Kurestin Armada

I am officially open to queries for 2023 on Query Manager 📥 All emailed queries have received requests if I wanted to read more, and all requested manuscripts are safely in my queue still. Going forward, ALL queries will receive replies. 🔗querymanager.com/kurestinarmada

Congratulations, Emily Tesh! Some Desperate Glory has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel!🏆🎉

ICYMI, the winner of the 2024 Hugo Award is SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh! Celebrating the very finest science fiction, discover the rest of this year's incredible shortlist here: exyu.short.gy/pk5GV8 🎉

The Orbit UK Team had a fabulous time at WorldCon in Glasgow! And what a high to end on – winning TWO major Hugo Awards for Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh and the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie! We couldn’t be more thrilled for Emily and Ann.

We've been keeping this a secret for far too long--the best girls are hitting NYC, ready to make their ballet dreams come true!!!

@liliuhms @ShannonStocker_ @simonschuster Such a good team-up, this one is going to be the cutest book in the world!!

so happy to be working alongside wonderful author @ShannonStocker_!! big thank you to my agent @kurestinarmada, & celia lee @simonschuster for making this happen! hurray! 🍀🍀

big news!! i'm illustrating my first picture book!! 🍀 this has always been one of my biggest goals, i am really grateful and excited!

Lily's art is SO instantly lovable, I can't wait to see it take over the kidlit world!

INCREDIBLE!!!! New bar unlocked!

We’ve been keeping this one under our hat, but I’m delighted we can finally shout far and wide that it’s happening! It’s incredible to me that the kind of formative queer webcomic that felt only possible online when I was a youth will now be on bookstore and library shelves 💖

@screentoneys Oh, how delightful! 🥰🥰 many thanks to the one who thought of me!

It’s true! 🥰 My dried-up heart now knows joy again thanks to Casey’s outrageously delightful romp, ft. two lady scientists (unknowingly) falling in love through their male pseudonyms AND (hilariously) falling into dragon bone-stealing trouble together as their real selves! 🐉👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

If you like protagonists that are raging assholes—but also your poor little meow meows, death cults, military deprogramming, aliens, “your whole life is a lie,” space operas, & queer found family you need to read Some Desperate Glory immediately. Best book I have read this year!

Alexandra Pierce says SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh is “bold, imaginative, occasionally grim, and ultimately hopeful that individuals can change, and can make a difference.” locusmag.com/2023/04/alexan…

Congratulations, #EmilyTesh! SOME DESPERATE GLORY debuted on the @ABAbook Hardcover Fiction best seller list! 🌟🙌🎉 #ProudAgency

Last night was ✨magical✨! Thank you for giving me and @joviellety an overflowing full house at @yuandmebooks for our NYC launch of GIRL TAKING OVER! What a beautiful store, what a beautiful crowd, what a beautiful night. Lucy Yu, we 💖 you so much!

I still remember reading this for the first time, and what a healing, joyful experience! As someone who could not care less about sports, believe me when I say this is truly a book for everyone that loves a good time with a dose of secondhand embarrassment (but overcoming it!) 💖

We’re celebrating the #graphicnovel GIRL TAKING OVER: A LOIS LANE with @SarahKuhn @joviellety & @OliviaPecini on Sunday, May 7th at 4pm. 💕 Hosted by @jenelleriley w/ special appearances by @KeikoAgena & @emilykuroda! 📚️ RSVP & order signed books by 5/2: therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tic…