I lost a Dragon Award but I do have a new book available!
- Elizabeth Bear

- Sep 5, 2025
- 2 min read

Hey, everybody!
Welp, Angel Maker is alive and well and out in the world and I am excited to say that it is doing very well saleswise, having hit #1 in Steampunk and Steampunk New Releases on Amazon this week. Response seems positive, and I cannot wait to hear what everybody thinks.
You can order a copy here, or from your local bookstore. Or you can get a signed and personalized copy from my local bookstore. The Odyssey Bookshop!
Because of the modern-day vagaries of print-on-demand publishing, there are two sources for the paperback with differing quality products. If you order the physical paperback book from Barnes & Noble or an independent bookseller, you will get a high-quality print-on-demand paperback from Ingram Spark. If you order the paperback from Amazon, you will get a perfectly cromulent quick-print job that is not nearly as nice.
I have set up the paperback on Ingram to be full-discount and returnable, which means that your bookstore will not be losing money by ordering it for you. Alternately, you can order a copy direct from Ingram by using this link.
In other news, I had a wonderful time at Dragon Con and the Dragon Awards, where I lost my category to Matt Dinniman, and I don't feel bad about it at all because he seems like a complete sweetheart. Also I had the pleasure of watching Mary Robinette Kowal win two awards, the Eugie Foster Memorial Short Fiction Award (and since Eugie was a friend of both of ours, that was very special) and the Dragon Award for Best Alternate History.
(Which, I might add, Angel Maker is eligible for in 2026...)
Anyway, hope this is helpful to everybody, and I again want to thank everybody who nominated or voted for The Folded Sky. It means so much to me.