Romantic Times: Following last year’s phenomenal Written in Red, Bishop returns to Namid (a reimagined Earth) with its creatures both “terrible and wondrous.” Danger is stalking the Lakeside Courtyard and, once again, blood prophet Meg Corbin is at the epicenter. Book two in the Others series is just as mesmerizing as the first, rich with beautifully rendered detail and exceptional characters. Bishop and this series should be an auto-buy; you absolutely won’t regret it!
New York Times: Portes tells this tale of violence in spiraling prose. Her empathy shies away from nothing in the tangled lives of this small Michigan town, with a young girl tied up tight in the center. “Bury This” begins with the snowplow driver who finds Krauses’ body, and the writing is so exquisite it is impossible to believe that Portes could sustain its impressionistic method, at once omnipresent and precise, for the remainder of the novel. But she does, […]
Korean rights to Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT and FOOL MOON (books 1 and 2 of the Dresden Files series) to Munhaksasang by Jackie Yang at EYA (Eric Yang Agency) in association with Jennifer Jackson. Japanese rights to Emily Brightwell’s first three books in the long-running Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries series, THE INSPECTOR AND MRS. JEFFRIES, MRS. JEFFRIES DUSTS FOR CLUES and THE GHOST AND MRS. JEFFRIES, to Tokyo Sogensha, by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency, in association with Cameron McClure. Czech rights to […]
NYT bestsellling author Robert McCammon’s THE WOLF’S HOUR, a novel originally published in 1990, and the recently published collection of related short stories, THE HUNTER FROM THE WOODS, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Cameron McClure.
Library Journal: Bishop excels at creating irresistible dark worlds, but this series avoids some of the baroque excesses of her popular “Black Jewels” universe while still having that startling otherness and a touch of sensuality. Her alternate America in which the natural world belongs to the Others and humans are interlopers is fascinating. Living among the shifters, vampires, and earth elementals known as the Others is a dangerous proposition for humans, but Meg Corbyn is no ordinary mortal. As a cassandra sangue Meg can see the future […]
DMLA congratulates Nalo Hopkinson on the nomination of Sister Mine for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy!
Edgar Award and Sydney J. Bounds Award winner Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, an intrigue-filled fantasy novel of spies and dead gods set in an ever-changing city, for publication in September 2014, plus a second novel set in the same world, to Jo Fletcher at Jo Fletcher Books / Quercus, by Meg Davis at Ki Agency in association with Cameron McClure.
Kirkus: Wrapping up Bear’s complex and beautifully rendered historical-fantasy trilogy (Shattered Pillars, 2013, etc.). It all adds up to an eminently satisfying conclusion. Considering the trilogy as a whole, the overused term masterpiece justifiably applies. Necromancer and blood-sorcerer al-Sepehr, head of the Nameless assassin cult, arranged to have his daughter Saadet impregnated by Qori Buqa, Khagan of the nomad horse-warrior Empire, whom he then murdered.
Congratulations to the DMLA clients whose works received a nomination for The Audies 2014! Original Work: METAtropolis: Green Space edited by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes. Stories by Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Seanan McGuire, Tobias S. Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Scholes; Narrated by Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Davis Solo Narration – Male: Dimensions of Miracles by Robert Sheckley; Narrated by John Hodgman
P.C. Hodgell’s untitled fantasy novel, the sequel to Sea of Time (coming from Baen in June) and the 8th book in the series featuring Jamethiel Kencyrath, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.