Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

via Publishers Marketplace

Rob Thurman’s fifth, sixth and seventh books in the series featuring Cal Leandros and beginning with Nightlife, to Anne Sowards at Roc, by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

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Other books in the series include:
Book 2: Moonshine
Book 3: Madhouse
Book 4: (currently untitled and due out in 2009)

Congratulations to Chris Holm for his short story “Seven Days of Rain” (Demolition, Fall 2007) that just won the 2007 Spinetingler Award for Best Short Story on the Web.

Also, now available: his story A Simple Kindness.

Elizabeth Bear seems to have done quite well in 2007:

• In the Best SF Novel category: Undertow (Bantam Science Fiction)
• In the Best Fantasy Novel category: Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age
• In the collections category: New Amsterdam
• In novelettes for: “Cryptic Coloration” (Baen’s Universe 6/07)
• In short stories for: “Orm the Beautiful” (Clarkesworld 1/07) and “Tideline” (Asimov’s 4-5/07)

Jay Lake gets props for:

• In the Best SF Novel category: Mainspring
• In novelettes: “Crossing the Seven” (Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories)
• In short stories: “C-Rock City”co-written with Greg Van Eekhout (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 2007)

Also, Ekaterina Sedia in:

• the Best Fantasy Novel category: The Secret History of Moscow

Audacious (Kris Longknife) is the fifth book in this military science fiction series. Tired of being the target of assassins, naval officer Kris Longknife takes leave for some well-earned and well-deserved rest and relaxation on the world of New Eden. But her military status requires her to be on hand at societal functions–where she discovers that New Eden isn’t the paradise her superiors were led to believe….

Praise for the Kris Longknife novels from Elizabeth Moon, Nebula-Award winning author: “A whopping good read…Fast-paced, exciting, nicely detailed. “

Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, with a degree of apparent effortlessness that is astonishing, have pulled off not one but several very difficult things in A Companion to Wolves.

The first, and by no means the least, is the sometimes vexed collaboration issue. I have read co-authored books in which I could have chopped out and parceled into neat little piles the bits that belonged to the various authors because the voices simply never gelled enough to produce perfect seamlessness. Here, it just doesn’t even matter. It flows. The two authors work as one; it’s not so much cooperation as a symbiosis. A job very well done.

The second is the worldbuilding….The storyline is gripping… the writing is exquisite, and the book is destined to be a classic of its kind.

Read the whole review.