Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

Elizabeth Bear seems to have done quite well in 2007:

• In the Best SF Novel category: Undertow (Bantam Science Fiction)
• In the Best Fantasy Novel category: Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age
• In the collections category: New Amsterdam
• In novelettes for: “Cryptic Coloration” (Baen’s Universe 6/07)
• In short stories for: “Orm the Beautiful” (Clarkesworld 1/07) and “Tideline” (Asimov’s 4-5/07)

Jay Lake gets props for:

• In the Best SF Novel category: Mainspring
• In novelettes: “Crossing the Seven” (Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories)
• In short stories: “C-Rock City”co-written with Greg Van Eekhout (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 2007)

Also, Ekaterina Sedia in:

• the Best Fantasy Novel category: The Secret History of Moscow

Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, with a degree of apparent effortlessness that is astonishing, have pulled off not one but several very difficult things in A Companion to Wolves.

The first, and by no means the least, is the sometimes vexed collaboration issue. I have read co-authored books in which I could have chopped out and parceled into neat little piles the bits that belonged to the various authors because the voices simply never gelled enough to produce perfect seamlessness. Here, it just doesn’t even matter. It flows. The two authors work as one; it’s not so much cooperation as a symbiosis. A job very well done.

The second is the worldbuilding….The storyline is gripping… the writing is exquisite, and the book is destined to be a classic of its kind.

Read the whole review.

The American Library Association’s first Reading List Awards (winners as DOC link) for genre fiction includes the following finalists:

• White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9) (via Kindle) by Jim Butcher (ROC/Penguin, 2007)
• A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (Tor, 2007)

From Publishers Marketplace

Elizabeth Bear’s Dust, the first in a new science fiction trilogy, plus Carnival and Undertow, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency

Buy Dust today.

Full list of nominees here.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Bear and step-client Sarah Monette for A Companion to Wolves in the SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR category.