It’s an incredible feeling when you see that starting to happen. As an author, you always hope that your work will connect with people and that some of them will love your characters as much as you do. All I could do was send it out into the world knowing that I’d stayed true to my vision and written the best book I could.Īn enormous part of the energy around this series has been driven by word of mouth from the blogging community, and I’m deeply thankful for that. Jade City was quite different from most of the other fantasy that was out there at the time it was released, so I didn’t know if it would gain an audience. I wrote it because it was what I wanted to read but couldn’t find on shelves. The Green Bone Saga is my passion project. I didn’t know what to expect when the first book came out. There have even been groups of fans swearing fealty to No Peak Clan, and there has been some incredible fan art being made! Did you have an inkling that your series would be so well received? Your book has made quite a few well-deserved, waves with many bloggers, especially within the Twitter community. Thank you! We’re very excited about the #WomenIn SFF feature! Thank you, and thanks to The Fantasy Hive for spotlighting women authors this month! Hi Fonda Lee, welcome to the Hive! We’re so thrilled to have you – your Green Bone Saga is nothing short of amazing. Fonda is a recovering corporate strategist, black belt martial artist, and action movie aficionado living in Portland, Oregon. Fonda won the Aurora Award, Canada’s national science fiction and fantasy award, twice in the same year for Best Novel and Best YA Novel. Her young adult science fiction novels, Zeroboxer, Exo, and Cross Fire, have garnered accolades including being named Junior Library Guild Selections and Andre Norton Award finalists. Her fantasy trilogy, the Green Bone Saga, begins with Jade City, which won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards, and was named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s Books, Syfy Wire, and the Verge. Fonda Lee is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels for adults and teens.

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