French rights to Anne Bishop’s VISION IN SILVER, the 3rd novel in her series about The Others, to Bragelonne by David Camus at the Anna Jarota Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
German rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BLOOD MIRROR (Book 4 in the Lightbringer series) and UNTITLED Book 4 in the Night Angel series, to Blanvalet, in a two-book deal, in a nice deal, by Bastian Schlück at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Dutch rights to Anne Bishop’s VISION IN SILVER, Book 3 in the Others series, to Sabrina Verbeek at De Fontein, by Philip Sane at the Lennart Sane Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
The Globe and Mail: Princess X is a converse-clad, katana-wielding heroine invented by childhood best friends May and Libby. When Libby dies in a car crash, so does the fictional superhero. But a few years later, Princess X mysteriously shows up in a popular Web comic. How could a dead girl’s ideas come back to life? Ninety per cent text and 10 per cent comics, this is the genre-bending story of May’s quest to learn the truth behind Libby’s death and Princess X’s baffling reappearance. Delicious twists and turns make up this tightly focused tale of sleuthing, hacking and friendship – even after May partners with Patrick, her tech-savvy neighbour, not a mite of flirtation clouds the plot’s trajectory. Don’t let the pink on the cover fool you;
Publishers Weekly: Dickinson’s debut, the start of a trilogy set in an impressively well-crafted fantasy world, is assured and impressive. … Readers will share every one of Baru’s strong, suppressed emotions.
RT Book Reviews: Sarah and Henry stand front and center as the side stories of Pris’ romance, Joe and Simon’s return from Colorado, and shy Amanda’s dangerous escapade with rebellious Jesse keep Whinburg Township on its toes. Readers will be pleased and relieved when this intense romance is resolved and Henry accepts that his heart’s desire was beside him all along.
Barnes & Noble: “As action-filled and nail-biting as it can be, Bishop makes the powerful choice to confine the most important battles to play out in her characters’ psyches and emotional landscapes. Instead of making them victims for some hero to save, Bishop makes these damaged characters into champions, leading to the trilogy’s most heartbreaking, memorable sequences, as driving most of the major climaxes.
Audio rights to Jim Butcher’s WORKING FOR BIGFOOT, collecting the stories where Harry Dresden works cases for Bigfoot, to Amy Metsch at Penguin Random House Audio by Jennifer Jackson.
Susan R. Matthews’ BLOOD ENEMIES, a new novel in the Philip K. Dick Award nominated Jurisdiction Universe series, along with reprint rights to the first six novels in the series including the critically acclaimed EXCHANGE OF HOSTAGES to Tony Daniel at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.