Review: Meru by S.B. Divya

Review: Meru by S.B. Divya

Booklist: Divya’s latest (after Machinehood, 2021) is full of twists and turns to keep readers glued to the pages, with rich worldbuilding that will truly invest them in the character’s fates. MERU transcends genres and will appeal to fans of science fiction, philosophy, and fantasy.

2022 Ignotus Awards

2022 Ignotus Awards

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir on her 2022 Ignotus Awards win! Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel) WINNER: Gideon la Novena [Gideon the Ninth], Tamsyn Muir, translated by David Tejera Expósito (Nova)

Review: Do I Know You by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Review: Do I Know You by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Publishers Weekly: Readers won’t be able to turn the pages fast enough.

2022 Barnes & Noble Best Books of the Year

2022 Barnes & Noble Best Books of the Year

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir on being included in the 2022 Barnes & Noble Best Books of the Year!

2022 World Fantasy Award Winners

2022 World Fantasy Award Winners

Congratulations to Premee Mohamed on her 2022 World Fantasy Award Winners win! Best Novella And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)

Deal: Adele Buck

Deal: Adele Buck

Adele Buck’s HEARTS ON FIRE, in which an English professor tries to torch her ex-boyfriend’s piano after a problematic attempt at winning her back and falls for the firefighter who answers the 911 call, to John Jacobson at a new unnamed imprint at Harlequin, in a three-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.

Congratulations to James J. Butcher!

Congratulations to James J. Butcher!

Congratulations to James J. Butcher! DEAD MAN’S HAND debuts as a USA Today bestseller at #107.

Starred Review: Meru by S.B. Divya

Starred Review: Meru by S.B. Divya

Publishers Weekly: Empathy convincingly overcomes anxiety in this thoughtful, inventive, and impressively understated space opera from Divya, [who] filters the immensity of outer space through the lens of close personal relationships, crafting compassionate and responsible characters (whatever their physical forms may be) that will surely win over readers.

Deal: Matthew Hubbard

Deal: Matthew Hubbard

Alison Romig at Delacorte has bought, in a preempt, debut author Matthew Hubbard’s Last Boyfriends, a YA coming of age novel pitched as Heartstopper meets The First Wives Club, featuring three queer teenage boys in small-town Alabama who set out to get revenge on their ex-boyfriends and end up fighting their school’s anti-LGBTQ+ initiatives, and a second untitled book. Publication is slated for summer 2024; Katie Shea Boutillier brokered the deal for world English rights.

Starred Review: Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw

Starred Review: Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw

Library Journal: With their collection of 23 stories, previously published across the genre fiction landscape and one original to this volume, Khaw (Nothing but Blackened Teeth) presents a book that is a terrifying joy to read. Many of the entries invoke fairy tales and/or mythologies from all over the world. They are lyrical, brutal, and intensely unsettling and mostly center women—quite often as the monsters. While not long, the stories are immersive, with lush and detailed settings, intriguing characters, and […]