Autistic Book Party, Episode 79: The Winter Knight

"There's a lot of painfully apt moments in Wayne's arc - often showing experiences that are common in real life, but that I don't see in fiction as often."

Jul 3, 2023

Autistic Book Party is back this week, with a look at Jes Battis’s dreamy, surreal urban fantasy, “The Winter Knight.” If you’ve been here since April this year then you’ve seen Jes Battis before - I interviewed them for Autistic Reader month. Here’s the interview:

Autistic Reader Interview: Jes Battis

Ada Hoffmann

Apr 3

Jes Battis (they/them) is a queer autistic writer and teacher and the author of the Occult Special Investigator series and Parallel Parks series (as Bailey Cunningham) with Ace. Their first novel, Night Child, was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award. Jes teaches queer and trans studies, medieval literature, and representations of disability/neurodiversit…

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And here’s the review itself.

Meanwhile:

On US and UK Amazon, THE INFINITE is now a Kindle Deal! You can get it for a special low price from now until the 14th.
Watch Rachel at TheShadesOfOrange explain why THE INFINITE is one of her Top 10 best SFF books of 2023 so far.
Check out this amazing fanart of THE OUTSIDE’s Dr. Evianna Talirr!
Foundations for Divergent Minds included MONSTERS IN MY MIND on their Pride Month lineup of books by queer autistic authors, and Daniel Pérez Castrillón included THE OUTSIDE on his list of books he’d like to see translated into Spanish. (There is a Catalan translation already that’s been doing quite well - I wonder if any Spanish SFF publishers are interested in following suit! :) )

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Autistic Book Party, Episode 79: The Winter Knight

"There's a lot of painfully apt moments in Wayne's arc - often showing experiences that are common in real life, but that I don't see in fiction as often."

Autistic Reader Interview: Jes Battis