Fran Wilde

Two-time Nebula Award-winner Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, three Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula-winning, Best of NPR 2019, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny Magazine, and multiple years’ best anthologies.

Fran teaches for the Genre Fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University and the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also writes nonfiction for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Tor.com. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and at franwilde.net.

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THE BOOK OF GEMS

Tor.com / Macmillan

*A FanFiAddict Most Anticipated Release

“A glittering tale of academic jealousy and ancient artifacts, The Book of Gems is a pulse-pounding adventure.” ―Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor

“A creepy and dazzling new page in Fran Wilde’s Gem Universe.” ―Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Max Gladstone

“The Book of Gems is a story full of atmosphere and wonders leading us along an unsettling path to ask: how do you see the truth when you are certain you already know it? Fran Wilde brings us there with an adventurous, suspenseful story delivered with compassion and a steady hand.” ―C.L. Polk, World Fantasy Award-winner

“Sparkling with ancient mystery, rediscovered family, and magical history, The Book of Gems is a gripping story. Fran Wilde delivers a tale filled with compassion and dire warnings.” ―Jodi Meadows, New York Times bestselling author

Praise for Fran Wilde’s Gem Universe series:

”A splendid tale of courage and transformation in a world as exquisite as Wilde’s prose. You will be utterly entranced.” ―Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner, on The Jewel and Her Lapidary

“Readers who loved Jewel will be delighted by this outing.” ―Publishers Weekly, on The Fire Opal Mechanism

“A fun adventure, one that’s beautifully written.” ―io9, on The Jewel and Her Lapidary

“[A] sharp, glittering novella about friendship, family, loyalty, and mental instability.” ―Locus, on The Jewel and Her Lapidary

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THE SHIP OF STOLEN WORDS

Amulet Books, 2021

A group of goblins steal a boy’s ability to apologize in this lively middle-grade fantasy from Nebula Award-winning author Fran Wilde

No matter how much trouble Sam gets in, he knows that he can always rely on his magic word, “sorry,” to get him out of a pinch. Teasing his little sister too much? Sorry! Hurt someone’s feelings in class? Sorry! Forgot to do his chores? So sorry! But when goblins come and steal his “sorry,” he can’t apologize for anything anymore. To get his “sorry” back and stop the goblins from stealing anyone else’s words,

Sam will have to enter the goblins’ world and try and find the depository of stolen words. There, he meets Tolver, a young goblin who’s always dreamed of adventure. Tolver longs to use the goblin technology—which can turn words into fuel to power ships—to set off and explore, but his grandma warns him that the goblin prospectors will only bring trouble. Together, Tolver and Sam will have to outsmart the cruel prospectors and save the day before Sam’s parents ground him forever!

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RIVERLAND

Amulet Books, 2019

* Winner of the 2019 Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

*A 2020 Lodestar Finalist & A 2019 NPR Favorite Book

When things go bad at home, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide in a secret place under Eleanor’s bed, telling monster stories. Often, it seems those stories and their mother’s house magic are all that keep them safe from both busybodies and their dad’s temper. But when their father breaks a family heirloom, a glass witch ball, a river suddenly appears beneath the bed, and Eleanor and Mike fall into a world where dreams are born, nightmares struggle to break into the real world, and secrets have big consequences. Full of both adventure and heart, Riverland is a story about the bond between two sisters and how they must make their own magic to protect each other and save the ones they love.

“Wilde approaches… using the fantastic to symbolize and illuminate the complex emotions her characters experience. About courage and truth overcoming denial and fear, Riverland is an important book.” — Shelf Awareness, Starred Review

“A narrative that challenges the stereotypical stories of domestic violence, Riverland is painful and heartwarming all at once . . . A must-read.” — Booklist, Starred Review

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