Usually where to begin sets our heads a’pondering but not this month.

We are overjoyed to announce that our long term client, cherished colleague and friend, BERTRICE SMALL has won the Romance Writers of America lifetime achievement award for 2014.

It has been a joy and an education to work for Bertrice.  Her exceptional talent, free spirit, hard work and professionalism has been an inspiration.

And there’s other news:

On behalf of JOHN SCALZI we have sold LOCK IN to Audible for audio and to his long time publisher in Germany, Heyne.  We are also considering offers to launch John in Brazil. REDSHIRTS has been optioned to Fox and we’re excited to see how that develops.

KATHIE DENOSKY has secured a 12 book agreement to continue her exceptional career with Harlequin.

IAN DOUGLAS will continue his STAR CARRIER series with Avon with a new 3 book contract and launch a new series under a 2 book agreement.

We’ve sold Dutch rights to KAREN MILLER’S THE FALCON THRONE.

SHELLY LAURENSTON’S BITE ME made the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST, COMBINED PRINT AND DIGITAL.

On behalf of LINDSAY MCKENNA we’ve sold her entire ‘Wyoming’ series to audible for audio release.

We’re excited to announce a wonderful debut sale on behalf of CARAC ALLISON, DARK DIGITAL SKY to Exhibit A.  This is a suspense writer and a book that we expect great things from.

We’ve sold an additional book for MARKO KLOOS to 47-North and his sales continue to build.

We have also secured a 3 book deal for another debut author, MICHAEL LIVINSTGON, whose SHARDS OF HEAVEN series will be published by Tor.

Book Expo is here and we are looking forward to another convention.

 

 

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James Cambias’ A Darkling Sea is off to a rousing start and we have sold his next book to Tor, Corsair, for publication in Fall 2015.

John Scalzi’s Lock In will be published this August.

The agency is embarking on a new initiative and will be producing all six books for the re-issue of Ian Douglas’s great military SF series Warstrider.  We’re very excited about helping our authors re-publish and market their older titles.

Gail Martin has a busy year planned, the second book in her Ascendant Kingdoms saga Reign of Ash is coming in April and she is publishing her first urban fantasy, Deadly Curiosities this July from Solaris.

Perhaps our biggest headline should be the wonderful news that Karen Miller’s new series, The Tarnished Crown, is launching this August.  The first book, The Falcon Throne is at the copyeditor now.  With 5 books planned this will be epic fantasy of the highest order.

Sharon Shinn has a new venture underway, a graphic novel titled Painted Warrior, which is coming from First Second Books.

Lindsay McKenna has concluded terms for four more novels with HQN and her fans will be delighted to know she will continue with both her ‘Wyoming’ series and her spectacular military romance.

Mel Odom has delivered the first in his forthcoming Makaum (military SF) series with Harper Voyager.

Marko Kloos’ follow up to Terms of Enlistment has just been released by 47North, entitled Lines of Departure.

Tales of High Hallack, three collected volumes of the short fiction of Gandalf Grand Master Award winning author Andre Norton edited by Jean Rabe are coming out this year, the first of which is currently available.

 

 

 

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Yes, we are very proud to announce that our client John Scalzi has won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel 2012 for his book REDSHIRTS.

So I guess we are shouting it out on rooftops.

In other news, we recently sold a new 3 book series for Shelly Laurenston to Kensington called THE CROWS.  Her new e-novella, as G.A. Aiken, A TALE OF TWO DRAGONS is just out.

We’re very excited about the forthcoming publication of James Cambias’ first SF novel, A DARKLING SEA, coming in hardcover from Tor.

Gail Martin has sold a new book to Solaris, a paranormal detective novel called BUTTONS coming in summer 2014.  We’re very excited about the release of REIGN OF ASH from Orbit in April 2014.

Karen Miller’s new 5 book epic series TARNISHED CROWN is on track to launch next year.

Sharon Shinn has penned her first original graphic novel, PAINTED WARRIOR, which we recently sold to First Second.

CHRISTINE WARREN’s new series Gargoyles debuts in December with HEART OF STONE.

We recently made a number of sales to Harlequin Historicals, 3 books for Terri Brisbin and 2 for Georgie Lee.

We proud to announce that we will be representing the estate of Jennifer Wilde and we’re anxious to get her entire backlist published as ebooks.

In non-fiction we recently sold John Domagalski’s INTO THE DARK WATER to Casemate, the story of the 3 skippers of PT-109.

Dr. Alexander Unzicker and Sheila Jones’ BANKRUPTING PHYSICS came out just this past July to excellent reviews.  Highly recommended to anyone who wants a different take on the current stage of cosmology and theoretical physics.

In children’s we sold BULLDOZER’S birthday by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann to Atheneum.

I’m just back from the International Book Fair in Frankfurt and the business continues to evolve, ebooks still looking for traction in Europe, lots of technological change, challenging markets but lots of optimism and hope.

 

 

 

 

 

The fifth book in John Scalzi’s OLD MAN’S WAR series, THE HUMAN DIVISION is being serialized by Tor and we’ve been very excited to see its success.  The book will be published in hardcover this May.

Karen Miller has delivered the first book in her new epic series, THE TARNISHED CROWN to Orbit and we expect great things when it is published in Spring 2014.

Fans of MaryJanice Davidson should get ready for a great new series, DÉJÀ VU, which was just licensed to Berkley in a 2 book deal.

With got some exciting new client news.  One of this year’s Edgar nominees, Al Lamanda has signed with us and we are shopping his John Bekker series now.  The second book in the series, SUNRISE is coming from Five Star this Summer and two more John Bekker novels are ready to follow it.

Judd Trichter has delivered the final draft of LOVE IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION to Thomas Dunne Books.

Kay Kenyon’s A THOUSAND PERFECT THINGS will be coming from Premier Digital Publishing this Fall.

Gail Martin has sold the next two books in the ASCENDANT KINGDOMS series to Orbit.

Mel Odom has sold a three book military SF series to Voyager entitled MAKAUM.

Lucy Monroe has moved her single title career to Grand Central in a three book deal entitled THE CALKIRN CHRONICLES.

The second book in James M. Tabor’s ‘Hallie Leland’ series, FROZEN SOLID is coming from Random House in April.  The first book THE DEEP ZONE just finished an impressive showing in a promotionally priced e-book edition.

Caldecott winner Eric Rohmann has re-united with Candace Fleming on two new picture book projects, SLEEP IN YOUR OWN BED for Schwartz and Wade and BULLDOZER’S BIRTHDAY for Atheneum.