At Parade, Lauren Oliver calls Andrea Portes’ Anatomy of a Misfit a must-read of 2014! “It was a humbling year to be a YA writer. I was continuously amazed, inspired by, and driven to fits of existential jealousy by a huge quantity of incredibly structured, brilliantly written YA releases this year — but one that especially sticks with me is Andrea Portes’s Anatomy of a Misfit. It’s a strange, surprising, and completely engrossing book, and a must-read for any contemporary YA fan.”
Congratulations to Owen Laukkanen on his book KILL FEE receiving the Society of Voice Arts & Science’s 2014 award for Outstanding Audio Narration for Crime & Thriller! The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die. On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens and FBI special agent Carla Windermere, witness the assassination of one of the state’s wealthiest men. The shooter is a young man, utterly unremarkable…except for the dead look in his […]
Booklist: Hutchinson’s latest is an unflinching look at loss, grief, and recovery. Seventeen-year-old Drew Brawley has been hiding from death for months in the Florida hospital where the rest of his family died. He passes the time working at the cafeteria and making friends with teen patients in the oncology ward. Drew has been working on a graphic novel, a disturbing story called Patient F that hints at the trauma he has been desperately trying to keep buried. The comic, […]
Congratulations to Les Klinger on The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft being named one of Powell’s Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books of 2014! “With its gorgeous production, from the waving tentacles on the cover to the meticulous annotations, this one gets it just right. It would definitely make a stunning holiday gift. Not everything that Lovecraft wrote is here, but at 928 pages, there’s plenty to enjoy.”
Library Journal: The family dynamics between Finn and his brothers are well done, and the author (winner of Writers of the Future’s 2014 Golden Pen Award) excellently shows Finn as an emotionally stunted teenager suddenly middle-aged and having to deal with the family and friends he left behind. A promising writer to watch. During his transfer back to the mortal plane, Finn Gramaraye is attacked, and the swap with the fae changeling is botched, leaving Finn without any helpful memories for […]
Booklist: If contemporary Seattle is an apt setting for cyberpunk thrillers, it stands to reason that nineteenth-century Seattle should serve just as well for a steampunk adventure. Bear’s new novel follows the title character’s life as a bordello girl working along Puget Sound, from which steam-powered airships take gold prospectors up and down the western mountain ranges. But in the seedy dockside world of the Pacific Northwest frontier, the opportunities for criminals with powerful technology in their hands are ripe. Fans […]
Kirkus: An enterprising loser hustles his way to ultimate popularity, at a cost. Adam’s older brother, Sam, was a star hockey player in his high school years, and by all rights, his younger brother should have been a high school god. Instead, Sam is paralyzed after a nasty body slam, and Adam is a wannabe in off-brand clothes who can’t score an invite to a single party. Tired of sitting at home playing video games and watching Scarface—the plot of […]
Jo Ann Ferguson writing as Jo Ann Brown’s AN AMISH HOMECOMING, the first in new series “Close to Paradise,” to Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired, in a six-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.
Jim Butcher’s original graphic novel War Cry debuts at #4 on the New York Times Best Sellers Hard Cover Graphic Novel list! A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council-a war the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they’ve dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only wizard for hire and a guy who’s long been […]
Three DMLA authors listed on BuzzFeed’s 19 Science-Fiction and Fantasy Novels by Women of Color You Must Read! Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor The Salt Roads – Nalo Hopkinson Joplin’s Ghost – Tananarive Due