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.

John Scalzi concludes the INTERDEPENDENCY series with THE LAST EMPEROX, out in April from Tor.

We’re thrilled to have sold a Young Adult biography of JANE JACOBS by debut author Rebecca Pitts to Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square. Look out for that great title in Spring 2021.

The team that brought you HONEYBEE (February 2020), Eric Rohmann and Candace Fleming, just sold a similarly stunning POLAR BEAR to Neal Porter Books.

Candace Fleming also sold THE TIDAL POOL to Holiday House, which will be a brilliant lyric picture book.

On the adult end, we’ve sold new Non-Fiction project from John Domagalski–ESCAPE FROM JAVA– to Casemate.

This fall brought a lot of great film and TV development news to the agency. We’ve optioned Kay Kenyon’s DARK TALENTS series.

Shaftesbury in Canada will be developing Marthe Jocelyn’s latest AGGIE MORTON for television.

Melissa Olson’s project DEAD SPOTS, was optioned with Sony and has since been acquired by Quibi.

We’ve been very active selling foreign rights this fall. We signed a major 21 book deal for the Andre Norton Estate with Eskmo in Russia. Additionally, Poland has bought rights to WITCH WORLD.

MAG publishing in Poland will be publishing three titles in THE BOBIVERSE series by Dennis E Taylor.

We’ve sold the first two books in GA Aiken’s SCARRED EARTH series to Piper in Germany.

This fall has also brought sales of THE LAST EMPEROX by John Scalzi to Germany and Hungary.

John Scalzi has licensed new work to Netflix’s LOVE DEATH AND ROBOTS. He also has a new collection of short work, A VERY SCALZI CHRISTMAS coming out this December from Subterranean Press and Audible. 

James Cambias has sold a new SF novel to Baen, THE GODEL OPERATION: A STORY OF THE BILLION WORLDS, set in a new univers. 

Ian Douglas will launch a new series titled SOLAR WARDEN with Harper Voyager. It lanches  with ALIEN SECRETS coming out April 1st, 2020. Check out the cover online.

 Mel Odom’s THE MAKAUM WAR series will conclude (for now) with WARLORD, from Harper Voyager in January. 

Ed Willet’s WORLDSHAPERS series will continue, we’ve sold a third book to Daw.

Our own publishing arm has just released Sharon Shinn’s ONYX trilogy, ECHO IN ONYX, ECHO IN EMERALD and ECHO IN AMETHYST.

We’ve also published PIGS, a top new crime novel from Daniel James.

Strong sales have greeted G A AIKEN’S new SCARRED EARTH SERIES with THE BLACKSMITH QUEEN hitting #73 on USA TODAY and landing a coveted spot on Amazon’s Best SF and Fantasy for the month of September.  We’ve licensed two titles in Germany. We’ve also sold a new series to Kensington, THE BLACK MALONES.

MaryJanice Davidson’s new paranormal romance series will launch in February 2020 with Sourcebooks, look for BEARS BEHAVING BADLY.  It’s also coming from Recorded Books.

Margot Hunt will have a new book for the growing audience for her exceptional suspense novels, THE LAST AFFAIR is coming from Harper in November.  She has also sold an original novella to Audible BURIED DEEP, a single seating listen that will stay with you.

We’ve sold a superb work of military history to Casemate on behalf of new client John Falcon, THE FREEDOM SHIELD.  If you want to a front seat to the helicopter war in Vietnam, this is it. John flew 500 missions in the conflict.

More non-fiction from another new client, we’ve sold DIFFICULT to Rowman and Littlefield on behalf of Dr. Judy Smith.  This is a key book for parents helping older struggling children.

In the children’s department we’ve licensed a new title on behalf of the award winning duo of Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann, MINE to Schwartz and Wade.

FATAL THRONE is coming in trade paperback in February 2020, check out the spectacular cover.

If truly magnificent storytelling and artwork appeal to you Fleming and Rohmann’s Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera will be published in February 2020 from Neal Porter Books.

THE BODY UNDER THE PIANO is coming from Marthe Jocelyn via Tundra, and we’ve got a television series option in hand.  This is the first book in the AGGIE MORTON MYSTERY QUEEN series.