An important Christmas recommendation

I am pleased to report that CLOAK OF BLADES is now available in both paperback and hardcover. You can now get it in ebook, audiobook, trade paperback, and hardcover.

In that vein, I have a recommendation about the Christmas holidays. Sometimes people like to buy my books in paperback as Christmas presents, which is nice (and in my opinion makes for an excellent gift!), but if you want to do that this year and have them arrive in time for Christmas, I strongly recommend you do that right now.

The reason for that is all the supply chain disruption has really slowed down printing times, and there are general shortages of paper and printer time. Of course, the larger reason for that is that for the past several decades a bunch of Experts with Big Brain energy, advanced degrees from Ivy League institutions, and really complicated spreadsheets thought it would be super duper great if the United States moved most of its manufacturing to other countries and left no backup capacity built into the system. Their complicated spreadsheets and advanced degrees said it was a good idea! There was no way, for example, that some sort of unforeseen global natural disaster could screw up the supply chains. The spreadsheets said that was impossible!

(A totally true fact: in the Bible, during the Ten Plagues, God was originally going to send a plague of Experts with advanced degrees from Ivy League institutions on Egypt, but showed mercy and instead sent hailstones and locusts because they’re less destructive.)

Fortunately, ebooks are unaffected by the disruption. That said, people don’t like to give ebooks as gifts. So if you want to buy my books (or any books, really) as Christmas presents, it’s probably better to order them sooner rather than later.

-JM