For Catherine Asaro we’ve negotiated new 3 book deals for her MAJOR BHAJAAN series with both Baen and Recorded Books.  We’ve sold 19 back list titles of hers to Open Road

Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle’s BLACK BADGE was published in May and quickly rose up the list of top selling new SF.

James Cambias’ next book THE SCARAB MISSION is coming from Baen January 2023.

Ian Douglas completes his SOLAR WARDEN series with Harpercollins when they publish ALIEN AGENDAS in January 2023.  A new 3 book Series will follow.

We’ve sold a two book deal for Kate Robb, a debut rom-com author, to The Dial Press. The first book, THE LOVE CLEANSE will launch Fall 2023. 

Tony Peak’s new series RED SHIRT RUNNERS will be published by Aethon this Fall.

We’ve licensed Sharon Shinn’s next novel QUATREFOIL to Fairwood Press for publication this Fall.

 

John Scalzi’s THE KAIJU PRESERVATION SOCIETY was a NYT Bestseller when it was published in March.  Look for his 3rd Audible Original this Fall with THE DISPATCHER: TRAVEL BY BULLET.  John continues his animation career with an entry in the third season of LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS, the new episode is THREE ROBOTS: EXIT STRATEGIES.

Dennis E. Taylor’s next book standalone is ROAD KILL coming from Audible in August and from us in print in December.  EARTH SIDE the sequel to OUTLAND has been accepted and that will be coming soon as well.

Alison Cochrun’s sophomore novel KISS HER ONCE FOR ME, a queer holiday romance will publish in November from Atria. Her debut THE CHARM OFFENSIVE just sold it’s 9th foreign deal. 

Edward Willett’s THE TANGLED STARS is coming from Daw this October.

THE SCARRED EARTH SERIES continues with publication of the third book by Kensington, THE HERETIC ROYAL in December, Author, G A Aiken.

 

 

Big news for fans of MaryJanice Davidson, a new UNDEAD book is coming as an original from Recorded Books with us doing the print version.  She recently contracted with Amazon publishing for a new work of Contemporary romance.

For new subrights client  MARK HAYDEN,  we’ve negotiated a 3 book deal for German Translation rights for his series THE KING’S WATCH.

The Andre Norton Estate has licensed new titles in France.

Tony Peak’s new series RED SHIRT RUNNERS will be published by Aethon this Fall.

We’ve sold an additional title for Amanda Ashley in Italy.

Ward Carroll is seeing great success with the Audio editions of his classic trilogy PUNK’S WAR from Blackstone.  His youtube channel is a breakout hit.

Tantor will be publishing 3 of Stefan Mani’s GRIMSSON series.  

We’ve licensed a half dozen of Jason Manning’s Westerns for Large Print to Thorndike.

Judy Smith’s DIFFICULT is already in its third printing with feature news articles in both the New York Times and the Wall St. Journal.

We have great expectations for Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann when their new book POLAR BEAR is published this November.  It’s a gorgeous follow up to HONEYBEE which has already sold 50,000 copies.

We’ve made new sales for M D Whalen in Spain and Portugal, in Germany for Helen Harper, and many more…

Dennis E. Taylor has signed a new four book Agreement with Audible.  Two of the new books will be set in the ‘Bobiverse’ universe and two will be originals.  ROAD KILL his new original will be coming from Audible in August 2022 and we are very excited about this contemporary first contact book.  EELA (us) will be publishing the book in ebook and POD.

We have licensed audio rights to Ward Carroll’s ‘Punk Trilogy’ to Blackstone.  Naval Institute Press has re-published all 3 of the books in Trade Paperback.  Ward’s YouTube channel has more than 160,000 subscribers from a standing start early this year.

Tony Peak will continue his SF career by publishing his next trilogy with Aethon.

EELA (us) will publish a great near future SF novel by Peter Ward, THE ELECTRIC DETECTIVE

The world loves G. A. Aiken’s magical fantasy romance and so does Amazon, BREAKING BADGER was named a best romance novel for August.

We are  licensing Large Print rights to Thorndike and have now licensed 6 Classic Westerns by Jason Manning.

