Solitaire returns

I am thrilled to announce that Solitaire is now available in print from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, your local independent bookstore, and direct from Small Beer Press — as well as Kindle and DRM-free e-book editions.

It’s a terrific feeling to have the book widely available again, and I thank Small Beer Press from the bottom of my heart for all the care they’ve given it. Go buy all their books, will you?

I’m also delighted by the response to the reissue. Here’s a lovely review from Nic Clarke at Eve’s Alexandria, and one from John Mesjak at my3books. Every author needs this kind of support: it’s the best way there is these days to spread the word about a book and help it find its audience. Its next audience, in this case. I’m extremely lucky to have such a fabulous reader base for my work: I am grateful to you all. It’s great fun connecting with you. And I’m sure that this fabulous cover and the sterling reputation of Small Beer Press will help Jackal and her friends find a whole new group of friends to bring to our party.

And stay tuned tomorrow when I’ll be doing a post for John Scalzi’s The Big Idea series on Whatever.

It’s a good day for me. I hope you’re enjoying yours.

7 thoughts on “Solitaire returns”

  1. Yay! And double-yay for Big Idea-ness as well. Looking forward to that.

    Egoboo: A year or two ago my partner took my copy of Solitaire off the shelf to read while I was away somewhere or other. When I got back I asked her what she’d thought of it, and she said, “As soon as I’d finished I went online to see what else I could find that she’d written.” She got Dangerous Spaces for me (at least she claimed it was for me) for xmas that year.

    1. @Tucker, we likes the egoboo, precious, yes we does, because today is our special book day and we doesn’t have to be shy!

      Thank you very much (grin). I am very lucky that so many people have been so supportive of my work, and I am grateful for it!

  2. Yay!!

    Those are great reviews – I really like Nic Clarke’s. I love those lines he quoted at the beginning. I remember reading that for the first time and being blown away by those words.

    “[T]here was no risk in letting herself believe that these trees belonged to her; the rough trunks, the startling soft meat of a broken branch, the knobbled twigs rising in rows like choirs. The ground belonged to her, the human-made rises and falls of root and rock, carefully random, beautiful. The flowers were hers, stuporous in their mulch: the light and the stippled shadow, the stones and the rich rot underneath them, were all part of this place that felt like part of her. For the few minutes of passing through it, she was drawn into it like a breath”

    Beautiful.

    1. @Jennifer, thank you! And I have learned a whole new appreciation of trees from your photography….

      I don’t have a lot of general ties to “places” — except when I do. There are specific details of my time/place/self in the Tampa of my childhood, and at school in New Hampshire, that will always be part of me…

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