I‘ve been on an PoC-authored book reading binge this year, which let me tell you, has been so refreshing it’s made me see the world in a different way lately. From Kacen Callender’s Queen of the Conquered, Evan Winter’s The Rage of Dragons, to Rin Chupeco’s The Bone Witch (with its lyrical prose that is …
We’re about four months away from the trade paperback launch of the epic fantasy novel The Wolf of Oren-yaro, and I’ve been working on a couple of really exciting things to celebrate. I’ll keep them under wraps for now, but suffice to say that I’m really happy with them so far. It’s a little amazing to …
In case you missed out, Orbit Books just did a cover reveal for The Wolf of Oren-yaro. A year of waiting has finally paved way to the excitement of having a book about to be released in stores (!). I spoke about the story behind the book’s acquisition over at Shut Up, Shealea. It’s …
The worldbuilding in the epic fantasy world of Agos-agan, which is the world of both Annals of the Bitch Queen and The Agartes Epilogues, is heavily inspired by my own culture. And one of the things I wanted to write about is the matriarchal flavour of many of the societies in it, which sets them …
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Something I realized recently: a lifetime is not long enough for me to read all the books in the world. The TBR pile is an interesting phenomenon in today’s climate; with the rise of e-books and free or massively discounted novels, I’ve seen people say their stack has risen upwards to thousands. Thousands of books, …
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