Happy Halloween, everybody! I don't have a treat for you this year, but I do have a trick: I'll show up at your house tonight asking for candy. I may be disguised as another person. If you don't figure out which visitor is me, I'll steal all your houseplants.
Also, The Engineer is now available for pre-order! And on Audible too! Releases December 5th in all formats! (We're still not allowed to do pre-orders for paperbacks, but they'll be available on the fifth of December!) It's almost exactly the same length as The Captain, but I can't promise anything else about its interior. Maybe it's not even a novel at all, maybe it's just my diary behind a super-sweet cover, you don't know. I didn't exactly plan to release this on Halloween, but I do love Halloween. The aesthetic is just so cool. Maybe one day, I'll release a Halloween-themed fantasy novel. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking it could be about a skeletal king of Halloween traveling to the North Pole to try to take over Santa's duties. Truly, inspiration is a mystery. Just like what I'm going to do with all your houseplants. -Will
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Within the first day of the current Kickstarter campaign, you exceeded the amount pledged to the first Kickstarter. At least, officially.
There were a lot of people who backed after the campaign was over, or added extras on later, or who shipped us chests full of doubloons after the original Kickstarter closed. The point is, the actual amount we raised in the last Kickstarter was higher than the official total on the page. And now we've passed that too. In about three days. We're now one of the highest-funded literary Kickstarters of all time. I think the only fantasy authors ahead of us are Sherrilyn Kenyon and Brandon Sanderson. Never thought I'd say anything like that. Right now I'm on a boat, writing The Last Horizon and seeking forbidden treasure, but I thought I'd swing by land long enough to say another thank you! The support you've shown me for Cradle has vastly exceeded my wildest hopes, to the point that it blows my mind all the time. You're great. All of you, whether you backed the Kickstarter or not. Thanks for reading! -Will The second Kickstarter for Cradle special editions is available now!
As I'm sure you expected, this one covers special faux-leather editions for Skysworn through Underlord. We posted it about five minutes ago, and it's hard for me to tell you how many people have donated so far because the site is updating so fast. You all are incredible. Thanks, as always! Now, onward I go to frantically refresh the page! -Will EDIT: We funded at $100k in eight minutes. That's so fast. Andrew Rowe wrote an extra blooper for Waybound!
He actually wrote this forever ago, because he's a beta reader for almost all my books, and we meant to post this closer to Waybound's release date but we both forgot. So why today? Well, by a crazy cosmic coincidence, he has a new book available today! What luck! While this is a blooper and therefore it should be obvious, SPOILER WARNING for Waybound. Click "Read More" (below) to read the blooper, and once again, a big sacred artist salute to Andrew Rowe and his new book! -Will P.S. Click just below this. I'm back at DragonCon once again!
First of all, if you're interested in meeting me here at Atlanta this weekend, we have an event this Saturday afternoon for which you DON'T need a DragonCon badge. Details at the bottom of the post. More importantly, I spent the morning meeting with some cool people. I had breakfast with Dakota Krout followed by lunch with Bryce O'Connor and Travis Baldree, so it's already been an action-packed day. To earn the right to eat with them, I had to fight off all the other applicants with my quarterstaff. That's what most of my week looks like, actually. Duel and lunch meetings. Maybe I'll visit a panel or two if there's time. If you would like the chance to meet me, there's no dueling required! You just need to be in Atlanta this Saturday! Here are the details: on September 2nd at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Atlanta at Centennial Park, I'll be doing a FREE event from 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern. Address: 267 Marietta St NW, Atlanta, GA 30313 You don't need to have a ticket to DragonCon. This is not an official DragonCon event, just an official WillCon event (I'm not calling it that). It's over four hours long because we expect people to filter in and out, since there are panels and stuff going on at the same time. You don't have to stay for the whole thing, but all the best stuff will happen when you're not in the room. I'll have a Q&A (and Travis Baldree will be able to join me from about 11:30 to 12:15, during which time he will do a reading from The Engineer), some speaking time, maybe another Q&A, maybe a musical number, and then a book signing / photo op thing from roughly 2:30-4:00. Anyway, that's a lot of information, but I hope to see you there! The signing a few weeks ago blew us away with how many people showed up, so it was a good practice run for this event. I have to warm up before social events so I don't forget how to speak to humans. If it's been too long since my last conversation, I revert to primal snarling. -Will |
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