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Hey there everybody….

For those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you had a good one this weekend. For those of you who *don’t* celebrate it, or who celebrate it at a different time (I’m looking at you, Canada) I hope you had a good time doing whatever else you did.

Just a quick blog today for those of you who haven’t heard the news: My publisher is holding a photo contest, where you can win some of the new penance piece coins we designed with Shire Post to celebrate the launch of the ne...

As I write this, the Narrow Road Between Desires has been published for six days. Not quite a week.

I can’t remember if I’ve talked about it on the blog recently, but the first week of sales for a book are pretty important. It’s sort of similar to how people mention how much money the opening weekend of a movie made: it’s an easy metric that quantifies the movie’s success. It doesn’t indicate how *good* the movie is, mind you. But even so… there’s an implication…

Luckily, publishing isn’t nearly...

As I sit down to write this, the new book has been out for a full day and some change.

Launch day went pretty well. It felt… odd. For my last two books, I did signing tours. And while I don’t miss the thought of spending my time in airports and hotel rooms… I do miss the thought of getting to meet a lot of you. Tours are exhausting. But the one part I never got tired of was meeting you guys…

But various things made a tour impractical for me this time around. So when my book came out and it felt ...

Well folks, it’s release day. As I write this, The Narrow Road Between Desires is already (hopefully) on the shelves of your local bookstore.

(If you’re wondering where you can get a copy, there’s a bunch of options here.)

To celebrate that, I’m going to share an interview with Nate Taylor where we talk about the illustrations we worked on for this book. As I’ve mentioned, there’s about 45 or so…

(Illustrations like this)

This interview was one of the many things I wrote I was tr...

Last night, I was going to post up a story about The Narrow Road Between Desires as a “review” over on goodreads. But logging in, I discovered there were already 200+ reviews on there.

Nobody’s actually read the book yet, obviously. It won’t be published until the 14th. Most of them were 1-star hate-reviews from people pissed it wasn’t Doors of Stone, which means the current rating for the book is around 2.1 stars.

Not gonna lie, took the wind out of my sails a bit. Sucks to have 200+ 1 star rev...

A couple weeks ago, I talked about the upcoming audiobook, and how Recorded Books had made a movie-trailer style promotion for the upcoming audio release of The Narrow Road Between Desires.

(I suppose it’s just a book trailer, isn’t it? Not a Movie-Trailer-But-For-An-Audiobook….)

Anyway, like I said, I was surprised and impressed by how well they turned out. If you’re curious, you can see those trailers and read the blog over here.

What I didn’t mention, is that when they sent me the trailers, I...

Wait. What? What’s going on here? Is this some sort of glitch in the matrix?

No. No it is not.

I am, in fact, posting new blogs two days in a row.

I’m also, by no small coincidence, running around like a chicken with my head cut off. This is actually a good thing, at least in terms of me continuing my pursuit of occasional non-perfection. By which I mean it’s better for me to post up a pretty good blog that’s timely, rather than post up a perfect one a year too late.)

So despite the fact that I ...

So over the last couple months, I’ve meant to write about two dozen different blogs. The upcoming book got a cover, for example:

(As always, guest starring my thumb.)

But I’m guessing by now you’ve already seen that. We have a UK cover too. There’s some promotional stuff going on with the book, where if you pre-order The Narrow Road Between Desires, you not only can get a signed copy, but you’ll also get one of the promotional postcards we made to showcase some of the fabulous art Nate Taylor d...

Hey there everybody,

Later this year, I’m publishing a new novella.

In a lot of ways, it’s going to be similar to The Slow Regard of Silent Things. It’s set in Temerant. It’s going to be illustrated by the fabulous Nate Taylor, and it centers on one of the secondary characters from the Kingkiller Chroniclers: Bast.

[You’re never secondary in our hearts, Bast.]

The Novella is called The Narrow Road Between Desires.

I’ve always said when a new project was happening, you’d hear it here first. So...

So there’s one day left on the kickstarter, and among the many stretch goals we’ve unlocked while bringing Digger back into print, was one where I said folks would get a sneak peek of the foreword.

So I’m going to throw that up here today.

But first, I want to show you the graphic that I made with Julia on the livestream a couple days ago, that shows nice mockups of the books and gives details about them, including all the upgrades we’ve been able to include.

And you know what? I’m going to do y...