The Qwillery

Happy Monday!

There are 4 debuts this week:

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy 1) by S. A. Chakrabotry;

The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover;

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang;

and

The Nine (Thieves of Fate 1) by Tracy Townsend




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Rebel (San Angeles 3) by Gerald Brandt;

Star's End by Cassandra Rose Clarke is out in Trade Paperback;

The Art of Murder (Jericho Sands 2) by Casey Doran;

The Light the Binds (Sundered World 3) by Nathan Garrison;

The Exiled King (Bone Magic 4) by Sarah Remy;

The Inside Out Man by Fred Strydom;

Beyond the Empire (The Indranan War 3) by K. B. Wagers;

and

Artemis by Andy Weir.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

November 13, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
I, The Constable (e)	Paula M. Block Terry J. Erdmann	SF - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Night of the Hunter (e)	Susan Harris	PNR - Ever Chace Chronicles 4
Angel Slayer (e)(ri)	Michele Hauf	PNR - Of Angels and Demons Series 2

November 14, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Overneath	Peter S. Beagle	F - Collection
The Rebel	Gerald Brandt	SF/CyP/AP/PA - San Angeles 3
Dark Deeds	Mike Brooks	SF/SO - Keiko 3
The City of Brass (D)	S. A. Chakraborty	F/HistF - The Daevabad Trilogy 1
Star's End (h2tp)	Cassandra Rose Clarke	SF
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	Philip K. Dick	SF - Collection
Seventh Decimate	Stephen R. Donaldson	F/DF - The Great God's War 1
The Art of Murder	Casey Doran	H/PsyTh - Jericho Sands 2
Future Home of the Living God	Louise Erdrich	Dys
Deadhouse Landing: A Novel of the Malazan Empire	Ian C. Esslemont	F - Path to Ascendancy 2
HALO: Legacy of Onyx	Matt Forbeck	SF - HALO
The Light That Binds	Nathan Garrison	F - Sundered World Trilogy 3
The Last Man in Europe (D)	Dennis Glover	F/Bio
Into the Drowning Deep	Mira Grant	CF
The Eye of Medusa	David Guymer	SF - Iron Hands 1
The Witch War of Fiddlehead Creek	C.L. Hernandez	DF - The Complicated Life of Deegie Tibbs 2
The Eterna Solution	Leanna Renee Hieber	HistF/UF  - The Eterna Files 3
After the End of the World	Jonathan L. Howard	H/AH/GH - Carter & Lovecraft 2
The Fall of the House of Cabal (h2tp)	Jonathan L. Howard	H/SP/GH - Johannes Cabal Novels 5
Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition	Anna Kavan	Dys/PA - Penguin Classics
The Secret Life of Souls (h2tp)	Jack Ketchum Lucky McKee	PsySus
From a Buick 8 (ri)	Stephen King	SF/AC
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance (D)	Ruth Emmie Lang	CF/MR/P
Strange Sight	Syd Moore	PM - An Essex Witch Museum Mystery 2
The Mountain of Kept Memory (h2tp)	Rachel Neumeier	F
The Throne of Amenkor	Joshua Palmatier	F/DF - Throne of Amenkor Omnibus
The Two of Swords: Volume Two	K. J. Parker	F - The Two of Swords 2
The Exiled King	Sarah Remy	F - Bone Magic 4
The Walworth Beauty	Michèle Roberts	Hist
Oathbringer	Brandon Sanderson	F - The Stormlight Archive 3
The Inside Out Man	Fred Strydom	H/Sus/PsyTh
Creatures of Will and Temper	Molly Tanzer	F/HistF
The Long and Short of It	Jodi Taylor	SF/TT - The Chronicles of St. Mary's Collection
Jain Zar: Storm of Silence	Gav Thorpe	SF - Phoenix Lords 2
The Nine (D)	Tracy Townsend	F/DF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Thieves of Fate 1
The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects	Carolyn Turgeon The Editors of Faerie Magazine	FM
Beyond the Empire	K. B. Wagers	SF - The Indranan War 3
Artemis	Andy Weir	SF/Th
The Complete John Wayne Cleaver Series: (I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. Monster, I Don't Want to Kill You, Devil's Only Friend, Over Your Dead Body, Nothing Left to Lose) (e)	Dan Wells	SupTh/F/DF - John Cleaver
The Forsaken Throne	Jeff Wheeler	F/HistF - Kingfountain 6
Legacies (e)	F. Paul Wilson	SupTh - Repairman Jack 1
The Complete Book of the New Sun: (The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun) (e)	Gene Wolfe	F - New Sun
The Emerald Circus	Jane Yolen	FR/HistF/Clara at the Edge - Collection
Mandelbrot the Magnificent: A Novella	Liz Ziemska	Bio/F/HistF/MR

November 15, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Anomaly: The Rubicon	Skip Brittenham (Creator) Brian Haberlin (Creator)	SF - Anomaly
My Life for Your Life (e)	Tessa Gratton Karen Lord	HistF - Tremontaine Season 3 #6
J. G. Ballard	D. Harlan Wilson	SF/HC - Modern Masters of Science Fiction

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
Bio - Biography
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
FM - Folklore and Mythology
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
MU - MashUp
Noir - Noir
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PHR- Paramormal Historical Romance
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Psy - Psychological
PsySus - Psychological Suspense
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
Ref - Reference
RP - Role Playing
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SP - SteamPunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Happy Monday!

There is one debut this week:

The Tethered Mage (Swords and Fire 1) by Melissa Caruso.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Danger's Vice (Holly Danger 2) by Amanda Carlson;

Magic of Wind and Mist: The Wizard's Promise; The Nobleman's Revenge by Cassandra Rose Clarke;

Path of Gods (The Valhalla Saga 3) bu Snorri Kristjansson is out in Trade Paperback;

The Gates of Hell (The Shards of Heaven 2) by Michael Livingston is out in Trade Paperback;

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Morena-Garcia;

and

Switchback (Nightshades 2) by Melissa F. Olson.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

October 23, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Danger's Vice (e)	Amanda Carlson	SF/Dys/PA - Holly Danger 2

October 24, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Something Wicked This Way Comes (ri)	Ray Bradbury	H
The Tethered Mage (D)	Melissa Caruso	F - Swords and Fire 1
Wrath of the Ancients	Catherine Cavendish	H/Occ
Magic of Wind and Mist: The Wizard's Promise; The Nobleman's Revenge	Cassandra Rose Clarke	F
Ready Player One (ri)	Ernest Cline	SF/Dys/Th
Babylon's Ashes (h2tp)	James S. A. Corey	SF/SO - The Expanse 6
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr	John Crowley	MR/F
Hunter's Moon	David Devereux	F/DF
Leopard's Blood	Christine Feehan	PNR - A Leopard Novel 10
Halloween Carnival Volume 4 (e)	Brian James Freeman (Ed)	H - Anthology
Dragonfly in Amber (25th Anniversary Edition)	Diana Gabaldon	Hist/HistF/R/TT - Outlander 2
Strange Weather: Four Short Novels	Joe Hill	H
Nightblade's Vengeance	Ryan Kirk	HistF - Blades of the Fallen 1
Path of Gods (h2tp)	Snorri Kristjansson	HistF - The Valhalla Saga 3
Blade of Empire	Mercedes Lackey James Mallory	F - The Dragon Prophecy Trilogy 2
The Gates of Hell (h2tp)	Michael Livingston	HistF/AH - The Shards of Heaven 2
Tales from a Talking Board	Ross E. Lockhart (Ed)	H - Anthology
Tangled in Time	Barbara Longley	TTR
Above the Timberline	Gregory Manchess	SF
Doctor Who: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe	George Mann Justin Richards	TV - Doctor Who
Blood of the Lost	Shannon Mayer	UF - Rylee Adamson 10
The Beautiful Ones	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	HistF/FR
Anno Dracula - One Thousand Monsters	Kim Newman	HistF/H/DF - Anno Dracula
Switchback	Melissa F. Olson	UF - Nightshades 2
Firewalk (h2tp)	Chris Roberson	UF/SupTh/CF/P
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Official Grimoire: A Magickal History of Sunnydale	A. M. Robinson Willow Rosenberg	MTI
The Infinite Now	Mindy Tarquini	HistF/CoA/MR
The Apothecary's Shop: Venice 1118 A.D.	Roberto Tiraboschi Katherine Gregor (Tr)	Occ/Sup/R
Blue Plague: Sacrifice	Thomas A. Watson	F/DF - Blue Plague 3

October 27, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Doctor Who: A British Alien?	Danny Nicol	PerfArts

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Illus - Illustrator
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fem - Feminist
FL - Family Life
Folklore - Folklore
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MF - Military Fantasy
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Noir - Noir
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Phil - Philosophy
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SocHis - Social History
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Catherine Cerveny (2016)

The Rule of Luck
A Felicia Sevigny Novel 1
Orbit, November 7, 2017
Trade Paperback, 400 pages
eBook, January 26, 2016

A thrilling new science fiction series -- perfect for fans of character-driven SF adventure. Linnea Sinclair, author of the Dock Five Universe novels calls it "an edge-of-your-seat ride."

Year 2950. Humanity has survived devastating climate shifts and four world wars, coming out stronger and smarter than ever. Incredible technology is available to all, and enhancements to appearance, intelligence, and physical ability are commonplace.

In this future, Felicia Sevigny has built her fame reading the futures of others.

Alexei Petriv, the most dangerous man in the TriSystem, will trust only Felicia to read his cards. But the future she sees is darker than either of them could ever have imagined. A future that pits them against an all-knowing government, almost superhuman criminals, and something from Felicia's past that she could never have predicted, but that could be the key to saving -- or destroying -- them all.

"A compelling and intriguing read built on a fascinating premise. Cerveny's future world is richly drawn, and Felicia's and Alexei's adventure is definitely an edge-of-your-seat ride." -- Linnea Sinclair, award-winning author of the Dock Five Universe series

"A novel with depth... a terrific story." -- The Qwillery

"A fresh heroine pairs with a dangerous hero to confront nuanced and compelling ethical dilemmas... fast-paced, tightly plotted." -- RT Book Reviews

The Chaos of Luck
A Felicia Sevigny Novel 2
Orbit, December 5, 2017
Trade Paperback. 384 pages
eBook, December 6, 2016

A thrilling new science fiction series -- perfect for fans of character-driven SF adventure. Linnea Sinclair, author of the Dock Five Universe novels calls it "an edge-of-your-seat ride."

Mars, the terraformed jewel of the TriSystem, is the playground for the rich and powerful. A marvel of scientific engineering, the newly colonized world offers every luxury. For the first time in human history, the picture perfect life is possible.

Felicia Sevigny's come to the Red Planet for a fresh start. She's brought the tarot cards that have been her family's trade for generations but is hoping to leave the rest of her troubled past behind.

Felicia wants to believe that Mars will also be a clean slate for her and Alexei Petriv, notorious leader of the Tsarist Consortium, but her cards keep predicting something even darker and more insidious is ahead. Something that could mean the end, not just for her and Alexei, but for the entire TriSystem - and all of humanity.

For more from Catherine Cerveny check out The Rule of Luck.

"A compelling and intriguing read built on a fascinating premise. Cerveny's future world is richly drawn, and Felicia's and Alexei's adventure is definitely an edge-of-your-seat ride." -- Linnea Sinclair, award-winning author of the Dock Five Universe series

"A novel with depth... a terrific story." -- The Qwillery

"A fresh heroine pairs with a dangerous hero to confront nuanced and compelling ethical dilemmas... fast-paced, tightly plotted." -- RT Book Reviews

Cassandra Rose Clarke (2013)

Magic of Wind and Mist: The Wizard's Promise; The Nobleman's Revenge
Saga Press, October 24, 2017
Trade Paperback, Hardcover and eBook, 560 pages

Taking place in the world of Cassandra Rose Clarke’s Magic of Blood and Sea, this is the story of a would-be witch who embarks on an adventure filled with intrigue, mystery, mermaids, and magic.

Hanna has spent her life hearing about the adventures of her namesake Ananna, the lady pirate, and assassin Naji, and dreams to have some adventures of her own.

One day when Hanna is with her apprentice—a taciturn fisherman called Kolur—the boat is swept wildly off course during a day of storms and darkness. In this strange new land, Kolur hires a stranger to join the crew and, rather than heading home, sets a course for the dangerous island of Jadanvar. As Hanna meets a secretive merboy—and learns that Kolur has a deadly past—she soon realizes that wishing for adventures can be deadly…because those wishes might come true.

Star's End
Saga Press, November 14, 2017
Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Hardcover and eBook, March 21, 2017

A new space opera about a young woman who must face the truth about her father’s past from critically acclaimed author Cassandra Rose Clarke.

Esme Coromina has always known that one day she would run the Four Sisters, the small planet system that her father grew into a corporate empire. Raised as the pampered heir to the company, Esme lived the best years of her life at Star’s End, the estate her father built on the terraformed moon where he began his empire. In the tropical sunlight and lush gardens, Esme helped raise her three motherless half-sisters. But as Esme is groomed to take over the family business of manufacturing weapons for the mercenary groups spread across the galaxy, she slowly uncovers the sinister truth at the heart of her father’s company. And when those secrets are finally revealed, Esme is sure that she’s lost her sisters—and part of her soul—for good.

Now, after a lifetime of following her father’s orders, Esme has a second chance. For the first time, Esme is making her own decisions, and the impact of her decisions will reverberate throughout the Four Sisters. As Esme struggles to assemble her estranged sisters for one last goodbye with their dying father, she has to choose whether she wants to follow in her father’s footsteps—or blaze a daring new path.

Cassandra Rose Clarke proves once again why she is one of science fiction’s most ambitious writers with a gripping family saga that spans years and planets.

Peter Liney (2014)

Beauty
Peter Liney, June 18, 2017
Trade Paperback and eBook, 365 pages

When cosmetic and transplant surgery get together and beauty becomes a commodity that can be bought and sold, the Rich become more beautiful, the Poor less. But if something can be traded, it can also be stolen – brutally, violently, by the feared face-stealers, and to a point where the rich finally cry ‘Enough! . . . Enough. Make us plain; make us ordinary.’ Now there is no beauty left, not as we once knew it, only photos, videos, exhibitions. And yet . . . you still hear the occasional rumor.

