Dude. You could write Sun Eater in morse code & we would eat it out of the palm of your hand. I've read a ton of sci-fi / fantasy & your storytelling ability is up there with the hall of famers IMO. This series deserves the highest praise.
I'm a late comer to Ruocchio and the Suneater universe, joined the bandwagon in 2024.. and I gotta say I am devouring these books.. absolutely incredible. I am super excited for the future of Suneater and whatever comes afterwards. My new fave author.
Wow. So glad this resolved in a good way for all of us. And major respect to you, as on a personal level that must have taken some guts to walk away from whatever Daw's deal was.
Congratulations Christopher, glad to hear that the series will finish. Also, I laugh and also appreciate that you know how important that the books are similar on the shelf. So many publishers really mess this up with a series. Anyway looking forward to book 6 & 7.
Thank you for negotiating and moving on to be able to produce the full story you want to write, the story we want to read, and the hardbacks I want displayed on my shelves. ❤
I know this is completely beside the point but I’m kind of glad that this is happening. I’m sure this was stressful as hell and still is but Baen just seems like the only publisher I want to morally support. Go on writer dojo and drum up some support!
Just found this video after Pre-Ordering Book 6 on Audio which omes out so soon! Please PLEASE make sure we have the same narrator for the last book. I am vision impaired and audio is how I enjoy my books and having the narrator switched is so so jarring. The narrotor for your series is increidble and they ARE the voice of Hardian and so many others for me. Thanks for writing such an incredible series, I re-listen to the whole series everytime a book comes out. Currently 1/4 thru Silence and loving every second just like the first time. :D
Congratulations. It's a shame that there was ever any doubt you'd be able to negotiate this. Sun Eater should be amongst the biggest on the sci-fi/fantasy block right now... but it'll get there soon.
So excited for you! I’m very glad you get to conclude this amazing series your way and that a company has taken over the books that will be enthusiastic about their new product! Yes for eARCs!! And glad you have backing for future projects!
I'm just hoping that the books all still line up properly on a shelf once you move to the new publisher. Sorry to hear that you and DAW parted ways but happy for you for sticking to your guns, Christopher.
Huge congratulations on all of this 🤘 and thank goodness for the new readers that don't do ebooks who won't be stuck with just mass market paperbacks. This series has scratched an itch I didn't know could still be reached. I look forward to the future ahead.
Amazing news! Sounds like its been a difficult year! Must feel good to have a resolution, so happy that there are 2 books remaining and cant wait to get them!!
Fantastic news! Congratulations on the new deal! I have been hoping for it to be a 7 book series for metaphysical completion, so happy to hear that is in the works.
Glad you found a deal that will honor your vision for the story. That is the story we all would prefer to read. I’m sure this changes in publishers made 2022 very stressful for you. I am very glad it worked out for both you and Hadrian’s story. Sun Eater is my favorite ongoing series so each release is an instabuy for me. I’m sure it feels good to finally get this out in the open. I was hoping to hear about a new hardcover run for the first few books in the series. I’ll keep waiting and be here when they show up. I was hoping for some Anderida books special editions released yearly honestly. That would be pretty cool. Maybe Baen could do something like that in the future. A guy can dream 😊
Just in time to meet you on Sunday at Marscon. That is awesome and selfishly when these next two books hit the bestseller lists I can say I met that guy and he was as engaging and cool as he seems.
Glad it all worked out and you can finish the series as you envisioned. I don't mind the logo being different, just make sure the Hardbacks are the same size. :P
Awesome news! I have been a fan since chapter two of the Empire of Silence. I was fortunate enough to have discovered your work shortly after its release. I purposefully do not immediately read the last chapter of your books. I wait until I have the next one in my possession. Thank you for creating one my favorite series of all time! If you write it I will buy it.
Incredible news! Congrats Christopher - sometimes you CAN go home again!! And congrats to Baen as well! Just another in a long list of reasons I love this publisher.
The cover blurb on my (UK) copy of Ashes of Man calls it the "fifth and final" novel in the series, which confused me for a bit. I'm glad to hear that it's even more incorrect than I thought.
I just finished book 1 that I picked up at the Salt Lake City convention last year. Loved it so much I got a copy for my dad for his birthday. Thrilled to see this moving forward! And I definitely don't mind that you need to cram four books into seven.
