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Publishers Weekly: As with Anatomy of a Misfit (2014), Portes’s second YA novel has a seductive zaniness and almost unstoppable exuberance. Sixteen-year-old Willa Parker, a small-town girl and native Iowan, reluctantly heads east to a fancy New England boarding school, where she meets Remy Taft, an infamous student from a famous family, who adopts Willa like she’s a wide-eyed puppy. Though it takes some wading through Willa’s mile-a-minute internal monologue in the opening chapters, once her adventures with Remy begin, the […]

Kirkus: See the girl on the train, the white one “with the frizzy red hair and funny mouth”? That’s 16-year-old Willa Parker. Willa has a simple two-point plan: move to the East Coast…and kill herself. Willa leaves her hometown of What Cheer, Iowa (you heard that right), to attend The Pembroke School and (presumably) go on to Princeton, because her wealthy economist mother (who divorced Willa’s father and left them with nothing) says she “should.” Willa’s plan is derailed when she […]

Congratulations to Kathryn Craft on The Far End of Happy being named a finalist for the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year! Ronnie’s husband is supposed to move out today. But when Jeff pulls into the driveway drunk, with a shotgun in the front seat, she realizes that nothing about the day will go as planned. Unlike the slow, private disintegration of their marriage, the next few hours spiral down in a flash as special response troops swarm the property. How […]

B&N SFF Blog:  Bishop has built a fascinating world, populated it with unforgettable characters, and set them crashing together in exciting action sequences, all while slowly teasing out an overarching plot that is poised for explosive expansion and raising enough questions that we simply must keep reading to find out what happens next. […] This is a series that welcomes binge-reading, actively rooting for your heroes, booing and hissing at the villains you love to hate, and throwing popcorn at the screen […]

B&N SF&F Blog: Bishop’s fourth entry in the complex Others universe sees things getting increasingly tense between humanity and the Others, even as the latter’s alliance with the human blood prophets led by Meg Corbyn promises a brighter future for both. Treaties start to unravel when the radical group Humans First and Last steps up attacks on the Others­but their brutal efforts begin to wake forces more powerful and more ancient than the shape-shifters and vampires, putting both humanity and […]

Emily Winslow’s STILL LIFE, her fourth crime novel set in Cambridge England, in which new evidence comes to light on the cold case of Annalise Wood, a teenage girl who went missing 40 years ago, and the three present day women whose lives are thrown together because of it: one who claims to be Annalise’s secret daughter, another who has adopted her imagined suffering, and the psychologist who treats them both and knows more about the case than she can […]

German rights to Robert McCammon’s SPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD, Book 1 of the Matthew Corbett series, to Luzifer, by Franka Zastrow at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure. Japanese rights for Elizabeth Bear’s KAREN MEMORY to Tokyo Sogensha by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency (Japan) in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry. Italian rights to Marieke Nijkamp’s THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, to Newton Compton, by Stefania Fietta atSilvia Donzelli Agency in association […]

Holly Messinger’s CURIOUS WEATHER, Book 2 in the Jacob Tracy series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Amy Boggs. Jane Haddam’s ACT OF DARKNESS and QUOTH THE RAVEN, to Michael Olah at Dreamscape, by Katie Shea Boutillier. Ronald Malfi’s THE NIGHT PARADE, to Haila Williams at Blackstone, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.

Molly Tanzer’s QUICKSILVER, sequel to VERMILION, named one of the best SFF books of 2015 by io9 and NPR, in which psychopomp Lou Merriwether returns to San Francisco’s Chinatown where someone or something is slowly draining the population’s souls, and the only person who can help is already dead, to Ross Lockhart at Word Horde, by Cameron McClure.

Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated for a 2015 Nebula Award! Novella: Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com) Novelette: “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead,” Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)