John Lennard’s analysis of the Protector series, Reading Tamora Pierce: The Protector of the Small, is available in non-DRM’d e-format from Humanities-EBooks, LLP, and to U.S. fans on Amazon.com!
Tamora Pierce will be one of the dozen female authors contributing to Gail Simone‘s five-part graphic novel anthology, Legends of Red Sonja, for Dynamite Comics.
Update (4/14/2016): You can now purchase the complete anthology here, on Amazon.com.
Click below to watch a video of Tamora Pierce’s Margaret A. Edwards Award Acceptance Speech.
The WhatANerdGirlSays blog’s Fandom Friday feature this week: Tamora Pierce and Tortall.
School Library Journal interviewed Tamora Pierce for the June 2013 issue. Check it out here: World Builder: Edwards Winner Tamora Pierce.
From Time and Publishers Lunch: Exclusive: An Excerpt from the Upcoming YA-Fantasy Novel by Tamora Pierce.
Tamora Pierce is the recipient of 2013’s Margaret A. Edwards Award, which “honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature…” More information can be found here.
Josepha Sherman, Writer, Editor, Long-Time Friend of Tamora Pierce’s and Co-Editor of the Young Warriors: Stories of Strength Anthology, Died on Thursday, August 23, 2012. Jo was a fun-loving, hilarious presence on the SF scene, and leaves behind an enormous number of fan and pro friends.
R.I.P., Jo.
NPR’s list of The 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels is out, and Tamora Pierce made the list with four of her six nominated series: The Song of the Lioness (#50), Daughter of the Lioness/Tricksters (#81), The Immortals (#83) and The Circle of Magic (#86).
Tamora Pierce was a finalist for the 2012 Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature for the Beka Cooper series. The award went to Delia Sherman’s The Freedom Maze, a book Tammy highly recommends to all her fans. Congratulations, Delia!