First, many of you have probably noticed by now that Angry Lead Skies is back in print, and was picked up by the chain bookstores (Faded Steel Heat wasn't, for whatever reason). Some of the reprint have gone back out of print, and Red Iron Nights and Deadly Quicksilver Lies have not been recently reprinted at all (again, for whatever reason). I hope that when Gilded Latten Lovers comes out this Fall, the whole Garrett series can be in print.
I was at a Barnes & Noble today, and saw the new Third Printing of the paperback of A Cruel Wind. Nightshade updated the "Works of Glen Cook" page in the front of the book, and now show that the final Dread Empire volume, to be included in The Wrath of Kings, will bear the title A Path to Coldness of Heart (those, of course, are the final 6 words of An Ill Fate Marshalling).
Finally,
Amazon now has the jacket blurb up for the third Instrumentalities book, Surrender to the Will of the Night:
Piper Hecht’s first and greatest secret is that he knows how to kill gods. What’s not a secret is that he knows how to win wars
Piper
Hecht’s secrets make him dangerous, but his skill and his reputation
put him in danger—from his enemies, who fear what he might do, or who
want revenge for what he has already done; and from his friends, who
want to use his military gifts for their own purposes. His sister Heris
and his living ancestor Cloven Februaren, the Ninth Unknown, have made
Hecht part of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke
the Windwalker. At the same time, the half-mad Empress Katrin wants
him to lead the armies of the Grail Empire eastward on a crusade
against his old coreligionists the Praman.
Meanwhile, all
around them, the world is changing. The winters are growing longer and
harder every year, and the seas are getting shallower. The far north
and the high mountain ranges are going under the ice, and fast. The
Wells of Power, everywhere, keep getting weaker. And the old evils,
the Instrumentalities from the Time Before Time, have begun to ooze
back into the world. As ever, the genius of Glen Cook’s storytelling
lies in his common touch: in soldiers who are like real soldiers, in
men and women who love and laugh and sweat, with real hopes and real
fears, united only in their determination to face the oncoming night.
We should all have some good reading coming up by the end of the year!