Edgar Award and Sydney J. Bounds Award winner Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, an intrigue-filled fantasy novel of spies and dead gods set in an ever-changing city, for publication in September 2014, plus a second novel set in the same world, to Jo Fletcher at Jo Fletcher Books / Quercus, by Meg Davis at Ki Agency in association with Cameron McClure.
Kirkus: Wrapping up Bear’s complex and beautifully rendered historical-fantasy trilogy (Shattered Pillars, 2013, etc.). It all adds up to an eminently satisfying conclusion. Considering the trilogy as a whole, the overused term masterpiece justifiably applies. Necromancer and blood-sorcerer al-Sepehr, head of the Nameless assassin cult, arranged to have his daughter Saadet impregnated by Qori Buqa, Khagan of the nomad horse-warrior Empire, whom he then murdered. Continue reading »
Congratulations to the DMLA clients whose works received a nomination for The Audies 2014!
P.C. Hodgell’s untitled fantasy novel, the sequel to Sea of Time (coming from Baen in June) and the 8th book in the series featuring Jamethiel Kencyrath, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Tor.com: “There is kidnapping, and derring-do, and tense stand-offs, and last-minute rescues, and terrible revelations—in short, all the ingredients of an excellent adventure story.”
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Publishers Weekly: A truly unusual mystery distinguishes bestseller Perry’s 29th Victorian puzzle featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt (after 2013’s Midnight at Marble Arch). Perry balances plot and character neatly before providing a resolution that few will anticipate. The local police call on Thomas, who’s still adjusting to his relatively new role as head of Special Branch, about the disappearance of a housemaid who lives in a London suburb near Greenwich. Continue reading »
Author of the Rainbow Award-nominated and EPIC award finalist CLOSE QUARTER Anna Zabo’s MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS, a contemporary erotic office romance which follows Mike, who has a one-night stand on his last night of vacation only to get back to work and realize that it was with his new CEO, a man so deep in the closet he may as well be in Narnia, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Intermix, by Jennifer Udden.
NPR: Like a tightrope walker himself, Christopher deftly balances Hang Wire on multiple, crisscrossing threads of character and plot. As dizzying as it is, he never slips. Even when secrets swell to bursting with world-shaking promise, the story maintains a steady, nervy rhythm . . . A tightly wound, dynamic piece of genre-bending machinery.
Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau and Cassandra Rose Clarke for their books The Testing and The Assassin’s Curse being included in YALSA’s 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers!
Adam Christopher’s LA Trilogy, following his novella “Brisk Money,” a sci-fi/noir mashup trilogy set in an alternate 1960s Los Angeles and starring Raymond Electromatic, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer named Googol, inspired by Raymond Chandler’s parody of sci-fi/fantasy in a letter to his agent, to Paul Stevens at Tor, by Stacia Decker.