Cool News
Candle & Crow incoming!
All the gods and monsters you can handle, plus a hobgoblin in love and visits from all the Druids and dogs, an evil wizard, the return of Saxon Codpiece, and of course a very special crow, all coming Oct. 1! Preorder now from your favorite indie store or other retailer!
The Seven Kennings is Complete!
Giants! Fantastic beasts and man-eating plants! Love in wartime. Spies, wraiths, elemental magic, and fixations on mustard and cheese. The Seven Kennings trilogy is complete and ready to binge as intended. It starts with A Plague of Giants, continues with A Blight of Blackwings, and finishes with the national bestseller A Curse of Krakens.
Here are the goodies!
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The Trade Editions with All the Things
The full set of the revised & expanded trade paperback editions of the Iron Druid Chronicles are now available. They contain a lot of bonus content that was previously only available in ebook or audio. It’s the complete series, basically, with all the older extra goodies now collected together plus some brand new stuff (a total of seven short stories and three novellas). Here’s the breakdown of what’s included as bonus material for each book:
HOUNDED: “Clan Rathskeller” and “Kaibab Unbound”
HEXED: Grimoire of the Lamb
HAMMERED: “A Test of Mettle”
TRICKED: Two Ravens and One Crow
TRAPPED: “The Dead Flea Scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy of Poochism” (Oberon’s religion for dogs)
HUNTED: This is the only one with no bonus goodies, just revised/expanded text
SHATTERED: A Prelude to War and “The Book of Five Meats”
STAKED: “Granuaile’s Notebook”
BESIEGED: “The Naughtiest Cherub”
SCOURGED: The Buzz Kill
Hope you’ll enjoy! I’ve revised the series chronology to cohere to this, and indicated which few stories are still separate in there.
Signed bookplates
Sometimes you can’t be where I’ll be to get a signed book, or you already have a book and would like a lil’ something extra in it. (You can often score signed books from indie stores I’ll be visiting if you preorder in advance of my arrival, and you can always order signed stuff at any time from Perfect Books in Ottawa, just make super sure to request a signature in the additional instructions field during the online checkout.) If you’re in that situation, I’d be happy to send you a free signed bookplate upon request. Keep in mind it’s just one—I won’t be sending handfuls of them—but it’s a nifty doodad if you want it. There’s an Oberon one and an Ink & Sigil one. Peels and sticks wherever you slap it. I can send just the signature, or you can request a personalization like “To Sally Bagodonuts” or whatever. Just note which bookplate you’d like and any personalizations in the Message field of the form.
The Chartreuse Chanteuse
Oberon the Irish wolfhound and his Boston terrier buddy, Starbuck, not only witness humans waste perfectly good sausage, but also a sneaky murder committed right before their eyes in THE CHARTREUSE CHANTEUSE. Justice demands that someone pay for both crimes, and together with their Druid, Atticus O’Sullivan, and D.I. Rose Badgely of the Launceston police, they’ll show the dastardly villain they messed with the wrong good dogs.
You can find it in CANINES & COCKTAILS, which also features novellas of dogs and drinks by Delilah S. Dawson and Chuck Wendig.
This one handy-dandy link will in theory take you wherever you need to go to buy it in ebook, print, or audio
More Oberon
Oberon narrates an adventure in Death & Honey, featuring events that occur in Tasmania five or six months after Scourged. Atticus, Oberon, and Starbuck desperately try to win the bet Atticus made with Owen in Scourged and, incidentally, solve a murder, all while dreaming of the many poodles of Melbourne.
Cover art is by Galen Dara, and this book also features novellas by New York Times bestsellers Delilah S. Dawson and Chuck Wendig. You can get the ebook edition on Kindle, Nook, and iTunes/iBooks.
If you’re an audio fan, you can order that too! Luke Daniels narrates Oberon’s story, The Buzz Kill, Robin Miles narrates Grist of Bees, and Xe Sands narrates Interlude: Tanager. Would you like a preview? HECK YES YOU WOULD. Click the ol’ sample and enjoy Luke Daniels as Oberon:
Hope you enjoy!
Ink & Sigil
Out now in paper, ebook, and audio! You can dive right in, but if you’re an Iron Druid fan, this continues the adventures in that world and you’ll recognize many of the characters. The narrator Al MacBharrais, first appeared in a short story in BESIEGED where he was simply referred to as “the Scottish wizard.” He’s more than that, and his path winds up crossing that of the Druids in this series.
