Bestseller Bishop fills out her popular Black Jewels dark fantasy universe (Daughter of the Blood, etc.) with this entertaining novella collection. Daemon Sadi, a black-jeweled Warlord Prince, deals with friends, family, and holiday celebrations in “Winsol Gifts,” while his brother, Lucivar Yaslana, has to thwart a traitor and his deadly trap in the richly entertaining “Shades of Honor.” A mother and her sons are threatened by a dangerous, twisted enemy in “Family,” while Daemon becomes a father and finds a new lease on life and love in “The High Lord’s Daughter.” Fans of the series will enjoy revisiting some favorite characters and mourn the loss of others; new readers may be initially confused by the myriad names and titles, but Bishop’s accessible writing style and interesting world-building will soon draw them into her web. –Publishers Weekly

A sequel to last year’s The Shadow Queen, this book shares many of the same themes of trauma, survival and the importance of doing what is right. Bishop handles these difficult subjects with a good deal of grace and sensitivity and, as always, with compelling characterization. Cassidy’s struggle to believe in herself is particularly resonant, and Gray’s mastery of his inner demons is triumphant. –Romantic Times, 4 1/2 Stars

Summary: Theran Grayhaven, the darkest jeweled warlord prince in the kingdom of Dena Nehele, makes a final desperate bid to restore the kingdom to its former glory by traveling to the Shadow Realm to find a queen. Cassidy, a queen without a kingdom, knows that she isn’t beautiful and believes that she isn’t strong — and she’s not sure that she can convince the bitter, angry men of Dena Nehele to serve as they must. However, there is something about Cassidy that makes Theron’s damaged cousin, Gray, want to serve and makes him believe that he can be a man, not just a shattered shell of the boy who was tortured by the cruel and tainted queens who destroyed Dena Nehele.

Bishop’s capable seventh Black Jewels fantasy soap opera installment (after 2008′s Tangled Webs) surges with spellcraft and engaging romance. The former queen of Bhak is now just plain Lady Cassidy from Dharo, since her entire court resigned to go serve prettier, better-connected Lady Kermilla. Warlord Prince Theran Grayhaven seeks a partner to help him restore his family’s land after a violent uprising. With the help of the High Prince of Hell, he finds Cassidy, whose friends encourage her to accept his proposal and return to being a queen. All seems well until the pair run into compatibility problems, and Cassidy meets a mysterious gardener who calls to her heart. Bishop’s epic has a complex history and will best be appreciated by readers familiar with earlier books. –Publishers Weekly

As reported to Publishers Marketplace:

Portuguese rights to Anne Bishop’s Tangled Webs, Sebastian (Ephemera, Book 1), Belladonna (Ephemera, Book 2), The Pillars of the World, Shadows and Light, The House of Gaian, to Antonio Pacheco at Saida de Emergencia, by International Editors Co. in association with Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

Jim Butcher leads the mass market list with White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9) at #1.

Rob Thurman’s Madhouse (Cal Leandros, Book 3) makes a showing in mass market at #6.

Anne Bishop’s untitled sequel to the forthcoming Shadow Queen, in the same setting as the author’s Black Jewels trilogy, plus an untitled collection of Black Jewels stories and a fantasy novel, to Anne Sowards at Roc, in a good deal, for publication in March 2010, by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

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The Shadow Queen will be released in March 2009, and will be about the descendants of the characters in The Invisible Ring.

Currently available: Tangled Webs.

Anne Bishop’s latest book in the Black Jewels world, Tangled Webs, makes a showing on the USA Today List and also places on the New York Times List!

“In Bishop’s bewitching latest Black Jewels adventure, a tour of an old house becomes a hellish matter of life and death…. With feverish pacing and terrifying twists, Bishop’s surefire spell craft will leave readers’ hearts pounding.” –Publishers Weekly

They will also release the original trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness, along with the Dreams Made Flesh collection and The Invisible Ring. Also, the Tir Alainn books: The Pillars of the World, Shadows and Light, The House of Gaian and the Ephemera duology: Sebastian and Belladonna (available in paperback March 4th).