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Happy Monday!

There are 2 debuts this week:

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green;

and

The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Game of Luck (A Felicia Sevigny Novel 3) by Catherine Cerveny;

Dishonored - The Veiled Terror by Adam Christopher;

Bells, Spells, and Murders (A Witch City Mystery 7) by Carol J. Perry;

and

Vengeful (Villains 2) by V.E. Schwab.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

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

September 24, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Iron Devils (Ke)	Ari Marmell	SF/Dys/DF
Tales of an Extraordinary Girl Complete Collection: Playing with Fire\Twice as Hot (e)	Gena Showalter	FR - Tales of an Extraordinary Girl 1

September 25, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Pagan Night (tp2mm)	Tim Akers	F - Hallowed War 1
Barren	Peter V. Brett	F - Demon Cycle
Children of the Fleet (h2mm)	Orson Scott Card	SF/SO - Fleet School 1
The Game of Luck	Catherine Cerveny	SFR/SO - A Felicia Sevigny Novel 3
Dishonored - The Veiled Terror	Adam Christopher	MTS/SF/SP
The Monster Hunter Files (h2tp)	Larry Correia (Ed) Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed)	CF - Monster Hunter Anthology
The Ghost and the Bogus Best Seller	Cleo Coyle	PCM/GH - A Haunted Bookshop Mystery 6
Phoenix Unbound	Grace Draven	FR/P - The Fallen Empire 1
The Killing Joke	Christa Faust Gary Phillips	MTI/SH/Cr - Batman
Challenger's Hope (ri)	David Feintuch	SF/AC - The Seafort Saga 2
Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne Deluxe Edition	David Gaider	F - Dragon Age
Beowulf (h2tp)	Santiago Garcia David Rubin (Artist)	F/GN
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (D)	Hank Green	CoA/SF/CF
The Gates of Tagmeth (tp2mm)	P.C. Hodgell	F - Kencyrath
Original Syn	Beth Kander	SF - Original/Syn 1
Downright Dead	Pamela Kopfler	PCM - A B&B Spirits Mystery 2
A Scandal in Battersea (h2mm)	Mercedes Lackey	HistF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Elemental Masters 12
Cross Breed	Lora Leigh	PNR/SFR/GenEng - Breeds 32
A Glimmer of Hope (h2tp)	Steve McHugh	UF - The Avalon Chronicles 1
The Mongrel Mage (h2mm)	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	F - Saga of Recluce 19
Burning Sky	Weston Ochse	SF/H
Bells, Spells, and Murders	Carol J. Perry	PCM - A Witch City Mystery 7
A Rival From the Grave	Seabury Quinn	F/Occ/Sup - The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin 4
Star Trek Shipyards Star Trek Starships: 2151-2293 The Encyclopedia of Starfleet Ships	Ben Robinson Marcus Reily	PerfArts/SF
The Sisters of the Winter Wood (D)	Rena Rossner	HistF/FairyT/FolkT/LM/CoA
Vengeful	V. E. Schwab	SH/P - Villains 2
Zero-G: Green Space (h2tp)	William Shatner Jeff Rovin	SF/HSF - The Samuel Lord Series 2
All Flesh Is Grass (ri)	Clifford D. Simak	SF
The Werewolf Principle (ri)	Clifford D. Simak	S
Time and Again (ri)	Clifford D. Simak	SF
The Electric State	Simon Stålenhag	SF/AP/PA
Split Tooth	Tanya Tagaq	Bio/MR
Deepest Blue	Mindy Tarquini	FairyT/Folkt/LM/MR
Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature	Sheldon Teitelbaum (Ed) Emanuel Lottem (Ed)	SpecFic - Anthology
Forged in Blood (h2mm)	Michael Z. Williamson (Ed)	SF - Freehold Anthology

September 27, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Doctor Who:The Women Who Lived True Tales of: Brilliant Women from across Time & Space (e)	Christel Dee Simon Guerrier	SF - Doctor Who

September 28, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Babylon Terminal (e)	Greg F. Gifune	H

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



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Woman
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
GN - Graphic Novel
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
Hist R - Historical Romance
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Parnormal Cozy Mystery
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
Sc - Science
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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

Happy first Monday in December!

There is one debut this week:

Glass Town by Steven Savile.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy 2) by Katherine Arden;

Defiant (Lightship Chronicles 3) by Dave Bara is out in Mass Market Paperback;

Danger's Race (Holly Danger 3) by Amanda Carlson;

The Chaos of Luck (A Felicia Sevigny Novel 2) by Catherine Cerveny is out in Trade Paperback;

The Forever Ship (The Fire Sermon 3) by Francesca Haig;

and

Steadfast (e) (Birth of Saints 3) by Michelle Hauck.

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

December 4, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Danger's Race (e)	Amanda Carlson	SF/PA/Dys - Holly Danger 3
Chosen One (e)	Scarlett Dawn	FR - Forever Evermore 6

