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.

Two of our clients, John Scalzi and Marko Kloos, were involved in the Netflix SFF Animated Anthology project LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS. Scalzi had three shorts produced and Kloos had two. It’s been a hit with Netflix since it came out on March 15th.

 

John Scalzi hit the #1 author slot on Amazon on April 9th.

LINES OF DEPARTURE, the second book in Marko Kloos’ popular FRONTLINES series, reached a benchmark of a quarter of a million sales.

WE ARE LEGION: WE ARE BOB is nominated for a Japanese Seiun award.

Shelly Laurenston’s second book in the Honey Badgers Chronicles, IN A BADGER WAY debuted at #30 on the USA TODAY bestseller list. It is one of Amazon’s Best Romances for April 2019.

Audible just launched a three book Audible Original series from SHARON SHINN, UNCOMMON ECHOES. Make sure to check them out in audio before they come out in ebook and paperback from the Ellenberg Agency Later this year.

We’re looking forward to the publication of OUTLAND by hit SFF star DENNIS TAYLOR, out next month from Audible.

Publication of Marko Kloos’ new series PALLADIUM WARS is right around the corner. In July, AFTERSHOCKS will launch, and we are thrilled that George RR Martin has said the following about this title: Kloos has launched a new series that promises to be just as engrossing.  New characters, new worlds, new conflicts, but the writing is just as lean and clean and tight, the action just as exciting, the science just as solid, the tension just as high.   I gulped down the first book in a day, and I am already eager for the next one. Fortunately, Marko Kloos does not write as slowly as I do.

 

We’re excited about the following sales recently made by the agency:

We’ve licensed the two book Fantasy Romance series from G.A. Aiken to Recorded Booksfor audio.The series will launch with THE BLACKSMITH QUEEN in September from Kensington.

Kensington has bought three new titles from Madeline Baker, an Untitled Paranormal Vampire series.

PW has just announced the sale of LIBRARY’S MOST WANTED, by debut picture book author Carolyn Leiloglou to Pelican Publishing for publication in Spring 2020.

JANUARY 2019

MaryJanice Davidson will be launching a new paranormal series with Sourcebooks and Recorded Books in two separate 3 book deals.  The tentative title is FOSTERWERE.  We’ll also be doing an original with Recorded Books, A CONTEMPORARY SMART ASS AT THE COURT OF HENRY VIII.

James Cambias has a new book coming from Baen in January, ARKAD’S WORLD.  Next up from Jim, THE INITIATE, also a Baen book.

Ian Douglas has just delivered his the first book in his exciting new series SOLAR WARDEN to HarperCollins.  The movie option on STAR CARRIER was recently renewed.

Gail Z. Martin has sold a number of new works to Recorded Books and Tantor including her new fantasy series ASSASINS OF LANDRIA.

Tony Peak’s SIGNAL is out from Audible.

John Scalzi’s THE COLLAPSING EMPIRE movie option has been renewed by Working Title pictures in London.  I hope everyone saw that the second book in the Series, THE CONSUMING FIRE made the New York Times hard/ebook bestseller list, a rarity for a science fiction novel.

We’ve sold a 3^rd book to Mira on behalf of Margot Hunt which will continue her career in suspense.  Her second book FOR BETTER AND WORSE is out now and it is a Book of the Month club selection.

We’ll be publishing another original Western by Jason Manning, LOBO RILER.

We’ve closed on an offer for SEEKING FREEDOM by new client Selene Castrovilla with Boyds Mill.

We’re very excited to report that the artwork for a new Eric Rohmann picture book is complete, HONEYBEE and it will be coming from Holiday House.  Candace Fleming wrote the manuscript.  The New York Public Library picked Candy’s mixed author anthology FATAL THRONE as one of its best books of 2018.

Tundra will be publishing Marthe Jocelyn’s SAM SORTS as a board book in 2019.