Based on the New York Times Bestselling Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, a cooperative card game from the minds behind the Dresden Files Roleplaying system, to Evil Hat Productions LLC by Jennifer Jackson. Audio rights to Ada Palmer’s forthcoming TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING, Book 1 of the Terra Ignota series, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, in a four-book deal, for simultaneous publication with the hardcover in May, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Amy Boggs. Audio rights […]
Star Wars: Aftermath returns to the USA Today Bestselling Books list at #122! As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance—now a fledgling New Republic—presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy’s scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy’s strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling […]
Chuck Wendig will be writing Marvel’s new comic series about superhero Hyperion, with Nik Virella as the artist, to Marvel by Stacia Decker.
Author of the acclaimed novelette “The Litany of Earth,” Ruthanna Emrys’ debut novel, WINTER TIDE, about Aphra Marsh, the last surviving daughter of Innsmouth, who is asked by the same government that destroyed her people to help them discover who is using her family’s forbidden magic at Miskatonic University, plus a sequel, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor.com by Cameron McClure.
The Aeronaut’s Windlass stays on the USA Today Best-selling Books list at #101! Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping […]
B&N SF&F Blog: This is a rich, complicated, textured world, with a myriad of different people, different creatures, different cultures, coming together in both a hard clash and a harder understanding. This is the kind of fantasy that makes you slow down, sound out the unforgiving consonants of a foreign culture, so you can hear those uncomfortable vowels, both the familiar and the alien. We don’t have to be just one thing, but several, and in fruitful opposition. Winter isn’t coming. It’s […]
Director Sharon Lewis will start shooting a film of Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson this fall. Produced by urbansoul inc, it tells the story of a dystopian Toronto where Ti-Jeanne is chafing under Mami hergrandmother’s overprotective rules. Mami refuses to loosen her hold on Ti-Jeanne until she “sees” her protector spirit, Jab Jab. Ti-Jeanne rejects the spirits and when Tony comes on the scene she falls fast and hard. Ti-Jeanne runs off with Tony to forge a life in […]
Publishers Weekly: In her stirring debut, Ferguson takes inspiration from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and turns it into a moving story about the consequences of choices. As the story begins, it seems that public relations whiz Molly Sullivan has it all—good friends, a loving boyfriend, a job she loves. But a positive pregnancy test turns her carefully controlled world on its ear. Before she can tell her boyfriend Scott that they’re expecting, he proposes to her at a […]
New York Times: In Amanda Downum’s novel DREAMS OF SHREDS AND TATTERS, Liz Drake is a young woman living on the East Coast with her devoted boyfriend, whom she seems a bit ambivalent about which probably explains her rather casual attitude toward him, a casualness that extends to other things as well. One thing she’s not casual about, however, is her psychic connection to Blake Enderly. When Liz has an intuition, she is absolutely certain that her friend Blake, who […]
The Monitor: This fascinating novel subverts Pygmalion, rags-to-riches and boy-meets-girl tropes to memorable effect….The narrative style is a delightful pastiche of Georgian and Victorian suffused with striking sensuality and modern sensibilities, as if Charles Dickens and Jane Austen had a child together and raised her on shojo and yaoi manga. The voice of the Pleasure Merchant’s apprentice will stay with you for days. Read The Monitor’s full review of The Pleasure Merchant here.