SL Huang is finally on Bluesky. THE WATER OUTLAWS is out!

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THE WATER OUTLAWS is out now! Queer feminist bandits rising up against a tyrannical Empire. Lots of sword fighting. "Breakneck, adrenaline-filled pace" - Booklist (starred review)

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oh hey look! you can get this in ebook version for free!

If you're looking for a great bundle, may I recommend @reactorsff.bsky.social's March/April 2024 ebook, which contains my bleak piece "The Plasticity of Being", along with works of other wonderful authors like @slhuang.com, @lavietidhar.bsky.social, and others 💚 reactormag.com/download-two...

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2 days after @slhuang.com's The Water Outlaws kept me up late reading because I simply COULD NOT put my Kindle down I got brave & reached out because OMG can you blame me cmon. Action & Heart GALORE. I have been doing small pirouettes around my room more or less ever since bsky.app/profile/newe...

Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes anthology spotlight: we’re delighted to welcome Hugo-winning author S. L. Huang! Check out their website www.slhuang.com and back Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 💓🪓

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My little galaxy story is live at The Razor! therazormag.com/articles/tak... This one's had a long journey. From the trunk, to Dream Foundry Contest finalist, to its current home. Big thanks to Emma Stephenson, @wiswell.bsky.social, @sillysyntax.bsky.social, and @omgjulia.bsky.social 💜

Take My Heart to the Event Horizon - The Razor — Literary Magazine — Gotham Writers Workshoptherazormag.com Lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 wasn’t always this dusty, this rusty. Wasn’t always asleep. No stars firing above 5,000 kelvin, though a core so hot no particles can accrete, lump together, grow. Low lumin...

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Boooook release day!

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My final in-person event! Sunday May 19th 6pm - a reading with Hana Lee and Caitlin Chung for SF in SF, at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco! You can chip in $10 to support the museum, but they don't turn anyone away for lack of funds. It'll be fuuun. www.sfinsf.org?p=2723

Join SF in SF Sun May 19 – with Samantha Mills, Hana Lee, and Caitlin Chungwww.sfinsf.org Join us at SF in SF – Science Fiction in San Francisco – Our 20th year is shaping up to be extraordinary! Please join SF in SF for a fabulous evening with authors SAMANTHA MILLS HANA LEE CAIT…

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Recommendation. One of the most beautiful book covers I have ever seen and a novel to match. Wonderful, elegant and readble prose. Memorable characters. Utterly engaging, funny and gripping. Easily my favourite book of 2023.

oh hey guess what THE WATER OUTLAWS paperback is out todayyy!! read the book that @charliejane.bsky.social called "addictive" and @sarahgailey.bsky.social called "spectacular" 😆🌟 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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It IS spectacular, and if you missed out on it before you should absolutely pick it up now!

THE WATER OUTLAWS is a Locus finalist?!?!! Overjoyed to share this list with @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social @kateelliottsff.bsky.social @aliettedb.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social @tkingfisher.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @vajra.me and more!!

2024 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists locusmag.com/2024/05...

2024 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalistslocusmag.com The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2024 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on an o…

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Excellent!! I love having copies of my favorite books to lend to people, and The Water Outlaws is very much in that category!

Still answering questions over on r/fantasy! As it stands it looks like I will be able to get to ALL OF THEM \o/ so feel free to come add some more if you like!! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Reddit - Dive into anythingwww.reddit.com But it still seemed way too ambitious to think I had successfully hit all that. So I went into publication figuring most people would read this only as a fast-paced martial arts adventure, which didn't bother me, because martial arts adventures rock.

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So good!

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oh hey the book I just recommended to y'all not 20 minutes ago

Reminder that in celebration of THE WATER OUTLAWS paperback, I am on Reddit all day today answering questions!! Taking a brief food break and then I will be back with MORE ANSWERS ALL THE ANSWERS www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

I'm doing a Reddit AMA today!! Will begin answering questions shortly and I'll be around all day! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

hey hey, I have a Reddit AMA tomorrow (Thursday) starting at 10am CDT! Come by r/fantasy and ask me questions! Proof that it's really me:

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A wonderful novel that is a wild ride. Out in PB today!

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You must read this! It's absolutely gorgeous and hilarious and touching and wild and amazing!

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A funny, swashbuckling, adventurous book.

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Congratulations to @slhuang.com & @vajra.me, Nebula Award finalists for Best Novel!! THE WATER OUTLAWS by @slhuang.com is out now! Buy here: geni.us/TheWaterOutl... THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by @vajra.me will be out in paperback in the UK in June! Pre-order here: geni.us/stbdoors

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Such a good book

THE WATER OUTLAWS is a Nebula finalist!! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... I am BEYOND DELIGHTED to share the category w/ @vajra.me @wtalabi.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @annleckie.com @marthawells.bsky.social It is peak fulfilling to be on a ballot where I like everyone else so damn much 😭🥰

fyc :)

hey eligible work by ppl last year's Hugos f*d over: Paul Weimer (fan writer): www.nerds-feather.com/search/label... Yang Wanqing (novelette, Ch 2023 Eng 2024): clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_02_24/ R.F. Kuang transl. Regina Kanyu Wang (novelette): www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re... (1/2)

Me, same, this is my wish as well

"Witch King", Martha Wells And also. Please. PLEASE can we give Strange Horizons a Hugo for all the wonderful authors and stories they have made a home for, and the many many years of work they've done to build that? That is the #1 award-season wish for me this year. p l e a s e ! 5/5

TIL the reason half the original Power Rangers left was the show was NON UNION & paid them almost nothing even after raging success (!!!) They asked for unionization & better contracts & the show refused Mega popular, $1B in merch & they wouldn't even give the actors union *minimum* pay. Appalling

HEY FELLOW LANGUAGE NERDS! Twas a joy to get to chat with @filiphdz.bsky.social while he wrote this -- Filip's thoughts on language are deep & wonderful & this piece is a beautiful exploration Add it to your SFF ling canon alongside @rblemberg.bsky.social @djolder.bsky.social @johnchu.bsky.social

As an English-as-second-language writer, I found this essay on the use of pseudotranslation in Fantasy worlds fascinating. I will be revisiting it, when I feel the urge to make up a language for my WIP by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

Pseudotranslation and the Art of Made Up Words - Uncanny Magazinewww.uncannymagazine.com A little while ago I was working on the draft of a novel when I came up against a task I’ve never found especially interesting: making up a word to describe a fictional concept. I enjoy higher-level l...

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HOLY BALLS, Y'ALL. You need to read this. The in-depth read into Li Li that I never knew I wanted! (you really don't need to have read the book for this story, although I highly recommend it!)

I took one of the 2 scenes in THE WATER OUTLAWS nobody wanted and said "why don't I write another 10,000 words on this" 😆 read it nowwwww (you don't need to have read the book!)

oh hey just realized it's also the same translator who translated Yang Wanqing's excluded novelette last year 👀 (Jay Zhang) hoping to have time to read this today....

INTERESTING! Thank you! So this novelette by Yang Wanqing (one of the excluded Chinese authors) is indeed Hugo-eligible both this year AND next year: clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_02_24/ for anyone who finds that information relevant :)

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasyclarkesworldmagazine.com The Peregrine Falcon Flies West by Yang Wanqing, translated by Jay Zhang

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a little late with the promo but I have an essay in this month's Uncanny, which came about when I was procrastinating on working on my novel, the message I am taking away from this is to procrastinate as much as possible, anyway check it out if you like musings about fictional languages!