Hugo & Nebula Award Winning Author. EMPRESS OF FOREVER, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR. Craft Sequence! Games! Fencer, Chinese speaker, swift typist. he/him
DEAD COUNTRY comes out March 7!
-homecoming
-necromancy
-mentorship
-monstrosities (undead)
-monstrosities (other)
-parents
-reality storm
-goats
-regret
-warped God Wars landscape
-many scorpions (in 1 scene)
-curses
-end of the world (prospective)
amazon.com/Dead-Country-Craf…
I’m so happy to announce that my chapter on queer temporalities in @tithenai and @maxgladstone’s This is How You Lose the Time War is out! Thank you so much to the editors for their fantastic work, and to everyone who made this volume possible 🏳🌈🌟
Was having a normal morning reading the newsletter of one of my favorite authors (@maxgladstone) when I saw this Triangle Agency shout-out!
TA doesn't exist without the Craft Sequence, which reignited my love of reading (and then writing) almost a decade ago. I cried!
ALT Last week saw the initial digital release of Triangle Agency, which I backed on Kickstarter. I haven’t had this much fun reading a tabletop RPG book in a long while and I read a lot of ttrpg books. I have taken screenshots to send to friends! Triangle Agency is a sort of Control-meets-Paranoia (the ttrpg) take of the “working for a Mysterious Organization fighting the supernatural” material—it belongs on a shelf next to Apocalypse Keys probably but they’re asking different questions very differently, and bringing a lot of fresh ideas to the genre. And, really, the book itself is so much fun that it’s worth a read even if you don’t plan on playing it (though if so, be careful about the Binding Contract Sentence at the beginning of the GM section). You can buy the digital edition here and download a free demo.
Not watched our interview with @maxgladstone yet? Here's a trailer to show you what you're missing...
(Shout out to Lili for making this, I snort laughed when the music first played)
The stories of Conan are timeless, and filled with fantasy adventure that still hold up today. This is merely a tribute from me, but hopefully fans of Conan will enjoy the glimpse into his world as seen through my eyes!
"The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard.
review "as Mark Twain once said, 'If you’ve got dead flying gods, skeleton kings, and giant planet-eating spiders from the void between the stars, you’ve got yourself a winner!'"
fantasyliterature.com/review…@maxgladstone@tordotcom@FanLit
Today! HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING is in stores everywhere.
Davi is stuck in a time loop and sick of trying to save the Kingdom from the Dark Lord. This time she's off to join the winning team!
amazon.com/Become-Dark-Lord-…
“There is no secret. There’s just people, again and again, people saving people, and you have to hope it is enough.”
"Wicked Problems"
via @maxgladstonea.co/dwCGYOr
Last year @maxgladstone kindly recorded a super long interview with me. Life got in the way but the first 3 clips are now FINALLY live for all you lovely people to check out.
Better late than never, right??
youtube.com/watch?v=mTUw5IDs…
Less than a week to enter the Bar Cart Bookshelf Craft Wars giveaway! Like & comment on the WICKED PROBLEMS video to enter. One reader will receive DEAD COUNTRY & WICKED PROBLEMS. Come for the curse-ridden desperadoes in office buildings, stay for the mind-altering squid operas!
ALT [image desc: DEAD COUNTRY and WICKED PROBLEMS side by side on a rusted barrel.]
I just finished Wicked Problems, the new Max Gladstone Craft Wars book. @maxgladstone is an insane genius in the best possible way. If you haven't read the Craft books, you should. They're wildly creative and different from literally any fantasy I've ever read.
The happiest of book birthdays of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar, a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhausted dreamer!🌌
ALT A copy of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar resting on a white and black striped background.
Over on instagram @maxgladstone is sharing his plans for the revisions for Craft Wars #3! Love this insight into how his revision process works.
instagram.com/reel/C53bIR3ri…
"[@maxgladstone]'s fascinating world of magic continues to expand in this new volume, and the narrative feels vast and exciting....fans of the series will be excited to get their hands on it." - @ALA_Booklist on Wicked Problems
ALT A copy of Wicked Problems by Max Gladstone standing in front of a yellow background.