It’s here! Out in the UK and the US now, you can get Blood Binds the Pack!
I mean JUST LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT MAG BEING A TOTAL BAMF.
This is my first ever second book, and I’m really, really proud of it. There are explosions, and an even bigger heist, and girl kissing, and a blue-collar uprising, and a little bit o’ murder husbands too. All the stuff you liked in Hunger Makes the Wolf, but hopefully moreso! You can get it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and the Angry Robot site.
I kept meaning to talk about this earlier, but thanks to the ongoing dumpster fire that is everything to do with America right now, I haven’t been able to get the necessary enthusiasm levels going. (And yes, it’s petty in the face of all other things, but thanks a fucking bunch, Trump voters, for ruining both my BFF Mike’s birthday and my book announcement day.)
So. DO OVER. The dumpster fire still burns, but I am carving out a place to be happy and excited about the fact that I have written a novel, and a publisher liked it so much that they bought said novel from me, with actual money, and will subsequently be printing it on thin sheets made from the corpses of trees and sending it out into the world.
And the cover? IS AWESOME.
(And yes, Alex Wells is me. Written under a pen name for reasons I shall explain some other time.)
It’s a book about underdogs fighting corporate greed in the place of a weak and absent government. It’s about a fledgling labor union. There’s also gunfights and space witches, so I’d like to think there’s something for everyone who wants to take down the man. And I wrote the rough draft of it many years ago.
If you regularly read my short stories, you’ve already met the woman on the cover. That’s Hob Ravani, and her origin story made an appearance in Mothership Zeta.
I’m so excited about this, and I can’t wait til you guys get a chance to read it!
I’ve started up a newsletter. If you just want to hear from me about writing stuff (like when I’ve had something published or have big news), that’s the place to sign up. Email from that will be sporadic.
I’ve got two new short stories out!
#1: Fire in the Belly, over at Mothership Zeta. A space western adventure with a preteen thief! I hope some day to share more of this character’s stories, because she’s one of my favorites.
#2: Silver Fish, at Lakeside Circus. Little flash piece about dreams and nightmares and reflections.
And, in case you’ve missed the social media squee, I now have an agent! His name is DongWon Song and he’s super awesome! It feels so weird that after four years of putting that on my public writer wish list (and trust me, more years than that of looking) it’s finally happened.
Next on the to-do list: get a novel published. Yes, good.
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