- The Obsidian Tower was included in several wonderful Best of 2020 lists, including these from Fantasy Book Reveiw, Tor.com, BookBub, Fantasy Book Cafe, and The Fantasy Inn
- Locus magazine selected The Obsidian Tower as a staff pick!
- The Obsidian Tower was included in this list of underrated books of 2020 from Geek Girl Authority!
- The Obsidian Tower made this BookRiot list of best new fantasy!
- The Obsidian Tower audiobook is out now!!!
- BookPage gave The Obsidian Tower this lovely starred review!!!
- I had a lovely live (virtual) Q & A session with Jon Skovron (even if my cat did bite me onscreen!). You can see the recorded video of it here.
- I did an interview with A OK Podcast, talking about my personal experiences as an ace spec writer and human.
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE made the shortlist for the BookNest Fantasy Award for Best Traditionally Published Novel! You can vote for your favorite finalists here.
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE has been longlisted for a BookNest Fantasy Award for Best Traditionally Published Novel! You can vote for the shortlist here!
- The Swords & Fire trilogy was nominated for Best Series in the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards!
- THE OBSIDIAN TOWER appeared on several Anticipated Books of 2020 lists, including The Fantasy Hive, The Nerd Daily, Fantasy Book Cafe, and One More!
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE (and/or the Swords & Fire trilogy as a whole) made several top books of 2019 lists, including ones from Deer Geek Place, Fantasy Book Cafe, and You and I Books!
- Cover and title revealed for THE OBSIDIAN TOWER, book one of my new trilogy!!!
-
The French edition of THE TETHERED MAGE, La Sorcière Captive, is now available!
- Fantasy Cafe posted a wonderful review of THE UNBOUND EMPIRE
- The German edition of THE TETHERED MAGE, FLAMMENFLUG, is now available!
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE is out now!!!
- Tor.com published this amazing review by Liz Bourke of THE UNBOUND EMPIRE.
- Onemore.org posted a lovely review of THE UNBOUND EMPIRE.
- I did a fun interview with The Fantasy Inn in which I talk about my ideal battlegown.
- Booklist called THE UNBOUND EMPIRE “spellbinding” in their recent review!
- The Tenacious Reader, The Library Ladies, and Utopia State of Mind posted wonderful reviews of THE UNBOUND EMPIRE.
- I did a really fun interview with Brittney of Reverie and Ink! Read the full interview on her blog, or see some of the best excerpts with pretty graphics and a video intro on Instagram.
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE is on the Barnes & Noble list of the best new SFF books this April!
- I was recently a guest on the Fantasy Focus podcast and discussed a wide variety of things.
- Liz Loves Books posted a wonderful review of THE UNBOUND EMPIRE
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE received a starred review from Kirkus! (Beware MAJOR SPOILERS in the review!)
- Fantasy Book Review did this lovely and spoiler-free review of THE UNBOUND EMPIRE
- I recently had a lovely talk with The Bestseller Experiment about the steps of the editing process on their podcast. Teaser here!
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE is on Fantasy Cafe’s list of anticipated 2019 speculative fiction releases!
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE appears in this excellent list of 42 sequels to look out for in 2019 from Barnes & Noble!
- THE TETHERED MAGE appears in this great list from S. A. Chakraborty of five books with nuanced family drama on Tor.com.
- THE UNBOUND EMPIRE appeared in the On the Smugglers’ Radar feature of books they’re looking forward to in 2019!
- THE DEFIANT HEIR was nominated for a Stabby Award! See the nominees here.
- THE TETHERED MAGE appeared in the Favorite Book Not Published in 2018 category of Paul Weimer’s lovely Best of 2018 post on Skiffy and Fanty!
- THE DEFIANT HEIR is on the Fantasy Cafe list of favorite books of 2018!
- THE DEFIANT HEIR made the Book Smugglers list of the Best Books of 2018!
- NEW TRILOGY: Orbit Books will be publishing my second trilogy, set in the world of Swords & Fire! Read the announcement here!
- Espresso Coco included THE TETHERED MAGE in their Books of the Year (Fantasy) post for 2018!
- The Quill to Live called THE DEFIANT HEIR one of the best books of 2018!
- THE TETHERED MAGE was shortlisted for a BookNest Fantasy Award for Best Debut novel! You can vote for the winner until October 31!
- THE TETHERED MAGE made the BookNest Fantasy Awards longlist for Best Debut Novel!
- Liz Loves Books posted this wonderful review of THE DEFIANT HEIR!
- THE DEFIANT HEIR appears in this BookRiot list of 20 books that put the F/F in SF/F!
- See the reveal for the gorgeous cover of THE UNBOUND EMPIRE, Book 3 of Swords & Fire, at Girls in Capes!
- Locus posted this review of THE DEFIANT HEIR.
- THE DEFIANT HEIR made the Tor.com list of the best books of 2018 so far!