Happy Monday! Again!


There are 4 debuts this week:

Jericho's Razor (Jericho Sands 1) by Casey Doran;

The Ship by Antonia Honeywell;

The Shadow Crucible (The Blind God 1 ) by T. M. Lakomy;

and

The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, Yuri Machkasov (Translator).




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Night of the Animals by Bill Broun is out in Trade Paperback;

The Mirror Cracked (The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, Season 2, Episode 10) by Cassandra Rose Clarke;

and

Skullsworn (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne) by Brian Staveley.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

April 25, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
A Fire in the Blood	Amanda Ashley	PNR
The Broken Hours: A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft (h2tp)	Jacqueline Baker	H/GH/Psy
Within the Sanctuary of Wings	Marie Brennan	F - The Lady Trent Memoirs 5
Buffalo Soldier	Maurice Broaddus	SP/F/HistF
Night of the Animals (h2tp)	Bill Broun	LF
HALO: Envoy	Tobias S. Buckell	SF - HALO
Shadow's Blade (h2mm)	David B. Coe	CF/P - Case Files of Justis Fearsson 3
Wicked Abyss	Kresley Cole	PNR - Immortals After Dark 17
The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase	Greg Cox	CF - The Librarians 2
Second Variety and Other Classic Stories	Phillip K. Dick	SF - Collection
Walkaway	Cory Doctorow	SF
Jericho's Razor (D)	Casey Doran	H/Sus/PsyTh - Jericho Sands 1
Dark Mind	Ian Douglas	SF - Star Carrier 7
The Queen of Blood (h2mm)	Sarah Beth Durst	F - Queens of Renthia 1
Snared	Jennifer Estep	UF - Elemental Assassin 16
Killfile (h2mm)	Christopher Farnsworth	Th
Dark Screams: Volume Six (e)	Brian James Freeman (Ed) Richard Chizmar (Ed)	H - Anthology
Pharos (tp2mm)	Guy Haley	SF - The Horus Heresy 34
The Ship (D)	Antonia Honeywell	CoA/GB
Planet of the Apes Omnibus 2	John Jakes David Gerrold William T. Quick	SF
Eternal Reign	Melody Johnson	PNR - Night Blood 3
Four Past Midnight: Stories	Stephen King	Sus - Collection
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon	Stephen King	Sus
The Shadow Crucible (D)	T. M. Lakomy	DF - The Blind God 1
Dogs of War: A Joe Ledger Novel	Jonathan Maberry	Th/H - Joe Ledger 9
The Utopia Chronicles	Matthew Mather	TT/MetaVis/TechnoTh - Atopia 3
Blade Bound	Chloe Neill	UF/PNR - Chicagoland Vampires 13
Grunt Hero	Weston Ochse	SF - Task Force Ombra 3
The Gray House (D-US)	Mariam Petrosyan Yuri Machkasov (Tr)	CoA/F
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book	Terry Pratchett	Coloring Book
Skullsworn	Brian Staveley	F - Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne
Unforgettable (tp2mm)	Eric James Stone	SF
Fur Fox's Sake	Milly Taiden	PNR - Shifters Undercover 2
Borne	Jeff VanderMeer	LF/Dys/F
The Edge of Worlds	Martha Wells	F/CF - Raksura 4
Imperative (tp2mm)	Steve White Charles E Gannon	SF - Starfire 7

April 26, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Mirror Cracked (e)	Cassandra Rose Clarke	HistF/Espionage - The Witch Who Came In From The Cold Season 2 #10
The Awakening of Insects: A Tor.com Original (e)	Bobby Sun	SF
The Dustpan Cometh (e)	Josh Vogt	UF - The Cleaners 3

April 28, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Ion Raider (e)	Ian Whates	SH/SF - The Dark Angels 2

April 30, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Final Girls	Mira Grant	H

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CW - Contemporary Women
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GB - Genre Bender
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
H - Horror
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
RP - Role Playing
RSus - Romantic Suspense
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TTR - Time Travel Romance
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisMeta - Visionary and Metaphysical
WM - War and Military

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Happy Monday! Happy Spring (in the Northern Hemisphere)!


There is one debut this week - Christopher Mari's solo debut - The Beachhead.




There are several books from formerly featured DAC Authors:

Phantom Pains (The Arcadia Project 2) by Mishell Baker;

The Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher is out in Trade Paperback;

Star's End by Cassandra Rose Clarke;

Mass Effect - Andromeda: Nexus Uprising by Jason M. Hough (former DAC author) and K. C. Alexander;

Ashes to Fire (Creatures of Light 2) by Emily B. Martin is out in Mass Market Paperback

and

Join by Steve Toutonghi is out in Trade Paperback.

March 20, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Heart of the Dragon (e)(ri)	Gena Showalter	PNR - Atlantis Series 1
The Memoirist	Neil Williamson	SF

March 21, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Flames of Rebellion	Jay Allan	SF - Flames of Rebellion 1
Infinity Engine	Neal Asher	SF/SO - Transformation 3
Phantom Pains	Mishell Baker	UF - The Arcadia Project 2
The Brotherhood of the Wheel (h2tp)	R. S. Belcher	UF/CF
Fellside (h2tp)	M. R. Carey	SupTh
Star's End	Cassandra Rose Clarke	SF
Chalk	Paul Cornell	CF/DF
Bound Together	Christine Feehan	PNR - Sea Haven 6
Orbital Cloud	Taiyo Fujii	SF - Orbital Cloud 1
Dante	Guy Haley	SF - Blood Angels
Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction	David G. Hartwell  (Ed) Glenn Grant (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Mass Effect - Andromeda: Nexus Uprising	Jason M. Hough K. C. Alexander	SF/SO - Mass Effect: Andromeda
Gods of the Flame Sea (e)	Jean Johnson	F - Flame Sea 3
Nemesis	Alex Lamb	SF
Relics	Tim Lebbon	DF/H
Wake a Sleeping Tiger	Lora Leigh	PNR - Breeds 31
Shrike	George Mann	SF - Space Marine Legends 3
The Beachhead (D - Solo)	Christopher Mari	SF/AP/PA
Ashes to Fire	Emily B. Martin	F - Creatures of Light 2
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (h2tp)	Iain Reid	LF
The Collapsing Empire	John Scalzi	SF/SO
Follow Me Down	Sherri Smith	PsyTh/Sus/CW
Immortal Blood (ri)	James M. Thompson	H - Elijah Pike Vampire Chronicles 3
Join (h2tp)	Steve Toutonghi	SF/F
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (ri)	Jules Verne	SF - Macmillan Collector's Library 139
Spymaster	Margaret Weis Robert Krammes	F - The Dragon Corsairs 1
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture (h2tp)	Glen Weldon	PopCul

March 22, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Ecdysis: A Tor.com Original (e)	Julianna Baggott	F
Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987): A Tor.com Original (e)	A.C. Wise	H

March 23, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (e)(ri)	Jules Verne	SF - Macmillan Collector's Library
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (e)(ri)	Jules Verne	SF - Macmillan Collector's Library
The Picture of Dorian Gray (e)(ri)	Oscar Wilde	Occ/Sup - Macmillan Collector's Library

March 24, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Immortal Progeny (e)	Philippa Ballantine	F - Fragile Gods 1
The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967 (h2tp)	Jeffrey S. Gurock	AH

March 25, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
There is Darkness in Every Room (Ke)	Brian Fatah Steele	AF/AC

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CW - Contemporary Women
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GH - Ghosts
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PopCul - Popular Culture
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisMeta - Visionary and Metaphysical

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

A few years ago I reread Stephen King’s The Stand. There is a character in that book who’s supposed to be from a small town a couple hundred miles outside of Houston. As I grew up in that area, I know it well. So imagine my surprise when the character’s hometown was routinely described as a desert, and the character is astonished at the bright green grass growing in the midwest.

