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:

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?)

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/