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Paper dragon

Oddly enough, I first posted the art above exactly three years ago, on June 18, 2018. It’s the cover for the new paperback edition of The Year of the Warrior. Baen Books still publishes the e-book, but I have their clearance to produce and sell this corporeal version. Various obstacles have arisen since that time to prevent production, but I finally took the bit in my teeth a few weeks back, and arranged with a printer I know to get this thing done.

My plan with this version is to sell it personally, at the Viking events I participate in. If you’re hoping to get it on Amazon, that probably won’t happen, because (I assume) I’d have to ask questions and go through a bunch of red tape to arrange for that. And I’m too old and lazy.

I’m not sure when I’ll actually have them in my possession. The printer sent me the galleys today and told me there’s a problem with the cover. I think I’m going to have to add space at the top and bottom to fill out the cover shape. But I haven’t looked at it yet.

I’m too old and lazy. I’ll get to it over the weekend.

I really like that cover, though. It would have had me wiggling like a fishing worm, back when I was a teenager. Jeremiah Humphries did it, and I think it’s my favorite cover that’s ever been done for one of my books.

Now if I can just find a few more events to flog them at this summer.

The hersir’s new clothes

I mentioned a while back that we’re going to bring out another paperback edition of The Year of the Warrior. Baen Books continues to publish the e-book version, but we’ll be doing it in dead tree. Our talented friend Jeremiah Humphries has come up with a cover I’ve approved, and I’m over the moon with it.

The Year of the Warrior (paper)

We don’t have a definite date for the book release yet, but you can be sure we’ll let you know.

An announcement and an appeal

I’ve been keeping a secret from you. We plan, God willing, to release a new novel of mine within the near future. This is a draft of the cover, with a lovely painting by our friend Jeremiah Humphries, and cover design by our own Phil Wade.

How is this possible, you ask, when I keep complaining of having no writing time because of graduate school? Well, this is a book that’s been pretty much finished for some time, except for a couple plot problems. I took my brief study hiatus this summer to work on those holes, and now I think she’s ready for launch.

The novel, entitled (obviously) Death’s Doors, is sort of a sequel to Wolf Time, but not what you’d call a close sequel. The location is the same, the town of Epsom, Minnesota, but a few years later, and with only a couple of the same characters showing up. In the world of Death’s Doors, assisted suicide has become a constitutional right. The main character, Tom Galloway, is trying to keep his depressed daughter from exercising that right, with no help from the authorities. On top of that pressure, a stranger drops into his life — the Viking nobleman Jarl Haakon (whom you may remember from The Year of the Warrior), who has passed through a door in time.

What we’re asking of you, at this point, is just your opinion on the cover above. Phil isn’t sure he’s satisfied, and would appreciate your input.

Thank you for your support.