{"id":27263,"date":"2015-07-14T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T11:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=27263"},"modified":"2015-07-14T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T11:39:39","slug":"the-harvest-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/07\/14\/the-harvest-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harvest: Out Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThis strong first installment rises above the usual dystopian fare thanks to Wendig\u2019s knack for disturbing imagery and scorching prose.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWendig brilliantly tackles the big stuff\u2014class, economics, identity, love, and social change\u2014in a fast-paced tale that never once loses its grip on pure storytelling excitement. Well-played, Wendig. Well-played.\u201d \u2014Libba Bray, author of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy,\u00a0Going Bovine<\/i>, and\u00a0The Diviners<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cA tense dystopian tale made more strange and terrifying by its present-day implications.\u201d \u2014Booklist<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the Empyrean Sky<\/i>\u00a0is like a super-charged, genetically modified hybrid of\u00a0The Grapes of Wrath<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Star Wars<\/i>. Wendig delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a future agri-dystopia. Fascinating world building, engaging and deep characters, smooth, electric prose.\u201d \u2014John Hornor Jacobs, author of\u00a0The Twelve-Fingered Boy<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cA thoroughly imagined environmental nightmare with taut pacing and compelling characters that will leave readers eager for more.\u201d \u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cA lunatic, gene-spliced, biofueled thriller. Fear the corn.\u201d \u2014Tom Pollock, author of\u00a0The City\u2019s Son<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cAn imaginative, page-turning adventure that will delight science fiction fans and have them impatiently waiting for the next installment.\u201d \u2014Joelle Charbonneau, author of The Testing Trilogy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

IT IS COMPLETE.<\/p>\n

The Heartland Trilogy<\/strong> is now a finished, published thing.<\/p>\n

Because the third book, The Harvest<\/strong>, is out now:<\/p>\n

Hardcover<\/strong><\/span><\/a> | Paperback<\/strong><\/span> | eBook<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0| Audible<\/strong><\/span><\/a> | Audio CD<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s exciting, because this is the first series I’ve truly finished — it’s the first one to make it out of the gate as a unified story told over several books.<\/p>\n

Writing a trilogy or a whole series is tricky business — it’s a fine art between balancing the\u00a0long con<\/em> of far-flung planning but also course correcting between books and changing the story as you go. Some things about the Heartland series ended where I always expected, and some things didn’t. Some characters made it that I thought would perish — and *coughs into hand* some who I thought would survive didn’t cross the finish line with the rest of us.<\/p>\n

There’s all kinds of things going on in this series — it’s a series about power, nature, and youth. About class warfare and oligarchy. About the struggle to do something real and change the world when you don’t want to. It’s a series about growing up in a world of oppression and war. And in a way, a series about growing up poor.<\/p>\n

(You can actually find out a little about the origins of the series in this “Big Idea” post over at Scalzi’s WHATEVER joint, where I unpack how this cornpunk series came to mind<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and why I wanted to write it so bad.)<\/p>\n

But it’s also got bloodthirsty corn, love triangles<\/del>\u00a0rhombuses, people turning into plants, hoboes, floating cities, arranged marriages, talking birds, multiple Pegasuses, robots, skyboats, piss-blizzards (sorry, “pollen drift”), tornadoes, a fallen city, a serial killer, and more. It’s young adult, though obviously I hope it appeals to adults, too.<\/p>\n

I also posit that if you’re looking to see how well I’ll handle writing Star Wars: Aftermath, then this might be the series you’d wanna check out.<\/p>\n

In fact, you can now buy the whole trilogy in e-Book for less than $12:<\/p>\n

Under the Empyrean Sky<\/strong>: e-Book<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blightborn<\/strong>: e-Book<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The books are eligible for Amazon Matchbook. Which is to say, if you buy the print book, you are eligible for a deep discount ($0.99, I think) on the e-Book.<\/p>\n

Anyway, hope you check it out and spread the word.<\/p>\n

Next up: Zeroes<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

After that: Aftermath<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

P.S. Tonight I’m doing the launch event at 6:00PM at Let’s Play Books<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in Emmaus, PA. Stop by, say hi. Or, if you’d like to bounce them a message and ask about obtaining a signed book, please do — I believe they can furnish that request. Call them at\u00a0610-928-8600 or go to:\u00a0www.letsplaybooks.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

P.P.S. Bonus: no racist old Atticus Finch in this book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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