“Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Shadow Scale, the sequel to Seraphina, is out at last! The first few chapters are available for free at Scribd, if you’d like to sample it and see what all the fuss is about. “Hartman deftly avoids the traditional pitfalls of genre, confronting rape culture head on and seamlessly integrating it into the quest narrative without any consideration for so-called historical accuracy.” - EK Johnston, SPINDLE Johnston, That Inevitable Victorian Thing “Here I am slain by road builders, symbolic and otherwise. Hartman is absolutely on point throughout.” - EK Johnston, A Thousand Nights “Come for the fantasy quest adventure, STAY FOR THE DISSECTION OF RAPE CULTURE. I love her so much I might burst.” - E.K. “Tess is unlikeable, ungraceful, uncooperative, and unrepentant. It is a joy to watch her journey unfold, as she slowly reclaims the strength she always had.” - Susin Nielsen, author of Optimists Die First
“Tess is my new favorite heroine, a flawed, boozy scrapper dealing with the after-effects of a terrible (and all too common) secret. This is a book that fantasy needs.” - Max Gladstone, author of The Craft Sequence series Picaresque, cutting, witty, expansive in vision, adventure, and compassion: Tess has it all.
“ Seraphina and Shadow Scale flew to the heights of epic, humane, emotionally intelligent fantasy-and Tess soars in their company. “Rewarding and enlightening, both a fantasy adventure and a discourse on consent, shame, and female empowerment.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred “Exquisite storytelling…absolutely essential.” - Booklist, starred Look below the image for some additional praise for Tess of the Road! Come see me! Details on the Appearances page (soon, if they’re not there yet). I’m also going to attend Festival Celsius 232 in Spain in July. Tess of the Road is a finalist for the Andre Norton Award (Nebula) and the Lodestar Award (Hugo) - and as a result I will be going to the Nebula and Hugo award conventions and ceremonies. For a preview of this new translation, see this blog post. The Irish-language edition of Seraphina, published by Coisceim and translated by Scott Oser, will be available soon. We have everything we need for the TESS sequel: cover, title, and publication date.Ĭoming February 1st, 2022: IN THE SERPENT’S WAKE. Come join me on a fabulous (fabulist’s?) folkloric journey over at FAKE FOLKTALES, my new Patreon.įriends, the time has come at last.
Do you like folktales, by chance? Every one of my books contains folktales and/or folk songs, but those are nothing (in terms of sheer quantity) compared with the tales and songs that didn’t make it into the books.
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