December 5, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Canto Bight	Saladin Ahmed Rae Carson Mira Grant John Jackson Miller	SF - Journey to Star War: The Last Jedi
The Girl in the Tower	Katherine Arden	F - Winternight Trilogy 2
The Black Tide (e)	Keri Arthur	SF/GenEng/PA - Outcast Novel 3
Defiant (h2mm)	Dave Bara	SF - Lightship Chronicles 3
The Wicked Vampire	Kate Baxter	PNR - Last True Vampire 6
Immortal Life: A Soon To Be True Story	Stanley Bing	LF/TechnoTh/SF
Alive in Shape and Color: 17 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired	Lawrence Block (Ed)	LF - Anthology
The Art of Star Trek: The Kelvin Timeline	Jeff Bond	Art/SF - Star Trek
The Chaos of Luck	Catherine Cerveny	SFR - A Felicia Sevigny Novel 2
Persepolis Rising	James S. A. Corey	SF/SO -The Expanse 7
The Outcast Chronicles	Rowena Cory Daniells	F - Outcast Chronicles Omnibus
1636: The Vatican Sanction	Eric Flint Charles E. Gannon	SF - Ring of Fire 24
Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness (h2mm)	Terry Goodkind	F - The Nicci Chronicles 1
The Rising (h2mm)	Heather Graham Jon Land	Th/Sus
The Macedonian	Nicholas Guild	HistTh
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters	Ursula K. Le Guin	Essays
The Forever Ship	Francesca Haig	SF/AP/PA - The Fire Sermon 3
Steadfast (e)	Michelle Hauck	HistF - Birth of Saints 3
The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF/SO
The Sword of Midras: A Shroud of the Avatar Novel (h2tp)	Tracy Hickman Richard Garriott	F - Blade of the Avatar 1
Flame in the Dark	Faith Hunter	UF - A Soulwood Novel 3
The Order War (ri)	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	F - Saga of Recluce 4
The Wrong Dead Guy (h2tp)	Richard Kadrey	F/HU - Another Coop Heist 2
Record of a Night Too Brief	Hiromi Kawakami	Psy - Japanese Novellas
The Moon and the Other (h2tp)	John Kessel	SF
Legends of the Dragonrealm: Cut from the Same Shadow and Other Tales	Richard A. Knaak	F - Dragonrealm Novellas
The Dreamer's Song	Lynn Kurland	FR - A Novel of the Nine Kingdoms 11
Pathways	Mercedes Lackey (Ed)	F - Valdemar Anthology 11
The Witch's Thirst	Deborah LeBlanc	PNR
The White Serpent	Tanith Lee	F - Wars of Vis 3
A War in Crimson Embers	Alex Marshall	F - The Crimson Empire 3
Mississippi Roll	George R. R. Martin Wild Cards Trust	SH - Wild Cards 15
Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson	Richard Matheson	H - Collection
Fleet Insurgent	Susan R. Matthews	SF - Under Jurisdiction 8
The Crimson King	Graham McNeill	SF - The Horus Heresy 44
One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning	David Moody	Dys - Hater 4
The Last Sacrifice (tp2mm)	James A. Moore	F - Tides of War 1
Heart Sight	Robin Owens	PNR - A Celta Novel 14
Plague Garden	Josh Reynolds	F - Hallowed Knights 1
Year One	Nora Roberts	F/P - Chronicles of the One 1
The Demon Crown	James Rollins	Th - Sigma Force 13
Glass Town (D)	Steven Savile	CF
Hymn	Ken Scholes	SF - The Psalms of Isaak 5
Princess Holy Aura	Ryk E. Spoor	CF
Winterglass	Benjanun Sriduangkaew	ScF
Empire Games: A Tale of the Merchant Princes Universe (h2tp)	Charles Stross	SF - Empire Games 1
God's Last Breath	Sam Sykes	F - Bring Down Heaven 3
Rosewater (e)	Tade Thompson	SF

December 6, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Sword and Spirit (e)	Karen Lord	HistF - Tremontaine Season 3 9
Save Point (e)	E. C. Myers	SF/Th - ReMade Season 2 4

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



AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
H - Horror
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Psy - Psychological
ScF - Science Fantasy
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SP - SteamPunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

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

December 1, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Fallen (e)	Michele Hauf	PNR - Of Angels and Demons 3
Heartland	Lucy Hounsom	F - The Worldmaker Trilogy 2
A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms Volume 3: The Sleeping Beauty\Beauty and the Werewolf (e)	Mercedes Lackey	F - A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
The Witch's Thirst (e)	Deborah LeBlanc	PNR
Third Flatiron Best of 2017	Juliana Rew (Ed)	SpecFic - Anthology
The Unyielding	Gary J. Shipley	H
Spy Glass (e)(ri)	Maria V. Snyder	FR - Chronicles of Ixia

December 4, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Danger's Race (e)	Amanda Carlson	SF/PA/Dys - Holly Danger 3
Chosen One (e)	Scarlett Dawn	FR - Forever Evermore 6

December 5, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Canto Bight	Saladin Ahmed Rae Carson Mira Grant John Jackson Miller	SF - Star Wars
The Girl in the Tower	Katherine Arden	F - Winternight Trilogy 2
The Black Tide (e)	Keri Arthur	SF/GenEng/PA - Outcast Novel 3
Defiant	Dave Bara	SF - Lightship Chronicles 3
The Wicked Vampire	Kate Baxter	PNR - Last True Vampire 6
Immortal Life: A Soon To Be True Story	Stanley Bing	LF/TechnoTh/SF
Alive in Shape and Color: 17 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired	Lawrence Block (Ed)	LF - Anthology
The Art of Star Trek: The Kelvin Timeline	Jeff Bond	Art/SF - Star Trek
The Chaos of Luck	Catherine Cerveny	SFR - A Felicia Sevigny Novel 2
Persepolis Rising	James S. A. Corey	SF/SO -The Expanse 7
The Outcast Chronicles	Rowena Cory Daniells	F - Outcast Chronicles Omnibus
1636: The Vatican Sanction	Eric Flint Charles E. Gannon	SF - Ring of Fire 24
Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness (h2mm)	Terry Goodkind	F - The Nicci Chronicles 1
The Rising (h2mm)	Heather Graham Jon Land	Th/Sus
The Macedonian	Nicholas Guild	HistTh
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters	Ursula K. Le Guin	Essays
The Forever Ship	Francesca Haig	SF/AP/PA - The Fire Sermon 3
Steadfast (e)	Michelle Hauck	HistF - Birth of Saints 3
The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF/SO
The Sword of Midras: A Shroud of the Avatar Novel	Tracy Hickman Richard Garriott	F - Blade of the Avatar 1
Flame in the Dark	Faith Hunter	UF - A Soulwood Novel 3
The Order War (ri)	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	F - Saga of Recluce 4
The Wrong Dead Guy (h2tp)	Richard Kadrey	F/HU - Another Coop Heist 2
Record of a Night Too Brief	Hiromi Kawakami	Psy - Japanese Novellas
The Moon and the Other	John Kessel	SF
Legends of the Dragonrealm: Cut from the Same Shadow and Other Tales	Richard A. Knaak	F - Dragonrealm Novellas
The Dreamer's Song	Lynn Kurland	FR - A Novel of the Nine Kingdoms 11
Pathways	Mercedes Lackey (Ed)	F - Valdemar Anthology 11
The Witch's Thirst	Deborah LeBlanc	PNR
The White Serpent	Tanith Lee	F - Wars of Vis 3
A War in Crimson Embers	Alex Marshall	F - The Crimson Empire 3
Mississippi Roll	George R. R. Martin Wild Cards Trust	SH - Wild Cards 15
Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson	Richard Matheson	H - Collection
Fleet Insurgent	Susan R. Matthews	SF - Under Jurisdiction 8
The Crimson King	Graham McNeill	SF - The Horus Heresy 44
One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning	David Moody	Dys - Hater 4
The Last Sacrifice	James A. Moore	F - Tides of War 1
Heart Sight	Robin Owens	PNR - A Celta Novel 14
Plague Garden	Josh Reynolds	F - Hallowed Knights 1
Year One	Nora Roberts	F/P - Chronicles of the One 1
The Demon Crown	James Rollins	Th - Sigma Force 13
Glass Town (D)	Steven Savile	CF
Hymn	Ken Scholes	SF - The Psalms of Isaak 5
Princess Holy Aura	Ryk E. Spoor	CF
Winterglass	Benjanun Sriduangkaew	ScF
Empire Games: A Tale of the Merchant Princes Universe	Charles Stross	SF - Empire Games 1
God's Last Breath	Sam Sykes	F - Bring Down Heaven 3
Rosewater (e)	Tade Thompson	SF

