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The latest book in the Dresden Files, SKIN GAME, has hit the New York Times Hardcover Bestseller list for the 6th week, at #24!

Michael Fletcher’s BEYOND REDEMPTION, a fantasy set in a world where belief defines reality and delusions are the often the strongest beliefs, focusing on a powerful sociopath looking to create a new God and a group of deranged thieves intent on using this new deity for their own purposes, to David Pomerico at Harper Voyager, in his first buy for the imprint, by Cameron McClure.

Jim Butcher’s SKIN GAME continues to hit the bestseller lists! In its 5th week on the New York Times Hardcover Bestseller List, SKIN GAME comes in at #18,  moving to the extended list. SKIN GAME is on the USA Today Bestseller List for a 5th week as well, this time at #128. On the Publishers Weekly Hardcover Bestseller List for a 4th week, SKIN GAME is now at #17.

Joelle Charbonneau’s GRADUATION DAY is #21 on Publishers Weekly‘s Bestselling Children’s Fiction list! The book was profiled in their weekly update.

Film rights to Matthew McBride’s FRANK SINATRA IN A BLENDER, the story of a PI and enthusiastic alcoholic (who’s trying to cut out coffee) working a robbery case that went sideways while also caring for his pet Yorkie, Frank Sinatra, to screenwriter Mike McCrary, by Stacia Decker.

School Library Journal: Anika Dragomir is the third most popular girl in school, despite being of mixed heritage in an overwhemingly white neighborhood. She’s smart, attractive, and knows that the most popular girl, Becky Vilhauer, is a bully. Still, Anika clings to the tenuous friendship for fear of the total social annihilation that Becky will put her through if she displeases her in any way. Anika is constantly trying to reconcile the “spider stew” of her true self with her social […]

Booklist: The author of the outrageous Frank Sinatra in a Blender (2012) returns with an equally blood-spattered but slightly less offbeat thriller. If you see a burned-out house trailer on the cover of a crime novel, you can pretty well count on the book being country noir and the former occupants of the trailer having something to do with cooking or selling meth. Both assumptions hold true here, but that’s about all that’s predictable in McBride’s uncompromisingly gritty but surprisingly tender and quite […]

The New York Times has a profile of Amy Alkon and her book Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck. We live in a world that’s very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say “f*ck”) are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the increasing onslaught of rudeness we all encounter.  To lead us out […]

Kirkus: Anika Dragomir, the third most popular girl at her high school in 1980s Nebraska, is pursued by two different boys, both off-limits to her, in a romance filled with seriously funny dark humor and tragedy. When, toward the end of this unconventional novel, Anika realizes that she may have inherited her tendency toward mental imbalance from her loving and smart but eccentric mother, it’s an epiphany for her. It might not be similarly revelatory for readers, given the first-person window […]

Russian rights to Karl Schroeder’s LOCKSTEP, to AST, by Alexander Korzhenevski in association with Cameron McClure. Dutch rights to Anne Bishop’s first two novels in the Others series, WRITTEN IN RED and MURDER OF CROWS, to De Fontein by Moa-Lisa Björk at the Lennart Sane Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson. French rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s KABU KABU, the short story collection, to Patrick Dechesne at Les Editions de l’Instant, by Pierre Corman at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with […]