I just learned that my forthcoming novel, AKATA WITCH, received a wonderful blurb from one of my favorite YA authors, Jonathan Stroud. He wrote the most excellent Bartimaeus series (it's a fantasy series steeped in Egyptian and Middle Eastern magic and history. If you haven't read it, check it out. That series is nuts! It is half told from the perspective of a fouled-tempered demon who has a habit of simultaneously speaking in prose and footnotes). I am totally honored that he read and enjoyed my novel:
Nnedi Okorafor is opening doors into strange and beautiful new worlds. Her heroes are beguiling, her magic firmly rooted in real places and real things. Rich, mysterious and convincing, AKATA WITCH takes fantasy in a haunting new direction.
-Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus series
WHOHOO!
Secondly, I recently learned that AKATA WITCH is a Junior Library Guild Selection. My first novel to be selected for a book club edition! I am pleased.
AKATA WITCH will be released by Viking (Penguin Books) on April 14th, 2011.
Lastly, my adult novel, WHO FEARS DEATH, is a 2010 Goodreads Choice Awards Official Nominee in the category of Fantasy. If you'd like to cast a vote for it, click here.
About the book:
Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits. And then she discovers something amazing: she is a "free agent," with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?
This is an Nsibidi symbol which means, "love". ;-)
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