CAN YOU BELIEVE WE'RE COMING UP ON A YEAR OF TO BARGAIN WITH MORTALS BEING OUT ????

I'm totally not freaking out about that. Time is fake. Whatever.

To celebrate, I decided it might be fun to host a group read of TBWM and over the course of a few days that idea really took me over and now it's a whole Thing™ and I'm having so much fun with this already. SO...what is it?

At a base level, it's a month-long readalong of TBWM! If you've been in my book club before, this is old hat, you know how it goes. I have a weekly schedule of chapters set up that will start our reading on October 1st and take us to the finish line on the 1 year anniversary, October 28th. That's just 15 pages a day on average :)

And to go along with our scheduled reading, I've got a number of things that will come with weekly updates here, including:

• GIVEAWAYS (the first of which you will find at the end of this post)

• Behind-the-scenes publishing info from yours truly

• Author insights throughout the book from R.A. Basu

• Old school reading quizzes! (I may have gotten a little nostalgic for AR quizzes and run with it) (guys should I make a leaderboard for this?????)

• And perhaps...maybe...possibly...capping it all off with an announcement or two. WHO KNOWS

Here's how it'll work:

We're going to be using both Discord and Bindery for this:

We'll have discussion channels for the readalong over on Discord much like we do for our book club reads. The reading schedule will also be our spoiler schedule for the chat, so you don't have to worry about hiding from spoilers because you're in the first week but someone else has already finished. No jumping ahead in the chat!

And here on Bindery you'll find our weekly check-in posts with all the extraneous info, lore drops, and giveaways.

If you haven't already, you can join the discord here!

And if you don't have a copy of Bargain (or want an extra to gift to a friend), the first of our giveaways is happening right now! I'm giving away one paperback and one audiobook on this post. To enter, leave a comment below and include either "paperback" or "audio" in it to indicate which you'd like to enter for (please pick one! And unfortunately we can only mail physical within the US).
Winners will be pulled this Friday, 9/25

Need to order a copy of Bargain online? Consider ordering here at Bookshop[.]org

For digital readers, the e-book for Bargain is currently $3.99 on all major retailers (Kobo, Kindle, bookshop, etc.)

And you can find the audiobook available wherever it is you listen (including Spotify) with our TWO wonderful narrators, Nikita Tewani and Fajer Al-Kaisi.

I think that's all the important info to hit for now. Whether you're picking this up for the first time or joining for a re-read, I can't wait to dive into this story with y'all next month. See you very soon for more on this!