Just a quick note to say that The Last Beginning and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe are both eligible for nomination in the Hugo awards this year, as they were published for the first time in the US in 2018.
If you’re coming to the Dublin WorldCon in August, you’re eligible to vote, and I would appreciate your nomination! You can choose them in the Best Novel or Best Young Adult novel category. I also believe that I’m eligible for the John Campbell Award as The Next Together was published for the first time in the US in 2017.
Also, the pin I posted about yesterday arrived! Check it out:
You can get the robot one here, the rocket one here, and the set of two here.
I like my pins to mean something, and not just be a reference to my books, because if I am going to wear something I want it to be worth the lapel space. So the rocket pin I made for The Loneliest Girl in the Universe was also a shout out to fandom. This time, as well as being the old lichen-covered robot Mitch from The Quiet at the End of the World, this pin represents our generation, who’ve grown up as the first people online. Hopefully even if you’ve not read my books you can get behind the message of being digitally-minded like Mitch here.
Published by Wren James
Wren James is the award-winning British author of eleven science fiction & fantasy novels, including The Quiet at the End of the World and The Next Together (previously published as Lauren James). Their books have sold over 200,000 copies in ten languages, and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe was optioned for film by Amazon MGM.
Wren is a story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper, which was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. Also a RLF Royal Fellow, Wren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability steering Committee. They work as a consultant on climate storytelling with a focus on providing optimism and hope.
They have won the Sustainable Story Award and been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Carnegie Medal and STEAM Book Award.
Wren’s writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly.
Their latest titles are Last Seen Online, a crime thriller set in the world of fandom, and The Victors, a cosy fantasy graphic novel illustrated by Beth Fuller.
Wren was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where they studied Chemistry and Physics. They run a Queer Writers group in Coventry. Follow them on Instagram & TikTok at @wrenjameswriter or find out more at wrenjames.co.uk.
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