Congratulations to Alex Gordon on her debut novel being Library’s Journal’s latest Debut of the Month! Library Journal (*Starred Review): VERDICT: With the pacing of a thriller, this debut supernatural tale does a solid job of portraying the menace of small-town evil. While the demonic figure of Blaine is scary, the petty viciousness of the townsfolk is even more chilling. This will appeal to fans of books such as Katherine Howe’s The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane or Deborah Harkness’s A […]
Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau on The Testing being on the 2015-6 ballot for the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Awards! Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must […]
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.