Jennifer Jackson - Literary Agent

new books from Loreth Anne White

jennifer — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:19:43 +0000

As reported on Publishers Marketplace:

Fiction: Women’s/Romance
The Heart Of A Renegade author Loreth Anne White’s two new books, to Susan Litman at Harlequin.

new series from Laura Anne Gilman

jennifer — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:26:23 +0000

As reported on Publishers Marketplace:

Retrievers series author Laura Anne Gilman’s VINESPELL, the first in the Vineart Wars, in which magic is the province of winemakers and a young apprentice must save the world, to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket, in a very nice deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in Fall 2009.

Locus Bestseller List for May

jennifer — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:18:48 +0000

Jim Butcher’s Captain’s Fury (Codex Alera, Book 4) stays on the list for the 3rd month in the hardcover category. White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9) is at the #1 spot in the mass market list. Rob Thurman’s Madhouse (Cal Leandros, Book 3) scores at #8.

Locus May Bestsellers

Jay Lake’s Escapement gets starred review in PW

jennifer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:41:59 +0000

This lively and thought-provoking sequel to 2007’s Mainspring expands Lake’s alternate 19th-century world of baroque politics and gothic clockwork. Paolina Barthes is a teenage scientific prodigy born in a small Portuguese fishing village at the base of the massive equatorial gear-wall. Determined to learn from English engineering “wizards” and understand the work of the great gears and wheels that move the universe, Paolina creates a homebrew chronometer, or “gleam,” and sets off toward London. When she discovers the gleam has astonishing magical properties that only she can evoke, she becomes a target of various political and philosophical factions. Her efforts to figure out what the gleam can do while evading capture and persevering on her quest recall Lyra and the alethiometer from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, but Paolina’s sharp engineer’s mind puts a very different spin on her journey. Lake effectively anneals steampunk with geo-mechanical magic in an allegorical matrix of empire building and Victorian natural science. –Publishers Weekly

Escapement will be released in June of this year. The paperback of Mainspring is conveniently coming out tomorrow.

2008 Locus Award Finalists

jennifer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:35:19 +0000

Congratulations to Elizabeth Bear for her story “Tideline” (Asimov’s April/May 2007) - a finalist in the short story category.

Chalcedony wasn’t built for crying. She didn’t have it in her, not unless her tears were cold tapered glass droplets annealed by the inferno heat that had crippled her.

Such tears as that might slide down her skin over melted sensors to plink unfeeling on the sand. And if they had, she would have scooped them up, with all the other battered pretties, and added them to the wealth of trash jewels that swung from the nets reinforcing her battered carapace.

You can see the rest of the finalists here.

Romantic Times Awards

jennifer — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:20:35 +0000

Congratulations to Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette for winning the 2007 Reviewers’ Choice Award in the fantasy category for A Companion to Wolves.

Patricia Rosemoor collected both the Reviewers’ Choice Award for the series intrigue category - for Wolf Moon - as well as a Career Achievement Award for her contribution to romantic adventure.

To top it off, Jim Butcher scored a Career Achievement Award in the contemporary category for his urban fantasy work with the Dresden Files Series. Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1)

See all the winners here.

Starred Review in Library Journal for Jim Butcher’s Small Favor

jennifer — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:15:55 +0000

The disappearance of criminal magnate Gentleman Johnnie Marcone and the suspected involvement of the Sidhe Courts draw professional wizard Harry Dresden into an ever-growing web of supernatural complexity that brings the ongoing war between good and evil to a head—and threatens a rift between Harry and the people he cares about most. The tenth addition to Butcher’s popular “Dresden Files” series (after White Night) hints at higher stakes and more personal repercussions in future volumes. Set in a modern Chicago that includes the presence of supernatural creatures, this tale of urban sword and sorcery features compelling characters and superb storytelling and belongs in most libraries. Highly recommended.

Butcher, Jim. Small Favor. ROC: NAL. Apr. 2008. c.432p. ISBN 978-0-451-46189-6. $23.95. FANTASY

Jim Butcher’s Small Favor #1 on PW Bestsellers

jennifer — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:22:36 +0000

The 10th book in the Dresden Files, Small Favor, is #1 on Publishers Weekly’s Bestseller list this week! Congratulations to Jim!

Amazon.com Widgets

Small Favor celebrates

jennifer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:59:17 +0000

Congratulations to Jim Butcher!

Small Favor, the 10th novel in the Dresden Files, debuts at #2 on the New York Times List and #3 on the USA Today List.

Intricate yet accessible plotting and near-Arctic winter weather mark the 10th Harry Dresden adventure from bestseller Butcher (after 2007’s White Night)… Butcher smoothly manages a sizable cast of allies and adversaries, doles out needed backstory with crisp efficiency and sustains just the right balance of hair’s-breadth tension and comic relief. — Publishers Weekly

more Dresden Files in Japan

jennifer — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:00:43 +0000

Now that there is confirmation that the television show will air in Japan, Jim Butcher’s Japanese publisher Hayakawa has picked up Book 2 and 3.

As per Publishers Marketplace:
Jim Butcher’s Fool Moon and Grave Peril, to Hayakawa, by Mario Tauchi of Owl’s Agency, in association with Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Literary Agency.