Starred Review: Steles of the Sky by Elizabeth Bear

Mar 102014
 

bear-stelesoftheskyPublishers Weekly: Bear’s stellar conclusion to her Mongolian-flavored fantasy trilogy (after Range of Ghosts and Shattered Pillars) is a satisfying mix of traditional epic fantasy elements, flavored with original magic and grounded with mundane details that make the fantastic seem entirely possible. As the skies shift, reflecting the mortals in power and their associated gods, forces align to support or challenge wizard al-Sepehr as he wages war in the name of the Scholar-God. Warrior Re Temur and his allies travel to Dragon Lake to rally the opposition with Temur’s declaration of his assumption of the position of Khagan, heir to his grandfather’s empire. Continue reading »

Review: The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher

Mar 072014
 

christopher-theburningdarkSFX Magazine: The novel is studded with memorable imagery – not least a subspace ham radio which carries the voice of a dead 20th century cosmonaut – and although it’s clear to the reader from an early stage that certain things are not what they seem, Christopher keeps you guessing for quite a while concerning how the major plot elements link up. Continue reading »

Deal: Amanda Downum

Mar 062014
 

amanda-downumAmanda Downum’s DREAMS OF SHREDS AND TATTERS, a contemporary story influenced by Lovecraft’s Dreamlands in which Liz Drake must unravel the truth behind a drug called mania and a modern-day cult of Dionysos which masks something far more ancient and terrible, for publication in 2015 to Jonathan Oliver at Solaris by Jennifer Jackson.

Deal: Robert Jackson Bennett

Mar 052014
 

robert-jackson-bennettEdgar and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF BLADES, a sequel to his fantasy novel City of Stairs, as well as an untitled second novel, again to Julian Pavia at Crown, by Cameron McClure.

Starred Review: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

Mar 042014
 

bishop-murderofcrowsRomantic Times: Following last year’s phenomenal Written in Red, Bishop returns to Namid (a reimagined Earth) with its creatures both “terrible and wondrous.” Danger is stalking the Lakeside Courtyard and, once again, blood prophet Meg Corbin is at the epicenter. Book two in the Others series is just as mesmerizing as the first, rich with beautifully rendered detail and exceptional characters. Bishop and this series should be an auto-buy; you absolutely won’t regret it!

Review: Bury This by Andrea Portes

Mar 032014
 

portes-burythisNew York Times: Portes tells this tale of violence in spiraling prose. Her empathy shies away from nothing in the tangled lives of this small Michigan town, with a young girl tied up tight in the center. “Bury This” begins with the snowplow driver who finds Krauses’ body, and the writing is so exquisite it is impossible to believe that Portes could sustain its impressionistic method, at once omnipresent and precise, for the remainder of the novel. But she does, with hardly a slip in tone as we move from character to character.

Read the full review online here: New York Times Book Review

February Translation Deals

Feb 282014
 

earthKorean rights to Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT and FOOL MOON (books 1 and 2 of the Dresden Files series) to Munhaksasang by Jackie Yang at EYA (Eric Yang Agency) in association with Jennifer Jackson.

Japanese rights to Emily Brightwell’s first three books in the long-running Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries series, THE INSPECTOR AND MRS. JEFFRIES, MRS. JEFFRIES DUSTS FOR CLUES and THE GHOST AND MRS. JEFFRIES, to Tokyo Sogensha, by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency, in association with Cameron McClure.

Czech rights to Brent Weeks’s the second book in THE LIGHTBRINGER series, THE BLINDING KNIFE, to Fantom Print, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi in association with Cameron McClure.

German rights to NYT bestselling author Robert McCammon’s THE WOLF’S HOUR, to be published in two volumes, to Festa, by Caroline Hartge and Franka Zastrow at Thomas Schlueck Agency, in association with Cameron McClure.

Audio Deal: The Wolf’s Hour and The Hunter From the Woods by Robert McCammon

Feb 272014
 

mccammon-wolfshourNYT bestsellling author Robert McCammon’s THE WOLF’S HOUR, a novel originally published in 1990, and the recently published collection of related short stories, THE HUNTER FROM THE WOODS, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Cameron McClure.

Review: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

Feb 262014
 

bishop-murderofcrowsLibrary Journal: Bishop excels at creating irresistible dark worlds, but this series avoids some of the baroque excesses of her popular “Black Jewels” universe while still having that startling otherness and a touch of sensuality. Her alternate America in which the natural world belongs to the Others and humans are interlopers is fascinating. Living among the shifters, vampires, and earth elementals known as the Others is a dangerous proposition for humans, but Meg Corbyn is no ordinary mortal. As a cassandra sangue Meg can see the future when her skin is cut. Continue reading »

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