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Holiday Sale!

From now through the end of the year, you can purchase each of my books in paperback directly from the printer at a discounted rate!

Get Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea (super gay sword-and-sorcery) for $12/£10 (down from $14.99)

Get Journey to the Water (super gay sword-and-sorcery, part two) for $15/£12 (down from $19.99)

Get The Book of the New Moon Door (steampunk/Gothic horror/murder mystery) for $16/£14 (down from $20.99)

In addition to giving you the sale price, using these links also gives me a slightly better cut than I’d get from a retailer like Amazon. I hope this helps a bit with your holiday shopping!

Also, if the audio of The Book of the New Moon Door disappeared from your preferred audiobook source, it should be back shortly. There was an error in one of the files, and I believe I have fixed it.

Song of the Week

Regina Spektor, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Beatles cover, from Kubo and the Two Strings)

Good morning!

In case you missed it, Journey to the Water is now out in the world! You can find it wherever books are sold, or visit the “Buy my books” page to save yourself a few clicks. You can also read the first chapter as a preview if you’re on the fence.

Also, today is the LAST DAY to get 20% off the paperback of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea through this link.

I’m taking off for holiday festivities, so I’ll be back next week with the traditional Year in Review posts. I hope you have a nice, cozy week, and whatever holidays you celebrate are gentle to you.

A couple of petitions for this week:

Via Civic Shout: Reunite separated migrant families

Via Amnesty International: End genocide in Gaza

Via Win Without War: Immigrants are our neighbors, not our enemies

Thanks for being here!

Tomorrow!

Text in front of a foggy hillside with trees. I had walked the tundra and the steppe. I had crossed the mountains of the North, starving, mad, and alone. This would be no different. Journey to the Water: available tomorrow!

Eske’s long travails are finally coming to an end on Friday, December 20. I am so excited to finally get this book into your hands! Thank you ever so much for your support and patience.


After a thousand years of tyranny, the holy city of Phyreios is free. Its freedom comes at the cost of many lives, among them the healer Khalim, beloved by many but none more than Eske of the Bear Clan, the warrior from the North. Now Eske is alone, and a new king, a god in Khalim’s guise, presides over the city’s survivors. Of Khalim himself, nothing remains but a memory and a riddle: in order to follow him, one must travel beyond the edge of the world, breach the gate of bone on a day without a sun, and cross the river of memory, deeper than the sea.

Armed with his strength, his wits, and a good tale or two, Eske sets off across the known world, encountering priests of forgotten gods, great beasts of ancient times, and sorcerers of uncanny power. He will perform any task, make any sacrifice, for the chance to see his beloved again.

Inspired by Robert E. Howard’s CONAN THE BARBARIAN and Ursula LeGuin’s EARTHSEA novels, JOURNEY TO THE WATER concludes the epic story begun in BEYOND THE FROST-COLD SEA.


Get the paperback of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea for 20% off through December 23 (Monday)

Read the first chapter of Journey to the Water

Seven days until Journey to the Water + Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea special promo sale

Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea: A Novel
Buy Now

Journey to the Water releases next week Friday (December 20)! While we’re waiting, I’ve created the special link above, which will allow you to buy the first book (paperback) directly from the printer for only $12 (20% off the list price). This promotion will run through December 23.

You’re still welcome to buy from other retailers, and Amazon sometimes has better prices on paperbacks from resellers, but this link will pay me about twice my usual compensation for retail. (If you’re curious, I make the best money by buying inventory in bulk and hand-selling books.) Plus, you get a discount.

I wanted to do something special to make sure everyone looking forward to Journey has a copy of Frost-Cold Sea, so here we are! Join me next week as I count down to release day.