Untethered Sky is a finalist for the 2024 Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella! I’m immensely grateful to CSFFA voters for giving me an 8th Aurora nomination. Congratulations to all the nominees. The full ballot can be viewed here. The Aurora Awards will be announced on during an online awards ceremony held on Sunday, August 11th, 2024, at 5pm EDT, with hosts Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson
Untethered Sky is a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella! I’m honored to be a nominated alongside my talented peers in the SF&F field. See the full list of finalists here.
Delighted to learn that Untethered Sky is one of the titles on RUSA’s 2024 Fantasy shortlist. The Reading List is an annual best-of list comprised of eight different fiction genres for adult readers.
Untethered Sky was recognized among the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2023 by the New York Times and as one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by Slate magazine. Wow! I’m immensely thankful to every reviewer who read and enjoyed and spread the word about my little book of monstrous birds.
The Jade Setter of Janloon has won the 2023 Aurora Award for Best Novella! I’m honored and stunned to have won my fifth Aurora Award, and my first award for a novella. Check out the full list of nominees and winners here.
It has been a busy year of short fiction releases for me. My novella, Untethered Sky, and the Green Bone Saga short story collection Jade Shards are now both available in print, ebook, and audiobook editions, and I also have a new Poe-inspired short story, “Nameless Here For Evermore,” in The Book of Witches anthology, edited by Jonathan Strahan, which released on August 1st.
The Jade Setter of Janloon is a finalist for Best Novella in the 2023 Aurora Awards, which recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy by Canadian writers. This is my first nomination for a novella, and I’m in superb company on the ballot. See the full list of nominees.
Behold the glorious art of Charis Loke that is the cover for Jade Shards, the Green Bone Saga short story collection releasing from Subterranean Press in July. I love how well the cover design complements The Jade Setter of Janloon and weaves in so many details from the four prequel short stories that comprise the collection. Family relationships have always been at the heart of the Green Bone Saga and Charis captured that perfectly.
Many thanks to Petrik Leo for hosting the official cover reveal on his blog and YouTube channel.
The signed, limited edition hardcover of Jade Shards will be available for preorder on the Subterranean Press website on Monday, March 27 at 12:00pm PST.
Book deal news! My next novel, The Last Contract of Isako, is a cyberpunk samurai space opera (without the space) that I describe as what you’d get if Akira Kurosawa wrote Dune starring a 50-something give-no-fucks swordswoman on her last job, blended with vibes of Blade Runner plus a touch of John Wick. Scheduled to release in Winter 2025. Read the announcement from Orbit Books.
Wow. The Green Bone Saga tops Reader’s Digest’s list of the 25 Best Fantasy Series Ever Written, and Jade City is included on Book Riot’s 22 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. More than a year after the publication of Jade Legacy, I’m happy and grateful that the trilogy is still garnering praise and attention.