Announced! Cover image is a mockup.

Well who doesn't want a snake necklace to choke them?

Henry Jones Jr.

Decidedly unhelpful magical items?

Woot! Intelligent magical items! Right? Hm?

Is this the guy writing this? Booklist has called him Vance's "heir apparent."... Bought.

Is this the guy writing this? Booklist has called him Vance's "heir apparent."... Bought.

Hugh Matthews is indeed a pseudonym for Matt Hughes.

Well who doesn't want a snake necklace to choke them?

I'd probably rather have a certain Succubus to choke me instead of a snake necklace. That way I could die a little happier.

Is that placeholder cutoff cover representative of the cover? I hope not.

Is that placeholder cutoff cover representative of the cover? I hope not.

Announced! Cover image is a mockup.

We are just about a month out from the release of the book. Any idea when we will see the final cover?

I've updated the cover image and description.

I like the cover. My 2 year old will be calling this "The Troll Book." As in, "Papa's reading the Troll Book."
The Core Rulebook is "The Dragon Book with people in it."
The APG is "The 2 Headed Dragon Book."

I am definitely looking forward to reading "The Troll Book." It will make a nice Birthday present, precious!

So, there's going to be two novels in April?

So, there's going to be two novels in April?

Not exactly. Due to a problem on the printer's side, several of the books were significantly delayed, and we'll now be releasing one each in April, May, and June before going back to our normal bimonthly schedule. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Just finished reading this, I was underwhelmed.

Hughes is a capable author but this lacked wit or verve.

Krunzle was an unlikeable character and fairly dull: i've just read 300 pages about him and don't really know anything about him beyond him being a selfish male human thief. Eando Kline's tale was a group effort that trod similar territory with more personality.

I know that KAM is not to everybody's taste but at least he writes with panache.

This was crying out for Dave Gross' wit, or Sutter's development of character and relationships, or Jones' feel for group dynamics...

So, um, yeah... when's Mona going to write Korm and Aebos' full story?

Hey Paizo:

Is this book available on the mass market or not?

I prefer to buy books from either my FLGS or my FLB(book)S. However, the FLBS and their only distributor (Ingram Books, I suspect) both believe that this book is not legal for them to sell, regardless of if they can acquire it, before July 10. I asked them to look further into it and they refused because the data they have from the publisher (you, I presume) can only be updated by said publisher.

They simply wrote off of my story about the revised release schedule related to recent printing issues, as cited above by Mr. Sutter. They were about to lose my business entirely, however, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt by presuming that they are just following the rules established by the publishing industry.

Please fix this date problem and get your book out the door to brick and mortar distributors, pronto!

And, no I don't want an ebook and I don't want to use Amazon, who claims to have the book currently available but with a 5/15 (where'd they get this?) release date.

Cheers,

Eric Concannon
Lander, Wyoming

Eric,

Thanks for letting us know—we'll look into it.

The official release date was April 25. We set our release dates on Wednesdays because that's preferred by hobby game retailers; bookstores prefer Tuesday release dates, so they usually add six days. Still, that would make it May 1, not May 15, and *certainly* not July 10.

Thanks for letting us know—we'll look into it.

We've poked the appropriate people to poke the appropriate data, and everything should be in order by tomorrow. Thanks again for letting us know!

Thanks for working on fixing this, Vic.

I'm stopping in to the book store today to check on availability, however I'm not very hopeful:

Amazon still shows a 5/15/12 publication date.
Barnes and Noble still shows a 7/10/12 publication date.

Follow-up: Looks like the distributor updated their records last night: it was "available" with a reasonably appropriate pub date (5/2), so the book is now on order. Hope to see it in a week or so.

Thanks again, Vic.

I checked my local B&N today, and the still have it listed to be released on July 10th and weirdly has the author listed as James Suttur. I wonder if there is some blending going on? They wouldn't let me look at the Ingram database. Nevertheless, it is not on the shelves in Atlanta nor Greenville SC