Reader, east Texas is in a forest.

As much as I enjoy Stephen King’s writing, that one erroneous detail pulled me out of the story every time I saw it. I didn’t understand how King could get it so wrong. Houston is three hours from the Louisiana border! Would anyone claim that Louisiana is a desert? And yet the myth of Texas-as-desert—which stems from the landscape in West Texas, a ten-hour drive from Houston—overwhelmed the reality.

I’ve kept this incident in the back of my mind as I’ve worked through seasons one and two of The Witch Who Came in From the Cold. You see, Cold Witch takes place in Prague, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, in 1970. I have never been to Prague, and I was born in 1983. Which means I had a potential Houston-is-a-desert situation on my hands.

Prague as a setting for our story makes a lot of sense. Historically, it was a sort of halfway point between the Soviet Union and the West, a place where spies and dignitaries from both sides of the Iron Curtain could mix, mingle, and generally get all up in each other’s business (sneakily, of course). Cold Witch is centered very much around the intersection of that division, with our Western hero and our Soviet heroine having to work as allies in the similarly-divided magical rift between Ice and Flame. So just as Prague was an important way station during the Cold War, we made it an equally important convergent point for our world of magic and sorcery.

Sadly, none of this solves the problem of me having never been to Prague. Personally, I would love to go to Prague. I adore traveling and I’ve always wanted to see Eastern Europe—but such as a trip is prohibitively expensive for me. I was unwilling to just make stuff up and hope for the best, and I certainly didn’t want to make any mistakes on the same level King’s insistence that Houston is in the desert. So what did I do?

First off, Cold Witch is a collaborative project, so while I’d never been to Prague, two of the other writers had. Besides that, our head writer, Lindsay Smith, studied Russia extensively in college—both the language, the history, and the culture. So I was able to pull from their knowledge as I worked through my episodes. Another thing that I found surprisingly useful was the simple fact of growing up where I did; the small towns dotting the central Texas landscape were settled in large part by Czech immigrants. Czech heritage festivals are a common occurrence around these parts, and kolaces of varying quality will show up in any locally-owned donut shop. Obviously, enjoying the fragments of Czech culture that have seeped into Texas culture are not remotely the same thing as actually visiting Prague, but they did serve as a thin connection to the world I was writing about.

But perhaps the most useful tool was a technological one: Google Street View. I honestly am not sure how writers managed without it (certainly, if Stephen King had been able to get his hands on Google Street View when he was writing The Stand, we wouldn’t have wound up with that Houston-has-no-trees situation). Google Maps in generally is pretty helpful, because it allows me to get a sense of the layout of the city and to pick out street names and important buildings. But Street View takes that a step further, since it means I can actually look at the city and navigate around it. Again, it’s not the same as visiting, but with just a few clicks of my mouse I’m able to get a visual feel of a place over five thousand miles away.

So that’s how I’ve managed to cobble together a sense of Prague for Cold Witch. I hope one day to travel there in person, walk across Charles Bridge, and find out if I did anything as embarrassing as turning a forest into a desert.

The Witch Who Came in From The Cold is the fantasy-espionage thriller from Serial Box. This serial is collaboratively written and available in text and audio via SerialBox.com, their iOS app, and all major eBook retailers. Lead by foreign-affairs expert Lindsay Smith (Sekret) and Urban Fantasy-pioneer Max Gladstone (Three Parts Dead), this season’s author team is rounded out by Cassandra Rose Clark (Our Lady of the Ice), Ian Tregillis (The Milkweed Triptych), and Nebula-nominated Fran Wilde (Updraft).

Welcome to Prague, 1970: the epicenter in a struggle of spies and sorcerers. The Witch Who Came In From The Cold follows agents on opposing sides of two struggles: the Cold War, and an ancient conflict between two occult secret societies: the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame. A CIA and KGB agent will find their loyalties to country tested when they realize they must work together to prevent the destruction of the world at the hands of the Flame.
            Gabe Pritchard, grizzled CIA agent and proud American never believed in sorcery - until he walked into the wrong room in Cairo and ended up with a powerful magical Elemental living inside his head. Tanya Morozova, latest in a long line of Ice Witches, knew loyalty to the Consortium before she ever took up the KGB badge. Now they’re both stationed to Prague, a city built on powerful ley lines and thrumming with both political and magical tension.
            In Season One, a CIA extraction of a Soviet scientist ended in chaos when one of the American operatives betrayed the U.S. in order to deliver the magically-powerful scientist to the Flame. Tanya and Gabe worked together to foil the plot - but trust is hard to come by amongst spies and suspicion lingers throughout their agencies, both magical and national.
            In Season Two, Tanya and Gabe must deal with the fallout of their actions from Season One as each plays their own dangerous game to try to learn the secrets of the Flame without getting burned. Meanwhile a powerful sorcerer arrives in Prague to lead a ritual that could turn the tides of war...

This serial first premiered in 2016 and launches its second season on today, February 8! You can dive right into Season 1 Episode 1 for free right now - but anyone new to the snow and shadows will find more than enough context to enjoy the adventure from Season 2 on.




Intrigued? Hop over to SerialBox.com to learn more, start reading Season 1, or pre-order your pass to Season 2. From now through April, a new episode of this tale of spies and spells will drop every Wednesday.

Follow Serial Box on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook to keep up to date on today's hottest serial fiction.

Happy first Monday in February!

There are 6 debuts this week:

Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly;

Dr. Potter's Medicine Show by Eric Scott Fischl;

Nightwalker by Sebastian Fitzek;

The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgia De Maria;

All Our Wrongs Today by Elan Mastai;

and

Zodiac by Sam Wilson.



And from formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn;

With Blood Upon the Sand (Song of Shattered Sands 2) ny Bradley P. Beaulieu;

Hungry Ghosts (Eric Carter 3) by Stephen Blackmoore;

Magic of Blood and Sea: The Assassin's Curse; The Pirate's Wish by Cassandra Rose Clarke;

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley;

Midnight Curse (Disrupted Magic 1) by Melissa F. Olson;

and

The Damned (The Darkest Hand Trilogy 1) by Tarn Richardson is out in Trade Paperback.

Debut novels are highlighted in green. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in blue.


