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Bluejo's Journal
Reading, writing, and what's for dinner.
Permanent Account, Created on 15 November 2002 (#777802), Last updated on 22 May 2013
- Name:
- Jo Walton
- Birthdate:
- 1 December 1964
- Location:
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- External Services:
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- bluejo@gmail.com
- papersky@livejournal.com
- Interests: (150)
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- Bio
- I kissed a kif at Kefk.
"If all the sky were paper
And all the seas were ink,
We'd have a lot to read and write
But nowt to eat or drink."
Traditional nursery rhyme.
Jo Walton's latest novel is the fantasy novel Among Others, 2011. It has won the Hugo, Nebula, Robert Holdstock and the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards.
Her fantasy novel Lifelode was published in February 2009 by NESFA Press, and is available from them. They also published her poetry collection, Sibyls and Spaceships. Lifelode is a domestic fantasy, which won the Mythopoeic Award and a Tiptree Honor.
Before that she wrote the Small Change series, Farthing (2006), Ha'Penny (2007) and Half a Crown (2008). They are stand alone novels, but better if you read them in order. They are best described as alternate history mysteries. Farthing was nominated for the Nebula, John W. Campbell Memorial, Sidewise, Locus and Quill Awards and won the Romantic Times Reviewe's Choice Award. Ha'Pennny won the Prometheus Award, and was also nominated for the Sidewise, Lambda and Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards. Half a Crown won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award and was also nominated for the Sidewise Award.
She has also written the World Fantasy Award winning Tooth and Claw, (Tor November 2003, mass market paperback November 2004), a sentimental Victorian novel about dragons who eat each other. It is available in Chinese, Japanese, German, Czech and Spanish and has been reprinted by Tor in an Orb trade paperback edition.
Her earlier works are The Prize in the Game (Tor 2002, paperback April 2004) and the diptych The King's Peace (Tor 2000) and The King's Name (Tor 2001). These two are also available from Penguin Australia, and in German and Dutch.
She won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 2002.
She comes from Wales, but lives in Montreal where the food and books are more varied. As well as this livejournal, which she uses mostly for poetry, recipes, and wordcount, she blogs regularly about books on Tor.com