Red Queen
Novel by Victoria AveyardWikipedia
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Sep 10, 2026
Soman ChainaniHOST
And with that, we begin.
Victoria AveyardHOST
I'm Victoria Aveyard, author of the Red Queen and the Realm Breaker series.
Soman ChainaniHOST
And I'm Soman Shanani, author of the School for Good and Evil series, and welcome to Plot Twist, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the biggest swings in our careers.
Soman ChainaniHOST
Victoria's Tempest, her very first novel for adults, an epic pirate fantasy.
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Soman ChainaniHOST
Okay.
Soman ChainaniHOST
Wow.
Victoria AveyardHOST
But we did announce some really beautiful new additions of the Red Queen box set for the 10th anniversary that will be coming in just in time.
Victoria AveyardHOST
They are
speaker_1HOST
just completely stuck
speaker_0HOST
yeah stuck so welcome to the deep dive today we are dissecting the agonizing decade-long delay of victoria aviar's red queen adaptation We are working from a May 2026 update published in Women's World by Carissa Mosnes, which details the current gridlock of the Peacock series.
speaker_1HOST
Right, which is quite a situation.
speaker_0HOST
Oh, absolutely.
speaker_1HOST
It's a tremendous amount of pressure.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
The Red Queen situation functions as really the perfect diagnostic tool for understanding the current entertainment landscape.
speaker_0HOST
Oh, for sure.
speaker_2HOST
The source explicitly notes that Aveyard brings a formidable baseline to the negotiating table.
speaker_2HOST
Her previous series, Red Queen and Realm Breaker, they've sold over eight million copies worldwide.
speaker_3HOST
Eight million.
speaker_3HOST
That is a towering figure in the publishing world.
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speaker_3HOST
It does.
speaker_2HOST
The source material reveals that she is currently operating an expanding industrial complex of her own.
speaker_2HOST
Her previous hit, Red Queen, is also actively navigating the development pipeline.
speaker_3HOST
Yeah, the details of that specific project illuminate exactly how leverage is manufactured in this industry.
speaker_5HOST
But Victoria Aveyard is not an unknown quantity, not even close.
speaker_5HOST
Her previous young adult fantasy series, specifically Red Queen and Realm Breaker, have sold over eight million copies worldwide.
speaker_4HOST
Eight million copies.
speaker_4HOST
I mean, that is a massive number in publishing.
speaker_5HOST
And it's exactly why the studios are circling her.
speaker_5HOST
I mean, think about the timeline.
speaker_5HOST
Red Queen was published a decade ago.
speaker_4HOST
OK. Yeah.
Soman ChainaniHOST
Here we go.
Victoria AveyardHOST
Hi, I'm Victoria Aveyard, author of The Red Queen and The Realm Breaker series.
Victoria AveyardHOST
And
Soman ChainaniHOST
I'm Somchun Ani, author of The School for Geneva series.
Victoria AveyardGUEST
And this is about two actors who... become famous they're on the rocket ship to fame they star in a movie it blows up and we get to see the inside of the eye of that hurricane and i think it's going to be super relevant in our society today where we have all of this very weird access to each other especially access to people we don't know what does that do to you i think that's going to be a really good one
Dylan DreyerHOST
One of your best-selling books, Red Queen.
Dylan DreyerHOST
It's coming to Peacock.
Dylan DreyerHOST
Elizabeth Banks is the director.
Kitty FeldeHOST
This week we enter a world divided into two kinds of people, the silver ruling elite and the red underclass.
Kitty FeldeHOST
It's Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen, and it was the choice of a group of seventh graders from Maryland.
speaker_2GUEST
Every time I sat down to read it, I couldn't look away.
speaker_2GUEST
It was so
RioGUEST
I'm Marianne.
RioGUEST
I'm Gabby, and we're seventh graders at Newport Middle Middle School in Kensington, Maryland.
speaker_2GUEST
The book is The Red Queen.
speaker_2GUEST
Who wants to tell me about it? It's about a world divided into two caste systems, red and silvers.
MichelleHOST
No, I absolutely love this.
MichelleHOST
By the way, I did have a Twitter fan account dedicated to Red Queen.
Victoria AveyardGUEST
Did you? Yes, I did know this.
Victoria AveyardGUEST
Did they know this when they hired you? No.
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MichelleHOST
What a time to be alive.
MichelleHOST
I've been thinking about it, too, that it's, like, how lucky are we that, like, for example, like, you are still writing.
MichelleHOST
Right, like, I read Red Queen when I was, like, in high school.
MichelleHOST
And, like, you're still writing, and now you give me Hot Pirates.