My other little project

On December 4, City of Exiles, my second novel, will hit store shelves. The following week, my wife and I are scheduled to deliver our first baby. In some ways, the timing is perfect, since our due date falls at a point when I was already planning to take a natural break from writing—assuming, of course, that this baby comes on schedule. All the same, the prospect of balancing a newborn with my already hectic writing life promises to be one of the greatest challenges I’ve ever faced, and I’m not entirely sure how it will look. Still, I couldn’t be more excited, and look forward to sharing some of this journey with you over the coming months, as well as introducing you further to the little person I think of as Ponyo. (In the meantime, Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians, has expressed his thoughts on writing and fatherhood better than I ever could.)