Wow it’s been quite a year… I meant a week. Or a few days at least. Or maybe time has just stopped. If you need a distraction from the current timeline, I have a few:
My first new Gemworld story to appear at Beneath Ceaseless Skies in three years is “Ruby, Singing” — it’s free to read, full of singing & murder, and free to share (*please do!*) — I hope you enjoy it. (The podcast, narrated by Tina Connolly, is gorgeous. Have a listen.)And come see me read from the story at the BCS 10th Anniversary event next Tuesday at NYRSF.
More Gemworld stories –
At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “The Topaz Marquise”
From Tor.com – The Jewel and her Lapidary (finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards)
(plus there’s another gemworld novella coming soon… watch this space or head over to Patreon for an update! That means I’m about to post some background on this story and the future of the Gemworld for my patreon readers, plus my September reading list – are you a member?)
Hey cool — looks like Updraft is on ebook sale now through October 2 — here’s your chance to gift or get the award-winning first book in the Bone Universe series before the paperback of Horizon comes out on December 4. (See more at the Macmillan site)There’s an excerpt of Horizon included in the Tor Books Fearless Women fall sampler, along with Vengeful by V.E. Schwab, Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang, The Phoenix Empress by K Arsenault Rivera, Terran Tomorrow by Nancy Kress, and City of Broken Magic by Mirah Bolender. Also I wrote a bit about fear and being fearless (the answer might surprise you) here, last month: https://www.bookish.com/articles/fearless-women-tor/
FRAN WILDE 