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May 21, 2025

Bonus Newsletter with Cool Reveal

Hey everyone!

Okay, I know the newsletter’s only supposed to be monthly and you just got one last week BUT if you check the fine print I also told you I might do an extra one every now and then if I had something that was really worth sharing with you. And I think this counts...

So, two days before it starts to go live everywhere, here’s your very own sneak peek at the final book cover for God’s Junk Drawer...

The cover for GOD'S JUNK DRAWER by Peter Clines. The image shows a huge dinosaur skeleton against a dark background, it's ribs ever-so-slightly wrapping around the title. In the darkness around the skeleton are other objects-- more dinosaur bones, a cybernetic arm, a Neanderthal skeleton, a space suit helmet, and a handmade spear. Overall, it looks pretty cool.

Pretty cool, right? Very much a “the longer you look at it” sort of cover, which is very fitting for this book. All credit (and all my thanks) to James T. Egan of Bookfly Design (who I believe also did the fantastic cover for the Combat Monsters anthology).

And hey, just in case you didn’t know...

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God’s Junk Drawer is a mind-bending tale of mystery and adventure set at the dawn of time.

Welcome to the valley…

Forty years ago, the Gather family—James, his daughter Beau, and his son Billy—vanished during a whitewater rafting trip and were presumed dead.

Five years later, Billy reappeared on the far side of the world, telling an impossible tale of a primordial valley populated by dinosaurs, aliens, Neanderthals, and androids. Little Billy became the punchline of so very many jokes, until he finally faded from the public eye.

Now, a group of graduate astronomy students follow their professor, Noah Barnes, up a mountain for what they believe is a simple stargazing trip. But they’re about to travel a lot farther than they planned…

Noah—the now grown Billy Gather—has finally figured out how to get back to the valley. Accidentally bringing his students along with him, he’s confident he can get everyone back home, safe and sound.

But the valley is a puzzle—one it turns out Noah hasn’t figured out—and they’ll need to solve it together if there’s any chance of making it out alive.

Pulling from Earth’s past, future, and beyond, Peter Clines has created a complex, dangerous world, navigated by a dynamic ensemble cast, and a story that is thrilling as it is funny and heartfelt.

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So there it is. Available for preorder right now from your favorite local bookstore. I’d link to it, but I don’t know where you live, so I don’t know which store is your favorite. Maybe you’ve got more than one? That part’s all on you.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Wednesday.

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