this may be the most I've ever been in love with an image. the colors, holy shit. Anita's cape. flowers & the depths of space. I can't believe I get to have like 50 of these in my house. you can pre-order it in hardcover or pb NOW: https://t.co/XLZLIlo9Q4

s/o to this bookstore in Oakland for coming up with what is probably Empire Without End’s most accurate unofficial tagline

spotted on 1st avenue

Science Fiction Tropes: Best to Worst Thursday, October 9th | 11:00AM⁣ Room 1B02 ⁣ Meet @emwrobin for a signing after the panel!⁣ Signing: 12:15PM Hall 1A—Table 40

folks I’ll be at NYCC this year! with CJ Farley, John Scalzi, and Yume Kitasei, talking about Science Fiction Tropes: Best to Worst! come down to see us chat and put in your own opinions at 11 AM on Thursday, October 9, and come around to Hall 1A after to get your books signed!

https://t.co/VEdy0yTQba

THE SEA ETERNAL (2025)

and also some of the more personal/emotional ramifications of the lesson Otávio doesn’t learn in TSE: namely, if you become Caesar, Caesar becomes you

here you see some of the nightmare practicality of Otávio’s inner monologue that ended up being 2 pages of the final draft; also, his love for Marcelinho, Águeda (Agrippa), and Rubina (Rufus, childhood friend of his who defected to Antony, sadly too much for the final draft)

I am a big believer in knowing twice as much as you actually write down—some worlds and characters are built like this passage from THE WEE FREE MEN, and the reader can always, ALWAYS tell when a person only looks person-shaped because the author’s gone “quick, someone’s coming!”

further bonus content from old boxes (this is unfortunately the best picture quality i can get): the first draft of THE SEA ETERNAL was half from Otávio’s point of view! here’s him and his friend Marcelinho (Maecenas) talking at Otávio and Anita’s horrible, horrible wedding

literary trivia: i was digging through old boxes from 2022 and found this doodle from sometime during the STARS UNDYING tour, which i had zero memory of drawing, and which a year later definitely became the plot of THE SEA ETERNAL

oh god yes i'm so excited for this one

cannot recommend highly enough this upcoming anthology of queer and trans sci-fi, which is basically a roundup of the up-and-coming SF writers I hype about the most (Maya Deane, Wen-yi Lee, Ewen Ma)

The Empire Without End duology by @emwrobin is now complete! Begin your journey through a dazzling tale of empire and betrayal set among the stars with THE STARS UNDYING, then pick up THE SEA ETERNAL.

me when i'm a coastal town in the eastern Mediterranean Basin at the end of the Late Bronze Age

"A glittering triumph of a book that weaves together history and tragedy into a star-spanning epic, I fell into this book and didn't come out for a long time." —@Av_Stories, author of Winter's Orbit THE SEA ETERNAL by @emwrobin is available now!

- lieutenant james mcgraw, 1706

also got an interview with Nerd Daily up for your perusal: historical adaptation problems, books I'm looking forward to this year, a Bailey School Kids shout-out, and more https://t.co/VWpR3XB31g

"There was a time, you've heard, when every day, the beaches of Szayet would gleam with gold and silver. If there's any treasure on this shore, it's buried in the white afternoon." THE SEA ETERNAL by @emwrobin is available now!

(she does not know about online shopping. she is not allowed online yet because she is only 6)