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I’ve Sold Two More Books to Tor!

One roller-coaster of a year after I sold Three Parts Dead and its companion novel, Two Serpents Rise, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve sold two more books to Tor!

Publishers’ Marketplace has more information on the deal, but it’s behind a paywall, so permit me to repost:

…Max Gladstone’s A WALKER IN THE GYRE, a “science fantasy” in which an indifferent sci-fi writer must employ his gift — the ability to chart a course through the cauldron of the multiverse — to stop a family of necromancers set on remaking time in their image, to David Hartwell and Marco Palmieri at Tor, in a two-book deal, by Weronika Janczuk at Lynn Franklin Associates, in association with D4EO Literary (World English).

WALKER is by far the craziest thing I’ve ever written (except maybe for my current project). I described it once to a composer friend as a fugue; he asked what I meant by that, and I said, well, the main characters spend a lot of time running away from stuff. If you’ve ever wanted a book about gods, monsters, fractal war machines, wolves between worlds, Tantric supercomputers, sex, death, parenting, necromancy, time travel, Hamlet, blood magic, Oh Hell, destiny, responsibility, and love–this is it. If you’ve never wanted a book like that, I’m very confused by your priorities.

The second book will continue to expand on the universe I’ve built in Three Parts Dead. I’m still in the tapping-fingers-together-and-cackling phase for this one, so in lieu of details you’ll have to content yourself by imagining my maniacal laughter…. (I’m a tenor 2 if that helps.)

I can’t overstate how thrilled I am to be here, right now.

Three Parts Dead to publish with Tor!

For the last couple weeks, many tumblers have been falling into place in many locks – but at last, I can announce: Tor will publish my novel, Three Parts Dead.

I’m so excited that it’s difficult to figure out what more to write – maybe I should just take a page from Victor Hugo’s publisher and post a single exclamation point. I spend a lot of time in front of my keyboard, and it’ll be wonderful to see the product of that time out in the world. My editor at Tor is really supportive, and excited about the book; Weronika’s been wonderful in shepherding the manuscript through various stages of submission and review. The folks at Operation Awesome made the initial introduction, and if it hadn’t been for my friend Sam Justice’s urging, I wouldn’t have decided to buckle down and query in December. Not to mention the constant encouragement I’ve received from wife, family, and friends down the years, without which I would have thrown my keyboard through the window, and followed it soon after…

And now I start to hear the Oscar band playing off stage, and the host advances with his shepherd’s crook…

The funniest thing about this whole process is that the further you get, the more work there is to do. A long road stretches from here to final publication, and along that road I need to turn in at least one more book (hopefully more than one!) in addition to the marketing, planning, and general madness. Oddly, this prospect doesn’t phase me one bit. I feel like the young gentleman in the painting on the cover of Lord Byron’s Novel, who has obviously just reached the peak of one mountain, and stares out at an endless vista of further mountains to climb.

Well, let’s climb some more mountains.

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Curious about the details? Want a basic description of the plot? Publishers Marketplace has the capsule description, but I think it’s behind a paywall – Weronika’s posted it to her tumblr. Publishers Weekly’s description is in the free and clear on their website.

Awesome Character Art for Three Parts Dead

On Friday, my agent Weronika posted some excellent character art that my friend Melody Lu drew of characters from my book, Three Parts Dead.

Now, Mel and I have had lots of chats over Skype about this book, what characters would look like, how certain designs would flow, that sort of thing, because I’m a complete sucker for seeing the stuff I write about. Art – with pencil, brush, pen, stylus, clay – is intensely cool, and people who can produce something that actually looks like an image they have in their heads leave me awestruck.

So of course, when I saw Weronika had posted a couple pics, I bugged Melody, who came through with an archive of character sketches and composed pieces that fill me with glee! Check it out!

Interview Live at Operation Awesome

The wonderful folks at Operation Awesome interviewed me on Friday about agent-hunting, books, and the inspiration for them. I actually had an answer for the “Where did you get the idea” question, which is a rarity for me as well as for the question at large.

Also, they asked me which god I thought my agent most closely resembled, which made me smile.

If you’re interested in the devious and weird way my mind works, check the interview out here: http://operationawesome6.blogspot.com/2011/04/amazing-max-gladstone-mystery-agent.html