Max Gladstone

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NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.

a picture of a goth cowboy
conference poster: engineering flowchart. does it move? —if yes ——should it? ———if yes: no problem ———if no: duct tape —if no ——should it? ———if yes: wd-40 ———if no: no problem
This is How You Lose the Time War limited edition!
Copies of The Raven Scholar, Blood for the Undying Throne, and Wife Shaped Bodies
A panel of Spider-Man shouting “All right, New York!!”
a very colorful cover for an indie rpg called Business Wizards, featuring a wizard in a fabulous purple pin-stripe robe suit
Cover of Dead Hand Rule, by Max Gladstone, book 3 of the Craft Wars. A young woman stands, surrounded by mist, arm raised, beneath a castle upside down in air, a spectral serpent rising torch like from her grip
picture of TRIANGLE AGENCY: Norma Briefcase Collection, a ttrpg I have been eager to hold in my hot little hands for a MINUTE, y’all
cover of a late entry in Marjorie Weinman Sharmat’s all-time American noir series “Nate the Great”: “Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden” (illustrated by Marc Simont) Nate, a kid detective in a deerstalker cap, investigates a hiking boot while being menaced? by four black cats named, variously, Hex, Little Hex, Big Hex, and Super Hex
Linkedin notification that “3 Novelist roles have been hired in the past week”
Footnote from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather: "Ignorant: a state of not knowing what a pronoun is, or how to find the square root of 27.4, and merely knowing childish and useless things like which of the seventy almost identical-looking species of the purple sea snake are the deadly ones, how to treat the poisonous pith of the Sago-sago tree to make a nourishing gruel, how to foretell the weather by the movements of the tree-climbing Burglar Crab, how to navigate across a thousand miles of featureless ocean by means of a piece of string and a small clay model of your grandfather, how to get essential vitamins from the liver of the ferocious Ice Bear, and other such trivial matters. It’s a strange thing that when everyone becomes educated, everyone knows about the pronoun but no one knows about the Sago-sago."
nyrb edition of “the oceans of cruelty: twenty-five tales of a corpse spirit (a retelling) by Douglas J Penick”, which is a title that understands the assignment. the cover is a whirling, spiraling black and white abstract wavescape vaguely reminiscent of junji itoh
screenshot of a linkedin spam email indicating a 33 percent increase in job openings for “Novelist” in the past week
A list of albums for which iTunes could not find artwork, including "??? - ???" and a collection of ASCII characters that I cannot replicate
picture of signed copy of WICKED PROBLEMS, with author. also in frame, a copy of ST Gibson’s An Education in Malice, which I haven’t read, and Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis, which slaps
the big whale from Slay the Spire saying “Hello… Again…”
Cover of WICKED PROBLEMS by Max Gladstone, against a rich blue background that makes the blue, purple, and yellow highlights of the cover pop quite nicely if I do say so myself
vintage kool-aid man bursts through a wall, as big block lettering proclaims his Good News of "OHH YEAAH"
Italian edition of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR with a belly-band featuring The Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood Tweet
cover of Seth Dickinson’s forthcoming novel Exordia, which features an eyeball circled by snakes in a manner vaguely evocative of descriptions of angels in Ezekiel 1:16-18