Hi Sir. Your series was recommended by the Mike's book review channel, and so I started to read it. I'm halfway through the first book and I already like it a lot. I had some trouble buying it via amazon (wasn't available on the CA site, so had to trick the system and by from the US store), but fortunately now this is straightened out and could buy book 2 without issues. It is awesome to see your enthusiasm and that you did all this hard work to find a new publisher so you can complete the story. Thank you for these books! Keep up the good work :)
Thanks Christopher! Excited to hear the series lives. You will not go on alone! Also excited about the possible ‘phylactery Valka clone/Marlowe-Onderra baby’ and possible hints that the Jaddian gods are the Quiet??
I haven't read the series yet, but I own the first four and I've been planning on starting in February, and this video has me even more excited to get to it.
Pleased you resolved the issues and glad you can finish your story the way that you want to. Shows there is a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes that we as readers are not privy to.
I just started reading "Empire of Silence" due to @MattsFantasyBookReviews so passionately reviewing it. Goodness, from the very first sentence, I became a ravenous hound that couldn't stop devouring page after page.
Lots of respect for you man! I love this series and its great news to know we are getting more!! Edit: I do have one question. Is there any chance that we still get reprints of the first 5 books?
So happy the series will continue! I’m only a few chapters into Empire of Silence and I’m already hooked. Luckily I was able to get each book in hardcover before they started disappearing.
Baen, the chad of publishers. Becoming my favorite, I’m biased though. Glad it worked out, I’m sure that was stressful. And if tge publishing industry is a lumbering beast, are you a gadfly?
Congratulations Christopher! Well earned. I'm just happy to be along for the ride. So were you that determined to get a two word title to the penultimate volume? Also, does this grow the word count at all?? With the last split we got an extra 80k words. So do we get a bit more with this one as well?
It's kind of hard to quantify this time, since I was writing book 6, but yes. DAW wanted 200K words tops. Book 6 is currently 220K. As for the title, of course. Got to fix the symmetry issue.
Congrats Christopher. Glad the story will be finished as you intended. And it must have been nerve-wracking at the launch day reading for Ashes of Man with the publisher and contracts in such flux. Good game face that day sir.
I can easily see a tremendous television show coming from this saga one day. Would need to be high budget to do it justice though. The sky is the limit for this great series.
Bro...I just started reading it this year...currently finished book 3 and this is the same thought I had. With the amount of money being used on TV shows nowadays I have high hopes
Huzzah! Great news! 🎉 SO glad to hear about the similarities between the books - one question I didn’t hear answered: Do we know if the physical dimensions of the mass market paperbacks across Daw and Baen will be the same (ie same physical size)? I have Books 4 and 5 on preorder for paperback but was worried they may be slightly different sizes than books 1-3 paperbacks…thanks!
Love your books and world! I’m a bit confused though, will you be able to republish the previous titles with hardcover of your earlier sun eater books? And with the same art?
Hey Yash, sorry of the confusion. The rights to the first 5 books are, for now, remaining with DAW Books. Neither I nor Baen Books have the ability to do a reprint, but DAW may choose to do something about it down the road. For the time being, securing a home for the last 2 books is the best I can do.
I'm afraid DAW has made it clear that they have no intentions of reprinting the book in hardcover at this time. There may be other solutions. Stay tuned.
Nice! I’ve been reading the series. Just finished Howling Dark, very interested to see where the story goes. Question, I have the first 3 books in MMPB, will the rest of the books be available in MMPB at some point?
Welcome home, Christopher.
🥹 here’s to a consistent size, cover, and spine for books 6 and 7 🥹
Baen books!
as a die hard Baen supporter, I am so stoked to hear this! Rabidly looking forward to many years of your books under Baen!
I want a completely different art and font placement mid series, as this is consistent with all my othet SFF series. First editions never match.
@@brightskysyl3913 Our plan is to change only the logo on the spine!
Dude. You could write Sun Eater in morse code & we would eat it out of the palm of your hand. I've read a ton of sci-fi / fantasy & your storytelling ability is up there with the hall of famers IMO. This series deserves the highest praise.
**lets out a giant exhale**
I know nothing, Hadrian Snow.
Congratulations, Christopher! Glad to hear you can put all your vision into the pages. Baen Books have been nice to me, too! :)
What can we say - we like making friends.
@@BaenBooksShow Give me Book 6 and 7 to read and review when they're out!!
@@PetrikLeo You can count on that - you're on our mailing list after all!