February 7, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Devil Crept In	Ania Ahlborn	H
Elisha Mancer	E.C. Ambrose	HistF/DF/F - Dark Apostle Series 4
With Blood Upon the Sand	Bradley P. Beaulieu	F/DF/SF - Song of Shattered Sands 2
Marked In Flesh (h2mm)	Anne Bishop	DF/CF/R/FR -A Novel of the Others 4
Hungry Ghosts	Stephen Blackmoore	UF/DF/P - Eric Carter 3
Crown of Doom and Light (e)	Jayde Brooks	CF - Daughter of Gods and Shadows 3
The Clairvoyants	Karen Brown	Gothic/Th/SupTh/Psy/LF
The Stolen Child	Lisa Carey	LF
Lucidity	David Carnoy	Th/Cr
Imprudence (h2tp)	Gail Carriger	SP - Custard Protocol 2
Magic of Blood and Sea: The Assassin's Curse; The Pirate's Wish	Cassandra Rose Clarke	F - Omnibus
Space Wolves	Ben Counter Rob Sanders Steve Lyons C L Werner	SF - Legends of the Dark Millennium 5
The Familiar, Volume 4: Hades	Mark Z. Danielewski	LF/SF/F/UF - Familiar 4
Universal Harvester	John Darnielle	LF/H
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology	Ellen Datlow	GB - Anthology
Super City Cops - Secret Identities (e)	Keith R. A. DeCandido	F/SH - S.C.P.D. 3
The Seer Collection: The Choosing / The Calling / The Returning (e)	Rachelle Dekker	Dys/SFR - Seer
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969	Samuel R. Delany Kenneth R. James (Ed)	L - The Journals of Samuel R. Delany
Amberlough (D)	Lara Elena Donnelly	HistF
The Pilgrims (tp2mm)	Will Elliott	CF - The Pendulum Trilogy 1
Sudden Death (h2tp)	Alvaro Enrigue Natasha Wimmer	LF/Hist/AH
Retribution	Shana Figueroa	PNR - Valentine Shepherd 2
Dr. Potter's Medicine Show (D)	Eric Scott Fischl	F/HistF/SF/SP
The Nightwalker (D- America)	Sebastian Fitzek	PsyTh
Norse Mythology	Neil Gaiman	FairyT/FolkT/LM
Caine's Mutiny	Charles E. Gannon	SF - Caine Riordan 4
The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death	Kim Harrison	UF - The Hollows Prequel
Revisionary (h2mm)	Jim C. Hines	UF/P/HU - Magic Ex Libris 4
The Stars Are Legion	Kameron Hurley	SF/SO
Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction	Nathaniel Isaacson	LC/SF/F - Early Classics of Science Fiction Series
Infernal Devices (ri)	K.W. Jeter	SP
The Perdition Score (h2tp)	Richard Kadrey	UF - Sandman Slim 8
Calgar's Siege	Paul Kearney	SF - Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Battles
Born of Vengeance	Sherrilyn Kenyon	SFR/F/CF/SF - The League: Nemesis Rising 10
Born of Legend (h2mm)	Sherrilyn Kenyon	SFR/F/CF/SF - The League: Nemesis Rising 9
The Macharian Crusade Omnibus	William King	SF - The Macharian Crusade
King of the Grey	Richard A. Knaak	SF/AP/PA - City of Shadows 1
Twilight Crossing	Susan Krinard	PNR - Nightsiders 7
The Execution Channel	Ken MacLeod	SF/AP/PA/Th
The Twenty Days of Turin (D - English Language)	Giorgio De Maria Ramon Glazov (Tr)	LF
The Burning World	Isaac Marion	LF/Z - Warm Bodies 2
All Our Wrong Todays (D)	Elan Mastai	SF/TT/LF/FL
Fleet Renegade	Susan R. Matthews	SF - Under Jurisdiction 2
Rebecca (ri)	Daphne Du Maurier	LF/Gothic/R - Everyman's Library
The Lonely Hearts Hotel	Heather O'Neill	HistF/MR/LF
Midnight Curse	Melissa F. Olson	UF - Disrupted Magic 1
The Damned (h2tp)	Tarn Richardson	DF - The Darkest Hand Trilogy 1
Grave	Michelle Sagara	UF/DF/P - Queen of the Dead 3
Archmage (h2mm)	R. A. Salvatore	F - Legend of Drizzt: Homecoming 1
Saturn Run (h2mm)	John Sandford Ctein	SF/Sus/Th
A Perfect Machine	Brett Savory	SF
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	SF - Macmillan Collector's Library 115
The One Inside (D)	Sam Shepard	LF/VisMeta
Autumn	Ali Smith	LF.VisMeta/CW
The Beauty of Destruction	Gavin G. Smith	SF
Desperation Road	Michael Farris Smith	Gothic
Lotus Blue (e)	Cat Sparks	SF/AP/PA/GenEng
The Black Wolves of Boston	Wen Spencer	CF
The People's Police	Norman Spinrad	CF/Occ/Sup
Winter Be My Shield	Jo Spurrier	F - Children of the Black Sun 1
Kill Before Dying	Travis S. Taylor	SF - Tau Ceti Agenda 5
NK3	Michael Tolkin	LF.SF/AP/PA/Satire
Infinite Chaos (e)	William Vitka	Occ/Sup/M - Madness Reports 2
Idle Ingredients	Matt Wallace	UF/HU - A Sin du Jour Affair 4
Hard to Handle: A Beauty and Beast Novel	Christine Warren	PNR/P/Gothic - Gargoyles Series 5
The Great Martian War: Breakthrough	Scott Washburn	SP - Great Martian Invasion 2
Zodiac (D)	Sam Wilson	Th

February 8, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Old Dispensation: A Tor.com Original	Lavie Tidhar	SF/SO

February 9, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Bear and the Serpent (e)	Adrian Tchaikovsky	F - Echoes of the Fall 2

February 10, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Fire.	Elizabeth Hand	Outspoken Authors - Collection

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Ke - Kindly only eBook
mm - Mass Market Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GB - Genre Bender
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghosts
GN - Graphic Novel
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
Meta - Metaphysical
MR - Magical Realism
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
Vis - Visionary


Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Happy Monday!


There is one debut this week -

The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy 1) by James Islington.




From formerly feature DAC Authors:

Remnants of Trust (Central Corps 2) by Elizabeth Bonesteel;

The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke is reissued;

Jeroun: The Collected Omnibus by Zachary Jernigan;

Belle Chasse (Sentinels of New Orleans 5) by Suzanne Johnson;

The Last Song Before Midnight by Ilana C. Myer is out in Trade Paperback;

and

After Atlas (A Planetfall Novel 2) by Emma Newman.




Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors are highlighted in green.






