Yaroslav Barsukov's Blog

My upcoming novel, Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, made quite a splash at the Worldcon in Glasgow!

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Dear, beautiful all, I need your help!



If you liked the Nebula-nominated Tower of Mud and Straw, please consider voting for it in the Locus Poll. My publisher and I never thought Tower would achieve success—and we never submitted the book to the magazine, which means you'd have to use a "write-in" field for Best Novella:

Tower of Mud and Straw, Yaroslav Barsukov (Metaphorosis)

https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/

Thank you so much for your time and consideration!

Tower of Mud and Straw has been shortlisted for the Nebula Award!

Thank you for your kindness and support, y'all!

By the way, the novella is also eligible for the Hugo and the Locus Award. If you've enjoyed it, please consider nominating it (Hugo) or writing it in (Locus):

https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/

Metaphorosis Books and I are announcing the...

Tower of Mud and Straw Blog Tour!



February 22nd:
http://www.lawrencemschoen.com/plugs/... Interview
https://www.risingshadow.net/articles... Interview

February 23rd:
https://starlitbook.com/2021/02/23/in... Interview

February 24th:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLqkUYTAW... Bookstagram Spotlight & QA

February 25th:
http://novelnotions.net/ Guest post ("Tower of Straw, or Fleeing Hobbiton")
https://www.instagram.com/donna_is_re... Bookstagram Spotlight & QA

February 26th:
http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/ Guest post ("Towers and Fever Dreams")
https://fanfiaddict.com/ (Two reviews and a video interview)

Another lifelong ambition fulfilled—I've appeared on Bookworm Blues, as an interviewee and as a book :)

Here I ramble on about my writing process, bullet trains, African elephant brains, and being a former game developer:

http://www.bookwormblues.net/2020/12/...

And here's the review that almost made me, a grown-ass man, cry. "[Tower of Mud and Straw is] different, and eye-catching, with stunning prose and a shocking amount of depth and story packed in a few short pages."

http://www.bookwormblues.net/2020/12/...