Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

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

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.

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.

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.

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