Tamara Kawar - تمارا

If I don't like your pitch, but you think your work could be right for me, please also feel free to query at the same link! #DVpit

Hi #DVpit, I'm so glad we're back! If I like your pitch please send in your query + first 20 pages or GN pitch or art portfolio at the following link:
querytracker.net/query/tkawar...

My sapphic figure skating graphic novel, Just Between Us, is debuting next year 🩷🩷🩷

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

bask in the brilliance of this cover!

Welcome to the final reckoning.

SEASON OF THE SERPENT 🐍, the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy, is out from Orbit Books in August 2026. Buckle up.

Against a blue background, white text "The Crowns of Ishia novella trilogy". Below, the book covers for THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, THE DESERT TALON and A COVENANT OF ICE. The white Solaris logo is at the bottom in the middle.

Now complete!

THE CROWNS OF ISHIA, @karinlow.bsky.social 's novella trilogy of indigenous dragonriders seeking to live in balance with the land, resist those that oppress them and find love and family on the frontier concludes in A COVENANT OF ICE.

Buy geni.us/ishia

Explore THE CROWNS OF ISHIA by Karin Lowachee Read now:

A Covenant of Ice is out today in North Am! It wasn’t written by AI in any way. The cover art is human made. My publisher & editor are cool beans. @solarisbooks.bsky.social

If you want to support art being made by humans, for humans, give my anti-colonial, queer+ dragon book a go geni.us/ishia

i was a teenage exocolonist

What Was Built to Be a Ship of Dreams?: The Titanic by Emmett Nahil, Who HQ: 9780593661109 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Discover the story of the Titanic’s ill-fated voyage through three diverse perspectives of survivors in this affecting graphic novel by Let Me Out author Emmett Nahil and award-winning illustrator...

What Was Built to Be a Ship of Dreams?: The Titanic is a graphic novel for middle grade readers coming from the Who HQ series on July 15th!

Proud to have created this small graphic novel alongside @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social!
You can preorder it now for the young reader in your life.

Subverting the western: It’s no longer a gunslinger’s game Karin Lowachee will be drawing The Crowns of Ishia novella trilogy to a close this July with A Covenant of Ice and to celebrate she discusses subverting Westerns – aka ‘The Weird West’.

“Subverting the Western” - an article I wrote on SciFiNow ahead of the release of A Covenant of Ice this month! @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/subvert...

Finalists in Outstanding Novella FRACTAL KARMA – Arula Ratnakar (Clarkesworld) LOST ARK DREAMING – Suyi Okungbowa Davies (Tordotcom) THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST – Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom) THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT – A. D. Sui (Neon Hemlock) THE PRACTICE, THE HORIZON, AND THE CHAIN – Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)

The #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Outstanding Novella category is for speculative works ranging from 17,500-39,999 words. Congratulations to the following titles and their authors.

LOST ARK DREAMING is a finalist for best novella! Congrats to @suyidavies.com!!

For Pride Month 🌈, calling all queer book reviewers that would be interested in reading my novella trilogy and giving an honest write up (the central relationship in this world where queerness is not othered is amongst 3 men). DM your email & I’ll send you eARCs. Signal boosting appreciated 🙏🏼

please send this my way! querytracker.net/query/tkawar

asmr release day

“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

Cover of THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, The Crowns of Ishia Book One by Karin Lowachee. It is yellow with a detailed orange-red image of a winged dragon atop a mountain.

Cover of THE DESERT TALON, The Crowns of Ishia Book Two, by Karin Lowachee. A large yellow and orange dragon is in the air with its wings spread wide with two smaller dragons flying in the background. Below them are orange-red sands.

Cover of A COVENANT OF ICE, The Crowns of Ishia Book Three, by Karin Lowachee. It shows a detailed image of a winged blue dragon in the air with a mountain and people below it. Other than the black title, the cover is in pale-to-medium shades of icy blues.

"I knew it would be a challenge to depict a point-of-view character like Méka who isn’t constantly threatening her world with violence or revolution as The Answer to aggression."

@karinlow.bsky.social on The Crowns of Ishia:

www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/04/wome...

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy 📚🪐

The cover of Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, over a background of a star nebula, announced as a finalist for the Best Novella Award in the 2024 Nebula Awards.

Lost Ark Dreaming goes Nebula!
@sfwa.bsky.social

Donate to Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop Emergency Appeal, organised by Saqi Books Bookselling is not a crime: fundraiser to support the Educational Booksh… Saqi Books needs your support for Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop Emergency Appeal

At 3pm on 9 February 2025, booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna were accosted by undercover Israeli police. They were arrested at the Educational Bookshop, handcuffed and taken to prison. Over 250 books were confiscated.

Against a gold silk background, a flatlaid novella paperback - THE DESERT TALON by Karin Lowachee. The book is surrounded by gold and copper objects. The white Solaris nova logo is in the bottom right corner.

🎉 🎂 Happy US Book Birthday to @karinlow.bsky.social's THE DESERT TALON!

The adventures of the gunslinging dragon-riders of Ishia continue in the second novella of THE CROWNS OF ISHIA series. Featuring new characters, a new setting, and some familiar faces... https://geni.us/desertt

Very honored to see LOST ARK DREAMING make the Locus recommended reading list this year, alongside a host of excellent works and authors. Congrats to all!

yes please!

2024 Literary Auction for Change By Literary Agents of Change, Inc.

There's a lot of great #kidlit stuff in the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social auction that still has very few bids, so it's still really possible to get in on it! I'm going to call out a few but you can view the entire auction here.

givebutter.com/c/MsVK8X/auc...

congrats Chelsea!!!

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy Questions Presenting as Narrative: A Conversation with Suyi Davies Okungbowa by Arley Sorg

"Every revolution needs a delulu believer."

My latest interview with @clarkesworldmagazine.com is out this morning. I had a blast with @arleysorg.bsky.social, as always. This is the most extensive discussion of LOST ARK DREAMING I've had. Free to read: clarkesworldmagazine.com/okungbowa_in...

Happy LOST ARK DREAMING day.

8 years in the making, if you can believe it. On my blog today, I've laid out---as a release day treat---how this little book came to be, each step of the way. You can read that here: suyidavies.com/updates/jour...

Read an Excerpt From Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Lost Ark Dreaming - Reactor A high-octane post-climate disaster novella.

In high towers in the sea in a flooded West Africa, the wealthy live on top; workers below—while the drowned seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves.

Read an excerpt from Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, out now from Tordotcom Publishing.
reactormag.com/excerpts-suy...

Revealing Karin Lowachee's The Mountain Crown A Q&A with one of my favorite writers

Karin Lowachee is one of my favorite authors, so I’m always excited to hear about a new book from her. Her next is The Mountain Crown, and it’s about dragons.

Here’s my interview with her about it: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/the-mountain...