December 6, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Sword and Spirt (e)	Karen Lord Joel Derfner	HistF - Tremontaine Season 3 9
Save Point (e)	E. C. Myers Amy Rose Capetta	SF/Th - ReMade Season 2 4

December 11, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Emerald Princess: and Other Decadent Fantasies	Félicien Champsaur Brian Stableford (Tr)	F/H
Windhome	Kristen Landon	SF

December 12, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Warmaster	Dan Abnett	SF - Gaunt's Ghosts 14
The Founding	Dan Abnett	SF - Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus
The Art of Ferdinand	Titan Books	Art
The Art of Destiny, Volume 2	Bungie	SF
The Mannequin Makers (D-US)	Craig Cliff	LF
Odysseus Awakening	Evan Currie	SF/SP - Odyssey One 6
Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland	Ellen Datlow (Ed)	F - Anthology
A Sword of Truth Set: Richard and Kahlan (The Omen Machine, The Third Kingdom, Severed Souls, Warheart) (e)	Terry Goodkind	F - Richard and Kahlan
Seven Deadly Ghosts	C.L. Hernandez	F/DF - The Complicated Life of Deegie Tibbs 3
The Corean Chronicles, Volume Two: Alector's Choice, Cadmian's Choice, Soarer's Choice, The Lord-Protector's Daughter, Lady-Protector (e)	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	F - Corean Chronicles
Pretty Vicious (e)	K.S. Merbeth	SF/AP/PA - Wastelanders
The White City	Simon Morden	SF
The Two of Swords: Volume Three	K. J. Parker	F - The Two of Swords 3
Primogenitor	Josh Reynolds	SF - Fabius Bile 1
Fyre	Sean Schubert	SF/AP/PA
The Complete Dragonships of Vindras Series (Bones of the Dragon, Secret of the Dragon, Rage of the Dragon, Doom of the Dragon) (e)	Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman	F - Dragonships of Vindras

December 13, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Man's Best Friend (e)	Amy Rose Capetta Gwenda Bond	SF/Th - ReMade Season 2 5
A Blur of Bright Water (e)	Tessa Gratton Karen Lord	HistF - Tremontaine Season 3 10
Festival of Fear	Graham Masterton	H - Collection

December 14, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Halloween Children	Brian James Freeman Norman Prentiss	H
Firestorm (e)	Lucy Hounsom	F - The Worldmaker Trilogy 3

December 19, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Martian Job	Jaine Fenn	SF - NewCon Press Novellas Set 3 Book 1
The Simi's ABCs: Adventures with Dark-Hunters	Sherrilyn Kenyon Alethea Kontis	F
Roadwork (ri)	Stephen King	Th/Sus/H
When The Skies Fall	Adam Korenman	SF - The Gray Wars 2
Scorched Shadows	Steve McHugh	CF - The Hellequin Chronicles 7
The Will to Battle	Ada Palmer	SF - Terra Ignota 3
S	Koji Suzuki	Occ/Sup - Ring 5
The More Known World	Tiffany Tsao	CF - The Oddfits 2

December 20, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Daredevil (e)	Gwenda Bond Matthew Cody	SFTh - ReMade Season 2 6
Dragon Rampant (e)	Karen Lord Joel Derfner	HistF - Tremontaine Season 3 11

December 26, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Survival	Ben Bova	SF - Star Quest Trilogy 3
Kill All Angels	Robert Brockway	H - The Vicious Circuit 3
1636: Mission to the Mughals (h2mm)	Eric Flint Griffin Barber	AH - Ring of Fire 23
The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume Five	Michael Jan Friedman	SF/MTI
Assassin's Fate (h2mm)	Robin Hobb	F - Fitz and the Fool 3
Arachnosaur (D)	Richard Jeffries	H
Nemo Rising	C. Courtney Joyner	SF/SP
Better Dead (D)	Pamela Kopfler	PCM - A B&B Spirits Mystery 1
The Night Parade (tp2mm)	Ronald Malfi	H
The Man From the Diogenes Club	Kim Newman	F - Collection
Silver Silence (h2mm)	Nalini Singh	PNR - Psy-Changeling Trinity 1
Kill Before Dying (h2mm)	Travis S. Taylor	SF - Tau Ceti Agenda 5
Angels of Caliban (tp2mm)	Gav Thorpe	SF - The Horus Heresy 38
World's End	Joan D. Vinge	SF - Snow Queen 2
Count to Infinity	John C. Wright	SF - The Eschaton Sequence 6

December 30, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
We're All in This Together	Owen King	H - Collection

December 31, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Reading Stephen King	Brian James Freeman (Ed)	Essays
Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja's Library!	Hans-Ake Lilja	H - Anthology
The Ignored	Bentley Little	H
Dominion	Bentley Little	H
The Walking	Bentley Little	H
Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel	SF/PA
The Weight of Words	Dave McKean	F - Anthology
Don't Live For Your Obituary	John Scalzi	Essays
Ironclads (e)	Adrian Tchaikovsky	SF

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



AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
H - Horror
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Psy - Psychological
ScF - Science Fantasy
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SP - SteamPunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy

Happy 1st Monday in November!

There are 4 debuts this week:

This Book is Not For You by Daniel A. Hoyt;

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter;

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga 1) by Fonda Lee (Adult Debut);

and

The Ruined House by Ruby Namdar.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Black Goat Blues (The Mythos War 2) by Levi Black;

Skitter (The Hatching Series 2) by Ezekiel Boone is out in Trade Paperback;

The Operative (San Angeles 2) by Gerald Brandt is out in Mass Market Paperback;

Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories by Beth Cato;

The Rule of Luck (A Felicia Sevigny Novel 1) by Catherine Cerveny;

Highland Dragon Rebel (Dawn of the Highland Dragon 2) by Isabel Cooper;

The Ship by Antonia Honeywell is out in Trade Paperback;

The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley is out in Trade Paperback;

The Sisters of the Crescent Empress (The Waning Moon Duology 2) by Leena Likitalo;

The Realms of God (The Shards of Heaven 3) by Michael Livingston;

The Forbidden Heir (Four Arts 2) by M.J. Scott;

and

Communication Failure (Epic Failure Trilogy 2) by Joe Zieja.

