Yes, Seattle novelist Nisi Shawl is a columnist on this website, and that is a conflict of interest. But dammit, I squealed when I read this tweet, and you should get excited, too:

the great @NisiShawl is blazing a trail into middle grade fiction yessssssss pic.twitter.com/nUfCwH9EXA

— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) April 17, 2018

When Shawl published Everfair a year and a half ago, I worried that we'd have to wait five years or so for her next book; thankfully, I was wrong by almost half.