Wow, I made the BSFA longlist for Rarkyn's Fall and A Night So Dark And Full Of Stars! (I didn't even know I was eligible ) Vote for the BSFA Awards
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I'm attending a reversion of rights webinar by the Alliance of Independent Authors, and wow the questions are flooding into the Q&A from authors. 20 minutes in (it goes for an hour) and there are already over 60 questions.
Absolutely over the moon to share that SpecFicNZ has secured NZ$30,000 in grant funding to set up and run judged speculative fiction awards for NZ and Pasifika authors! Big thanks to @Lee Murray and my fellow SpecFicNZ award committee for getting this project off the ground!
The official LiMoWriMo thread is up! Join the event here: LiNoWriMo - Litopia Novel Writing Month (LiMoWriMo)
Squee! Delighted to share that The Rarkyn's Fall, Book 2 of The Rarkyn Trilogy, is officially out in the wild today
Woohoo! It's release day for A Night So Dark And Full Of Stars
Squee! My short dark fantasy/horror story is an Australasian Shadow Awards Finalist! Australasian Shadows Awards
On my word, I just got back some of the auditions for Once We Flew audiobook and... just wow. They are amazing!
On the off chance... anyone somewhat familiar with subatomic particles/physics? I need to a brain to pick for a sci-fi story.
Squee! THE RARKYN'S FAMILIAR has won a Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Winners
Very excited to share that The Rarkyn's Familiar is a finalist in the Aurealis Awards AND the Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Awards! [Insert excited author squeals] #mindblown 2022 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement
Wewt, wewt! An anthology project I'm part of is now out from PS Publishing! FROM THE WASTELAND is an anthology of spec fic stories inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Wasteland'. From the Waste Land
Thrilled to share that The Rarkyn's Familiar is a finalist (x6!) in the Indie Ink Awards! THE RARKYN'S FAMILIAR is a finalist in the Indie Ink Awards!
Got my first ever YouTube review! *Squee*
I'm having a virtual launch party on Sunday AM (Saturday PM for UK and US time zones). There will be games and pizza (BYO) and general Zoom shenanigans. If you want to join in, you can register here to get the meeting info: The Rarkyn's Familiar - Virtual Launch Pizza Party! (BYO Pizza)
Super excited to share that THE RARKYN'S FAMILIAR is now officially out in the world!
Book Launch in T-minus 30 days! (eeek!) If anyone's up for some fun, my publisher and I have made a silly "Which character are you?" quiz to help promote it! ANNOUNCING a very special pre-order campaign: The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee!
I'm thrilled to share that I just won the 2021 Ditmar Award for Best New Talent! Here's the zoomed award ceremony for anyone interested
Exciting news! I'm a finalist in the 2021 Ditmar Awards for Best New Talent! (The Ditmar Award is Australia's oldest science fiction, fantasy and horror award, presented annually since 1969) 2021 Ditmar preliminary ballot - Australian sf information
Stoked to wake up this morning to learn that Midnight Echo 15 (which featured one of my short stories) won an Australian Shadow Award! 2020 Australian Shadows Awards Winners
Very excited to hear that Midngiht Echo 15 (which featured one of my short stories) was shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Shadow Awards in the Edited Works category! Midnight Echo 15
For anyone who needs a prod in their creative project/s, come join the writing accountability buddies (WAB) crew! The May thread is now open here: https://colony.litopia.com/threads/writing-accountability-buddies-–-may-21.9319/
Holy Moly, I got shortlisted 6 times across 4 categories for the Aurealis Awards!!! :O 2020 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement
The March Writing Accountability Buddies Group is open! If you need some extra motivation to make progress on your WIP, come and join us! https://colony.litopia.com/threads/writing-accountability-buddies-march-21.9071/
February's Writing Accountability Buddies thread is open for anyone looking for some extra motivatioin to get some writing done! https://colony.litopia.com/threads/writing-accountability-buddies-feb-21.8915/#post-104028
First #10Questions interview for the year is up—featuring fellow Litopian and antipodean @CageSage! 10 Questions with Cage Dunn
I just looked over the authorly things I've done this year and holy cow, I've done a lot!
145,400 words written
27x submissions
13x acceptances
19x authors interviewed
18x short stories/novellas written (15 published)
3x Twitter pitching events (SFFpit, IWSGPit and PitDark)
3x anthologies edited
2x publishing offers
1x publishing deal
2020 in review
I’ve never had much to share in previous years, but this year has been a doozy on the creative front.www.nikkythewriter.com
The January Writing Accountability Buddies (WAB) thread is up! Come join us if you need some motivation to wip your WIP into shape. https://colony.litopia.com/threads/writing-accountability-buddies-january-21.8736/
Stoked to be interviewed by Lee Murray as part of the Midnight Echo 15 author showcase
Midnight Echo #15 Showcase: Nikky Lee
In the seminal novel that launched a genre, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote, “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.” With this single sentence, Shelley cuts at the reason that so many of us embrace dark fiction. And it is with this notion in mind that I am...
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Just saw this! The Big 5 are now the Big 4 :O Penguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster -
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