November 8, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Sabbat Martyr	Dan Abnett	SF - Gaunt's Ghosts 7
Cocktails at Seven, Apocalypse at Eight: The Derby Cavendish Stories	Don Bassingthwaite	Occ/Sup
House of Mystery	Courtney Bates-Hardy	FairyT/Poetry
Remnants of Trust	Elizabeth Bonesteel	SF - Central Corps 2
The City Will Crumble	Kristina Circelli	H/GH/Occ - The Five Flames 4
The Mad Scientist's Daughter (ri)	Cassandra Rose Clarke	SF
The Role of Lightning in Evolution	David Clink	SpecFic/Poetry
Ashes of the Tyrant (h2mm)	Erin M. Evans	F - Neverwinter / Brimstone Angels 5
Leopard's Fury	Christine Feehan	PNR - A Leopard Novel 9
A Hunter Under the Mistletoe: All Is Bright\Heat of a Helios	Addison Fox Karen Whiddon	SFR
Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space	Emelyne Godfrey (Ed)	HC
Immortal Billionaire	Jane Godman	PNR
The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert (h2tp)	Frank Herbert	SF - Collection
Tales from the Darkside: Scripts by Joe Hill	Joe Hill	H
The Shadow of What Was Lost (D)	James Islington	F - The Licanius Trilogy 1
Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress: An Official Mojang Book	Craig Jelley	Minecraft: Exploded Builds
Jeroun: The Collected Omnibus	Zachary Jernigan	SF
Belle Chasse	Suzanne Johnson	UF - Sentinels of New Orleans 5
Rockabilly Hell (e)(ri)	William W. Johnstone	H
The Secret Life of Souls	Jack Ketchum Lucky McKee	PsySus
Sons of Corax	George Mann	SF - Legends of the Dark Millennium 3
The Jekyll Revelation	Robert Masello	Hist/Th
Silver Road	James Maxwell	F - The Shifting Tides 2
Promise of Wrath	Steve McHugh	CF - The Hellequin Chronicles 6
The Chemist	Stephenie Meyer	Th
A Garden Fed by Lightning	Marshall Moore	H - Collection
Last Song Before Night (h2tp)	Ilana C. Myer	F
The Mountain of Kept Memory	Rachel Neumeier	F
After Atlas	Emma Newman	SF - Planetfall 2
The Calorium Wars: An Extravaganza of the Gilded Age	Dennis O'Flaherty	SP
Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood	Lara Parker	P - Dark Shadows 4
The Iron Beast	Andy Remic	HistF - A Song for No Man's Land 3
Hearts of Darkness	Andrea Speed	SF/Meta/SH
Bridging Infinity	Jonathan Strahan (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Very Sensible Stories and Poems for Grown Persons	Jason Taniguchi	Poetry
Fireside Gothic	Andrew Taylor	Gothic - Collection
A Trail Through Time	Jodi Taylor	SF/TT - Chronicles of St. Mary's 4
Jim Henson's Labyrinth Artist Tribute	Jim Henson et al.	F/Film
Cyber World: Tales of Humanity's Tomorrow	Jason Heller (Ed) Joshua Viola (Ed)	CyberP - Anthology
New Eden	William Vitka	SF/AP/PA - Hellcat 3
Skinner Luce (h2tp)	Patricia Ward	UF/Th
Dark Titan Journey: Sanctioned Catastrophe	Thomas A. Watson	SF/PA/AP - Dark Titan 1
At the Sign of Triumph	David Weber	SF - Safehold 9
Alien Morning	Rick Wilber	SF
StarCraft: Evolution	Timothy Zahn	SF - Starcraft

November 9, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Reverse Documentary: A Tor.com Original (e)	Marisela Navarro	DF

November 10, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Arista's Legacy (e)	Deborah Cooke	SFR - The Dragons of Incendium Short Stories 2

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
mm - Mass Market Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback


AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CM - Cozy Mystery
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CyberP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F _ Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GN - Graphic Novel
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
Meta - Metaphysical
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PsySus - Psychological Suspense
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy


Note: Not all of these genres and formats are represented in the books above.

Happy Monday! One week until Halloween!


There are 2 debuts this week:

The Machine Society: Rich or Poor. They Want You To Be a Prisoner by Mike Brooks;

and

Every Mountain Made Low by Alex White.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Mortal Sins (A Shadowside Novella) by Michelle Belanger;

Bohemian Gospel (Bohemian Gospel 1) by Dana Chamblee Carpenter is out in Trade Paperback;

Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke is out in Trade Paperback;

The Shards of Heaven (The Shards of Heaven 1) by Michael Livingston is out in Trade Paperback;

Cloak of War (Empress Game Trilogy 2) by Rhonda Mason;

Faller by Will McIntosh;

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia;

and

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson.




Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors are highlighted in green.






October 25, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar	David Annandale	SF - The Horus Heresy: Primarchs 1
Mortal Sins (e)	Michelle Belanger	DF/UF - Shadowside Novella
Charlotte's Story (h2tp)	Laura Benedict	SupTh - Bliss House 2
The Terranauts	T. C. Boyle	Hist
Lost Gods	Brom	DF
The Last Days of Salton Academy	Jennifer Brozek	H
The Plague of Swords	Miles Cameron	F - The Traitor Son Cycle 4
Bohemian Gospel (h2tp)	Dana Chamblee Carpenter	Hist - Bohemian Gospel 1
2001: A Space Odyssey (ri)	Arthur C. Clarke	SF - Penguin Galaxy
Our Lady of the Ice (h2tp)	Cassandra Rose Clarke	SF
Goodnight Batcave	Dave Croatto Tom Richmond (Illus)	Hu/Comics/Parody
Doctor Who: Supreme Dalek and Illustrated Book: With Light and Sound	Richard Dinnick	SF - Doctor Who
Altered Starscape	Ian Douglas	SF - Andromedan Dark 1
Dracula vs. Hitler	Patrick Sheane Duncan	HistF/SupTh
Angel in Chains	Cynthia Eden	PNR - Fallen 3
The Hanged Man (h2tp)	P. N. Elrod	SP
Anansi Boys (ri)	Neil Gaiman	Fict/F
Neuromancer (ri)	William Gibson	CyberP - Penguin Galaxy
The Devil Will Come	Justin Gustainis	H - Collection
Shadowsword	Guy Haley	SF - Astra Militarum
Stranger in a Strange Land (ri)	Robert A. Heinlein	SF - Penguin Galaxy
Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Penguin Galaxy
Not on Fire, but Burning (h2tp)	Greg Hrbek	Dys/LF/SF/AP/PA
Cat's Eye (e)(ri)	William W. Johnstone	H
Dark Detectives: An Anthology of Supernatural Mysteries (tp2mm)	Stephen Jones (Ed)	F/DF/M - Anthology
Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time	Robert Jordan Amy Romanczuk	F - Wheel of Time
Black Ice Burning	A. R. Kahler	UF - Pale Queen Series 3
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (ri)	Stephen King	Sus - The Dark Tower 1
The Left Hand of Darkness (ri)	Ursula K. Le Guin	SF - Penguin Galaxy
Coldbrook	Tim Lebbon	H/SF/AP/PA
The Shards of Heaven (h2tp)	Michael Livingston	HistF - The Shards of Heaven 1
Hallow Point (tp2mm)	Ari Marmell	UF/DF - A Mick Oberon Job 2
Cloak of War	Rhonda Mason	F/CF/SF/SO - Empress Game Trilogy 2
The Star of the Sea	Una McCormack	SF/SO - Weird Space 2
Faller	Will McIntosh	SF
Prey: Book Two: The Jackal's Trick	John Jackson Miller	SF - Star Trek
Certain Dark Things	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	CF
Onward, Drake! (h2tp)	Mark L. Van Name (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Famished Road (e)(ri)	Ben Okri	MR/LF
The Immortal's Guide	S.C. Parris	DF - The Dark World 2
The Two Swords	S.C. Parris	DF - The Dark World 3
Doctor Who: The Whoniverse: The Untold History of Space and Time	Justin Richards George Mann	TV - Doctor Who
Cast in Flight	Michelle Sagara	F/M - Chronicles of Elantra 12
Hero: Homecoming, Book III	R. A. Salvatore	F - Homecoming 3
DemonWars: First Heroes: The Highwayman and The Ancient (e)	R. A. Salvatore	F - Saga of the First King 1
Shadow of Ullanor	Rob Sanders	SF - The Beast Arises 11
The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime	Paul Scheerbart	SF/LF
The British Lion (h2tp)	Tony Schumacher	AH/Th
Kris Longknife: Bold	Mike Shepherd	SF - Kris Longknife 14
A Vampire's Hunger	Carla Susan Smith	PNR - Vampire's Promise 4
The Blood Mirror	Brent Weeks	F - Lightbringer 4
Every Mountain Made Low (D)	Alex White	F
The Once and Future King (ri)	T. H. White	F - Penguin Galaxy
A Taste of Honey	Kai Ashante Wilson	F
Dragon and Thief (ri)	Timothy Zahn	SF - Dragonback 1

