Anthony Awards 2014

Nov 182014
 

Cover for The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau. A blue background with a maze-like map, with half a silver medallion with a star and lightning bolts on it.Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau on winning the 2014 Best Young Adult Novel Anthony Award for The Testing!

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same?

The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.

Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate; eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies–trust no one.

But surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every grueling (and deadly) day of the Testing. To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust.

RT Book Awards 2014 Nominees

Nov 172014
 

Congratulations to the DMLA authors who were nominated for a 2014 RT Book Award!

  • Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop
  • First Historical Romance: A Gentleman ‘Til Midnight by Alison DeLaine

Review: Gideon by Alex Gordon

Nov 132014
 

Cover for Gideon by Alex Gordon. The background is a grey, bleak landscape with a leafless tree in silhouette, smoke in the foreground forming a vaguely humanoid shape.Kirkus: A seductive work of paranormal horror that will draw readers into its cold and gloomy world.

Generations ago, the people of Gideon burned a witch at the stake, and that decision has haunted the town ever since. Lauren Reardon doesn’t learn that her father was a witch of Gideon until after he dies, but she finds herself drawn, or driven, to go back and dig up his secrets, and some of her own. Her actions propel the present-day plot, but the town itself is the real main character—a small, suspicious community of souls standing guard over the barrier between this world and the next. Debut novelist Gordon’s witches aren’t glamorous, and they deal with plenty of dirt and blood and oozing gore. The twists and turns are entertaining enough, and there are a couple of strong surprises lurking near the end, but it’s the atmosphere that’s the real star here. Everything in Gideon is dark and damp and cold, and everyone is nursing at least one inherited grievance. In the end, the book is as much about life in a small, closed-off community that believes “blood tells” and character can be inferred from a last name as it is about elemental magic and the struggle between good and evil.

This novel will thoroughly satisfy readers looking for suspense, horror and a grisly good time.

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, edited by Leslie S. Klinger and Laurie R. King

Nov 112014
 

Cover for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, edited by Leslie Klinger and Laurie King.The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently voted as the top mystery series of all time, and they have enthralled generations of readers and writers! Now, Laurie R. King, author of the New York Times-bestselling Mary Russell series (in which Holmes plays a co-starring role), and Leslie S. Klinger, editor of the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, have assembled a stellar group of contemporary authors from a variety of genres and asked them to create new stories inspired by that canon. Inside you ll find Holmes in times and places previously unimagined, as well as characters who have themselves been affected by the tales of Sherlock Holmes. The game is afoot again!

Review: Finn Fancy Necromancy by Randy Henderson

Nov 112014
 

Cover of Finn Fancy Necromancy by Randy Henderson. In the style of an old woodcut, we have a haunted-looking house with a surreal scarecrow and a being with a bird-like face.Kirkus: “The quick turns of the mystery plot make this a speedy and enjoyable read, and Finn’s world is a lively one, packed with all manner of weird and wonderful ghosts and goblins. Genre fans looking for a fix will enjoy the gleefully ghoulish setting and engaging, suspenseful plot.” Continue reading »

Goodreads Choice Awards 2014

Nov 102014
 

Congratulations to the DMLA authors up for 2014’s Goodreads Choice Awards!

  • Robert Jackson Bennett – City of Stairs
  • Jim Butcher – Skin Game
  • Brent Weeks – The Broken Eye

Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2014

Nov 072014
 

Cover for Our Lady of the Islands by Jay Lake and Shannon Page. A woman with long black hair stands in a white, flowing dress on a shore, looking out at the water and a multi-sailed ship.Jay Lake and Shannon Page’s Our Lady of the Islands has been named a Publishers Weekly Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book of 2014!

Sian Kattë and her husband have an amicable empty-nest marriage and a thriving business, but that all changes when a god’s emissary assaults Sian and gives her mystical healing abilities that threaten the dominance of the male physician-priests. Longtime short fiction collaborators Lake and Page worked closely on this intimate novel (set in Lake’s Green universe) before Lake’s death in mid-2014, and their styles intersect with smooth perfection.

YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten 2014

Nov 062014
 

Charbonneau - The Testing revised coverCongratulations to Joelle Charbonneau on The Testing being voted #7 in YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten for 2014!

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same?

The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.

Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate; eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies–trust no one.

But surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every grueling (and deadly) day of the Testing. To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust.

Deal: Matthew C. Funk

Nov 052014
 

photo of Matthew FunkMatthew C. Funk’s The City of NO, a mesmerizing literary debut in which a rogue cop in post-Katrina New Orleans will do anything to save young women targeted by human traffickers, while hunting the men who once exploited her, to Richard Thomas at Dark House by Stacia Decker.

Empire of Dust by Jacey Bedford

Nov 042014
 

Cover for Empire of Dust by Jacey Bedford. An alien landscape with green sky and rocky terrain. A blond white woman in futuristic armor and holding a gun guards atop a floating transport while a black man behind her implants devises into the ground.Mega corporations, more powerful than any one planetary government, use their agents to race each other for resources across the galaxy. The agents, or psi-techs, are implanted with telepath technology. The psi-techs are bound to the mega-corps — that is, if they want to retain their sanity.

Cara Carlinni is an impossible thing – a runaway psi-tech. She knows Alphacorp can find its implant-augmented telepaths, anywhere, anytime, mind-to-mind. So even though it’s driving her half-crazy, she’s powered down and has been surviving on tranqs and willpower. So far, so good. It’s been almost a year, and her mind is still her own.

She’s on the run from Ari van Blaiden, a powerful executive, after discovering massive corruption in Alphacorp. Cara barely escapes his forces, yet again, on a backwater planet, and gets out just in time due to the help of straight-laced Ben Benjamin, a psi-tech Navigator for Alphacorp’s biggest company rival.

Cara and Ben struggle to survive a star-spanning manhunt, black-ops raids, and fleets of resource-hungry raiders. Betrayal follows betrayal, and friends become enemies. Suddenly the most important skill is knowing whom to trust.

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