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May
27
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Heir of Light pub day!

Posted in Publication, Academia.

Today, the 27th of May, is my wedding anniversary.

Today, the 27th of May, is the Guy Gavriel Kay book launch for Written on the Dark, which is being held at the Merrill collec­tion of Spec­u­la­tive Fiction. I’d link, but it’s a tick­eted event (tickets were free), that is entirely fully booked. I could have squeaked in as a book­store employee, except, see above. Wedding anniversary.

HOWEVER, today is also the release day for Heir of Light. Heir of Light should, as of today, be avail­able for purchase at all ebook sellers, and also, book­stores. There’s a hard­cover and trade paper­back version of the book, and the inter­esting thing — to me, book geek — is that the hard­cover has the half-title page and the paper­back doesn’t. I just assumed that the inte­riors would be 100% the same.

Our book­store does have copies in-store, although I admit we’ve all been a bit excited about the Kay >.>

21 Responses to Heir of Light pub day!

  1. Anne says:
    May 27, 2025 at 11:22 am

    Happy Anniver­sary!

  2. Joey says:
    May 27, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    Happy Anniver­sary! How do you plan to cele­brate this year?

    And Happy Book Release Day! I expect a call from my local genre book­shop any moment now to let me know HEIR OF LIGHT is avail­able for pick-up. :)

  3. Ellie says:
    May 27, 2025 at 1:35 pm

    Not sure if anyone else has this issue, but my ebook order through amazon is not releasing. It shows as pre-ordered, not yet shipped (really looking forward to this book)

  4. michelle says:
    May 27, 2025 at 1:36 pm

    @Joey: We’re going out to Scara­mouche for dinner, sans our beloved sons :).

  5. Jb says:
    May 27, 2025 at 2:07 pm

    Congrat­u­la­tions on your anniver­sary. It is a big accom­plish­ment. Also looking forward to reading your new book. Thank you

  6. Elizabeth G says:
    May 27, 2025 at 2:36 pm

    happy anniver­sary and happy book release day! My loving husband found Heir of Light just getting put on the shelves Friday so I’ve been savoring it throughout the weekend, but really glad I can switch to the more portable ebook soon.

  7. tigerfamouse2c9847f76 says:
    May 27, 2025 at 2:37 pm

    Congrat­u­la­tions on both your wedding anniver­sary and the book!! Need­less to say, I love your books under both West and Sagara since you first published and am so pleased to have a book from each series to read in short order. Thank you for contin­uing to support my addic­tion, one of the greatest plea­sures in my life!

  8. Carol says:
    May 27, 2025 at 3:53 pm

    Happy anniver­sary and book release day!

  9. Lauren W Isaacs says:
    May 27, 2025 at 5:29 pm

    Happy Anniver­sary to you and your husband. I got my hard back copy of Heir of Light today, can’t wait to dive in.

  10. Chris G. says:
    May 27, 2025 at 10:12 pm

    Congrats on release day!

    And your book in HC and PB is clearly supe­rior to one released in only one print format. ;)

  11. Karen says:
    May 27, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    Happy Anniver­sary. Amazon came through and halfway through the book. Love it.

  12. Melissa P says:
    May 27, 2025 at 11:20 pm

    Happy Anniver­sary! Yay, book release day! All hail the preorder feature! (I’m very excited) My family under­stands the signif­i­cance of a “Michelle Sagara book release day” as opposed to an ordi­nary book release day. They have learned to tolerate random episodes of mani­acal giggling as I wait for the delivery person. Though honestly I am also usually reading the kindle version that down­loaded at midnight while waiting for the hard­copy to arrive. Seri­ously, I don’t have the patience to wait all day, and I love the smell of a freshly printed book. I tend to go full-on Gollum when I get a shiny new Sagara book. Thank you for sharing your stories with the world. Thank you for bringing me moments of joy. I hope your anniver­sary is glorious!

  13. Taen says:
    May 28, 2025 at 8:15 am

    Happy Anniver­sary! The book was wonderful! I went back and reread Shards of Glass after­wards, then Cast in Atone­ment for the nth time… and now I should prob­ably rejoin the human race. 😅 Will this be an Acad­emia duology, or will there be another book to follow? ( Apolo­gies if you have answered this ques­tion before… )

  14. michelle says:
    May 28, 2025 at 3:20 pm

    @Taen: I haven’t answered this ques­tion before :). The next book is CAST IN BLOOD. I’m less certain about books beyond that at the moment – what follows in the Acad­emia universe is more heavily Barrani/Teela. But: thank you!

  15. michelle says:
    May 28, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    @Melissa P: I do this too – and always have – but never with my own books, for obvious reasons. It’s been a bit of grey period for me for the past few months, so little sparks of joy are really helpful — and this made me happy :)

  16. michelle says:
    May 28, 2025 at 3:25 pm

    @Karen: Thanks :).

  17. michelle says:
    May 28, 2025 at 3:26 pm

    @Chris G: I thought it was an unusual choice, but my editor said it was prob­ably an edition meant mostly for library purchases, but offered for sale to the general public.

  18. Phil Boswell says:
    May 29, 2025 at 5:43 am

    Thanks to some sensible person at your publishers I was able to snag this as soon as the noti­fi­ca­tion arrived, since it didn’t cost as much as the previous three books combined. Now I just have to figure out how far I need to go back to catch up on the story!

  19. michelle says:
    May 29, 2025 at 10:28 am

    @Phil: I am so confused, re: price. But: You only have to go back to SHARDS OF GLASS for this one, although it does take place in the CAST universe. You can also reread CAST IN WISDOM to under­stand where the Acad­emia came from.

  20. Trinette deWijk says:
    June 2, 2025 at 5:32 pm

    I was happy to hear more about Teela. She has always been one of the char­ac­ters I found the most inter­esting and I have missed her. I also like the history of sentient build­ings and the Green

  21. Phil Boswell says:
    June 5, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    @MIchelle sorry I don’t mean to be confusing, but until a couple of weeks ago the UK Kindle price for Shards was just a shade under £15: now that the price has dropped the three most recent books are £5 each! I am catching up on Shards and hoping to reach Heir any day soon…it’s most intriguing seeing familar char­ac­ters through unfa­miliar eyes.

    I am curious about the timescales involved: how many centuries is it since the various Dragon Wars? How long were the High Halls in their “changed” state? How old is Star­rante really?

    I love the way your immortal char­ac­ters are so cava­lier about huge swathes of time but not knowing gives me mental itches that I would love to scratch!

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