Publishers Weekly: In this gripping follow-up to 2012’s Daughter of the Sword, Tokyo police officer Oshiro Mariko is now working in the Narcotics division. In the aftermath of a raid, an ancient mask is stolen, and its Yakuza owner demands that Mariko retrieve it. Her search for the mask leads her to a cult with a deadly agenda and a centuries-old mystery connected to the legendary sword she now possesses. Continue reading »
Publishers Weekly: Adult author Wendig (The Blue Blazes) launches the dystopian Heartland trilogy featuring a group of teenage scavengers at odds with an oppressive government that dwells in luxury up in the sky. Cael McAvoy, leader of the Big Sky Scavengers, is dealt a severe setback when a rival crew led by the mayor’s son sabotages his land-boat, which he needs to safely navigate the hostile fields of genetically modified corn that hold the Heartland in a stranglehold. Continue reading »
French rights to Steve Weddle’s COUNTRY HARDBALL, to Gallmeister, by Anna Jarota at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Stacia Decker.
Spanish rights to Evil Hat Productions’ DRESDEN FILES RPG (based on the series by Jim Butcher) to Pedro Ramos at Nosolorol Ediciones by Jennifer Jackson.
Fear the Corn.
Corn is king in the Heartland, and Cael McAvoy has had enough of it. It’s the only crop the Empyrean government allows the people of the Heartland to grow—and the genetically modified strain is so aggressive that it takes everything the Heartlanders have just to control it. Continue reading »
In the distant past, the leader of a Neanderthal tribe confronts the end of his kind. Today, a computational biologist, a Navy pilot, and an autistic boy are drawn together by the ancient mystery that gave rise to Homo sapiens.
Planes are falling from the sky. Global communications have ceased. America stands on the brink of war with China – but war is the least of humankind’s concerns. As solar storms destroy Earth’s electronics and plunge the world into another Ice Age, our civilization finds itself overrun by a powerful new species of man . . .
USA Today bestselling author Teddy Harrison writing as Thea Harrison’s next three Elder Races paranormal romances, set in a world where fae, vampyres, gryphons, and a business dragon live, work, and love right alongside humans, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Sensation in a six-figure deal by Amy Boggs.
When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior and instructions to lay low at the unfamiliar house he’s inherited in rural Pennsylvania.
Feeling restless and out of place, Doyle is surprised to find himself falling for his new neighbor, Nola Watkins, who’s under pressure to sell her organic farm to a large and mysterious development company. Continue reading »
England in the fourteenth century: a land of poverty and opulence, prayer and plague
witchcraft and necromancy.
As a child, Elisha witnessed the burning of a witch outside of London, and saw her transformed into an angel at the moment of her death, though all around him denied this vision. He swore that the next time he might have the chance to bind an angel’s wounds, he would be ready. And so he became a barber surgeon, at the lowest ranks of the medical profession, following the only healer’s path available to a peasant’s son. Continue reading »
Seventeen short tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.
Thirty-three shorter tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time in two mega-volumes. Seventeen tales to start with in Volume One! Continue reading »
French rights to Thea Harrison’s SERPENT’S KISS, ORACLE’S MOON, and LORD’S FALL, Books 3, 4, and 5 in the Elder Races series, to J’ai Lu, in a three-book deal, by Anais Parouty at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Amy Boggs.
German rights to Jim Butcher’s THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS and Book 2 of the Cinder Spires series to Blanvalet by Bastian Schlueck at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
German rights to Thea Harrison’s Game of Shadows duology, RISING DARKNESS and FALLING LIGHT, to Lyx, in a two-book deal, by Julia Aumueller at Thomas Schlueck Agency, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Amy Boggs.