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Upcoming book events for LIBERTY’S DAUGHTER

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I will be reading and signing at Dreamhaven Books from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 6th, and signing at Uncle Hugo’s from 1-2 p.m. on Saturday, December 9th. I’ll sign anything I’ve written, it doesn’t have to be copies of the new book, and you are not required to buy the books on site.

If you aren’t local, and you would like one or more personalized signed copies, you can pre-order from either Dreamhaven or Uncle Hugo’s and specify how you want them personalized, and I can do that while I’m there. The bookstore will handle shipping it to you and barring some sort of USPS meltdown you should have them in time for holiday giving.

Here’s the ordering page for Uncle Hugo’s: http://unclehugo.com/prod/ah-kritzer-naomi.php (you can put personalization instructions in the “Special Instructions” when checking out).

Here’s the ordering page for Dreamhaven: http://dreamhavenbooks.com/product/libertys-daughter/ — again, they have a spot for “special instructions” during checkout.

Both booksellers also accept orders by phone.

(Yes, yes, I know what you REALLY want is my Bad Holiday Gifts post. I’m working on it!)

LIBERTY’S DAUGHTER comes out today!

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Today is the release day of my new book, LIBERTY’S DAUGHTER.

Publisher’s Weekly gave it a starred review: “Kritzer shows off her worldbuilding chops in this impressive mystery set in a near future world.”

Cory Doctorow reviews it here: “There’s so much sf about “competent men” running their families with entrepreneurial zeal, clarity of vision and a firm confident hand. But there’s precious little fiction about how much being raised by a Heinlein dad would suuuck. But it would, and in Naomi Kritzer’s Liberty’s Daughter, we get a peek inside the nightmare.”

You can order Liberty’s Daughter from the publisher or from the bookstore of your choice. You can order signed copies from Uncle Hugo’s (online ordering page here) or Dreamhaven Books (online ordering page here) — I’m planning to go sign stock today, and I will also be doing a reading and signing at Dreamhaven on December 6th.

New Short Story, New Book

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I had a short story come out this month in Uncanny called “The Year Without Sunshine.” It is set in South Minneapolis and you can read it free online here. If you prefer audio fiction, it’s also available on the Uncanny pocast.

I also have a book coming out on November 21st, Liberty’s Daughter.

You can order Liberty’s Daughter from the publisher or from the bookstore of your choice. Uncle Hugo’s has an online ordering page available and you can get a signed copy (because I will go in and sign copies once Don gets the books). Dreamhaven Books also has an online ordering page available and I will be doing a reading and signing there on December 6th.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul City Council Elections, 2023

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Welcome to election season, and, as always, apologies to the people who followed me for my science fiction rather than my election blog (I feel less bad about inflicting science fiction on the people who follow me for election blogging).

Minneapolis and Saint Paul both have City Council races. Saint Paul also has a School Board At-Large race with four open seats.

In Minneapolis, there’s a race in every ward except Ward 2 — Robin Wonsley is running unopposed. There are open seats in Ward 7 and Ward 12. (Which is to say, the current incumbent is not running again.)

In St. Paul, there’s a race in every single ward and wards 1, 3, 5, and 7 are open seats.

Does it feel like we just did this? If you live in Minneapolis, you had a city election just two years ago. But we had a census in 2020, followed by redistricting, and Minneapolis has the “Kahn rule” saying that the city needs to hold new elections once redistricting is completed. Back in 2020, Minneapolis had a City Question that proposed a second two-year term for City Council reps, if necessary, to keep the Mayoral and City Council races synchronized. It passed by a wide margin. So the Minneapolis races are all for a two-year term.

If you live in St. Paul and it feels like we just did this, well, we last had City Council races in 2019, you’re just suffering from the “what even is time?” problem where March of 2020 lasted for 847 days. Or else you’re remembering that we had a mayoral race in 2021. Our City Council and mayoral races have been out of sync either forever or for a good long time. The St. Paul candidates are all running for a four-year term.

Saint Paul also has a City Question regarding the implementation of a 1% sales tax to fund repairs to streets and parks. I don’t think Minneapolis has any City Questions this year.

I have a book coming out this fall, in November! Liberty’s Daughter is near-future SF about a teenage girl on a libertarian seastead. A lot of it was originally published as short fiction in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. You can pre-order it in either book or ebook format from whatever you like.

I do not have a Patreon or Ko-Fi, so if you’d like make a donation to encourage my work, I’m going to start by pointing my readers at this new Art teacher at Jenny Lind elementary who needs to stock her classroom with supplies.