IT'S FINALLY TIME!!!!! Subscribers, you'll have already seen this cover days ago, but now EVERYONE gets to see the cover for To Bargain With Mortals by R.A. Basu. And for subscribers, there's info for you in here too ;)

The team at Bindery, R.A. Basu, and myself have been working on this cover since OCTOBER, so when I tell you everyone worked really hard on getting the perfect cover for this book you can belieeeeeve that. Charlotte, the art director at Bindery, did a really fantastic job bringing this all together and our illustrator, Dan Funderburgh, has done something really amazing that R.A. and myself could not be happier with. So without further ado, HERE is the gorgeous cover for TBWM.

And now for a RELEASE DATE!!!

You can expect to see this beautiful cover on this beautiful book hit shelves OCTOBER 28, 2025!!!

This is absolutely, 100%, brand new information that definitely no one has already found by poking around retail sites and seeing that it was already posted on a few of them...
(If you saw that, no you didn't)

and finally, PRE-ORDER INCENTIVES!!!

We will be running a pre-order campaign, so if you pre-order Bargain from any retailer and/or provide proof of adding it to your Goodreads/Storygraph TBR, you WILL get:

• digital downloads of themed phone and computer backgrounds 

• an annotated first chapter by both R.A. and myself

And pre-ordering will enter you to win one of two prize bundles:

• One contains an exclusive cover art archival print, a bookplate signed by R.A., and a 3 month subscription to our Bindery community here (10 winners)

• And the other will be all of the above PLUS our exclusive ARC + goodies swag box (1 winner)

Pre-ordering Bargain will get you one entry for each, and because Bargain deals with themes of food insecurity, providing proof of a donation to a food bank of your choice will gain you another entry.

You can pre-order To Bargain With Mortals NOW wherever you buy books in North America, such as:
My favorite indie, A Seat At The Table

Barnes and Noble

Bookshop.org

Indigo

International territories, watch for more information soon. We're still working on international rights and I'll keep you updated!

And once you've pre-ordered, you can submit your receipt here!

Tier 2 subscribers, you will of course be receiving a physical copy of the book as part of your subscriber perks, but you can still submit proof of a food bank donation to enter for the prize packs and proof of TBR adding on Goodreads/Storygraph for the annotated chapter.



Thank you all so much for being here and being a part of this journey. I'm incredibly grateful to everyone reading this right now and I can't believe we're less than 8 MONTHS from seeing Bargain on shelves!

If you happen to see me posting the cover reveal around, I would be immensely grateful if you wanted to share it. On Instagram you can find the cover reveal in both Reel form and a static image post, and it'll be popping up on my TikTok and as a YouTube short later today. <3

And as always, MORE TO COME SOON!