Nebula Award finalist Suzan Palumbo’s COUNTESS, a space opera pitched as a queer Caribbean Count of Monte Cristo, in which a betrayed Captain is set on a journey of revenge against the interplanetary Empire that has subjugated her people for generations, to Jenifer Albert at ECW Press, for publication in Spring 2024, by Michael Curry.
School Library Journal: This novel is sure to resonate with teens who haven’t yet found their calling and who are trying to figure out who they are.
Andy Marino’s next novel for adults, THE SWARM, an epic horror novel pitched as THE STAND meets JURASSIC PARK, about an insect apocalypse in which people are being attacked by swarms of out-of-season cicadas, and characters across the country, including a girl who seems to have a growing connection with the bugs, must work together to uncover the horrifying purpose behind the attacks, to Bradley Englert at Redhook, for publication Summer 2024, by Cameron McClure.
Library Journal: In Polk’s (Soulstar) alternate-history Jazz Age Chicago, where angels live among the godly and demons stalk the streets, Helen Brandt is a woman who sold her soul to save her brother. She has one last chance to get it back and spend the rest of her days with the woman she loves. She thinks her task is to figure out which demon is poaching on another’s Chicago turf. But demons lie—and so, as Helen discovers, do angels. This bittersweet […]
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.