Monday 25 May, 2026 @ 8pm IST
Join us live on YouTube to hear 2023 Octocon Guest of Honour Sarah Rees Brennan read from All Hail Chaos, the truly evil sequel to her huge hit Long Live Evil, followed by an interview.
Octocon 2026 & 2025 members are invited to join us on Zoom after the streaming ends (8:45pm) for a private Q&A. An email with the invite link will be sent a few days before the event, and it will also be available in the Octocon Discord.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Sarah is an Irish writer of dark fantasy and light-hearted jokes, whose books have been New York Times bestsellers, shortlisted for the Mythopoieac, Locus and Lodestar awards, and nominated for the Carnegie. Her villainous portal fantasy series started in 2024 with Long Live Evil, and book 2, All Hail Chaos, was released on May 12th 2026.
- Website: https://www.sarahreesbrennan.com/
- See a list of her socials and featured links: https://linktr.ee/srbrennan
All Hail Chaos
Rae is a fantasy reader who’s been transported to her favourite fictional world of swords and sorcery, castles and monsters. Playing the villainess, she thought she could change the narrative, but this version of the plot is far more deadly than the one she knew.
Her friends are on the run: the Cobra shelters in an eerie manor haunted by dark secrets, while Emer and Lia stoke a revolution in the gutters. Undead armies roam the kingdom, raiders camp at the city gates, and the all-powerful Emperor – Rae’s favourite character ever, now possibly the greatest monster in the land – wants her to be his evil queen.
Romantic in fiction, complicated in reality. What’s a villainess to do? Time for wicked bargains and fake engagements, in a fantasy where the most dangerous thing you can do is believe in someone.