Writer's Grove

Where I’m At

That was a nice break! Seriously nice. Had some lovely holidays with the family and doggies. But I’m back to tell you about some spiffy things, starting with these books out now: The Raptor & the Wren by Chuck Wendig and The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander. Chuck’s Miriam Black series is one of my favorites and this is the fifth one with only one more to go (which he finished writing yesterday), so it’s a great time to dive in if you haven’t started yet. Miriam has this thing where she can predict the time and method of your death once she has any physical contact with you. Tends to make her antisocial. She also has another thing with birds, as the title might suggest. Go grab it!

I feel confident saying Bolander’s book is like nothing you’ve ever read. It’s brilliant stuff. I read an early copy and HECK YES I bought a finished copy because I want to read it again. Here’s what I said about it: “Bolander’s skilled prose always leaves me agog, but days after finishing The Only Harmless Great Thing, I’m still swimming around in its depths with a sense of wonder. It’s beautiful and sad and relatable and unremittingly, crucially defiant.” Hie thee hence and feed your brain, my friends!

Other spiffy stuff: I have a book coming out called Scourged on April 3. It’s the ninth book of the Iron Druid Chronicles, so if you’re the type who likes to have complete series and binge read, now’s the time to start! Preorders are available now and are the bestest, most wonderful thing you can do for authors (link roundup below). I’ll be touring just a few cities and the last two dates are not confirmed yet but here you go—hope to see you at one of these, and if you can’t make it, you can order signed copies from these stores to be shipped to you:
April 3, The Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ, 7 pm
April 4, Barnes & Noble, Boulder, CO, 7 pm
April 5, Murder By The Book, Houston, TX, 6:30 pm
April 6, Barnes & Noble, Huntsville, AL, 7 pm (to be confirmed)
April 7, Doylestown Bookshop, Doylestown, PA, 4 pm, with Chuck Wendig and Fran Wilde!

Another book I wrote with Delilah S. Dawson will be out on July 17. It’s called Kill the Farm Boy, a sendup of Chosen One narratives and epic fantasy in general.  It was so much fun to write and I think you’ll have a blast reading it. We just got finished writing the sequel, No Country for Old Gnomes. Preorders are available for this too (see below)!

Right now I’m working on A Blight of Blackwings, the sequel to A Plague of Giants. Online I’m mostly goofing around on Instagram and Mastodon these days, so please follow me there and say howdy. Why there? Facebook has changed their algorithm so I hardly reach any of my followers and Twitter is largely doom-laden dolor interspersed with cute animal pics and it gives me anxiety that the animals are doomed. Anxiety in general, I guess; I’ve been much happier during my time away from it so I think it’s best to keep Twitter at a distance. I’m going to reply to mentions as I can and tweet about books once in a while, but I’ll be consistently playing on Instagram and Mastodon, so I hope to see you around there.

Many thanks for reading my books and just being a fine human. I hope you are well and happy and have drinks, tacos, and doggies in easy reach.

Here are the promised preorder links for one bajillion points of good karma:

Scourged: Amazon B&N iBooks Books-A-Million The Poisoned Pen Powells
Kill the Farm Boy: Amazon B&N iBooks Books-A-Million