


Her prose turns from cosmic to personable in the blink of an eye with incredible confidence, and her characters leap off the page to live rent free in your mind forever, probably. Tamsyn Muir is known for her exhilarating blend of genres, mixing horror and comedy, romance and mystery, politics and science-fantasy, all topped with a generous serving of horrid (read: delectable) little bone witches and swashbuckling swordswomen. The sequel, Harrow the Ninth, was released in 2020.īefore her novel debut, Muir published numerous short stories, including Princess Florinda and the Forty-Flight Tower, The House that Made Sixteen Loops, The Magician's Apprentice and The Deepwater Bride, as well as The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, which ties into her novels. Schwab, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Her debut novel, Gideon the Ninth, the first book in the Locked Tomb series, exploded onto the literary scene in 2019 and was quickly declared to be one of the best books of the year by numerous publications, gaining praise from names such as V.E. She is a graduate of the Clarion Workshop for writers, an intensive program for aspiring SFF writers based in the United States. Reportedly, when reached for comment, fantasy author Tad Williams nodded sagely and said, "As it should be.Hailing from New Zealand, Tamsyn Muir left her career as an English and ESL teacher to pursue writing (we are very glad for it).

Look forward to meeting Nona, as well as a pack of rabid children, a menacing blue sky-circle, and at least one extremely good dog.” - Carl Engle-Laird (editor) And what a volume it is! Nona the Ninth will be a Locked Tomb novel like no other, and I’m very excited to share it with you. She could not be contained, and demanded her own volume. Tamsyn Muir and I were as surprised as anyone when Nona arrived, bursting forth from Alecto the Ninth with an irrepressible energy and presence. “At every step, The Locked Tomb Series has been a wild, weird, exciting, and surprising journey, and the process of concluding the series couldn’t be any different. The new Book 3*, Nona the Ninth*, will be released in late 2022. The previously-announced concluding volume, Alecto the Ninth, has fallen back to a late 2023 release date. Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series - which began with Gideon the Ninth and continued with Harrow the Nine - has expanded beyond its original scope into a four-book series.
