Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection by Jay Lake

This posthumously published collection of Lake’s short stories, spanning decades, was planned and put together by Lake himself. At first I was worried that I’d be unable to disconnect the emotion of Lake’s personal story with the impartiality required of reviewing, but Lake’s fantastic writing and worldbuilding made that worry irrelevant. This collection is well worth the time and investment; even the weakest story stands out. Readers will find themselves justifying the read of one more story before bed and discover they are awake well into the wee hours of the night. None of the stories are less than well-written and Lake’s voice is strongest in the stories where he ties in military roughness with his impressive imagination. — RT Book Reviews, 4 stars

Maplecroft by Cherie Priest

Priest takes the epistolary format H.P. Lovecraft was fond of and uses it to far better effect, both in terms of characterization and horror. Her protagonists (Lizzie, her sister, her lover Nance O’Neil and the friendly Dr. Seabury) are extremely well drawn even as the nerve and mind-shredding events of 1895 drive them apart. Priest skillfully makes the menace around them specific and concrete while also remaining shadowy and unknowable, achieving maximum impact. Putting real historical characters in genre settings is an idea that’s seemed tired for a while, but this novel shows how compelling it can still be in the right hands. — RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 stars

Kirkus has chosen Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches, Book 1 by Cherie Priest as one of it’s Top Picks for Speculative Fiction Reads in September!

“Part alternate history, part horror, Maplecroft is sure to be one of the season’s creepiest reads.” – Kirkus

Mary Robinette Kowal’s novelette, “The Lady Astronaut of Mars,” has won the 2014 Best Novelette Hugo Award!

Congratulations, Mary!

Maplecroft Will Be the Best Damn Cthulhu Novel You’ve Read in Ages

Lizzie Borden’s infamous murders took place just a couple of decades before H.P. Lovecraft first dreamed up the horrors of his greatest invention, the cosmic ocean monster-god Cthulhu. Cherie Priest has taken this historical confluence and turned it into a wild, awesome page-turner called Maplecroft.