I’m ecstatic to announce that earlier this week I sold my first adult novel to DAW Books. The book is titled Who Fears Death? and it is possibly the most terrifying book I’ve ever written.I started writing it just after my father passed in 2004 and the very nature of the story plagued me with nightmares as I was writing it. It also plagued several of my friend with nightmares when they read it. The story is relentless and unflinching. It was inspired by the genocide in the Sudan and written just after the passing of my father (I started it a week after). There is deep deep African magic. There is terrible violence, but there is beauty too.David Anthony Durham, author of Acacia, said this about Who Fears Death?: "Nnedi Okorafor has embarked on a rather stunning literary journey. In several wonderful novels and short stories, she has tapped into diverse traditions that date back into the dawn of humanity’s first storytelling ventures. She uses this material toward a forward-looking complexity that, I believe, predicts the coming face of global speculative fiction. Her latest novel for adults, Who Fears Death?, is urgently topical, at times brutal, and always wholly original. It’s no surprise she’s been racking up awards. There are more to come, surely."It is scheduled for release in early 2010. My YA utterly insane fantasy novel, tentatively called Sunny and the Leopard People (this title is going to change) is scheduled for release in the fall of 2010.In other news, the paperback of The Shadow Speaker comes out in March. Watch for the book trailer.Nnedi
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