

“If you had asked me two years ago, I would have said you get used to having a new book out. “It does feel momentous, especially coming out of these COVID years, when my books kept getting pushed off,” the 60-year-old Rollins said from his home near Lake Tahoe. This may be Rollins’ 38th book, but the thrill of sending a new novel out into the world is seismic.

7, stop at the Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in the Midway District. He will be discussing “The Starless Crown” during an in-person tour that includes a Friday, Jan. Rollins’ latest also reintroduces readers to an author who is eager to face the world after a cosmic event that has upended our collective universe. After the vision, Nyx is joined by a band of fellow misfits on a treacherous journey to find her father, avoid a vengeful king and stop the cosmic event that could destroy her universe. The fantasy novel introduces readers to Nyx, a young woman whose academic life at the Cloistery of Brayk is upended by a swamp-beast attack and a vision of the Moonfall apocalypse.
