Publishers Weekly: The espionage potential of magical illusions sets the stage for Kowal’s fourth alternate-Regency caper (after Without a Summer). Lady Jane and Sir David Vincent, both accomplished at the art of spinning strands of magic into the sounds and images called “glamour,” leave England to visit Venice and Murano. Their plan is to work with Murano’s glassmakers, under the guise of visiting Vincent’s friend Lord Byron, and capture glamour in glass so that it can be moved from place to place. After their ship is attacked by “a Barbary corsair,” Vincent is injured and the pirates relieve the pair of their valuables. They arrive in Venice sans papers and discover Byron is away; their straits are dire. A banker offers lodging and monetary assistance, but their relief turns to dismay when they begin to suspect his motives. Jane and Vincent’s affectionate but never anachronistic relationship, and Kowal’s clever incorporation of period artifacts into the schemes, are of particular note.
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April 4, 2014
Hugo Award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal’s untitled short story collection, to Paula Guran at Prime Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Jay Lake’s and Ken Scholes’ THE WINGS WE DARE ASPIRE, a collection of related novellas in the award-winning Metatropolis setting, to Kevin J. Anderson at WordFire Press by Jennifer Jackson.
Booklist: Bear concludes the epic begun in Range of Ghosts with her usual subversive flair. The world of the Eternal Sky is a gorgeously fleshed-out one, and the characters without exception fascinating, sometimes maddening, and complex. This is a pleasing conclusion to an epic; it ties up the major threads but leaves many open questions about how the world will move forward. Temur and his companions begin this volume in the city of Reason, exploring ancient places and magics; they must make their way to Dragon Lake to declare Temur Khagan and gather an army against the terrible forces of Al-Sepehr. 
MURDER OF CROWS debuts at #75 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list!
Amanda Downum’s DREAMS OF SHREDS AND TATTERS, a contemporary story influenced by Lovecraft’s Dreamlands in which Liz Drake must unravel the truth behind a drug called mania and a modern-day cult of Dionysos which masks something far more ancient and terrible, for publication in 2015 to Jonathan Oliver at Solaris by Jennifer Jackson.