Holding hexagonal patterns

Wow, my Greensmith cover is just so beautiful that I’m going to stare at it some more:

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Please feel welcome to stare at it too, particularly since the original publishing date has now, very wisely, been delayed until October. Please hold on to whatever thoughts/plans you had about it and we’ll reconvene with that cover later on. Also, The US edition of The Loosening Skin will not be published until August, and that has a beautiful cover too so I’ll take the opportunity to put that up again:

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I’m really looking forward to a time when both of these books get out there joyously and wisely in the world, and we all do too.

In the meantime, there should be a couple of new short stories coming up shortly, and my regular columns in Interzone continue, so see you in those places. Right now I’m working on a non-fiction project and obsessing over a range of board games including Cryptid. A strange monster roams somewhere on a hexagonal map; can we track it down and capture it? Short answer: no, not with my spatial reasoning skills. It’s a great game though.