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RUTHANNA EMRYS lives in a mysterious manor house on the outskirts of Washington, DC with her wife and their large, strange family. She makes home-made vanilla, obsesses about game design, gives unsolicited advice, and occasionally attempts to save the world. Her stories have appeared in a number of venues, including <i>Strange Horizons</i>, <i>Analog</i>, and Tor.com. <i>Winter Tide</i> is her first novel.
PRAISE FOR <i>WINTER TIDE</i> <i>Winter Tide</i> is a weird, lyrical mystery truly strange and compellingly grim. It's an innovative gem that turns Lovecraft on his head with cleverness and heart Cherie Priest, author of <i>Maplecroft</i> and <i>Boneshaker</i></p> A mythos yarn that totally reverses the polarity on Lovecraft's xenophobia, so that in the end the only real monsters are human beings. Charles Stross, Hugo Award-winning author of the Laundry Files and the Merchant Princes series</p> <i>Winter Tide</i> is a treasure chest. This is an excellent novel and I can't wait for more. Victor LaValle, author of <i>The Ballad of Black Tom</i> and <i>The Devil in Silver</i></p> This is <i>Wicked</i> for the Cthulhu Mythos: never quite contradicting, but dancing through the shadows and dredging beautiful things out of the deep, pulling them, at last, into the light. Seanan McGuire, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Every Heart a Doorway</i></p> <i>Winter Tide</i> is a haunting, beautifully-crafted ballad exploring love, loss, and monsters. Daniel Jose Older, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Shadowshaper</i> and <i>Midnight Taxi Tango</i></p> An engrossing story about othering and family that turns Lovecraft fascinatingly inside out. Jo Walton, Hugo Award-winning author of <i>Among Others</i> and <i>The Just City</i></p> <i>Winter Tide</i> shines an unexpected light on the shadow over Innsmouth, and shows how all creatures have to find common ground (or ocean) against evil. Alex Bledsoe, author of <i>Long Black Curl</i></p> Emrys has done what Lovecraft never could create complex characters in an intricate plot that engages the heart at the same time as it curdles the blood. Sam J. Miller, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award</p>PRAISE FOR THE LITANY OF EARTH: 'The Litany of Earth' by Ruthanna Emrys is something special... a fascinating spin on the Cthulhu Universe. Charlie Jane Anders, author of <i>All the Birds in the Sky</i></p> What if Lovecraft s undersea creatures were not creepy monsters, but a persecuted people? [...] Emrys does justice to the idea in this lovely story of alienation and finding a new life in the shadow of the old. Aliette de Bodard, author of<i>The House of Shattered Wings</i></p>
