Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

Carousel Tides by Sharon Lee

A tourist town in Maine hosts a war of faerie magic in this engaging urban fantasy. The fireworks begin when Kate Archer returns to Archers Beach, Maine, to search for her vanished grandmother, Bonny Pepperidge, and to assume Bonny’s role as Guardian of Fun Country, an amusement park whose carousel animals are actually exiled fae criminals. Almost immediately, Kate runs afoul of neighbor Joe Nemeier, a drug smuggler who sets his assassins after her. Then she learns from the local earth spirits that Bonny may have discovered the whereabouts of Kate’s mom, newly escaped form a pursuing demonic captor. Lee brings these disparate subplots together in a pyrotechnic finale that plays out magically behind the ordinary facade of smalltown Maine life, evoking much of the romance and magic of her popular Liaden series. — Publishers Weekly

Saltation

Blazing into their 12th Liaden novel, Lee and Miller prove they can still deliver elegant variations on the theme in this coming-of-age story, a sequel to 2009′s Fledgling. Theo Waitley, half-Terran daughter of a Liaden pilot, escapes her stifling homeworld to attend pilot school, where her fierce attitude and extraordinary competence earn her enemies and friends. When her boyfriend’s keepsake makes them both a target for galactic-level bad guys, Theo must head to Liad to ask for help from the leader of her father’s clan. The story will not disappoint longtime Lee and Miller fans, but readers don’t need to know the series to understand or care about the characters, who will also appeal to fans of Elizabeth Moon’s Kylara Vatta and other strong young adult heroines. –Publishers Weekly

As reported on Publishers Marketplace:

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s untitled sequel to Scout’s Progress set in the authors’ Liaden Universe series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books, by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.