October 28, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Machine Society: Rich or Poor. They Want You To Be a Prisoner (D)	Mike Brooks	Dys

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Illus - Illustrator
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback


AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CW - Contemporary Women
CyberP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F _ Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghosts
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
Hu - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
M - Mystery
Meta - Metaphysical
MR - Magical Realism
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
ParaTh - Paranormal Thriller
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TV - Television
UF - Urban Fantasy

Note: Not all of these genres and formats are represented in the books above.

Curtis C. Chen (2016)

Kangaroo Too
Kangaroo 2
Thomas Dunne Books, June 20, 2017
Hardcover, 320 pages

J. Kathleen Cheney (2013)

Iron Shoes: Three Tales from Hawk's Folly Farm
EQP Books, April 4, 2016
eBook and Trade Paperback, 303 pages

For the first time, these three novellas are collected into one volume: Iron Shoes; Snow Comes to Hawk's Folly; and Snowfall.

Iron Shoes
Imogen Hawkes is running out of time. She must come up with enough money to prevent the bank from foreclosing on her farm. All her hopes are pinned on her horse winning the Special Stakes.

But things keep going wrong, and it's soon clear someone is determined to stop her. As race day draws closer, Imogen finds unexpected sources of help...including the new stallion she's purchased from Boston, who's not at all what he seems.

Despite a life spent avoiding it, Imogen learns that magic may be her best ally....

Snow Comes to Hawk's Folly:
Imogen has the life she's always wanted. Her farm is thriving, as is her family. But a guest comes to the farm, bringing trouble in his wake.
When Imogen's son disappears, how far will she go to get him back? Is it magic? Or something more mundane? In her family, the mundane is rarely to blame...

Snowfall:
Lourdes Medina has left everything she knows. Following a vision in a dream, she's gone north to Saratoga Springs to buy back the mare her brother sold out from under her. But the horse's new owner, Finn, makes her an interesting offer in return for the horse. Against her better judgment, Lourdes becomes entangled in his family's problems…and it seems she's unwittingly gained an enemy, a woman who will go to any length to get the husband she wants.
But Finn is a mystery. He seems to have abilities that she's never seen before, including the ability to overhear her speaking to horses. It's Lourdes' one small magic--she can speak directly to a horse, mind to mind, and they obey her word. When she learns the truth about Finn, that's when things truly become complicated. What exactly is a puca?

Whatever Else
EQP Books, July 4, 2016
eBook, 25 pages

Maia is a young woman with only a small gift: the ability to watch others from afar. To cement a treaty between two clans, she married Arras, a young man she's known most of her life. But when her brother comes to visit, he reveals a shameful secret that leaves Maia questioning everything she believes about her husband. Now she must use her small gift to determine the truth of her brother's claim...and decide whether to stay at her husband's side or flee him.

The Dragon's Child: Six Short Stories
Pronoun, July 28, 2016
eBook, 185 pages

Kseniya Ilyevna originally came to the mountain of the Dragon Wizard to protect her younger sister, but when she learns of the wizard’s true plans for his daughter, she vows to spirit the child away. In seizing freedom for the little girl—her sister’s child, Jia-li—Kseniya finds herself tied to the Zheng family and all the strange events that befall them. In six short stories, we follow Kseniya and her extended family as Jia-li grows into a budding wizard herself.

After the War
A Novella of the Golden City
EQP Books, August 16, 2016
Paperback and eBook, 103 pages

After the Great War, Alejandro Ferreira wandered across Europe, unable even to remember his name, until one night in Lisboa, a young woman recognizes him. She brings him home to his family--one he can't recall, but very much wants to keep.

His seer's gift has been as much of a trial as a blessing. It didn't keep him out of trouble during the Great War, either--someone cursed him to lose his memory. Someone else is after him, wanting him to keep a secret he doesn't even remember he has. And he quickly learns that all is not well between himself and his lovely wife. Without his memories or his seer's gift, can Alejandro rebuild his life and unveil his stalker before they eliminate him?

The Sparrow in Hiding
EQP Books, October 18, 2016
eBook, 112 pages

Irina’s family has come to the countryside to escape the summer heat of St. Petersburg, but she discovers a new worker has been hired to maintain her family’s aviary, a one-armed man who poses an intriguing mystery.

Evgeny is hiding from a witch. With the help of his younger sister, he’d survived the witch’s curse, but in the aftermath, he was left with only one arm, eyes that appear inhuman, and an ability to see the truth in others’ souls.

Will he ever be safe from the witch again?

Adam Christopher (2011)

Dishonored - The Corroded Man
Titan Books, September 27, 2016
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 368 pages

A strange, shrouded figure appears in Dunwall, seeming to possess powers once wielded by the assassin known as Daud. Faced with the possibility that their deadliest foe has returned, Emily and Corvo plunge headlong into a life-and-death race against time. If they fail to learn the truth about this mysterious enemy, the result could be destruction on an unimaginable scale.

Made to Kill
L.A. Trilogy 1
Tor Books, October 11, 2016
Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Hardcover and eBook, November 3, 2015

In an alternate version of 1960s Los Angeles, the world's only robot detective has been turned into a hit man by his corrupted master computer.

Ray is good at the job, too—not only does nobody suspect the world's last robot is a hit man, his fame allows the Electromatic Detective Agency to continue as the perfect front, and with a twenty-four-hour memory limit, he sure can keep a secret.

When a woman arrives at the agency wanting to hire Ray to investigate the brutal murder of a priest, his attempts to dissuade her are overruled when she produces a lucrative advance payment. Profit is profit, and Ray accepts the job, even though the woman demands total anonymity. She tells them not to try to reach her—she'll call when the time is right—and she vanishes into the city.

Ray's investigation leads him into a dark world of Hollywood intrigue, where the glamorous jet set societies are under the spell of a mysterious bandage-swathed man. The man and his champagne-sipping circle of followers conduct Satanic rituals behind Hollywood's razzle-dazzle façade—rituals that lead to . . . murder!

Made to Kill is the thrilling new speculative noir from novelist and comic writer Adam Christopher.

