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Hi everyone, my next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller about aging corporate samurai, called The Last Contract of Isako. It will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks and @tommypocket gave me a kickass cover for it ⚔️
Fonda Lee **news and updates**
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Fonda Lee **news and updates**
@FondaJLee
World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. Find me elsewhere. linktr.ee/fondalee Newsletter: eepurl.com/O9JDn
- My idea is for a book club called Better Late Than Never, where we read books that made their splash years ago and that everyone else has already read and we're too embarrassed to admit we haven't.
- The fact that "Trending on TikTok" is a bookstore display section just made me crumble into dust
- I'd like to go to a luxury resort where instead of golf and tennis courts, there's a gorgeous library with crackling fires and the comfiest chairs and servers bring you drinks and canapes while you read all day long.
- Notice how the sorts of people who were attacking Asians for being dirty, bat-eating plague carriers last month are holding us up as model citizens now. Remarkable how quickly the narrative pivots depending on what minority group is perceived as being the current threat.When we talk about Asian-Americans being used as a wedge by white supremacists dangling conditional, second-class citizenship as a carrot if we contort ourselves for the white gaze? THIS. This trashbag is a *psychology professor.*
- People rarely buy books after one exposure. They buy them after hearing about them five, six, seven times. When you keep recommending a book you love over and over again, you may feel like a broken record. You may think you're overdoing it. You're not. Many drops build a wave.
- Hollywood is like a excruciatingly unimaginative boyfriend that keeps bringing you to the same restaurant over and over again because you once said you liked the bread there.BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Reboot by MR. ROBOT Creator Coming to NBC Streaming Service buff.ly/2M1FBIO
- People often say they're "late to the party" when it comes to books, but remember: authors *depend* on backlist sales to build a financially sustainable career. So no need to ever feel bad about being "late." We authors pray for latecomers to keep the party going.
- I'm deeply fond of Harry Potter (putting me in company w/ ~2 billion other ppl). But JKR and HP have become the prime example of approaching representation in fantasy fiction completely ass-backwards: awkwardly shoehorning it in after the fact. (An irritated thread about writing)
- Any science fiction or dystopia writer could tell you the Chekhov's gun principle that states if you create something as totalitarian-sounding as the Department of Homeland Security, there is a straight, predictable plot line to it being turned on its own citizens.
- Likability is overrated. Characters do not need to be likable. What they need to be is interesting and understandable. Readers do not have to approve of your characters' actions, but they DO have to understand at a deep level why they're doing them.
- Three ways a book can succeed: 1. big publisher marketing campaign 2. author is a celebrity 3. word of mouth 90% of authors don't have the first two. We write as well as we can and hope and pray for the third. Please keep talking about the books you love; authors depend on it.
- I worked in corporate strategy at Nike for years. Nike's most loyal and lucrative core consumer? Black youth. Not the Trump supporter cutting his socks with pruning shears. #NikeBoycott? The company is laughing its way to the bank.
- Husband, like an AMATEUR, announced we’d like to pay for dinner. My sister-in-law was up like a shot and sniped the bill. I was holding baby nephew - helpless, unable to lunge for purse. When you bring a white spouse to an Asian family dinner, they simply don’t have the skillz