John Domagalski’s next work of Naval History is coming from Pen and Sword June 2022, so look for ESCAPE FROM JAVA if you are a fan of WW II naval history.

We’re very proud to announce the early praise gathered by Judith R. Smith’s DIFFICULT: Mothering Adult Children Through Conflict and Change (Rowman and Littlefield February 2, 2022).  Here’s what Mary Pipher has to say:

“This fine book will be profoundly helpful to all the women who needed it yesterday. At last, we have a book on the subject of difficult children that is profoundly sympathetic with and empathic toward mothers. It is excellent cultural therapy.”  — Mary Pipher, Author Reviving Ophelia and Women Rowing North

Alison Cochrun’s THE CHARM OFFENSIVE published in September with rave reviews from Kirkus, Library Journal and a fantastic shout out in the New York Times quarterly Romance column. It’s gotten multiple foreign sales (rights with Atria) and continues to find readers. Her second novel KISS HER ONCE FOR ME will publish in Fall 2022 from Atria.

Selene Castrovilla continues her streak of NF picture books with Calkins Creek/Astra with a new book coming in Spring 2023 about George Washington. Don’t miss SEEKING FREEDOM in January 2022!

 

We’ve secured US Distribution deal for the JD KIRK mystery series with Ingram

 

Perhaps our busiest area has been translation sales and here is just a sample:

G.A. Aiken-new sales in Germany

Madeline Baker–new sales in Italy

MaryJanice Davidson–the entire UNDEAD series has been renewed in Germany

Kerry Harper has new sales in Germany and Israel

Barry Hutchison writing as J D Kirk rounds out the year with sales in Russia, Lithuania and Estonia

Bill Keith writing as Ian Douglas has new sales in Poland and Hungary

Marko Kloos has new sales in Poland and Hungary as well

New client Stefan Mani has sold ABYSS in Germany

Andre Norton continues to find new buyers with sales in Poland, Spain and Russia

Riptide Publishing has new sales in France, Germany and Thailand

Eric Rohmann had two strong renewals this year, BONE DOG in China and MY FRIEND RABBIT in Spanish.

It’s hard to keep up with John Scalzi.  We have new sales in 14 territories, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine.

The Bertrice Small Estate also had a strong year with sales in Norway, Russia and Ukraine.

Dennis E. Taylor is also proving an international success with new sales in Japan, Germany, Poland, Russia and Turkey.  Sales of the Bobiverse books in Germany are particularly strong.

Sasha Black has secured offers for 4 of her superb writing books in Korea from Will Books.  The titles are:

 

THE ANATOMY OF PROSE

13 STEPS TO EVIL

10 STEPS TO HERO

8 STEPS TO SIDE CHARACTERS

 

Once again we can’t proceed without acknowledging the pandemic and the heavy losses we have all experienced. Our condolences go out to the bereaved and our hope for recovery for everyone who is ill.

 

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

We’ve licensed a second to Baen in Jim Cambias’s The Billion Worlds Universe. This is titled THE SCARAB MISSION

We’ve made some significant sales for the multi-genre talent Barry Hutchison. We’ve licensed audio rights to a three-book spin-off from his DCI LOGAN series to Audible. We’ve sold Czech rights to the first DCI LOGAN series, written as JD Kirk. We’ve also licensed dramatic audio to his Space Team series, written as Barry Hutchinson, to Graphic Audio.

Nice news for Ian Douglas: Audible will include Altered Starscape Unabridged in their February DA Deals.

Sony Television has renewed its option on Melissa F. Olson’s series DEAD SPOTS.

Tony Peak’s new trilogy launches with Aethon and Audible; look for Eden Descending on February 16. The second in the series, Eden’s Tears follows closely on March 16.

We’ll be publishing a collection of Sharon Shinn’s short fiction, titled SHADOWS OF THE PAST. A second collection will follow. Our efforts to revert and re-publish and originate new work has been a big part of our current work.

HEAVEN’S RIVER, the 4th book in Dennis E. Taylor’s Bobiverse series, has been a tremendous success in audio, with numerous bestseller list appearances. Our POD/ebook edition will be published January 24.

