My novel Scratch will be published October 11, so if you’re the sort of person who likes to be first at things this is a good time to order a copy (or to suggest your local library does). You can be first to read it, first to ignore it in your TBR pile, first to suggest it to your friends (or first not to!), first to mail it back to me with an angry note, first to leave it in the deep woods to see what the animals do to it… so many possibilities.

It’s a kind of folk horror/monster story, with shapeshifting and animal attacks and stone walls and solastalgia and a narrator who doesn’t find human beings quite as fascinating and special as we find ourselves.  And it began with something I read in an interview with the novelist Molly Gloss years ago (in an interview about her brilliant book Wild Life):

“Here’s what it comes down to: I want to live in a world in which it’s possible to believe in giants living deeply secret in the forests. When the wild woods are entirely gone, that possibility won’t exist for any of us anymore.”

You can order a copy from your local bookstore, directly from the publisher, or from all the usual places, if you’re so inclined:

IndieBound · Powells · Amazon · Barnes & Noble
Chapters/Indigo · Book Depository  · Kobo  · iBooks

Thanks.