Countdown to COLIN!
T-minus 18 days...
I’ve recently had a bunch of new subscribers to this newsletter, so…welcome! Thank you for being here.
We’re a little more than two weeks away from the arrival of COLIN GETS PROMOTED AND DOOMS THE WORLD, and my promotional models are hard at work, as you can see below.
They want everyone to know that this book is great and that buying it will put food in their bowls, so please, won’t you help to keep them fed? Please? They’re so cute and so hungry!
A Starred Review!
I’m beyond thrilled to share that COLIN recently received a starred review from Kirkus! This is a really big deal in the publishing world. Kirkus is notorious for writing tough reviews (as they did for my first book, haha, no hard feelings, *sob*), but a starred review is reserved for, in their words, “books of exceptional merit.” The squeal that emerged from my body when I got the email about this was…a little much, probably. But it feels appropriate when your work is mentioned in the same breath as some of your literary heroes:
“Filled with top-notch worldbuilding, entertaining antagonists, and tongue-in-cheek charm that’s reminiscent of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020), this novel is not to be missed for fans of urban fantasy that gently toes the horror line.”
That, right there, is a dream come true.
Speaking of reviews, authors live and die by word-of-mouth. We depend on our readers to climb to the top of the nearest mountain and shout about our books to anyone who will listen. If you read COLIN GETS PROMOTED and enjoy it, please share that with other people! Hop onto Goodreads, Storygraph, and/or social media and spread the word—it only takes a minute, but every positive review helps.
Podcast Appearances
I’ve been busy spreading the word as well!
I recently appeared on an episode of the fabulous Heartracers podcast, hosted by author Sierra Godfrey (my agent sibling) and bookseller Claire Bone. If you haven’t listened to Heartracers before, stop everything and subscribe at once! It features conversations with all kinds of people involved in publishing, so if you’ve ever wondered how your favorite book actually made its way into the world, this is the place to learn.
I also had a lovely conversation with Matt Baume for his podcast The Sewers of Paris, of which I’ve been a fan for years. Matt is a connoisseur of queer culture who’s interviewed hundreds of fascinating people, so it was a thrill to be invited to chat with him. My episode should drop sometime around October 7th.
Right before releasing this newsletter I also talked with Patrick Hester and Tracy Townsend at the Functional Nerds podcast, another favorite of mine. They’re authors themselves who have interviewed countless writers in the realms of sci-fi and fantasy, and I was so delighted to be included. Watch for that episode to appear sometime in the next week or two.
I have a couple more podcast appearances coming up, but I’ll save those for a future edition of the newsletter.
COLIN is going to Brazil!
In other news, it looks like COLIN GETS PROMOTED AND DOOMS THE WORLD will be published by the Brazilian house Intrínseca. I can’t tell you how exciting this is for me. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine a book of mine would be translated into another language or published in a country as huge and diverse as Brazil. Talk about #authorgoals! More news about that as it develops.
What I’m Reading…
I recently wrote an essay for Reactor that had me revisiting some past favorites, so I’m re-reading Max Barry’s Company, a corporate satire that is both extremely funny and absolutely nuts.
…And Watching
Matt and I are safely cocooned in the soothing bubble of The Great British Baking Show, where everyone is lovely and the world isn’t a raging garbage-fire.
Until next time, Lucy hopes you find something to love and hug and chew with as much abandon as her Chewbacca toy, because we all need something to maul now and then.
Be well.