Standard Hollywood Depravity
L.A. Trilogy
Tor.com, March 7, 2017
Trade Paperback and eBook, 176 pages

The moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.

Honey.

As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancer’s cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion. A shot, under the cover of darkness, a body bleeding out in a corner, and most of Los Angeles’ population of hired guns hulking, sour-faced over un-drunk whiskey sours at the bar.

But as Ray tries to track down the package he was dispatched to the club to retrieve, his own programming might be working against him, sending him down a long hall and straight into a mobster’s paradise. Is Honey still the goal—or was she merely bait for a bigger catch?

Just your standard bit of Hollywood depravity, as tracked by the memory tapes of a less-than-standard robot hitman.

Killing Is My Business
L.A. Trilogy 2
Tor Books, July 25, 2017
Hardcover, 256 pages

Wesley Chu (2013)

The Days of Tao
Subterranean Press, April 2016
Hardcover, 120 pages
Dust Jacket Illustration: Galen Dara

Cameron Tan wouldn’t have even been in Greece if he hadn’t gotten a ‘D’ in Art History.

Instead of spending the summer after college completing his training as a Prophus operative, he’s doing a study abroad program in Greece, enjoying a normal life – spending time with friends and getting teased about his crush on a classmate.

Then the emergency notification comes in: a Prophus agent with vital information needs immediate extraction, and Cameron is the only agent on the ground, responsible for getting the other agent and data out of the country. The Prophus are relying on him to uncomplicate things.
Easy.

Easy, except the rival Genjix have declared all-out war against the Prophus, which means Greece is about to be a very dangerous place. And the agent isn’t the only person relying on Cameron to get them safely out of the country – his friends from the study abroad program are, too. Cameron knows a good agent would leave them to fend for themselves. He also knows a good person wouldn’t. Suddenly, things aren’t easy at all.

The Days of Tao is the latest in the popular Tao series from award-winning author, Wesley Chu. Following after The Rebirths of Tao, this novella carries on the fast-moving and fun tone of the series.

The Rise of Io
Io 1
Angry Robot October 4, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 352 pages

Ella Patel – thief, con-artist and smuggler – is in the wrong place at the wrong time. One night, on the border of a demilitarized zone run by the body-swapping alien invaders, she happens upon a man and woman being chased by a group of assailants. The man freezes, leaving the woman to fight off five attackers at once, before succumbing. As she dies, to both Ella and the man’s surprise, the sparkling light that rises from the woman enters Ella, instead of the man. She soon realizes she’s been inhabited by Io, a low-ranking Quasing who was involved in some of the worst decisions in history. Now Ella must now help the alien presence to complete her mission and investigate a rash of murders in the border states that maintain the frail peace.

With the Prophus assigned to help her seemingly wanting to stab her in the back, and the enemy Genjix hunting her, Ella must also deal with Io’s annoying inferiority complex. To top it all off, Ella thinks the damn alien voice in her head is trying to get her killed. And if you can’t trust the voices in your head, who can you trust?

File Under: Science Fiction [ Ella From the Block | Alien Insider | War Without End | Shape Up and Strike Back ]

Time Seige
Time Salvager 2
Tor Books, July 4, 2017
Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Hardcover and eBooks, July 12, 2016

Cassandra Rose Clarke (2013)

Our Lady of Ice
Saga Press, October 25, 2016
Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Hardcover and eBook, October 27, 2015

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union meets The Windup Girl when a female PI goes up against a ruthless gangster—just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in an Argentinian colony in Antarctica.

In Argentine Antarctica, Eliana Gomez is the only female PI in Hope City—a domed colony dependent on electricity (and maintenance robots) for heat, light, and survival in the icy deserts of the continent. At the center is an old amusement park—now home only to the androids once programmed to entertain—but Hope City’s days as a tourist destination are long over. Now the City produces atomic power for the mainland while local factions agitate for independence and a local mobster, Ignacio Cabrera, runs a brisk black-market trade in illegally imported food.

Eliana doesn’t care about politics. She doesn’t even care much that her boyfriend, Diego, works as muscle for Cabrera. She just wants to save enough money to escape Hope City. But when an aristocrat hires Eliana to protect an explosive personal secret, Eliana finds herself caught up in the political tensions threatening to tear Hope City apart. In the clash of backstabbing politicians, violent freedom fighters, a gangster who will stop at nothing to protect his interests, and a newly sentient robot underclass intent on a very different independence, Eliana finds her job coming into deadly conflict with Diego’s—just as the electricity keeping Hope City from freezing begins to fail…

With the inner workings of the mob combined with the story of a revolution, “Clarke brings novelty and delight to steampunk Antarctica in this complex and lovely mystery” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Our Lady of the Ice questions what it means to be human, what it means to be free, and whether we’re ever able to transcend our pasts and our programming to find true independence.

The Mad Scientist's Daughter
Saga Press, November 8, 2016
Hardcover, Trade Paperback and eBook, 336 pages

Nominated for the Phillip K. Dick Award, a science fiction fairy tale set in a collapsing future America about a girl and the android she falls in love with.

When Cat Novak was a young girl, her father brought Finn, an experimental android, to their isolated home. A billion-dollar construct, Finn looks and acts human, but he has no desire to be one. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection.

His primary task now is to tutor Cat. Finn stays with her, becoming her constant companion and friend as she grows into adulthood. But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, Finn struggles to find his place in the world. As their relationship goes further than anyone intended, they have to face the threat of being separated forever.

Magic of Blood and Sea: The Assassin's Curse; The Pirate's Wish
Saga Press, February 7, 2017
Hardcover, Trade Paperback and eBook, 544 pages

A pirate princess and a cursed assassin find their fates intertwined in this gorgeous and thrilling adventure.

Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to an ally pirate clan. She wants to captain her own boat, not serve as second-in-command to a handsome and clueless man. But her escape has dire consequences when she learns that her fiancé’s clan has sent an assassin after her.

And when this assassin, Naji, finally finds her, things get even worse. Ananna inadvertently triggers a nasty curse—with a life-altering result. Now, Ananna and Naji are forced to become uneasy allies as they work to complete three impossible tasks that will cure the curse.

Unfortunately, Naji has enemies from the shadowy world known as the Mists, and Ananna must face the repercussions of betraying her engagement that set her off on her adventures. Together, the two must break the curse, escape their enemies, and come to terms with their growing romantic attraction.

Star's End
Saga Press, March 21, 2017
Hardcover and eBook, 448 pages

A new space opera about a young woman who must face the truth about her father’s past from critically acclaimed author Cassandra Rose Clarke.

The Corominas family owns a small planet system, which consists of one gaseous planet and four terraformed moons, nicknamed the Four Sisters. Phillip Coromina, the patriarch of the family, earned his wealth through a manufacturing company he started as a young man and is preparing his eldest daughter, Esme, to take over the company when he dies.

When Esme comes of age and begins to take over the business, she gradually discovers the reach of her father’s company, the sinister aspects of its work with alien DNA, and the shocking betrayal that estranged her three half-sisters from their father. After a lifetime of following her father’s orders, Esme must decide if she should agree to his dying wish of assembling her sisters for a last goodbye or face her role in her family’s tragic undoing.