March has been a super busy month! I already have more news to share! YA Scavenger Hunt I’m super excited to be participating in my very first YA Scavenger Hunt! This is a fun week-long (April 3-April 8) game where you can learn about new authors, get exciting sneak peeks and other exclusive content, and have a chance to earn great prizes! I’m going to be part of the Gold…
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March is Survival Month! And other news
I have a backlog of news items that I wanted to post while I was in the middle of site redesign limbo, so here it all is in a catch-up post! First of all, another $0.99 sale (and other books you can get for cheap): March is Survival Month Last month I participated in The Kraken Collective‘s #KrakenFriends2018 anniversary sale, but I made a mistake: I ran my promotion as a…
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New site!
If you’ve visited the site at all over the last week or so, you’ll have probably noticed several down periods and maybe even a couple different layouts. I’ve been working on getting a new site design implemented and I’m excited to say that it’s finally live! This one looks very different from my old one (even down to the color scheme!) but I love the way it looks and the…
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Welcome
Welcome to the website of Lyssa Chiavari, author of inclusive sci-fi and fantasy for teens. Here you’ll find the latest news about my current and upcoming writing projects, new releases, and more. Don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter to get a free short story and be the first to know about my latest releases. Thanks for visiting!
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Announcement: Brave New Girls
Long radio silence usually means that I’m up to something. (Or that I’m sick. But this time it means I’m up to something!) This year, I’m actually up to several somethings, and it’s time to announce one of them! I’m pleased to announce that I have a short story that’s going to be published in the third volume of Brave New Girls: Tales of Heroines Who Hack! BRAVE NEW GIRLS:…
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Guide to rep in my books
A lot of my books have LGBT rep in them, but not all of them do. So I thought it would be helpful to make a quick guide to all my books and short stories so that you have an idea of what to look for based on your interests! The Iamos Trilogy + Tie-Ins Fourth World, New World, One World: demisexual main character, asexual main character | m/f ace/demi…
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Everything is $0.99!
The Kraken Collective, publisher of Cheerleaders From Planet X, is turning one on February 1. To celebrate, all our books are on sale for $0.99 from now through the first—and, in fact, all my books are on sale, not just Cheerleaders! Yes, for the first time ever, Different Worlds is on sale for $0.99 as well! That’s because New World is tiptoeing closer to its release… it may even be up for preorder at a handful of retailers. (Note: that may…
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Announcing a new anthology
Announcement time! You may remember a couple years ago I was supposed to co-edit and have a story in a sci-fi fairy tale retellings anthology. And then I got sick (this surprises no one). I’ve been feeling bad about that story, though. It’s been sitting there unfinished and neglected on my hard drive all this time. Then my publisher came up with the idea to do an anthology, so it lives…