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Publishers Weekly: Priest’s final Clockwork Century novel (after The Inexplicables) wraps things up nicely, once again turning a mash-up of too-worn genre tropes (steampunk, alternate Civil War, zombies) into a work of entertainment laced with social criticism. In 1879, as the Civil War continues to rage, scientist and ex-slave Gideon Bardsley’s invention, a massive computer called the Fiddlehead, has predicted that the zombie outbreak from the Northwest will overwhelm both sides if they don’t end the war.

Jay Lake’s short story collection Last Plane to Heaven, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe, to Beth Meacham at Tor by Jennifer Jackson.

DMLA congratulates John Hornor Jacobs on winning the Moonbeam Children’s Gold Medal for Young Adult Fiction – Fantasy/Sci-Fi! Fifteen-year-old Shreve Cannon doesn’t mind juvie. He’s got a good business dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day are more than his drunk mother managed to provide.

Kathryn Craft’s While the Leaves Stood Still, based on the author’s personal story, about a tense ten-hour standoff between one desperate man ready to take his life and the police, while his family and the community grapple with how best to respond, to Shana Drehs at Sourcebooks, for publication Spring 2015, by Katie Shea Boutillier.

VOYA Magazine: In the Heartland, corn is both king and conqueror. It shackles the people to the land and allows the rich to live decadent, worry-free lives atop floating islands in the sky. Seventeen-year-old Cael McAvoy is determined to break free from a dead-end future, and when he discovers rogue vegetables growing among the cornfields, he knows he has found his ticket to the good life.

Jo Ann Brown’s inspirational trilogy “Precious Cargo” beginning with A Make-Believe Family, set in Porthlowen, a cove along the northern shore of Cornwall, to Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired by Jennifer Jackson.

Kirkus Reviews:  The art of falling isn’t hard to master, Penelope Sparrow discovers, when she wakes up in the hospital after a 14-story plunge that ended with her body colliding with Marty Kandelbaum’s car. Remembering the fall is too dangerous. Remembering means facing the loss of Dmitri, the loss of dancing. Remembering means facing that she may have tried to commit suicide.

Randy Henderson’s urban fantasy Finn Fancy Necromancy and two sequels in a three book deal to Beth Meacham at Tor Books by Cameron McClure.

Booklist: Roy Alison, the linchpin in this novel-in-stories set in the Louisiana-Arkansas border area, has a dreadful legacy to overcome. At 16, he was high on drugs when he caused the car accident that killed his parents, starting him on a decade-long downward spiral of life in institutions, punctuated by violence in which people sometimes died. Now back home and living with his grandmother, Alison wants to be a better person. But events, generally motivated by the region’s dreadful economy, […]

Chinese rights to Brent Weeks’ Lightbringer series in a 4 book deal to Chongqing Tianjian by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Donald Maass. Czech rights to Cherie Priest’s THE INEXPLICABLES to Triton by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson. French rights to 4 novellas by Thea Harrison, TRUE COLORS, NATURAL EVIL, DEVIL’S GATE, and HUNTER’S SEASON, to J’ai Lu by Anais Parouty at Anna Jarota Agency in association […]