Paper Fruit

Sup y’all. I assume if you read this blog you’ve bought Creatures of Will and Temper by now, but if not… if you were, like, a fan of Vermilion or my short fiction and have been waiting to be super sure if you wanted to read my all-fencing all-demon all-fraught-conversations-about-art epic, you can now read it for free on io9.

That’s right! Part One is up today, Wednesday the 30th, Part Two will be up on Wednesday, June 6th, and Part Three will be up Wednesday, June 13th.

Spread the word, tell your friends, buy a copy after being so amazingly intrigued, buy another copy for your friend who’d love it because they’re into girl feelings and fencing and people thinking about their thoughts a lot?

For a while now, “readers” of this “blog” will have noticed a popup at the top claiming I had a newsletter. Well, about a year after setting that up, I finally have scheduled my very first! I hope to use it monthly, which let’s be honest, given the state of this blog, is ambitious, but we’ll see. I like the personal nature of the newsletter, and MailChimp is fun to play around in. So, if you’re curious about stuff I do, please do sign up. I’m trying to make the newsletter a mix of professional news (books, short stories, appearances) and personal hobbies such as my home canning adventures and also my baking and such. I’ll also try to always provide at least one picture of the Toad.

Other than that, it’s been… well, it’s been. I finished the page proofs for the forthcoming Creatures of Want and Ruin (now you can pre-order!) am working on a new short story, and am easing back into the now-announced third book in the series, Creatures of Charm and Hunger.

Yep, there will be a third! The quick pitch is “teen witch murdering Nazis” but of course said witch is a diabolist and there’s more to it than that, but… if that sounds like something you’d like to read, you won’t be disappointed.

Thanks for sticking with this blog, and with me, and see you (hopefully) in newsletter form soon!