A Brief Rant on a Popular Meme

I confess that I hate this meme. Speaking as someone who has written a fair number of books, I can tell you that a) authors don't always know what they mean; b) even when we think we do, the book is often doing something else that we don't notice until readers point it out for us later; and c) once a book is out in the world, readers' understanding of it matters more than whatever I might think I meant at the time.

This is a thoroughly stupid and reductive meme. It's fundamentally hostile to what literature is all about.

There. I feel better.

Coming Up: Eight Books in Six Months

Here's a rundown of what I've got coming out between now and March...

Season 2 of Sleepy Hollow is just around the corner, and to get you warmed up for it, here's The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane, out today!

Also, next month you'll be able to pick up the Marvel Vehicles Owner's Workshop Manual...

Then in November, it'll be Captain America and Iron Man kicking off the Phase One series of young-reader adaptations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe...

 

Then in January, Hulk and Thor keep Phase One going, while my prose adaptation of Secret Wars also hits shelves...

 



Then in March, the Phase One Avengers book! (For which there is as yet no cover...)

Also I've got five books in the pipeline that I can't announce yet. Whew.

Marvel Secret Wars Novel

Here's the catalog page for the Secret Wars prose novel I just finished up...coming January 20!

Covers to Marvel Phase One Books

Take a look at these beauties. I'm writing a series of middle-reader novelizations of the Marvel Phase One movies, taken directly from the films themselves rather than the scripts. This has meant watching the movies again a whole bunch of times. (My job's pretty miserable.) I'm working on the fifth book right now, but here are the covers for the first four:

 

 

Pretty cool, right?