Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

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!

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:

French rights to Jim Butcher’s DEATH MASKS, to Stephane Marsan at Bragelonne, by Vincent Vichit-Vadakan at VVV, in association with Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

Audio rights: Jim Butcher’s FURIES OF CALDERON, the first book in the Codex Alera series, to Susan Allison at Penguin Putnam, in a five-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

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Also, check out Subterranean Press for Backup, a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher’s ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry’s in trouble he knows nothing about, and it’s up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing. According to the publisher’s website: “Fewer than 24 hours after the limited edition was announced, it is well over half sold out.“

Congratulations to the finalists for the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award 2007:

• In the urban fantasy category: Jim Butcher
• In the series romantic suspense category: Patricia Rosemoor

And for the Romantic Times Awards 2007:

In the fantasy and science fiction categories:

• Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, A Companion to Wolves
• Jim Butcher, White Night
• Elizabeth Bear, Whiskey and Water

In the romance series categories:

• Patricia Rosemoor, Wolf Moon

Also, to Shannon Butcher (talented wife of Jim Butcher) for her debut novel making the list in the romantic suspense category!