Wall Street Journal: Randy Henderson’s “Finn Fancy Necromancy” is a magic-politics story too, but set in present-day Washington state and much more of a romp than the two above. Its hero, Finn Gramaraye, has just finished a 25-year penal stretch in the Fey world for dark necromancy, his place in this world held for him by a changeling.
The return does not go smoothly. The transfer of memories from the changeling doesn’t happen. Finn finds himself a quarter-century out of date. He’s happy to be reunited with his Commodore 64, he talks in old teen slang, and words like “online” baffle him.
More important, the Arcana Ruling Council (that’s his side) still suspect him, and on the other side are a consortium of Feys and feybloods, susquatches, waerwolves, brownies. Someone is trying to restart the Fey-Arcana wars, using Finn as a pivot. In the final showdown he has to rely on gnome mercenaries and bloodwitches too, though the real dangers lie in his own family—just as if he was a “mundane,” or “mundy,” like the rest of us.
Publishers Weekly: Tanzer’s first novel is a splendid page-turner of a Weird West adventure. Elouise Merriwether is a psychopomp, tasked with escorting newly deceased souls to the afterlife. Half Chinese and half English, with a bizarre job that few people understand, she struggles to find a place for herself in 1870s San Francisco, often vacillating between pluck and self-effacement. When her mother asks her to investigate why young Chinese men are going missing after being offered jobs in Colorado, Lou agrees to turn detective, but she’s bitten off way more than she can chew, especially once she runs up against the mysterious Dr. Panacea and his possibly fraudulent Elixir of Life. 
Molly Tanzer’s THE PLEASURE MERCHANT, a novel set in 18th century London where Tom Dawne, a former wigmaker’s apprentice and aspiring gentleman finds his modest desires changing as he climbs the social ladder, until he is offered his greatest pleasure, but for a price, to Cameron Pierce at Lazy Fascist by Cameron McClure.
Czech rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BROKEN EYE, Book 3 in the Lightbrigher series, to Fantom Print, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Advice Goddess Amy Alkon’s next science-based advice book, “Unf*ck Yourself!”, a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps guide to living a happier life by learning how to grow a pair, again to Michael Flamini at St. Martin’s Press by Cameron McClure at the Donald Maass Literary Agency in association with Ken Sherman at Ken Sherman & Associates.