However immodestly, I would like to trumpet that I have just received notification of another award for CLOUD DRAGON, published in 2025. The Storytrade Award is for books set in the northeastern United States, rewarding "craft, excellence and innovation." Here is the jacket blurb:
"Climate fiction Without the End of the World
"Electrical engineering professor Jake Harper maintains his laser focus on the repair and re-engineering of the North American electric grids.
"Abbey London is the junior partner in an infectious disease practice with principal interest and expertise in novel vector-borne disorders.
"Together they operate Dragonfly Inn in nearby Virginia and care for their infant daughter with support from an au pair.
"Jake identifies evidence of a looming kinetic attack against the grid from photographs taken by his students, while Abbey discovers yet again an infection never before encountered in this hemisphere."
All three books in my Trilogy of Dragons may be ordered from the website—swlawrence.com—online from almost anywhere, or perhaps best of all—independent bookstores. I will shortly be announcing launch events for FOSSIL DRAGON in several states, after starting with a delightful remote event in the Philippines just yesterday as a matter of fact. I'm still scratching my head on that one.
