Congratulations to Owen Laukkanen on his Criminal Enterprise being selected as a finalist in Best Hardcover Novel for the 2014 International Thriller Writers Thriller Awards! From the outside, Carter Tomlin’s life looked perfect: a big house, pretty wife, two kids—a St. Paul success story. But Tomlin has a secret. He’s lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another. As the red flags start to go […]
Leah Ferguson’s ALL THE DIFFERENCE, written in alternating chapters, if she said yes and if she said no, about a career-focused 30-year-old who finds out that she’s pregnant on the day her long-term boyfriend proposes to her and is faced with making a choice, to Julie Mianecki at Berkley, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Shelf Awareness: “This hard science-fiction horror story latches onto the imagination and never once lets up, with intense thrills set in the unforgiving reaches of space, exploring the depths of space, time and the human condition. Christopher weaves solid characterizations with spooky visual atmospherics, leaving readers with an engaging sense of dread.”
Elizabeth Bear’s The Lotus Kingdoms, a new fantasy trilogy set in the same world as The Eternal Sky, in which a brass automaton with a soul, the disenfranchised servant of a dead Caliph, and a priest with one golden eye are drawn into a high stakes political game involving two queens and the fate of their kingdoms, to Beth Meacham at Tor Books by Jennifer Jackson.
SFX Magazine: “This sets the tone for what’s to come: spiky, evocative, with a slightly manic gleam in its eye, Okorafor’s narrative approaches its subject from unexpected angles. …All human life is here, in other words, in its endless variety and strangeness.” Full review in the June 2014 issue of SFX Magazine.
Publishers Weekly: The espionage potential of magical illusions sets the stage for Kowal’s fourth alternate-Regency caper (after Without a Summer). Lady Jane and Sir David Vincent, both accomplished at the art of spinning strands of magic into the sounds and images called “glamour,” leave England to visit Venice and Murano. Their plan is to work with Murano’s glassmakers, under the guise of visiting Vincent’s friend Lord Byron, and capture glamour in glass so that it can be moved from place to […]
Congratulations to Carolita Blythe on Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl being selected as a Bank Street Best Book of 2014! Girls who are pretty have a way of looking down their perfect noses at anyone they feel isn’t worthy of sharing the air with them. They have a way of making regular girls like me feel inferior for not winning the gene pool lottery. Tormenting them is my way of getting even. Everyone knows that pretty equals mean, and Evelyn Ryder […]
Kirkus: Combining history, magic and adventure, the book balances emotional depth with buoyant storytelling. Kowal continues her creative Regency-set Glamourist Histories series with a clever, captivating plot that culminates in a magical heist storyline. Before we get there, though, we are treated to a touching examination of a loving marriage under duress and the connections and collaborations these extraordinary partners must create and reaffirm with each other and those around them in order to thrive.
Polish rights to Anne Bishop’s MURDER OF CROWS, the second book in the Others series, to Initium via Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson. Italian rights to Thea Harrison’s STORM’S HEART, Book 2 of the bestselling Elder Races series, to Fanucci, by Stefania Fietta at Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale, in association with Cameron McClure at on behalf of Amy Boggs. Japanese rights to Mike Shepherd’s ENSIGN LONGKNIFE: AUDACIOUS, the 5th book in the New York Times bestselling military science […]
Audio rights to Steve Bein’s DISCIPLE OF THE WIND, Book 3 of the Fated Blades series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Cameron McClure. Audio Rights to NYT bestselling author Robert McCammon’s novella I TRAVEL BY NIGHT, to Anji Cornette at GraphicAudio, for release in late summer 2014, by Cameron McClure.