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

November 5, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Romancing the Werewolf (e)	Gail Carriger	SP - Supernatural Society Novella 2

November 6, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Hitchhiker: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront	Bob Thompson	FairyT/FolkT/LM/Occ/Sup - Collection

November 7, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Red Men	Matthew de Abaitua	SF/CyP/AP/PA/Dys
Nanoshock	K C Alexander	SF/CyP/GenEng - SINless 2
Valiant Dust	Richard Baker	SF - Breaker of Empires 1
Black Goat Blues	Levi Black	F/DF/H - The Mythos War 2
Skitter (h2tp)	Ezekiel Boone	H - The Hatching Series 2
The Sorcerer's Appendix	P. J. Brackston	F/SupM - Brothers Grimm Mysteries 4
The Operative (h2mm)	Gerald Brandt	SF/CyP/AP/PA - San Angeles 2
Places in the Darkness	Chris Brookmyre	SF
Star Trek: The Book of Lists	Chip Carter	TV/SF - Star Trek
Steal the Stars	Nat Cassidy	SF/AC/MTI
Potions and Pastries	Bailey Cates	PCM - A Magical Bakery Mystery 7
Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories	Beth Cato	SF/F - Collection
The Rule of Luck	Catherine Cerveny	SF - A Felicia Sevigny Novel 1
More Human than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity	Neil Clarke	SF/CyP/GenEng - Anthology
Numenera: The Night Clave	Monte Cook Shanna Germain	SF/GenEng - Numenera 2
Highland Dragon Rebel	Isabel Cooper	PHR - Dawn of the Highland Dragon 2
Vampire Undone	Shannon Curtis	PNR
Snow Magic (e)	Bianca D'Arc	PNR - A Were-Fey Love Story 2
Shadowborn	David Dalglish	F - Seraphim 3
Deja New	MaryJanice Davidson	PNR - An Insighter Novel 2
None But Man (ri)	Gordon R. Dickson	SF
The Spark	David Drake	SF
Nights of the Dark Moon: Gothic Folktales from Asia and Africa	Tutu Dutta	FairyT/FolkT/LM/F/P/H/Gothic
Strange Music	Alan Dean Foster	SF/AC - Adventures of Pip & Flinx 15
Dreamweaver (h2mm)	C.S. Friedman	UF/CF/F - Dreamwalker 3
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault	James Alan Gardner	CF/SH
Wolf Hunter: A Shifter Romance (e)	Jane Godman	PNR - Arctic Brotherhood 5
Wolf Leader: A Shifter Romance (e)	Jane Godman	PNR - Arctic Brotherhood 6
Childgrave	Ken Greenhall	H
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (h2tp)	Ursula K. Le Guin	F - Collection
The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (h2tp)	Ursula K. Le Guin	F - Collection
The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Boxed Set: The Found and the Lost; The Unreal and the Real (h2tp)	Ursula K. Le Guin	F - Collection
The Witch and the Werewolf	Michele Hauf	PNR - Decadent Dames 3
Terminal Alliance	Jim C. Hines	SF/AP/PA - Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse 1
The Ship (h2tp)	Antonia Honeywell	F/CoA/PA
This Book Is Not for You (D)	Daniel A. Hoyt	LF/MU
The Stealers' War	Stephen Hunt	F
The End We Start From (D)	Megan Hunter	LF/Dys
The Stars Are Legion (h2tp)	Kameron Hurley	SF/SO
Wonders Will Never Cease	Robert Irwin	HistF
Perfect Gravity	Vivien Jackson	SFR - Wanted and Wired 2
Down to No Good	Earl Javorsky	M/Occ/Sup/Th/Noir - Charlie Miner 2
Imaginarium 5: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing	Sandra Kasturi (Ed) Samantha Beiko (Ed)	SpecFic - Anthology 5
Frostwing	Richard A. Knaak	SF/AP/PA - City of Shadows 2
Pavlov's Dog	David Kurman	HU/Satire/Absurdist
Supernatural Psychology: Roads Less Traveled	Travis Langley (Ed) Lynn S. Zubernis (Ed)	Psychology
The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade	William Ledbetter (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Jade City (D - Adult)	Fonda Lee	F - The Green Bone Saga 1
The Rise of Nagash	Mike Lee	F - Warhammer Chronicles Omnibus
The Sisters of the Crescent Empress	Leena Likitalo	HistF/DF - The Waning Moon Duology 2
The Realms of God	Michael Livingston	HistF/AH - The Shards of Heaven 3
The Ruined House (D)	Ruby Namdar Hillel Halkin (Tr)	LF
The Experience Arcade and Other Stories	James Van Pelt	SF - Collection
Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers	Tim Powers	CF - Collection
The Wrong Stars	Tim Pratt	SF/SO
A Spoonful of Magic	Irene Radford	UF
Beyond Antares: Dimensional Gates	Brandon Rospond (Ed)	SF - Beyond Antares Anthology
The Forbidden Heir (e)	M.J. Scott	Gaslamp/HistF - Four Arts 2
Invaders From Beyond: First Wave	Colin Sinclair Tim Major Julian Benson	SF/AC
The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes	Malachy Tallack	History/Historical Geography
Ironclads	Adrian Tchaikovsky	SF
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun	J.R.R. Tolkien	F
Gluttony Bay	Matt Wallace	UF/HU - A Sin du Jour Affair 6
Perfect Shadow	Brent Weeks	F - Night Angel
Cult of the Warmason	C L Werner	SF - Genestealer Cults 1
The Keep (e)(ri)	F. Paul Wilson	SupTh - Adversary Cycle 1
Communication Failure	Joe Zieja	SF - Epic Failure Trilogy 2

November 8, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Threshold of Eternity	John Brunner Broderick Damiem	SF/SO
The World is Full of Monsters: A Tor.com Original	Jeff VanderMeer	SF
Deep Magic - First Collection (Ke)	Deep Magic Magazine	F/SF - Anthology
Every Face a Forgery (e)	Paul Witcover Liz Duffy Adams	HistF - Tremontaine Season 3 #5

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.

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.

Amanda Carlson (2012)

Struck
A Phoebe Meadows Novel 1
May 24, 2016
eBook and Trade Paperback, 329 pages

When Phoebe Meadows gets struck by a strange light in the stockroom of Macy’s, life as she knows it flies out the window. As if being hit by lightning isn’t bad enough, she’s accosted in the subway by a man with a missing hand, arrives home to find a raven on her kitchen counter, and her neighbor, Ingrid, shows up dressed like a gladiator hell-bent on protecting her.

Before Ingrid can shuttle her to safety, Phoebe is kidnapped and tossed into one of the Nine Worlds where she’s quickly forced to come to terms with what she is: A valkyrie. The only problem is, she has no idea what that means.

After a narrow escape, she finds an unlikely ally in Loki’s son, Fenrir. Together the valkyrie and the wolf must battle their way back to New York City and reach the valkyrie stronghold where Ingrid is waiting for her. But with danger and obstacles at every turn, she might not live long enough to learn the full truth about who and what she really is…

Freed
A Phoebe Meadows Novel 2
September 18, 2016
eBook and Trade Paperback, 254 pages

Phoebe Meadows has one thing on her mind: Free her mother.

