Cover reveal: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

I’ve been dying to show you this one since it arrived because I absolutely love it!

More about Jinn-Bot at this announcement/reveal on the Tordotcom Publishing site

Book’s out early October, please do preorder if you can, it makes a real difference.

Before you head to the Tordotcom site, I do want to say:

The biggest thanks to Tasha Suri and KJ Charles for their amazingly generous blurbs. Also, KJ Charles wrote a review that was so generous, and somehow articulated my nebulous goals with Jinn-Bot so much better than I ever could, that I spent hours stomping joyfully around the house and yelling to myself. There’s really nothing like the feeling when authors whose work you deeply admire are kind to your work. So reminder, please get yourselves The Oleander Sword and (brand-new!) The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen if you haven’t already.

And also so much gratitude to Jinn-Bot’s cover artist, sparth, whose work you should go see and follow at once if not already familiar - art director/artist on Halo, Assassin’s Creed, Prince of Persia, author and overall legend. I’ve been incredibly lucky with my cover artists on this two-book deal with Tordotcom - sparth and Kuri Huang for The City Inside before this. Tordotcom’s art/design team really does some of the absolute best work in the industry, and to be part of that has been spectacular. I’ve not been doing comics or film work for a while and I really miss working with visual artists, so utterly loved watching the team conjure up these covers over the last couple of years.

Quite enough speechifying from me! Please go and meet perma-stressed but ever-glamorous second-generation revolutionary Lina and her chaotic robot monkey brother Bador here.