Dispatches
News from the wall
Release news, behind-the-book notes, events and the occasional map that lies.
03 · Archive
Everything so far.
Worldbuilding
Six houses in one table
The spreadsheet behind the houses: what each one owns, owes and wants.
Release
Signed copies: how early orders work
Every order placed before release day ships with a signed bookplate. Here is how to get one.
Craft
Writing fire that feels hot
On describing heat in a book that is ninety percent snow.
Release
The audio cast, announced
Eleven narrators, one for every point-of-view chapter, recorded over six weeks.
Worldbuilding
Maps you are allowed to get wrong
Why the map in the book is drawn by a character, and why that character lies.
04 · What we write about
Four kinds of dispatch.
01
Release
Dates, editions, signed copies and where to buy.
02
Behind the book
Covers, maps and the decisions nobody sees.
03
Worldbuilding
Houses, history and the rules of the wall.
04
Craft
Notes on writing fire, ice and six points of view.
05 · Press and trade
Writing about the book?
Advance copies, interviews and the press kit are available to reviewers, booksellers and librarians.
Get the press kit
“News travels along the wall at the speed of a bell.”
Tarrant saying
Book one · 14 November