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THE BONE SHARD WAR Release Date aaaaand a New Series!

I’m sorry; I’m terrible at keeping this up. I had another daughter in May, and I find pregnancy to be an enormous brain-drain. We have, until recently, had two kids under two years old. During a pandemic. YIKES.

BUT! The Bone Shard War will be coming out in six months, on April 18, 2023. It’s up for preorder at all your major outlets and at most indie bookstores as well! I’m hoping I’ll be able to share the cover soon.

I am very proud of this series and the conclusion to it. When people ask me wha...

Delays

Hi friends and readers! I’m afraid I have some bad news. This is all on me, but the third and last book in The Drowning Empire trilogy, THE BONE SHARD WAR, is going to be pushed back to Spring 2023. It's been A Year, and besides me running into pandemic problems (finding reliable—and safe!—childcare has been interesting), this third book is chonky and I completely scrapped the first 165K draft. BUT the good news is I started over, scrapped the 2nd iteration 1/3 of the way in--wait, no, the good ...

Cover Reveal!!

Ahhhh, its finally here, its here! And with it, my dream feels one more step closer to reality.

io9 did the honors with an exclusive cover reveal, plus an excerpt. You can see the full cover (and read the excerpt), here:

A Royal Reject Prepares for Revolution

The Bone Shard Daughter is also up for preorder on all the relevant sites!

Amazon
Hardcover
Kindle

Barnes & Noble
Hardcover and Nook

Preorder from a Local Indy Bookstore
Hardcover

Mass market paperbacks to follow Spring 2021!

When You Give Up, You Just...Keep Going?

So, the news is out! My trilogy, beginning with Bone Shard Daughter, will be out starting Fall 2020 with Orbit Books! I couldn't be more thrilled (understatement).

https://www.orbitbooks.net/2019/12/05/acquisition-announcement-bone-shard-daughter-by-andrea-stewart/

https://www.tor.com/2019/12/05/orbit-books-acquires-debut-fantasy-trilogy-from-author-andrea-stewart

Those friends who know me know this has been a really long road. I commandeered one of my dad's old computers and started writing...

Can We Stop Devaluing the Romance Genre?

Happy International Women's Day! I happened to read a romance scene in an epic fantasy novel today that was terrible. Terrible as in--roll my eyes when the characters confessed their feelings and the sex scene was about as titillating as watching two people trying to figure out the rules to a board game.

Can we stop devaluing the romance genre?

Is it because shit rolls downhill? The literary folks look down on the genre folks and the genre folks say, "Well, I know romance is considered genre, b...

So Bad, Even Introverts Are Here, AKA Activism and Introversion

I know: politics.

I grew up with a phone phobia. Anytime I had to make a phone call, my heartbeat would speed up, I'd start sweating, I'd procrastinate like my life depended on it. Sometimes, there were tears. If I could, I'd write a letter instead, or find someone else willing to make that call. I still write down brief outlines of what I want to say when trying to save a voicemail message. Even now, outside the context of work, you have to be a wonderful combination of someone I like very mu...

Upheaval

It's been a while, I know! Things have changed quite a bit for me since the last time I posted--I moved, I got a new job, I went to MidAmeriCon in Kansas City and appeared on some panels. I should have updated here, but I didn't. I'm not planning on attending WorldCon in Helsinki, but I will be at DragonCon in 2017 (hope to see some people there!). I'm feeling really good about the manuscripts I'm working on, and have made a couple (relatively) recent sales of stories I feel strongly about.

Ju...

Sasquan Schedule!

I'll be attending WorldCon again this year (labeled in 2015 as Sasquan, for it's Pacific NW location). Please feel free to say "hi" if you see me!

In addition to the panels I'll be moderating and guesting on, I'm also doing a reading and volunteering at the SFWA table on Friday morning. I've sold a very, very short (400 words) story to the new ezine Mothership Zeta, and it'll be circulating at the con on the back of a postcard. I'll try to bring some copies to hand out at my reading, as well a...

Paying Off a Mortgage in Seven Years

Paying off a Mortgage in Seven Years

A week ago, on our lunch break, my husband and I rode our bicycles to the bank and wrote a check. The line built up behind us as the teller made phone calls, asked his boss questions, and finally gave us our receipt.

We’d paid off our mortgage, and were now entirely debt-free. Yes, we high-fived.

We bought our house back in 2008, after a lot of searching and some unsuccessful offers. It was frustrating. We ended up offering over $30K above asking on the hou...

For Those Women, for My Friends

Mother's Day is coming up again, and amongst all the fanfare, commercials, and my own effusive love for my mother, I'm reminded of my friends for whom this is not a joyous holiday.Some of my friends have wanted to have children, but have been unable to for one reason or another. While some of them went on to eventually become parents, others did not.

This is for those women. You know who you are.

Better Than Dreams

Maya met him when she was twenty-three, stray bits of salt from last night’s tear...