I'm a late comer to Ruocchio and the Suneater universe, joined the bandwagon in 2024.. and I gotta say I am devouring these books.. absolutely incredible. I am super excited for the future of Suneater and whatever comes afterwards. My new fave author.
Baen is now officially the only SFF publisher still publishing science fiction or fantasy.
So glad you did not quit Halfmortal. I'd have been devastated. I cannot tell you how much I love this story. Always Forward!
I'd have been devastated, too, Autarch.
As someone who loves the audio books I hope you can keep the same narrator. He does a great job with these books and I'd hate to lose him.
That shouldn't be a problem--the audio publisher isn't changing.
@@SunEaterBooks Hooray! Sam is wonderful as Hadrian.
Big congrats to you, my friend. And Baen...way to step up and bring this guy into the fold.
Looking forward to what is to come.
For what it's worth? We're looking forward to it too.
Wholesome moment!
Wow. So glad this resolved in a good way for all of us. And major respect to you, as on a personal level that must have taken some guts to walk away from whatever Daw's deal was.
Congratulations and great news. I'm so happy for you. I"m also happy for me that Baen has guaranteed hardcover editions :)
So happy you were able to make a deal! I’m so happy that you are going to be able to finish out Hadrian’s story the way it deserves to be told!
Congratulations Christopher, glad to hear that the series will finish. Also, I laugh and also appreciate that you know how important that the books are similar on the shelf. So many publishers really mess this up with a series. Anyway looking forward to book 6 & 7.
Thank you for negotiating and moving on to be able to produce the full story you want to write, the story we want to read, and the hardbacks I want displayed on my shelves. ❤
I know this is completely beside the point but I’m kind of glad that this is happening. I’m sure this was stressful as hell and still is but Baen just seems like the only publisher I want to morally support. Go on writer dojo and drum up some support!
I’ve got my popcorn ready.
Great announcement, love how you care so much about the fans! Can't wait to get into this series, it's a top priority of 2023 for sure.
Just found this video after Pre-Ordering Book 6 on Audio which omes out so soon! Please PLEASE make sure we have the same narrator for the last book. I am vision impaired and audio is how I enjoy my books and having the narrator switched is so so jarring. The narrotor for your series is increidble and they ARE the voice of Hardian and so many others for me. Thanks for writing such an incredible series, I re-listen to the whole series everytime a book comes out. Currently 1/4 thru Silence and loving every second just like the first time. :D
Wouldn't dream of replacing him! Thanks for reading!
Going out of your way to make sure the books match is very appreciated. I know that authors often don't have a say in these matters.
Congratulations. It's a shame that there was ever any doubt you'd be able to negotiate this. Sun Eater should be amongst the biggest on the sci-fi/fantasy block right now... but it'll get there soon.
This is truly good news. Best wishes for the final two volumes and congratulations on the new publishing deal.
Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy we get the Sun Eater saga in its entirety!!!!
So excited for you! I’m very glad you get to conclude this amazing series your way and that a company has taken over the books that will be enthusiastic about their new product! Yes for eARCs!! And glad you have backing for future projects!
Glad to hear it! I’ll hopefully be caught up by the time these last two books come out.
Just happy it is going to be published and you are keeping to a schedule. One of the best SciFi series ever written hands down.
I'm just hoping that the books all still line up properly on a shelf once you move to the new publisher. Sorry to hear that you and DAW parted ways but happy for you for sticking to your guns, Christopher.
Like I said in the video, this is a high priority for me, too. I've got your back.
Thank you Christopher for working really hard to make sure the sun eater series continues. I appreciate your determination!
Huge congratulations on all of this 🤘 and thank goodness for the new readers that don't do ebooks who won't be stuck with just mass market paperbacks.
This series has scratched an itch I didn't know could still be reached. I look forward to the future ahead.
So glad you didn't quite! Hooray for Baen!
Amazing news! Sounds like its been a difficult year! Must feel good to have a resolution, so happy that there are 2 books remaining and cant wait to get them!!
This guy is a champ. Thanks for your passion dude. ✌️
Fantastic news! Congratulations on the new deal! I have been hoping for it to be a 7 book series for metaphysical completion, so happy to hear that is in the works.
Glad you found a deal that will honor your vision for the story. That is the story we all would prefer to read. I’m sure this changes in publishers made 2022 very stressful for you. I am very glad it worked out for both you and Hadrian’s story. Sun Eater is my favorite ongoing series so each release is an instabuy for me. I’m sure it feels good to finally get this out in the open.
