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Wild Country, Anne Bishop’s newest book from the Others series, debuts at #14 on the New York Times Combined Print and E-book Fiction bestseller list! In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side…without destroying one another. There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others. One of those places […]

New York Times: “Dragon Pearl” is a clever mash-up of Korean mythology and science fiction tropes. With crisp dialogue, a winning protagonist and a propulsive plot, the tale is enormously entertaining. And a heads-up to speculative-averse adults: If you decided Harry Potter was O.K., this is another one that might surprise you.

Author of MY SISTER IS MISSING and forthcoming WITHOUT A TRACE, Carissa Ann Lynch‘s LIKE FOLLOW KILL, in which a widowed and traumatically injured woman becomes online-obsessed with a former classmate and follows her across country to save her from a supposed stalker, who uncannily looks like her ex, to Charlotte Ledger at Killer Reads, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2019, by Katie Shea Boutillier.

BookPage Magazine: In Elizabeth Bear’s richly textured Ancestral Night, there’s a hole in space-time, and the good ship Singer is going to see what’s on the other side. A sentient ship capable of complex thought, Singer is helmed by Haimey and her shipmate Connla. When Haimey boards a derelict ship the crew hopes to salvage and inadvertently discovers a heinous crime, the team realizes they’re in way over their heads. Bear gives her characters the space to develop on their […]

Booklist: This is a series entry that will satisfy fans and send new readers back to the beginning. Suggest to those who enjoy historical mystery series by Oliver Potzsch or Laura Joh Rowland.

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who are 2018 Bram Stoker Awards Finalists! Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray) Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Abbot by Saladin Ahmed (BOOM! Studios)

Author of the forthcoming GIDEON THE NINTH and Shirley Jackson Award  nominee Tamsyn Muir’s untitled dark fantasy novella to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press for publication in 2020 by Jennifer Jackson.

Three new titles in NY Times best selling author Emily Brightwell’s long-running Victorian mystery series about a dim-witted Scotland Yard inspector and his much smarter housekeeper, for publication in 2020 and 2021, to Michelle Vega at Berkley Prime Crime by Donald Maass.

Publishers Weekly: Jane Harris, the unreliable narrator of this exceptional psychological thriller from Rouda (Best Day Ever), has sequestered herself in her gorgeous oceanfront home in a gated community in Orange County, Calif., overcome with grief following the death of her college-age daughter, Mary, in an accident a year earlier. Appearances are important to Jane—perfect house, perfect family, perfect image of mourning. Now that she has decided to move on, Jane finds her husband, David, distant, working long hours and […]

A science fiction novel by David Gerrold (The Martian Child) in which humanity reaches a planet of strange flora and a young settler, Kyle, learns that his autism may be judged a liability to human survival, to Betsy Wollheim at DAW via Donald Maass.