For the last month, Phoebe has been training in the Valkyrie stronghold readying for battle. But when she stumbles into a secluded valley after a day of grueling practice, she’s given a dire prediction. Phoebe must leave the stronghold immediately with the aid of the giant, Junnal, to rescue her mother from the dark elves. If Phoebe fails, Leela will be transported to a place that can no longer be reached.

Leaving Fen behind threatens to undo her, but Phoebe stays true to the mission. Along the way, she allies with the god Baldur and an old white elf mage. Together, they storm the realm, and with the help of an angry wolf and her Valkyrie sisters, they just might stand a chance to free the valiant shieldmaiden.

But Phoebe soon learns that rescuing her mother comes with a price, and she’s about to lose something too precious to sacrifice…

Dana Chamblee Carpenter (2015)

Bohemian Gospel
Bohemian Gospel 1
Pegasus, October 25, 2016
Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Hardcover and eBook, November 16, 2016

Set against the historical reign of the Golden and Iron King, Bohemian Gospel is the remarkable tale of a bold and unusual girl on a quest to uncover her past and define her destiny.

Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an angel. Even Mouse doesn’t know who—or what—she is. But she means to find out.

When young King Ottakar shows up at the Abbey wounded by a traitor's arrow, Mouse breaks church law to save him and then agrees to accompany him back to Prague as his personal healer. Caught in the undertow of court politics at the castle, Ottakar and Mouse find themselves drawn to each other as they work to uncover the threat against him and to unravel the mystery of her past. But when Mouse's unusual gifts give rise to a violence and strength that surprise everyone—especially herself—she is forced to ask herself: Will she be prepared for the future that awaits her?

A heart-thumping, highly original tale in the vein of Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, Bohemian Gospel heralds the arrival of a fresh new voice for historical fiction.

The Devil's Bible
Bohemian Gospel 2
Pegasus, March 7, 2017
Hardcover and eBook, 400 pages

The propulsive follow-up to Bohemian Gospel, which sends Mouse on a dangerous journey to Europe to find the missing pages from The Devil’s Bible—a mission which just may have a chance to save the world from the forces of evil.

She calls herself Emma Lucas and, to the outsider, she looks just like a normal professor at a Nashville university. But Mouse has a secret she’s spent the last 700 years trying to hide—and that secret threatens to be revealed when one of her former students arrives in town to promote his controversial new book. He’d been fascinated with The Devil’s Bible ever since Mouse had mentioned it to him in class years earlier—perhaps even saying a bit too much and indicating her own involvement with the creation of the notorious religious relic. And with this new book out and more attention sent her way, it’s not long before the man she’d been hiding from her whole life — her father — finds her, too.

Trying to stay two steps ahead of her father, Mouse flees to Europe, to find the only thing that matters more to him than she does: The long-missing pages of The Devil’s Bible, which hold a power even she doesn’t completely understand. All that she knows is that she has to find them before he gets there.

In a journey that takes her to Rome for a showdown with the Vatican and to Prague, where she is forced to confront memories she’s spent nearly a millennium trying to forget, Mouse is headed toward one shocking confrontation with her father which will decide not only Mouse’s fate, but that of the rest of the world…

Beth Cato (2014)

Deep Roots
Clockwork Dagger Stories
Harper Voyager Impulse, August 2, 2016
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 208 pages

From the author of The Clockwork Dagger and The Clockwork Crown comes a compilation of short works set in the same world: The Deepest Poison, Final Flight, and the Nebula-nominated Wings of Sorrow and Bone.

THE DEEPEST POISON

Octavia Leander, a young healer with incredible powers, has found her place among Miss Percival’s medicians-in-training. Called to the front lines of war, the two women must uncover the source of a devastating illness that is killing thousands of soldiers.

WINGS OF SORROW AND BONE

After being rescued from the slums of Caskentia, Rivka Stout is adjusting to her new life in Tamarania. But when Rivka stumbles into a laboratory run by the powerful Balthazar Cody, she also discovers a sinister plot involving chimera gremlins and the violent Arena game Warriors.

FINAL FLIGHT

Captain Hue hoped he was rid of his troubles once Octavia Leander and Alonzo Garrett disembarked from his airship, but then the Argus is commandeered by a Clockwork Dagger and forced on a deadly mission. Hue must lead a mutiny that might bring down his own ship…. perhaps for good.

Breath of Earth
Harper Voyager, August 23, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 362 pages

After the earth’s power under her city is suddenly left unprotected, a young geomancer must rely on her unique magic to survive in this fresh fantasy standalone from the author of the acclaimed The Clockwork Dagger.

In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation— the Unified Pacific—in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong secretary Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer wardens who have no idea of the depth of her own talent—or that she is the only woman to possess such skills.

When assassins kill the wardens, Ingrid and her mentor are protected by her incredible magic. But the pair is far from safe. Without its full force of guardian geomancers, the city is on the brink of a cataclysmic earthquake that will expose the earth’s power to masterminds determined to control the energy for their own dark ends. The danger escalates when Chinese refugees, preparing to fight the encroaching American and Japanese forces, fracture the uneasy alliance between the Pacific allies, transforming San Francisco into a veritable powder keg. And the slightest tremor will set it off. . . .

Forced on the run, Ingrid makes some shocking discoveries about herself. Her already considerable magic has grown even more fearsome . . . and she may be the fulcrum on which the balance of world power rests.

Catherine Cerveny (2016)

The Chaos of Luck
A Felicia Sevigny Novel 2
Redhook, December 6, 2016
eBook, 384 pages

A whirlwind thriller romance in a futuristic setting that will tug at your heartstrings while sending you on high-speed chases alongside a genetically-enhanced (and incredibly handsome...) criminal mastermind.

Felicia Sevigny makes her own luck. So it's no surprise that her new life on the Red Planet is off to a good start. She's making a living reading the fortunes of the fabulously wealthy, and making a home with Alexei, the dangerous, handsome love of her life.

Then Alexei is called off planet expectedly, mines in the astroid belt start collapsing, and an ex-lover walks back into Felicia's life. Felicia's readings predict that there is something bigger going on. Something darker and far more insidious that threatens everything she has come to love.

And as luck would have it, the cards are right for things to go horribly wrong.

Kristi Charish (2015)

Owl and the Electric Samurai
The Owl Series 3
Gallery Books, May 9, 2017
      Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Pocket Star, August 22, 2016
      eBook, 416 pages

The third exciting novel starring the unforgettable antiquities thief Owl—a modern-day “Indiana Jane” who reluctantly navigates the hidden supernatural world. From the pen of rising urban fantasy star Kristi Charish, this fast-paced novel is for fans of Kim Harrison, Jim Butcher, Jennifer Estep, Jenn Bennett, and fantasy lovers everywhere.

The International Archaeology Association (IAA) is responsible for keeping all things supernatural under wraps. They’re also responsible for ruining the promising archaeology career of Alix Hiboux, better known as Owl.

Needless to say, Owl’s still a little sore about that.

