Feb 22
2008

congratulations to Jim Butcher!

White Night – #9 in the Dresden Files series – hits the New York Times Bestseller List at #14 in mass market reprint!

“Butcher puts the characters in a lot of danger, creates appalling moral choices for them, and spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally charged setting. The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.” (Booklist, starred review)

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Book 1: Storm Front
Book 2: Fool Moon
Book 3: Grave Peril
Book 4: Summer Knight
Book 5: Death Masks
Book 6: Blood Rites
Book 7: Dead Beat
Book 8: Proven Guilty

And coming soon…. Book 10: Small Favor

Feb 20
2008

Czech translation for Ekaterina Sedia

via Publishers Marketplace:

Czech rights to Ekaterina Sedia’s The Secret History of Moscow, to Stanislav Juhanak at TRITON, by Milena Lukic of Prava I Prevodi, in association with Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, on behalf of Prime Books.

Feb 19
2008

Publishers Weekly review for new Dresden Files book

Small Favor by Jim Butcher

Intricate yet accessible plotting and near-Arctic winter weather mark the 10th Harry Dresden adventure from bestseller Butcher (after 2007’s White Night). A friendly snowball fight opens the Chicago-based wizard-detective’s latest tale, but it’s not long before a host of more dangerous foes are out for Harry’s blood. A missing human mobster is said to be seeking greater influence among Chicago’s extranormal population, but the true threat proves both more subtle and of much greater consequence. Butcher smoothly manages a sizable cast of allies and adversaries, doles out needed backstory with crisp efficiency and sustains just the right balance of hair’s-breadth tension and comic relief. Encounters with a series of increasingly dangerous “Billy Goats Gruff” unfold with particular cleverness, and key developments involving Sgt. Karrin Murphy, Harry’s reluctant police liaison, will intrigue seasoned fans as well as newcomers attracted by last year’s TV adaptation of the series. (The Dresden Files – The Complete First Season)

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The mass market release of the previous book – White Night – also hits #14 on the PW Bestseller list this week!

Feb 18
2008

new science fiction trilogy sale

via Publishers Marketplace:

Kameron Hurley’s GOD’S WAR, on a far-distant colony, a centuries-old holy war rages, and it may take a godless woman to end it, to Juliet Ulman at Bantam Dell, for publication in Fall 2009, by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

Feb 13
2008

new books in the Kris Longknife series

From Publishers Marketplace:

Mike Shepherd’s Kris Longknife #7, the next book in the military science fiction series, plus books eight and nine, to Ginjer Buchanan at Penguin, by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

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Book 1: Mutineer (Kris Longknife)
Book 2: Deserter (Kris Longknife)
Book 3: Defiant (Kris Longknife)
Book 4: Resolute (Kris Longknife)
Book 5: Audacious (Kris Longknife)
Book 6: Intrepid (Kris Longknife) – forthcoming in November 2008

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