Cover Reveal: DEAD HAND RULE

Craft Wars, Book 3, Coming October 28. Just in time for the B&N Preorder sale today!

You’ve been patient. I’ve been working. And here we are.

Craft Wars III: DEAD HAND RULE

From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War....

Great powers clash and epic action unfolds in book three of the Craft Wars.

If we want to survive, we must join together now.

There is a crack in the foundation of the world. Markets crash and cities burn as a new god struggles to be born. Ancient hunters skitter across space, eager and hungry. Dark forces conspire to undermine anything that might stand in their way. Divided, the world of the Craft will fall.

In Alt Coulumb, Tara Abernathy has gathered the great powers for a last chance at an alliance. Empires, divinities, and corporate Concerns take seats at the table. After centuries of betrayal and war, can gods and immortal necromancers put aside their differences to save the world? And even if they try: what parts of it will they save, and for whom?

Spies and saints, prophets and advocates, lovers and fighters, teachers and students, rebels and knights and kings—all will face a choice, before the end.

DEAD HAND RULE is slated for launch on October 28, just in time for Halloween. You can pre-order it through Bookshop.org, your local indie (my nearest is Porter Square Books), Barnes & Noble, and wherever else books are sold. And as luck would have it, today is the last day of Barnes & Noble’s pre-order sale—so if you order now from Barnes & Noble you get an extra 25% off. You just need a Rewards membership (free) and the coupon code PREORDER 25.

(We’ve talked a lot about the value of pre-orders over the years—they clue booksellers in to demand for a book, which leads, in success, to more orders, a higher print run, and more sales, all of which are great for an author’s career. Receiving a pre-ordered book feels like getting a present from my past self. And you’ll have it on launch day!)

This is a big one, friends: the second-to-last Craft book, building to crescendo. And it’s been a lot of fun to write. Not-so-alternate titles included Fear and Loathing at Wizard Davos, You Can’t Spell Conference Without Cataclysm , and Black Diamond Bay But With Way More Skeletons. I’m putting the finishing touches on the line edit today, and expect to have the last book drafted before this one hits stores. The scope of this book, the range of it, the places it takes our characters, old friends and new: I can’t wait to share it with you, and have you along for the ride. Thank you so much for your support.

Also: if anyone on this list will be at Boskone next weekend and would be interested in meeting up / hanging out in the lobby on Saturday afternoon, drop me an email (in reply to this one). For various private life reasons I wasn’t able to commit to programming or a long stay but I might be able to drop by for a couple hours and it would be fun to catch up.

Take care of yourselves, friends. Happy reading!