Anachronism is Published!!!!!

My time travel novella Anachronism is now available in ebook and paperback! It's been in the works for close to two years, but now I can finally introduce the world to Petra, Moses, and Davenport!

ebook: https://www.amazon.com/Anachronism-Jennifer-Lee-Rossman-ebook/dp/B07B53G3JJ/

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Anachronism-Jennifer-Lee-Rossman/dp/1911497944/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1527783468&sr=1-7

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38824805-anachronism


I would love it if you could leave a review on Amazon if you like the book. (Not only do reviews help me sell more books, but it helps all the authors at my publisher get more attention for their books.


For the next week or so, my blog is going to feature interviews and guest posts I did to promote the book, so check back there if you're interested.


Oh, and get this: Yesterday I sold a copy of Anachronism to the local bookstore in the mall and they took down Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book to put mine on display. No big deal. Just my book replacing the book of my favorite living scientist.

Illustration Reveal!

Brief programming note: Anachronism comes out in TWO DAYS and the next week is going to be WILD with blog tours and release party stuff. And Glass and Gardens: Solarpunnk Summers comes out next Tuesday. And then my aunt is visiting from Florida and you won't hear from me for a while.

　

Now, on to the reveal...

　

This is the illustration for "Login," my Rumplestiltskin retelling featured in BRAVE NEW GIRLS: TALES OF HEROINES WHO HACK!

Sharon Emmitt is the artist, and is also my friend's sister. I believe this is her first published artwork.

BRAVE NEW GIRLS: TALES OF HEROINES WHO HACK will be released on July 5! Preorder now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CWM3FMK

T-Minus Less Than Two Weeks!

Anachronism comes out in less than two weeks. It feels like it's happening so fast and so slowly at the same time. I submitted the first version of the manuscript two years ago!

I didn't talk about my acceptance much at first because some part of my brain didn't want to get its hopes up in case it fell through for some reason? But it's happening and everyone at Kristell/Grimbold has been amazing.

　

Since my character Petra is the president in the future, we made these campaign posters to promote the book. (And my editor made the second one into pins!)

And this is my villain, Zachary Davenport, a time traveling assassin with moderately attractive eyebrows and plans for chaos. He's absolutely evil and I love him. He's a blast to write for and I hope everyone will love to hate him. (And maybe feel a little nervous around sunflowers?)

　

You can pre-order the ebook here (dead tree version coming soon): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38824805-anachronism and add it on Goodreads: https://www.amazon.com/Anachronism-Jennifer-Lee-Rossman-ebook/dp/B07B53G3JJ/


　
(Also, Glass and Gardens got a great review at Publisher's Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9987022-7-8)

The Dragon of Ynys Blog Tour

Today I have the great pleasure of reviewing The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen as part of her release tour. It's a sweet fantasy novella about diversity in fiction.

　

I was given an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

　

I didn't know what to expect from this book. All I really knew about it was there's a dragon and Miranda Cerridwn wrote it, but that was enough for me because she's a terrific writer.

　

The story starts off in a small town besieged by a snarky dragon with an affinity for shiny things, and asexual/aromantic knight Sir Violet develops a working relationship with him when he goes to retrieve the objects from Snap's cave. Their banter is great.

　

I was delighted when a woman from the village enlisted Snap and Violet to find her missing wife, and even moreso when I thought "Oh, so it's a detective story?" and the book went "Nope!" and twisted into a quest for *spoopy handwaving so I don't spoil it*

　

This story is the sweetest, most pure thing. And so darn queer and accepting, it almost hurts. It's like, "You're a man who wears a dress? What are your pronouns? He/him? Okie dokie!" (Except for one character at the beginning who is pretty transmisic, but she is clearly not a good guy.)

　

This book has such an easy style of prose. No long, boring descriptions of countryside that so many fantasy books seem hung up on. It feels like a fairy tale - no word is wasted and every bit of dialogue has a purpose. And every name is a kind of plant! And there's a spider with a lisp but the book avoids that annoying thing where lithpth are thpelled out phonetically. It just goes "the spider had a lisp" and that's that.

　

You need this book in your life, your children need this book, the world needs this book.
 Visit Minerva's site for buy links: https://minervacerridwen.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/release-day/

Brave New Girls Available for Preorder! And An Announcement!

 

 The ebook of Brave New Girls: Tales of Heroines Who Hack is now available for preorder at Amazon and B&N!

 

This YA sci-fi anthology (edited by sci-fi authors Paige Daniels and Mary Fan) features stories about girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)… Girls who hack not just computers, but whatever puzzles come their way, using their smarts to save the day. It’s got sci-fi mysteries, cyberpunk, space adventures, and more! Proceeds from sales of the anthology will be donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund.

 

My story, Login, is a reimagining of Rumplestiltskin featuring a disabled hacker, a robot named Baby, and girls who build war machines with golden circuitry.

 

I'll be able to show you the illustration for my story soon. My friend's sister drew it, and I've only seen the first draft of the sketch but it is *awesome.*

 

 

And! My story Enough will be featured in We Shall Be Monsters, an anthology of short stories from marginalized authors for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!

 

My story is an extremely personal one about disability. It was based on an Incident some of you may have read about on this blog, along with a big ol' dose of "My father was a manipulative abuser." So... yeah. That's a blog post for another day. I promise the story is actually really hopeful.

 

Anyway. *gestures emphatically at the cover*

 

 

 

*psst* There's a Kickstarter if you wanna help pay those lovely names at the bottom of the cover.

Review: All Systems Red

All Systems Red by Martha Wells
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I want to love this book. I do love Murderbot, and the little glimpses of their humor we get to see. They definitely read autistic to me, and I just want to wrap them in a cozy blanket and let them watch TV and make everything okay. (As someone who's had her life decided for her, I thought the ending was perfectly executed.)

But their humor is sporadic and the prose is often dry and "tells" rather than "shows." (I usually hate that rule because it can be broken amazingly well, but this is not one of those times.)

And there are times when the prose seems to slip into present tense and others where they really need a comma or two to clear up sentences that are long but they don't have commas making me very irritated.

The human characters all felt the same to me. Like, I'm reasonably sure Gurathin is a jerk and Rathi likes Murderbot, but I couldn't tell you a damn thing about any of them. I'm not even sure of their genders half the time because they're all so forgettable. Part of that is my personal dislike for books that only give characters last names, but I feel it's also the characterization.

That's not to say it was a bad book. It was really entertaining and a fast read. I just didn't fall in love with it.

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