Update from my writer’s loft: I’m extremely happy with how THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING is coming together. The book is over 140K words long now; it might not quite match Liminal Space’s door-stopper status, but it’ll be close. I’ve finished the comprehensive, deep edit, and am now going back through it again for an extra layer of polish and shine - then it’s off for some formal editing.

I’m not quite ready to set the final release date yet, but from here, early June is looking enticing. I’ll keep you posted.

But today, I’m so excited, giddy even, to share the final cover with you, along with the blurb for the book! I wish I could tell you how perfect this cover is, but I’m afraid you’re going to have to read the book to truly understand. It evokes all sorts of gooey, mushy feelings every time I gaze upon it. I’m honestly not certain how I’m going to top this one for the final book….

SEE THE COVER

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To save the universe, Alex Solovy will risk everything to discover why it falls.

A war has raged for endless aeons. Our greatest champions have fought it again and again in a tireless endeavor to save not merely innumerable lives, but existence itself.

It is a war that has never been won. But there has never been a timeline like this one before.

When the Dzhvar descend in force, Corradeo Praesidis rises as Concord’s resurgent champion. Wielding primordial diati like living fire, he shields billions from the corrosive destruction the Dzhvar inflict. But he is just one man, and the enemy grows more numerous every day, so Kennedy Rossi races to forge dimensional sanctuaries for the worlds beyond his reach, each one carved out at a terrible price.

Nika Kirumase stands at the precipice of her million-year destiny, and the crushing weight of it threatens to shatter even her iron will. Mesme—her past, her mirror, her unyielding guide—must help her become what no other incarnation has: a bridge that can end the war instead of a martyr condemned to fight it anew.

But a bridge to what? Kyoseil binds Alex Solovy to the scar burned into the firmament when the Dzhvar returned. It floods her with visions of countless defeats, yet she hunts for the single path to victory. Her quest to find the key that unlocks everything will take her farther than any mind was ever meant to venture—and beyond.

In the explosive heart of the Amaranthe saga’s final trilogy, as the manifold fractures and primordial titans clash across the stars, relationships, courage and the threads of sanity strain and splinter beneath cosmic forces older than time.

This is the end of days. Mesme has saved the people who will save the universe, if it can be saved, for this moment, and they must hold nothing back.

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More news! Are you going to be attending Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle next weekend? Well, I am. I’ll have a booth in the Writer’s Block, which is on Level 2 of the Summit Building; it’s a great setup, with all the books in one place. If you're going to be there, come see me! You don't need to buy a paperback, promise - just stop by and say hello. I’d love to meet you. BUT, since Seattle is within driving distance for me, I can take special requests. I’ll have plenty of copies of Aurora Rising, Asterion Noir, Medusa Falling and The Thief with me, but if there’s a specific book you’d like to get signed, reply and let me know, and I’ll bring a copy along.

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Finally, I want to share something really cool with you. One of my most awesome readers, Olga Savinkina-Titova, is a native Russian speaker, and she translated the very first short story in the Amaranthe universe, Restless I, into Russian, simply as a gift to me - and to you. So if you happen to speak Russian, go give it a read! Alex would be so psyched over this. You can learn more about Olga here, and her proofreader, Yulia Afonasyeva, here.

READ RESTLESS I IN RUSSIAN