I am so honkin’ in love with this I cannot even tell you. Once again, Galen Dara has stepped up with something brilliant for the cover of THE PURLOINED POODLE, out Sep. 30 from Subterranean Press!

250 signed, numbered leather bound special editions, $45
Clothbound hardcover editions, $20

You can preorder directly from Subterranean Press. Availability on Amazon etc. will happen later, but that will be the clothbound edition only; the best option is to order directly from Subterranean because it’ll get to you faster and they ship very carefully, and if you want the signed & numbered edition, it’s your only option. Amazon won’t have it.

There will be ebook and audio, but again, links for those will happen later. This is your chance to get the sexy print edition. LOOKIT HOW AWESOME Y’ALL!

OMG the doggies! THE DOGGIES! And Atticus sitting in that chair like he’s Morpheus about to ask you about the Matrix cracks me up. And goodies on the walls! Such fun. GALEN DARA IS THE BEST!

You can also buy clothbound copies in person at two places and have me sign it for you, take a selfie, etc. because I will be there:

1. StoryCon in New Orleans, Sep 30-Oct. 2. Houston bookseller Murder By The Book is handling those sales, so if you want to snag one from them, please give them a call and reserve a copy in your name, then find me at StoryCon and I’ll sign! Murder By The Book will also have me sign any copy you want to have shipped to you afterward, so that’s an option too. Their number is 713-524-8597.
2. Signing at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ, Monday, Oct. 3, at 7 pm.  Again, best way to ensure you bag one is to give them a call to reserve a copy.  They ship internationally too, so if you’re anywhere in the world, The Poisoned Pen can ship you a signed copy! Their number is 480-947-2974.

The Purloined Poodle is set in Pacific Northwest after the events of Staked. Oberon convinces Atticus to help him solve a most heinous crime: The abduction of a prizewinning poodle. Full summary at the Subterranean Press site. SQUEE! I can’t wait for y’all to read this. It was such fun to write.  Thank you so much for preordering!

It’s time again for Elevengeddon, a multi-author sf/f extravaganza that bears little relationship to the number eleven!

It did start out with eleven authors, honestly, but the number grew to twenty and that’s simply fabulous. So fabulous I think we need a Pulp-O-Mizer poster for it:

On Wednesday, June 1, at 7 pm, come meet a whole honkin’ bunch of authors and get all your holiday/birthday shopping done by snagging signed books at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale! I’ll be there, of course, but here’s the full list of who else will be there, happy to sign and say hi and take a selfie and so on—and yes, they all deserve exclamation points:

Brandon Sanderson!
V.E. Schwab!
Pierce Brown!
Mary Robinette Kowal!
Scott Sigler!
Dan Wells!
Beth Cato!
Jason Hough!
Django Wexler!
Leanna Renee Hieber!
Sam Sykes!
Michael J. Sullivan!
Adam Christopher!
Michael Martinez!
Ryan Dalton!
Tom Leveen!
Myke Cole!
Joe Nassise!
Sarah Remy!

Not in Arizona but want to get signed books from any of these folks? Call The Poisoned Pen ahead of time and place an order and they’ll ship anywhere in the world! Here’s the event on The Poisoned Pen’s site, which may/may not be updated to include all the authors above—my list is accurate, I promise! Hope to see you there if you can make it!

Also: Very excited to announce that I’ll be a guest at Hal-Con in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Nov. 4-6! This will be my first Canadian con, where I assume there will be poutine and beer! And also lots of spiffy people. My previous visits to Canada (Toronto and Vancouver) have been uniformly delightful and I expect this to be no different. So if you’re available and of a mind, I’d love to see you at Hal-Con!

Haven’t updated the store in a while, but I now have TWO whole new thingies in there!

First new thing is the signed hardcover of Staked. If you couldn’t catch me on tour and would like a signed copy, I’m now able to get one out to you (in the U.S only). You may of course just buy it alone for cover price ($27), but I want to offer you a spiffy package deal in case it appeals:
Buy Staked and the hardcover of Shattered and use the coupon code WOOHOO and that will change the grand total from $53 to $35—an $18 break—PLUS I will throw in a free download code for the audiobook of “Two Tales of the Iron Druid Chronicles,” a $6.95 value! The download code will be emailed to the address you provide in the checkout field.

Already have Shattered and “Two Tales”? Well, they can make great gifts—especially the audiobook download! But if you’d like one of my signed paperbacks instead of the Shattered hardcover we can make that happen. Follow the same procedure because the coupon code is keyed to the Shattered hardcover, but when you get to the Special Instructions field in the checkout process, just ask for a signed copy of Hounded or Trapped or whichever one of my paperbacks you’d like to substitute for Shattered.

Short version: Staked + Shattered + “Two Tales” Audiobook =$35 (plus S&H) with the coupon code WOOHOO.

Second new thing: A wonderful illustration of Oberon that’s perfect for coloring! A watermarked sample can be seen at left. You can download the clean copy, sized 8 1/2 x 11, for 0.99 and print as many copies as you want at home. You and/or your kids can have him say stuff about bacon and poodles. Plaster your fridge with him!

