Okay, So, I’m a Wee Bit Behind on the ’ol Book Updates

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One of the reasons I started this blog in the first place was to keep all y’all updated on my various projects, and to keep myself accountable. The good news is, I’ve made tremendous progress on the writing projects. The bad news is, I was so focused that the blog slipped a bit.

Anyway.

Blackthorne Faire is finished and ready to go to press. It’s going to be a beautiful hardcover, and the illustrations are just stunning. I am utterly thrilled. The release date is August 20, and signed copies will be available at Eagle Eye Bookshop. The audiobook is being recorded by the incomparable Andy Serkis, and I couldn’t be happier. Y’all, I am very proud of this one.

I also have a second book coming this year, the next of the Winter Tales books that I create with my wife, the artist Carol Bales. Incandescent: A Winter Tale of Blackthorne Faire is a stand-alone story set at the Renaissance festival introduced in the previous book. It was the hardest—and weirdest—thing I’ve ever tried to write, and I’ve been absolutely bowled over by the feedback from my beta readers and my publisher. My publisher actually used the words “a triumph” “brilliant, “truly original” and “cutting new ground” — this from a man who edited Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, and the great Ray Bradbury. I don’t even know bow to tell y’all how relieved I am. I’ll be starting the revisions later this week, and should deliver a “final” by the end of next week. Carol, meanwhile, is creating woodcut illustrations, which look just amazing. I can’t wait for y’all to see them.

I received the editorial notes back from my publisher for my sci-fi action adventure, A Planet Called Eden, a few weeks ago. I delivered the revised manuscript yesterday. This one will be coming your way around this time next year.

Next, I have some revisions to make to two screenplays and one teleplay, and then I’ll be finishing up What the Thunder Said, the third book in The Unbroken Circle, the series that begins with The Widening Gyre. The first book has been revised and delivered to the publisher, and scheduled to be published in winter, 2026. A fun fact: when I first started trying to write The Widening Gyre back around 1995 or so, it was set in the year 2026!

I hope to have another Winter Tale ready for November, 2026. At this point, it’s called Tomorrow Smells Like Rain and Roses: A Winter Tale of Victorian London. This is the first sentence:

Thick fog rolled in like a grey sea, and the city of London was cold when Nick Barleywine caught a sudden whiff of sulphur and burning brimstone, and knew at once that he had to change his ways, and fast.

If you want to know what comes after that first sentence, the best I can say is, “so do I.” That’s it for now. I’ll leave you with a quick sneak preview of Blackthorne Faire:

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John Adcox (he/him) has been a cross-media communications and content strategist, producer, user experience designer, and writer for more than twenty years. Presently, he is the CEO of The Story Plant/Gramarye Media. Over the course of his career in advertising, marketing, and new media John has held a number of titles including Executive Producer, Vice President of Digital Media, Creative Director, Vice President of Marketing and Creative Services, and even CEO. In addition, he has hosted a radio show, acted professionally (although not since age 15), designed and written scripts for computer games, written a play for a professional theatre company, taught university astronomy, and written reviews and articles on topics including mythology, psychology, technology, religion, marketing strategy, and fantasy. John was the Lay Leader at Inman Park United Methodist Church, and is now a member of Neighborhood Church Atlanta, a progressive, challenging, intellectually-engaging, warm, tightly-knit, and activist congregation that encourages connection, questions, and exploration. His many, many interests include books and literature (he is insufferably proud of his library), religion and philosophy, mythology, the Arthurian legends, travel, baseball, science fiction and fantasy, marketing communications, Celtic music and lore, new media, theatre, and politics, not to mention astronomy and cosmological physics, as well as the lesser sciences. He was knighted by the late King Richard Booth of the nation/village of Hay-on-Wye (the famous book town on the border between England and Wales) and was ordained a minister on the Internet (he recently performed his first wedding). So he is properly the Right Reverend Sir John. He is very happily married to the fabulous Carol Bales (Lady Bales of Hay). The couple makes their home in Atlanta. John has published three novels, Raven Wakes the World: A Winter Tale, Christmas Past: A Ghostly Winter Tale, and The Star in the East: A Winter Tale of Ancient Mystery. Two more, Make Up Test: A Rom-Com Winter Tale and Blackthorne Faire are coming soon, and many more are forthcoming.

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