http://jenniferjackson.org conquering the world, one book sale at a time Tue, 06 May 2008 14:19:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/05/06/new-books-from-loreth-anne-white/ 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 ... http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/05/05/new-series-from-laura-anne-gilman/ 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 http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/05/01/locus-bestseller-list-for-may/ 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 ... http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/04/28/jay-lakes-escapement-gets-starred-review-in-pw/ 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 ... http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/04/24/2008-locus-award-finalists/ 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 ... http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/04/22/romantic-times-awards/ 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 ... http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/04/16/starred-review-in-library-journal-for-jim-butchers-small-favor/ 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 http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/04/14/jim-butchers-small-favor-1-on-pw-bestsellers/ 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 ... http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/04/10/small-favor-celebrates/ 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 ... http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2008/04/07/more-dresden-files-in-japan/