The Qwillery

Happy Monday! There are 2 debuts this week:
Unity by Elly Bangs; and The Last Watch (The Divide 1) by J. S. Dewes. From formerly featured DAC Authors: Every Sky a Grave (The Ascendance 1) by Jay Posey is out in Trade Paperback; and The Queen of Izmoroz (Goddess War 2) by Jon Skovron.

 

 

 

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green. April 20, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	GENRE - SERIES
A Dark Queen Rises	Ashok K. Banker	F - The Burnt Empire 2
Fortress of Magi	Mirah Bolender	F - Chronicles of Amicae 3
Master of Sorrows (h2tp)	Justin Travis Call	F - Silent Gods 1
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (h2tp)	Becky Chambers	SF/SO - Wayfarers 4
Defekt	Nino Cipri	SF/GenEng
Metropolitan Stories (h2tp)	Christine Coulson	MR/City Life/LF
Spectrum	Julie E. Czerneda	SF/SO/HSF/AC - Web Shifter's Library 3
The Last Watch (D)	J. S. Dewes	SF/SO - The Divide 1
Anansi Boys (ri)	Neil Gaiman	CF
Gods & Monsters Myths & Tales: Epic Tales	Liz Gloyn (Foreword)	FairyT/FolkT/LM/SS - Gothic Fantasy
Regenesis	William Huggins	VisM/SF/SE/Nature & Environment/Dys
Vanishing Hour (h2tp)	Lisa King	SF/AP/PA/GenEng/Dis
December Park (ri)	Ronald Malfi	H
Floating Staircase (ri)	Ronald Malfi	H
Aliens: Infiltrator	Weston Ochse	MTI/SF/AC
The Nirvana Effect	Brian Pinkerton	SF/AC - Fiction Without Frontiers
Every Sky a Grave (h2tp)	Jay Posey	SF/SO - The Ascendance 1
Popisho	Leone Ross	LF/MR/FairyT/FolkT/LM
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Stories	Joanna Scott	SS/LF/F - Collection
The Queen of Izmoroz	Jon Skovron	F - Goddess War 2
Age of Empyre (h2mm)	Michael J. Sullivan	F - Legends of the First Empire 6
Terminal Boredom: Stories	Izumi Suzuki Polly Barton (Tr) Sam Bett (Tr) David Boyd (Tr) Daniel Joseph (Tr) Aiko Masubuchi (Tr) Helen O’Horan (Tr)	SS/SF/AP/PA/AB
Lover Unveiled	J.R. Ward	PNR - Black Dagger Brotherhood 19
Repo Virtual (h2tp)	Corey J. White	SF/CyP

April 21, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	GENRE - SERIES
Unity (D)	Elly Bangs	SF/AP/PA/HSF/CyP

April 22, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	GENRE - SERIES
Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Domesticating Horror in Atomic Age Literature & Media	Jill E. Anderson	LC - Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Alan Moore: A Critical Guide	Jackson Ayres	LC - Bloomsbury Comics Studies

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



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
BHU - Black Humor
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CM - Crime & Mystery
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
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)
GothicR - Gothic Romance
GW&CC - Global Warming and Climate Change
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HistR - Historical Romance
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
Med - Medical
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
MU - Mash-Up
NF - Near Future
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PF - Paranormal Fantasy
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
PP - Police Porcedural
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
RF - Romantic Fantasy
ScF - Science Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SFTh - Science Fiction Thriller
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
SS - Short Stories
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TTR - Time Travel Romance
UF - Urban Fantasy
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical
WS - Women Sleuths

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

It is the first Monday in July 2020.

There is one debut this week:

The Bright Lands by John Fram.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton is out in Trade Paperback;

The Name of All Things (Chorus of Dragons 2) by Jenn Lyons is out in Trade Paperback;

and

Every Sky a Grave (The Ascendance 1) by Jay Posey.

