Five Weeks and You Can Visit Taiga Ridge Lodge…

We’re so close to the next release. All that’s pending are some maps for the print release (which is gonna be very pretty–I’ll show you when I’ve got a physical copy; I’ll preview a chapter sample PDF for patrons), and I’ll wait until November 1st to make the ebooks since I thank all patrons in good standing the month of release in the credits.

As I said on Bsky: If you’ve ever felt like your sharp edges have been filed away and you’ve been forced to contort yourself down into a shape you don’t recognize just to be more palatable, to hide what you are, and you feel an overwhelming rage about it…this book might be for you.

I don’t like to get complacent as a writer–I always say I don’t like to write the same book twice even within a series, but I also don’t want to rely on the same strengths all the time. I tend to write heavy dialogue and I like to have characters playing off one another. This book is almost none of that. It takes place over five days in the same location–the lodge and a bit in the surrounding snowy forest–with a single character for 95% of the book, interacting on occasion with a voice on the radio and with a cat.

It’ll probably be polarizing for some–I do find this, my unwillingness (or inability) to consistently write even the same tense let alone voice and genre from book to book is tough for some people. This was abundantly clear with Dweller on the Threshold, where some folks thought I’d have the same humorous voice in other books and then bounced pretty hard off Watcher of the Woods. This new one is definitely slow burn and atmospheric, and has some roots in dark fairytales so the voice takes a storyteller sort of tone, and I have no idea how it’ll be received. I do think it has some of my best writing.

If you want the ebook, the preorder is everywhere, and print will be another month yet. Kindle | Kobo | Nook | iBooks 

I’ve got a quarterly state of the union to write, I’m just waiting for a Thing to finalize so I can mention it–hopefully I’ll have some updates in a few weeks.

This is the best season for horror deals, and a reminder Kobo has some. My deals page is regularly updated.