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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

what’s a mob to a king what’s a king to a god what’s a god to an

Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Don’t have many photos of the night because the night was for friends, not phone, but here’s one i’m particularly glad I have. @amalelmohtar.com @dongwon.bsky.social

photo of dongwon song, amal el-mohtar, max gladstone at hugo awards, looking snazzy

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“our speedy mail-order system will have you in the lap of musical luxury in a matter of weeks!” look, i know the past was a mess? but then there’s this LP slipcover to Waiting for Columbus, hoping to hook folks on Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris via a Fleetwood Mac or Van Morrison single

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This year’s Best Series nominees remind me of this bit from Jhereg:

an excerpt from Brust’s Jhereg, reading: “ We were all friends here. Morrolan carried Blackwand, which slew a thousand at the Wall of Barrit’s Tomb. Aliera carried Pathfinder, which they say served a power higher than the Empire. Sethra carried Iceflame, which embodied within it the power of the Dzur Mountain. I carried myself pretty well, thank you.”

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

King in Red in the sky over GenCon last night

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Try Gemini in Sheets" Archer, asking if we are not doing "phrasing!" any more

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

If I were paler there would be the goth cowboy thing

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

UK folks, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is a monthly Kindle deal for November: just 99p! Often this sort of deal leads to price-matching at other online retailers, too. Happy reading!

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Signed a bunch of stock at @belmontbooks.bsky.social! Thanks to the booksellers there for hosting me (and for a warm cup of coffee on a cool morning)

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Time to hang out and drink coffee after a long couple weeks

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

DEAD HAND RULE is out today! As an implacable enemy skitters nearer across the stars, Tara Abernathy gathers Gods and Deathless Kings alike to join forces. Of course, there's still a little fine print to be sorted out. But surely they'll be able to come together against the darkness. Any minute now.

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

They’re real! Limited editions of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, available soon!

This is How You Lose the Time War limited edition!

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

One more option for Craft Sequence RPG thoughts…

a very colorful cover for an indie rpg called Business Wizards, featuring a wizard in a fabulous purple pin-stripe robe suit

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

COVER REVEAL! Behold Book 3 of the Craft Wars, DEAD HAND RULE. Alternate titles, _Fear and Loathing in Wizard Davos_ and _Black Diamond Bay but with Way More Skeletons_. Coming Oct 28, deets here, plus pre-order discount today only at B&N: maxgladstone.substack.com/p/cover-reve...

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

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

- Max Gladstone - Novel (WICKED PROBLEMS) and Series (The Craft Sequence) - No eligibility post yet but the fine folks at The Hidden Schools fan-site made an excellent graphic! And for that matter, I'd like to propose THE HIDDEN SCHOOLS for best Fan Project! Many wonderful essays there.

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Finally, I have a spare half hour to crack open this beauty. I’m sure the Triangle has my best interests at heart.

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

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Nate the Great gave him something he was needin’

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

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

And of course Terry Pratchett was here first:

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."

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Almost forgot! Happy 12-year birthday, Craft Sequence!

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Getting ready for the WICKED PROBLEMS event tonight at Brookline Booksmith (7pm! on their Youtube channel!) by placing my author copies in photogenic locations like, er, my bookcase

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Signed copies of Wicked Problems now at Pandemonium in Cambridge MA!

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

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Happy Book Birthday to WICKED PROBLEMS! Book 2 of the Craft Wars finds necromancer/in-house counsel Tara Abernathy chasing her rogue student Dawn, who's merged with a sentient economy on a mission of revolution. Allies are found, battle lines are drawn, and ancestral voices are prophesying war...