I’m pretty continuously on the road at the moment, so this post is going to be a stew of whatever is in the fridge, thickened by scraping whatever that stuff is that got burnt on the bottom of the pot. In no particular order:
I’ll be on tour in mere seconds. Some spots are more nearly booked than others, full details of both tour and pre-order swag offers here:
After consulting the internet and getting every possible answer, I have made the possibly dubious commitment to drive a rental car to my West Coast events.
Look, is it a good idea? Fact: I love a road trip. Fact: my autoimmune disease increasingly hates airplanes. In conclusion: We’ll see how I do.
Actually, Penguin Teen is, which means that it’s US only, but I personally am throwing a finished UK copy of the Dream Thieves graphic novel into the mix, which I can send to a non-US winner, too. (Uncertainly sized dog and stuffed animal for scale).
Enter here before August 3rd (on whichever the social media you prefer, I’ve got posts up on many of them, including on Substack, just make sure after you comment, you enter your handle into the google form so I definitely have you in the mix for entry).
This is the definitively best-best bread gluten-free recipe ever (I have fairly recently had to go cow-milk-free too, but I’m happy to report it works wonderfully with nut milks too).
“Sixty-five percent of HarperCollins’ Q1 sales come from backlist titles. I focus on this statistic because it reveals that more people are purchasing older books than new releases, which highlights a significant issue in publishing: the industry continues to release too many new books while people are still buying titles from two years ago. The image that comes to mind when I think about this is a multi-car pileup on a freeway. If you don’t stop the cars, they’ll keep piling up. The more books that are published, the more they pile up.”
—Kathleen Schmidt, former VP of Publicity at Atria
Over at Publishing Confidential, Kathleen Schmidt talked hard numbers.
While I was at Parnassus signing several thousand pre-orders, I made a remarkable discovery: the muscles I use for practicing cello are the same ones I use for signing books. My thumbs are now superheroes. My signing hand came away with no strain at all, and presumably, my scales will now sound amazing.
“Tornado (Deep House Edit)” by The Polish Ambassador & Matisyahu, “Hide Away,” by Josie Edwards, “A World Hymn,” by MILCK, “All I Need is a Miracle,” by Mike & the Mechanics, “Need Your Love" (Emilio Piano Version) by OneRepublic, and “Pound Cake” by THOT SQUAD.
Just finished THE BEST OF EVERYTHING by Rona Jaffe and FALCONER by John Cheever, currently toting two Richards around in my bag: A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE by Richard Yates and THE SPORTSWRITER by Richard Ford. I was reading a book I hated so badly that I threw it away in an airport, but I’ll never admit to what it was, so there.
Here is where I have been doing most of my work this year, but also where I have not BEEN for several weeks. I’m looking forward to seeing you all and then returning to my cave to make more books, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat, what a lovely job.
urs,
Stiefvater
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