I’m very pleased to say that The Embroidered Book won the Aurora Award for Best Novel this weekend. Luckily, I had made some speech notes and put on a fancy dress just in case! What a lovely honour even to be nominated along with Silvia Moreno Garcia, Guy Gavriel Kay, Premee Mohamed and Emily St. John Mandel. My speech is here, at about 1 hour and 12 minutes, if you’d like to watch.

This is my second Aurora award. Armed in Her Fashion/The Chatelaine won for best novel in 2019. (I’ve also been shortlisted for both the Alice Payne novellas, but they didn’t win.) The Aurora is Canada’s science fiction, fantasy and horror award, decided by popular vote (one has to be a member of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Society to vote; memberships are $10 annually and open to all Canadians.)