Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence. The sixth Craft book, Ruin of Angels, was released in September 2017. Max’s interactive mobile game, Choice of the Deathless, was nominated for the XYZZY Award, and his critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared on  Tor.com and Uncanny Magazine and in anthologies such as  XO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths and  The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. Max has sung in Carnegie Hall and was once thrown from a horse in Mongolia.