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French rights to Sturgeon Award finalist Vajra Chandrasekera’s THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, to Bragelonne, by Megan Husain at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry. Russian rights to New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir’s NONA THE NINTH, the third book in the Locked Tomb series, to Eksmo, by Alexander Korzhenevski at Alexander Korzhenevski Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Turkish rights to Nebula and Hugo Award winner Martha Wells’ FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, the sixth installment […]

Booklist: The second book in Hall’s Mkalis Cycle will not disappoint readers of her standout fantasy The Border Keeper (2019). When readers reenter this rich, complex world of twisting godly politics and rule-based realms, Hall zooms them in on Tyn. She’s still recovering from the last book’s events, hurt and reeling, trying to balance new revelations with her loyalty to Res Lfae, ruler of Tahmais. When a lying villain with an impossible weapon comes to her realm to tear it apart, […]

The Guardian: An absorbing novel…. Heartfield sustains a fine balance between history and fantasy.

Publishers Weekly: Hutchinson writes with poignancy, urgency, and compassion.

Tor Books is proud to announce the acquisition Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan by Michael Livingston, including a foreword by Harriet McDougal, by Robert Davis via Paul Stevens. The UK and Commonwealth rights were acquired by Bella Pagan, Publishing Director of Pan Macmillan’s Tor imprint. Take a deep dive into the real-world history and mythology that inspired the world of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time®. Origins of The Wheel of Time is written by […]

Publishers Weekly: Gods collide in the high octane finale to Bennett’s epic fantasy Founders Trilogy,… Bennett advances the plot precipitously and raises his characters’ power levels to the “nigh-incomprehensible,” but the grounding themes of family and love as Sancia and Berenice risk their happiness to save the world, are what readers will take away.

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir! Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower, narrated by Moira Quirk, published by Recorded Books, has been selected as a 2022 Audie Award Finalists in the Fantasy category.

Award-winning historians Myke Cole and Michael Livingston’s THE KILLING GROUND: A BIOGRAPHY OF THERMOPYLAE, in which the authors explore why tens of thousands of people were willing to die for this tiny, out-of-the-way place, the site of dozens of battles stretching from the 5th century BC to World War II, to Kate Moore at Osprey by Paul Stevens.

Congratulations to our DMLA authors on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List! Novels – Science Fiction The Second Shooter, Nick Mamatas (Solaris) Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) Perhaps The Stars, Ada Palmer (Tor; Ad Astra) Novels – Fantasy Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom) The Mask of Mirrors, M.A. Carrick (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Novels – Horror A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris) The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s) Young Adult Novels A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine […]

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor! THE NSIBIDI SCRIPTS has been chosen as a New York Times Children’s Best Seller Series!