Jennifer Jackson - Literary Agent

Publishers Weekly on Princeps’ Fury (Codex Alera, Book 5)

The rousing fifth installment of Butcher’s military fantasy cycle (after 2007’s CAPTAIN’S FURY) finds the land of Alera recovering from Lord Kalarus’s rebellion, an invasion by the wolven Canim and a bloody slave revolt. Now a new threat emerges: the all-devouring insectoid Vord, who have learned to control the elemental furies that once protected Alera. Young Tavi of Calderon, recently recognized as the heir to Alera’s throne, fights seasickness and interspecies hostilities escorting the Canim invaders back to their homeland, only to negotiate a fragile alliance with them against the Vord. No less powerful than his intense battle scenes, Butcher’s vivid characterizations, based on ancient Roman Republican ideals, range from duty-honor-country austerity in battle to brilliant peacemaking, noble self-sacrifice, and Tavi’s coming-of-age as a wise Marcus Aurelian ruler. –Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Codex Alera series:
Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, Book 1)
Academ’s Fury (Codex Alera, Book 2)
Cursor’s Fury (Codex Alera, Book 3)
Captain’s Fury (Codex Alera, Book 4)
Princeps’ Fury (Codex Alera, Book 5)

As reported on Publishers Marketplace:

Foreign Rights: Fiction
Serbian rights to Jim Butcher’s Storm Front and Fool Moon, to Media II, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

“The many fans of Butcher’s Chicago-based Dresden Files series (most recently Small Favor) will enjoy this spin-off novella featuring Thomas Raith, Harry Dresden’s incubus half-brother. After reluctantly attending a rendezvous arranged by his untrustworthy older sister, Lara, Raith learns that Dresden is being set up by the evil Stygian Sisterhood, but he can’t go directly to Dresden’s aid without revealing his part in the secret Oblivion War. Raith’s resulting plan has something of a slapstick air, and the high cosmic stakes are generally played for laughs. Given Dresden’s limited appearance and the significant backstory underlying the series, this is an unlikely entry point for newcomers, but Butcher clearly demonstrates that Raith, usually seen more as Dresden’s sidekick, is more than capable of sustaining a story on his own.” - Publishers Weekly

The lettered and limited editions are sold out. Buy the trade edition of Backup (forthcoming October 31st, 2008).

Jim Butcher is at #2 on the hardcover list with Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10). His second month on the list!

C.E. Murphy’s The Queen’s Bastard (The Inheritors’ Cycle, Book 1) is at #1 on the trade list.

And Jay Lake ties for the #9 spot on the mass market list with the paperback edition of Mainspring.

Congratulations to everyone!

One of the fine supporting cast of the dark-fantasy mystery series the Dresden Files here gets his moment
in the spotlight. When his sister Lara, ruler of the White Court clan, proposes a job for Thomas Raith,
series star Harry Dresden’s vampire half-brother, he can’t refuse because the messenger is Thomas’ former
victim and true love, Justine, and the villain involved is a new client of Harry’s. Thomas has to work
without Harry noticing him, which is difficult, given how sensitive Harry’s gotten. Practiced rogue
Thomas manages somehow in this satisfying novella.

Pre-Order Backup, available October 31, 2008