April 30, 2024: SOME DESPERATE GLORY is a finalist for the Hugo for Best Novel!
I am absolutely delighted to announce that SOME DESPERATE GLORY will be on the ballot for Best Novel at the Hugo Awards in Glasgow this summer. I will be attending Glasgow 2024 in person and I hope to see lots of you there!
January 3, 2024: Happy New Year!
No serious updates today – I only wanted to wish the world a Happy New Year and a wonderful 2024.
July 7, 2022: SOME DESPERATE GLORY cover reveal!
I am unbelieveably excited to share the cover for my debut novel SOME DESPERATE GLORY with all of you. Look! Here she is!
I don’t want to boast, but I really do think this book is the best thing I’ve ever written. It’s a book about being the very worst person imaginable, and then trying to be better. It’s a book about the end of the world, and what happens after. It’s a book about survival, and hope, and change. And it’s a book about how sometimes your queer found family is your fellow cult survivors who hate you, a horrible gremlin boy who won’t stop doing crimes, the cutest alien you’ve ever met, and your literal brother.
The official blurb:
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.
They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.
Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.