 

ROMANCE

G.A. Aiken’s THE PRINCESS KNIGHT appeared in November and hit #120 on USA TODAY.

Look for MaryJanice Davidson’s new book, A WOLF AFTER MY OWN HEART, from Sourcebooks on February 21.

The Bertrice Small Estate continues to delight readers. We’ve licensed ten more titles to Tantor for audiobook. We have offers from Italy and Russia for translation.

 

FICTION

Brian Michelson’s WARBOT 1.0: AI GOES TO WAR has been picked up by Mentor Publications. We’re excited to see this great book distributed by them.

 

NON-FICTION

Charles W. Sasser’s PATTON’S PANTHERS has been optioned for film.

 

CHILDREN’S

 

HONEYBEE: THE BUSY LIFE OF APIS MELLIFERA by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann has won numerous awards and we’ve licensed Korean rights.

We’ve licensed another title to Scholastic for Candy, Codebreakers of Bletchley Park.

Shaftesbury has renewed its television option for Marthe Jocelyn’s AGGIE MORTON series.

We’ve published our first activity book, WIZARD WORLD: THE MAGICAL BOOK OF ILLUSTRATED MAZES by author/illustrator Michelle Nunley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2020 NEWS

We hope all are well and coping with the pandemic. We’re grateful to everyone on the front lines who perform the needed work to sustain our society. Our work continues, so here are some updates:

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

Jim Cambias has delivered THE GODEL OPERATION: A STORY OF THE BILLIONS WORLDS to Baen.

We’ve sold a new book by Ed Willett to Daw, THE TANGLED STARS.

Ian Douglas will wrap his Carrier series with STAR GODS in December. The movie option on his Heritage Series was just renewed.

On behalf of Gail Martin we signed 19 new properties with Tantor for Audio rights

We’ve concluded a 9 book deal for Audio rights to a number of titles from Andre Norton Estate with Podium.

We’ve licensed audio rights to Melissa F Olson’s BORN MAGIC to Brilliance.

For Tony Peak we’ve licensed a new 3 book series, the ebook/print rights to Aethon and the Audio rights to Audible. The Series is EDEN DESCENDING.

On behalf of John Scalzi we’ve licensed a third book in his DISPATCHER series to Audible and the second Dispatcher novella, MURDER BY OTHER MEANS is just out.

We’ve licensed two short stories by Dennis E. Taylor to Audible, A CHANGE OF PLANS and FEEDBACK.

We’ve licensed another Yahtzee Croshaw title to Audible, via agent Evan Gregory.

ROMANCE

THE CHARM OFFENSIVE leads the pack, by Alison Cochrane, via our agent Bibi Lewis, in a very good deal to Atria. This is a first novel by Ms. Cochrane.

On behalf of the G. A. Aiken we’ve licensed two additional books in the SCARRED EARTH series.

Our ASP program has published A CONTEMPORARY ASSHEART AT THE COURT OF KING HENRY VIII.

A WOLF AFTER MY OWN HEART (BeWere My Heart #2) is coming this February from Sourcebooks.

Mandy Baker’s ENCHANT THE NIGHT is just out from Kensington and she has 2 more books under contract.

On behalf of the BERTRICE SMALL ESTATE we’ve licensed 19 books to Tantor.

OTHER FICTION

CUTTER’S REACH is just out from Jason Manning who continues his long running career in Westerns and Historical Fiction.

We are very proud to publish WARBOT by Brian Michelson (Col. US Army Ret.) a chilling, accurate portrait of war 2033.

NON FICTION

We continue our work in military history and have sold ESCAPE FROM JAVA to Pen and Sword on behalf of John Domagalski and THE FREEDOM SHIELD by John Falcon to Casemate

CHILDREN’S

For Candy Fleming and Eric Rohmann we’ve licensed POLAR BEAR to Holiday House.

On behalf of Marthe Jocelyn we’ve licensed two more AGGIE MILLER books to Penguin Canada.

For Larry Feign we’ve licensed 3 books to Tantor in his Fabulous Flatulent Fart Brothers series by agent Ezra Ellenberg.