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TMS retail cover and back complete with blurbs

If you click on the image, you can see the detail and text. Thank you all for your kind words and thanks to Emiliano Ponzi and Paul Buckley for a beautiful cover.

Canadian Goodreads Giveaway in July

It looks like there will be ten copies of The Mathematician's Shiva available to Canadians through Penguin Canada and the Giveaway request period will go from July 2 to August 2. It also looks like they'll be full retail version copies. O Canada, I hope you like my book. No city in Canada is currently on the book tour list, but I'd love to get to visit Toronto et al.

Advance digital copies on NetGalley

Those on NetGalley can request an advance digital copy of The Mathematician’s Shiva. Don’t know if this is the first pass (lots of typos), second pass (still quite a few typos) or third pass (no typos that I know of) version. I don’t have any say over whose requests get approved and don’t know how many digital copies are available. But they’re there! Enjoy!

I’ve started to tweet

You can follow my jokes and what I’m up to here. @stuartetc

Early quotes for The Mathematician’s Shiva

“Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician’s Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that’s impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.”

–Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans

“I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician’s Shiva will delight and move you.”

–Steven Strogatz, author of The Joy of x

“Here is the rare book that invites us into the romance of pure mathematics and the very human company of those who spend their decades unknotting the abstractions that describe our reality.”

–Lore Segal, author of Half the Kingdom

“The Mathematician’s Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you’d think he was writing about poetry.”

–Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author of West of Here and The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

BookExpo in NYC at the end of the month

I’ll be happy to be in NYC. If you’re a reviewer, bookstore owner, etc. who wants an ARC and runs into me at BEA, just give me your business card and I’ll make sure Lindsay Prevette, my publicist at Penguin, sends you one (get me early, and I might have one in my bag). Or you can contact Lindsay directly. Want to say hello at BEA? Email me.

What happens in heaven

When you get a letter for jury duty it’s from Cannes, not from the county courthouse. Given the contents of my recent jury duty letter, I haven’t made it to heaven yet.

Emptied binders

of all the drafts and edits of The Mathematician’s Shiva. They’re ready for the next book.

The Mathematician’s Shiva is Penguin’s Rep Pick

for the Fall. Out of I don’t know how many fiction titles (a lot), this book is it. When I started writing Math Shiva in the Los Altos and Mountain View libraries, I wasn’t thinking about anything more than a university press picking it up. I had a flow chart for the novel, no agent, and no track record. But now this. Amazing. Truly.

Just arrived

My name is in orange on the binding. Like Halloween. For me, this is all treat.