Writer's Grove

Upcoming Awesome

People ask me every so often what to read while they’re waiting for more Atticus n’ Oberon and I do have a list of good stuff on my FAQs page if you’d like to check it out. You’ll also find a series chronology there in case you were wondering how all the short stories and novellas fit in with the books.

But I’d like to put a few upcoming books on your radar. They’re all available for pre-order wherever you buy books, and hell yes I’ve pre-ordered them myself. Going in order of release date:

Tempest Reborn by Nicole Peeler is the sixth and final book of her series, coming out soon on May 28. Jane True is a selkie—not your normal badass, and in fact she’s a reluctant fighter, which I love—and these books are full of mythology and fun. Peeler gets me laughing out loud several times per book. Her first one, Tempest Rising, is on sale for cheap as an eBook, so there’s very little risk in giving her a try and if you like ’em you can mow through the whole series before the month is up! I feel I should offer up a horrid pun here…um. DIVE INTO ADVENTURE WITH A SELKIE

Jason M. Hough is going to have three books come out this year, bam-bam-bam, the way I did back in 2011. Same publisher as me and they’re giving him the same support, which should tell you how much they believe in him. I am also supporting him however I can because I’ve already read these and it’s the most entertaining sci-fi I’ve read in years. I want Jason to do well for entirely selfish reasons: If he sells enough books then he gets to keep writing them, and I cannot wait for this guy to write more books.

The Darwin Elevator comes out July 30; The Exodus Towers on August 27; and The Plague Forge on September 25. Here’s what I wrote about the first book:  “The best part about alien stories is their mystery, and Jason M. Hough understands that like no other. Full of compelling characters and thick with tension, The Darwin Elevator delivers both despair and hope along with a gigantic dose of wonder. It’s a brilliant debut and Hough can take my money whenever he writes anything from now on.” Yeah, I’m completely sold.

If you’d like to meet me and Jason, we’ll be in San Diego together on his release day, July 30, at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego at 7 pm.

Unstoppable force of nature Jaye Wells is launching a new series called Prospero’s War after the conclusion of her successful Sabina Kane series. The first book, Dirty Magic, doesn’t come out until January 21, 2014, so if you pre-order now you will get an awesome surprise next year. As you can probably guess by the cover, this series has quite a bit to do with alchemy and potions and a protagonist who wishes everyone would stop playing around with that dangerous shit. Well, I thought it was five kinds of cool and I wrote a blurb for it as well: “Kate Prospero is my new favorite heroine—imperfect, haunted, driven, and dangerous.”

So there you go! Please give ’em love! I have a book coming out at the end of June, but I’m sure you guys knew that already. :) If you can’t make it to one of my tour stops then you can order a signed copy from The Poisoned Pen now, I’ll sign ’em before I go on tour, and they’ll ship it to you on release day. Rock on!