More time for marketing Q?
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Do you have a source for this May '26 info? Other than the recent history of adult Bond being released around Ian Fleming’s birthday (DMC, CB, FAAD and WAMTK)? Also, @secretagentfan I think you’re right. In Vaseem Khan’s newsletter he has a new riddle every month until October. So promotion has kind of started, honestly.
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Our old friend Zencat at The Book Bond, followed by Amazon UK having the pre-order up with a May 21 2026 date.
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Thank you for the information!
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Interesting, thanks for the update! Shame too, given how the last one ended. I was looking forward to finishing her trilogy this summer. In any event, I’m still a bit leery on the Q book but then again, it’s not like I’m not going to buy it. I really hope they release a Bond story this year, everything else aside. Fingers crossed Higson got the nod to put something new together.
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They have to ramp up that marketing before Q takes over the film franchise. 
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At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Q gets a storyline in a Bond movie akin to M in SF.
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I can already see the teaser trailer now. The famous dots roll across the screen before stopping in the middle and turning into a Q, which zooms at the screen as a guy in a lab coat walks towards the camera. “You were expecting someone else?”
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I would not be surprised. Q, if successful, could become Bond‘s partner with a full time commitment. A duo.
Of course, Q would be a woman. And they could become a couple. And the big shock would be Bond being killed and Q reviving him in a gadget to carry around, reversing the dynamic and making Q a 00 being helped by an AI Bond.
00Q.
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Brilliant 
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Sorry, I meant to say I wouldn’t be surprised. I was talking with some other fans about a female Q in the movies. Some bigger names that were brought up were Emily Blunt, Felicity Jones, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Daisy Ridley were some names that were brought up.
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Things truly come in threes in Literary Bond. Just this week, we had one of the IFP directors step down after 30+ years there. Then we find out about Kim Sherwood’s unfortunate situation, delaying Double 00 book three. Lastly, Vaseem Khan has sent out another riddle for the Q Mysteries. It seems that Literary Bond has more of an interesting year ahead than what they announced recently.
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If only Bond himself were a part of it…
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…literally another book without Bond in it 
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The perfect fan item: you can always write him in!
EDIT: By the by, at £ 26.99 they are steeper than both Moleskine and Leuchtturm - which are arguably amongst the best of the European market - and still more expensive than the Japanese royalty from Midori, Hobonichi and Stalogy.
So whatever fans write into them, it’s certainly going to be generous.
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An adaptation of On His Majesty’s Secret Service or Young Bond Series 
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Hell yes, hopefully he got to write a full fledged adult Bond novel.
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That’s the only thing the publisher seems to want to put out these days.
It’s been a rough decade for Bond. Finds out his arch nemesis is his stepbrother, contracts a weird nanovirus just after finding out he has a family, takes a rocket to the face, gets benched in his own franchise, and then gets sold to the second richest man in the world. 
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