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

July 7, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Aftermath of an Industrial Accident: Stories	Mike Allen	H/DF
The Vanished Seas	Catherine Asaro	SF/SO - Major Bhaajan 3
In the Palace of Shadow and Joy	D. J. Butler	SF/SO
Hollow Kingdom (h2tp)	Kira Jane Buxton	LF/F/HU/SF/AP/PA
Whispers in the Mist	Darcy Coates	H/Occ/Sup/AP/PA/SupTh/Dys - Black Winter 3
The Librarians Trilogy (e)	Greg Cox	F/MTI
Kill Orbit (e)	Joel Dane	SF - Cry Pilot 3
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (e)	Aliette de Bodard	DF/H - Dominion of the Fallen Story
Little Brother & Homeland	Cory Doctorow	SF/CyP
Unconquerable Sun	Kate Elliott	SF/SO - The Sun Chronicles 1
Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air	Jackson Ford	SF/CyP/GenEng/HU - Frost Files 2
The Bright Lands (D)	John Fram	SupTh
At the End of the World	Charles E. Gannon	SF/AP/PA - Black Tide Rising 8
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor	Hank Green	CoA/SF/CF
Titandeath	Guy Haley	SF/SO - Horus Heresy 53
Genetics and the Literary Imagination	Clare Hanson	SF/HC - Oxford Textual Perspectives
The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet	Marc Hartzman	PopCul/Astronomy/Science History
Children of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 3
Heretics of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 5
Chapterhouse: Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 6
God Emperor of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 4
Dune Messiah (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 2
Mephiston: City of Light	Darius Hinks	SF/SE - Warhammer 40,000
Haunted Heroine	Sarah Kuhn	UF/RF/CF - Heroine Complex 4
The Name of All Things (h2tp)	Jenn Lyons	F - Chorus of Dragons 2
Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother	Douglas A. Martin	LF/AH
Where the Veil Is Thin	Cerece Rennie Murphy (Ed) Alana Joli Abbott (Ed)	F - Anthology
Binti: The Complete Trilogy (h2tp)	Nnedi Okorafor	SF/SO/AC
The Need (h2tp)	Helen Phillips	LF/SpecFic
Every Sky a Grave	Jay Posey	SF/SO - The Ascendance 1
Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems	Martin Shaw Tony Hoagland	Poetry
Things From the Flood	Simon Stålenhag	SF/AP/PA
The Book of Dragons: An Anthology	Jonathan Strahan (Ed)	F
Battle Luna	Travis S. Taylor Timothy Zahn Michael Z. Williamson Kacey Ezell Josh Hayes	SF/HSF
Growing Things and Other Stories (h2tp)	Paul Tremblay	Occ/Sup
A Peculiar Peril	Jeff VanderMeer	YA/F/AH - Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead 1
The Beast of Blackmoor (e)	Milla Vane	F/P/PNR
Or What You Will	Jo Walton	CF
Arms of the Ocean (e)	Jamie Webster M. Dalto	F
Red Dust	Yoss David Frye (Tr)	SF - Cuban Science Fiction

July 8, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Necessary Arthur: A Tor.com Original (e)	Garth Nix	ScF

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



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
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)
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
LMF - Legends, Myths, Fables
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
RF - Romantic Fantasy
ScF - Science Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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.

July 1, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Ones Who Look: A Tor.com Original (e)	Katharine Duckett	SF
Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future	Carter F. Hanson	LC
Scarlet Odyssey (D)	C. T. Rwizi	F/CoA/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Scarlet Odyssey 1

July 2, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The House on Widows Hill	Simon R. Green	SupM - An Ishmael Jones Mystery 9
Dark Harvest	Cat Sparks	SF/PA

