Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

SKIN GAME, the newest book in Jim Butcher’s bestselling Dresden Files series, is on the New York Times hardcover list for a fourth consecutive week, this time at #13!

SKIN GAME is also #83 on the USA Today Bestseller list!

With Maplecroft, Cherie Priest delivers her most terrifying vision yet ­a genuinely scary, deliciously claustrophobic, and dreadfully captivating historical thriller with both heart and cosmic horror. A mesmerizing, absolute must-read! — Brian Keene, bestselling author of The Rising and Ghoul

Cherie Priest is supremely gifted and Maplecroft is a remarkable novel, simultaneously beautiful and grotesque. It is at once a dark historical fantasy with roots buried deep in real-life horror and a supernatural thriller mixing Victorian drama and Lovecraftian myth. You won’t be able to put it down! — Christopher Golden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Snowblind

SKIN GAME, the latest book in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, is on the New York Times hardcover bestsellers list for a third consecutive week, this time at #8!

Jim Butcher’s SKIN GAME is on the New York Times hardcover bestsellers list for a second week, this time at #2!

Valour and Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal

When it comes to writing historical fantasy that is at once absorbing, exciting and incredibly moving, Kowal is in a class by herself. Just as Kowal’s previous book, Without a Summer, blended elements of fantasy with a very real depiction of class struggle, Valour and Vanity balances the adventure of a heist with a poignant portrayal of sudden poverty. Kowal’s skill for writing characters who have fantastic abilities and yet remain deeply human, as susceptible to their own insecurities as anyone you or I know, is just part of what makes her one of the best talents in fantasy.

Married glamourists Jane and Vincent set sail for the Italian port of Murano to study with glassblowers and perfect their “glamour in glass” technique, before meeting up with rakish poet Lord Byron. But before their trip can even begin, their ship is assailed by Barbary corsairs. The small band of travelers is forced to pay heavy ransoms to secure freedom.

Now penniless in a strange city, and with Lord Byron distracted by a romantic intrigue, Jane and Vincent are sans resources. A kind gentleman from their ship offers to help them in Murano, welcomes them to his estate and even finds a glassblower to aid them. But no sooner do Jane and Vincent begin their work, than they discover their benefactor is a fraud and a thief. The Vincents come up with a plan to recover what was stolen from them — a heist. — RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 stars