And so it begins

Hi there. Technically, I've had a blog for a couple of years, but I only really used it to make announcements on my website, http://www.jamesdashner.com/. Due to extreme popular demand (well, my friend told me to do it), I'm going to start a new, separate blog that tells of my adventures in the next few months as I await the release of my new book, THE JOURNAL OF CURIOUS LETTERS.

I've had other books published, but not on the same scale as this new series. I'm with a much bigger publisher and will be the recipient of a much bigger marketing budget (all of which I will tell you about in the coming blogposts). In fact, this book will have a first print run in hardback that exceeds the total combined sales of my other 4 books (trade paperback). So yeah, I'm a half excited, bumbling goofball and half nervous, nail-biting wreck.

I hereby declare and promise that I will post often and respond to comments. I received many complaints about my poor job of updating the announcements blog, but I had a reason. Nothing's worse than making a big announcement only to have it disappear under new and less-exciting posts. So I will keep that blog only for news. This is the one where I will really try to tell the story of what's going to happen to the Little Author That Could. I'll also answer questions and babble about random topics.

I don't know how people will find out about this, but we shall see. Tell your friends and neighbors. If you don't have any friends or neighbors, then you need to begin brushing your teeth and move out of that wee little hut in the desert.

In my first few posts, I will tell the basic story of how I got to this point, so that everyone can catch up. Then we'll journey the long road together. Where it leads, nobody knows.

But we're going to have a fun time getting there.