UK rights to Emily Winslow’s third suspense novel, THE RED HOUSE, about when Maxwell and his fiancé Imogen move to Imogen’s childhood home and Maxwell starts having strange and impossible memories of his own childhood, until he begins to suspect that he may be Imogen’s younger brother who was lost at age 3, and even worse, he suspects Imogen knows that he is, to Susie Dunlop at Allison & Busby, for publication in 2015, by Cameron McClure.
British Fantasy Award nominee Molly Tanzer’s first novel, VERMILION, an alternate history steampunk set in 1870 America featuring a 19-year-old half-Chinese girl who passes as a boy so she can work as an exorcist, and whose investigation into why so many poor young Chinese workers are disappearing from Chinatown leads her to a sanatorium in the Rocky Mountains, and a very undead villain, to Ross E. Lockhart at Word Horde for publication in Spring 2015, by Cameron McClure.
Bulgarian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, to Bard, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Cameron McClure.
Hugo Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal’s OF NOBLE FAMILY, STAGECRAFT, and GHOST TALKERS #1, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, in a three-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.
World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling author Robert McCammon’s THE BORDER, about the teen-aged boy who may be the key to saving our way of life after Earth is caught on the border of a vicious and long-standing war between two alien civilizations, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Cameron McClure.
Sci-fi humorist Robert Sheckley’s mix of backlist novels, including favorites like CROMPTON DIVIDED and THE 10TH VICTIM, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, in a six-book deal, by Cameron McClure.
World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling author Robert McCammon’s THE BORDER, a novel reminiscent of SWAN SONG and STINGER, set two years after Earth was caught in the middle of a vicious and long-standing war between two alien civilizations and hideously altered, about a teenage boy who may be the key to preserving humanity, to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press, at auction, for publication in Spring 2015, by Cameron McClure.
Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett on American Elsewhere winning the Shirley Jackson Award!
Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother’s home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother’s past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different …
Michael Fletcher’s BEYOND REDEMPTION, a fantasy set in a world where belief defines reality and delusions are the often the strongest beliefs, focusing on a powerful sociopath looking to create a new God and a group of deranged thieves intent on using this new deity for their own purposes, to David Pomerico at Harper Voyager, in his first buy for the imprint, by Cameron McClure.
Elisha, a barber-surgeon from the poorest streets of benighted fourteenth-century London, has come a long way from home. He was always skilled at his work—but skill alone could not protect him, on the day that disaster left his family ruined and Elisha himself wrongly accused of murder. With no way out, Elisha accepted the offer of Lucius, a haughty physician, to avoid a trial by serving under Lucius as a battle surgeon of the king’s army at the front lines of an unjust war. Continue reading »
We live in a world that’s very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say “f*ck”) are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the increasing onslaught of rudeness we all encounter.
To lead us out of the miasma of modern mannerlessness, science-based and bitingly funny syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon rips the doily off the manners genre and gives us a new set of rules for our twenty-first century lives.
With wit, style, and a dash of snark, Alkon explains that we now live in societies too big for our brains, lacking the constraints on bad behavior that we had in the small bands we evolved in. Alkon shows us how we can reimpose those constraints, how we can avoid being one of the rude, and how to stand up to those who are.
Russian rights to Karl Schroeder’s LOCKSTEP, to AST, by Alexander Korzhenevski in association with Cameron McClure.
Dutch rights to Anne Bishop’s first two novels in the Others series, WRITTEN IN RED and MURDER OF CROWS, to De Fontein by Moa-Lisa Björk at the Lennart Sane Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
French rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s KABU KABU, the short story collection, to Patrick Dechesne at Les Editions de l’Instant, by Pierre Corman at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure.
Romanian rights to Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON, GRAVE PERIL and SUMMER KNIGHT, the first four books in the Dresden Files series, to Hipgnosis Vision SRL, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Jennifer Jackson.
The New York Times has a profile of Amy Alkon and her book Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck.