Mark Lawrence: Prince of Thorns celebrates its fifteenth year in print!

Prince of Thorns has been on the shelves for 15 years!

The book is now older than Jorg himself is in the book 😮

Worldwide Prince of Thorns has sold over 1,000,000 copies... and the UK paperback has reached at least 32 printings.

I'll take the chance to say thanks - thank you to my readers (and my publishers) for letting me spend the past 15 years writing stories, and more than that - living in them. It's been an unexpected privilege.

In other news, I now have a Patreon. Check it out!

I've given out literally hundreds of free signed books on it via the monthly giveaway.

Check out the 14th 13th, 12th, 11th, 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st birthday round-ups.

I now have 20 books on the shelves!

The most recent addition was Daughter of Crows, in April.

I should remind you of the short story collections that made it to paper format last year.

Being a numbers guy as well as a words guy I like to keep track of things and record them for when I'm doddery and old, looking back at my 'glory' days.

In the past year my books have added 44,650 ratings on Goodreads!

Prince of Thorns -- 3.82 -- 126,044

King of Thorns -- 4.17 -- 71,782

Emperor of Thorns -- 4.22 -- 58,687

Prince of Fools -- 4.05 -- 35,855

The Liar's Key -- 4.23 -- 22,144

The Wheel of Osheim -- 4.32 -- 18,421

Red Sister -- 4.16 -- 64,255

Grey Sister - 4.35 -- 39,207

Holy Sister -- 4.30 -- 32,354

Road Brothers (both versions) -- 4.26 -- 3,443

One Word Kill -- 3.76 -- 21,582

Limited Wish -- 4.04 -- 8,183

Dispel Illusion -- 4.23 -- 6,507

The Girl And The Stars -- 3.80 -- 13,062

The Girl And The Mountain -- 4.13 -- 7,116

The Girl And The Moon -- 4.23 -- 5,652

The Book That Wouldn't Burn -- 3.95 -- 45,388

The Book That Broke The World -- 3.99 -- 16,814

The Book That Held Her Heart -- 3.75 -- 9,333

Daughter of Crows -- 3.97 -- 4,595

This blog continues to chug along. Blogs seem to be a dying means of communication, with most people prefering the immediacy of social media.

The blog rocketed past 7 million visits (since startup) this year. It's clearly down to AI bots and means that the stats are now meaningless ... sadly, I will no longer be posting them

Twitter seems too big to fail, so my quest to conquer it crawls on!

And I have put more time into Bluesky, which seems much nicer. Still, the time invested in Twitter keeps me there, but it will be a cold day in hell before I pay for it.

My Twitter numbers have increased from 38,700 and on Bluesky 11,400.

It's also worth noting that this year has seen the release of the individual 10th anniversary special edition of The Liar's Key from Grim Oak Press (US).

You can now order the special limited 10th anniversary edition of The Wheel of Osheim from Grim Oak Press - leather bound goodness with interior art from the original cover artist Jason Chan.