Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe release day!

It’s release day! Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe, the third book in the Sorrow Falls series, is ON SALE NOW! If you want to know what Annie Collins has been up to all these years, now is your chance to find out. Will there be aliens? Yes, there will be aliens. Will they be…

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Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe: Prologue

We are now a month away from the 7/25 release of Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe and I don’t know about you, but the wait is killing me. But at least I, unlike you, have the regular chapter updates of the audiobook recording to keep me going. (I also kinda already know what happens in…

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Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe

Sorrow Falls book three Hello! It’s been a while! (For reasons. I’ll get into it a little below.) I wanted to drop in with a quick blog post to let everybody know there is a NEW novel coming! The title is Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe and it’s the third book in the Sorrow Falls…

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The Spaceship Next Door lands in bookstores

Happy re-release day! The new edition of The Spaceship Next Door is now available wherever books are sold, in whatever format you prefer. To recap, for those of you new to my website: this edition is being published by the John Joseph Adams imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (You may also see it branded Mariner…

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Bookstore Confessions

It was late December. I was in Harvard Square, for some reason (possibly a haircut? I don’t remember) and mulling over an offer from John Joseph Adams to acquire The Spaceship Next Door for his Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint. At the time, I was on the fence about the offer. My ebook sales were doing…

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Perspective From the Other Side

As I write this, I’m two months away from seeing The Spaceship Next Door re-released by HMH/Adams* and available for the first time for a whole lot of people who don’t read ebooks and/or don’t read indie/self-published books, and/or just never heard of me before. The last couple of months has been an education, and things haven’t really…

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The Next Logical Step

Here’s the big news: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the print and ebook rights to The Spaceship Next Door! Their edition, which you can already find available for preorder online, will be released on September 4th, 2018. The current editions will remain available until that time, and since I’m retaining audio rights, there will be…

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The Frequency of Aliens: available for preorder

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about the latest news from the exciting world of novel writing, so my apologies if all of this comes as a shock but: There is a sequel to The Spaceship Next Door! The sequel is called The Frequency of Aliens! This is what the cover looks like! The…

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A Brief View From the Top

I basically have two kinds of blog posts: Here’s an announcement about my writing career Let me tell you a thing about the writing business I try not to sound too much like I’m bragging in the former, and I try not to get too wonky in the latter. I assume most of you are…

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Whispersync for The Spaceship Next Door

As I mentioned at the beginning of the week, The Spaceship Next Door is now an audiobook! I also mentioned I’d let everyone know when “Whispersync” was available, and in saying that I was relying upon the received wisdom from many online resources, including the kind people over on the KBoards and on the FAQ on the…

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