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Angelica Tomorrow #1 is here!May 7th, 2014
BUY THIS NOW! Angelica Tomorrow is my first creator-owned comic. Artist Allen Byrns and I created this story and we own it, and now we want you to read it. So go do that. It only costs $1.99 so the risk to your happiness is minimal. Right now the first issue is available digitally from Comixology. When the six-issue run is finished, we’ll be putting out a trade paperback. It’s a classic tale of teenage, paraplegic alcoholic meets amnesiac cyborg assassin! Three years ago, George Williams life changed forever when a car accident left him paralyzed below the waist. Now, everything will change again after a nighttime encounter with deadly stranger who possesses incredible powers she cannot recall or understand. Only George knows that beneath the shell of the sweet and naïve girl lies a monster, but which is the real Angelica, and how long can George keep the killer hidden way? Pursued by ruthless spies, and a police officer seeking revenge, George and Angelica will find themselves tested in ways they never imagined. I’m in the process of getting doing some updating on the web page so if you want information on my next novel, The Day of Atonement, which will be out in September, click here.
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT: Coming this SeptemberMay 6th, 2014
Pre-order now. It’s what the cool kids are doing. July 25th, 2011
Now in Paperback!
Tremendously appealing characters . . . a thoroughly enjoyable, satisfying read.”—Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill owner. But just as she is on the cusp of accepting a life of misery, events take a stunning turn when a handsome stranger—the poet and notorious rake Lord Byron—arrives at her house, stricken by what seems to be a curse, and with a cryptic message for Lucy. Suddenly her unfortunate circumstances are transformed in ways at once astonishing and seemingly impossible. With the world undergoing an industrial transformation, and with England on the cusp of revolution, Lucy is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy in which her life, and her country’s future, are in the balance. Inexplicably finding herself at the center of cataclysmic events, Lucy is awakened to a world once unknown to her: where magic and mortals collide, and the forces of ancient nature and modern progress are at war for the soul of England . . . and the world. The key to victory may be connected to a cryptic volume whose powers of enchantment are unbounded. Now, challenged by ruthless enemies with ancient powers at their command, Lucy must harness newfound mystical skills to prevent catastrophe and preserve humanity’s future. And enthralled by two exceptional men with designs on her heart, she must master her own desires to claim the destiny she deserves. June 1st, 2011
We’ve got an action-packed summer and autumn planned for you over here at davidliss.com, so here’s a handy score card to help you keep track of onslaught of David Liss mayhem. June Mystery Men #1 – #2
Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #519 – #520 Storm Hunter! A two-part, self contained story with both issues shipping this month. It’s the T’Challa, the most dangerous man alive vs. Kraven, the deadliest hunter in the Marvel U. Plus Storm. A great place to jump into the unfolding Black Panther saga. Very cool art by Jefte Palo, which you can see here. July Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #521
Mystery Men #3 The mystery continues! Black Panther: The Man Without Fear Urban Jungle If you missed our first arc of Black Panther, you can pick up this trade paperback which collects the first six issues. It makes for great summer reading. August The Twelfth Enchantment
Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #522 Our Fear Itself and American Panther story continues. Mystery Men #4 The mystery continues again! September Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #523 The conclusion of our Fear Itself tie-in. Mystery Men #5 The saga comes to a thrilling conclusion. The Monster’s Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes edited by Christopher Golden An anthology of stories about (non-vampire or zombie) monsters, told from their perspective. My story, “The Awkward Age,” is about a sexy ghoul. This is of particular interest to those who liked my story, “What Masie Knew,” which appeared in Chris’s anthology, The New Dead. October Assassins: Sword of the Apocalypse
Black Panther I can’t tell you exactly what we’re doing this month because it has not yet been announced, but I’m very proud of this script, and I think you guys are going to dig this. May 12th, 2011
We definitely have an exciting summer in the works for you over here at davidliss.com. Not only has the publication date of my next novel, The Twelfth Enchantment, been moved up to August 9th, but I’ve got a new project on tap from Marvel which weds comics with historical fiction. Mystery Men, which debuts on June 8th, is a 5-part miniseries set in New York in the early 1930s. 
Says Marvel:
This is a new chapter in the history of the Marvel Universe, and tells the story of the first generation of urban vigilantes to put on costumes and fight crime. Five all new, all cool pulp-style heroes. A murdered starlet. A dark conspiracy. Evil capitalists and a plot to do terrible things. Amazing art by Patrick Zircher. You can read an 8-page preview right now, and I’ll remind you when this bad boy hits the stands. April 25th, 2011
Exciting developments are afoot over here at Davidliss.com. The biggest news is that the title of my next novel has been changed from The Darkening Green to The Twelfth Enchantment. I argued for Revenge of the Jedi, but no one listened to me. It also looks like the publication date has been moved up to August. I will post more details, including tour dates, when they become available. This cover art is final, or near final, or not final. I’m not sure which. But I think it’s final, so let’s pretend that it is. Let me know what you think.
