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Congratulations to Shaun David Hutchinson on We Are the Ants being named on School Library Journal’s 2016 Best Young Adult Books List!

Congratulations to Yoon Ha Lee and Ada Palmer on Ninefox Gambit and Too Like the Lightning being named to Barnes & Noble’s 2016 List of Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books!

Publishers Weekly: The morally gray heroes of this urban fantasy anthology refute the idea that all magic users are either good or evil. Butcher opens with his own “Cold Case,” the heart-wrenching story of a young woman trying to reconcile her new and terrible power with the duty she must perform. Seanan McGuire’s “Sleepover” follows nicely, revealing a world where magical people are reviled and unwelcome. Tanya Huff’s “If Wishes Were,” the grim story of a vampire holding desperately to her […]

Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett and Yoon Ha Lee on City of Blades and Ninefox Gambit being on Amazon’s 2016 List of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy!

SHADOWED SOULS edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes debuted at #77 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books List! In this dark and gritty collection—featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman—nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil.. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.

Booklist: The universe isn’t expanding anymore—it’s actually shrinking, and Florida high-school senior Ozzie is the only one who remembers it differently. He’s also the only one who remembers Tommy, his best friend since childhood and boyfriend since the eighth grade. Tommy has vanished, both from Ozzie’s life and from the memories of everyone around him. As graduation approaches and Ozzie’s world becomes literally smaller, he struggles to find Tommy with increasing desperation, even as he grows closer to Calvin, the […]

Tor.com: Jim Butcher is one of the biggest names in urban fantasy (maybe the biggest, considering his novels tend to debut at the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list), and Kerrie Hughes is one of the most accomplished anthologists in SFF. The two combine their estimable skills for Shadowed Souls, an anthology of urban fantasy stories whose theme focuses on the line dividing black from white, good from evil, and what lies in the shadows. The anthology is […]

Alyssa Raymond and William Kiester at Page Street have bought Lynn Slaughter’s It Should Have Been You, in which a cyberstalked high-school advice columnist takes matters into her own hands to figure out the secrets behind her twin sister’s murder, putting herself in grave danger. Publication is slated for winter 2018; Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency brokered the deal for world rights.

RT Book Reviews: Most times heroes/heroines are in the good-rather-than-evil camp, but what if behavior that is considered “good vs. evil” is in the eye of the beholder? Eleven of today’s most talented authors take on this theme and serve up a variety of intriguing, if sometimes dark, short stories. Most of the stories feature characters from the various author’s ongoing series, so readers will enjoy another glimpse into the worlds they have created. A must-read anthology for UF fans!

Justina Ireland’s THE NEVER AND THE NOW and a sequel, a futuristic spy duology about cyborgs’ multigenerational battle to be recognized as people, not property, plus a stand-alone science fiction novel, to Miriam Weinberg at Tor, by Amy Boggs.