Mike Shepherd’s 13th, 14th and 15th novels in the military science fiction series featuring the intrepid Kris Longknife to Ginjer Buchanan at Penguin Random House’s Ace imprint, by Jennifer Jackson.
New York Times best-selling author of The Testing Joelle Charbonneau’s new YA novel N.E.E.D., pitched as Pretty Little Liars meets Homeland, about a website that will fulfill any wish provided you fulfill a request and the teen who investigates when people start getting hurt, to Margaret Raymo at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, for publication in Fall 2015, by Stacia Decker.
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Matthew McBride’s THE SWOLLEN RED SUN to Rob Hart at The Mysterious Press, by Stacia Decker. In Gasconade County, Missouri—at one time called the meth capital of the world—Deputy Sherriff Dale Banks discovers $50,000 hidden in a cat’s litter box in the broken-down trailer Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows that what he’s done is wrong, but he’s done it for all the right reasons. At least, he thinks so. But for every wrong there is a consequence.
Owen Matthews’ HOW TO WIN AT HIGH SCHOOL, the story of a loser who, upon transferring schools his junior year, decides to do whatever it takes to reinvent himself, win over the popular crowd, and take over the school (Ferris Bueller meets Scarface) to Kristen Pettit at Harper Children’s, by Stacia Decker.
Shya Scanlon’s The Guild of St. Cooper, about an obscure author in a near-future post-evacuation Seattle who is drawn into writing a revisionist history that sets the book itself unspooling backward into its own alternate history and into a world—featuring giant rhododendrons, space aliens, and a certain Special Agent Dale Cooper—increasingly both familiar and unrecognizable, to Guy Intoci at Dzanc, by Stacia Decker.
Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi’s Little Girls, about a woman who, in the wake of her father’s death, moves with her husband and daughter back to her childhood home, and is haunted by a childhood tragedy that seems to be replaying itself with her daughter, as she becomes increasingly obsessed with investigating her father’s death, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, by Cameron McClure.
Jay Lake’s short story collection Last Plane to Heaven, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe, to Beth Meacham at Tor by Jennifer Jackson.
Kathryn Craft’s While the Leaves Stood Still, based on the author’s personal story, about a tense ten-hour standoff between one desperate man ready to take his life and the police, while his family and the community grapple with how best to respond, to Shana Drehs at Sourcebooks, for publication Spring 2015, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Jo Ann Brown’s inspirational trilogy “Precious Cargo” beginning with A Make-Believe Family, set in Porthlowen, a cove along the northern shore of Cornwall, to Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired by Jennifer Jackson.
