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Washington Post: Narrated by a young woman seeking revenge, Seth Dickinson’s first novel, “The Traitor Baru Cormorant,” is a fascinating tale of political intrigue and national unrest. Baru Cormorant is just a girl when the Empire of Masks conquers her island. The new rulers create roads and better sanitation, but their strong-fisted policies erode the country’s economy and punish the people cruelly if they don’t adhere to a rigid code of sexual conduct. Baru decides that the only way to fight […]

Star Wars: Aftermath continues its run on the New York Times Best Seller list for the third week! 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 […]

Suzanne Gates’ debut novel TINSEL, set in 1940 Hollywood, a young woman with dreams of movie stardom discovers her best friend’s body and must solve the murder with the help and hindrance of her new friend Barbara Stanwyck, plus one more to Peter Senftleben at Kensington Books by Jennifer Udden, for publication in 2017.

Spectrum award winner John Pitts’ NIGHT TERRORS, the fourth book in an urban fantasy series featuring blacksmith Sarah Beauhall, who must slip into an alternate nightmare dimension in order to save her girlfriend and keep the living nightmares from invading our world, moving to Kevin J. Anderson at WordFire Press, by Cameron McClure.

Polish rights to Jim Butcher’s THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS, Book 1 in the Cinder Spires series, to MAG JACEK RODEK, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry. German rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Divine Cities trilogy, to Lübbe, at auction, in a three-book deal, by Julia Aumüller at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure. Korean rights to Jo Walton’s AMONG OTHERS, to Design Comma, […]

Rhiannon Held’s WOLFSBANE, Book 4 of the Silver series, to Anji Cornette at GraphicAudio, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure. Audio rights to Elizabeth Sims’ Lillian Byrd series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, in a five-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure. Audio rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s short story collection KABU KABU, to Damilola Aransiola at Talking Bookz, by Katie Shea Boutillier (Africa only). Audio rights to J.A. Pitts’ NIGHT TERROR, Book 4 […]

VOYA: This is an intriguing, powerful narrative told through seventeen unique points of view, each of which have some sort of contact or connection to a school shooter. […] The storytelling is wonderfully intense and distinctive on such a difficult, tragic topic.  Readers will be captivated, not wanting to put the book down, but also needing a break due to the extremely engaging, emotionally charged content of characters’ feelings and thoughts.  No clear, neat, and clean answers are given as to why […]

Star Wars: Aftermath hit the New York Times Best Seller list for the second week in a row, this time at #5, and the USA Today Bestselling list at #17! 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 […]

Library Journal: VERDICT: The author blends familiar steampunk and fantasy elements (airships, wizardry, and heroes from a monarch’s guard) in a fresh and wonderful way that results in a fantastic ride. This should well satisfy fans of fantasy, sf, or their stepchild steampunk. With this novel, Butcher (“The Dresden Files” series) launches a new fantasy series, and it is a splendid beginning indeed. After throwing a carefully calculated tantrum, Gwendolyn Lancaster, heir to one of the most powerful families in Spire […]

RT Book Reviews:  Planetfall is a strange but mesmerizing book in which almost nothing is as it seems. The protagonist is… fascinating, and the book reads at once like a character study, a mystery, a hard science fiction tale about the survival of colonists on an alien world, and surrealist science fiction about alien life. Above all, this is a book about the price of secrets.