Sorry about that! Things are a bit chaotic at Casa Leckie just now.īut! My novel The Raven Tower will be out February 26! In fact, if you’re in St Louis you’ll be able to find me at Left Bank Books! It’s part of their SF STL series, which honestly you should be checking out, if you’re in the area and into SFF. I’ve been quiet lately, not just here, but my other social media hangouts. And I thank, as always, my readers, who are wonderful and fabulous and awesome. I want to thank all the writers who had amazing books published last year.
It’s just, I thought I might spread that happiness around some this time out, and so I did the little bit I could. It is, after all, one of the sweetest, most delicious cookies around! If I am ever so fortunate as to have a work reach the shortlist again, and I see what seems to me a good reason to withdraw, I will. I make no promises about withdrawing anything in the future. I also want to be clear that this is not any sort of permanent decision on my part.
And as I’m sure we all know, these have been months during which such treasures have become extremely important. Let me be perfectly clear–I was overwhelmed at the thought that so many readers felt The Raven Tower deserved to be a Hugo finalist. And I realized that I could do something about that, at least in a small way.Īnd so I withdrew The Raven Tower from consideration. More books than there were spots, for sure. And when the email came telling me that The Raven Tower was a finalist for the Hugo Award, I thought of the books in that longlist, how often I’d had a bite of this cookie, and how many of the amazing books from 2019 were debuts, and/or were books that, when I’d read them, my first thought was, Oh, this should be on the Hugo ballot. It is, let me tell you, one delicious cookie. I’ve had a taste of that cookie quite a few times now. But that’s legit, right? It’s how things go. There are always works on the longlist that missed out on the shortlist by a few votes, or maybe more than a few votes but that doesn’t mean they didn’t equally deserve to get the recognition that comes with being shortlisted.
There were way more excellent books than there could ever be places in that list of finalists. There were lots of fabulous debuts, lots of amazing new work from writers who readers were already familiar with. But the results were fabulous! The results were always going to be fabulous, because LOOK AT THAT FINALIST LIST they are all awesome.Ģ019 was a particularly strong year for novels. The less said about the actual ceremony the better, and besides lots of people have already said good words about it, and do listen to them.
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