One Week to Codex Born, and an Announcement
Exactly seven days from now, I’ll be at Schuler Books in Lansing, celebrating the release of Codex Born [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy]. And also the mass market paperback of Libriomancer [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy].
Normally, this would be a good time to do some sort of contest, and maybe give away the one copy of Codex Born I managed to snag at ALA this year. The problem is that as soon as I got home, my wife snatched it away from me. After grumbling at me for costing her a few nights’ sleep (and telling me it was even better than the first one – yay!), she passed it along to her mother. While we were up north. Which means, as far as I know, the book may still be at the tip of the Upper Peninsula.
But have no fear! I have alternate plans for free bookses next week.
To be honest, things have been so busy lately that I haven’t had time for my full pre-book freak-out ritual, which is probably a good thing…
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In the meantime, how about an alternate announcement? Coinciding with my Guest of Honor gig at Windycon this November, ISFiC Press will be releasing The Goblin Master’s Grimoire, a hardcover collection of my short fiction.
More details as they appear. I’m particularly geeked about the cover art concept we talked about, but we’ll have to wait and see what actually happens there.
In the meantime though, I’ll be doing a weary-but-excited happy dance 🙂
Kathryn
July 31, 2013 @ 3:30 am
Great to hear about the collection, Jim! Will it be a HC of stories you’ve already collected in the past, or is it an all-new collection?
Jim C. Hines
July 31, 2013 @ 7:24 am
It’s a reprint anthology, and will be in hardcover and e-book.
John D. Bell
July 31, 2013 @ 10:26 am
I was fortunate enough to snag a copy of “Codex Born” early at the reading Jim and Mary Robinette Kowal did last Friday. Thank you, Jim and Mary! Let me say that I was (magically?) compelled to spend all Saturday reading it. It’s an excellent follow-on to “Libriomancer”, and gives us just that many more reasons to love Isaac, Lena, Smudge, and the rest of the gang. Also a great cliff-hanger for the third book. Great job, Jim!
Jim C. Hines
July 31, 2013 @ 10:32 am
Thanks so much, John!
Kathryn
July 31, 2013 @ 2:43 pm
Ah, cool, thanks Jim. So if we already own your existing collection, there’s nothing new here for us?
Jim C. Hines
July 31, 2013 @ 2:47 pm
There will be some content that hasn’t been reprinted before, so if all you have are the e-book collections I’ve done, there will be new stuff.
I’ll post the full ToC a little later, once more details get hammered out.
Kathryn
August 1, 2013 @ 3:52 am
Ah, I see. Thanks again Jim, that’s really useful 🙂
Bryn
August 1, 2013 @ 9:31 am
The human condition: spending at least a fair portion of your life wishing time would go faster. 🙂 I will be haunting by B&N on release day. And then waiting for the The Goblin Master’s Grimoire. E-pubs are nice, but actual dead-tree-book books I can read even when we’re having yet another 6-day power outage in the winter.