Kirkus Reviews: The art of falling isn’t hard to master, Penelope Sparrow discovers, when she wakes up in the hospital after a 14-story plunge that ended with her body colliding with Marty Kandelbaum’s car.
Remembering the fall is too dangerous. Remembering means facing the loss of Dmitri, the loss of dancing. Remembering means facing that she may have tried to commit suicide. Continue reading »
Randy Henderson’s urban fantasy Finn Fancy Necromancy and two sequels in a three book deal to Beth Meacham at Tor Books by Cameron McClure.
Booklist: Roy Alison, the linchpin in this novel-in-stories set in the Louisiana-Arkansas border area, has a dreadful legacy to overcome. At 16, he was high on drugs when he caused the car accident that killed his parents, starting him on a decade-long downward spiral of life in institutions, punctuated by violence in which people sometimes died. Now back home and living with his grandmother, Alison wants to be a better person. But events, generally motivated by the region’s dreadful economy, are conspiring against him. Continue reading »
Chinese rights to Brent Weeks’ Lightbringer series in a 4 book deal to Chongqing Tianjian by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Donald Maass.
Czech rights to Cherie Priest’s THE INEXPLICABLES to Triton by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson.
French rights to 4 novellas by Thea Harrison, TRUE COLORS, NATURAL EVIL, DEVIL’S GATE, and HUNTER’S SEASON, to J’ai Lu by Anais Parouty at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Amy Boggs.
German rights to Thea Harrison’s KINKED (book 6 in the Elder Races series) to Lyx by the Schlueck Agency in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Amy Boggs.
Spanish rights to a collection of short stories by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette to Fata Libelli by Isabel Monteagudo at the International Editors Co. in association with Jennifer Jackson.
COLD DAYS debuts at #9 on the New York Times Best Seller’s paperback list!
After being murdered and then brought back to life, Harry Dresden soon realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad. Because he is no longer Chicago’s only professional wizard. He is now Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. Her word is his command. And her first command is the seemingly impossible: kill an immortal. Worse still, there is a growing threat to an unfathomable source of magic that could mean the deaths of millions.
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Of Noble Family (book 5 in the Glamourist Histories) along with Stagecraft and Ghost Talkers in a three book deal to Liz Gorinsky at Tor Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Kirkus, Starred Review: Who would kill a sweet, elderly nursing home resident? That’s just one of the problems Rebecca Robbins has to solve now that she’s decided to remain in her hometown of Indian Falls and continue running her mother’s roller rink. Continue reading »
Cherie Priest’s Godbothering and an untitled contemporary fantasy to Liz Gorinsky at Tor Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Jacey Bedford’s two science fiction novels and one fantasy novel to Sheila Gilbert at DAW by Amy Boggs.
Publishers Weekly: Ex-con Roy Alison would like to go straight, but he can’t seem to make up for past mistakes, and his only options are just more bad choices. Weddle’s debut novel is a suspenseful series of interrelated stories of tragedy, despair, and hopelessness in a rural Southern town. There is no joy here, as Weddle paints a vivid, depressing picture of a blue-collar community crushed by economic collapse and endemic substance abuse with characters, events, and dialogue that seem all too real. Continue reading »