Hope you’ll give it a try. I’ve gotten kind reviews so far from folks who have read it already. I mean, lookit:
“[A] terrific kick-off of a new, action-packed, enchantingly fun series.” —Booklist, starred review
“I loved every word.” —Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of A Longer Fall
“A delightfully grimy journey through the hidden underworld of Glasgow, Ink & Sigil vividly blends Kevin Hearne’s unique take on urban fantasy with the grit of Scottish magic.” —Adam Christopher, author of Empire State
“Kevin Hearne has used ink and paper to craft his own brand of magic. Ink & Sigil is filled to the brim with the Hearne-anigans we’ve all grown to love. Fans of ribald humor, literary puns, and the odd hobgoblin will be enchanted by this paranormal mystery.” —Jaye Wells, author of Dirty Magic and High Lonesome Sound
“[Ink & Sigil] will transport you right in the Scottish realm of fey and fairies and have you thinking the ‘other’ is real.” —Charlie Holmberg, bestselling author of The Paper Magician
“With Ink & Sigil Kevin Hearne takes the world he created in his Iron Druid series to a new gonzo level. Al MacBharrais might be his best character yet.” —Stephen Blackmoore, author of the Eric Carter series
Signed Books for Canadians!
If any of y’all in the Great White North would like signed copies of my books, I now have the ability to offer that to you at anytime. Working with spiffy indie store Perfect Books in Ottawa, you can basically order whatever you like and they will ship to you anywhere. The key is to make sure you fill out the “Additional Info” box in the checkout process to indicate that you want it signed and if you want it personalized to someone. (If you don’t fill that out they’ll just ship you the books unsigned, and that’s cool too.) Once your order is in, Perfect Books will let me know and I’ll swing by to sign them for you.
shenanigans in space
If you like alien stories then you’re gonna love this!
When physicist Clint Beecham gets abducted by aliens, he thinks at first it’s for scientific reasons. But then he learns that there are fifty thousand other humans in the holds belowdecks and they’re all scheduled to be turned into snack food for a long interstellar journey. Clint and a group of newfound allies will have to save everyone if they’re going to save themselves.
Publishers Weekly nails it in their review:
“Hearne pits a group of scientists against their alien abductors in a riotous quest to save humankind from becoming lunch… Hearne offsets the dire threat to humanity with dark humor and pointed social commentary as cooperation and self-sacrifice win the day. Hearne’s gripping, resonant alien abduction romp is both fun and thought-provoking.”
Now available in print and ebook, and in audio narrated by Luke Daniels—all available wherever you get your ebooks or audio!
First Dangle
Archdruid Owen Kennedy and his happy murder sloth, Slomo, are planning on having a pleasant day exploring the world together when Coriander, Herald Extraordinary to the First Among the Fae, comes to them for help. There’s been a supernatural murder in Spain and he needs a Druid to solve it.
The trail leads from Spain to the Royal Gardens at Kew in London, thence to Tír na nÓg and an Austin, Texas honky tonk. Owen and Slomo always feel a bit out of place wherever they go, but enjoy being together that way.
The collection also includes several other Iron Druid stories that appeared elsewhere in anthologies and magazines, collected here for the first time.
The audio edition includes a long-requested recording of Luke Daniels narrating an old story of mine, “The Chapel Perilous,” which includes a performance of Apple Jack, the paranoid horse, that is not to be missed! It also includes some “liner notes” from me, geeky stuff about the research and thinking behind the stories. Fun if you like mythology, but easily skipped if you just want the stories. The audio sample below is from “First Dangle.”
You can order now in ebook and audio:
Ebook: Amazon B&N
Audio: Audible
Hope you enjoy! Thanks so much for reading!
Levi Bread
This here bread is the best bread you will ever smell or eat. You can’t buy it anywhere, though. You have to make it. But this link here will take you to the recipe with step-by-step instructions and spiffy pictures so that even if you’ve never made a loaf of homemade bread before, you can do it. I PROMISE YOU CAN DO IT.
Holy Posole
Many, many peeps have asked me to repost a recipe that disappeared from the Internet for a while: The Holy Posole recipe that I made for the Holy Taco Church. So here’s the link for y’all, and I hope you enjoy!
