SILENT ORDER: RUST HAND underway

Now that CLOAK OF SPEARS is out, next up is SILENT ORDER: RUST HAND.

This summer has been massively busy, and one of the chief causes of that is the number of Mandatory Homeowner Repair Fun Activities (Funtivities!) that I need to do, like, soon.

Once CLOAK OF SPEARS was done, I had originally planned to take the rest of July off from writing to focus on those Homeowner Repair Funtivities full-time, and then to start on DRAGONSKULL: FURY OF THE BARBARIANS in August. However, a brief glance at the stack of bills on my desk suggested that this may not be the best idea anyone has ever had in the history of ideas.

So, to make the best use of the available time, I decided instead to finish something I had already started, and that is SILENT ORDER: RUST HAND. I am 25% of the way through it, and if all goes well it should be out towards the end of August. By then hopefully I will have finished all my Homeowner Repair Funtivities (or at least gotten to the “eh, good enough” point) and then I will start on DRAGONSKULL: FURY OF THE BARBARIANS.

The SILENT ORDER: RUST HAND cover image will feature a spaceship near a planet. Back in May I saw this Penny Arcade comic that I thought made a salient point about SF covers, so I switched all the SILENT ORDER covers to feature planets and spaceships in close proximity. They do see to convert better than the ones with character images.

-JM