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Hear ye! Win a copy of HAMMER HEAD!

Friends and readers! I suspect a bunch of you are on Goodreads. Are you? If so, you’re in good luck — right now you can enter to win an advanced copy of Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter! Click here and enter and fingers crossed you’ll be selected as one of thirty people who’ll get a copy of the book a couple months before its official release! And if you want to slot it into your “To Read” pile, that’s great, too.

Enter to win! Hammer Head hooray! Three cheers for free books! Roll the dice!

JOY.

JOY.

The forecast has called for a 90% chance of rain for the past...

The forecast has called for a 90% chance of rain for the past four days in Bangalore. It’s been mostly sunny. This afternoon, the sky went colorless, a wintery drain despite the 75 degree temperature, and the birds went quiet. A rain, so gentle, began to fall. The smell in the air changed, the summery smell of grassy wet dirt through the windowscreen. “Ours is a culture in which people talk to trees, talk to ghosts, and it is not considered strange,” an Indian writer said to me the other day. The trees here feel like strangers because I don’t know their names. And the air feels heavy with ghosts, though perhaps that’s been the coming rain.

holdmelikeagrudge said: I love your writing. What’s going on with the book? No rush. Just...

holdmelikeagrudge said: I love your writing. What’s going on with the book? No rush. Just excitement.

So kind! Many thanks, holdmelikeagrudge. And it’s nice hearing you’re looking forward to the book. HAMMER HEAD comes out in March, which all of a sudden is starting to feel very soon.

You can preorder it now!

From Norton directly

From Powell’s

From Amazon

And you can request it at your local book store!

Sick of the screen, I took to the notebooks where things are...

Sick of the screen, I took to the notebooks where things are getting strange, with sketches of Narcissus and descriptions of Malarone dreams.