End of Year Wrap-Up Post

Thanks to whoever gave me Dreamwidth points, that was really nice!


This seems like a good time for an end of the year post.


I didn't have a lot published in 2019:


* January - Hardcover reprint of The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red

"Compulsory: A Murderbot Diaries Story" Wired Magazine, January 2019 issue. (You can read it here: https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/)


* July -- "The Ups and Downs of a Long Career" The Writer's Book of Doubt, edited by Aidan Doyle. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-writers-book-of-doubt-aidan-doyle/1131928481?ean=9780648334224


* October -- "All Systems Red" was reprinted in Nebula Awards Showcase 2019, edited by Silvia-Moreno Garcia. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nebula-awards-showcase-2019-martha-wells/1131029273?ean=9781733811972


* November -- And The Cloud Roads, Night Shade Books, was reprinted as a mass market paperback.


I did do a fair amount of writing, about 120,000 words, which is a little low for me, but I have the feeling I forgot some stuff.


Things I currently have coming out next year:


* January - "Obsolescence," in Take Us To A Better Place: Stories https://rwjf.ws/339feal

The Serpent Sea will be re-released in mass market paperback.


* Early 2020 - a guest chapter for MACHINA https://www.serialbox.com/serials/machina, written by Fran Wilde, Malka Older, and Curtis C. Chen


* May -- The Murderbot Diaries: Network Effect http://www.marthawells.com/networkeffect.htm


There's at least one thing complete and turned in that I can't talk about yet because the publisher hasn't announced it.


Other things that happened:

The Murderbot Diaries: Exit Strategy was shortlisted for the 2018 British Science Fiction Association BSFA Award, and The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition was a Finalist for the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

I won my second Hugo Award (and I never thought I'd be saying that) for Best Novella for The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition. I declined Hugo nominations for Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy. And I won a second Locus Award for Best Novella for Artificial Condition.

I got to go to Ireland for ten days and had an awesome time. I got to go on my first ever writers retreat in a very cool place. I was one of the guests of honor at Capclave and a special guest at ArmadilloCon. Also, not so cool, I had to go to the Emergency Room for a minor head injury and losing consciousness and then had a month of physical therapy. Back to cool again: All Systems Red got reviewed on NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/01/27/688354123/sulky-cynical-murderbot-is-one-of-sci-fis-most-human-characters I got to go to the ALA and do a signing and go out to Jose Andres' restaurant Oyamel. Cool: I rescued an awesome sweet cat from starving in my backyard. Not so cool: my other cats still hate him and he's not keen on them and we have to keep them mostly separated.

So, that's a lot, in what feels like an enormously long year, with a lot of depressing and infuriating news.

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