New York Times: Steve Weddle’s writing is downright dazzling in COUNTRY HARDBALL (Tyrus Books, cloth, $24.99; paper, $16.99), a first novel told in intertwined stories that present a shattering portrait of a depressed rural area on the Arkansas-Louisiana border that seems to be reverting to its wilderness state. Several of the narratives are seen through the eyes of Roy Alison, fresh out of prison and looking to start a new life. Continue reading »
Booklist: Cia is now a First Year student at the University. Her memory of the Testing has been erased, but the messages she left herself in her Communicator nurture her unease and distrust as she enters this new phase of her education. Although hoping to study engineering, she is instead assigned to the Government Studies program, where she distinguishes herself during the Induction period. Continue reading »
Kirkus: It’s 1879 in this alternate America where the Civil War still drags on, though both sides are utterly spent, Lincoln survived the assassination attempt (he’s confined to a wheelchair, however), and President Ulysses S. Grant has taken to the bottle, having despaired of politics in general and of the loathsome politicians that swarm around him. Young ex-slave and irascible genius Gideon Bardsley has invented a calculating machine, the Fiddlehead, that predicts disaster for both warring sides—but not by military means. Continue reading »
KINKED debuts at #132 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list!
As a harpy, Sentinel Aryal is accustomed to dealing with hate, but Sentinel Quentin Caeravorn manages to inspire in her a burning ire unlike anything she’s ever known. Aryal believes the new Sentinel to be a criminal, and vows to take him out as soon as the opportunity arises. But the harpy’s incessant wrath has pushed Quentin to the limit, and forces him to make a deadly vow of his own.
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Congratulations to all the DMLA clients nominated for the RT Awards!
Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi’s Little Girls, about a woman who, in the wake of her father’s death, moves with her husband and daughter back to her childhood home, and is haunted by a childhood tragedy that seems to be replaying itself with her daughter, as she becomes increasingly obsessed with investigating her father’s death, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, by Cameron McClure.
DMLA congratulates its authors whose work made Publishers Weekly’s Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Books of 2013 list:
Booklist: When Penelope Sparrow wakes up in the hospital, she’s told she fell 14 stories and is lucky to be alive. But with bruises and pain and a broken bone, Penny faces the possibility of life without dance. All Penny ever wanted was to be a dancer, but her five-foot, eight-inch stature and wide hips (despite a lifetime of eating just enough “to stay on the right side” of anorexia) meant rejection from the traditional five-foot, five-inch and 95-pound-worshiping dance world. Continue reading »
Bulgarian rights to Steve Bein’s DAUGHTER OF THE SWORD and YEAR OF THE DEMON (books 1 & 2 of the Fated Blades) to Ciela Norma by Prava I Prevodi in association with Cameron McClure.
Italian rights to Steve Bein’s DAUGHTER OF THE SWORD and YEAR OF THE DEMON (books 1 & 2 of the Fated Blades) to Fanucci by Stefania Fietta at Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale in association with Cameron McClure.
German rights to Jim Butcher’s SKIN GAME and SIDE JOBS (book 15 of the Dresden Files and a Dresden Files anthology) to Oliver Hofmann at Feder & Schwert by Caroline Hartge at the Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Publishers Weekly: Charbonneau continues the trilogy that began with The Testing with this densely plotted follow-up, a tense, paranoid story in which layers of treachery, deceit, and danger are peeled away one by one. Having survived the lethal Testing, which forces the best and brightest of a ravaged and rebuilding future America to fight for survival, and having completed her initial courses at the University in Tosu City, Cia Vale is ready to discover what field of study she’ll be assigned. Continue reading »