would, regardless. Cheers, Kata! :3
Yup! Kindle edition is available here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0996644725
Preorders for iBooks and Nook are pending.
January 25, 2016
whatwouldjessicajonesdo:
hiccstridforever:
durinswrath:
kurtsau...
THIS IS MARRIAGE!!
Thats right!
Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.
He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”
Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.
LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.
In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.
Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.
Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT.
Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.
FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.
^^ I throughly enjoyed the history lesson dashed with the colorful adjectives.
I mean, he knew she was Cersei… lol
And the women were trained the exact same way as men were. As children they were equals ; they were not allowed to wear clothing until a certain age and at that point they were sent away to a training camp until they were 18. It was only the men who were sent into the wilderness for an extra two years to ensure their strength for battle.
Plus the women could marry whomever they pleased and the men weren’t allowed to live with the women in their house until she said so. And they were tough in Sparta but also all about family. To have male offspring was good luck, to have female offspring was an honour.
This part of the movie was true; King Leonidas really did kill a man because he insulted his wife and he always ensured that he had his wife’s approval. And while Leonidas was away in battle she did rule Sparta on her own.
Sparta knew what was up.
#Hiccstrid
As a historian I can confirm all of this is totally true and amazingly badass.
It’s also worthy of note that people like to romanticize Athens because of its democracy whereas Sparta was a hardened monarchy. But Athens was nowhere near as open for women as Sparta was.
Hello! Loved your story as it appeared in AO3. Wht are the main differences between that and the published version?
The published version was expanded and edited for continuity, and underwent an additional two rounds of line editing to prepare it for publication.
On yeah…. there’s also more than nine brand new scenes spread through the two books you haven’t read yet ;)
Receiver of Many is available for purchase, and Destroyer of Light is available for preorder.
January 24, 2016
Destroyer of Light will be available in paperback on Amazon UK, right? I need it to match Receiver of Many! :P
Yes it will! Unfortunately, as with Receiver of Many, I won’t be able to offer preorders on the paperback outside the US.
BUT it will appear on Amazon for purchase a few days before the release date, with enough time to be delivered on March 20.
As soon as it goes live on Amazon UK I’ll let you know :)
thefeatherofhope:
kata-chthonia:
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The marriage of...
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The marriage of Hades and Persephone blossoms and their mysterious grove in the world below thrives…
…while the sunlit world withers.
Demeter holds out in Eleusis, pushing both mankind and the gods to frozen starvation in order to reclaim her daughter. The newly married rulers of the dead must reach an accord with Persephone’s mother to stay her deadly course— and come face to face with sacrifice, responsibility, and the balance of power among the gods.
Destroyer of Light concludes the story begun in Receiver of Many: a battle of wills among the gods is writ large across the dying earth, a cruel sorcerer-king faces his trial, and the King and Queen of the Underworld realize a destiny that the Fates alone could have foreseen.
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DESTROYER OF LIGHT PREORDER
by Rachel Alexander
Destroyer of Light is awaiting approval for Preorder on Amazon, Kindle, iBooks, and Nook!
Because approval happens at different times on different sites (and in different markets) keep an eye out for when the preorder goes live in your preferred format for your country.
I’ll be at work today, so I won’t be the first to find out if it went live.
Since I won’t, I need you to be the first to let me know!
Post the link or a screen cap and tag it #destroyer of light, and I’ll reblog and let everyone else know the proper links for each of the preorders.
Woohoot! Got mine!
January 23, 2016
that-fat-chthonian-chicken:
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Without her pins, Persephone had to make a knot to her dress to tie it ._. and yes, we know what Aidoneus means ;P
