Mark Lawrence: Prince of Thorns celebrates its fourteenth year in print!

Prince of Thorns has been on the shelves for 14 years!

The book is now the same age as Jorg himself is in the majority of the book 😮

Worldwide the Prince of Thorns has sold over 1,000,000 copies... and the UK paperback has reached at least 32 printings.

I'll take the chance to say thanks - thank you to my readers (and my publishers) for letting me spend the past 14 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!

I've given out literally hundreds of free signed books on it via the monthly giveaway.

Check out the 13th, 12th, 11th, 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st birthday round-ups.

I now have 19 books on the shelves!

The most recent addition was The Book That Held Her Heart, in April.

Plus we have the short stories, Overdue & Returns & Tabula Rasa.

Collected in Missing Pages in a single volume, available in ebook, paperback, and glorious hardcover!

It's worth noting that I also have short story collections for The Book of the Ancestor (Tales of Abeth) and The Red Queen's War (The Red Queen's Ward).

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 52,552 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

The Book That Held Her Heart -- 3.83 --

This blog continues to chug along. Blogs seem to be a dying means of communication, with most people prefering the immedacy of social media. The blog cruised past 5 million visits (since startup) this year..

There seems to have been an uptick in traffic this year, but closer study reveals 1000s of visits to pages where there is no reason for such (competitions that were over years ago etc), so I suspect that bots are at play.

Twitter seems too big to fail, so my quest to conquer it crawls on!

And I have put more time into Bluesky, which seems much nicer. Still, the time invested in Twitter keeps me there, but it will be a cold day in hell before I pay for it.

My follower numbers have increased from 37,300 to 37,500 with a considerable dip between those two peaks as folks exited for Bluesky, where my followers went from about 400 to 9,700.

It's also worth noting that this year has seen the release of the individual 10th anniversary special edition of Prince of Fools from Grim Oak Press (US).

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