…of the UK cover, and because it was hard to set letters against the background of the Arc de Triomphe–so I thought I’d post the undarkened version, so you can see the detail (and the creepy eyes in the night!). Read Chapter One! Read excerpt from Chapter Three! Read excerpt from Chapter Four! Where to Buy Hardback (US) Penguin Random House Amazon US Barnes and Noble US Indie Stores The Book Depository Trade Ppb (UK) Amazon UK Foyle’s Waterstones B…

…W audiobook) Trade Ppb (US) Amazon US US indie stores The Book Depository Mass Market Ppb (UK) Amazon UK Foyle’s Waterstones Blackwell’s WH Smith The Book Depository Buy Now Coming up this week: Worldcon, a roundup of stuff I’ve been doing on the web, and some bonus House of Shattered Wings art!…

Welcome back to Shattered Wings Thursdays, the weekly feature of art related to The House of Shattered Wings. 5 days to release of the Roc hardcover edition (and 7 days to the Gollancz trade paperback). Eep. Almost there! Maison du Premier Circle Catholique Ouvrier, Paris 1865 Today: last of the magical factions (well, at least those I have space for :p) The Houseless are, strictly speaking, not a faction, because the term covers a lot of people….

…fallen angels vs spaceships vs ventriloquist dummies” panel. A survey of upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy mentions The House of Shattered Wings: Urban fantasies are also exploring fresh settings, like the alternate war-ravaged late 20th-century Paris of Nebula Award winner Aliette de Bodard’s The House of Shattered Wings. Roc/Ace editors Gill and Sowards praise the novel for its lush writing, informed by the author’s own experiences living in…

…or :p) Lazarus is an interesting faction: first, because it’s a recently founded House (it was founded shortly before the war), and second, because all its heads of Houses have been human. There are no rules that say a House has to be headed by a Fallen, but nevertheless it tends to happen, because Fallen are longer-lived and have a better natural aptitude for magic. Lazarus is currently headed by Claire, a sixty-year-old woman with a grandmotherl…

…ather short thing insofar as SFF is concerned 0_0) It’s also on Kirkus’s Must-Read Speculative Fiction books for August It’s a B&N Bookseller’s Pick for August And finally, it’s spotlit on Tor.com’s list of genre benders for August More info on the book here (also, eep. Less than a month to go before release. I’ll be the one gibbering in the corner)….

…k a big hit during the years of the war (and had to abandon some of the ground it occupied on account of its becoming too dangerous for people to go there). Hawthorn is currently headed by Fallen Asmodeus–a fairly recent change: before that, the House was headed for a long, long time by Uphir, a powerful and ruthless Fallen who nevertheless failed to see where the true danger to his House was coming from. Twenty years before the start of the novel…

…, over Ile de la Cité: only the eastern part is inhabited, the Prefecture, Commerce Tribunal and other buildings in the West are only sparsely populated. Though founded by Lucifer Morningstar (oldest and most powerful among Fallen), House Silverspires is currently headed by his Fallen student, Selene, after the disappearance of Morningstar twenty years before the start of the novel. As said previously: the colours of Silverspires are red and silve…

…st-war, it’s actually fragmenting a bit because the colonists have trouble communicating with home (there are, say, ships to Vietnam but there aren’t very many of them). But “fragmenting” mostly means people setting up their own private kingdoms, and not any kind of independence, of course… Vietnam is not yet called Vietnam in the book because that’s either a very old (Nguyen dynasty) or fairly recent name. It has three political subdivisions: Ton…

Welcome back to Shattered Wings Thursdays, the weekly feature of art related to The House of Shattered Wings. 40 days to release of the Roc hardcover edition (and 42 days to the Gollancz trade paperback). Getting closer and closer! So I promised something about other magical beings: here’s one set. The Immortals (tiên) live in the Far East, in Annam. Unlike Fallen, they’re humans who have ascended through meditation, knowledge and merit, and join…