Michael Livingston
Award-winning historians Myke Cole and Michael Livingston’s THE KILLING GROUND: A BIOGRAPHY OF THERMOPYLAE, in which the authors explore why tens of thousands of people were willing to die for this tiny, out-of-the-way place, the site of dozens of battles stretching from the 5th century BC to World War II, to Kate Moore at Osprey by Paul Stevens.
Siblings Rachel Hope Cleves and Aram Sinnreich writing as RA Sinn’s SAVEPOINT, near-future SF about a woman who works for a company that uses brain implants to rewind time five seconds — but when a new upgrade is tested, she finds herself moving back in time every day, and only a nonbinary hacker from her past might help, to Jim Killen at Rebellion, for publication in 2023, by Jennie Goloboy.
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James J. Butcher sold world rights to DEAD MAN’S HAND and two sequels, to launch an action-packed new urban fantasy series, the Unorthodox Chronicles. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is an inexperienced witch on the run who will need to throw out the magical rule book, rip it up, and possibly set it on fire to solve the murder of his mentor. DEAD MAN’S HAND was preempted by Ace Books Executive Editor Anne Sowards via Jennifer Jackson, and will be released in hardcover in Fall 2022.
Best-selling author of A Wish For Home, Jo Ann Ferguson, writing as Jo Ann Brown, sold SAVING GRACES, a story of found family, quilts, grace, and a new chance at love set among the Amish community of Bliss Valley, to Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired via Jennifer Jackson.
Author of forthcoming TINDERBOX W.A. Simpson’s sequel, TAROTMANCER, when a Black diviner predicts a dark future and assists a wily shape-shifter in a heist gone wrong, it’s up to her to make a deal with a two-faced King to save her friend and the realm from the malevolent Rot, to Don D’Auria at Flame Tree Press, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, by Anne Tibbets (world English).
Hugo and Nebula nominated author S.B. Divya’s MERU and an untitled sequel, in which Jayanthi, a hugely ambitious young woman who dreams of leaving Earth, and Vaha, a post-human pilot struggling to fulfill zir genetic destiny despite repeated failure, must travel together to a newly discovered planet and find that despite their differences, they each hold the key to unlocking the other’s dreams, pitched as The Culture Series meets “A Memory Called Empire”, to Adrienne Procaccini at 47 North, in a two-book deal, for publication in January 2023, by Cameron McClure (world).
Cassandra Khaw’s THE SALT GROW HEAVY, in which a mermaid joins a strange doctor on a journey through an eerie taiga, and they must embrace the darkest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive, to Kristin Temple at Nightfire, with Ellen Datlow editing, for publication in spring 2023, by Michael Curry.
Author of FINDING TESSA and IT COULD BE ANYONE Jaime Lynn Hendricks’s I DIDN’T DO IT, when a famous writer is murdered at a national thriller conference, four other authors receive death threats via text and a sinister Twitter account and band together to find out who’s behind it, soon finding they’re living a thriller novel themselves, turning on each other, and wondering if one of them is next—or if one of them is a killer, to Luisa Smith at Scarlet, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, by Anne Tibbets.
Acclaimed Hell’s Library series author A.J. Hackwith’s new novel HOLLOW ROAD HOME and its sequel, pitched as a queer, millennial American Gods, about a fae working at a truck stop in Wyoming to hide from her past until she’s blackmailed by a self-taught magician to guide him and his sister—a girl born with a changing map on her skin—across the strange backroads and forgotten spaces of the gothic American Midwest in search of a powerful treasure, to Miranda Hill at Ace for publication in spring 2023, by Caitlin McDonald.
Author of CHLOE CATES IS MISSING, Mandy McHugh’s next domestic thriller, PLAY THE FOOL, about a woman who loses everything to her bumbling husband and plots his murder, only to get set up when someone else beats her to it, to Luisa Smith at Scarlet, in a nice deal, by Anne Tibbets.