Brian McClellan's Blog, page 44

New Blurb

My publisher has made a slight change to the cover of Promise of Blood:     That’s right, I now have a blurb on my book from each of two different New York Times Bestselling fantasy authors: Brent Weeks (on the back) and Brandon Sanderson! How stinking cool is that? The full quote from Brandon
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Contest Winner

The contest finished up on Tuesday, but I had a rather important announcement to make yesterday so the contest winner got pushed off until today. Sorry about that! There were 19 international entries for a signed bookplate, so everyone outside the US that sent me an email (with their address!) will be getting a bookplate.
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Second Series

I can finally announce, to my great excitement, that I will be writing three more books for Orbit after the end of the Powder Mage Trilogy! The deal was nailed down by my awesome agent, Caitlin Blasdell, of Liza Dawson Associates. I will continue to be edited by the wonderful, fantastically foul-mouthed Devi Pillai. The
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New Powder Mage Short Story and Giveaway

Hey everyone! Today my new Powder Mage short story, “Hope’s End,” is available on ebook for $0.99. “Hope’s End” occurs almost twenty years before the events in Promise of Blood. Like “The Girl of Hrusch Avenue,” this story was written so that you would not have to have read Promise of Blood in order to enjoy it.
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Weekly Inspiration 9/20/13

Certain things spark the creativity in all of us. Perhaps a smell associated with a powerful memory, or a long walk in the park or a drive through the countryside. Maybe a newspaper article, or a book we read. For me it’s often visual – a piece of fantasy art or a tv show or
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The results of the “Where do you buy your ebooks?” poll

Four days ago (which is something akin to 17 years in internet time) I put up a poll in which I asked people “Where do you buy your genre ebooks?” You can find the original poll here and still vote if you so desire, but the votes petered off a couple days ago so I
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Weekly Inspiration

Certain things spark the creativity in all of us. Perhaps a smell associated with a powerful memory, or a long walk in the park or a drive through the countryside. Maybe a newspaper article, or a book we read. For me it’s often visual – a piece of fantasy art or a tv show or
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Rights!

This coming news is probably far more exciting to me than it is to most of you, but I can now announce my first two foreign rights sales! We have sold the French rights to The Powder Mage Trilogy in a three book deal with French publisher Panini. This deal was done by Noemie Rollet
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Weekly Inspiration

Certain things spark the creativity in all of us. Perhaps a smell associated with a powerful memory, or a long walk in the park or a drive through the countryside. Maybe a newspaper article, or a book we read. For me it’s often visual – a piece of fantasy art or a tv show or
...read more

Promise of Blood on Sale

Promise of Blood has gone one sale! It’s currently $1.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and I think it should be on Nook as well. I’m delighted that Orbit has decided to do this sale. It’s a great way for people to be able to get in to the series who otherwise might have balked at paying five
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