We’re excited to bring you a roundup of interesting links and January book releases of fantasy by and about women.

As always, we’d love to hear from you. If you’ve sold a fantasy work, read a great recently-released story, discovered a fantastic link that we missed, or if you’ve got a book or story review to share, please get in touch. Send news to (help at sirensconference.org).

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Interesting Links:

• “World Building and the Kobyashi Maru,” Tricia Sullivan
• “Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor & Jewelle Gomez, Black Comix at SF Library”
• “Why aren’t there more women in the SFF section?”—an informal survey by Mary Robinette Kowal
• “Where Our Magic Lives: A Queer Latina on Magical Realism,” Anna-Marie McLemore
• “Sci-Fi Sunday: Directory of Black/African Speculative Fiction Writers”
• “The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2015, pt. 29,” Kiini Ibura Salaam (via SG)
• Jennifer Udden is now at Barry Goldblatt Literary
• Infographic related to Invisible Universe: A History of Blackness in Speculative Fiction, a documentary by M. Asli Dukan
• “Researchers have found a major problem with The Little Mermaid and other Disney movies” [And don’t read the comments—Ed.]
• “LA Celebrates Science Fiction Legend Octavia E. Butler with a Year of Events”
• Publishers Weekly seeks reviewers. “PW pays an honorarium per review. Applicants of color and LGTBQ backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply.”
• A collection of pretty images reminiscent of The Wrath and the Dawn by 2016 guest of honor Renée Ahdieh (via Nivair Gabriel)
• “When the Gunman Comes,” Edith Hope Bishop

 
Book Releases

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January 1:
Daughter of Destiny, Nicole Evelina

January 5:
Passenger, Alexandra Bracken
Truthwitch, Susan Dennard
Worlds of Ink and Shadow: A Novel of the Brontës, Lena Coakley
The Impostor Queen, Sarah Fine
The Last Dream Keeper, Amber Benson
Curio, Evangeline Denmark
Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt
The Night Parade, Kathryn Tanquary
Thief of Lies, Brenda Drake
City of Light, Keri Arthur
The Door by the Staircase, Katherine Marsh ill. Kelly Murphy
Only the Stones Survive, Morgan Llywelyn

January 12:
The Killing Jar, Jennifer Bosworth
The Drowning Eyes, Emily Foster
Traveler, Arwen Elys Dayton

January 16:
On the Meldon Plain, Pam Brondos

January 19:
Burn, Elissa Sussman
The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull
Sword and Verse, Kathy MacMillan
Feverborn, Karen Marie Moning
Secrets of Valhalla, Jasmine Richards

January 26:
The Blue Line, Ingrid Betancourt
The Evening Spider, Emily Arsenault
The Morrigan’s Curse, Dianne K. Salerni
All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
The Love That Split the World, Emily Henry
The Dark Days Club, Alison Goodman
Shallow Graves, Kali Wallace
The Siren, Kiera Cass
Arrows, Melissa Gorzelanczyk
Rise of the Wolf, Jennifer A. Nielsen
Night Study, Maria V. Snyder
The Case of the Fickle Mermaid, P. J. Brackston

January 28:
Daughter of Blood, Helen Lowe