July 7, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Aftermath of an Industrial Accident: Stories	Mike Allen	H/DF
The Vanished Seas	Catherine Asaro	SF/SO - Major Bhaajan 3
In the Palace of Shadow and Joy	D. J. Butler	SF/SO
Hollow Kingdom (h2tp)	Kira Jane Buxton	LF/F/HU/SF/AP/PA
Whispers in the Mist	Darcy Coates	H/Occ/Sup/AP/PA/SupTh/Dys - Black Winter 3
The Librarians Trilogy (e)	Greg Cox	F/MTI
Kill Orbit (e)	Joel Dane	SF - Cry Pilot 3
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (e)	Aliette de Bodard	DF/H - Dominion of the Fallen Story
Little Brother & Homeland	Cory Doctorow	SF/CyP
Unconquerable Sun	Kate Elliott	SF/SO - The Sun Chronicles 1
Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air	Jackson Ford	SF/CyP/GenEng/HU - Frost Files 2
The Bright Lands (D)	John Fram	SupTh
At the End of the World	Charles E. Gannon	SF/AP/PA - Black Tide Rising 8
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor	Hank Green	CoA/SF/CF
Titandeath	Guy Haley	SF/SO - Horus Heresy 53
Genetics and the Literary Imagination	Clare Hanson	SF/HC - Oxford Textual Perspectives
The Strawberry Thief	Joanne Harris	LF
The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet	Marc Hartzman	PopCul/Astronomy/Science History
Children of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 3
Heretics of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 5
Chapterhouse: Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 6
God Emperor of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 4
Dune Messiah (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 2
Mephiston: City of Light	Darius Hinks	SF/SE - Warhammer 40,000
Haunted Heroine	Sarah Kuhn	UF/RF/CF - Heroine Complex 4
The Name of All Things (h2tp)	Jenn Lyons	F - Chorus of Dragons 2
Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother	Douglas A. Martin	LF/AH
Where the Veil Is Thin	Cerece Rennie Murphy (Ed) Alana Joli Abbott (Ed)	F - Anthology
Binti: The Complete Trilogy (h2tp)	Nnedi Okorafor	SF/SO/AC
The Need	Helen Phillips	LF/SpecFic
Every Sky a Grave	Jay Posey	SF/SO - The Ascendance 1
Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems	Martin Shaw Tony Hoagland	Poetry
Things From the Flood	Simon Stålenhag	SF/AP/PA
The Book of Dragons: An Anthology	Jonathan Strahan (Ed)	F
Battle Luna	Travis S. Taylor Timothy Zahn Michael Z. Williamson	SF/HSF
Growing Things and Other Stories (h2tp)	Paul Tremblay	Occ/Sup
A Peculiar Peril	Jeff VanderMeer	YA/F/AH - Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead 1
The Beast of Blackmoor (e)	Milla Vane	F/P/PNR
Or What You Will	Jo Walton	CF
Arms of the Ocean (e)	Jamie Webster M. Dalto	F
Red Dust	Yoss David Frye (Tr)	SF - Cuban Science Fiction

July 8, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Necessary Arthur: A Tor.com Original (e)	Garth Nix	ScF

July 14, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Jest Right (ri)	Piers Anthony	F/HU - Magic of Xanth 43
ReV: The Machine Dynasty	Madeline Ashby	SF/AP/AP/CyP - The Machine Dynasty 3
When Jackals Storm the Walls	Bradley P. Beaulieu	F - Song of Shattered Sands 5
Unicorn Mountain (ri)	Michael Bishop	SF/AC
Peace Talks	Jim Butcher	UF - Dresden Files 16
The Amberlough Dossier: Amberlough, Armistice, Amnesty (e)	Lara Elena Donnelly	HistF
Final Fantasy XV: The Dawn of the Future	Jun Eishima Final Fantasy XV Team	F/MTI - Final Fantasy XV
The Vessels	Anna M. Elias	SupTh/VM/F - Vessels 1
Queen of Storms	Raymond E. Feist	F - Firemane Saga 2
Silver Ravens	Jane Fletcher	F/MR
His Dark Materials and Philosophy	Richard Greene (Ed) Rachel Robinson-Greene (Ed)	Philosophy - Popular Culture and Philosophy 132
The Only Good Indians	Stephen Graham Jones	H
The Relentless Moon	Mary Robinette Kowal	SF/AH/HSF - Lady Astronaut 3
The Dragon Republic (h2tp)	R. F Kuang	HistF - Poppy War 2
In the Kingdom of All Tomorrows	Stephen R. Lawhead	F/HistF - Eirlandia 3
The Adventures of Arabella Ashby: Arabella of Mars, Arabella and the Battle of Venus, Arabella The Traitor of Mars (e)	David D. Levine	SF/SP
The Passengers (h2tp)	John Marrs	TechTh/Sus/SF
The Dreaming Tree (h2tp)	Matthew Mather	M - Delta Devlin Novels 1
The Storyteller’s Daughter (e)	Victoria McCombs	RF
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing	John Jackson Miller	SF - Star Trek: Discovery 7
Utopia Avenue	David Mitchell	LF/SF/Dys
Gideon the Ninth (h2tp)	Tamsyn Muir	SF/SO/F - The Locked Tomb Trilogy 1
Red Noise (D)	John P. Murphy	SF/SO/AP/PA
At the Lucky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers	Goran Petrović Peter Agnone (Tr)	MR/LF
All Up	J. W. Rinzler	AH
Just Make Believe	Maggie Robinson	PCM - Lady Adelaide Mysteries 3
Road Seven	Keith Rosson	MR/LF
Shadows Rising	Madeleine Roux	F - World of Warcraft Shadowlands 3
Best of British Science Fiction 2019	Donna Scott (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Heart of Gold (e)	Sharon Shinn	SF/CyP
Hell Divers VII: Warriors	Nicholas Sansbury Smith	SF/CyP - Hell Divers 7
Knaves Over Queens (h2tp)	Wild Cards Trust	SH/SF - Wild Cards 22

