Some thrilling news: Murder by Memory is a finalist for both the Locus Award and the Hugos! It’s an incredible set of writers to be included with and I’m simply delighted to be at the party. This slate of Hugos in particular feel like a broad, deep group of talent — according to An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, no writer was shortlisted more than once for novel, novelette, novella, short story, or series, which is lovely to think about.

Murder by Memory is now available in a tidy little paperback edition as well as large print (with its own classic-mystery heroine-in-a-trench-coat cover).

Speaking of new books … The third Dorothy Gentleman novella, The Double Dorothy, is now up for pre-order! Here’s what you can expect from this next adventure:

As the Fairweather approaches the halfway point of its journey, Dorothy Gentleman may have reached the end of hers…

It’s been a long lifetime, and Dorothy’s current body is on its last legs. With a new terminal diagnosis from Medical, she’s counting the days until her next reembodiment. But then a young man with someone else’s face sits down and claims he *is* Dorothy’s next embodiment — someone has triggered the system early, using the memory-book Dorothy last updated over a month ago.

Meaning that according to the laws, when Dorothy dies this time — it will be permanent.

Now Dorothy and her doppelganger must sift through that last month of memories, looking for a secret someone’s trying to erase. And all the threads lead back to the very first murder that happened on the Fairweather, five hundred years ago. A case which remains unsolved — and in which Dorothy was a witness, not a detective. All while an old enemy finally dares to step out of the shadows…

Cover soon to be revealed!

Linkery

• If you haven’t already heard about scientists finding 5.6 million bees in a New York Cemetery, good news! That is a lotttttt of bees, you love to see it.
• Watching the Artemis II splashdown (I cried, of course I did) got me back on my space history bullshit. I’d known about the Mercury Thirteen (the early women of the space program who should have been astronauts) but only just learned about the Gallaudet Eleven: a group of deaf men whose immunity to motion sickness helped NASA test the effects of weightlessness on the body without making its participants dangerously queasy.

Crafty

Two words: felt nudibranchs. Made my Arina Borevich of the Wool Creature Lab, and they’re just stunning.

Reading recs

This month’s column (gift link) included Cat Sebastian’s first contemporary romance Star Shipped, Tom Vellner’s breathtaking m/m tennis romance (for all your Heated Rivalry withdrawal needs — no, not like that), and Caitlyn Paxson’s A Widow’s Charm, which is one of the best fantasy romances I’ve read in a minute and which can make me cry just by thinking about, truly a power move.

Until next month — may your spring be properly awakening!

Olivia