Writer's Grove
so many dang goodies
Friends, I have stuff to shout about. Lots of fun things happening. Ready? First up, the novella anthology Death & Honey, featuring cover art by Galen Dara:
Isn’t that gorgeous? Rhett Walker from Lila’s story is on the left, the hero of her Shadow series, and then there’s a Very Good Boy Who Deserves a Snack, Oberon, because my novella is an Oberon’s Meaty Mystery called The Buzz Kill, and on the right you see Wren from Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black series.
As you might guess from the cover, each novella will involve bees somehow. Ebook and audio preorders aren’t available yet but I’ll holler when they are. Right now you can preorder a limited print edition that’s signed by all three of us and numbered (or even lettered) and it will include additional illustrations inside by Galen Dara, the cover artist. They’re going to have Galen illustrate each story, so you’ll see more Oberon and maybe Starbuck too and who knows what else? This cover and interior illustrations are exclusive to the print edition. The ebook & audio edition will have a different cover and no interior illustrations but the stories inside will be the same!
If you go check out that link above, you can read the first 1K words of each novella. The Buzz Kill is set in Tasmania a few months after the end of Scourged and it’s my favorite. Starbuck is a bit more verbal and he starts to give Oberon some gas. Hope you’ll enjoy!
But that’s not all!
I wrote a new Granuaile and Orlaith story called “The Waters” and it’s included in this new anthology called RESIST, the proceeds of which go to benefit the ACLU. So you get twenty-seven stories from sci-fi and fantasy’s best, and the ACLU gets some funding to protect civil liberties. Good deal all around. You can get RESIST in ebook or print; I am pretty sure that this is through Amazon only, however, or Humble Bundle. A quest: Get the print edition and then collect the signatures from all twenty-seven authors! This is pretty much available now-ish; I believe it releases Nov. 1, so your preorder will arrive very soon (or right away if you read this after Nov. 1)
Cheap Farm Bois
Coming Feb 5: the trade paperback edition of Kill the Farm Boy! If preorder links are available for it now at your favorite retailer then yay! They might still have only the hardcover edition available at the moment, and of course we’d love it if you snagged it now, but wanted to give you a heads-up. You can get caught up on that before the second book comes out in April. Here’s the trade paperback cover:
No Country for Old Gnomes
This is just about wrapped up on our end; Delilah is working on copy edits now, and it’ll be in your hands on April 16. If you preorder now you’ll earn five billion karma points and our undying gratitude. This book has everything: Goth gnomes! Dirty halflings! Clean halflings! Gryphons! Kobolds! A religion based on cabbage! Hot Nut Pudding! And a heck of a lot more. You can read the preview goodies here and preorder.
So—besides all that stuff coming, I’m of course working on more stuff for later! Right now I’m 80K words into my first draft of A Blight of Blackwings, the sequel to A Plague of Giants. This is my epic fantasy trilogy called The Seven Kennings, and if you haven’t tried it out yet, I’d be honored if you did.
I also need to finish an Owen and Slomo story called “First Dangle” for audio; I’m writing that to add on to “The Chapel Perilous,” since that’s the only Iron Druid story Luke Daniels hasn’t recorded yet.
And speaking of Iron Druid, I’ll be starting a new series in that universe after I’m finished writing A Blight of Blackwings! More details on that coming in February; I’ll be sharing pics and such from my location scout.
And right now, sharing pics on my Instagram is all I’m doing on the social media front, so hop over there if you feel like it. I’ll return to Twitter and Facebook in February after A Blight of Blackwings is finished. Hope you’re well and spiffy, that you’ll vote and enjoy some peace & tacos.
