

Thank you for



the best year ever.

2015 was a huge year for us. Even huger than something that is really huge.

We performed our live touring show The Investigators 72 times across the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. More than 57,000 people came out and saw Welcome to Night Vale on stage.



Image via almondmocha.tumblr.com We worked with the best actors around: Meg Bashwiner, Desiree Burch, Kevin R. Free, Mark Gagliardi, Kate Jones, Hal Lublin, Dylan Marron, Jasika Nicole, Flor De Liz Perez, Molly Quinn, Retta, Symphony Sanders, James Urbaniak, Wil Wheaton, Mara Wilson, and (of course) Cecil Baldwin. Plus there were the amazing musicians who toured with us in 2015: Jon Bernstein (Disparition) performed at every single live show, and we traveled with some great "weather" musicians: Dessa Darling & Aby Wolf, Mary Epworth & Will Twynham, Jason Webley, and Eliza Rickman.



Did we mention we published a novel? We did? Sorry. Listen, we're just so excited. You know why? Well, it's because we published a damn novel! And it debuted at number 4 on The New York Times Best Seller list (just behind John Grisham, Nicholas Sparks, an d J.K. Rowling and ahead of J ames Patterson's Murder House !) We beat Murder House.



Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor did a 21-city book tour. They signed more than 12,000 books and talked with thousands of fans all over the US and Canada. They drove through a thunderstorm with Hank Green, celebrated Halloween with Felicia Day, appeared on Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and told anyone who would listen that the best podcasts of last year were You Must Remember This , The Read , The Black Tapes, TANIS , and The Worst Idea of All Time .





You Must Remember ThisThe ReadThe Black Tapes, TANISThe Worst Idea of All Time The nicest thing anyone has ever said about us was said by NPR We printed shorts with the word CREEPY on the butt and sold them to a surprisingly large number of people. Noelle Stevenson was a finalist for a National Book Award for her graphic novel Nimona, and she still took time to make us a Khoshekh phone case

We introduced a brand new donation system , with all sorts of new and interesting rewards for people who help us continue making the show. We started writing a SECOND Night Vale Novel that will be published by Harper Perennial, and we can reveal that the book will have a cover and pages and a title and probably some words inside.









And along with all that, we released a free podcast, twice a month, for anyone to download and listen. Just like we've done for almost four years. What a fun thing to get to do. Thank you all for a fantastic 2015, for listening to our podcast, for coming to our live shows, for meeting us at our book events, and for reading our first novel.

There is so much we're planning for 2016. We're starting the year with a run of New York City shows, followed less than two weeks later by a tour of New Zealand and Australia. We'll soon be announcing more live shows for this year, all of them with a brand new script that no one has ever heard before.



We'll be putting out two volumes of script collections this fall through Harper Perennial, containing our first two years of writing for the podcast, along with a ton of behind the scenes commentary and illustrations for every episode by one of our absolute favorite artists Jessica Hayworth. And we'll be debuting some new, non-Night Vale podcasts that we have been hard at work on, and that we think you're going to love.





Photo credit: Whitney Browne



And of course, we'll keep putting up Welcome to Night Vale episodes on the first and fifteenth of the month, for you to listen to wherever and whenever you are in the world.

If you like what we do, and you want to help us keep doing it in 2016 and beyond, please do consider donating , or buying something from our store full of an ever-changing selection of weird and cool things , or reading our novel (did we mention the novel yet?) or coming to see us at one of our live shows

But most of all, keep listening . We'll do the same. We've been getting some great info from all those hidden microphones we put in your home.

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