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Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir! HARROW THE NINTH debuts at #25 on the USA Bestsellers List.

Bookpage: In an alternate Texas where major cities have Fairy Ring Transport Centers and the university offers an invasive monster program, Ellie, a Lipan Apache teenager, just wants to reincarnate prehistoric fossils and teach her ghost dog new tricks. Then her cousin visits her in a dream, says that a man named Abe Allerton murdered him and asks her to protect his family from further harm. Together with her parents and her friend Jay, Ellie travels to Willowbee to uncover the […]

Congratulations to Jim Butcher! PEACE TALKS places #2 on the New York Times’ Audio Monthly List!

Congratulations to Caitlin Starling! THE LUMINOUS DEAD has been chosen as the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Debut Novel.

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir! HARROW THE NINTH debuts on the hardcover list at #9 and on the combined print/ebook chart at #10 on the New York Times Bestseller list!

Locus: Five years ago, I was privileged to review, in the online wing of this fine publication, Seth Dickinson’s debut novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. I praised his prose as “deft and forceful,” while deeming his characters “all built to clever and deep dimensions, with fully human qualities and motives.” Finding his novel to be a tasty blend of C.J. Cherryh’s early planetary romances and Samuel Delany’s revisionist Nevèrÿon fantasies, I concluded by saying that Dickinson had succeeded “in building […]

Olivia Valcarce at Scholastic Press has bought, in a preempt, Harper Glenn’s untitled speculative debut, inspired by Glenn’s childhood and the current worlds social climate, set in a near-future Georgia split by revolt into rich and poor. Josephine, an orphan from Ashes, has one chance to escape her life of poverty: the annual Gala, where she connects with Cove, an orphan who lives in wealth. But as a new revolt pins one side against the other, Jo must face painful […]

            Congratulations to our DMLA authors selected as 2020 World Fantasy Award Finalists! NOVEL Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com) SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)

Jim Butcher’s PEACE TALKS remains on the New York Times Bestseller list at #9 on the NYT hardcover list and #8 on the Combined print and ebook list for the second week in a row!

Audio rights to Ada Palmer’s TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING and SEVEN SURRENDERS, Book 1 and 2 of Terra Ignota series, to Anji Cornette at Graphic Audio, LLC, a Division of RB Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure. Audio rights to NAACP Image Award-winner Tananarive Due’s GHOST SUMMER: STORIES, her debut collection of short fiction featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories, at auction, to Haila Williams at Blackstone Audio, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson on behalf of Prime Books.