2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire First Round Nominations

I am honoured to make the longlist for 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire First Round Nominations | File 770 in the Short Foreign Fiction category for ‘Ormeshadow’. It’s terrific to make it this far, alongside some fantastic authors – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, P. Djèlí Clark, Karen Joy Fowler, Greg Egan, Livia Llewellyn, Yûsuke Miyauchi, Anjali Sachdeva, Lucius Shepard , Hirotaka Tobi, and William T. Vollmann.

Je suis honorée de faire partie de la première sélection du Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire dans la catégorie « Nouvelle étrangère », avec Ormeshadow. C’est déjà formidable d’être arrivée aussi loin, aux côtés d’auteurs incroyables — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, P. Djèlí Clark, Karen Joy Fowler, Greg Egan, Livia Llewellyn, Yûsuke Miyauchi, Anjali Sachdeva, Lucius Shepard, Hirotaka Tobi et William T. Vollmann.

The awards will be presented during the Étonnants Voyageurs festival in Saint-Malo, France to be held June 4-6.

Les prix seront décernés lors du festival Étonnants Voyageurs qui se tiendra à Saint-Malo, en France, du 4 au 6 juin

My thanks to the jurors: Joëlle Wintrebert (president), Jean-Luc Rivera (vice-president), Nicolas Winter (deputy), Jean-Claude Dunyach (treasurer), Sylvie Allouche, François Angelier, Audrey Burki, Olivier Legendre, and Sylvie Le Jemtel. I’m delighted to make it this far.

Je remercie les jurés : Joëlle Wintrebert (présidente), Jean-Luc Rivera (vice-président), Nicolas Winter (adjoint), Jean-Claude Dunyach (trésorier), Sylvie Allouche, François Angelier, Audrey Burki, Olivier Legendre, et Sylvie Le Jemtel. Je suis ravie d’être arrivée jusqu’ici.

My thanks to my agent Alexander Cochran for the introduction to Erwann Perchoc of Le Bélial’ Éditions. Also to Anne-Sylvie Hamassel for her translation and Aurélien Police for his beautiful cover art.

Je remercie également mon agent Alexander Cochran pour la mise en contact avec Erwann Perchoc des éditions du Bélial’. Un grand merci aussi à Anne-Sylvie Homassel pour sa traduction et à Aurélien Police pour sa magnifique illustration de couverture.

Ormeshadow was originally published by Tor in 2019. My eternal thanks to everyone there and to Ellen Datlow.

Ormeshadow est paru originellement chez Tor en 2019. Ma reconnaissance éternelle à toute l’équipe et à Ellen Datlow.

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Amazon Best Books of the Month: SF & F

My novella, ‘Ormeshadow’ is listed in Amazon’s Best SFF for October 2019. Nope, I don’t believe it either.

The official release date is 15th October 2019.

Anthony R. Cardno kindly reviewed Ormshadow over on his blog:

Priya Sharma’s Ormeshadow is of that particular type of fantasy wherein the reader wonders if the fantasy aspect actually exists at all or is completely in the characters’ minds. It’s hard to walk that “is it real or isn’t it” line without confirming one way or the other and still satisfy the reader; Priya Sharma pulls it off magnificently, putting me often in mind of one of my favorite fantasy novels (and possibly one of my favorite novels of any genre), Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman’s The Fall of the Kings. Even after two re-readings of Ormeshadow, I find myself happily vacillating as to whether the fantasy element, especially the story’s denouement, is real or the product of the main character’s fevered and wishing mind.

Read his full review.

 

 

Bones, Bones & Buffy reviews Ormeshadow

Thanks to Tammy of Books, Bones & Buffy for her review of my novella, Ormshadow, which is out from Tor on 15th October 2019. I LOVE her banner design.

If you are intrigued by stories that excel in character development and “slice of life” vignettes, then you’ll love Ormeshadow. The format is a bit unusual. It’s divided up into short, titled chapters that are almost individual stories themselves, yet each is seamlessly woven together to form a whole. Sharma focuses on big and small moments that happen on the farm between family members, and even though some of these moments seemed insignificant at the time, I found each to be profoundly important by the end of the book.

Sharma’s tale is a claustrophobic one, full of darkness punctuated only by candlelight at night and a cold sun during the day. Ormeshadow sits near the cliffs, and harsh winds, muddy fields and uneven, rocky ground lie in wait to make the characters’ lives miserable. Even worse is the anger and jealousy that simmers between the characters, ready to explode at any moment. These emotions were palpable, and I loved reading a story where the thing that made me keep turning pages wasn’t exciting action, but the terror of seeing just what these characters were capable of. There’s an unsettling feeling of isolation and being trapped, and I felt for Gideon and his mother, who have no way out of their situation.  Books, Bones & Blood Review

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Ormeshadow review by Publishers Weekly

This short, sharp tale is often wrenching and worth savoring.

-Publishers Weekly.

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Ormeshadow ARC

I can’t quite believe this is a real book.

Ellen Datlow and Ormeshadow (Advanced Review Copy)