2020 Release Road Map
With the caveat that the pandemic has pushed everything off schedule for everyone (for example, the binder that Thunderstorm Books uses was shut down for seven weeks) here is the projected release road map for 2020 and early 2021.
NEW BOOKS
1. MAELSTROM 8 DELUXE EDITIONS: With the binder now allowed to go back to work, these should ship from Thunderstorm Books early next month.
2. END OF THE ROAD: Hardcover came out in February from Cemetery Dance. There are about two dozen copies left in stock. Trade paperback and e-book will be out late 2020.
3. THE TRIANGLE OF BELIEF: Hardcover came out in January. Trade paperback and ebook came out in March. Buy them here.
4. CURSE OF THE BASTARDS: Final novel in me and Steven L. Shrewsbury’s Bastards trilogy. Hardcover came out in January. Trade paperback and ebook will come out from Apex in late-2020/early-2021. Audiobook in 2021.
5. DISSONANT HARMONIES: A collaboration with Bev Vincent. Hardcover will come out from Another Ghost in August/September. Mass-market paperback and ebook will come out from Poltergeist Press in August, as well.
6. THE SEVEN: THE LABYRINTH, Book 1: Hardcover will come out from Thunderstorm Books second half of 2020. Trade paperback and ebook will come out in time for the 2020 holidays. You can read it in serialized form on Patreon right now.
7. SUBURBAN GOTHIC: A sequel to URBAN GOTHIC and a collaboration with Bryan Smith. Hardcover will come out from Thunderstorm Books second half of 2020. Paperback and ebook in early 2021.
8. NEMESAI: A collaboration between myself and John Urbancik. Hardcover from Thunderstorm Books second half of 2020. Trade paperback and ebook to follow in time for the 2020 holidays.
RE-RELEASES
9. THE DAMNED HIGHWAY: Collaboration with Nick Mamatas. New trade paperback, ebook and audiobook editions coming out from Crossroads Press second half of 2020.
10. EARTHWORM GODS II: DELUGE: New audiobook edition coming out from Crossroads Press second half of 2020.
11. THE GIRL ON THE GLIDER: New audiobook edition coming out from Crossroads Press second half of 2020.
12. URBAN GOTHIC: New audiobook edition coming out from Crossroads Press summer 2020.
13. SUNDANCING: New audiobook edition coming out from Crossroads Press late 2020.
14. TRIGGER WARNINGS: New trade paperback edition coming out summer 2020.
15. OTHER WORDS: New trade paperback and ebook editions coming out autumn 2020.
BECAUSE YOU’LL ASK:
16. INVISIBLE MONSTERS and THE VALLEY OF THE YUNWI TSUNSDI: The first is the next Levi novel. The latter is a Levi novella. Working on both simultaneously. Now that SUBURBAN GOTHIC and DISSONANT HARMONIES are finished, they are my main daily priority. No release dates or info (other than Bad Moon Books has the rights to the novel hardcover).
17. THE FALL: The final novel in THE RISING series. I wrote a bit more about it here recently. There’s a goal over on my Patreon that we are currently at 54% of. When we hit that goal, I’ll begin posting chapters as a serial over there. Since I’m already at 40,000 words, that won’t be a problem.
18. BENEATH THE LOST LEVEL: I expect to finish this one by December, which means a summer 2021 release.
19. A LITTLE HELL FROM MY FRIENDS: THE COMPLETE SHORT FICTION OF BRIAN KEENE Vol. 4: I’m sitting on this one because I want to wait and see how the pandemic impacts the releases of everything above. If I need to fill a hole, I’ll release it. If not, then look for it in early 2021.