Souldrifter Giveaway on Goodreads!

Sign up for the Souldrifter book giveaway on Goodreads. My publisher is giving away 5 print copies. Deadline to enter is September 29th, the day the book officially releases. It's coming soon!

Souldrifter Available for Pre-order!

We're getting close—a little over two weeks until release date! But why wait, when you can pre-order now and help make release date a splash?

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Here's a sneak peek of the full spread for the paperback. I'd like to give a big thank you to both Bruce McAllister and Wendy Wagner for their amazing endorsements. The book officially releases on September 29, 2015.

-Garrett Calcaterra

SOULDRIFTER Cover Reveal!

Here it is, the cover to Book 2 in The Dreamwielder Chronicles, Souldrifter. I just now finished the last line edits to the manuscript, so it should be available for pre-order soon. Official release date is September 29, 2015.

The Short, Short Version

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks for me, and there's no respite in the near future, so here's a quick update on everything Dreamwielder related.

• Congratulations to Marlene from Texas! She won the Dream, Steam, and Scream Book Giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest by signing up for my mailing list.
• The Dreamwielder Book Club is on its way over at Wattpad. So far, the first nine chapters are up to read and discuss for free, with another three new chapters coming every Friday, leading right up to the release of Souldrifter on September 29.
• The new edition of Dreamwielder should be available a month or so before that. I'm going through the last round of revisions (hopefully!) of Souldrifter, and once I have those finished, we can stick chapter 1 of Souldrifter at the end of Dreamwielder as a teaser, and then both books will be ready for production.
• My publisher, Diversion Books, should be having a cover reveal for Souldrifter within the next month or so. After seeing the new cover for Dreamwielder, I can't wait to see what the cover designers at Diversion come up with for Souldrifter.
• I've started a new day job as a writer for a tech company in Silicone Valley, and my wife and I are in the process of moving up from Southern California. It's been a crazy time, stressful and exhilarating at the same time! Once we get settled in and I'm no longer living out of a suitcase, I'll be sure to write up a more thorough recap of what's going on. 

-Garrett Calcaterra

Dreamwielder Cover Reveal (Part Deux!)

Here it is, the new cover for Dreamwielder!

While I very much liked the original cover for Dreamwielder, I'm excited to have Makarria on the front of the new edition, and it's fitting to have a new cover at this time since the first book is expanding into a series. I should have a cover reveal for Book Two, Souldrifter, in the coming month, and Souldrifter itself will be released in late September. I'm not certain yet when the new edition of Dreamwielder will be hitting retailers, but I'll be sure to add an update below as soon as I know for certain.

In the meantime, I'm very excited to be hosting a book club reading of Dreamwielder on Wattpad, beginning this Friday (September 10). If you don't have one already, sign up for a free Wattpad account and you can read the entirety of Dreamwielder for free and discuss it with other fans.

-Garrett Calcaterra

The Dream, Steam, and Scream Book Giveaway!

With the impending release of the second book in my Dreamwielder Chronicles, Souldrifter, on top of a new edition of book one, Dreamwielder, I say it’s high time for an old-fashioned book giveaway. All you have to do is sign-up for the mailing list on my website www.garrettcalcaterra.com and you’ll be automatically entered. Simple as that (and I promise not to spam you or sell your email addy for nefarious purposes).

One entrant will win a grand prize package that includes paperback copies of Dreamwielder and my back titles, Umbral Visions and The Roads to Baldairn Motte, as well as an advanced reading copy of Souldrifter in e-book format (just as soon as I have it in my hands). In addition, two runner-up winners will win e-book copies of Dreamwielder and my novellas The Knight’s Dog and Page Fault. All winners will be selected randomly—no shenanigans, I swear!

Entry deadline is Friday, July 24, 2015.

Enter now at www.garrettcalcaterra.com

-Garrett Calcaterra

Suspended Animation

Since writing my last post on leaving teaching, it has been a weird period for me, a time of limbo where I’ve been busy as hell but don’t have much to show for it. The majority of my time has been sapped up job hunting: sending out resumes, waiting… doing interviews, waiting… doing follow-up interviews, and, of course, more waiting. I’ve passed on one untenable offer already, and am waiting on at least one more offer in the next week, hopefully one that I can live with. As a teacher, I’ve always had to scrape up lousy temporary work for the summers, and as much as that sucked, trying to find a new permanent job is even more grueling and discouraging, mostly because of the waiting and the uncertainty the future holds.

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It is also a little exciting, though, particularly with the writing projects I have in the hopper, first and foremost being what’s going on with my Dreamwielder series. Souldrifter, the second book in the series, was originally slated to come out this summer, but my publisher, Diversion Books, has decided to release a new edition of Dreamwielder first, with brand new cover art. As much as I love the original cover, I’m excited to have a cover with Makarria on the front. Stay tuned for a cover reveal soon! The re-release of Dreamwielder will push the release of Souldrifter back until the fall, in order to give us more time to get advanced copies to reviewers and do some giveaways, which is all good. The new book is even better than the first and I think readers are going to love it, but they have to know about it first.

In addition to working with my publisher and agent doing all the behind-the-scenes editing and marketing business on the Dreamwielder novels, I’m outlining the third book in the series and back to working on my unrelated cli-fi novel, Remember the Future. My goal is to have a first draft of Remember the Future done by summer’s end and then get to writing the third Dreamwielder book before Souldrifter is released, but no guarantees! That’s the one thing I’ve been reminded of during this period of suspended animation: nothing works out quite the way I expect it to.

-Garrett Calcaterra