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Average rating: 3.87 · 8,861 ratings · 1,824 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Outside (The Outside, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 3,346 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death (Machine of Death, #2) by Ryan North (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Bennardo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Malki (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,116 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fallen (The Outside, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ignore All Previous Instructions 3.65 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite (The Outside #3) 4.20 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Future Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paula R. Stiles (Editor), Nick Mamatas 3.29 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scrape of Tooth and Bone really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monsters In My Mind 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrections 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Million-Year Elegies 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Priest of Crawling Things

(You can also read this post on Buttondown.)

I’m so happy to announce my next book, a fantasy novel called THE PRIEST OF CRAWLING THINGS, which will come out from Canadian press Wolsak & Wynn in May 2027:

Publishers Market Place Deal Report: The Priest of Crawling Things by Ada Hoffmann. Imprint: Wolsak & Wynn, Recorded Books. Author of Ignore All Previous Instructions Ada Hoffmann's The Priest of Crawling Things, a coming-of-age story set in a world where humans and dragons live side by side, in which a young nonbinary adult, transported to the spirit world, must prevent a war by bargaining with a trickster spirit, to Wolsak & Wynn, for publication in May 2027, by Hannah Bowman at Liza Dawson Associats (NA). Audio rights to Recorded Books. International rights: Canada Fiction. September 15, 2026

There will also be an audio version, as usual, from Recorded Books.

If you’ve been with this newsletter for ages and ages (like back in the Substack days) then you may actually recognize the pre

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“SIR, Enga said presently, I SHOT HER. BUT YASIRA SHOUTED AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. “Yes, Enga. That’s called the chain of command.” I BROKE PART OF MY ARM SAVING THE HUONGS, AND THEY HAVE BEEN THROWING THEMSELVES AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. IS THAT THE CHAIN OF COMMAND? WHY CAN’T I HAVE A HUONG?”
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“Well, it did what Outside usually did in stories. Showed up. Violated all the known laws of physics. Killed some people and drove the rest mad.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

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“Universal acceptance can exist, I think, only as a failure of the imagination.”
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The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes, 480p

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Forget Me Not by Alexandra Oliva, 352p

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Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden, 112p

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