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August 29, 2018August 29, 2018Fran Wilde

My Fall Schedule: new essays & short stories, 3 conventions, 4 classes, 1 festival, 3 readings…

July 5, 2018July 5, 2018Fran Wilde

An AMA About Creativity, the Infinity’s End Anthology, and my Readercon Schedule!

June 1, 2018June 1, 2018Fran Wilde

Re-envisioning Connectivity

June 10, 2016June 10, 2016Fran Wilde

The Official Cloudbound Bookplate Preorder How-To Guide

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016Fran Wilde

5 Things to Do When You Get Sick at a Writers’ Retreat

January 30, 2016January 30, 2016Fran Wilde

A Map Year

October 8, 2015October 14, 2015Fran Wilde

Parenting(Creating).FailMode

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Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for three Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, and two Hugo Awards, and include her 2019 Middle Grade debut, Riverland (available for preorder, with a starred review from Booklist!), her new gemworld novella, The Fire Opal Mechanism, also up for preorder! her Andre Norton- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, its sequels Cloudbound, and Horizon, and theNebula-, Hugo-, and Locus-nominated novelette The Jewel and Her Lapidary. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, and the 2017 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. (Bibliography.) She writes for publications including The Washington Post, Tor.com, Clarkesworld, iO9.com, and GeekMom.com.

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Updraft Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #181 The Jewel and Her Lapidary Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #152 Eclipse Phase: After The Fall Asimov's Science Fiction, A... Asimov's Science Fiction, A... Cloudbound (Updraft, #2)

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Alexander London |Lauren Teffeau | Jeannette Ng | Mary Robinette Kowal | C.L. Polk | Eric Smith | John Scalzi | Brooke Bolander | Carmen Maria Machado | Yoon Ha Lee | Malka Older | Ruthanna Emrys | Barry Goldblatt | Laura Ann Gilman & Mur Lafferty | Nisi Shawl | Chuck Wendig | David D. Levine | Emma Newman | Ada Palmer | The Tiptree Motherboard | Ellen Datlow & Matt Kressel | Matt Wallace | Charlie Jane Anders | Lawrence M. Schoen |
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Aliette de Bodard & Zen Cho | Karin Tidbeck | Amanda Downum | Ken Liu | Jodi Meadows | V.E. Schwab | Scott H. Andrews | Sara B. Elfgren & Mats Strandberg | Robin Hobb | Rajan Khanna | Shimmer | Beth Cato | Max Gladstone | J. Kathleen Cheney | Adam Christopher | Rachel Kory | Mur Lafferty | Michael R. Underwood (GeekMom.com) | Russell Galen | David Edison | Food of the Future (Tor.com) | Miriam Weinberg | Ann Leckie | Bee Ridgway | E.C. Myers | Laura Anne Gilman | Shira Lipkin & Michael D. Thomas | Chuck Wendig | Walter Jon Williams | Scott Lynch & Steven Brust | The Inn at the Crossroads | Saladin Ahmed | Aliette de Bodard | The Roundtable | Steven Brust |
James D. Macdonald | MacAllister Stone | Joe & Gay Haldeman | Michael Swanwick & Marianne Porter | Elizabeth Bear | Gregory Frost | Steven Gould

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