![]() ![]() ![]() Shesheshen is loath to deceive, but just as she’s about to confess her true identity, Homily reveals she’s hunting a shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Through a chance encounter, she meets a different kind of human, warm-hearted Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen as a human in turn. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who usually resides as an amorphous lump in the swamp of a ruined manor, unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she’s fallen in love. Acquiring editor Katie Hoffman says, “It feeds a growing delight I’ve seen in blending the gruesome and the whimsical, the bloody and the quaint.” While a chilling tale of generational harm and the struggle of surviving in a hostile world, Someone You Can Build A Nest In also stubbornly offers that possibility that, through surprising connections, we may still discover new definitions of love and relearn our own value. Pitched as Gideon The Ninth meets Circe, this highly-anticipated fantasy is a creepy, charming monster-slaying sapphic romance-from the perspective of the monster, a shapeshifter named Shesheshen who falls in love with a human.Īt the core of this dark fantasy is a heartwarming, cozy rom-com. Wiswell’s debut novel, scheduled for Spring 2024, is Someone You Can Build A Nest In. Katie Hoffman, Senior Editor at DAW Books, has acquired World rights to two fantasy novels by Nebula Award-winning author John Wiswell, represented by Hannah Bowman at Liza Dawson Associates. (2) DAW ACQUIRES TWO JOHN WISWELL FANTASY NOVELS. I think there are four necessary qualities: talent, persistence, flexibility, and luck…. ![]() In a recent interview that I was recording for my and Robert Lanza’s forthcoming novel, Observer, the interviewer asked, “What qualities do you think an aspiring writer must have?” This is something to which I have given a lot of thought because I am often asked it by attendees at Taos Toolbox. ![]() Nancy Kress told Facebook readers what qualities a writer needs to have: ![]()
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