Welcome to my world!

I'm James Maxey, the author of the Bitterwood fantasy trilogy composed of Bitterwood, Dragonforge, and Dragonseed, a pair of superhero novels, Nobody Gets the Girl and Burn Baby Burn, plus my new Dragon Apocalypse series. I've also published numerous short stories, the best of which are reprinted in my collection, There is No Wheel. This website is focused exclusively on my published fiction. At my second blog, Jawbone of an Ass, I serve up loudmouthed blathering about politics, religion, money, and other topic polite people have the sense to avoid.

If you're a fan of dragon-centric sword and sorcery with a touch of superheroics, the Dragon Apocalypse is being written for you! In fact, even if you're not a fan of fantasy, you might want to check out the books, since my approach to this series is to strip out everything I find boring about epic fantasy and focus on the fun stuff, like larger than life characters bravely throwing themselves into battle with dragons, and the dragons eating them. Greatshadow, Hush, and Witchbreaker are now available. The next book, Soulless, should be out in late 2013/early 2014.

Definitely coming out in 2013 will be my next superhero novel, tentatively titled "The Adventures of Cut-Up Girl." Watch this space for further news!


Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Bitterwood back in stock! And a review I particularly liked...

Around Thanksgiving, I noticed that Amazon was showing Bitterwood temporarily out of stock. This changed to simply "out of stock" for all of December. When I did a signing at Barnes and Noble, I was told they had none in their warehouse. Fortunately, Solaris did order another printing, and just today Amazon has changed the status back to "in stock." So, if you've been waiting to pick up a copy, wait no longer!

I've got mixed feelings about selling out the print run. Bitterwood was already in a second printing, so I assume they've just ordered a third. I look forward to getting my hands on one of the new copies to verify this. I'm happy that the book sold out... I suspect that means the book did better than anticipated when Dragonforge came out. Outperforming your publisher's expectations is never a bad thing. On the flip side, being sold out in the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is pretty much the worst possible timing imaginable. Ah well. There's always next year. Maybe people will have money again by then.

In other news, a review of Bitterwood and Dragonforge appeared today at a blog called Eveing Dearest. It's part of a list of things that Eveing likes, sandwiched between a book about Donuts and a musing on the scientific rational of a good kiss. Very entertaining.