This illustration was drawn by artist MaryElizabeth Mono who is turbo spiffy. All proceeds go to her because artists gotta eat.

And that’s it! Thank you again for reading, y’all. Peace & sausages!

The wait is finally over! STAKED is now available in stores, online, and in spiffy audio format! So excited for you to find out why you never want to be Nigel in Toronto and all the other fun goodies I have in there. I did a bunch of traveling for this book to nail down locations and such and I still miss the cities: Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Rome, and of course, Toronto.

Hope you all enjoy! If you haven’t read A PRELUDE TO WAR yet, that’s a vital novella in between SHATTERED and STAKED. It’s in a mini-anthology with Chuck Wendig and Delilah S. Dawson called THREE SLICES, and it’s the first time we were able to get Oberon on the cover! Inside there’s another illustration featuring Granuaile and Orlaith! Plus, of course, two awesome stories from two of my favorite authors.

I’ll be on tour for this and I hope I can see you at one of the places listed below if you can make it! Sorry if I can’t make it somewhere near you this time—only so many places I can visit. Hopefully next time—I’ll try to make it to California and the east coast for sure! If you have any friends in these cities that you can bribe to show up for you, that would work too, right? BTW: Crestview Hills, KY is right across the river from Cincinnati! Hope to see some Ohio peeps there! Cheers, everyone, and happy reading!

Newsy news you can use in handy numbered lists!

1. I finished/delivered A Plague of Giants, the first book of my epic fantasy trilogy. It has to be edited and all the other myriad steps have to be followed before it gets to you, but yeah: That’s coming. I don’t have a publication date yet but I’ll share it when I do. There will be audio but I don’t know who the narrator(s) will be. And if you’re keeping score, it’s twice as long as any Iron Druid book. The manuscript was 680 pages! Apart from the four and a half months I spent writing Staked, that’s what I was doing in 2015. Workin’ hard!
2. My latest Iron Druid short story, “Goddess at the Crossroads,” where Atticus shares the perilous circumstances of his meeting with William Shakespeare, is now available though Subterranean Press in A Fantasy Medley 3! This is print only, no ebook or audio. Very honored to be featured with stories by Jacqueline Carey, Aliette de Bodard, and Laura Bickle! It got a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and you can get either a regular hardcover edition or a signed, numbered, super-sexy limited edition here.
3. Staked will be out on Jan. 26! (*high-pitched squee*) If you haven’t heard about the tour already, here’s where I will be and I hope you can make it! Remember that if I’m not coming to your town/region/country, it’s not because I don’t love you, it’s because of math.
4. While on tour I’m giving away these new signed bookmarks that have a Third Eye Books & Herbs receipt on one side and Oberon’s answer to the question “What is best in life?” on the other.  But if you can’t make it to the tour, you can still snag one by pre-ordering Staked from wherever you like to buy books!  Just send me an email with your shipping address. Thanks to everyone who’s already pre-ordered, by the way. YOU DESERVE A SNACK.
5. I have a couple of new ways to connect: I’m starting a newsletter called Oberon’s Shenanigans that will be out monthly, first issue coming out Jan. 14 if all goes well. It will include a “Meat of the Month” column written by Oberon as well as other goodies. You can sign up here! And I’m on Instagram now at @Kevin_Hearne if you like pictures of books and booze and mountains and beardy guys with doggies.

So what’s next?

1. I’m working on a novella right now from Oberon’s point of view called The Purloined Poodle, which will hopefully be out in the fall. Mystery! Allusions to Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe! Sausage! Poodles! You know, the good stuff! More details when I have them.
2. I have three IDC short stories in my head that I’ve long wanted to write, so I’m gonna do it. Two are Atticus-in-history tales because I love the research, and one features Flidais and Perun in London with Perun as the narrator.
3. Book 9 of IDC!

Places where I’ll show up this year, besides the Staked tour:

1. Dallas, Texas! Well, Garland, really, at the Barnes and Noble at Firewheel Mall. February 20, 2 pm, with amazing authors Charlaine Harris, Rachel Caine, Jaye Wells, and Delilah S. Dawson! OMG I AM ALREADY GEEKING OUT
2. AnomalyCon in Denver! March 25-27. With so many awesome authors I can hardly stand it. Chuck Wendig! Scott Lynch! Elizabeth Bear! SOOOOO MANY MOARRR
3. Emerald City Comic Con! April 7-10 in Seattle! YAY!
4. Phoenix Comic Con! June 2-5. YAY!
5. San Diego Comic Con! July 21-24. YAY!
6. Dragon*Con in Atlanta, September 2-5! Woohoo!
7. StoryCon in New Orleans, Sep 30-Oct 2! BEIGNETS!

Whew. Well, that’ll keep me busy. Hope your year is fabulous and we’ll get to see each other along the way! And thank you so much for reading!

—K.