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About Fran Wilde
Fran Wilde's first novel, the Andre Norton-Nebula and Compton Crook-Award winning and Nebula Nominated UPDRAFT (Tor/Macmillan 2015) received multiple starred reviews and was named one of iO9's Very Best Science Fiction and Fantasy titles for 2015.
CLOUDBOUND, book two in the Bone Universe series, is a Locus Recommended book, a Kirkus September don't-miss, an iO9.com Fall Must-Read and an Amazon September fall pick.
HORIZON, the third and final book in the Bone Universe, was a Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books of September 2017 - Unbound Worlds, a Kirkus Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books to Read in September, and a Verge Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read this September.
RIVERLAND (Abrams/Amulet 2019), Winner of the 2019 Nebula for Best Middle Grade and YA Novel. Wilde's debut Middle Grade novel, received a Booklist starred review and a starred review from Shelf Awareness. It was listed by the Verge and iO9 as an SFF book to check out in April 2019, and named a 2019 NPR Favorite book, and a 2019 Nebula Finalist.
Fran's Hugo- Nebula- and Locus-finalist novelette "The Jewel and Her Lapidary" was published by Tor.com in May 2016 and has been nominated for a 2016 Nebula award for Best Novelette, a Locus Award for Best Novelette Recommended, a Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and an LA Public Library Best Book.
The stand-alone sequel to "The Jewel and her Lapidary" is the novella "The Fire Opal Mechanism" - available for pre-order now!
Fran's short stories have been finalists for Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy awards and have appeared in publications including Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, Tor.com, and the 2017 Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. Her interview series Cooking the Books - about the intersection between food and fiction - has appeared at Strange Horizons, Tor.com, iTunes, and on her website (franwilde.net).
Fran is a fan of the Oxford Comma, can tie sailing knots, set gemstones, and program digital minions.
CLOUDBOUND, book two in the Bone Universe series, is a Locus Recommended book, a Kirkus September don't-miss, an iO9.com Fall Must-Read and an Amazon September fall pick.
HORIZON, the third and final book in the Bone Universe, was a Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books of September 2017 - Unbound Worlds, a Kirkus Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books to Read in September, and a Verge Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read this September.
RIVERLAND (Abrams/Amulet 2019), Winner of the 2019 Nebula for Best Middle Grade and YA Novel. Wilde's debut Middle Grade novel, received a Booklist starred review and a starred review from Shelf Awareness. It was listed by the Verge and iO9 as an SFF book to check out in April 2019, and named a 2019 NPR Favorite book, and a 2019 Nebula Finalist.
Fran's Hugo- Nebula- and Locus-finalist novelette "The Jewel and Her Lapidary" was published by Tor.com in May 2016 and has been nominated for a 2016 Nebula award for Best Novelette, a Locus Award for Best Novelette Recommended, a Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and an LA Public Library Best Book.
The stand-alone sequel to "The Jewel and her Lapidary" is the novella "The Fire Opal Mechanism" - available for pre-order now!
Fran's short stories have been finalists for Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy awards and have appeared in publications including Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, Tor.com, and the 2017 Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. Her interview series Cooking the Books - about the intersection between food and fiction - has appeared at Strange Horizons, Tor.com, iTunes, and on her website (franwilde.net).
Fran is a fan of the Oxford Comma, can tie sailing knots, set gemstones, and program digital minions.
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Blog postHello friends – lots of things are happening… here are a few!
New Podcast appearance: As a January guest on the Tales from the Trunk podcast, I read (without looking at it first ahaha) a short story that’s never seen daylight. Hilary Bisenieks and I also talked poetry and fiction!
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Blog postAs so many have said, it’s been difficult to even consider making a 2020 summary/eligibility post! I’ve been struggling, as so many have. At the same time, much of what you see on the surface of publishing has happened over the course of many years’ work, and this year is no different. (PS, this utterly weird year’s not done, nor is my reading, or writing!)
I’ve also been teaching, and teaching during the current era is a lot. It is also a joy, as it gives me a chance to share my love5 months ago Read more -
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Blog postHello friends — I’m deep in writing and revisions and the start of a new semester. And we are deep in the fall of this everlasting year. If you’re like me, you are struggling to stay afloat, to hold hope close, while also acting decisively, and trying to generate new thoughts as well. It’s exhausting, and some things move slower than others, even so.
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Blog postI’m so excited to be able to share with you the cover for my next middle grade novel, coming in 2021 from Abrams Kids / Amulet!
Head over to MG Book Village, where the fantastic Jarrett Lerner interviewed me about the title, the art, and working with Flying Pigs!
Go check it out, and while you’re there (or while you’re here), you can also mark it as “want to read” on Goodreads! And hit up some of those shiny pre-order links and/or let your libraries know you can’t wait for The8 months ago Read more -
Blog postHi Friends — it’s a tough thing to keep track of days and weeks, much less interviews and talks, in the midst of all **this**. My mind is more often on the well being of the world, my city, my family, students, friends, and everyone in the communities I’m a part of. Some exciting announcements have been happening, but they’ve been tempered by global events, so I thought I’d gather them here for the duration. I hope you’re well and that those around you are also. ~ Fran
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Blog postI know, the title’s a mouthful, and not the usual fare of my posts here.
But… as a lot of the world is turning to online education, I thought I’d share some resources and links, as well as my own slides from the excellent “Speculative Futures of Education” symposium my colleague Dr. Nalo Hopkinson organized last December at University of California, Riverside.
View this post on Instagram This week, I attended (and presented at!) a fantastic symposium courtesy
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Blog postMachina, episode 3 – Go Big AND Go Home, by Malka Older launches on Wednesday — before it does, get caught up with (or get into) the first episodes and see what all the buzz is about! Click here, and for less than the cost of five espresso shots, you can have ten weeks of the Moonshot Bar, DevLok’s intrigue, and Watchover’s hive drones… not to mention the whimsical stylings of your personal embedded Code Overload reporter… (and yes, Pseudo too! It’s all about the robot rescue dog, we kno1 year ago Read more
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Blog postNext week, a project nearly two years in the making becomes real.
View this post on Instagram We solemnly swear we are up to no good. #machina #pseudomakemeasandwich @curtiscchen @m_older @serialboxpub @mxpalmieri @dogpseudo
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When I started working on the story bible for MACHINA, a few things inspired the idea of two startups racing to build the machines that will help us live on Mars
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Blog postHow is it December?? I’ve been wanting to add this second post for *weeks*. The first half of the post, from November is here.
Part of how is that I’m teaching two courses and finished a book and sold a couple stories, so I’m going to give myself a break. Another part of *how* is :: gestures at state of the world.:: Lastly, another *how* is that people are still publishing all the way up through December and I wanted to try to read as much as I could.
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