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The Nerd Daily lists SCORPICA as a Book to Devour!

It has been A Week around here and I have honestly lost track of what I’ve posted about and what I haven’t. Thank goodness I can look back at the blog itself and see.

So it looks like I haven’t shared this particular bit of good news yet: SCORPICA made The Nerd Daily’s list of Fantasy and Sci-Fi Book Releases to Devour in 2022!

The books are listed by month of release so you can set up your schedule for what to devour when, and I love seeing SCORPICA’s gorgeous cover (with art by Victo Nghi) pop out of a row like this:

Want to see all the other good stuff coming in the first half of the year for SFF fans? Take a look here.

Scorpica on BookBub's list of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2022!

I often get a heads-up on reviews, honors and other book-related news items, but not always. And sometimes the unexpected discoveries are extra-fun.

Like today, when I got a BookBub email with a link to “Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2022,” and of course I opened it and skimmed it, looking at the familiar names, and then — BOOM! Scorpica was right there with the likes of upcoming books from John Scalzi, Melissa Albert, Mike Chen, Tamsyn Muir, and other SFF luminaries.

Check out the list of 23 awesome reads here!

rave review for SCORPICA from Publishers Weekly!

Well hey! That headline pretty much says it all! You can read the whole fabulous review here, and my publisher has pulled out one of the best snippets for the graphic below, which I will just be staring at contentedly for the next, say, five weeks. Yay!

new post on beginnings up at Writer Unboxed

Fittingly, as we begin a new year, I decided to make my new Writer Unboxed post all about beginnings! Specifically, the two different beginnings every novel has, and why one of them is far more challenging than the other.

Click to read!

new year, new giveaway for SCORPICA!

Hello! It’s 2022! It’s snowing like blazes here in DC. My kids couldn’t be more excited. I couldn’t be gladder that we don’t actually need to go anywhere today. Heavy snow like this is very pretty to watch… from inside the warm, dry comfort of the house.

And here’s some more good news—if you can’t wait until February to get your hands on my matriarchal epic fantasy debut SCORPICA, you can enter to win a copy at Goodreads!

Speaking of Goodreads, though I probably shouldn’t read my reviews there—these reviews are for readers, not authors—I can’t help it, and it puts such a smile on my face to read praise like this:

This is more than a woman's story or women's stories. This is a woman's world. The Drought of Matriarchal Fantasy is over. And I am so here for it.

When I say everyone, I mean everyone needs to read this book. I don't care if you don't like fantasy, I don't care if you hate women—actually, I do care; women are gorgeous, talented, unstoppable beings and they deserve everything—just read it.

Want to win a copy and read SCORPICA for yourself? Click here for the details.

CHIRB favorites of 2021!

Last post of the year, whew! Looking forward to a very exciting 2022 as my epic fantasy debut, SCORPICA, makes its way into the world.

So here’s a bit of a 2021 wrap-up — staff and contributors at Chicago Review of Books, including yours truly, recommend our favorite books of the year.

Read the whole list here.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy start to 2022 for us all!

best feminist fantasy books of 2021 at CHIRB!

A narrowing-down, in list form:

I read so many great books this year

So many of them were published in 2021

So many of those published in 2021 were in the fantasy genre

So many of those shone a light on women’s rights in a way I’d categorize as feminist

So lo and behold! My round-up of best feminist fantasy books of 2021 was born. I pulled together a short list for Chicago Review of Books, ranging from retellings of myth (The Witch’s Heart, Ariadne) to YA stories of war (The Gilded Ones) to a completely re-imagined version of The Great Gatsby (The Chosen and the Beautiful).

Check out hthe full list here.

SCORPICA makes its first Most Anticipated list!

With the holiday season upon us, I know a book coming out in February seems like a really long way away — but December is also the time of year for Most Anticipated lists, so of course I’ve been keeping an eye out to see what lists SCORPICA might show up on. (Yes, it’s an unhealthy thing for writers to keep track of. A lot of us do it anyway.)

And yay! Here’s a fabulous list from FanFiAddict, rounding up FFA’s Most Anticipated Titles of 2022, with SCORPICA right there with other great company in February.

Check out the whole great list here.

new Goodreads giveaway for SCORPICA!

The headline says it all here, people — you can win SCORPICA from Goodreads! 50 advance copies are up for grabs. Enter by November 29.

Don’t know what SCORPICA is about, by chance? It’s all the strong women, powerful emotions, and twisty plots you loved in my historical novels — but taking a turn into classic epic fantasy, with magic and gods and monsters in a matriarchal world.

Enter here!

Ready to win NaNoWriMo?

Happy first day of NaNoWriMo to my fellow writers, especially those participating this year!

Couldn’t resist writing about the occasion for Writer Unboxed, since my post fell on November 1, the first day of the whole mad annual enterprise.

So click here to read my #1 tip for an absolutely guaranteed NaNoWriMo win!