Today, the mass market paper­back edition of First­born has been published and released into the wild. The links will be on the book page here, but just in case, I’ve copied them into the body of this post.

Mass Market published February 2020 by DAW Books
ISBN 9780756415549 • Cover art by Jody A. Lee
Find it at Amazon •  Indigo • Indiebound
Books A Million •  B & N •  Powell’s • Book Depos­i­tory

My brief in other news update is: I have finally, on the seventh attempt, achieved new chapter one for the first book of The Burning Crown, which is as yet unti­tled. I have started, and am working on the also unti­tled Cast 16.

I have received mass market page proofs for War, and copy-edits for The Emper­or’s Wolves (and I’ll have a cover to share at the begin­ning of March, when every­thing non-new-words related is also due.) And no, the page proofs and copy-edits haven’t been finished yet >.<

My Australian alpha reader said the most surprising thing about being an author to him was the amount of time required on things that were not, strictly speaking, related to the actual writing of the book itself. Sadly, this is some­thing I forget myself when consid­ering writing time and novel-writing time in specific. Every­thing I finish will return to me multiple times: Revi­sions, copy-edits, page proofs and a host of other small things. And while it absolutely doesn’t take as long to do these things as it did to write the book, they… eat a lot of time.