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.
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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.
New York Times Bestselling author Jim Butcher sold THE DRESDEN FILES: BIGFOOT, the sixth graphic novel in the ongoing series. Creator Jim Butcher returns alongside co-writer Mark Powers and artist Joe Cooper to re-imagine some hard to find Dresden short stories. Combined with new material, it sees the noted professional wizard taking on a new assignment from the famous cryptid. Dresden Files: Bigfoot features a cover from Chris McGrath. Slated for release in February, it will be available in hardcover and a limited edition signed by Butcher. Dynamite Entertainment acquired rights via Jennifer Jackson.
Sturgeon Award finalist Vajra Chandrasekera’s debut THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, a richly imagined postcolonial fantasy meeting at the point between THE NAME OF THE WIND and THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, set in an unsane metropolis brimming with history that is on the verge of eruption, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor.com, in a six-figure deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in winter 2023, by Michael Curry (world English).
Author of the Tufa Series, Alex Bledsoe’s DANDELION, in which a former marine with the ability to cast out demons tries to help a woman who had a botched exorcism, only to discover that there are other, more powerful demons in town, to John G. Hartness at Falstaff Books by Paul E. Stevens.
New York Times bestselling author Tamysn Muir will expand her Locked Tomb series with an additional volume, NONA THE NINTH.
Debut author Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE, pitched as a xianxia-inspired contemporary fantasy about a magical temp agency calligrapher who becomes involved with one of her clients and must embrace her powers in order to battle in a deadly family feud, to Jacob Weisman at Tachyon Publications, with Jaymee Goh editing by Anne Tibbets.