Sean Grigsby’s DAUGHTERS OF FORGOTTEN LIGHT, pitched as Bitch Planet meets Escape from New York, when a baby is smuggled into a deep-space penal colony the leader of a fierce prison gang risks her life to save it from rival gangs and return it to Earth, plus ASH KICKERS (sequel to SMOKE EATERS), sold to Phil Jourdan at Angry Robot, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2018, by Paul Stevens.
Tor.com: In Justina Ireland’s fantastic new young adult novel, Dread Nation, the world is upended when the dead rise from their graves at Gettysburg. In order to salvage what’s left of the US, the Civil War ends in a compromise that frees the enslaved but forces them into combat schools that train them to slay the undead shamblers. Ireland tapped into our collective knowledge of the past and dreams for the future and poured it into Dread Nation. She revealed the truth […]
Publishers Weekly: Megan, who aspires to be a theater director, is focused on finishing her senior year and fulfilling the acting requirement she needs to get into the Southern Oregon Theater Institute. But then she’s cast as Juliet, opposite Tyler’s Romeo. Owen, a new boy with theater aspirations of his own, enters Megan’s life, and as their friendship grows she misses all the signals that Owen might be the love she didn’t know she wanted. Real-life romantic partners Wibberly (the Last […]
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Constellation 4, a new volume collecting recent short stories set in their nationally best-selling Liaden Universe ® series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Troy Bucher’s THE FALLEN GODS’ WAR trilogy, a coming of age, epic fantasy series, in which two characters must bridge opposing cultures to stop a pair of long-dead gods from returning to destroy their homeland, to Sheila Gilbert at DAW, by Jennie Goloboy.
Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated for the 2018 Hugo Awards! Best Novel Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) Best Novella All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing) Best Novelette “Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com, February 15, 2017) Best Graphic Story Black Bolt, Volume 1: Hard Time, written by Saladin Ahmed (Marvel) Best Semiprozine Escape Pod, editors include S.B. Divya Fireside Magazine, editors include Elsa Sjunneson-Henry Best Series The […]
B&N SFF Blog: Anne Bishop blazed onto the genre scene in the late 1990s with the Black Jewels Trilogy, a fantasy epic filled with violence, blood, and revenge that somehow mostly leaves readers with lingering impressions of its beautiful empathy, kindness, and impish sense of humor. This deeply affecting mixture won the hearts of many fans then (including mine), and remains her signature today. In this sense, her new urban fantasy LAKE SILENCE fits perfectly into her bibliography. Bishop has always been skilled at building playful, enticing […]
Audio rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s short story collection KABU KABU, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Audio, by Katie Shea Boutillier. Audio rights to Shirley Jackson- and World Fantasy Award nominee Tamsyn Muir’s debut epic science fantasy GIDEON THE NINTH and two sequels to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, in a pre-empt, via Jennifer Jackson. Audio rights to Sean Grigsby’s stand-alone DAUGHTERS OF FORGOTTEN LIGHT, plus ASH KICKERS (sequel to his debut SMOKE EATERS), to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books by […]
Romanian rights to NYT bestselling author, Brent Weeks’s THE SHADOW’S EDGE and renewal of THE WAY OF SHADOWS, to Grupul Editorial Art, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier. Hebrew rights to NYT and USA Today bestselling authors Annika Martin and Sky Warren’s HOSTAGE and PRISONER, to Sifrut Acheret, by Beverley Levit of The Book Publishers Association of Israel, in association with Cameron McClure and Katie Shea Boutillier. Spanish rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI: […]
Publishers Weekly: Bear’s Karen Memory (2015) introduced her stubborn and spunky heroine, Karen Memery, a teenage sex worker who saved her late 1870s Pacific Northwest town from threats foreign and domestic. Now Karen and her beloved, Priya, are preparing to enjoy their first night in their new home when traveling spiritualists dredge up an old, seemingly supernatural mystery poised to cause mayhem. Naturally, Karen wants to investigate. Though this novel lacks the scope and some of the sheer raucousness of the first, all of the […]