Arc! Arc! Arc!

I am terrible, terrible about news.  I hang on, not wanting to post unless I have something interesting to say, and then when something does happen I either squirrel it away or lack the time to write “a proper post” about it.  The end result is a slow blog and news that hasn’t gone out.  But here it is, late but no less relevant:

Yes, I have my Advance Review Copies for Wild Hunt!  And they are beautiful.  I’ve been told that there’s a particular “new book smell” about the copies you receive, or a different feel to them, but for me the most wonderful and strange element of the whole experience is opening it to any page.  There’s always a moment where I don’t quite recognize the words, and then a burgeoning sense of deja vu as it finally clicks that yes, I know this part because I wrote it.

Even though I spent so much time writing this novel, choosing those words, tracing those plots, it seems so far from this bound copy in my hands.  Maybe it’s still some magical quality that I assign to books, maybe it’s that I still can’t quite believe this whole situation, but it still feels strange that there are books — multiple books, now! — that are full of the stories I’ve told.

Release date is January 12.  Just in time for Arisia!