March 1st, 2011
 Saucy, right? It would make you mad too if you were competing for the same readers. In the year 2000, while Random House was busy promoting my first novel, A Conspiracy of Paper, as the historical novel of the season, Grove was promoting The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman in precisely the same way. Consequently, I hated Sheri Holman’s guts. I began reading her reviews and interviews with considerable malice. I bought her book to see how bad it was, and I was furious that not only was it not bad, it was really, really great. I think we can all agree that writing a great book that competes with my novel is rude. And then there was that saucy author photo, which made me hate her even more. It turned out that on my first publicity tour, she and I were to appear at the same book-and-author brunch in Toronto, and I was getting all worked up to hate her guts in person. Then we were seated next to each other and became friends over the course of about 45 seconds. It didn’t hurt that she’d hated my guts from afar too. We’ve been friends since, and I’ve been in awe of her books since. She’s my pal, so I don’t have to resent her awesomeness. Sheri’s work is always accomplished, smart, engaging, emotionally disarming, and completely absorbing, but her new book, Witches on the Road Tonight, is impressive by even her standards. This is a thoughtful meditation on the legacy of fear and family dysfunction, but it is also a page-turner about disturbed and disturbing characters who (hooray!) often behave horribly, but whose bad behavior is affecting human. Click on the pretty book cover for more info. Then buy it or face my wrath.  Cool cover, no? January 21st, 2011
There is more evidence to suggest that I will someday publish another novel. A page for The Darkening Green is now up at Amazon. Follow the link to discover that the novel will be published on October 4th. That’s how I found out the publication date. The cover art is still in flux, but here are a couple of proposed jackets my publisher floated by me. The period costume is all wrong, but otherwise I think these are pretty nice. Your thoughts?
December 9th, 2010
Yes, I know I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been busy working on the final edits of my new novel, The Darkening Green, which I have now submitted. It is on track for an autumn 2011 publication, and I have to say I’m very happy with it. More details as they come in. In retrospect, by not updating, I’ve missed sharing so many memories with the David Liss Blog Community: the Guided by Voices concert in Austin, the new Boston Spaceships album, the suckiness of the Freedom, the Jonathan Franzen novel, the awesomeness of Baked, the Mark Haskell Smith novel, watching Mark Haskell Smith compete in a Literary Death Match in Austin, my short-lived interest in reading classic science fiction novels (is it just me, or is The Forever War a snoozer?), my introduction to the game Dominion, the ceremonial trimming of the cat’s nails, the entire season of Walking Dead, my ambitious-squatting-related back injury and my subsequent recovery. Exciting times. Also, I now have a Twitter account, and I’m still not sure why anyone needs one of these. But I use it! My new strategy is to update more frequently with shorter, punchier, snarkier posts that require less thought. I’ve finally given up on my push to get a free Kindle, so I need another obsession to blog reflexively about. I am open to suggestions. Finally, let me remind you that my debut on Black Panther #513 begins Wednesday, December 15th. Notice the new Comics section on this page. I am that serious. You can find interviews with me about this project at Comic Book Resources, Newsarama, Manwithoutfear.com, and my local newspaper. There are preview pages up at Marvel. September 17th, 2010
Comics news time! It’s been a couple of months in the works, but it’s been under media blackout until this week when on the G4 network’s Attack of the Show, Marvel announced my next project with them. That means they mentioned my name on TV, and that means I am now somebody. Take a look.
After issue #512 Daredevil will be leaving his eponymous book and his role, as guardian of Hell’s Kitchen (still the worst neighborhood in New York in the Marvel universe). Taking over will be T’Challa, former Black Panther and King of Wakanda.
 Dig Francesco's art The book, will be re-titled Black Panther: The Man Without Fear written by me, as I may have mentioned, and drawn, inked and colored by the multi-talented and awesome Francesco Francavilla. The first issue, #513, will be on sale in December. For more details, check out this awesome article posted on Comic Book Resources, which I think should be at least a little enlightening if you have no idea what I am talking about or who any of these characters are. For extra fun, spend some time reading the comments section, so you can learn how the sort of comics fans who post on these pages pretty much hate everything. Anyhow, I’ll keep you up to date on the pages of this action-packed blog. |
My second full-lenth book of the year
