Where I’ll Be And What I’m Up To

Figured I’d teleport briefly into your lives and tell you what I’m up to, currently, and tell you where I’ll be —

Did I finish up and turn in the first draft of my new middle grade horror novel, Monster Movie! –? I did, and should be getting edits back soon.

Am I working on a new novella collection with most excellent buddies Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson? Could be, rabbit, could be.

Have I received an unholy number of wonderful, gasp-inducing blurbs for Black River Orchard, a book that also recently received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly (which you can find right here), where the review said some very nice things like “Wendig is brilliant at slowly raising the plot’s emotional temperature and making his characters, caught in a creeping nightmare, feel both real and empathetic. This masterful outing should continue to earn Wendig comparisons to Stephen King.”…? Indeed, indeed, indeed. I’ll show off the blurbs soon — and here I selfishly note that ahem ahem ahem, you can preorder the book, out 9/26, at any and all of the cool places where the books live? Though if you want a signed, personalized copy, Doylestown Bookshop will be your best friend in this regard. Pre-ordering books is good for the author, good for the bookstore, and sends a vital signal to the publisher about what you want to read and what authors you like. So! Yeah.

Is there now not just one but two UK covers revealed, one for the ARC (advanced reader copy) and one for the full-on release? Heck yeah, and here are both of those for the pleasure of your eyeballs —

And then, am I going to be in Spain for the Celsius-232 festival at the end of July? Fuck yeah, I am. It’s from the 18th to the 22nd, in Aviles, Spain, and there’s a bunch of excellent authors attending as professionals, like Kiersten White, Joe Abercrombie, Alma Katsu, Charlaine Harris, Neon Yang, P Djéli Clark, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. (I think they also just announced Mike Flanagan attending? Which, needless to say, is pretty damn exciting.) I’ll also be bopping around the Netherlands and Germany prior to that, but more in a “wandering Wendig” way, not in a “official events” capacity.

Finally, will I be hanging out with Philip Fracassi at the Doylestown Bookshop on August 23rd, with him talking about Boys in the Valley, and me chatting a bit about the paperback release of Wayward? Yes, yes, and yes. Details here.

(And yes, there will be a Black River Orchard tour — it’s getting cobbled together now, but the hope is to do a run through the northeast, maybe bring along some WEIRD-ASS APPLES from various local orchards, and then after that, maybe some dates out on the West Coast? More as I know it!)