Arabic rights to Katherine Addison’s THE GOBLIN EMPEROR, to Wahet Al Kotob (Egypt), by Ruqaya Tareq at Bears Factor Literary Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Czech rights to Gretchen Powell Fox’s SMOKE AND SCAR and SPLINTERED KINGDOM to Grada by Nada Popovic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier. Polish rights to Kel Kade’s RITUAL OF RUIN and SANCTUM OF THE SOUL, to Fabryka Slow (Poland), by Nada Popovic at Prava I […]
The French edition of The Annual Migration of Clouds and We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed has won the 2026 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in the Nouvelle/Novella étrangère category!
Booklist: The third book in Bennett’s Shadow of the Leviathan fantasy-mystery series begins with Ana and her assistant Din traveling to a region renowned throughout the Empire for its agricultural products. Ana is incensed at being assigned to investigate the murder of a young gentry girl (such an uninteresting task!), but Din reminds her that the murder suspect belongs to another clan, and there may be many more casualties if the families go to war. Once his investigation commences, Din […]
Library Journal: “Readers who loved the mixing of worlds in Marie Brennan’s Driftwood or the world-crossing time-travel of Charlie Stross’s “Merchant Princes” series will enjoy Walton’s latest novel, as will anyone who has ever been caught up in the magic of the Carnival of Venice.”
PLATFORM DECAY by Martha Wells has been selected as a LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick for May!
Library Journal: “Offer Carrick’s excellent duology starter to fans of Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar or anyone looking for a new historical fantasy series.”
We’re over the Sanctuary Moon to announce that the newest Murderbot Diaries book – PLATFORM DECAY – by Martha Wells landed at #8 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list and reached #9 on the Combined Print and E-book list! It also came in at #8 on the USA Today list and #6 on the National Indie Bestseller list! Congratulations, Martha!
Publishers Weekly: Underdogs abound in this scrappy, series-launching historical fantasy from Carrick (the Rook and Rose trilogy), the pseudonym for Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms. The authors pit a displaced human and the faerie changeling left in her stead against a Spanish colonial empire bent on conquering both the New World and the faerie realm of the Sea Beyond. The human protagonist, called the Hungry Girl for her need to eat regularly, unlike her fae captors, was sent to the […]
Publishers Weekly: This engrossing psychological thriller from Pashley (The Watcher) finds 25-year-old budding chef Brett Novak heartbroken, out of work, and down to seven dollars in her bank account. She’s delighted and relieved when a former colleague recommends her for a temporary job as a personal chef for bestselling mystery author Carson Smart. She arrives at Smart’s beautiful, secluded beachfront property on Cape Cod in high spirits, but nothing prepares her for his offer of $20,000 for two weeks of […]
Kirkus: Two veteran authors join forces under a pseudonym to launch a series about a wildly unlikely amateur sleuth. Mo Ellery never wanted to get involved in detection. All she wanted was to hold on to her live-in boyfriend and keep her job at a Chicago marketing agency. After losing both within a few minutes of each other (the losses are connected, but you’ll never guess how), she moves to downscale Buffalo Park and takes the only job she can […]