What’s Wendig Up To These Days, That Squirrely Bastard, You Can’t Trust Him

Hey! Who wants some updates. YOU GET AN UPDATE, YOU GET AN UPDATE, AND YOU GET a mysterious humming cube, don’t ask questions, just hold it close and tell it your secrets, AND YOU GET AN UPDATE OVER THERE.

Just a quick shotgun blast of stuff:

• Thanks all for checking out You Can Do Anything, Magic Skeleton (available here, signed copies at Doylestown Bookshop, just tell them you want it mauled with my monstrous signature). As always, if you liked the book, please go somewhere and leave a kind review. If you want to leave a negative review, that’s okay, too, just please camouflage it as a positive review to be sneaky.

• There is a Goodreads giveaway, literally ending today April 20th, for The Book of Accidents. They’re giving away 25 copies of the book — so make with the clicky-clicky and go get one.

• I’ll have some cool blurbs rolling in for TBOA and Dust & Grim soon…

• I’ll also soon be announcing July virtual events for TBOA. I’m also noodling on how to put together an in-person event somewhere. Not sure where, or how. Or even if it’s too soon! But it feels like if you did one outside, nicely spaced, masks-on, with a request for vaccinated folks to show up, that could work. Requires more thought, and, of course, a willing bookstore partner and a willing audience. Are people ready to go out into the world? I am. Maybe not to a whole-ass convention or anything, but I really yearn to do a bookstore event. Which is odd, because I hate people and am a monstrous hermit! GET OFF MY LAWN, I once would cry, except now I yell, WAIT NO GET ONTO MY LAWN, I WILL SIGN YOUR BOOK, ANY BOOK, THE PHONE BOOK, THE HOLY BIBLE, JUST GET OVER HERE AND LET ME TALK AT YOU.

• Speaking of vaccinations — got my second dose of Moderna on Sunday. Team Dolly Parton 4EVA. Feeling good. Had worse effects from first dose. Still felt a little hungover? Also I have a face tentacle now? His name is Jerry.

• There will be signed copies of TBOA available, too, for order. I’m signing a big-ass batch of them for both the US and UK. More info there as I know it. Did I ever show y’all the Del Rey UK cover for The Book of Accidents? No? It’s at the bottom of this very post, then. My bad! My brain is a sieve!

• The Wanderers sequel, Wayward, is now… at 165k, and will be at 180k next week, when my deadline is. Ha ha, except there’s no way the book is done yet. I anticipate it being roughly the size of the first book. What’s old is new again because this is exactly what happened last time: by the time of my deadline, I was at 180,000 words, and then added another 100k onto that before sending it off. Thankfully, I have Tricia Narwani as an editor, who is a good enough editor to say, “I want the book when it’s done,” not, “I want the book tomorrow, just get it done.” Should be out next year, barring any unforeseen circumstances like a Second Pandemic. Ha ha oh shit!

And I think that’s all the updates that are fit to print.

More as I know it!