Neon Meridian: Coming 5/19!

Happy Thursday, all! Early last year I announced that Aethon Books had acquired my new upcoming series, Neon Meridian. I'm pleased to announce that we finally have a release date for book one! (Yep, publishing is a slooooooow business.) It's coming on May 19, and I can also announce that Susannah Jones will be narrating the audiobooks (which should be coming out on the same day.) I'll let the publisher tell you what it's about:

Magic is no longer a mystery—it’s a corporate asset.
Seventy years ago, people turned on their televisions and saw magic on the streets of Manhattan. Real magic, and real monsters, in broad daylight.

Today, corporate sorcerers defend their employers’ interests with curses and bullets, street vendors sell cheap talismans to the masses, and the most popular late-night talk show host is a demon. It’s a world of wonders and terrors, but you still have to earn a living.

Emily Yeats is a blue-collar witch from Brooklyn, selling her services as a security auditor. For a price, she and her unconventional team will invade your business after hours, find every last loophole and flaw, and tell you how to fix it.

Until now, the challenges were all simulated.

Strapped for cash, Emily agrees to a dangerous job: an executive with the world’s biggest media conglomerate wants her boss out of the way, and she hires Emily to dig up a scandal that he took a bribe to bury.

Now bodies are dropping left and right, a supernatural assassin is on Emily’s trail, and everyone from the Mafia to the mayor’s office wants to silence her for good. It’s too late to back out now: the only way to survive is to finish the job, or the story she’s hunting won’t be the only thing getting killed.

The good folks over at Aethon say it's “perfect for fans of Six of Crows, The Iron Druid Chronicles, and Shadowrun.” I haven't read Iron Druid but I can tell you that Shadowrun was definitely an influence (as were William Gibson's amazing novels and the various incarnations of Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk. I kinda grew up on this stuff.) So if you like those, you might like this!

Also, in the meantime, book three of Castaways is almost ready for you; the book is done and laid out, and Rebecca Frank is working on the cover (I've seen a draft and it's very nice.) And with that, I should get back to work. Stay warm and safe!