I was hoping to hear about a new hardcover run for the first few books in the series. I’ll keep waiting and be here when they show up. I was hoping for some Anderida books special editions released yearly honestly. That would be pretty cool. Maybe Baen could do something like that in the future. A guy can dream 😊
Hopefully I'll have some news for you before too long!
Will Gollanz still be publishing the UK covers? I love those matching covers and have been ordering them as I make my way through your series.
Nevermind. Lol I kept watching, and got the answer. Hahaha
I am selfishly so happy that there will be 2 more books. Huge congratz to you, sir! You remain the best.
Just in time to meet you on Sunday at Marscon. That is awesome and selfishly when these next two books hit the bestseller lists I can say I met that guy and he was as engaging and cool as he seems.
Hey Casper! It was nice meeting you!
Love the energy thanks for the update. Best wishes to your future.
Glad it all worked out and you can finish the series as you envisioned.
I don't mind the logo being different, just make sure the Hardbacks are the same size. :P
They will be.
Yay! Congratulations! Two more books - excellent news. I am so happy you found a new publisher- Hadrian's complete tale must be told!
Awesome news!
I have been a fan since chapter two of the Empire of Silence. I was fortunate enough to have discovered your work shortly after its release.
I purposefully do not immediately read the last chapter of your books. I wait until I have the next one in my possession.
Thank you for creating one my favorite series of all time!
If you write it I will buy it.
I can live with the logo changing haha. Glad you got it figured out! I'm excited to see how the rest of the series turns out!
Incredible news! Congrats Christopher - sometimes you CAN go home again!! And congrats to Baen as well! Just another in a long list of reasons I love this publisher.
The cover blurb on my (UK) copy of Ashes of Man calls it the "fifth and final" novel in the series, which confused me for a bit. I'm glad to hear that it's even more incorrect than I thought.
Yeah, that typo was my fault. I should have caught it on review and failed.
You were right master. The negotiations were not short
I just finished book 1 that I picked up at the Salt Lake City convention last year. Loved it so much I got a copy for my dad for his birthday. Thrilled to see this moving forward!
And I definitely don't mind that you need to cram four books into seven.
Thanks for making sure your readers get a quality ending to the series. I’m looking forward to the next two books.
Congrats on your success in 2022!❤️
Congratulations! Now if I can just find hardcovers of the early books!
They are on ebay. The UK versions are generally moderately priced, but the US versions are astronomical.
I'm happy for you. I just started Howling Dark today, and your writing is absolutely amazing. You deserve all the best
Hi Sir. Your series was recommended by the Mike's book review channel, and so I started to read it. I'm halfway through the first book and I already like it a lot. I had some trouble buying it via amazon (wasn't available on the CA site, so had to trick the system and by from the US store), but fortunately now this is straightened out and could buy book 2 without issues. It is awesome to see your enthusiasm and that you did all this hard work to find a new publisher so you can complete the story. Thank you for these books! Keep up the good work :)
Glad to hear good news
Thanks Christopher! Excited to hear the series lives. You will not go on alone!
Also excited about the possible ‘phylactery Valka clone/Marlowe-Onderra baby’ and possible hints that the Jaddian gods are the Quiet??
I haven't read the series yet, but I own the first four and I've been planning on starting in February, and this video has me even more excited to get to it.
Pleased you resolved the issues and glad you can finish your story the way that you want to. Shows there is a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes that we as readers are not privy to.
Publisher A or publisher B, I’ve got two more great books to look forward to. Keep it up Christopher!
Where's my pitchfork and torch?!
Hey, all very cool news! Especially the news about readership doubling. Definitely got a sense of it from social media, for sure.
Nice to hear you got a better deal!! Let’s gooo
Had me nervous for a second there lol
Admittedly, by design.
I just started reading "Empire of Silence" due to @MattsFantasyBookReviews so passionately reviewing it. Goodness, from the very first sentence, I became a ravenous hound that couldn't stop devouring page after page.
You're a humble man. Cheers, sir, and luck be with you.
Can't wait for the future of the series! The Sun Eater is currently my favourite sff series and I'm glad to hear it's found a good home
Lots of respect for you man! I love this series and its great news to know we are getting more!!
Edit: I do have one question. Is there any chance that we still get reprints of the first 5 books?
The first five books are still subject to the original publisher. Never say never, but they haven't said anything to me as yet.
