Max Gladstone

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Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· 8d

This year’s Best Series nominees remind me of this bit from Jhereg:

an excerpt from Brust’s Jhereg, reading: “ We were all friends here. Morrolan carried Blackwand, which slew a thousand at the Wall of Barrit’s Tomb. Aliera carried Pathfinder, which they say served a power higher than the Empire. Sethra carried Iceflame, which embodied within it the power of the Dzur Mountain. I carried myself pretty well, thank you.”

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· 8d

Now let’s try this again…

gladstone at the airport, his bags packed

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· 9d

King in Red in the sky over GenCon last night

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· 13d

picture of an ad for a “bag building combat game”, whatever that may be

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· 13d

"Try Gemini in Sheets" Archer, asking if we are not doing "phrasing!" any more

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· 24d

Plenty of lettuce today i see

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Apr 21

If I were paler there would be the goth cowboy thing

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Jan 17

useful signage

conference poster: engineering flowchart. does it move?
—if yes
——should it?
———if yes: no problem
———if no: duct tape
—if no
——should it?
———if yes: wd-40
———if no: no problem

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Nov 3

UK folks, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is a monthly Kindle deal for November: just 99p! Often this sort of deal leads to price-matching at other online retailers, too. Happy reading!

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Oct 29

Signed a bunch of stock at @belmontbooks.bsky.social! Thanks to the booksellers there for hosting me (and for a warm cup of coffee on a cool morning)

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Oct 28

Time to hang out and drink coffee after a long couple weeks

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Oct 28

DEAD HAND RULE is out today! As an implacable enemy skitters nearer across the stars, Tara Abernathy gathers Gods and Deathless Kings alike to join forces. Of course, there's still a little fine print to be sorted out. But surely they'll be able to come together against the darkness. Any minute now.

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Oct 3

They’re real! Limited editions of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, available soon!

This is How You Lose the Time War limited edition!

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Jul 18

Book mail!

Copies of The Raven Scholar, Blood for the Undying Throne, and Wife Shaped Bodies

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Jun 25

All right, New York!

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Apr 5

One more option for Craft Sequence RPG thoughts…

a very colorful cover for an indie rpg called Business Wizards, featuring a wizard in a fabulous purple pin-stripe robe suit

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Feb 7

COVER REVEAL! Behold Book 3 of the Craft Wars, DEAD HAND RULE. Alternate titles, _Fear and Loathing in Wizard Davos_ and _Black Diamond Bay but with Way More Skeletons_. Coming Oct 28, deets here, plus pre-order discount today only at B&N: maxgladstone.substack.com/p/cover-reve...

Cover of Dead Hand Rule, by Max Gladstone, book 3 of the Craft Wars. A young woman stands, surrounded by mist, arm raised, beneath a castle upside down in air, a spectral serpent rising torch like from her grip

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Dec 17

- Max Gladstone - Novel (WICKED PROBLEMS) and Series (The Craft Sequence) - No eligibility post yet but the fine folks at The Hidden Schools fan-site made an excellent graphic! And for that matter, I'd like to propose THE HIDDEN SCHOOLS for best Fan Project! Many wonderful essays there.

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Dec 12

Finally, I have a spare half hour to crack open this beauty. I’m sure the Triangle has my best interests at heart.

picture of TRIANGLE AGENCY: Norma Briefcase Collection, a ttrpg I have been eager to hold in my hot little hands for a MINUTE, y’all

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Nov 22

Nate the Great gave him something he was needin’

cover of a late entry in Marjorie Weinman Sharmat’s all-time American noir series “Nate the Great”: “Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden” (illustrated by Marc Simont)

Nate, a kid detective in a deerstalker cap, investigates a hiking boot while being menaced? by four black cats named, variously, Hex, Little Hex, Big Hex, and Super Hex

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Oct 11

Good news everyone

Linkedin notification that “3 Novelist roles have been hired in the past week”

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Oct 9

And of course Terry Pratchett was here first:

Footnote from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather: "Ignorant: a state of not knowing what a pronoun is, or how to find the square root of 27.4, and merely knowing childish and useless things like which of the seventy almost identical-looking species of the purple sea snake are the deadly ones, how to treat the poisonous pith of the Sago-sago tree to make a nourishing gruel, how to foretell the weather by the movements of the tree-climbing Burglar Crab, how to navigate across a thousand miles of featureless ocean by means of a piece of string and a small clay model of your grandfather, how to get essential vitamins from the liver of the ferocious Ice Bear, and other such trivial matters. It’s a strange thing that when everyone becomes educated, everyone knows about the pronoun but no one knows about the Sago-sago."

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Oct 3

Almost forgot! Happy 12-year birthday, Craft Sequence!

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Sep 25

gettin’ ready for spooky season

nyrb edition of “the oceans of cruelty: twenty-five tales of a corpse spirit (a retelling) by Douglas J Penick”, which is a title that understands the assignment. the cover is a whirling, spiraling black and white abstract wavescape vaguely reminiscent of junji itoh

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Apr 23

good news, publishing

screenshot of a linkedin spam email indicating a 33 percent increase in job openings for “Novelist” in the past week

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Apr 23

Getting ready for the WICKED PROBLEMS event tonight at Brookline Booksmith (7pm! on their Youtube channel!) by placing my author copies in photogenic locations like, er, my bookcase

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Apr 19

I suppose that's fair

A list of albums for which iTunes could not find artwork, including "??? - ???" and a collection of ASCII characters that I cannot replicate

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Apr 11

Signed copies of Wicked Problems now at Pandemonium in Cambridge MA!

picture of signed copy of WICKED PROBLEMS, with author. also in frame, a copy of ST Gibson’s An Education in Malice, which I haven’t read, and Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis, which slaps

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Apr 10

the big whale from Slay the Spire saying “Hello… Again…”

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone· Apr 9

Happy Book Birthday to WICKED PROBLEMS! Book 2 of the Craft Wars finds necromancer/in-house counsel Tara Abernathy chasing her rogue student Dawn, who's merged with a sentient economy on a mission of revolution. Allies are found, battle lines are drawn, and ancestral voices are prophesying war...