Kirkus: A minute-by-minute account of mass murder at a high school by a former student. Four students from a range of different backgrounds at Alabama’s Opportunity High, all of whom have a history with Tyler, the gunman, take turns telling this harrowing story in the first person. They include his sister, Autumn, and her clandestine girlfriend, Sylv, who have only each other for solace as the home lives of both are in upheaval. Tomás, Sylv’s brother, recounts his and his […]
Review: NEED by Joelle Charbonneau
School Library Journal: When a new social network pops up promising to fulfill any need, 16-year-old Kaylee Dunham knows it’s too good to be true. […] Charbonneau delivers a tightly paced thriller packed with enough tension to keep teens hooked until the dramatic finale. Readers will root for Kaylee as she faces down hateful classmates, a mother who doesn’t trust her, and an out-of-control social network bent on turning everyone she knows into a killer. Told through the perspective of multiple students […]
Review: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
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 […]
Congratulations to Chuck Wendig!
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 […]
Deal: Suzanne Gates
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.
Deal: J.A. Pitts
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.
September Translation Deals
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, […]
September Subsidiary Rights Deals
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 […]
Starred Review: Violent Ends by Shaun David Hutchinson
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 […]
Congratulations to Chuck Wendig!
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 […]








