Category: Publishing

Free stuff!  We’ve posted an excerpt from The Coldest War on the homepage.  

ARCs have been out for a while, so early reviews are starting to trickle in.  I’m pretty militant about not reading discussions of my books, so when my editor and publicist start forwarding reviews to me I know that’s a good sign.  I’m proud of Coldest War and can’t wait to see the print and ebook editions out in the world.

OK.  I really try to ensure that my infrequently updated blog isn’t merely a sockpuppet for self-promotion and updates on my books.  Sometimes there are photographs of handcuffs, or long incoherent stories about ghosts.  But this is a busy few months for me, publishing wise, so bear with me.

And besides, these three updates are really cool.

This just in: over at Goodreads, the good people at Tor are giving away 5 copies of my forthcoming novel, The Coldest War. The offer runs from today, April 30, through June 8.

So that’s two Milkweed-related giveaways currently underway at Goodreads—I’m also giving away 3 copies of the new-as-of-last-week mass market paperback of Bitter Seeds (details here).  That giveaway runs until May 13.

And I think that’s quite enough self promotion for one day.  Don’t you?  This is the part of writing that I enjoy the very least.

On an entirely different note, here’s one of the very few jokes I can actually remember.

Huh.  I thought this was coming out in early May.

But, according to several online retailers, the mmpb edition of Bitter Seeds is now available! 

This is the US paperback edition, from Tor.  It includes the first chapter of The Coldest War, as well as the short story, “What Doctor Gottlieb Saw.”   This edition is wrapped in fantastic artwork by Chris McGrath, a piece of artwork I like to call, “Do Not Make Eye Contact With the Sociopathic Clairvoyant Woman.”  (I doubt that’s what Chris calls it.)

This is distinct from the Orbit UK edition, which will come out on July 12.  (The full schedule, as best as I know it at the moment, is available here.)  That edition will also contain extra material, including an interview.

I’m giving away 3 copies.  For free!  More details below the cut.

This just in from the good people at Orbit:  The UK edition of Bitter Seeds, originally scheduled for publication in December, 2012, is moving forward 5 months.  The Orbit edition of the book will now appear on shelves on July 12, 2012.

Golly.  July is going to be a busy month—that’s just 5 days before the US hardcover/ebook release of The Coldest War.  (The updated publication schedule is here.)