- Fantasy Cafe posted this amazing review of THE DEFIANT HEIR!
- THE TETHERED MAGE was shortlisted for a Morningstar Award!!! You can vote on the Gemmell Awards (including the Morningstar) here.
- Check out this wonderful review of THE DEFIANT HEIR from Tor.com!
- THE DEFIANT HEIR is out now in the US! (April 26 in the UK.)
- Blue Book Balloon, Girls in Capes, and The Irregular Reader published lovely reviews of THE DEFIANT HEIR!
- CultureFly picked THE DEFIANT HEIR for their list of the 15 best new fiction books to read this spring!
- I did a guest post at Fantasy Cafe about swordfighting in ballgowns for their Women in SFF month.
- The Tenacious Reader, Powder and Page, and Fantasy Book Review published great reviews of THE DEFIANT HEIR.
- THE TETHERED MAGE is on this great list of 10 books for Harry Potter fans from PopSugar!
- THE DEFIANT HEIR made the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy blog’s list of the best SFF coming out this April!
- THE DEFIANT HEIR is on this amazing list from Tor.com of 15 books to look forward to this spring!
- THE DEFIANT HEIR is on this list from Unbound Worlds of the best SFF books of April 2018!
- The Library Ladies published this lovely review of THE DEFIANT HEIR (and are doing a giveaway of a rare ARC!).
- Rowenna Miller (author of TORN) and I did a joint interview with BookPage on fighting in ballgowns and more!
- I did a fun interview with Girls in Capes for International Women’s Day.
- THE TETHERED MAGE has been longlisted for a Gemmell Award! (And its cover, too!) I am incredibly honored to find THE TETHERED MAGE on the list for a Morningstar Award, along with many other amazing debut authors.
- Kirkus posted this article by Thea James on sequels in 2018, inspired by THE DEFIANT HEIR.
- My Twitter thread on fighting in ballgowns went viral, and was featured in The Mary Sue, among other places.
- Fantasy Book Critic included THE TETHERED MAGE in their list of top debuts of 2017!
- The Fantasy Cafe included THE DEFIANT HEIR in their list of Anticipated 2018 Speculative Fiction Releases!
- Unbound Worlds included THE DEFIANT HEIR in their 52 in 2018 Sci-Fi & Fantasy reading challenge!
- The Fantasy Hive included THE DEFIANT HEIR on their list of most anticipated fantasy books of 2018!
- Fantasy Cafe included THE TETHERED MAGE on their list of their favorite books read in 2017!
- The Book Smugglers included THE TETHERED MAGE on their list of the Best Books of 2017!
- The Tattooed Book Geek and Every Day Should Be Tuesday included me in their lists of Top 10 New-To-Me Authors in 2017!
- You and I Books included THE TETHERED MAGE in their list of the top 20 fantasy books read in 2017!
- Jana Runneck did this incredible fan art for THE TETHERED MAGE. I am totally going to move this link to an Art And Cool Stuff page soon, but for now, go look at it! It’s wonderful!
- Book Geeks Uncompromised interviewed me on their podcast about THE TETHERED MAGE.
- I recently did a Reddit AMA with the other Orbit debut authors, and it was great fun, full of silliness and writing advice.
- Here’s an interview where I rave about Fullmetal Alchemist and talk about the Venetian influences on THE TETHERED MAGE at Tor.com.
- Upcoming signing at the Prudential Center Barnes & Noble in Boston on 1/23/18.
- I did a guest post on the B&N science fiction & fantasy blog about reading for entertainment being super important and awesome.
- I wrote an essay about character deaths in Shakespeare vs. in modern fantasy & science fiction for BookRiot.
- Bookish picked THE TETHERED MAGE as one of the week’s hottest releases!
- Great interview about THE TETHERED MAGE with SciFiNow.
- I did a fun interview with The Qwillery here.
- Here’s a short video interview about THE TETHERED MAGE I did at the Orbit offices.
- I am super excited to announce a joint event with S. A. Chakraborty (author of THE CITY OF BRASS) on 11/16/17 at 7 PM at Brookline Booksmith!
- I talk mages, writing, and world building with Stephen Aryan, author of MAGEBORN and the Battlemage series, in this audio interview.
- Kirkus Reviews features THE TETHERED MAGE on its list of October’s must-read speculative fiction!
- THE TETHERED MAGE made Barnes & Noble’s list of top new science fiction & fantasy releases for October!
- Read the first chapter of THE TETHRED MAGE!
- Orbit is offering a Goodreads Giveaway of THE TETHERED MAGE!
- Here’s a video introducing Orbit’s debut authors for 2017! Hear us talk about our books, our lives, the zombie apocalypse, that sort of thing.
- THE TETHERED MAGE is featured (along with 95 other really excellent-sounding books) in this list of SFF books to look forward to in 2017:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/96-books-sci-fi-fantasy-editors-cant-wait-for-you-to-read-in-2017/