I'm insisting on the distinction because the New Management books are not about the government agency known to its staff as the Laundry.
That, and the chaos caused by the arrival of COVID19, probably account for it being marketed in hardcover as Laundry Files book 10, which it most certainly is not: but it's set in the same world as the Laundry Files, the world of the New Management, and that's why it says "New Management book 1" on the spine of the UK paperback.
#Tidal pool beancounter pro series#
Dead Lies Dreaming happened almost by accident-it wasn't on my to-do list at all, let alone planned with the idea that it might be the start of a whole new series (book 2, Quantum of Nightmares, is with the copy editor right now: it comes out next January 11th). I wrote Dead Lies Dreaming in 2018-2019, during a difficult time in my life when I was unable to grapple with the book I was supposed to be writing ( Invisible Sun, which got finished a short time later). (The mass market paperback channel for trade fiction has been dying by inches since about 2005, as ebooks supplant it.) Dead Lies Dreaming came out in October 2020, and I figure you've had time to read it by now: so I'm releasing this particular essay a few months earlier than I would have done for previous books.) And in the USA, Tor.com is an ebook-first publisher while they issue my books in hardcover, there will probably never be a paperback release unless for some reason they decide they need a trade paperback. In the UK, Orbit released the paperback of Dead Lies Dreaming only six months after the hardback.
Previously I refrained from writing them until the book was published in paperback, typically 12 months after first hardcover release. (Crib Sheet essays may contain spoilers for the book in question.
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