Texas Book Festival 2025 - Lindsay's Panel

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Ep 83 - Literally Texas Book Festival 2025!!

 

Between Realms and Realities: Building Worlds That Fight Back


Mai Corland and Nnedi Okorafor explore the power and peril of stories that refuse to stay confined. In Three Shattered Souls, the Blades confront betrayal, grief, and a ruthless new ruler as they navigate four perilous realms, where alliances shift, loyalties fracture, and victory demands losing everything they hold dear. In Death of the Author, Zelu’s far-future novel propels her into literary stardom, but fame comes at a cost: control of her story, her identity, and even her sense of self. From fantastical kingdoms to near-future worlds, these novels interrogate what it means to wield power, to create, and to endure when the worlds we build push back.

Texas Book Festival Event
  • Books:Three Shattered Souls, Death of the Author
  • Book Type:Fiction
  • Authors: Mai Corland, Nendi Okorafor 
  • Moderator: Lindsay McHugh

About the Authors: 
Mai Corland

Mai Corland is a New York Times and international bestselling author, born in Seoul and adopted into New York. She studied at Rollins College and the University of Miami. Due to a variety of questionable decisions, she currently lives in the cold again with her partner, children, and a goldfish who will outlive them all. When not writing, you can find her asleep or clutching her latte machine.

 


Mai Corland

Nnedi Okorafor is the author of multiple award-winning and New York Times bestsellers, including Death of the Author, the Binti trilogy, Who Fears Death, and Lagoon, currently in development at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. She has won every major prize in speculative fiction, including the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Eisner Awards; multiple Hugo Awards; and the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Born in Cincinnati to Igbo Nigerian immigrant parents, she now resides in Phoenix, Arizona, with her daughter, Anyaugo.

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