Just to keep Owl’s life lively, the IAA has opened a bounty on the two designers of World Quest, the online RPG that is much, much more than it seems. Owl needs to locate the notorious gaming duo before the other mercenaries do. But finding the gamers won’t be easy since every clue points to them hiding out in the legendary lost city of Shangri-La. Not to mention that the last time Owl and the game designers spoke, their conversation didn’t exactly end on the best note…

Meanwhile, undercurrents of supernatural politics are running amok in Tokyo, dragging Owl and her friends into a deadly game of wits with an opponent who calls himself the Electric Samurai. The cost of losing? All-out civil war between two powerful supernatural factions.

All in all, just another great day on the job.

Matt Bell (2013)

A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories
Soho Press, September 13, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 400 pages

A Tree or a Person or a Wall gives us Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and acute takes on the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world.

A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an elaborate, consuming game for his hospitalized son. Indexes, maps, a checkered shirt buried beneath a blanket of snow: they are scattered through these pages as clues to mysteries that may never be solved, lingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world.

A Tree or a Person or a Wall brings together Bell’s previously published shorter fiction—the story collection How They Were Found and the acclaimed novella Cataclysm Baby—along with seven dark and disturbing new stories, to create a collection of singular power.

Rob Boffard (2015)

Impact
Outer Earth 3
Redhook, July 26, 2016
eBook, 368 pages
Redhook, August 30, 2016
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages

Following Tracer and Zero-G comes Impact, the explosive conclusion to the Outer Earth trilogy - a heart-pounding thriller set in space where the hero moves like lightning and the consequences for failure are deadly.

A signal has been picked up from Earth.

The planet was supposed to be uninhabitable. But it seems there are survivors down there - with supplies, shelter and running water. Perhaps there could be a future for humanity on Earth after all.

Riley Hale will find out soon enough. She's stuck on a spaceship with the group of terrorists that is planning to brave the planet's atmosphere and crash-land on the surface.

But when the re-entry goes wrong, Riley ends up hundreds of miles from her companions Prakesh and Carver, alone in a barren wilderness. She'll have to use everything she knows to survive.

And all of them are about to find out that nothing on Earth is what it seems . .

Catherine Cerveny (2016)

The Chaos of Luck
A Felicia Sevigny Novel 2
Redhook, June 21, 2016
eBook, 384 pages

A whirlwind thriller romance in a futuristic setting that will tug at your heartstrings while sending you on high-speed chases alongside a genetically-enhanced (and incredibly handsome...) criminal mastermind.

Felicia Sevigny makes her own luck. So it's no surprise that her new life on the Red Planet is off to a good start. She's making a living reading the fortunes of the fabulously wealthy, and making a home with Alexei, the dangerous, handsome love of her life.

Then Alexei is called off planet expectedly, mines in the astroid belt start collapsing, and an ex-lover walks back into Felicia's life. Felicia's readings predict that there is something bigger going on. Something darker and far more insidious that threatens everything she has come to love.
And as luck would have it, the cards are right for things to go horribly wrong.

Margaret Fortune (2015)

Nova
Nova 1
DAW, June 7, 2016
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Hardcover and eBook, June 2, 2015

*36:00:00*

The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.

My name is Lia Johansen, and I was named for a prisoner of war. She lived in the Tiersten Internment Colony for two years, and when they negotiated the return of the prisoners, I was given her memories and sent back in her place.

And I am a genetically engineered human bomb.

Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia’s childhood best friend.

Drawn to Michael and his family against her better judgment, Lia starts learning what it means to live and love, and to be human. It is only when her countdown clock begins sporadically losing time that she realizes even duds can still blow up. If she wants any chance at a future, she must find a way to unlock the secrets of her past and stop her clock. But as Lia digs into her origins, she begins to suspect there’s far more to her mission and to this war, than meets the eye. With the fate of not just a space station but an entire empire hanging in the balance, Lia races to find the truth before her time—literally—runs out.

[description from Hardcover]

Geoffrey Girard (2013)

first communions
Apex Publications, April 12, 2016
     eBook, 210 pages
Apex Publications, April 2017
     Trade Paperback

Geoffrey Girard first appeared in Writers of the Future and has since written and sold more than sixty short stories of dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Collected here, for the first time, are sixteen of his best, and darkest, tales.

The man who collects chips of bone from his willing victims... A legendary evil is adopted by a small, and thankful, village... The doomed girl invited to take part in a deliberate tragedy... A horrific church choir assembled after the zombie apocalypse... The boy who harvests spiders for a shadowy woman of magic... A fearsome town where the children’s nightmares are all real... The pain, price and beauty of blood and first loves...

From the curse of ancient evils to futuristic retirement homes where the dead still rule, haunted graveyards, planets of torture where all are equal, hockey-playing demon hunters, dark sorcerers battling in Algeria, and even voodoo-cursed pirates. Explore the darkest, and most majestic, extremes of us all in sixteen unique tales that will entertain, horrify and keep you thinking long after the last page is turned.

Let the communion begin…

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Translatio
Collecting James
For Restful Death I Cry
Dark Harvest
Not Fade Away
Unto the Lord a New Song
Release Me
Psychomachia
Universal Adaptor
Misdirection
What You Know
H.E. Double Hockey Sticks
Where the Shadow Ended
Dead in the Water
Crawl
First Communions
Story Notes

Cover art by Anjo Matko

Title design by Matt Davis

The Rule of Luck
Author:  Catherine Cerveny
Series:  Felicia Sevigny 1
Publisher:  Redhook, January 26, 2016
Format:  eBook, 384 pages
List Price:  US$2.99
ISBN:  9780316355506

The Rule of Luck is a whirlwind thriller romance in a futuristic setting that will tug at your heartstrings while sending you on high-speed chases alongside a genetically-enhanced (and incredibly handsome...) criminal mastermind.
As a famed tarot card reader, all is well in luck and love for Felicia Sevigny, until Russian crime leader Alexei Petriv walks into her shop and demands a reading.

Petriv's future looks dark and full of danger, which wouldn't be Felicia's problem, except that it's also aligned with hers. Felicia discovers she is the key pawn in Petriv's plot to overthrow the all-knowing government, and she must decide if she will trust with him with her heart, body and soul, before the future of the entire human race collapses around her.

Qwill's Thoughts

The Rule of Luck is Catherine Cerveny's debut novel. You can tell that Cerveny has spent a lot of time thinking about and creating her future Earth. The wordlbuilding is exceptional and is not bogged down by minutiae. Cerveny gives you everything you need to understand why this future Earth is the way it is and it's fascinating.

