THE DOCTRINE OF LABYRINTHS IS BACK IN PRINT!

[truepenny]

The lovely people at Open Road Media are publishing the entire quartet in e-book. They're available for pre-order now, and will be published July 11.

I am so very happy about this. Words cannot even.

Comments

[carbonel]

Excellent news!

[pameladean]

Oh, that's great! I have all my lovely hardcovers, but it is very tempting to get the ebooks as well. Most of all, I can now point people somewhere when I enthuse about the books.

P.

[sovay]

Congratulations!

[larryhammer]

Yaaaaaaaaaays!!!!!

[heresluck]

Yay!!!

ETA: And I love the labyrinths in the background of the cover art of the e-book editions!

[starlady]

That is exciting! And those are some good-looking covers.

[lokifan]

Oh, fantastic!!!!!!!! So glad to hear it!

And very pretty covers - so different from the shirtless bishi covers on my copies :)

[cgbookcat1]

Yay, congratulations!

[arkessian]

Oh, excellent news!

[aerinha]

Such excellent news! Congratulations! Off to order...

[oracne]

Oh, wow, that's terrific!!!!!

[hominysnark]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[raven_cromwell]

I first wanted to read these in, I think, 2008. I'd just become enamored with the work you and Elizabeth bear et al were doing with Shadow Unit, and was on a quest to devour all y'all's books. But, for a totally blind reader, the only way to make it accessible would’ve been scanning it into a computer and then running those images through character recognition software to get legible text. With the reprinting woes, it got progressively harder to get my hands on a copy, and familial scanning assistants weren’t too keen to aid in procurement of delightfully queer books such as Labyrinths. I gnashed my teeth, and hoped you’d get the rights back when I was better positioned to devour the work. Fast-forward a decade-and-a-half, when eBooks have become vastly more accessible with screen-readers, and I was beginning to get rather terrified. Because I’d heard so much hype about these books, and *yearned* for so long to read them and what if I’d built it all up impossibly high?

This week, I finally put the finishing touches onto a semester of classwork that had dragged into the summer due to spinal fusion surgery and decided to take the plunge. And from the moment I read that opening pov, all woven through with a coarse fantasy slum voice that still sparkled with the same love of learning and history I’d also had growing up dirt-poor, I knew I hadn’t built my expectations nearly high enough. Damn, I love book 1 so much, and I’ve only just finished that most fateful court confrontation at the unspecified party—Kindle informs me I’m twenty pages in!

I am curious though: do you have anything written up about currencies and calendars in this world? I keep looking at the commissions for stealing back Ginevra’s jewelry like yes, but what would that look like in modern American currency? Like an unmitigated geek; and I’ve been reliably informed there are all sorts of different calendars within this particular world. I know you’d done a ton of world-buildy posts for Goblin Emperor, which was the first work of yours I properly devoured and reread on very special occasions with lots of gaps in-between so the events can fade enough I can recapture a little of the astonished wonder of reading it fresh. But, I don’t know how much publicly available world-buildy minutia stuff you did for Labyrinths.

[truepenny]

Back in 2005, nobody asked me to do a blog tour (I don't think the idea of the blog tour existed yet), so I didn't have a reason to write things down in the same way I did with The Goblin Emperor. And now I don't think I can remember enough to answer questions about the details of the world-building, for which I apologize.

But, knowing myself, I don't think I ever worked out the exact exchange rate between gorgons and dollars.