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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.)

OK.  So, this is a little weird. 

Back in November, when I was attending the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, I spent some time hanging out with folks from Tor’s art department.   We got to talking about cover art, and I mentioned how pleased I’ve been with their efforts on my behalf.  (Yes, I can be an obsequious little toad on occasion.  But in this case I was being sincere.  I really do love the work they’ve done on the Milkweed books, both the old cover and the new work.)

And then somebody asked me if I had seen the cover that John Jude Palencar painted for my second novel. 

To which I said, “Um, no,” because as we all know, JJP did not do the cover art for my second novel.

Hooray!  Calloo, callay, oh frabjous day!

Thanks to alert and super considerate reader Steve Halter, I can confirm that The Coldest War is finally out in the wild.  The Audible.com edition of Milkeed #2, the sequel to Bitter Seeds, is now available!  It went up this morning at Audible.com, and it also appears (this morning, as of January 17) on their “Just Added” page.  And right on schedule– as I posted here last month, the original release was slated for December, but the narrator, Kevin Pariseau, had a scheduling conflict that required moving the release back a few weeks.  January 17 was the target date provided to me by Audible, and they hit the mark.  Audible.com has been a very enthusiastic supporter of the Milkweed books, and I can’t wait to give it a listen.

It’s been a long time coming, so it’s a great feeling to know that The Coldest War is finally making its way into the world.

See?  I told you guys it was a real book.  (But who could blame you for experience moments of doubt, given all the delays?)

This is the audiobook release, but there’s also the hardcover/ebook edition coming in July.  It is rather strange to have the audio edition out before the hardcover, but then again, this book’s journey to publication has ever been anything but normal.  But I reckon anybody reading this already knows that.

Below the cut, I’ll reiterate the current release schedule for all editions of the Milkweed books, insofar as I know it at the moment.