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A spiffy calendar plus free audiobooks

Promo codes for free audiobooks, preorders for Words & Birds calendars, plus what I’m reading
A spiffy calendar plus free audiobooks
This is a barn swallow. It is not in a barn or currently swallowing, but sometimes you can’t escape your name, like if you’re Gary. That’s right, Gary. I mean you. Captured in New Brunswick.

A couple of months back I asked if any of y’all would be interested in getting a calendar from me, since I was making one for my cousin Katy. A good number of you said you were interested! So the SALE IS ON. This is a preorder sale only—it’s open until Samhain (Halloween) and then I will have them printed, all to be shipped the second week of November so it will arrive in time for the holidays. It’s mostly normal. I do have some comments sprinkled throughout in addition to the markers of various holidays and phases of the moon, and I’ve dropped in a couple of months below (pics of sample calendars I had printed) so you can see what that’s like. Get yours here!

The cover!
A look at March!
Behold April!

Free Audiobooks

I do this once or twice a year: drop some promo codes to download a free audiobook. The catch is that it’s through Audible, so you have to have an account with them to enjoy it, and also it’s region-specific, so there are codes that work only in the US and others that work only in the UK. And obviously, it’s first-come, first-served. Wish I could do more.

Please only download one, eh? Leave some for other peeps. And if you wouldn’t mind leaving a review afterward, that would be kind.

HERE WE GO—redeem your code in the US using the link below:

https://www.audible.com/acx-promo

THE HERMIT NEXT DOOR (US):

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THE HERMIT NEXT DOOR (UK)

Redeem UK codes using the link below:

https://www.audible.co.uk/acx-promo

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I hope you enjoy! And thanks to all you audiobook readers. By the way: If you have ever purchased (or may someday purchase) Oberon’s Bathtime Stories, First Dangle & Other Stories, Two Tales of the Iron Druid Chronicles, The Purloined Poodle, or The Squirrel on the Train, half the royalties go to our favorite narrator, Luke Daniels.

What I’m Reading Now

Saltcrop

From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister—and Earth’s environmental salvation.

In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother.

But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora left home a decade ago in pursuit of a cure for failing crops all over the world. When Skipper and her other sister, Carmen, receive a cryptic plea for help, they must put aside their differences and set out across the sea to find—and save—her. As they voyage through a dying world both beautiful and strange, encountering other travelers along the way, they learn more about their sister's work and the corporations that want what she discovered.

But the farther they go, the more uncertain their mission becomes: What dangerous attention did Nora attract, and how well do they really know their sister—or each other? Thus begins an epic journey spanning oceans and continents and a wistful rumination on sisterhood, friendship, and ecological disaster.

Saltcrop

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! • A whimsical and heartwarming novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers—and her life—back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.

Sera Swan used to be one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very recently) dead, lost most of her magic, befriended a semi-villainous talking fox, and was exiled from her Guild. Now she (slightly reluctantly and just a bit grumpily) helps Jasmine run an enchanted inn in Lancashire, where she deals with her quirky guests' shenanigans, tries to keep said talking fox in check, and longs for the future that seems lost to her. But then she finds out about an old spell that could hold the key to restoring her power…

Enter Luke Larsen, handsome and icy magical historian, who arrives on a dark winter evening and just might know how to unlock the spell’s secrets. Luke has absolutely no interest in getting involved in the madcap goings-on of the inn and is definitely not about to let a certain bewitching innkeeper past his walls, so no one is more surprised than he is when he agrees to help Sera with her spell. Worse, he might actually be thawing.

Running an inn, reclaiming lost magic, and staying one step ahead of the watchful Guild is a lot for anyone, but Sera Swan is about to discover that she doesn’t have to do it alone...and that the weird, wonderful family she’s made might be the best magic of all.

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping