Tah dah: Nov. 6, 2013

It’s Book day, busting out all over! Of course, today is US launch day* for my own Shattered Pillars, second in the Eternal Sky trilogy. Shattered Pillars is a novel of crumblimg empire, necromancy, Rukhs, Djinni, ghulim, Wizards, tiger-warriors, martial monks, and magic ponies set in a fantasy realm inspired by the cultures, sweep, and [...]

Shattered Pillars is out tomorrow in the US! (Probably already available today in many fine bookstores, because it’s not a hard on-sale date.) Book Two of the Eternal Sky trilogy continues the story of Re Temur, exiled heir to his grandfather’s Khaganate, and the Wizard Samarkar, Once-Princess of the Rasan Empire, as they struggle to [...]

Shadow Unit ebook volume 13 is out and available for download wherever fine pixels are pushed! The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity’s worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn’t dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. There, Stephen Reyes and his team pursue criminals transformed by a mysterious force: [...]

I mentioned this briefly in the last post, and I think I’ll mention it again, because I could not be more thrilled: Scott’s handed in the final revisions on The Republic of Thieves, and its publication date is set for October 10th 2013 in the UK and October 8th 2013 in the US. I know [...]

The standing desk is working out well so far. Although I ran four miles this morning, and my desire to be on my feet is… mitigated by that fact. However, there are incipient crocus emerging through the snow in the front yard, which means we’re well into Mud Season: and I got a box of [...]

A certain amount of excitement prevails in Bearland today, as I have the cover and preorder info for Book of Iron, an Eternal Sky novella starring Bijou, of Bone & Jewel Creatures fame. It will be out from Subterranean Press in September, and preorders are available here. Book of Iron concerns itself with what happens [...]

Writing Steles of the Sky has been eating my life, to the detriment of blogging anything. However, there’s a bit of news, and so I am here to at least catch you up, if not be conversational. Maybe in April. 0.0 ITEM: Range of Ghosts is out in trade paperback today! And, of course, the [...]

I’ve been down with a stomach bug for a couple of days, which is no fun–it’s interfering with my attempt to return to climbing twice a week, for one thing. Still, I managed an 11 mile run last week, so it’s probably not a bad time for a little enforced rest. I’ll be skipping my [...]

Yep, it’s true. There will be a third volume of the Hugo-nominated, Audie-winning audio anthology Metatropolis. Metatropolis 3: Green Space will be edited by Jay lake and Ken Scholes, with stories by both of those luminaries as well as Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear (that’s me), Mary Robinette Kowal, and Seanan McGuire.