I truly enjoyed the two main characters Felicia Sevigny and Alexei Petriv. The are both interesting and flawed. They make a wonderful, if not expected, couple. Felicia is a Tarot Card reader who really can read the cards and give advice to her clientele. Cerveny also provides insight into the Tarot and the way the cards are read that helps the reader get into the mind of Felicia. Alexei is the heir apparent to the Russian criminal enterprise that exists on Earth. He is somewhat rigid and very in control. He has his weak spots though. Their relationship starts as a professional one and progresses to more. It's not an easy road for either of them, with both of them questioning everything. Their relationship builds slowly with some difficult bumps along the way. Both Felicia and Alexei grow emotionally over the course of the novel and you can't but hope they will somehow end up together.

In addition to being a romance, The Rule of Luck deals with issues of what happens after the Earth faces catastrophic natural disasters. How do you provide resources and not overwhelm the planet? There are also issues of posthumanism, ethical and not-so-ethical science, population control, cutting edge science, and more. This is a novel with depth and gives you much to think about while being a really engaging and exciting read.

Cerveny has deftly blended Science Fiction and Romance. The writing is crisp and the novel flows beautifully. There is plenty of action and thrills as Felicia gets drawn deeper into Alexei's plans. The Rule of Luck is a compelling read with engaging characters, a terrific story and a somewhat frightening portrayal of future Earth.

TQ:  Welcome to The Qwillery. When and why did you start writing?

Catherine:  Hi and thanks for having me. I probably started writing stories when I was around 13 or 14 years old, about the time I realized I could write down words on a page and have them form a sentence that sounded half-way interesting. I'd always loved reading, the more fantastic the story, the better. And because I loved the story and didn't want it to end, I'd wonder happened to the characters when the story was over. What were they doing next after I'd closed the book? I'd start to devise elaborate plots in my head, imagining what they might be up to and the sorts of adventures they might have. Eventually I realized I wanted to write my own stories, with my own characters, and send them on adventures rather than having someone else do it for me.



TQ:  Are you a plotter, a pantser or a hybrid?

Catherine:  I'm a panster who forced myself to become a plotter, but who still has strong panster-like tendencies. I find that if I don't have an outline and plot exactly what I'm doing ahead of time, my story tends to get away from me. It will veer off in some direction it had no business going to in the first place. I like to know exactly where I'm going, how I'm going to get there, what's going to happen at the end, and did I bring enough snacks for the trip. This isn't to say the outline doesn't get re-written at least a dozen times, and plot-points don't have fifteen different sub-sections because I've thought of something cool along the way I want to do instead. It's just that if I don't know how it's going to end, I'm not sure how I'm going to get there.



TQ:  What is the most challenging thing for you about writing?

Catherine:  I think the most challenging thing is realizing I can't tell the reader everything on the first page. Obviously I know the whole story, and I want to tell the reader everything that's going to happen, but I can't blurt it out all at once. It would ruin the whole story.



TQ:  What has influenced / influences your writing?

Catherine:  My list of influences is really too long to mention. It's like everything I've ever seen or read is in my head, waiting to come out in some form or another, all synthesized together into some new, amazing hybrid. I could say the Bible stories I heard as a child, to Star Wars, to the endless action movies my husband makes me see. I love reading hard science fiction, but I love reading chick-lit as well. I'm also a sucker for a good romance. Some of my favorite writers are Kim Stanley Robinson, Hannu Rajaniemi, Sylvia Day, Christina Lauren, Jeaniene Frost, Ilona Andrews, Neil Gaiman, Sophie Kinsella, and Marian Keyes. I'm really all over the place.



TQ:  Describe The Rule of Luck in 140 characters or less.

Catherine:  A Tarot card reader living in a post-singularity world is made an offer that she can't refuse.



TQ:  Tell us something about The Rule of Luck that is not found in the book description.

Catherine:  In a world where genetic enhancements are the norm, Felicia is one of the few people alive without any genetic modifications. In some ways, it's a handicap to her. In others, she definitely knows how to use it to her advantage.



TQ:  What inspired you to write The Rule of Luck? What appeals to you about writing Science Fiction Romance?

Catherine:  I've always been interested in the idea of being able to predict the future with Tarot cards, astrological signs, prophecies, and the like. Most people believe it's a lot of nonsense and science scoffs in the face of these things. So I wanted to take a character whose entire life was based around the Tarot, mysticism, predicting the future etc. and put her in a post-singularity science fiction world with a character who was her exact opposite. One character represents a sort of spiritual, mystical side and the other represents pure science, and I wanted to see what I could do with them. As for writing Science Fiction Romance, I like the idea of pairing concepts that are traditionally science fiction while exploring personal relationships at the same time. It just makes the story more exciting and I can care more about what's happening when there's some sort of relationship at stake. I also like the idea that in the future, people will still care about each other and we won't be isolated entities, alone in our houses, all wired in, with no human contact. That' really sad to me. Plus, I can't help but like the action and adventure angle. It gives the characters something exciting to do while they're falling in love, like fight against an all-knowing government, while at the same time ratcheting up the stakes for the couple.



TQ:  What sort of research did you do for The Rule of Luck?

Catherine:  I did a lot of research into Tarot cards, and went to more psychic fairs than I care to remember. I also did a fair amount of research into genetics, planet terraforming, global disasters, space travel, what living in a post-singularity society might be like for humanity, and the Russian mafia. There was so much world-building that had to be done to lay the groundwork for this story, it felt like I was reading a little bit of everything. I wanted to make the world feel real and logical, and as I researched, I realized there was so much I didn't know and had to learn. Obviously, I have absolutely no idea where society will be 800 to 1000 years from now, but it was fun to guess and build it from scratch.



TQ:  Does Felicia Sevigny have a favorite tarot deck?

Catherine:  Given what I know of Felicia (and I have to say I do know her), she'd like something flashy with images as vivid and colorful as possible. Obviously her favorite deck would be the one she inherited from her great grandmother, but she'll also use whatever's available.



TQ:  Who was the easiest character to write and why? The hardest and why?

Catherine:  Felicia was probably the easiest character to write since she was basically living in my head 24/7, telling me what to do. Alexei was probably one of the more difficult ones as I kept worrying if I was going in the right direction with his character. I mean, hey, he's a criminal mastermind. I am not. I kept thinking, "What would a criminal mastermind do next? How would he behave in this situation? What's the line between being evil and redeemable?" That made it challenging.



TQ:  Which question about The Rule of Luck do you wish someone would ask? Ask it and answer it!

Catherine:  One thing I wish someone would ask is why did I decide to set part of the novel in Brazil and part in Kenya? I love to travel and those are both countries I hope to visit someday. I almost went to Brazil a few years ago but the trip was canceled at the last minute. To make up for it, I decided if I couldn't go, Felicia would.



TQ:  Give us one or two of your favorite non-spoilery quotes from The Rule of Luck.

Catherine: 

He was still looking at me. I mean, really looking. Looking at me the way a man did when he wondered how a woman looked naked or was considering ways to get her naked. I wondered if he was thinking about the Lovers. Or maybe I was the one thinking that. My throat went dry. I hadn't been studied like that in a long time and it felt better than it should.



