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Nebula

Amazingly, “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King”, published last year in Lightspeed, has been nominated for a Nebula! So honored to be nominated along with many of my friends. The ballot looks just awesome.

Wit in Critique

I’ve said before that I’m blessed with wonderful beta readers. I would not be anywhere near the writer I am without their help. Lately, since I’ve been inflicting my novel on a bunch of beta readers, I’ve been thinking about the art of giving critiques, which is something I want to get better at. Beta […]

Saga Press and A Tempest of Gold

Simon & Schuster’s new SFF imprint that will bring out my books has a name: Saga Press. And my debut novel has a new title: A Tempest of Gold. The announcement can be read here.

The Great Edit

I’ve been working away on edits for the novel based on the editorial letter. It feels a bit like I just did another NaNoWriMo for December — the edits were grueling, but I think the result is a novel that is at least 30% better than before. Plus, I now have a wiki that goes […]

The Novel(s)

So, I have big news. I sold three novels and a collection of short stories to Simon & Schuster’s new, yet-to-be-named genre imprint. You can read the full press release here at io9. As the press release says, the first book in the series, The Chrysanthemum and the Dandelion, … follows Kuni Garu, a charming […]

World Scholar’s Cup

The World Scholar’s Cup, a world-wide academic team-based competition for teens that celebrates learning (think Academic Decathlon), invited me to their Tournament of Champions at Yale today. I was there to talk to the students about “The Paper Menagerie” — …

Award Nomination Season

It’s time to nominate for awards for fiction published in the past year. I’ve started to post my thoughts on stories I liked here, along with a short list of stories by me that are eligible for nominations. I’ll be …

WSFA Small Press Award

I’m amazed and honored to say that my story, “Good Hunting,” published by Strange Horizons, has won WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction! This was one of my favorite stories I wrote last year, and I’m really glad to …

Hugo

So I just found out that I won a Hugo for “Mono no aware.” First of all, congrats to all the winners and nominees. I’m so proud to be in your ranks. And thank you, everyone who voted for me. …

Read! Singapore

I’ll be going to Singapore from 9/1 to 9/9 as part of the National Library Board of Singapore’s Read! Singapore initiative to encourage community reading and discussions on a selected story. I’m incredibly honored that “The Paper Menagerie” has been …