Cover Reveal: The Calamities

And, we have a cover for The Calamities, courtesy of Del Rey and the Boland Design Co (who also did the stellar Staircase in the Woods cover)!

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The description:

The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret to their power, in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

Mourning Mayne knows he’ll one day bear the duty of managing his family’s vast empire of wealth and power. But the feckless Mourning has always struggled to accept this legacy, which is one of cruelty, domination, and exploitation… and something even darker.

Because the Maynes are no ordinary family: Hidden in our world are the fiends—half-human, half-demon, and possessed of dark magic born from buying human souls—and the Maynes are one of the oldest and most influential fiendish families.

But when Mourning’s estranged father, the formidable and terrifying Hadrian Mayne, demands that he return to the fold, Mourning has to make a decision whether to accept his legacy and embrace his role in the family, or to forge his own destiny, and with it, change the course of the world.

Because along the way home, he will meet Key, a black-market seller of human souls, and Quinn, an artist who may hold the dark truth behind the fate of the fiends. Alone, they have all struggled with the darkness of their fiendish nature…but together, they might find a path out of the shadows.

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And, of course, the pre-order links:

First, you can get a copy signed and personalized and sent directly to you, courtesy of my local store, Doylestown Bookshop — and the same is true of the upcoming Staircase in the Woods paperback, too.

Or, you can procure from:

Bookshop.org | Your local indie store, wherever that may be | Libro.fm | B&N | Amz | BAM | Apple | Kobo | And I’ll add more links as we get closer…

Oh, and the book releases on August 18th.

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I won’t get too deep into talking about the book now — it’s occulty and demony and creepy and weird and I had a lot of fun writing it. I’m doing line-edits now and just re-reading it reminds me what a blast I had with it. Agares House and the Dantalion and founts of elixir! Stolen souls and twisted love and bad fathers! There’s also a certain orange cat in it. And a certain demon. But you’ll see that when you get the book.

Also will surely have more things to announce in the coming days — and I suspect I’ll be on tour with it, as well!

Oh, and of course, this is only the first book.

The second book, Chaos Reigns, will be out (I believe) the following year.

In the meantime —

Don’t go selling your soul to any demons, yeah?