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.
Locus: This anthology of 11 original stories explores the “idea that good and evil are just two aspects of a complicated and very human story.” The authors all bring their own notions of what that means, with rather varied results, though overall the stories are on the dark side. Among the standout stories is Butcher’s own “Cold Case”, which finds Harry Dresden’s former apprentice Molly Carpenter, now a Queen of Faerie as the Winter Lady, on a mission for Mab to […]
Rights to a tabletop card game based on the New York Times best-selling Cinder Spires series by Jim Butcher to Fred Hicks at Evil Hat Productions LLC by Jennifer Jackson.
Congratulations to the DMLA clients nominated for a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award! Best Fantasy: Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop Best Science Fiction: Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer Best Young Adult SF&F: We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
Kirkus: Packed with action and mystery, this is a good Dresden story with plenty for new and old fans alike. Molly’s power is growing, and if you’ve read the books, you know where that is heading, and it adds tension to those scenes. Murphy, too, is growing and we get to see a lot of her in this installment. The art is amazing, per usual – done by Carlos Gomez and Sean Izaakse. Read Kirkus’ full review of Wild Card here.
Kirkus: If your boyfriend is erased from history, is it because the universe is shrinking, or have you totally lost your mind? During senior year in high school, college applications and prom dates are the stresses du jour. But Oswald “Ozzie” Pinkerton’s also include trying to convince anyone (family, friends, an alphabetical string of therapists) that his boyfriend, Tommy, ever existed. They theorize that Ozzie is obsessive and slightly touched; he theorizes that the universe is shrinking and that Tommy was […]
Georgian rights to Robert McCammon’s BOY’S LIFE, to Books In Batumi, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure. Bulgarian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF BLADES, Book 2 of the Divine Cities series, to Bard, by Tamara Vukicevic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure. Polish rights to Robert Jackson’s Bennett’s CITY OF BLADES, Book 2 of the Divine Cities […]
Martha Wells THE MURDERBOT DIARIES: ALL SYSTEMS RED, in which a security droid, that has for its own reasons hacked its Company governor chip, may be the only hope for a small team of scientists that discovers a neighboring mission has been sabotaged, and a sequel, in a two-book deal to Lee Harris at Tor.com by Jennifer Jackson.