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New special agents should expect extensive travel, mandatory overtime, post standing assignments and an ops oriented mission that routinely involves shift work. The Secret Service is aggressively hiring entry level special agents with a realistic preview & emphasis on the primary Protective Mission. My greatest fear was that I was going to really piss off a lot of people. The “Oh-my-God-what-have-I-done?” feeling came just before publication. When I finished Who Fears Death, I knew I had written a hell of a novel and I wanted other people to read it. When you finished Who Fears Death what was your greatest fear about the book? A professor of creative writing at Chicago State University, Okorafor will also be the visiting writer at this summer’s Shared Worlds teen writing camp. It is her characters’ abilities to face and overcome their fears which empower them to take control of their destinies it is her own ability to write without fear which brings these characters and their worlds to rich, vibrant life. As does much of her fiction, Who Fears Death features a strong West African heroine - no strange territory for Okorafor, the Ohio-born daughter of Igbo Nigerian parents. Nnedi Okorafor is the award-winning author of the young adult novels Zahrah the Windseeker, The Shadow Speaker, and the just-released Akata Witch, and her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Writers of the Future, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and the anthologies So Long Been Dreaming, Seeds of Change, Eclipse Three, Way of the Wizard, and Life on Mars, but it is her adult debut novel, Who Fears Death, which has garnered her first Nebula Award nomination. Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Nnedi Okorafor SFWA Middle Grade and Young Adult Writers.Operating Policies and Procedures (OPPM). |