So happy the series will continue! I’m only a few chapters into Empire of Silence and I’m already hooked. Luckily I was able to get each book in hardcover before they started disappearing.
Baen, the chad of publishers. Becoming my favorite, I’m biased though. Glad it worked out, I’m sure that was stressful. And if tge publishing industry is a lumbering beast, are you a gadfly?
Something of the sort.
I feel so elated! Loved when and where four and five were split, even more excited to read six and seven 😊
Congratulations!!
Congratulations! You shall not go on alone.
Great news, Christopher! We're here for it!
So excited for you!
Great series, I only use the audio book format, but I'm very happy to hear there is more in store! Phenomenal series keep up the good work
My font size might be slightly different?! How dare you sir, that will completely change everything I've ever known about Hadrian Marlowe.
Congratulations Christopher! Well earned. I'm just happy to be along for the ride. So were you that determined to get a two word title to the penultimate volume? Also, does this grow the word count at all?? With the last split we got an extra 80k words. So do we get a bit more with this one as well?
It's kind of hard to quantify this time, since I was writing book 6, but yes. DAW wanted 200K words tops. Book 6 is currently 220K. As for the title, of course. Got to fix the symmetry issue.
Best of luck and can’t wait to see
I got into writing late but hearing your story is very cool and keeps me going.
This series is so amazing they should be begging you to continue writing in the Sun Eater universe
Congrats Christopher. Glad the story will be finished as you intended. And it must have been nerve-wracking at the launch day reading for Ashes of Man with the publisher and contracts in such flux. Good game face that day sir.
I'm so glad that there will be 7!
Yes, Yes, and YES!
Sir, your books are just fantastic. Just about through book 2, what a ride
I get the feeling he doesn't feel bad about this.
Digging the name/avatar. Very nice.
Much appreciated! Congratulations on landing the better deal! I’ll never complain about getting more Sun Eater books.
Yes! More Sun Eater!
Amazing video! I can't wait to start Empire of Silence this winter! I have heard NOTHING but good things about your books!
I can easily see a tremendous television show coming from this saga one day. Would need to be high budget to do it justice though. The sky is the limit for this great series.
Bro...I just started reading it this year...currently finished book 3 and this is the same thought I had.
With the amount of money being used on TV shows nowadays I have high hopes
Great news Christopher. Looking forward to listening to Ashes of Man once the audible releases in the UK!
So happy to hear that the story will have the ending that it deserves. I will wait any time needed to get my hands on those books!
Congratulations Christopher. Looking forward for book 6 and 7
Haven't read any of them yet but I own them on hardcover so this update is much appreciated mate!
great news, congrats!
Congrats
Huzzah! Great news! 🎉 SO glad to hear about the similarities between the books - one question I didn’t hear answered: Do we know if the physical dimensions of the mass market paperbacks across Daw and Baen will be the same (ie same physical size)? I have Books 4 and 5 on preorder for paperback but was worried they may be slightly different sizes than books 1-3 paperbacks…thanks!
Love your books and world! I’m a bit confused though, will you be able to republish the previous titles with hardcover of your earlier sun eater books? And with the same art?
Hey Yash, sorry of the confusion. The rights to the first 5 books are, for now, remaining with DAW Books. Neither I nor Baen Books have the ability to do a reprint, but DAW may choose to do something about it down the road. For the time being, securing a home for the last 2 books is the best I can do.
@@SunEaterBooks No worries and I totally understand. I'll be eagerly awaiting the last two!
This answers my questions, thanks!
Love your work!
Thank you!
Hell yeah, 2 more is good for us
Get it Christopher!!
That is awesome! Is there a chance this'll mean reprints of the hardcover editions of the earlier books? 👀
I'm afraid DAW has made it clear that they have no intentions of reprinting the book in hardcover at this time. There may be other solutions. Stay tuned.
Suneater is going to enter Weber’s Honorverse
There IS an Honor reference in Demon in White, if you know where to look.
Nice! I’ve been reading the series. Just finished Howling Dark, very interested to see where the story goes. Question, I have the first 3 books in MMPB, will the rest of the books be available in MMPB at some point?
The books will be in paperback at some point. When I say 6 and 7 will be in hardcover, I mean only that they'll be in hardcover FIRST.
@@SunEaterBooks sounds good! Thanks! I also do the audiobooks, which are fantastic
Love the books!!! Amazing writing