Assassins of Thasalon on audio in August

I am pleased to report that we have just licensed The Assassins of Thasalon to Blackstone Audiobooks, for projected release in, probably, late July or early August. (They tell me they are shooting for July 27th, if all goes smoothly.)

The pixels are barely dry on the DocuSign, so production isn't started yet, but anyway, it sounds as if they plan the excellent Grover Gardner for the narrator again. The book will appear, when it does, at all the platforms and places the prior novellas did.

For the curious -- one sees simultaneous releases of print and audio editions when a work is having traditional publishing, with its long time queues, which gives plenty of time for the audio subrights to be contracted and produced in coordination. With my semi-retirement indie epub scheme, I make no announcements, promises, or contracts till a work is finished at least in first draft, and I e-publish it as soon as it's gone through its final edit, however long that takes, and I've done all the other tasks such as arranging a cover. (About which there is usually a lot of behind-the-scenes back-and-forthing you folks don't see, but which eats up some lead time -- I usually contact my cover artist when I'm within a very few certain scenes of the end.)

Speaking of which, plan is to re-use Ron Miller's cover art on the audio edition, which will be good for several things, among which are making the book more recognizable to cross-media browsers.

Ta, L