Robert McCammon’s THE RIVER OF SOULS, the fifth novel in his series of historical thrillers featuring the “Early American James Bond,” where a man joins a search party up a haunted river, to find a slave accused of murder, though he knows that the true murderer is among the search party, to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press, for publication in Spring 2014, by Cameron McClure
MIDNIGHT AT MARBLE ARCH is #13 on the New York Times Best Seller’s hardcover list! In this superbly accomplished new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt adventure, Anne Perry takes us beneath the glittering surface of wealthy Victorian society into a nightmare world of fear and intimidation, where women are too often blamed for the violent attacks against them, and powerful men take what they want, leaving others to pay the price.
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review: Making the jump from adult mysteries to YA, Charbonneau (the Rebecca Robbins series) launches a dystopian trilogy reminiscent of the Hunger Games. Cia Vale is one of four teens chosen to represent her small colony at the annual Testing, an intensive mental and physical examination aimed at identifying the best and brightest, who will go on to the University and help rebuild their shattered world.
Kirkus, Starred Review: Running away from home never sounded so good, especially when it involves stowing away on a ritzy, cloaked-in-magic ship. Under the conservative tyranny of guardians who are convinced she’ll become a harlot, 16-year-old Emilie decides it’s time to run away. Inspired by her cherished serial adventure books, she delights in the romance of escape—until she forms blisters, gets hungry and, after spending too much on snacks, can’t afford the ferry ticket to reach her cousin’s home. There’s only […]
Library Journal: Faye, 14, feels worthless and oppressed. Her father, a struggling musician, left her and her mother years earlier, her mother is full of anger and takes it out on the teen, and her two neighborhood friends have convinced her that if you aren’t attractive, the only way to make it in life is to take what you want. The novel, which is set in 1984 Brooklyn, opens with Faye and her friends staking out a former movie star’s […]
LOST EVERYTHING wins the Philip K. Dick Award! From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road.
New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS, beginning a new series “The Cinder Spires”, to Anne Sowards at Roc, in a seven-figure deal, in a three-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.
Kirkus Reviews: Strong (Burning the Sea, 2002) presents a disturbing and erotic narrative about the lives of an oddly matched married couple who host a teenage girl for the summer. Ray Shepard is a prominent architect who marries Evelyn, a former circus employee/manicurist with a dark past, after he meets her while both attend a show under the big top. Evelyn’s arms and torso are heavily tattooed, and she keeps her skin hidden from Ray’s colleagues and friends
Cherie Priest’s MAPLECROFT, a reinvention of the infamous legend of Lizzie Borden in which she and her scientist sister continue to investigate the monsters behind their parents’ death and build their defenses, little knowing that soon they and a few companions will be all that stands between humanity and the creatures that may destroy them, to Anne Sowards at Roc, in a two-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.
Three DMLA clients have been nominated in the 2012 Nebula Awards: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed for Best Novel Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal for Best Novel “The Stars Do Not Lie” by Jay Lake (Asimov’s 10-11/12) for Best Novella Congratulations to Saladin, Mary, and Jay!