TQ:  What's next?

Catherine:  Now, I'm working on The Chaos of Luck, the sequel to The Rule of Luck. It's set five months after the events in the first novel and I have to say, it's been a lot of fun to spend extra time with these characters.



TQ:  Thank you for joining us at The Qwillery.

Catherine:  No problem! This has been great.

The Rule of Luck
A Felicia Sevigny Novel 1
Redhook, January 26, 2016
eBook, 384 pages

The Rule of Luck is a whirlwind thriller romance in a futuristic setting that will tug at your heartstrings while sending you on high-speed chases alongside a genetically-enhanced (and incredibly handsome...) criminal mastermind.
As a famed tarot card reader, all is well in luck and love for Felicia Sevigny, until Russian crime leader Alexei Petriv walks into her shop and demands a reading.

Petriv's future looks dark and full of danger, which wouldn't be Felicia's problem, except that it's also aligned with hers. Felicia discovers she is the key pawn in Petriv's plot to overthrow the all-knowing government, and she must decide if she will trust with him with her heart, body and soul, before the future of the entire human race collapses around her.

About Catherine

Photo by Ash Nayler Photography

Catherine Cerveny was born in Peterborough, Ontario. She'd always planned to move away to the big city but the small town life got its hooks in her and that's where she still resides today. Catherine is a huge fan of romance and science fiction and wishes the two genres would cross paths more often. The Rule of Luck is her first novel.










Website  ~  Twitter @catcerveny

Happy Monday! Hope that everyone who was affected by Snowzilla 2016 is well and dug out!

There are four debuts this week:

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders;

The Blue Line by Ingird Betancourt;

The Rule of Luck: A Science Fiction Romance by Catherine Cerveny;

and

Noah's Wife by Lindsay Starck.


And from formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors:

Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles 8) by Kevin Hearne;

The Mime Order (The Bone Season 2) by Samantha Shannon is out in Trade Paperback;

Broken Hero (Arthur Wallace 4) by Jonathan Wood:

and

Mercury Striking (The Scorpius Syndrome 1) by Rebecca Zanetti.






January 25, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Case of the Fickle Mermaid	P. J. Brackston	M/FairyT - A Brothers Grimm Mystery 3
Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints (h2tp)	P. J. Brackston	M/FairyT - A Brothers Grimm Mystery 1
Inversion Point (e)	Kelly Jensen Jenn Burke	SFR - Chaos Station 4

January 26, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
All the Birds in the Sky (D)	Charlie Jane Anders	SF
Sage's Eyes	V.C. Andrews	Family Saga
Otherworld Secrets: An Anthology	Kelley Armstrong	CF - Otherworld
The Evening Spider	Emily Arsenault	PsySus
City of Blades	Robert Jackson Bennett	F - The Divine Cities 2
The Blue Line (D)	Ingrid Betancourt	MR
A Pocket Full of Lies	Kirsten Beyer	SF - Star Trek: Voyager
The Skull Throne (h2mm)	Peter V. Brett	F - The Demon Cycle 4
Never Let Me: Never Let Me Sleep, Never Let Me Leave, Never Let Me Die	Jennifer Brozek	UF - Melissa Allen Trilogy 1 - 3
Kushiel's Avatar (ri)	Jacqueline Carey	HistF - Kushiel's Legacy 3
The Rule of Luck: A Science Fiction Romance (D) (e)	Catherine Cerveny	SFR
Lethal Velocity (ri)	Lincoln Child	SF/Sus
Eaters of the Dead (ri)	Michael Crichton	H
The Philip K. Dick Reader	Philip K. Dick	SF - Collection
Graveyard	William C. Dietz	UF - Mutant Files 3
First Kill: A Tor.Com Original (e)	Jennifer Fallon	UF
Spider Game	Christine Feehan	PNR - Ghostwalker 12
Castaway Planet (h2mm)	Eric Flint Ryk E Spoor	SF - Boundary 4
Staked	Kevin Hearne	UF - The Iron Druid Chronicles 8
Carnal Sacrifice (e)	Angelika Helsing	PNR
Lords of the Sith: Star Wars (h2mm)	Paul S. Kemp	SF - Star Wars
11/22/63 (tp2mm)	Stephen King	HistTh/TT
Mothership (ri)	Martin Leicht Isla Neal	SF - The Ever-Expanding Universe 1
Daughter of Blood	Helen Lowe	F - Wall of Night 3
The Devil's Bag Man (h2mm)	Adam Mansbach	H/Sup/Sus - Jess Galvan 2
Warriors 1 (e)	George R. R. Martin (ed) Gardner Dozois (ed)	Various - Anthology
Warriors 2 (e)	George R. R. Martin  (ed) Gardner Dozois (ed)	Various - Anthology
Warriors 3 (e)	George R. R. Martin (ed) Gardner Dozois (ed)	Various - Anthology
Satin Island (h2tp)	Tom McCarthy	LF/Dys/Meta
No Going Back (h2mm)	Mark L. Van Name	SF - Jon & Lobo 5
The Dark Side of the Cross	James S. Parker	Th/Sup - A James MacBridan Mystery 1
Dark Homecoming	William Patterson	Gothic/Sus
The Long Utopia (h2mm)	Terry Pratchett Stephen Baxter	SF - Long Earth 4
7 Sykos (e)	Marsheila Rockwell Jeff Mariotte	SF
Roadside Magic	Lilith Saintcrow	UF - Gallow and Ragged 2
The Bands of Mourning	Brandon Sanderson	F - Mistborn 6
Shattered Shields (tp2mm)	Bryan Thomas Schmidt (ed) Jennifer Brozek(ed)	F - Anthology
The Mime Order (h2tp)	Samantha Shannon	F - The Bone Season 2
The Brimstone Deception	Lisa Shearin	UF - SPI Files 3
Night Study	Maria V. Snyder	F - Study 5
Noah's Wife (D)	Lyndsay Starck	LF
Lustlocked: A Sin du Jour Affair	Matt Wallace	F - Sin du Jour Affair 2
Broken Hero	Jonathan Wood	UF - Arthur Wallace 4
Mercury Striking	Rebecca Zanetti	R/AP/PA/Sus - The Scorpius Syndrome 1

January 27, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Sleep Garden	Jim Krusoe	LF
The Maiden Thief: A Tor.Com Original (e)	Melissa Marr	F

January 28, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Driven	Kelley Armstrong	UF - Otherworld Stories

D - Debut
e - eBook
ed - editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint


AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tale
H - Horror
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
LF - Literary Fiction
M - Mystery
Meta - Metaphysical
MR - Magical Realism
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PNR - Paranormal Romance
R - Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
Sus - Suspense
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy