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Penguin / Roc | December 2014

• Third book in the FATED BLADES series.

• YEAR OF THE DEMON (Book 2) was chosen as one of Library Journal's Best SF/F Books of 2013.

• Rights to books 1 and 2 have sold in Italy and Bulgaria.

• “Vibrant and unforgettable characters combine with Japanese history and fast-paced action to create an urban fantasy for fans of Asian culture.” – Library Journal, Starred Review

• “Bein combines the best parts of police procedurals, buddy-cop films, historical fantasy, and intrigue-laden adventure.” – Publishers Weekly

Tokyo falls victim to a major terrorist attack, but no one on the force believes Detective Mariko Oshiro's famed Inazuma sword and a cursed demon mask could have anything to do with the bombing. Then she discovers an underground syndicate has been using these relics to control Japanese politics for centuries.

Disciple of the Wind by Steve Bein

Prime Books | July 2014

• A stand-alone novel in the author's Promethean Age setting.

• “Reaffirms her skill at creating memorable — and memorably flawed — characters as well as her sure hand at blending together the modern world with the world of the Fae.” – Library Journal on BLOOD AND IRON, the first novel of the Promethean Age

• Bear's awards include the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, twoHugo awards, and a Locus Award.

• Rights to Bear's novels have sold in Czech and Japanese.

• Rights to other Promethean Age novels are also available.

The One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King are personifications of the city of Las Vegas. When the Suicide King vanishes in the middle of a magic-rights turf war started by the avatars of Los Angeles, his partner, the One-Eyed Jack, must seek the aid of a bizarre band of legendary and undead allies.

One-Eyed Jack by Elizabeth Bear

DAW | July 2014

• 2nd Book in Dark Apostle series.

• “This beautifully told, painfully elegant story should appeal to fans of L.E. Modesitt’s realistic fantasies as well as the period fantasy of Guy Gavriel Kay.”– Library Journal, Starred Review (on ELISHA BARBER)

• 5-book series under contract with DAW.

The previous book ended with Elisha killing the king, and so now Elisha has become a wanted man. Many hate and fear him, and others seek to use him and win his support. And beneath the politics of court and castle run the real currents of power: magic. As Elisha navigates the politics of his new life - fending off both assassins and marriage proposals - he also becomes immersed in the secret world of magic, from magi to indivisi to necromancers. Elisha has always fought against the darkness of the world, first with his medical skill, and then with his magic, but will he be able to overcome the darkness in himself?

Elisha Magus by E.C. Ambrose


Penguin / Roc | May 2014

• Fifteenth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

• “Butcher is the dean of contemporary urban fantasy.” – Booklist

• Rights for books in the Dresden Files series have sold in Brazilian Portuguese,Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

• Film shopping agreement with Donners Company (X-Men, The Wolverine).

As Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry Dresden never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains—led by one of Harry’s most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone—break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever. Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess.

Skin Game by Jim Butcher

Penguin / Roc | March 2014

• Second book in the Others series by the New York Times bestselling author.

• Rights to this series have sold in French and Polish.

• Rights to Bishop's novels have also sold in Czech, German, Portuguese, and Russian.

• “Delves more deeply into characters' motivations, interactions and emotions, with the outcome even more compelling and wrenching.” – Kirkus

• “The world is described in fluid detail...with characters that are complex and intriguing. A fantastic sequel to the first book in the series.” – Booklist

In the world of the Others, supernatural entities and humans stuggle to co-exist, and one woman has begun to change all the rules. When Meg Corbyn has a dream about blood and black feathers in the snow, Simon Wolfgard—Lakeside’s shape-shifting leader—wonders if their blood prophet dreamed of a past attack or a future threat.

Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

US: Random House / Crown; UK: Quercus / Jo Fletcher Books| September 2014

• First traditional fantasy novel from award-winning author

• First book in a new series – 3 books under contract in the US, 2 books under contract in the UK.

• Previous books have won the Shirley Jackson Award, Sydney J. Bounds Award, Edgar Award, and the Philip K. Dick Special Citation for Excellence

• Option publishers in France, Germany, Japan and Hungary.

Years ago the city of Bulikov wielded the powers of the Gods to conquer the world. Then its divine protectors were murdered, and the conqueror became the conquered. Now Bulikov is just another colonial outpost , its citizens desperate to regain their home's former glory. Into this strange city steps Shara Thivani, dispatched on a secret mission to investigate the brutal murder of a seemingly harmless historian. As Shara pursues the mystery she begins to suspect that the beings who once protected the city may not be as dead as they seem–and that Bulikov's brutal reign may not be over.

City of Stairs by Robert Bennett


US: Macmillan / Tor Books; UK: Titan Books | March 2014

• First book in the Spider Wars series; 2 sequels under contract with Tor.

• “An exciting new novel from an exciting new voice in sf.” – Booklist

• 4/5 stars from SFX Magazine.

• “A lightspeed collision of scifi and horror.” – Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of PANDEMIC

• Author’s first novel, EMPIRE STATE, was named the Best Book of 2012 by SciFi Now Magazine.

Part space opera, part horror novel, THE BURNING DARK features Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland, a washed up war hero, who is sent to one of the most remote backwaters of outer-space to oversee the decommissioning of a deserted space station. But alien shadows and whispers haunt the lonely corridors and airlocks, and Cleveland uses an old space radio to tune into a may day call from thepast… or is it a warning from the future?

The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher

Angry Robot | January 2014

• “Christopher fulfills our expectations and more: just when we think the story couldn’t get any weirder, he adds a whole new layer of weird...keeping us stuck to our chairs until we think it’ll take an industrial-strength solvent to pryus loose.” – Booklist, Starred Review

• “Like a tightrope walker himself, Christopher deftly balances HANG WIRE on multiple, crisscrossing threads of character and plot. As dizzying as it is, henever slips...A tightly wound, dynamic piece of genre-bending machinery.” – NPR.org

• Italian rights sold to La Ponga Edizioni for his debut, EMPIRE STATE.

Ted Hall is worried. He’s been sleepwalking, and his somnambulant travels through San Francisco appear to coincide with murders by the notorious Hang Wire Killer. And throughout San Francisco immortal beings are searching for an ancient power – a primal evil which moves under the city and if unopposed, could destroy the world.

Hang Wire by Adam Christopher

Penguin / Berkley | January 2014

• Third and final book of the GLEE CLUB MYSTERY series.

• New York Times bestselling author for THE TESTING and INDEPENDENT STUDY, a YA dystopian series.

• “Enormous fun...Encore, encore!” – Miranda James, New York Times bestselling author (on the Glee Club Mysteries)

• Option publishers in Brazil, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, The Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey.

Paige Marshall is back in the spotlight. This time the high school show choir coachis fighting to keep her singers in a national competition despite charges of sabotage. She’ll need to stick her neck out to discover who’s really behind the sabotage, or she may end up singing her own swan song…

A Chorus Line-up by Joelle Charbonneau


Tor Books | May 2014

• Third book in the SILVER series.

• “Held’s characters are believable, and her compelling story begs for further development in future novels.” – Library Journal, Starred Review on SILVER

The Were have lived among humans for centuries, secretly, carefully. They came toAmerica with the earliest European colonists, seeking a land where their packs could run free. Andrew Dare is a descendant of those colonists, and he and his mate, Silver, have become alphas of the largest pack in North America. But they have enemies, both within their territory and beyond the sea. When Andrew is drawn away to deal with the problem of a half-human child in Alaska, Silver and his daughter Felicia are alone to handle a troublemaker who arrives from Spain—a dangerous man with ties to Andrew's dark past and first dead wife.

Reflected by Rhiannon Held

Penguin / Berkley | Fall 2014

• Seventh book in the USA Today bestselling author's ELDER RACES series.

• Rights for earlier books in this series have sold in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Thailand.

• Series of tie-in novellas have sold in Germany and France.

On the run from her former employer, Tess knows that she’s vulnerable on her own amongst the Elder Races. That’s why she decides to audition to become the human attendant of a powerful vampyre of the Nightkind demesne. But while her position affords her the safety she seeks, her protector turns out to be more than she bargained for. The vampyre is both terrifying and alluring. Tess can’t ignore the appeal of his integrity and self-restraint. Thrown into the vampyre’s world, Tess must quickly learn to navigate the dangers—both to her life, and to her heart.But the biggest threat comes from her own past…

Night's Honor by Thea Harrison

Penguin / Berkley | February 2014

• Second book in the USA Today bestselling author's GAME OF SHADOWS series.

• German rights sold to Lyx.

• Author has option publishers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Thailand.

The second novel in this darkly romantic paranormal saga, in which the fate of existence itself rests in the hands of two eternal lovers, who are reincarnated over and over again to defeat The Deceiver. In this story Mary and Michael team up with Astra, a woman who by her own admission will do anything to finish the Deceiver—even if it means killing Michael and Mary to try again in another life. Asthey face their final battle, Michael's loyalties are tested, making him vulnerable justwhen Mary needs him most.

Falling Light by Thea Harrison


Subterranean Press | May 2014

• Fifth book in the New York Times bestselling author's MATTHEW CORBETT series.

• USA Today calls Matthew Corbett: “the Early American James Bond.”

• McCammon is the winner of five Stoker awards and a World Fantasy Award.

• Film rights are under option for television.

It's 1703 in the Carolina settlement of Charles Town, and Matthew Corbett, professional 'problem solver,' has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when a sixteen-year-old girl is stabbed to death on the grounds of a local plantation. The suspected killer is a slave who has escaped into the dubious protection of a nearby swamp. Troubled by certain discrepancies and determined to see some sort of justice done, Matthew joins the hunt for the runaway slaves, embarking on a treacherous journey up the Solstice River, also known as the haunted River of Souls.

The River of Souls by Robert McCammon

Per Aspera Press | September 2014

• Lake is the author of eleven novels, seven collections, and over 300 short stories, as well as an acclaimed editor. His work has made him a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.

• Rights for Lake's previous novels have sold in German, French, Hebrew, and Russian.

In the archipelagos of Alizar, Domina Sian Katte is pulled into conspiracies and revolution when she is endowed with powerful healing abilities by the Priest of theButchered God. As she tries to keep from being swept away by the tide of change, will she have to choose between her own life and the fate of the city she loves?

Our Lady of the Islands by Jay Lake and Shannon Page

Macmillan / Tor Books | April 2014

• The fourth book in the Nebula-nominated Glamourist Histories series.

• Kowal has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Hugo award.

• Rights to books in the series have sold in Hungarian and Japanese.

After Melody's wedding, Jane and Vincent set off for Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. Fortunately, one of the gentlemen from the ship is a local banker and arranges for a line of credit and a place to live. But when a solicitor arrives at their house and charges them with illegal trespass, Jane and Vincent learn the letters from their banking friend are all forgeries, and worse, he has used their forged letters to clean out their funds back in England. Vincent soon hatches a reckless plan to get their money back. The ensuing adventure is a glorious envisioning of all the best parts of heist narratives, but in a Regency setting with magic.

Valour and Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal


• Second book in the DETECTIVE JOHN LYNCH series, following PENANCE.

• “A rich, gritty, terrific novel. O’Shea can throw a punch and turn a phrase with the very best of them. Even better, he knows the human heart inside out.” – Lou Berney, author of GUNSHOT STRAIGHT and WHIPLASH RIVER on PENANCE

Ex-Marine Nick Hardin heads back from a decade in Africa to Chicago with $100 million in blood diamonds stolen from an Al Qaeda's financing pipeline. His retirement plan? To cash out through a Chicago Mossad contact and head for the beach. The resulting body count leaves detective John Lynch trying to find connections among the victims, while also solving the murder of an infectious disease expert who'd drafted a bioweapon plan that could turn Chicago into a ghost town.

Angry Robot / Exhibit A | January 2014

Greed by Daniel O'Shea

Macmillan / Forge Books | August 2014

• Second book of the DOYLE CARRICK series.

• “McGoran impressively integrates concerns about genetically modified produce with an action-filled storyline and fleshed-out characters...The disturbing, but scientifically plausible, secret at the heart of the bad guys' schemes is an original one, and McGoran makes the most of it.” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review for DRIFT

• “This biotech thriller delivers a complex Frankenfood story, with lots of twistsand turns leading to a startling ending.” – Booklist on DRIFT

Detective Doyle Carrick is on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. But the peaceful island is rocked when something starts killing off its bees. The giant Stoma Corporation brings in Annalisa, a researcher, to deliver genetically engineered replacements. Doyle soon discovers that bees aren’t the only thing being modified,and when Annalisa’s coworkers start to go missing, she and Doyle uncover a seriesof dark, deadly, and terrifying secrets.

Deadout by Jon McGoran

Prime Books | October 2013

• A collection of 23 short stories, with a foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.

• Included on the Locus Recommended Reading list for 2013.

• Okorafor is the winner of the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, a Nebula Award Nominee, and a Locus Award Finalist for her first adult novel, WHO FEARS DEATH (DAW/Penguin)

• Option publishers in Africa, Brazil, France, and Spain.

Kabu kabu—unregistered illegal Nigerian taxis—generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor's KABU KABU, however, takes the reader to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn't know you needed. This debut short story collection by the award-winning author includes notable previously published material, a new novella co-written with New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, six original stories, and a brief foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.

Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorofor


Penguin / Roc | September 2014

• “Cherie Priest has mastered the art of braiding atmosphere, suspense and metaphysics.” – Katherine Ramsland, bestselling author of GHOST: INVESTIGATING THE OTHER SIDE

• “Priest kills as a stylist.” – Charles de Lint, Fantasy and Science Fiction

• “Cherie Priest kicks ass!” – Maggie Shayne, New York Times bestselling author of SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON

• Rights for Priest's previous books have sold in Czech, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. My parents' characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean’s depths, but this evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.

Maplecroft by Cherie Priest

Titan Books | June 2014

• First book in the KOKO series, with a sequel under contract with Titan Books.

• “Not since Richard K. Morgan's ALTERED CARBON have I felt so completely immersed in such a perfectly realized world of the future. Kieran Shea is the breath of fresh air the science fiction genre has been looking for.”– Victor Gischler, author of INK MAGE and GO-GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE

Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its simulated sex and violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores, Koko finds the most challenging part of her day might be deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.

Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea

Macmillan / Tor Books| March 2014

Lockstep by Karl Schroeder

• A young adult SF novel that was serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, SF's longest running monthly, beginning in Fall 2013.

• Rights to previous (adult) novels by author have sold in Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.

17-year-old Toby McGonigal wakes after an accident to find that he's been drifting between the stars, frozen solid, for 14,000 years. Even stranger, the people who have rescued and revived him speak his language and the world they show him is strangely like the online fantasy worlds that Toby and his brother Peter designed when they were younger. The Lockstep, as it's called, survives in the hostile wasteland of outer space, absolute cold and few resources by using a bizarre tactic: the entire civilization hibernates for thirty years at a time, then wakes for a month of hectic activity -- before falling asleep again. Toby's brother Peter runs the whole place, and is an embittered and paranoid tyrant. When Peter learns that his brother has returned from oblivion, he orders him killed.


• Spin-off from the New York Times bestselling Kris Longknife series.

• Rights for the Kris Longknife series have sold in German, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Maria Teresa Inez Smythe-Peterwald, daughter of wealth and power, was raised to do little except be attractive and marry well. Then her brother was killed in battle by Lieutenant Kris Longknife, daughter of the Peterwald’s longtime enemies. Vicky vowed revenge, but her skill setwas more suitable for seduction than assassination, and she failed. Her father decided she needed military training and forced her to join the Navy. Now Ensign Vicky Peterwald is part of a whole new world, where use of her ample charms will not lead to advancement. But her father the Emperor wants Vicky to learn to be efficiently ruthless and deadly. Though the lessons are hard learned, Vicky masters them—with help from an unexpected source: Kris Longknife.

Penguin / Ace | June 2014

Vicky Peterwald: Target by Mike Shepherd

Tyrus Books | November 2013

• “Steve Weddle’s writing is downright dazzling in COUNTRY HARDBALL.” – Marilyn Stasio - New York Times

• “Steve Weddle is a powerful, empathetic writer and COUNTRY HARDBALL is a stunning debut. Do not miss it.” – Sean Chercover, bestselling author of THE TRINITY GAME

• “These skillfully wrought interconnected stories form a debut novel that is relentless in describing the lives of people who are captives not only of their environment but also of their own histories.” – Booklist

• French rights sold to Editions du Seuil.

A novel-in-stories, in the tradition of Donald Ray Pollock and Bonnie Jo Campbell, about an ex-con who returns to his rural home town determined to do better but finds a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn.A powerfully observed and devastatingly understated portrait of the American working class.

Country Hardball by Steve Weddle

Hachette / Orbit | August 2014

• Third book in the LIGHTBRINGER series, with the fourth, THE BLOOD MIRROR, under contract with Hachette.

• New York Times bestseller, Barnes & Noble bestseller, Locus bestseller, and Library Journal “not-to-miss” pick.

• Book 2 in the series is a KulturSPIEGEL bestseller in Germany.

• The series has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish and Taiwanese.

As Chromeria races to find its lost Prism, the only one man who may be able to stop catastrophe. But Gavin Guile is enslaved on a pirate galley and no longer hasthe one thing that defined him--the ability to create magic using colors. Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will have to face a master of shadows aloneas his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power. Kip will have to survive a secret war between noble houses, religious factions, rebels, and an ascendant order of hidden assassins, The Broken Eye.

The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks


• Also available: EMILIE & THE HOLLOW WORLD.

• “There is kidnapping, and derring-do, and tense stand-offs, and last-minute rescues, and terrible revelations—in short, all the ingredients of an excellent adventure story.” – Tor.com

• Previous books by Wells have been published in seven languages.

When Emilie and Daniel arrive in Silk Harbor, Professor Abindon warns them that she's observed something strange and potentially deadly in the sky, a disruption in anupper air aether current. As the Marlendes investigate further, they realize it's a ship from another aetheric plane. It may be just a friendly explorer...or something far more sinister. Emilie finds herself deep in personal entanglements, with an angry uncle, an interfering brother, and an estranged mother to worry about—not to mention a lost family of explorers, the strange landscapes of the upper air, and the deadly menace that inhabits the sky world.

Angry Robot / Strange Chemistry | March 2014

Emilie and the Sky World by Martha Wells

Angry Robot | December 2013

• Third book in the MIRIAM BLACK series.

• Rights to earlier books in the series have sold in French, German, Polish, and Turkish.

• Film rights purchased by Starz.

Hired by a wealthy businessman, Miriam Black heads down to Florida to practice the one thing she's good at: seeing how someone dies when she makes skin-to-skincontact with them. But in her vision she sees her victim murdered and on the wall written in blood is a message just for Miriam. Someone is expecting her. Miriam must unravel the message before her loved ones start to die.

The Cormorant by Chuck Wendig


• Sequel under contract with Macmillan.

• Supernatural meets the Old West.

American Civil War veteran Jacob Tracy came back from the war seeing ghosts – literally. Now he avoids ghost-crowded cities, guiding wagon trains out west from St.Louis with his best, and very grounded, friend Boz. That is until the rich Miss Fairweather sends them on a task that ends with them taking on a vengeful ghost. Going where Miss Fairweather points them, Trace and Boz discover that the supernatural world goes far beyond ghosts. The more Trace uses his powers, the stronger they grow, and Trace begins to realize his curse may have some good in it. But Miss Fairweather is hiding much worse secrets, and she is not the only one interested in Trace. Caught in the middle of a supernatural power play, Trace must pick a side. One threatens the people he cares about most, while the other could destroy everything he is.

Macmillan / Thomas Dunne | Fall 2014

The Curse of Jacob Tracy by Holly Messinger

DAW | November 2014

• Sequel under contract with DAW.

When Cara Carlinni teams up with Reska 'Ben' Benjamin she thinks she's simply found a way off a deathtrap space-station and out of immediate danger, but did she even stop to consider that Ben might have troubles too? The past is about to catch up with them both, bigtime, as they struggle to save a colony under threat. Implant-enhanced psi-abilities, a love story, space stations, new worlds, themes of betrayal and (misplaced) trust, space ships, corrupt mega-corporations, criminals who aren't necessarily the villains. Villains who are the heroes of their own story..

Empire of Dust by Jacey Bedford

Macmillan / Tor Books | February 2015

Finn Fancy Necromancy by Randy Henderson

DEBUT AUTHORS

• Two sequels under contract with Tor Books.

• Humor in the vein of The Dresden Files.

• Clarion West graduate and Writers of the Future winner.

Fresh home from a 25 year exile that began in 1986, young necromancer Finn Gramaraye finds himself in a very different world than the one he left behind. Hisfather has become a mad thaumaturge with memory problems. His older brother Morty fears that Finn wants to take over the family business. His younger brother Petey still believes he's a werewolf because of a childhood dog bite. And the girl of Finn's teenage dreams has married, had a child, and divorced – while Finn hasn't even been on a real date!

Even worse: Someone’s trying to frame Finn for murder…again. To clear his name, Finn will battle sasquatch assassins, evil PTA witches, a waer-Elvis and more.


• First book in a 34-book VICTORIAN MYSTERY series, originally published inthe U.S. by Berkley. The first 10 books are now also being published by Constable & Robinson, and republished as omnibus editions by Berkley.

• MRS. JEFFRIES AND THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY - 33rd Book in series—will be published in June 2014 by Berkley.

• Japanese rights sold to Tokyo Sogensha for books 1–3.

Inspector Gerald Witherspoon is completely inept, but has gained a reputation as Victorian-era Scotland Yard’s shining star, thanks to his household staff, headed by Mrs. Jeffries. Mrs. Jeffries solves Witherspoon’s mysteries without ever letting anyone, Witherspoon included, know that she and her staff are involved.

Berkley (backlist) / Constable & Robinson (UK) | November 2013

The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries by Emily Brightwell

• First book in the 10-book YOUNG WIZARD series – 9 books published and the 10th in progress.

• Series has sold over 3 million copies and has been in print for over 25 years.

• The YOUNG WIZARD series received a special commendation in the Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize in Children's Literature, 2003.

• Rights for books in the Young Wizard series have sold in Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, and Russian, and the series is being relaunched in France.

Nita Callahan is a thirteen-year-old girl who discovers a book titled So You Want to Bea Wizard while hiding from bullies in a library. The next day when she is out trying todo her first spell she meets Kit Rodriguez, another self-trained wizard. Now with these powers, Nita feels she has the chance to fight back the bullies, but instead she and Kit are sent into an alternate world of New York City filled with danger and adventure, on a critical mission to steal back an artifact from an evil wizard.

Harcourt (backlist) | Fall 2003

So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane

CLASSICS


• First book in the six-book JURISDICTION series, originally published by Avon, now reissued by Baen Books.

