ARCA featured at PopSugar!

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New year, new book, always an exciting time! And I’m thrilled to see ARCA popping up on lists of books to watch for in 2023. It’s not out until March 7, but you can of course pre-order it now, and the buzz is building…

Here’s a fun example! ARCA is one of “13 New Fantasy Books to Make Your Year Extra Magical” at PopSugar.

Check out what they have to say about ARCA: “It's ‘Game of Thrones’ without dragons but with a matriarchal society packed with power plays and epic battles.“ More here.

Check out the full list here.

More to come…

Writing habits for the new year!

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Welcome to 2023! Hope we all have an exciting and productive year ahead. I’ve got ARCA coming out in March, so you’ll see a lot of talk about that, but I hope to be able to share some other news soon as well! Secrets, always secrets, shhhhh.

Anyway! I’m kicking off the New Year at Writer Unboxed by musing about habits, good and bad, and how we can cast off some of the latter for the former, especially where writing is concerned.

Read it at Writer Unboxed.

Goodreads giveaway for ARCA galleys!

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When I named one of the five queendoms in my new fantasy series Arca, I did not foresee that the second book in the series would be named after that queendom. Because I would probably have called it something different if I had thought about how awkward it is to say “Hey, do you want an ARCA ARC?”

(ARC stands for Advance Readers Copy, the copies they print ahead of time for reviewers and booksellers and buzz, and it’s always capitalized, and… sigh. At least we can also call them ARCA galleys, which sounds less goofy.)

Anyway! If you loved SCORPICA and want your own advance copy of ARCA, great news! You can enter to win on Goodreads here.

(Or here. Here works too.)

Good luck!

The Arctic Fury deeply discounted in December!

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Yes, I do tend to focus on my new releases around here, but of course, all my other books are also out there in the world! I’m particularly tickled that right around this time of year, when chilly weather descends, The Arctic Fury sees a big spike in readership. (In particular, it looks great against the backdrop of newly fallen snow on Instagram!)

So this is particularly well-timed news: The Arctic Fury is deeply discounted in e-book form during the month of December, and as of this writing, you can pick it up for less than $3 on several fave e-book platforms.

Links below!

Barnes & Noble/Nook

Rakuten Kobo

Amazon Kindle

enter to win a signed galley of ARCA by pre-ordering SCORPICA in paperback!

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Hello! The paperback of SCORPICA will be here before we know it, on November 15!

Need a little nudge to get your order in before then? Well, if you pre-order and enter this giveaway, you’ll have a chance to win a signed galley of ARCA, the next book in the series! Which means not only a rare signed advance copy of the book, but you’ll find out what happens to these characters several months before everyone else! Cool, right?

Click here for the thingamabob for entry (not glam but it does the trick).

And remember, they’re only pre-orders until November 14, so order your copy before then! Where should you pre-order from? Literally anywhere. Here are a few of my favorite options:

a #MonthOfMatriarchy manifesto!

I’ve been dropping a few hints here and there about November being the #MonthOfMatriarchy, so I figured I’d better have one central place where I actually talk about what that means. (Also, this isn’t one of those scary manifestos. It’s just laying out facts, beliefs, goals. Making it all manifest!)

Because:

  • In many obvious and many less obvious ways, we live in a male-default, patriarchal society

  • In speculative fiction we have the freedom to change all that, but we often don’t

  • It would be nice to talk about what that means and how we could change it, maybe just one month out of twelve?

So personally, I’ll be highlighting fictional works set in matriarchal societies — some I love, some not so much — throughout the month. But I encourage everyone to figure out what conversations YOU’D like to have around this. The world is big! The possibilities of fictional worlds even more so!

Let’s have a #MonthOfMatriarchy. You in?

get in on this Goodreads giveaway!

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The paperback release of SCORPICA is right around the corner! November 15, a couple Tuesdays from now.

To celebrate, my publisher is running a 100-copy giveaway of the paperback on Goodreads — so be sure to enter to win!

Here’s where you do that.

(But don’t rule out pre-ordering your own paperback either — there’s an announcement coming soon on what that might win you! Stay tuned…)