Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson and The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher are both on Amazon’s Best Books of 2015: Science Fiction & Fantasy list!

The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher and Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop are both Semi-finalists in the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fantasy 2015!

The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher remains on the New York Times hardcover bestsellers list for a second week, this time at #16, and is on USA Today‘s bestseller list again, also at #16!

The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher debuts at #5 on the October 18th New York Times hardcover list, #7 on the ebook list, and #6 on the print & ebook combined list!

It also debuts at #7 on USA Today‘s bestseller list!

The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher

“Jim Butcher long ago proved that he had what it takes to write long, complex, but wildly readable series. The Aeronaut’s Windlass is the start of a new one of wider scope and more detail, and reads like more of an adventure than a lot of the stories classed with it in the category of Steampunk. It is also a new and interesting spin on the genre that takes all the trappings of Steampunk–­goggles, copper as the metal of choice, airships–­and has them make sense in a new context, so they are not just props and settings like they are in a lot of Steampunk tales, but vital to the story. And he doesn’t stop there. What Butcher has done, essentially, is take the visual trappings of Steampunk and make a whole other world that is rather Victorian, but not bound to actual Earth history. It makes sense in ways that a strict reliance on history and science wouldn’t allow, opening up all kinds of new story options that Aeronaut’s Windlass doesn’t hesitate to run with. The story is about the start of a war based on complicated social and trade alliances and grudges, and is handled in such a way that those potentially dry facts are never a drag on the momentum or the clarity of the text. Aeronaut’s Windlass is a complete story, with a clear end, and yet it also effectively sets up for so much more action, adventure, and worldbuilding. It’s exciting to think what future books could bring.” — New York Journal of Books