leahbobet http://leahbobet.com The online home of Leah Bobet Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:28:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Above and the Auroras. http://leahbobet.com/2013/04/27/above-and-the-auroras/ http://leahbobet.com/2013/04/27/above-and-the-auroras/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:28:45 +0000 Leah http://leahbobet.com/?p=367 Embargo is off!

I’m honoured to announce that ABOVE is a nominee for the 2013 Aurora Award for Best YA Novel, alongside work from Kelley Armstrong, Charles de Lint, Cory Doctorow, Neil Godbout, and Mitchell Plested.

–and that “Hold Fast”, which appeared in Strange Horizons last June, is nominated as well in the Best Poem/Song category, alongside work from Carolyn Clink, David Clink, Sandra Kasturi, and Helen Marshall.

The final ballot’s available for your examination here, and congratulations to everyone nominated!

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  • If you’re interested in hearing about the writing process, Toronto’s underground spaces, and the secrets of cities, I’m doing a Keep Toronto Reading event on just those things on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 7pm, at the Kennedy/Eglinton branch of the Toronto Public Library.  There will be books for sale at this one, if only a handful!
  • The Apocalypse Tour is riding again, with a few Southern Ontario dates!  On Thursday, May 2, 2013, we’ll be at Essa Public Library’s Angus Branch in Angus, Ontario at 4pm — and by we, we mean Megan Crewe, Adrienne Kress, Maureen McGowan, and Cheryl Rainfield.
  • On May 4 at 2pm, Megan, Maureen, Cheryl, and I will descend upon Chapters South London to answer questions, sign books, and terrorize the populace.  There’s a Facebook event page here if you’re minded to RSVP, and it’ll be Maureen’s birthday, so a good round of the happy birthday song is welcomed and encouraged!
  • On May 5 at 2pm, Megan, Maureen, Cheryl, and Courtney Summers will finish this mini-leg of the Apocalypse Tour without me at Chapters Oshawa, because I am flaking to lead a Jane’s Walk that afternoon.

 

  • Finally, I will be at the Nebula Awards Weekend in San Jose, CA, from May 16-19, 2013.  I plan to have a kicky awards dress and a minimum of jet lag.

And that’s the news!

]]> http://leahbobet.com/2013/04/24/going-out-in-public-aprilmay-edition/feed/ 0 And finally, some news you’ve (okay, I’VE) been waiting for… http://leahbobet.com/2013/04/03/and-finally-some-news-youve-okay-ive-been-waiting-for/ http://leahbobet.com/2013/04/03/and-finally-some-news-youve-okay-ive-been-waiting-for/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:23:20 +0000 Leah http://leahbobet.com/?p=356 It’s in Publishers Marketplace, and that makes it true, so:

My second young adult novel, On Roadstead Farm, will be published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with editor Anne Hoppe, who’s also edited Melissa Marr, Merrie Haskell, Garth Nix, and Terry Pratchett (!).

What is this book even about?  Have some unofficial cover copy I just wrote up right now!

Hallie Hoffmann has spent her sixteenth summer trying desperately to keep her family farm together.  Her sister, Marthe, is pregnant, and her brother-in-law Thomas marched in the spring to war against the Wicked God Southward–a war which ended at midsummer when a normal man turned hero, the mysterious John Balsam, cut out the Wicked God’s heart and disappeared.

The trouble is, so has Thom.

When a mysterious war veteran from the north asks to hire on for the winter, Hallie sees her chance to keep Roadstead Farm alive–and to apologize to her sister for a summer of fighting by protecting their home.  But the Wicked God’s twisted creations aren’t far behind: monstrous animals whose touch sucks the life from flesh, trees, or stone.  Because the kindly Heron has the one thing everyone in the world wants: The knife that somehow killed a God.

And all hell is coming after him.

So basically it’s a post-epic fantasy, post-apocalyptic, literary dustbowl novel with bonus! Creepy Spider-birds and dealing with people’s war PTSD and a good helping of kissing.  Like you do.

Street date when I have one.  :)

]]> http://leahbobet.com/2013/04/03/and-finally-some-news-youve-okay-ive-been-waiting-for/feed/ 6 Mother Russia rain down down DOWN– http://leahbobet.com/2013/03/15/mother-russia-rain-down-down-down/ http://leahbobet.com/2013/03/15/mother-russia-rain-down-down-down/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:48:53 +0000 Leah http://leahbobet.com/?p=349 Longtime readers will know that it is officially spring in my house when I get the inexorable urge to put on The Sisters of Mercy’s Floodland, open all the windows, clean house, and dance around in my socks.  This, um.  Happens every year.

Apparently I was late on it this year, because I was all the way to the white house in the red square before I realized I was humming it to myself.  With the window open.  Making bread.

So apparently it’s spring, guys.  Happy spring!

 

 

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Superheroes

I have a piece in here: “Wild Card”, which is a novelette written as part of the Shadow Unit universe.  And it is very exciting for me to be in the same book with Peter S. Beagle, who wrote what was probably the book that’s affected me most in, well, life.

It’s available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  Enjoy!

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Above is a nominee for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.  Also known as the YA wing of the Nebula Awards.

Official announcement here, rife with jaw-droppingly good company: congrats to everyone on the ballot!

(I continue stunned.  The Nebulas.  What a world. )

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Superheroes

It’s available for preorder at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and should be hitting shelves all over around March 1st!

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Sounds about right.

Happy New Year, everyone.

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RSVP at the event page, and check it for further details — hope to see you there!

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Kirkus Reviews has named ABOVE as one of their Best Teen Books of 2012!

So yes.  Sweet.  :)

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