Publishers Weekly: In this satisfyingly complex sequel to The Stone in the Skull, the descendants of the Alchemical Emperor vie for dominion over the remnants of his empire, or for simple survival for themselves and their people. In the city of Sarathai-tia, the young rajni, Mrithuri, faces a siege by the power-hungry raja Anuraja. She is supported by her own court and by new arrivalsincluding Serhan, the Dead Man, a former bodyguard and her new loverbut one of her inner […]
Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated for the 2019 Hugo Awards! Best Novel Revenant Gun, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) Best Novella Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells (Tor.com publishing) Binti: The Night Masquerade, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com publishing) Best Novelette The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com publishing) Best Short Story “The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat,” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine 23, July-August 2018) Best Series Machineries of […]
Congratulations to Yoon Ha Lee with DRAGON PEARL on the New York Times Children’s Middle Grade Bestseller List for another week at #8! Rick Riordan Presents Yoon Ha Lee’s space opera about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you’d never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min’s mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear human at all times. Min feels hemmed in by […]
Publishers Weekly: Priest (The Family Plot) spins a small, swampy urban legend into a riveting, swelteringly atmospheric story that questions just how far the residents of a Southern town will go to forget, or appease, a past they cannot bear to confront. Cameron Spratford has lived with his elderly cousins Claire and Daisy in Staywater, Ga., since his parents abandoned him there as a toddler. Although everyone in Staywater encourages Cam to leave, he is content to remainuntil Titus Bell […]
Publishers Weekly: Gomillion debuts with a gut-punch Afrofuturist novel that examines the incalculable damage systemic racism wreaks on individuals and societies, and the many forms liberation can take. Sometime in the future, in the aftermath of WWIII, societies enforce peace through rigidly controlled racial hierarchies. That control includes using medication to erase the memories of the less privileged. Born in the remnants of America, Arika Cobane inhabits the upper echelons of the race of dark-skinned laborers known as the Kongo, trained […]
David Linker at HarperCollins has bought WE ARE THE ANTS author Shaun David Hutchinson’s THE STATE OF US, the story of Dean and Dre—the 16-year-old sons of the Republican and Democratic candidates for President of the United States—who fall in love on the sidelines of their parents’ presidential campaigns. The book is planned for summer 2020; Katie Shea Boutillier brokered the deal for world rights.
SHARDS OF HEAVEN author Michael Livingston’s fantasy trilogy SEABORN, in which a matriarchal sea-faring culture faces invasion by an airborne armada intent on eradicating the use of forbidden magic, to Steve Feldberg at Audible Originals, by Paul Stevens.
Congratulations to Yoon Ha Lee with DRAGON PEARL on the New York Times Children’s Middle Grade Bestseller List at #4 for another week!
Brazilian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s FOUNDRYSIDE, to Morro Branco by Cristina Purchio at International Editors’ on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. German rights to Paula Volsky’s THE WOLF OF WINTER, THE GATES OF TWILIGHT and THE WHITE TRIBUNAL, to Barenklau, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass. Russian rights to World Fantasy Award nominee Tamsyn Muir’s debut GIDEON THE NINTH, the first book in the Ninth House […]
Publishers Weekly: Queer necromancers vie for power, solve ancient puzzles, and cross rapiers while exploring haunted deep-space ruins in this madcap science fantasy romp that manages to be both riotously funny and heartbreaking. Eighteen-year-old orphan Gideon Nav has spent her life devising ways to escape indentured servitude to the Ninth House. When Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the sole daughter and heir to the Ninth, sees a chance to become a Lyctor, right hand to the Necromancer Divine, she needs a cavalier by […]