Good morning, everyone! My angel-wife and I are on vacation, but the wheels of publishing never stop; Tantor has just released the audiobook for the second book in The Many Travails of John Smith, Blood is Thicker Than Lots of Stuff! “Messy divorce? Check. Emotional stability of the involved parties? Questionable. Possibility of bloodshed? High….
For a while, it felt like this day would never come, but here we are, with The Queen of Smiles officially out in the world (or Amazon’s small slice of the world, anyway)! The fourth full-length novel in the post-Break world–and the first to star someone other than Damian Banach, Baby Crow–The Queen of Smiles is part stand-alone, part post-trilogy palate cleanser, and part something that’s still figuring itself out, much like the titular anti-heroine herself. I had a hell of a lot of fun with this one and I hope you do too!
I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 5!
I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 4!
I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 3!
I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 2!
I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 1!
With the release of The Queen of Smiles less than a month away, you can expect things to pick up around here again, with sample chapters, release day roundups, and the like. But the new book’s release is far from the only thing that’s coming down the pipeline this season!
Here’s what’s in store, starting with tomorrow’s somewhat surprise audiobook release and then proceeding all the way to Christmas…
It’s almost October in what has been both a very long and very short year, and, per a tradition established all the way back in the before-days of 2019, that means I should have a new book coming out in a month or two. I’ve already shared a few rough snippets in the magical land of social media, but today we’re going to do something different.
A title reveal? Well, yes.
A cover reveal? Yeah, that too.
But before we get to any of that, I’ll be answering questions from the most insufferable of interviewers…
That’s right: I’m interviewing myself, and I will not rest until I have all the dirt on this new book and the man who is allegedly writing it.
Recently, I was invited as a guest on an episode of The Merry Writer Podcast, the long-running, writing-related podcast recorded by Ari Meghlen and Rachel Poli.
Our topic was “How Do You Talk About Your Writing To People?” Those who know me know that it’s both a subject near and dear to my heart and something I struggle with on an almost daily basis.