Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

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

Congratulations to Elizabeth Bear on winning a Theodore Sturgeon Award, honoring the best short fiction published in the US, for her short story “Tideline” (originally published in Asimov’s, June 2007).

“The second book in Adina’s series, set in a posh San Francisco boarding school, allows readers to get to know the characters better. The plot is appropriate for its intended audience and never gets too preachy. Gillian’s first-person point of view keeps the storyline from being too much like the first book, It’s All About Us, and the mystery will pique the reader’s interest.”

Summary: Gillian Chang must work twice as hard in school to please her over-achieving Asian family. She balances aptitude in her classes with her love for God and her friends. She’s very attracted to fellow student Lucas Hayes and is thrilled when they begin a relationship. Things aren’t as they seem on the surface, though — can Gillian’s friends convince her that something isn’t right?

Buy Book 1:
It’s All About Us

Pre-Order Book 2 (coming on August 11th from FaithWords):
The Fruit of My Lipstick

Congratulations to….

….Jim Butcher with Small Favor at the #1 hardcover spot! And also the paperback of White Night, on the list for its third month, this time at #3, accompanied by Storm Front at #5.

The Alchemy Of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia

“Sedia’s evocative third novel, a steampunk fable about the price of industrial development, follows Mattie, an emancipated automaton, as her home city is rent by conflict between alchemists and the mechanics whose clanking, steaming inventions are changing society. Though created by a leader of the mechanics, Mattie chose to join the alchemists, but her creator still holds the key that winds her up. When a terrorist bombing and an assassination touch off all-out war between the two factions, she discovers the ugly secrets and exploitation that keep the city supplied with food and coal. Sedia’s exquisitely bleak vision deliberately skewers familiar ideas from know-it-all computers to talking statues desperate for souls, leaving readers to reach their own conclusions about the proper balance of tradition and progress and what it means to be alive.”

–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review