• “An absorbing work...Susan R. Matthews simply doesn't flinch.” – Steven R. Donaldson, bestselling author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

• “Powerful, insidious and insightful—a singular accomplishment.” – Melanie Rawn, bestselling author of ELSEWHENS

• Matthews' awards include the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Philip K. Dick Award.

Ship’s Surgeon. Ship’s Inquisitor. Responsible for implementing the Protocols in a galactic government that relies on the institutionalization of judicial torture to control an increasingly unstable environment. Under Jurisdiction torture isn’t about truth. It’s about terror. As Andrej Koscuisko struggles to maintain some thread of decency he will face powerful enemies who are eager to use his knowledge, his empathy, and his passion against anyone who challenges the Bench.

Baen Books | January 2014

An Exchange of Hostages by Susan R. Matthews

• Sheckley has been nominated for the Hugo award and Nebula award, and the New York Times calls him “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”

• Open Road Media will now publish 28 of Sheckley's backlist titles, including 16 novels and 12 collections.

• Bestselling author Neil Gaiman selected DIMENSIONS OF MIRACLES for his audio ACX label – Neil Gaiman Presents, published in March 2013.

• Rights have sold in Brazil and Spain.

Thomas Carmody wins the Intergalactic Sweepstakes and leaves Earth behind. He ends up following his fast-talking Prize from place to place, seeing talking dinosaurs, a perfect city smothering its residents with motherly love, a giant slightly bored God and much more. The only problem is that Death is chasing closely after him and there seems to be no way to get safely home...

Harcourt (backlist) | Fall 2003

Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley

IMMORTALITY INC.

• Rights have sold in Bulgaria.• Adapted into the movie FREEJACK in 1992.

THE 10TH VICTIM

• Rights have sold in Bulgaria, Israel, and Poland.

• Adapted into an Italian cult SF film (La decima vittima) in 1965, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress, directed by Elio Petri.

Robert Jackson Bennett, CITY OF BLADES plus 1 untitled book (CROWN, NORTH AMERICA)♦ Manuscript delivery: December 2014; Pub date: Fall 2015 ♦ A sequel to CITY OF STAIRS from the Edgar Award and Shirley Jackson Award winning author.

Adam Christopher, UNTITLED, Book 1 of the L.A. Trilogy, plus 2 sequels (TOR, NORTH AMERICA)♦ Manuscript delivery: September 2014; Pub date: September 2015 ♦ Following his novella “Brisk Money,” a sci-fi/noir mashup trilogy set in an alternate 1960s Los Angeles and starring Raymond Electromatic, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer Googol, in a series of manuscripts purportedly saved by Raymond Chandler's housekeeper afterhe burnt them all

Kathryn Craft, WHILE THE LEAVES STOOD STILL (SOURCEBOOKS, WORLD ENGLISH)♦ Manuscript delivery: June 2014; Pub date: Spring 2015 ♦ When Ronnie's husband, Jeff, comes home drunk and armed, police take Ronnie and her two sons away to a local firehouse for their safety to join Ronnie's mother and Jeff's mother; lifelong best friends. Tension builds as Jeff stands off against dozens of police and emergency response, while at the firehouse, the three point-of-view women dig to defend their own

Amanda Downum, DREAMS OF SHREDS AND TATTERS (SOLARIS, WORLD ENGLISH)♦ Manuscript delivery: Delivered; Pub date: 2015♦ 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

Shya Scanlon, THE GUILD OF ST. COOPER (DZANC, WORLD ENGLISH)♦ Manuscript delivery: July 2014; Pub date: March 2015 ♦ 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

Fiona Maazel, WOKE UP LONELY, A New York Times Notable Book 2013♦ Hebrew rights sold to Keter Books via Delia Ever-Hadani at The Book Publishers Association of Israel.♦ Italian rights sold to Cavallo di Ferro by Stefania Fietta at Agenzie Latteraria.

Matthew McBride, A SWOLLEN RED SUN♦ French rights sold to Gallmeister.

Frank Wheeler, Jr., THE GOOD LIFE♦ French rights sold to Gallimard.


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