Tamsyn Muir's next book is not the next Locked Tomb novel

It's an expanded edition of her novella "Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower." (I enjoyed the book/audiobook.)

Officially-licensed Gideon the Ninth tees

Featuring art by Tommy Arnold.

Summary of Tamsyn Muir's appearance at Oxford University's Speculative Fiction Group

A few highlights from a very long write-up by an attendee:

Muir worked for Disney and wrote videogame scripts before GtN. There’s an insane House of Mouse script archived somewhere, which Muir wrote.

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A funny story was told where Muir got approached by a gacha game company… which didn’t come to anything

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Muir didn’t get into Warhammer until after HtN. She loves it.

She has been approached to write for the Black Library but she had to decline as she had too much work

Wonderful audiobook for Tamsyn Muir's "Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower"

A princess with no real skills is imprisoned by a witch atop a tower packed with monsters, and realizes no one is coming to save her. Performed by Moira Quirk. Available at Amazon, although I listened to it in Libby.

Tamsyn Muir's bonus story for the paperback edition of "Nona the Ninth" has been posted online

I assume it'll read like gibberish if you haven't read the series, and maybe even if you've merely read the books and haven't studied Reddit discussions, but I enjoyed it. (This is the psychic battle that's glossed over in Nona the Ninth.)

3D-printable Harrow the Ninth sculpture

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Files available for purchase, and also available at Etsy.

A delicious bit of new Locked Tomb fiction from Tamsyn Muir

The latest Tor newsletter includes a brief, tantalizing excerpt from bonus content that will be included in the Nona the Ninth paperback edition.

Gideon the Ninth fan art

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*Previously: Gideon the Ninth fan art and tees.

Third House (Gideon the Ninth) tee and sweatshirt

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Etsy shop.

*Previously: Ninth House fan art.

"Alecto" t-shirt for Gideon the Ninth superfans

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Ninth House fan art

I cant count really #griddlehark pic.twitter.com/9P8L0DUFov

— magdonal gloopin’ (@kadzu3) September 11, 2022

Two interviews with Tamysn Muir

From a long interview at In the Margin:

I think that writing multiple genres certainly helps me stop characters from calcifying as they might in a single-genre book. The rules that would dictate who Harrowhark Nonagesimus is and how she functions change drastically when you put her in a horror book and when you put her in a comedy book. Some of these characters are basically trapped in the wrong genre and I like seeing them flail about.

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I was in a lot of early video-game fandoms which were at their heart role-playing games, so often you got this big juxtaposition of people who had played the game one way, like they’d made up their team of the male characters, and therefore got a massively different experience to me, who took as many women along as possible. I got so cross as a teenager seeing female characters laughed at or made the girlfriend or the butt of whatever grim joke, when in fact I’d beaten the boss with them, I’d kitted them out to basically kill God. ... I’ve taken that energy, I guess, to SFF. I am simply forcing you to sit down and watch how I play the game.

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It is getting harder and harder again, especially for authors from marginalised places or backgrounds, to write works where the takeaway isn’t 'this is to succour all my marginalised people'. For anyone on the female-identified axis this is especially hard because it seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc.

(Along those lines, even with a new book coming out, she hasn't updated her Twitter or Tumblr in years.)

And from an interview at Tumblr, this is roughly who she pictures as Harrow:

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Amazon lists Nona the Ninth for September 13.

There's a 73-page sneak peek of Tamsyn Muir's "Nona the Ninth"

at Amazon. (It's funny, and weird, and fresh.) (Also.)

Gideon the Ninth print

prints!https://t.co/nT6j36Tvg4

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Today's funny posts

I somehow missed Jordan Poole being utterly defeated by his shooting sleeve and yet I can't decide if his struggles are funnier than Draymond Green's attempt to throw it off the court or not pic.twitter.com/bkPscRjn2N

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A bunch of great Harrow the Ninth fan art

omw to drain the life from your planet #HarrowTheNinth pic.twitter.com/4gWUDvJPQE

— al 🪗 (@catpotion) April 6, 2021

Preorder "Nona the Ninth," and get a "One Flesh, One End" pin

The book is expected in September, available for preorder at Amazon. Submit your receipt here. Tor has a short tease (the naming convention for Blood of Eden characters remains a delight.) Finally, if you've never read the bonus content for Harrow the Ninth.

The dog on the cover of Nona the Ninth...

My art for NONA THE NINTH, from the radically wonderful mind of @tazmuir, whose mere existence sweetens my life. Infinity thanks also to @TorDotComPub & AD @CFoltzer! As promised, prints of all the best space lesbians are available for 5 days only, here: https://t.co/y3tEaRQH0d pic.twitter.com/5zxwS1FkOK

— Tommy Arnold (@TommyArnoldArt) January 27, 2022

Oh most def. https://t.co/OSv8tSSOsH

— Tommy Arnold (@TommyArnoldArt) January 27, 2022

Gideon and Harrow prints

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Cover for Tamsyn Muir's "Nona the Ninth" is surprisingly cheerful

By Tommy Arnold, prints available for limited time. The book is available for preorder. And Vox interviewed Tamsyn Muir:

What I love about the cover (apart from everything) is that it displays to you neatly that Nona is residing in a different genre to the rest of the book. Nona lives in a genre where the back blurb is, “How do you deal with the world’s most embarrassing family — AND school?! How do you cope when the biggest jerk in the universe … turns out to be your secret crush’s out-of-town cousin?!?!”