Saturnalia is coming to the UK in October 2023. Check out this brand new trailer and cover, as revealed by Waterstones:
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Get 50% off the Saturnalia Audiobook
Saturnalia’s audio publisher is offering a 50% discount until January 27. Get the audiobook for only $10!
Saturnalia is coming to the UK!
I’m very excited that Verve Books is bringing Saturnalia to UK and commonwealth readers. A paperback original, e-book, and audio edition will arrive in fall 2023. Here’s some more from The Bookseller announcement:
The book was recently selected as One to Watch in 2023 by the Evening Standard, and Best Fantasy novel of 2022 by Vulture in the US.
Editor Jenna Gordon said: “The Verve team are so excited to be bringing Saturnalia to UK readers. It’s an unsettling and urgent novel that draws on timely anxieties about the future and speaks to a moment when we’re seeing people, particularly younger generations, turning to magic, fantasy and the supernatural as a means of escaping an increasingly unstable reality.”
Feldman comments: “This book is set in my hometown, but it’s about an urgent global question: how can we create a future during what feels like a slow apocalypse? I’m thrilled that Verve is bringing the Saturnalia carnival to UK readers.”
Read more here, and stay tuned for a cover reveal.
Eligibility Post for 2022
Dear friends voting on awards this year: I’m pleased to share my eligible work for 2022.
Short Fiction:
“The Boyfriend Trap” (4,800 words)
“Who do you want to be close to when you’re feeling afraid?”
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2022
–> SFWA and HWA members: email me for a PDF reading copy.
“The Annual Conference of the Ladies in White” (997 words)
“Their faces are ghastly and pretty. Their flesh hangs like fine lace. I grab my keys and run.”
Flash Fiction Online, April 2022
“The Sorcerer’s Test” (3,400 words)
“She took what came to her. What would a girl like her dream about, anyway?”
The Sunday Morning Transport, October 2022
Novel:
Saturnalia
“It’s the not the life I planned for, telling fortunes during the end of days, but clients are plentiful.”
Unnamed Press, October 11, 2022
New Reading List: “Blood on the Glass Ceiling”
Saturnalia is about many things, but one of its core questions is about how women navigate their ambition in a world that doesn’t want them to achieve. For Lit Hub, I considered my own relationship with ambition, and seven more novels about women’s dark struggles with ambition, identity, and success.
As a writer and reader, I find joy in destruction as well as triumph. If you’re a woman, you can’t win without breaking the rules.
New Essay Series: “Writing SATURNALIA”
Today, Uncharted Magazine, one of my favorite genre publishes, released the first in my craft capsule essay series, “Writing Saturnalia.” I learned so much about plot, pace, and world-building by writing this book, and as a teacher, I’ve spent the last seven years thinking deeply about how we shape narrative. I’m excited to share this project, my first formal reflections on craft.
The first entry, “A Story Launch Thrives on an Easy Target,” explores how to use focused beginnings and clear stakes without diminishing ambitious story inquiries.
Saturnalia is about a lot of things: climate anxiety, social class, friendship and secrets, gender and power, the American city—as well as alchemy, secret societies, monsters, and pagan carnivals. All of the issues that matter to me, to us, and all of the trappings that make for a fun and atmospheric tale. My main character, Nina, grapples with society in decline, trauma, and the eternal puzzle of who she can trust.
But when the story begins, her problems and goals are simple.
Read more at Uncharted Magazine.
SATURNALIA Event Calendar
Here it is, my fall 2022 calendar! Check the events page for updates.
Philadelphia Saturnalia Launch Party
with A.C. Wise and Gina Tomaine
October 11, 7pm
Main Point Books | Wayne, PA
Share and RSVP via Eventbrite
A Requiem for Witches at Fall for the Book
with Hester Fox
October 15, 1pm
George Mason University | Fairfax, VA
Full Festival Schedule
Cul-de-Sac Book Launch
with Nick Perilli, Daniel DiFranco, and Christina Rosso
October 21, 7pm
Arcadia University | Glenside, PA
Share and RSVP via Facebook
Tor.com’s “30 Most Anticipated SFF Books”
Tor.com includes Saturnalia in its list of the “30 Most Anticipated SFF Books for the Rest of 2022!”
I love me a secret society, and honestly if I was invited to a club where the dress code was “blacker than the blackest black” I would be in so fast they’d barely have time to extend an actual invitation. The social clubs in Philadelphia are preparing for the Saturnalia carnival, a night of revelry and opulence. Nina is entering her old club, The Saturn Club, with a job to do—but it’s a job that’ll take her into the depraved depths of the Saturn Club and across the city on the longest night of the year. Saturnalia is part The Chosen & The Beautiful and part Eyes Wide Shut, wonderfully weird and chaotic and sexy and tinged with magic. It’s definitely a page-turner, and should be on the list for anyone who likes a little bit of romantic surrealism with their funhouse mirror dystopia.
I’m flattered to be on such an exciting list. Read the whole thing here.
Publishers Weekly Review
I’m pleased to share this first review for Saturnalia. Publishers Weekly says, among some other cool things
The story features moments of bizarre, distressing cruelty and occasional gore, but it’s grounded in themes of belonging, friendship, and the potential costs of ambition. Feldman brings impressive richness and depth to both Nina’s emotional evolution and the masterful worldbuilding. This is sure to win the author many fans.
Nice!
First 2022 Book Preview
It’s not news to horror fans that we’re living through a horror renaissance right now. The past few years have given us an embarrassment of riches when it comes to horror and gothic lit, and this particular train shows no sign of slowing down. 2022 is right around the corner, and with it, a huge and exciting slate of new books.
Tor/Nightfire included Saturnalia on their preview of “All the Horror Books We’re Excited about in 2022.” So excited to see all the great company I’m in for fall of next year.