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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 […]

On behalf of Prime Books, audio rights for Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter by Richard Parks, Heart of Iron by Ekaterina Sedia, the Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker and 12 additional titles to Steve Feldberg at Audible by Jennifer Jackson. Jon McGoran’s DRIFT, DEADOUT, and DRYLINE, first three books in the Doyle Carrick series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, in a three-book deal, by Cameron McClure on behalf of Stacia Decker. Audio rights to Edgar and Shirley Jackson Award winning author […]

Joelle Charbonneau’s GRADUATION DAY, the final book in The Testing trilogy, debuts at #8 on the New York Times Best Sellers Children’s Series list! GRADUATION DAY also debuted on the USA Today Best Selling Books list!  In book three of the Testing series, the United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?

Continuing its run on the list for a fourth week, now at #13 on the New York Times Best Seller Hardcover list, Jim Butcher’s SKIN GAME, book 15 in the Dresden Files series! SKIN GAME also had its fourth week on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list!

Congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson on Sister Mine being nominated for a 2014 Sunburst Award for excellence in Canadian literature of the fantastic! We’d had to be cut free of our mother’s womb. She’d never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twins. Abby’s head, torso, and left arm protruded from my chest. But here’s the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn’t. […]

Library Journal: Watching this romance unfold from Ian’s point of view is refreshing and insightful. A stock womanizer soon unfolds into a complex hero. But as with all heroes, Ian has flaws and is all the more lovable for them. Savoring each page of this novel, this reviewer found the end unfolding a bit too quickly; still, with this first-time effort, Braden will soon amass a strong readership. Debut author Braden introduces us to Ian Fairchild, a Manhattan playboy forced to take a break […]

Adam Christopher’s THE L.A. TRILOGY, set in an alternative 1960s Los Angeles and starring a robot detective and his boss, pitched as inspired by Raymond Chandler’s parody of science fiction in a letter to his agent, to Natalie Laverick at Titan books by Stacia Decker.

Wall Street Journal: Ms. Alkon delivers sound advice on navigating social-networking sites (she calls them “giant parasites targeting your personal information like tapeworms waiting for a move-in special on your large intestine.”), on observing email etiquette and on texting at the dinner table: “If you’re going to invite somebody to dinner and ignore them, at least have the decency to get married first and build up years of bitterness and resentment.” To read the full article on Ms. Alkon’s book, click […]

Jim Butcher’s SKIN GAME, the latest book in the Dresden Files series, is on the New York Times Best Seller list for a third week, this time at #8!