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I always love it when my friends’ books come out, because: dude! Book! By a friend of mine! That’s awesome! :-D

But it gains extra awesomeness points when it’s a book like Mike Underwood’s Shield and Crocus, because I’ve been with this one very nearly from its earliest days: I read what I think was the first draft, years ago, back when Mike was saying “what happens if I take this Clarion story of mine and try to make it a bit biggOH HOLY GOD IT’S GROWN TENTACLES AND IT’S TRYING TO EEEEEEEEEAT MEEEEEEEEEEEE,” and I’ve offered various bits of feedback and assistance since then. I’m bouncing-in-my-seat happy that it’s made the journey from his brain to the shelves. My blurb for it compared it to Perdido Street Station and David Edison’s The Waking Engine, because it has that kind of setting, sort of New Weird-ish (but less heavy on the grotesquerie than some). If that sounds like your cup of tea, you should check it out.

Because today, my friends, it is out in the world. There’s a preview on Tor.com, or you can buy it from Powells or Books-a-Million or IndieBound or Barnes and Noble, as well as Amazon (whose imprint 47North are the publishers). You can also get it in audio form.

Congratulations and happy bookday to Mike!

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

Date: 2014-06-11 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misslynx.livejournal.com
Ooh, that sounds really interesting! Have to look for it! Sadly it does not appear to be available in any ebook form other than Kindle, or else it would be downloading onto my Nook as I type this... Although I think I can read Kindle books on my phone, if I can bring myself to deal with Amazon.

Date: 2014-06-13 05:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gollumgollum.livejournal.com
I've had a copy bouncing around my hard drive for years, so i'm pretty damn happy to read this in book form myself. YAY MIKE!

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