Some folks might remember how, back in the day, I'd occasionally just release a new book out of nowhere. No preorders, no hype, no waiting. Why am I bringing this up? Because I just released a new book out of nowhere. I'm pleased to announce that The Wise Men of Gotham, the sequel to The Hungry Dreaming, is now available! What's it about?
"When a daughter of Hekate is gunned down outside a Brooklyn bodega, reprisal comes by moonlight: one by one, the victims of a spreading curse fall into a deep sleep, lost in inescapable visions. And their numbers are growing.
Seelie Rose knows a thing or two about visions. As a fledgling witch and the inheritor of a magical legacy, it's her duty to watch over the dreamscape of New York City. Usually that means battling errant nightmares; now she's facing down alien intelligences, incursions from other realms, and the dawning suspicion that she isn't the only dream-witch in town.
Meanwhile, creatures of the night are turning up dead, and the ghoul princess lurking in Seelie's closet wants a favor. Not the kind she can refuse, unless she wants to be next on the princess's macabre menu. If Seelie plays her cards just right, she may uncover a conspiracy, stop a deadly plot, and survive...at least until graduation.”
This book was a labor of love, and I hope it makes you happy. And we're just getting started! Next up, in a few months, will be the overdue return of Harmony Black (I'll let you know once a date is set) and of course, I'm getting ready to break ground on the next Daniel Faust adventure.
There's one little (well, two) hitches. As usual, the audiobook will come later down the line; I'm going to be meeting up with Susannah in person later this week, so I hope I'll be able to give you an estimate. Meanwhile, the paperback version is delayed by about a week because I am not a very bright person.
(The last step in creating a paperback is to finalize the cover, which has to be sized to fit the width of the novel. I did a quick-and-dirty page calculation that turned out to be laughably wrong -- I thought it was around 400-ish, but the final book is actually over 500 pages long -- and my cover designer is on a trip so I can't wrap this up until he returns. Of course, if I had done it right in the first place…)
Oh, and to celebrate, The Hungry Dreaming is on sale for 99 cents all week. Just tossing that out there.
In a couple of days I'll be getting on a train and traveling to a live pitch meeting. I have never made a book pitch in person, I have not yet memorized my spiel, and I've got so much to handle I'm making lists of the lists I need to make. But I'll get through it. Know how? You. A writer without readers is just shouting into the void. Y'all give me a reason to keep getting up in the morning, and it means everything to me. Thank you.