Author N K Jemisin
Hi, all. It s been a while since I updated this blog! Figured now was a good time, since I just became SFWA s newest Grand Master! I got an award for it at the Nebula Conference this past weekend, but I couldn t fit it in my luggage so hopefully it will arrive soon. Here s the draft version of my accetance speech. I made some handwritten edits while waiting for the banquet to start, so what I said…
If you haven t seen this elsewhere on social media, today is release day for THE WORLD WE MAKE! Available at all retailers and in audiobook (narrated by Robin Miles again)! Robin Miles narrates the audiobook again! I haven’t even listened to this one yet myself, but I’m looking forward to it. There are a number of reviews out there of TWWM, but beware! Every single review I’ve seen contains major…
It s been a while since I regularly used this blog! Not planning to resume, too busy, but because WordPress has implemented some new features, I decided to write this just to help myself get used to it. Anyway, right now, I m working on the revision of Book 2 of the Great Cities. A friend asked me how to do revisions, so I figured I might as well lay out my process here. Note that this is my…
As some of you know, a new article has come out regarding that whole terrible mess with Isabel Fall from last year. It s a good article the reporter actually speaks to Ms. Fall, and it s extra horrifying to see just how badly the controversy has impacted her health and career hopes. I m glad she s out of crisis, at least, but it sounds like she had a rough road getting there. The reporter also…
Been a while, blog readers! Apologies. I purposefully went on blog hiatus a while back because doing both this and Twitter (and at the time Tumblr and Facebook) were just too much. I ve since dropped Tumblr and FB (for all but family purposes, and occasional comments on other folks FBs), and I ve cut my Twitter usage to roughly about an hour a day. But I still like to talk and think out loud, so…
For reasons that I cannot fathom, I can t figure out how to change the sidebar of my blog anymore. It s probably something simple, but since I don t really use this blog much anymore, I ve forgotten most of my PHP and CSS. Plus, WordPress keeps changing things to make them harder to figure out! Argh. Anyway. So here is the link to the essay that I mentioned, but did not include, in the collection…
As I ve mentioned on social media, I only have two works eligible for awards nomination from 2017: The Stone Sky, and my Uncanny short story Henosis. Last year was tough, so I didn t get much writing done. I m sure a lot of you can relate. But since people have asked for my thoughts on this Please, if you re going to nominate The Stone Sky in any form, do so in the Novel category, rather than…
So, for the handful of you who don t follow me on social media, I had a little surprise to share the other night! There s not much I can say about this, for now. I jokingly answered a few questions on the night of the announcement, but the truth is that I don t really know enough about what s happening with this to discuss it. The article s got all the salient details. And I think it s important…
So, amid the furor of preparing for a book launch, I ve had to divert time to another matter. I found out belatedly that The Obelisk Gate had been nominated for the Dragon Awards, basically when I started to hear murmurs that the awards were especially problematic this year. I went to go see what the problem was and lo and behold, there was my book. No one had notified me I was on the ballot.…
So I ve spent the last day or two in a cloud of simmering fury. Only just cooled down enough to really think, and talk, about the election. For the last few years, I ve been trying to explain to people outside of SFF that the various dramas playing out here self-aggrandizing bigots; self-righteous movements to make petty, exclusionary gestures with the Hugo Award; discusssion wars in which the…