Fonda Lee
Fonda Lee writes science fiction and fantasy for adults and teens. She is the author of the Green Bone Saga, beginning with Jade City (Orbit), which won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was nominated for the Nebula Award and the Locus Award, and was named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Syfy Wire, and others. The second book in the Green Bone Saga, Jade War, releases in the summer of 2019. Fonda’s young adult science fiction novels Zeroboxer (Flux), Exo and Cross Fire (Scholastic), have garnered numerous accolades including being named Junior Library Guild Selection, Andre Norton Award finalist, Oregon Book Award finalist, Oregon Spirit Book Award winner, and YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. In 2018, Fonda gained the distinction of winning the Aurora Award, Canada’s national science fiction and fantasy award, twice in the same year for Best Novel and Best Young Adult Novel.
Fonda wrote her first novel, about a dragon on a quest for a magic pendant, in fifth grade during the long bus ride to and from school each day. Many years later, she cast her high school classmates as characters in her second novel, a pulpy superhero saga co-written with a friend by passing a graphing calculator back and forth during biology class. Fortunately, both of these experiments are lost to the world forever.
Fonda is a former corporate strategist who has worked for or advised a number of Fortune 500 companies. She holds black belts in karate and kung fu, goes mad for smart action movies (think The Matrix, Inception, and Minority Report) and is an Eggs Benedict enthusiast. Born and raised in Calgary, Canada, she currently resides in Portland, Oregon.
GUEST POSTS
- Blow-by-Blow: Writing Action and Fight Scenes in Writer’s Digest
- Epic Fantasy: Let’s Get With the (Non-Medieval) Times
- There’s More to Worldbuilding Than Making Magic
- East Meets West: A Film-going Novelist Celebrates the Blending of Cultural Influences
- How to Support An Author During Launch: A Guide for Family, Friends, and Fans
- The Case for YA Science Fiction in Locus magazine
- So You Think You Know How to Write A Sequel
- Women in SF&F Guest Post at Fantasy Cafe
- Discussion of The Godfather novel and films (featured guest) on the Ink to Film podcast
INTERVIEWS
- Interview with Locus Magazine
- Interview with The Oregonian newspaper
- Interview with Lightspeed Magazine
- Interview at The Illustrated Page
- Podcast Interview at Books and Boba
- Podcast Interview at The Grim Tidings Podcast
- Dive Into Worldbuilding Google Hangout with Juliette Wade
- Podcast interview with New Books Network
- Interview at My Bookish Ways
- Debut Feature Q&A at Page Turners
- Author Spotlight at Pandora’s Books
- Debut Club Interview at The Sweet Sixteeners
- 2015 Debut Authors Bash interview on Teen Librarian Toolbox
- Interview at Literary Rambles
- Successful Author Talk at Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire
- Interview at On The Verge
- My Writing Process on The Fearless Fifteeners
- Asian Authors & Artists Interview Series by VT Bidania
- Getting to Know Asian American Authors on Monkey Poop
- Interview on Luna Station Quarterly with KC Maguire
- Interview on YA science fiction with Belinda Crawford
- Radio Interview with Barry Eva on A Book And A Chat (scroll down page)