Tonya Liburd's Blog, page 2
February 7, 2023
I just realized…
HOLY SHIT I just realized now that I’ve won Reader’s Choice I have to go everywhere and change my bios… (stares)
February 6, 2023
I win Apex Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award!
READERS CHOICE WINNER 2022, BABY!!!!!!
Thanks to all who voted.
January 24, 2023
Chiral Mad 5 Gets Glowing Review from Publisher’s Weekly
WOO!
As you may recall, my story, “The Drunken Tree”, is RIGHT AFTER Stephen King’s.
I am chuffed to be in this antho SO much…
June 18, 2022
I am in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy anthology!
Oh.
MY GOD.
Lookee!
Whew!
That was a lot to keep under wraps, this news.
Glad I can say it now!
February 25, 2022
I am eligible for a Locus Award!
My story, “10 Steps To A Whole New You”, published January 2021 over at Fantasy Magazine, has made the Locus Recommended Reading list, and therefore is on the Locus Awards ballot!
EEE!
You can read, and listen to, the story, here:
https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/10-steps-to-a-whole-new-you/
You can also vote for me here:
https://poll.voting.locusmag.com
And thank you! 
November 23, 2021
Celeste Rita Baker wins World Fantasy Award….!!!
Someone I discovered (this feels so weird to say!), and whose career I kicked off, just won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.
To know that you’re kinda responsible for someone starting a career after putting them on the map is, um, hm… a LOT to fucking take in.
I get a bit intimidated by the implications and importance of this occurrence, when it hits me in waves.
And I also secretly want to it to happen again, i.e. to do this again with someone else…
Here’s the link to the official announcement:
August 25, 2021
Horror Podcast Interview!
Tell Us What’s In The Box interviewed me, and we talked vampires, Caribbean or no; my fiction, especially the one over at Fantasy Magazine (“10 Steps To A Whole New You”); and mental health.
I had a great time.
Go listen:
July 21, 2021
Welcome our newest Patron!
Calder Hutchinson!
Welcome!
Celeste Rita Baker, someone I LITERALLY broke into the industry, is nominated for a World Fantasy Award…!
Someone I LITERALLY broke into the industry is nominated for a WORLD FANTASY AWARD…!!!
CELESTE RITA BAKER!
Someone banned me from their stream earlier because they thought I was advertising my going to stream on their channel, and now this… all in one day. I had a shrink appointment.
Oh my gooodddd…
I can’t.
What a WAY to shock you out of a depressive FUNK…!
June 18, 2021
I have nonfiction upcoming in the next issue of Apex Magazine!
Behold the cover:
My article will be called “Dialog, Patois: If It’s Good Enough For Anthony Burgess, It’s Good Enough For You”.
https://www.apexmagazine.com
