Hey all. Some readers noticed that the US audiobook for THE DESERT PRINCE, which was briefly on sale earlier this month, ceased to be available, and now shows a pre-order page for an October 12, 2021 release. In response to listener feedback and internal discussions about the original edition, Penguin Random House Audio will be […]
Split Sales
This was originally posted as a thread on twitter, but I figured I’d blow the cobwebs off the blog and collect it here, too. Early in my career, I would get anxiously tied in knots when a bookseller broke embargo (shipped/shelved a book before its on sale date), fearing it was a harbinger of a […]
Desert Prince ARC Contest
First off, apologies for taking so long to get this contest up and running. I know I teased it a couple weeks ago, and then… silence. I’ve been running without an assistant since Karen leveled up and moved on. I was about to start looking for someone new when the pandemic swept in and everything […]
Desert Prince Release Date
At long last, I am excited to announce that THE DESERT PRINCE is with the copyeditor! In production terms, this means there are no structural or editorial changes left to make, just nitpicking over grammar and style, checking of math and timelines, that sort of thing. Sometimes a copyeditor finds a glitch, but it’s never […]
Quarantine Warding Contest Prizes & Updates
Hey all. Late again, I know. Time is just a vague notion these days. It seems to drag on moment to moment, and yet the weeks have flown by. But while I have not been keeping to the spirit my promise to pick winners every Friday by announcing them, I have followed it to the […]