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Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir! NONA THE NINTH debuted at #15 on the USA Today bestseller list!

Audio rights to three additional titles in Mike Shepherd’s Jump Universe series, including Kris Longknife: Stalwart, Longknifes Defend the Legation, and Kris Longknife Boot Recruit (novella) to Louise Quayle at Audible via Michael Curry on behalf of Jennifer Jackson.

Brazilian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s LOCKLANDS, to Morro Branco, by Cristina Purchio at International Editors’, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Czech rights to Ronald Malfi’s BLACK MOUTH, to Dobrovsky, by Lola Dunton at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. French rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF BLADES and CITY OF MIRACLES, to Gilles Dumay at Albin Michel, in a two-book deal, by Megan Husain at Anna Jarota Agency, on […]

Booklist: The 1940s hard-boiled detective story is reimagined with the role of the world-weary PI played by a sapphic magic user whose damned soul is due for collection. Helen Brandt has only three days left on Earth when she’s given the chance to regain the soul she bargained away and live a long and happy life with her lover, Edith. All she has to do is track down the White City Vampire, a magical serial killer stalking the streets of Chicago. That shouldn’t be a […]

Author of ITW nominated LAST ONE ALIVE Karin Nordin’s LOCAL LEGENDS and DEUCES WILD, two suspense novels, to Cat Camacho at HQ Digital by Anne Tibbets (world).

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir! NONA THE NINTH debuts at #4 on the NEW YORK TIMES hardcover fiction list and #9 on the NEW YORK TIMES combined list.

Booklist: At just about six months old (in a nineteen-year-old body), Nona lives a full life. She recounts her dreams to her protectors and works as a teacher’s aide at a local school. She’s been grudgingly accepted by a gang of streetwise kids and is trusted to watch a beloved teacher’s dog. At the edges of Nona’s life, glimpses of other truths occasionally slip through: there’s a giant blue sphere hanging in the sky, for one thing. Zombies are a […]

Library Journal: The latest from Marino (The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess) is a lesson about how art can open doors that probably shouldn’t be opened. The story focuses on the Lark siblings, both eccentric artists. Peter Larkin (Lark to his friends) is a famous artist, a hometown boy who made good yet decided to stay in the community where he grew up, idyllic Wofford Falls. His sister Betsy is also talented, but her paintings can have disconcerting effects on […]

Congratulations to Cassandra Khaw! With it’s recent trade paperback release, NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH has returned to USA Today’s Best Selling Book List at #143!

AudioFile: Author Jim Butcher made the right choice in performing his latest work himself. It’s a masterpiece. He said that his usual narrator, James Marsters, has nothing to fear, but Butcher’s first attempt at narration is an unqualified success. He has a great speaking voice and truly relates to his characters. The emotion he puts into the work comes across in the wide variety of characters, who include an elderly magician/lawyer, a stupidly stubborn antagonist, and various creatures that inhabit […]