PRESS KIT
PHOTOS (now with and without glasses!)
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHIES
Short (103 words): Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is the author of novels 'Beneath the Rising' (finalist for Crawford Award, Aurora Award, British Fantasy Award, and Locus Award) and 'A Broken Darkness,' and novellas 'These Lifeless Things,' 'And What Can We Offer You Tonight,' and 'The Annual Migration of Clouds.' Her next novel, 'The Void Ascendant,' is the final book in the Beneath the Rising trilogy and is due out in March 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on Twitter at @premeesaurus and on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.
Long (251 words):
Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta.
She is a Social Media Manager and Assistant Editor for the short audio science fiction venue Escape Pod, and was a Capital City Press Featured Writer for 2019/2020 with the Edmonton Public Library. Her guest editing positions include novellas with Interstellar Flight Press and short fiction with Apparition Lit.
Her debut novel, 'Beneath the Rising' was a finalist for the Crawford Award, the Aurora Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. Her other published books include novel 'A Broken Darkness' and novellas 'These Lifeless Things,' 'And What Can We Offer You Tonight,' and 'The Annual Migration of Clouds.' Her next novel, 'The Void Ascendant,' is the final book in the Beneath the Rising trilogy and is due out in spring 2022.
Her short fiction has appeared in print and audio venues including Analog, Escape Pod, Augur, Nightmare Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, and PodCastle. Solicited appearances include The Deadlands, A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, and Jo Walton's New Decameron. In 2017 she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her story 'Willing' (Third Flatiron Press).
She is represented by Michael Curry of the Donald Maass Literary Agency and is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada, the Codex Writers' Community, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @premeesaurus and on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.
BOOK COVERS
Beneath the Rising (official, 2020) - James Paul Jones
The Apple-Tree Throne (official, 2018) - Premee Mohamed
A Broken Darkness (2021) - James Paul Jones
These Lifeless Things (2021) - Sam Gretton
The Annual Migration of Clouds (2021) - Veronica Park
And What Can We Offer You Tonight (2021) - Carly Allen-Fletcher
SELECTED REVIEWS AND LISTS
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Publishers Weekly review of The Annual Migration of Clouds!
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'Beneath the Rising' is a Prix Aurora/Aurora Award finalist!
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'Beneath the Rising' is a Top 10 Locus Award Finalist!
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'Beneath the Rising' is a finalist for the 2020 Crawford Award!
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'Beneath the Rising' is on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List for first novel!
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'Beneath the Rising' mentioned by Silvia Moreno-Garcia in the Washington Post in Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year So Far!
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Tor list of Best Books of 2020 So Far includes 'Beneath the Rising' twice!
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‘Beneath the Rising’ is on this Tor roundup of genre-bending books, this one from Tor Nightfire (their horror imprint), and this Polygon list!
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Amazing soundtrack for ‘Beneath the Rising’ on this ‘Soundtracks for Novels’ post by Meghan Ball
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Essay including analysis of postcolonial themes, classism, racism, and evil ‘Beneath the Rising’ by S. Qiouyi Lu up at Tor, A Framework for Decolonizing Speculative Fiction: Beneath the Rising and Steel Crow Saga
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‘Us & Ours’ covered splendidly at the Lovecraft Reread at Tor
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A raft of reviews, excerpts, and recommendations for ‘The Apple-Tree Throne’:
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Review at Galen Strickland’s blog, Templeton Gate
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Gold Acorn Award at The Book Squirrel!
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5/5 Star review at Altered Instinct
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Made KJ Charles’ Top 10 For 2018
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Recommended at Aliette de Bodard’s 2018 Awards Consideration Post!
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Review from Marissa Lingen’s blog
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Review at Vanessa Fogg’s blog
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PUBLICIST AND AGENT INFO
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My agent: Michael Curry at DMLA
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My publicist at Rebellion/Solaris: Hanna Waigh till October; after October, TBD
AMAZON AUTHOR PAGES
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Amazon author page (USA): Premee Mohamed
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Amazon author page (UK): Premee Mohamed
LADIES OF HORROR FICTION
My profile is in the directory here!
BLURB POLICY
Frankly, part of me is stunned that I have made enough writer friends or become enough of a name (?) (I can’t tell which) that people are contacting me to blurb their books! But, it keeps happening, and now it appears that I need An One (1) Official Policy.
It is: I am delighted to take a look at your book to see if I can blurb it! The request must come from your editor and if I am able to and choose to blurb it, my blurb will go back to your editor.
“But that means I can’t send you my self-published book!”
It does and I’m sorry, but unless we are very close friends, I am not going to blurb your self-published book. Due to recent experiences, I have to institute a rule that there has to be a body between me, an blurber, and you, an author.
In particular, this gives me the ability to say something like ‘This book contains depictions of ableism, racism, other miscellaneous bigotry, gratuitous gendered violence, blatant ethnic or cultural appropriation, perpetuation of negative stereotypes, or other gross things that I did not like; and whether the book itself is any good or not, and whether I liked the book overall or not, and whether it is clear that it is narrative voice rather than authorial voice, in this case I do not wish to have my name attached to it.’
However, if you and your editor do feel that I might be a good choice to do a blurb, you can contact me using the contact form on this site and I will at the very least get back to you with a yes/no and a projected timeline.
If you require information that is not on this page, please feel free to contact me using the contact form!
