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	<title>Jennifer Jackson - Literary Agent</title>
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		<title>PW Starred Review for new Ken Scholes book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Antiphon by Ken Scholes
The third installment of Scholes&#8217;s grand-scale Psalms of Isaak saga (after 2009&#8217;s Canticle) expands the genre-blending narrative in glorious style. The secret revival of the bloody Y&#8217;Zirite religion, which may be an elaborate conspiracy created generations ago to bring down the Androfrancine Order, has brought madness to the Named Lands. Gypsy King [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/08/31/pw-starred-review-for-new-ken-scholes-book/</link>
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		<title>World Fantasy Award nominations announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ballot for works in 2009 has been announced. The awards will be presented in Columbus OH, October 28-31, 2010. Congratulations to client Genevieve Valentine for &#8220;Light on the Water&#8221; (Fantasy Magazine 10/09) in the short story category! 
49 loved the hotel across the river, and that spring, when fog covered her, he knew he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/08/26/world-fantasy-award-nominations-announced/</link>
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		<title>new Jay Lake collection reviewed by Booklist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sky That Wraps by Jay Lake
Lake writes extraordinary short stories, with note-perfect world building as strong as that in his novels. This collection, which focuses on more recent work, opens with “The Sky That Wraps the World Around, Past the Blue and into the Black,” in which the narrator paints ancient shards end-of-the-universe blue. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/08/17/new-jay-lake-collection-reviewed-by-booklist/</link>
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		<title>RT gives Kowal debut 4 1/2 Stars</title>
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Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
If Jane Austen had written a fantasy novel, Shades of Milk and Honey would have been the result. Written with painstaking attention to detail, Kowal’s prose is serenely evocative of the time period, and the fantastic elements are a seamless fit. The characterization is extremely well done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/08/03/rt-gives-kowal-debut-4-12-stars/</link>
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		<title>PW review for new Jay Lake collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sky That Wraps by Jay Lake
Lake&#8217;s sixth collection offers 25 tales written since 2007&#8217;s The River Knows Its Own. The collection is bookended by popular favorites: the haunting &#8220;The American Dead&#8221; and &#8220;The Sky That Wraps the World Round, past the Blue and into the Black,&#8221; a moody meditation on mistakes and the end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/07/28/pw-review-for-new-jay-lake-collection/</link>
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		<title>Library Journal reviews Kowal debut novel</title>
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Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Readers will be disappointed only when they finish this enchanting story, which is suffused with genteel charm. The author&#8217;s judicious and effective changes to aspects of daily life clearly communicate how similar but different this world is from ours. With the grace of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/07/20/library-journal-reviews-kowal-debut-novel/</link>
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		<title>Christmas in July &#8211; Booklist review of new Bethancourt mystery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Spider on the Stairs by Cassandra Chan
Christmas in Yorkshire is a nasty combination of pouring rain and murder. 
Amateur sleuth Phillip Bethancourt, who’s just broken up with his girlfriend Marla, is spending Christmas at his family manor house. His pal, Scotland Yard Detective Jack Gibbons, who’s just returned to duty after sick leave, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/07/06/christmas-in-july-booklist-review-of-new-bethancourt-mystery/</link>
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		<title>Starred Review in PW for Sedia&#8217;s anthology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running with the Pack, edited by Ekaterina Sedia
Sedia (Paper Cities) collects 22 tales that look at werewolves from a multitude of different angles. Steve Duffy&#8217;s chilling dental thriller &#8220;Side-Effects May Include&#8221; examines how far a man will go to end his pain. A damaged alpha gains the trust of a homeless woman in Maria V. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/06/15/starred-review-in-pw-for-sedias-anthology/</link>
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		<title>PW review for new Clockwork Century novella</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clementine by Cherie Priest
Piracy meets politics head-on in this steampunk thriller, loosely linked to Priest&#8217;s much-lauded Boneshaker (2009). Maria Isabella Boyd, a notorious former actress and Confederate spy, is on her first mission for the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. The airship Clementine must deliver its cargo unimpeded, but its former owner, escaped slave­-turned­-air pirate Croggon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/05/18/pw-review-for-new-clockwork-century-novella/</link>
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		<title>RT review of new series by Laura Anne Gilman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard Magic by Laura Anne Gilman
This is a strong start to a new series. Bonnie is an interesting narrator &#8212; more naïve than some of Gilman&#8217;s other protagonists, but just as capable and intelligent. The supporting cast is also fascinating. The plot is engaging and compelling, but remains a smidge unresolved, perhaps purposefully. Fans of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenniferjackson.org/index.php/2010/05/11/rt-review-of-new-series-by-laura-anne-gilman/</link>
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