May 7, 2025 1 min read

Cover Reveal! SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON: Stories

Dear Friends,

I'm so excited to share the cover of my upcoming short story collection! It's called Seasons of Glass and Iron, after my 2016 short story that went on to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Here she is!

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting background depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

It's designed by Spencer Fuller at Faceout Studio, who also did the cover for The River Has Roots. It's due out on March 24, 2026, and you can pre-order it now!

This will collect the stories I'm proudest of from the last fifteen years or so, which have been scattered across anthologies and magazines, print and online, for the whole of that time, and I'm thrilled that they'll be collected in one volume! It'll also include some poetry.

I can't begin to describe how happy I am with this cover – the sensibility of it, and the continuity with The River Has Roots, make me so happy. The cover image is drawn from a line from "Seasons of Glass and Iron": As well seek to protect the wolf from the rabbit. My brilliant editor Ali Fisher zeroed in on it as emblematic of the collection's whole deal, and I'm so grateful for her insight!

More on this soon! For now, I hope you enjoy this glimpse into the future!

Wishing you all the best,

Amal

Selfie in which I'm sitting in a garden with a bright pink magnolia tree in the background, while holding up a big mug of tea and smiling.

Postscripts:

Quick reminder that I've got only two book events remaining for The River Has Roots: in Montreal and Toronto! More info here!