I have a publishing deal!

Blog » In fact I have two publishing deals. Some of you may have already seen this news, and you may be able to guess where this is going.

The first deal is with Ballantine Books, a US-based publisher which is part of Penguin Random House. The second deal is with Del Rey, a UK-based publisher which is also part of Penguin Random House. Ballantine will be publishing my book There Is No Antimemetics Division in North America, and Del Rey will be publishing There Is No Antimemetics Division in the UK, the rest of the Commonwealth and most of the rest of the world. If all goes well, publication day will be in the third quarter of 2025.

This will be a fully overhauled, thoroughly rewritten version of Antimemetics. I'm calling this "version 2", and the original version "version 1". I'm still working on rewrites right now, but the draft of V2 in front of me is already (in my subjective opinion, if you value that) a mile beyond the original. There is plenty about V1 which I felt could be improv...