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German rights to Jim Butcher’s FURIES OF CALDERON, Book 1 of the Codex Alera series, renewed by Blanvalet, via Bastian Schlueck at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson. Dutch rights to NYT bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp’s THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, to Harper Holland, at auction, by Philip Sane and Katarina Bohlin at The Lennart Sane Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennifer Udden. German rights to NYT bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp’s THIS […]

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor on The Book of Phoenix being shortlisted for a 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award! Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. She is an “accelerated woman”—only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her […]

Congratulations to the DMLA authors named finalists for a 2016 Hugo Award! Best novel: The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher Best novella: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Best novelette: And You Shall Know Her By the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander

New York Times: In the Three Worlds, sentient nonhuman species are a dime a dozen, and the detritus of countless lost civilizations is embedded in a lush, magic-infused landscape. The author Martha Wells, who trained as an anthropologist, has previously brought readers to this verdant fantasy realm via a trilogy and a series of shorter stories, but THE EDGE OF WORLDS (Night Shade, $24.99) marks the start of a new saga in the Books of the Raksura. […] The result is breathtakingly […]

Congratulations to Kathryn Craft on The Far End of Happy receiving the bronze for Contemporary Fiction for the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards!

Publishers Weekly:  Griep dives into the dystopian genre in this outstanding novel, which challenges preconceptions of the genre. After a plague ravages a once-thriving world, a harsh rivalry emerges between two immune communities: the decaying City, and the idyllic New Charity. Cressyda, a New Charitan fleeing her former life, is caught up in a political struggle when she returns to New Charity in the wake of her father’s mysterious death. Cressyda clashes with her childhood friends, Len and Cas Willis, as […]

Publishers Weekly: In Gordon’s superb follow-up to 2015’s Gideon, Lauren Mullin is coming to terms with her powers as a witch and as a Child of Endor. Her role is to guard the “thin places” such as Gideon, Ill., that separate the living and the dead. But Gideon’s residents are leaving, and without support from the other Children of Endor, she fears for the town’s future. When the enigmatic Gene Kaster approaches Lauren with an offer to head to Carmody Peak, […]

Congratulations to Cherie Priest on I Am Princess X being named a nominee for YALSA’s 2016 Teens’ Top Ten!

Library Journal: A plague has decimated the planet’s population. Former ballerina Cressyda resides in the City, a community of survivors that remains a collapsed ruin compared to New Charity. This society stands strong behind its wall, with a hydroelectric dam that ensures no one from the City can access that water. When Syd learns she has inherited her father’s New Charity ranch, she returns both to the family she left behind years ago and to her then best friend, Casandra. Cas, […]

RT Book Review: This debut is astonishingly dense, accomplished and well-realized, with a future that feels real in both its strangeness and its familiarity. Trying to follow what goes on in this world is roughly as easy as following what’s happening in ours, but also as rewarding, with an incredibly colorful (and often ambiguous) cast of characters, truly skillful layering of plot and incident in ways that can spin your head around and a milieu pitched perfectly between utopia and dystopia […]