We’re just eight days away from the release of ANNIHILATION ARIA! I sold the book back in the fall of 2018, so it’s been a long time coming.

You can read the first three chapters at Tor.com. https://www.tor.com/2020/07/09/read-the-first-three-chapters-of-michael-r-underwoods-annihilation-aria/

Pre-order your copy from your favorite local bookstore or via Bookshop.org and support indie bookstores, who could especially use the help given how many are still closed to in-store browsing or only doing mail-order.

If you pre-order, not only will you get the book as soon as possible, you’ll also help tell bookstores that there is more demand for a book, which then tells the distributor and the publisher that there is more demand, which means that they are more likely to be able to put additional resources into promoting the book.

My promotional efforts have already started to ramp up, with guest posts, podcast appearances, and more. Here’s a quick round-up of what I’ve been up to lately:

Writing From a Trope Wish List at The Qwillery.

On the Functional Nerds podcast.

Playing in “The Case of the Cindered Seal” actual play miniseries for Speculate at Twitch.tv/ArvanEleron.

In the next few weeks, I’ll have a lot more, including AMAs at two different subreddits, panel appearances this weekend for JulyCon, running a Scum & Villainy actual play miniseries, guest posts around the SFF blog-o-sphere, and more. This is my first book release since 2016, so I am trying to pull out all of the stops, even with the weirdness of launching a book during a global pandemic.

You can find more info on ARIA and pre-ordering here.