Jim Butcher’s original graphic novel War Cry debuts at #4 on the New York Times Best Sellers Hard Cover Graphic Novel list!A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council-a war the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they’ve dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only wizard for hire and a guy who’s long been looked upon with suspicion by the supernatural authorities. Now, he’s one of them, and his first big mission as a Warden is a doozy: take a small team of greenhorns to a frigid town in the middle of nowhere to rescue a handful of mortals who’ve been targeted by the Red Court. The question is, why exactly are these particular mortals so crucial to the outcome of the war? The answer will come only if Harry can keep them, and his team, alive for one very long night.
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Publishers Weekly: In this impressive dark fantasy debut, witches are anything but cardboard embodiments of good and evil. They are modern, yet plagued by a 200-year-old curse; they are sometimes untrained and unaware, but still have incredible power flowing in their veins. Lauren Reardon thought she was a perfectly normal person, until her father’s death revealed her family connection to the witches from the tiny town of Gideon, Ill., who are tasked with keeping demons from entering this world. After John Reardon’s death, uncanny and frightening events start Lauren on a trip to find her roots, along with the power to combat an evil spirit that has terrorized Gideon since 1836. 
Congratulations to Karl Schroeder on Lockstep being named one of School Library Journal‘s Best Adult Books for Teens 2014!
Congratulations to Mary Robinette Kowal on Valour and Vanity being named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014!
Congratulations to Tom Pollock on Our Lady of the Streets being named one of The Guardian‘s Best Science Fiction Books of 2014!
Boing Boing: “Jacobs isn’t afraid to take YA horror into dark places, and this book has some chilling glimpses into sinister sexuality, violence, and psychological torture — but, amazingly, this stuff is never played for cheap thrills or shocks. … Jacobs is a master of racheting up the tension and never offering release.”
Shaun David Hutchinson’s WE ARE THE ANTS, about a boy who is (maybe) abducted by aliens and told the world will end in 144 days unless he pushes a big red button, but in the aftermath of his boyfriend’s suicide, he’s not sure the world is worth saving, again to Michael Strother at Simon Pulse, in a two-book deal, by Amy Boggs.
Wen Spencer’s THE BLACK WOLVES OF BOSTON, about a werewolf victim, a vampire of vampires and a half-angel girl child teaming up in Boston to fight a huntsman, a creature created by witches, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen, by Donald Maass.