Kevin Hearne

Signed Bookplates

Since Paper & Blood will be coming out in August—and since y’all liked the signed bookplates for Ink & Sigil—we’re doing the same preorder offer we did last year: Preorder Paper & Blood and you’ll get one. There are two different ways to get ’em, so here they are:

1. Preorder your copy from The Poisoned Pen, an independent bookstore, using this link right here. (They ship worldwide!) When you preorder from The Poisoned Pen, a signed bookplate will be included with your order. Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.
2. Preorder your copy from anywhere else, and you can still get a signed bookplate, but there’s another couple of steps. Take a screenshot of your preorder confirmation and then email it, along with your shipping address, to treats@kevinhearne.com. I’ll mail you a bookplate separately.

Paper & Blood features the return of Atticus, Oberon, and Starbuck, as well as Nadia and Buck Foi and Gladys Who Has Seen Some Shite, and I hope you’ll enjoy the heck out of it. Thank you so much for reading!

shenanigans in space

Turbo happy to announce my science fiction debut, A QUESTION OF NAVIGATION, is out now from Subterranean Press.  When physicist Clint Beecham gets abducted by aliens, he thinks at first it’s for scientific reasons. But then he learns that there are fifty thousand other humans in the holds belowdecks and they’re all scheduled to be turned into snack food for a long interstellar journey. Clint and a group of newfound allies will have to save everyone if they’re going to save themselves.

Publishers Weekly nails it in their review:

“Hearne pits a group of scientists against their alien abductors in a riotous quest to save humankind from becoming lunch… Hearne offsets the dire threat to humanity with dark humor and pointed social commentary as cooperation and self-sacrifice win the day. Hearne’s gripping, resonant alien abduction romp is both fun and thought-provoking.”

I had tremendous fun with this and cannot stop grinning at the cover art by Paul Youll. It possesses the exact campy horror vibe that the story grooves on. Should you wish to read an excerpt, you can find it at the Subterranean Press site (and place your order for a signed, numbered limited edition).

Ebook and the audiobook narrated by Luke Daniels are also available for this wherever you get your ebooks or audio!

I hope y’all enjoy this—I’d love to do some more sci-fi in the future.

Ink & Sigil

Get in the wizard van!

Out now in paper, ebook, and audio! If you like:

• the Fae
• fountain pens and inks
• whisky and gin
• heists
• mystery
• Scotland
• hidden rooms behind bookcases
• Accountants who moonlight as pit fighters

…then you’re gonna love INK & SIGIL. I hope y’all will dig this. I’ve gotten kind reviews so far from folks who have read it already.  I mean, lookit:

“[A] terrific kick-off of a new, action-packed, enchantingly fun series.” —Booklist, starred review

“I loved every word.” —Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of A Longer Fall

“A delightfully grimy journey through the hidden underworld of Glasgow, Ink & Sigil vividly blends Kevin Hearne’s unique take on urban fantasy with the grit of Scottish magic.” —Adam Christopher, author of Empire State

“Kevin Hearne has used in and paper to craft his own brand of magic. Ink & Sigil is filled to the brim with the Hearne-anigans we’ve all grown to love. Fans of ribald humor, literary puns, and the odd hobgoblin will be enchanted by this paranormal mystery.” —Jaye Wells, author of Dirty Magic and High Lonesome Sound

“[Ink & Sigil] will transport you right in the Scottish realm of fey and fairies and have you thinking the ‘other’ is real.” —Charlie Holmberg, bestselling author of The Paper Magician

“With Ink & Sigil Kevin Hearne takes the world he created in his Iron Druid series to a new gonzo level. Al MacBharrais might be his best character yet.” —Stephen Blackmoore, author of the Eric Carter series

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Out now!

Krakens and bloodcats and spies, oh my!

Picking up right where A Plague of Giants left off, A Blight of Blackwings is now available wherever you buy your books or audiobooks!

It has spies, krakens, wraiths, and bloodcats; a mysterious hermit, a revolution, some fiery giants, a whole lot of mustard, and love in wartime. Epic stuff.

Signed copies of all my books, including this one, are available from Worldbuilders Market at this handy link, and all proceeds go to charities for refugees and sustainable agriculture. But there are also signed editions available from Barnes & Noble, and several indie stores who will ship anywhere, including The Poisoned Pen.

Happy reading!

First Dangle

Out now in Ebook and Audio!

Archdruid Owen Kennedy and his happy murder sloth, Slomo, are planning on having a pleasant day exploring the world together when Coriander, Herald Extraordinary to the First Among the Fae, comes to them for help. There’s been a supernatural murder in Spain and he needs a Druid to solve it.

The trail leads from Spain to the Royal Gardens at Kew in London, thence to Tír na nÓg and an Austin, Texas honky tonk. Owen and Slomo always feel a bit out of place wherever they go, but enjoy being together that way.

The collection also includes several other Iron Druid stories that appeared elsewhere in anthologies and magazines, collected here for the first time.

The audio edition includes a long-requested recording of Luke Daniels narrating an old story of mine, “The Chapel Perilous,” which includes a performance of Apple Jack, the paranoid horse, that is not to be missed! It also includes some “liner notes” from me, geeky stuff about the research and thinking behind the stories. Fun if you like mythology, but easily skipped if you just want the stories. The audio sample below is from “First Dangle.”

You can order now in ebook and audio:

Ebook: Amazon  B&N
Audio: Audible

Hope you enjoy! Thanks so much for reading!

More Oberon

Oberon narrates an adventure in Death & Honey, featuring events that occur in Tasmania five or six months after Scourged. Atticus, Oberon, and Starbuck desperately try to win the bet Atticus made with Owen in Scourged and, incidentally, solve a murder, all while dreaming of the many poodles of Melbourne.

Cover art is by Galen Dara, and this book also features novellas by New York Times bestsellers Delilah S. Dawson and Chuck Wendig. You can get the ebook edition on Kindle,  Nook,  and  iTunes/iBooks.

If you’re an audio fan, you can order that too! Luke Daniels narrates Oberon’s story, The Buzz Kill, Robin Miles narrates Grist of Bees, and Xe Sands narrates Interlude: Tanager. Would you like a preview? HECK YES YOU WOULD. Click the ol’ sample and enjoy Luke Daniels as Oberon:

Hope you enjoy!

Levi Bread

This here bread is the best bread you will ever smell or eat. You can’t buy it anywhere, though. You have to make it. But this link here will take you to the recipe with step-by-step instructions and spiffy pictures so that even if you’ve never made a loaf of homemade bread before, you can do it. I PROMISE YOU CAN DO IT.

Holy Posole

Many, many peeps have asked me to repost a recipe that disappeared from the Internet for a while: The Holy Posole recipe that I made for the Holy Taco Church. So here’s the link for y’all, and I hope you enjoy!