Writer's Grove

Lots o’ News

Well! It’s been quite the weekend & stuff. A project that I’ve been working on for a while finally got announced and it was awesome to see people as excited about it as I am. It’s this little thing from the Star Wars universe called HEIR TO THE JEDI.

It’ll be released in January of 2015. Set between Episodes IV and V, it’ll be the first time we have a Luke Skywalker novel told from a first-person POV. Sorry that I can’t share any more than that right now!

Other writing goodies:

1. Book 7 of the Iron Druid Chronicles, SHATTERED, is now available for pre-order on audio wherever you get your audiobooks, and yes, it’ll be narrated by Luke Daniels! (And it’s available for pre-order in print and ebook too!)

2. Booklist is giving SHATTERED a starred review in their May 15 issue, so that’s pretty spiffy!

3. Interesting development: One of my Iron Druid short stories, previously only available in the CARNIEPUNK anthology, will be for sale separately for .99 beginning October 27. It’s called “The Demon Barker of Wheat Street,” and it’s set just a few days after the events of TWO RAVENS AND ONE CROW, during Granuaile’s training period. From what I understand it’s already available for pre-order online wherever you get your ebooks.

4. What am I working on now? The first volume of an epic fantasy trilogy. It’s called A PLAGUE OF GIANTS. After I finish that I’ll start work on book 8 of the Iron Druid Chronicles.

5. I will be in New Orleans in a couple of weeks for the RT Booklovers Convention! I think the big open-to-the-public signing shindig is from 10-2 on Saturday, May 17! You can get autographs not only from me but from a ridiculous number of other authors—I think there will be hundreds of them, all wearing pants! Looking forward to this very much. Many of my writer friends will be there and they are such fabulous human beings.

6. WOO!

7. Sorry about number 6. That happens sometimes. Two things that I’m learning more about and enjoying are the online writing game called Storium and how to use the Scrivener writing app. Storium is currently a Kickstarter and if you get in on it for $20 you get access to the beta right now and then you get a full year’s access when they launch for reals in a few months. Check it out!

Hope you are well and happy and reading something awesome!