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Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop debuts at #16 on the New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover list, #20 on the NYT ebook list, and #40 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books List! The Others freed the  cassandra sangue  to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before—both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes. In desperate need […]

The paperback of Skin Game by Jim Butcher debuts at #12 on the New York Times Best Seller list! Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day… Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful. He doesn’t know the half of it…

Crime novelist Emily Winslow’s memoir, JANE DOE JANUARY, about the author’s rape in 1992 and the cold-case prosecution of her rapist over 20 years later which pulls her back home to America from her far-away married life in England, exploring her desire for retribution and the ways in which the criminal justice system both validates us and fails us, to Deb Brody at William Morrow, by Cameron McClure.

Two DMLA books were awarded a 2014 Earphones Award by AudioFile Magazine: Last Plane to Heaven by Jay Lake Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

Publishers Weekly: Starting his junior year at new school, Adam Higgs is a loser, and he knows it. He barely has any friends, has never been kissed, and has started working at Pizza Hut. After Adam devises a lucrative homework-selling scheme, suddenly he has an adorable girlfriend and is getting invited to the best parties, but this taste of fame and wealth leads him down a path of escalating risk, selling fake IDs and drugs. In chapters often no longer than […]

Booklist: May and Libby came up with Princess X, a katana-wielding cartoon girl with a crown and red Chucks, on the day they met in fifth grade, and for the next several years of their friendship, they wrote enough stories about her to fill a closet. But then Libby and her mother die in a car accident, and May tries to move on with her life, but she can’t shake the feeling that not everything adds up about Libby’s death. […]

Wall Street Journal: Randy Henderson’s “Finn Fancy Necromancy” is a magic-politics story too, but set in present-day Washington state and much more of a romp than the two above. Its hero, Finn Gramaraye, has just finished a 25-year penal stretch in the Fey world for dark necromancy, his place in this world held for him by a changeling. The return does not go smoothly. The transfer of memories from the changeling doesn’t happen. Finn finds himself a quarter-century out of date. He’s […]

Publishers Weekly: Tanzer’s first novel is a splendid page-turner of a Weird West adventure. Elouise Merriwether is a psychopomp, tasked with escorting newly deceased souls to the afterlife. Half Chinese and half English, with a bizarre job that few people understand, she struggles to find a place for herself in 1870s San Francisco, often vacillating between pluck and self-effacement. When her mother asks her to investigate why young Chinese men are going missing after being offered jobs in Colorado, Lou agrees […]

Molly Tanzer’s THE PLEASURE MERCHANT, a novel set in 18th century London where Tom Dawne, a former wigmaker’s apprentice and aspiring gentleman finds his modest desires changing as he climbs the social ladder, until he is offered his greatest pleasure, but for a price, to Cameron Pierce at Lazy Fascist by Cameron McClure.

Woke Up Lonely author Fiona Maazel’s third novel, What Kind of A Man, about a man with dubious superhuman abilities who is being blackmailed with incriminating photos of an assault he doesn’t remember committing, whose search for the truth leads him to uncover secret research at a neurological institute his parents founded, to Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Press, by Stacia Decker.