Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

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.

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.

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.