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Library Journal: Constance Corson, the new subrosa, or master vampire, of present-day Cincinnati, has finally arrived, and she’s ready to take out protagonist Rachel Morgan. As Rachel looks for a new home in the Hollows, she learns that many Inderlander vampires are being forced from their homes so that Constance and her group can move in. Unable to ignore the problem, Rachel starts bringing the evicted Inderlanders into a partially destroyed church for temporary residence. Everywhere she turns, Rachel finds […]

Booklist: Sharpson’s debut novel takes place in the 2200s in the Caspian Republic, a totalitarian state that is in theory a safe haven from “the Machine,” inhabitants’ term for the rest of the world and its utopian society administered by and populated with sentient AI. The narrative follows Nikolai South, an operative for StaSec, one of the two security forces in charge of maintaining the status quo in the Republic. When a prominent, rabidly anti-Machine journalist dies and is revealed to […]

Locus and Aurora Award finalist Premee Mohamed’s THE VOID ASCENDANT, the highly anticipated conclusion to the Beneath the Rising trilogy, and an additional novel, to David Moore at Solaris Books, for publication in Spring 2022, by Michael Curry.

Clarion West graduate Eden Robins’ SHOWSTOPPER, pitched as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with magic, set in post WWII Chicago in a women’s only comedy club, where 23-year-old Franny Steinberg stumbles in one night and discovers that some jokes have the power to literally transform their audiences, and falls in with a group of female stand-up comedians all looking for their own transformation, to Christa Desir at Sourcebooks Landmark, in a two book deal, for publication Fall 2022, by Cameron McClure.

Film rights to Nicole Glover’s The Conductors have been acquired by Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment in association with the Jim Henson Company, via Geoff Morley at UTA in association with Jennie Goloboy.

Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen has acquired Boys I Know by debut author Anna Gracia. This coming-of-age story follows a “year in the life” of high school senior June Chu as she navigates sex, love, and Planned Parenthood in her small Midwestern town, while clashing with her Taiwanese mother’s expectation that she will follow her older sister to Northwestern on a music scholarship. Publication is scheduled for summer 2022; Kiana Nguyen brokered the deal for world rights.

Audio rights to Elizabeth Sims’s RITA FARMER MYSTERIES, YOU’VE GOT A BOOK IN YOU, and TIGHT RACE, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a five-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

French rights to British Fantasy Award finalist Cassandra Khaw’s NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH and THE ALL-CONSUMING WORLD, to Pygmalion, by Zuzanna Brzezinska at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry. French rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS and LOCKLANDS, to Gilles Dumay at Albin Michel, by Zuzanna Brzezinska at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. German rights to Annika Martin’s JUST NOT THAT INTO BILLIONAIRES to Lyx, by Sarah Knofius at […]

Congratulations to Premee Mohamed for being nominated as a 2021 Aurora Award finalist! Best Novel Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed, Solaris

Publishers Weekly: Starling captivates and horrifies by turn in this intricately plotted, deliciously bonkers secondary world gothic fantasy…. Starling’s magic system is so spookily and fully realized, and the final twist so brilliantly turns the novel on its head, that even the most skeptical will be won over. This proves impossible to put down.