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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.
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
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
Time to hang out and drink coffee after a long couple weeks
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
They’re real! Limited editions of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, available soon!
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Book mail!
July 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
All right, New York!
June 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
One more option for Craft Sequence RPG thoughts…
April 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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...
February 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
- 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
Finally, I have a spare half hour to crack open this beauty. I’m sure the Triangle has my best interests at heart.
December 12, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Nate the Great gave him something he was needin’
November 22, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Good news everyone
October 11, 2024 at 3:46 PM
And of course Terry Pratchett was here first:
October 9, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Almost forgot! Happy 12-year birthday, Craft Sequence!
October 3, 2024 at 11:54 PM
gettin’ ready for spooky season
September 25, 2024 at 9:31 PM
good news, publishing
April 23, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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
I suppose that's fair
April 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Signed copies of Wicked Problems now at Pandemonium in Cambridge MA!
April 11, 2024 at 7:34 PM
April 10, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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...
April 9, 2024 at 3:36 PM
August 16, 2023 at 5:44 PM
In person, a wonder
August 3, 2023 at 2:08 PM
Excited, awed, thrilled for Biblically Accurate Seth Dickinson
July 27, 2023 at 9:27 PM