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Romantic Times: [4.5 of 5 stars] When it comes to writing historical fantasy that is at once absorbing, exciting and incredibly moving, Kowal is in a class by herself. Just as Kowal’s previous book, Without a Summer, blended elements of fantasy with a very real depiction of class struggle, Valour and Vanity balances the adventure of a heist with a poignant portrayal of sudden poverty. Kowal’s skill for writing characters who have fantastic abilities and yet remain deeply human, as susceptible […]

DMLA congratulates David Gerrold on winning the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for his story “Night Train to Paris!”

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Constellation 3, a new volume collecting short stories set in their popular Liaden Universe, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.

Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett on the nomination of American Elsewhere for a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award! Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map.  In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother’s home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to […]

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor on the nomination of Who Fears Death for the Prix Imaginales 2014! In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively […]

Publishers Weekly: In this touching and stupendously fresh debut, Braden proves that one doesn’t have to turn an entire genre on its head to get something new and exciting. For Cecily Knight, formerly a Marine captain, and Ian Fairchild, a hotshot criminal defense lawyer in need of a vacation, it’s neither love nor hate at first sight. The two begin as cordial strangers, forced by circumstances and by favors owed to share space in Knight’s remote cabin—he to avoid the temptation […]

Debut novelist Seth Dickinson’s THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT, an epic fantasy geopolitical tragedy pitched as Game of Thrones meets Germs, Guns and Steel, and two additional novels to Marco Palmieri at Tor Books in a pre-empt by Jennifer Jackson.

Winner of the Writers of the Future Award, Randy Henderson’s FINN FANCY NECROMANCY, plus the next two books in the series, to Adrienne Lombardo at Brilliance, in a three-book deal, by Cameron McClure.

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s 4th and 5th fantasy novels in the Others series, following VISION IN SILVER (Penguin/Roc, March 2015), continuing the epic story of humans trying to survive in a world that belongs to the Others, in a two-book deal to Anne Sowards at Penguin/Roc by Jennifer Jackson.

Kirkus: After discovering in Independent Study (2014) that the rebellion is secretly controlled by the administration it purports to act against, Cia must choose whom to trust. Conspiracies, counterconspiracies, lies and double crosses: It’s quite a ride. It’s up to Cia to end the Testing and prevent a civil war that’s a setup for slaughter. When she brings the conspiracies to the attention of the United Commonwealth president (whom Cia works for as a student intern), President Collindar concludes that her own […]