The Green Bone Saga is the subscription series pick for The Broken Binding this July through September! These special editions are in excellent hands with Petrik Leo as art director, and they will feature brand new covers, sprayed edges, illustrated end sheets and more. After subscription copies are shipped (see here for subscription info), any leftover sets will be go up for general sale in early 2025. The post Green Bone Saga special editions from The Broken Binding appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more

Exciting news! You can bring home a souvenir of your trip to the Twice Lucky, show off your Kaul Du Academy alumni swag, or proclaim your No Peak clan allegiance with officially-licensed Green Bone Saga apparel and mugs, available from The Marauder’s Market. The post Officially licensed Green Bone Saga merchandise now available appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more

Breath of the Dragon is a Bruce Lee-inspired YA fantasy novel that I co-wrote with Shannon Lee, coming January 2025 from Wednesday Books! Behold the beautiful cover by Kiuyan Ran. Preorder here.  https://www.fondalee.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BreathOfTheDragon_Meta_1080x1920_v1-1.mp4   The post Cover reveal for Breath of the Dragon appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more

Untethered Sky is a finalist for the 2024 Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella! I’m immensely grateful to CSFFA voters for giving me an 8th Aurora nomination. Congratulations to all the nominees. The full ballot can be viewed here. The Aurora Awards will be announced on during an online awards ceremony held on Sunday, August 11th, 2024, at 5pm EDT, with hosts Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson The post Untethered Sky an Aurora Award Finalist appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more

Delighted to learn that Untethered Sky is one of the titles on RUSA’s 2024 Fantasy shortlist. The Reading List is an annual best-of list comprised of eight different fiction genres for adult readers. The post Untethered Sky is on the 2024 RUSA Shortlist appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more

Untethered Sky was recognized among the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2023 by the New York Times and as one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by Slate magazine. Wow! I’m immensely thankful to every reviewer who read and enjoyed and spread the word about my little book of monstrous birds. The post Accolades for Untethered Sky appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more

The Jade Setter of Janloon has won the 2023 Aurora Award for Best Novella! I’m honored and stunned to have won my fifth Aurora Award, and my first award for a novella. Check out the full list of nominees and winners here.  The post The Jade Setter of Janloon Wins the Aurora Award appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more

It has been a busy year of short fiction releases for me. My novella, Untethered Sky, and the Green Bone Saga short story collection Jade Shards are now both available in print, ebook, and audiobook editions, and I also have a new Poe-inspired short story, “Nameless Here For Evermore,” in The Book of Witches anthology, edited by Jonathan Strahan, which released on August 1st. The post An Abundant Year of Short Fiction appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more

Behold the glorious art of Charis Loke that is the cover for Jade Shards, the Green Bone Saga short story collection releasing from Subterranean Press in July. I love how well the cover design complements The Jade Setter of Janloon and weaves in so many details from the four prequel short stories that comprise the collection. Family relationships have always been at the heart of the Green Bone Saga and Charis captured that perfectly. Many thanks to Petrik Leo for hosting the official cover reveal on his blog and YouTube channel. The signed, limited edition hardcover of Jade Shards will be avai ..read more

Book deal news! My next novel, The Last Contract of Isako, is a cyberpunk samurai space opera (without the space) that I describe as what you’d get if Akira Kurosawa wrote Dune starring a 50-something give-no-fucks swordswoman on her last job, blended with vibes of Blade Runner plus a touch of John Wick. Scheduled to release in Winter 2025. Read the announcement from Orbit Books.  The post Announcing: The Last Contract of Isako appeared first on Fonda Lee ..read more