Mark Lawrence: August 2024

UPDATE: It's live!

UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DF7GTLGC

US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF7GTLGC

I should really post this next week, but in a desperate attempt to have more than one post a month I'm jumping the gun!

Also, this should make the elite few who actually read my blog get that warm and fuzzy feeling of knowing stuff that others don't.

I've put all three of my Book of the Ancestor short stories into one volume and for the first time I've self-published a paperback!

This was a learning curve but in due course I'm hoping to try a hardback edition, and then, armed with that knowledge, I will do a US paperback & hardcover of Road Brothers, and a paperback & hardcover collection of the three Library Trilogy short stories.

Who knows, I might even find somebody to do a special edition for some of these.

Here's the ARC (Advance Reader Copy) - cover art from Francesca Resta (originally sent to me as reader art!).

The paperback releases on the weekend (31st of August) and the ebook is out already.

The short stories (also available in ebook separately) are:

The Devil You Know (Book of the Ancestor #1.5)

Bound (Book of the Ancestor #2.5)

Thaw (Book of the Ancestor #3.5)

ebook links UK & US

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Prince of Thorns has been on the shelves for thirteen years!

The book is now the same age as Jorg himself is on the first few pages 😮

Worldwide the Prince of Thorns has sold about 1,000,000 copies... and UK paperback has reached at least 30 printings.

I'll take the chance to say thanks - thank you to my readers (and my publishers) for letting me spend the past 13 years writing stories, and more than that - living in them. It's been an unexpected privilege.

In other news, I now have a Patreon. Check it out!

Check out the 12th,11th, 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st birthday round-ups.

I now have 18 books on the shelves!

The most recent addition was The Book That Broke The World, in April.

Plus we have the short stories, Overdue & Returns.

Being a numbers guy as well as a words guy I like to keep track of things and record them for when I'm doddery and old, looking back at my 'glory' days.

In the past year my books have added 54,158 ratings on Goodreads!

The site has recovered somewhat, so I can show you the first page of my author dashboad as I've traditionally done.

Prince of Thorns -- 3.84 -- 116,437

King of Thorns -- 4.18 -- 67,066

Emperor of Thorns -- 4.23 -- 54,337

Prince of Fools -- 4.05 -- 33,373

The Liar's Key -- 4.24 -- 20,608

The Wheel of Osheim -- 4.32 -- 17,072

Red Sister -- 4.17 -- 58,711

Grey Sister - 4.36 -- 35,343

Holy Sister -- 4.31 -- 28,762

Road Brothers (both versions) -- 4.27 -- 3,176

One Word Kill -- 3.75 -- 20,249

Limited Wish -- 4.04 -- 7,531

Dispel Illusion -- 4.23 -- 5,915

The Girl And The Stars -- 3.81 -- 11,470

The Girl And The Mountain -- 4.14 -- 6,020

The Girl And The Moon -- 4.25 -- 4,527

The Book That Wouldn't Burn -- 4.05 -- 20,916

The Book That Broke The World -- 4.10 -- 4,728

This blog continues to chug along. Blogs seem to be a dying means of communication, with most people prefering the immedacy of social media. Should reach 5 million hits this year.

Twitter seems too big to fail, so my quest to conquer it crawls on! Look, Elon wants me to "get verified". He can get...

It's also worth noting that this year has seen the release of the individual 10th anniversary special editions of The Broken Empire books from Grim Oak Press (US) and Broken Binding (UK).

You can now pre-order the special limited 10th anniversary edition of Prince of Fools from Grim Oak Press - leather bound goodness with interior art from the original cover artist Jason Chan.