17 Responses to "your favorite “New to you” author discovered in 2013"
Ooooooh. Some new-to-me names in there! I’ve never heard of Ian Tregillis or Gillian Philip before, and I have yet to read anything by Melanie Rawn. I’ve loved the books I’ve read by Emma Bull and those by N.K. Jemisin, though. (I haven’t commented on any of the posts, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your comments on the read-along you joined.)
As for my own favourite new-to-me authors… That has to be M.C.A. Hogarth. Technically I discovered her works in late 2012 and she doesn’t count, but I spent the majority of 2013 reading through her backlist, so I say she counts for this year.
I’ve discovered several other authors this year too, but none that have made me go on a reading binge the way Hogarth has. Anyway, other authors I discovered this year are Ann Leckie, Cheryl Mahoney, Amy Rae Durreson, Michelle Sagara, Elizabeth McCoy, and Lindsay Buroker. I have several more books and stories by most of these authors lined up, so I’m looking forward to exploring them next year!
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Nnedi Okorafor, Catherynne M Valente, Tad Williams, and Scott Lynch are just some of the awesome new-to-me authors I discovered this past year. Here’s hoping that 2014 contains just as many introductions to awesome people!
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Scifi: Gareth L. Powell, Eric Brown and Ted Kosmatka.
Fantasy/Steampunk: Stephen Hunt (who should be revered as the Steampunk Tolkien by way of The Court of the Air)
And right now I’m dipping into Jonathan L Howard’s Johannes Cabal the Necromancer. Such amazing writing I almost don’t care how it ends!
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John Scalzi, SF writer and often-hilarious blogger, was my main 2013 discovery. He’s quite prolific, but the other terrific author I first read in 2013 has only published one quasi-novel (a fictionalized memoir). That’s Danusha Goska, whose book Save Send Delete I highly recommend to anyone interested in religious, moral or spiritual issues, or in fearlessly honest and intense writing. Her blog by the same name has a similar character.
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One thing I never have trouble with is reading new to me authors… There are so many… I bought some Ian Tregillis but haven’t read any of them yet!
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Nathan Ballingrud with his short story collection North American Lake Monsters. Sarah Pinborough with her Forgotten Gods trilogy.
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1 | Eliza_Mariah
December 24, 2013 at 12:35 pm
Candas Jane Dorsey and Greg
Egan for starters
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