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Max Gladstone
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NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
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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!
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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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)
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Time to hang out and drink coffee after a long couple weeks
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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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.
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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!
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Book mail!
Copies of The Raven Scholar, Blood for the Undying Throne, and Wife Shaped Bodies
July 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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All right, New York!
A panel of Spider-Man shouting “All right, New York!!”
June 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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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
April 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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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
February 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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- 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.
December 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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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
December 12, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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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
November 22, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Good news everyone
Linkedin notification that “3 Novelist roles have been hired in the past week”
October 11, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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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."
October 9, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Almost forgot! Happy 12-year birthday, Craft Sequence!
October 3, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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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
September 25, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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good news, publishing
screenshot of a linkedin spam email indicating a 33 percent increase in job openings for “Novelist” in the past week
April 23, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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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
April 23, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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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
April 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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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
April 11, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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the big whale from Slay the Spire saying “Hello… Again…”
April 10, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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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...
Cover of WICKED PROBLEMS by Max Gladstone, against a rich blue background that makes the blue, purple, and yellow highlights of the cover pop quite nicely if I do say so myself
April 9, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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vintage kool-aid man bursts through a wall, as big block lettering proclaims his Good News of "OHH YEAAH"
August 16, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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In person, a wonder
Italian edition of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR with a belly-band featuring The Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood Tweet
August 3, 2023 at 2:08 PM
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Excited, awed, thrilled for Biblically Accurate Seth Dickinson
cover of Seth Dickinson’s forthcoming novel Exordia, which features an eyeball circled by snakes in a manner vaguely evocative of descriptions of angels in Ezekiel 1:16-18
July 27, 2023 at 9:27 PM