July 15, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Everything's Fine: A Tor.com Original (e)	Matthew Pridham	SF

July 20, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
All the Dead Men	Errick Nunnally	H - Alexander Smith 2

July 21, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Saturnine	Dan Abnett	SF/SO - The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra 4
MEG: Generations	Steve Alten	SupTh/SF - Meg 6
Uranus	Ben Bova	SF/HSF/AC - Outer Planets Trilogy 1
Alpha Omega	Nicholas Bowling	SF/TechTh/H
The Killing Light (h2tp)	Myke Cole	F - Sacred Throne  3
Fearful Symmetries (e)(ri)	Ellen Datlow (Ed)	H - Anthology
John Landis Presents The Library of Horror Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors that Should Never Be Opened	DK	H - The Library of Horror
The Pull of the Stars	Emma Donoghue	Hist/Dys
Axiom's End (D)	Lindsay Ellis	SF/AC/Th
The Year of the Witching (D)	Alexis Henderson	H/Occ/Sup/DF
A Summoning of Souls	Leanna Renee Hieber	GH/Gaslamp - A Spectral City Novel 3
I Come with Knives	S. A. Hunt	H/CF - Malus Domestica 2
Trouble the Saints	Alaya Dawn Johnson	HistF/LF
Darkdawn (h2tp)	Jay Kristoff	F - The Nevernight Chronicle 3
Inch by Inch (h2tp)	Morgan Llywelyn	SF/AP/PA - Step by Step 2
Malorie: A Bird Box Novel	Josh Malerman	Sus/H/SF/AP/PA - Bird Box 2
Quantum Shadows	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	SF
Restoration	Angela Slatter	UF - Verity Fassbinder 3
Vigil	Angela Slatter	UF - Verity Fassbinder 1
The Rightful Queen	Isabelle Steiger	F - Paths of Lantistyne 2
Annihilation Aria	Michael R. Underwood	SF/SO - Space Operas 1
The Sin in the Steel (D)	Ryan Van Loan	F - The Fall of the Gods 1
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy	Ann VanderMeer(Ed) Jeff VanderMeer (Ed)	F - Anthology
A Touch of Stone and Snow	Milla Vane	FR/F/PNR - A Gathering of Dragons 2
Mean Machine	Aleksandr Voinov	Dys
Savage Legion	Matt Wallace	F - Savage Rebellion 1
South of the Buttonwood Tree	Heather Webber	CW/MR/STR
Ashes of the Sun	Django Wexler	F - Burningblade & Silvereye 1

July 23, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Chimera Code (e)	Wayne Santos	SF - Witchware 1

July 27, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
House of the Rising Sun	Richard Cox	SF/AP/PA
The Best of Greg Egan: 20 Stories of Hard Science Fiction	Greg Egan	SF/HSF

July 28, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Doctor Who: Pirate Planet	Douglas Adams James Goss	SF - Doctor Who
The Technician (tp2mm)>	Neal Asher	SF/SO - Polity 4
The Butterfly Lampshade	Aimee Bender	LF/MR/FL
Afterland	Lauren Beukes	Sus/Dys
The Baron of Magister Valley	Steven Brust	F - Dragaera 4
Reaping Willow (e)	Boone Brux	UF - Grim Reality 4
Lies of Descent (h2mm)	Troy Carrol Bucher	F/DF - Fallen Gods' War 1
My Enemy's Enemy (tp2mm)	Robert Buettner	SF
Kushiel's Chosen (ri)	Jacqueline Carey	RF/F - Kushiel's Legacy 2
The Perfect Wife (h2tp)	JP Delaney	Sus/Psy/GenEng
Empire of Wild (D - US)	Cherie Dimaline	Native American & Aboriginal/STR/SupTh
William Shakespeare's The Merry Rise of Skywalker: Star Wars Part the Ninth	Ian Doescher	SF/SO - William Shakespeare's Star Wars 9
Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror	Mark Gatiss	SF - Doctor Who
The Imago Stage	Karoline Georges Rhonda Mullins (Tr)	LF/Dys/FL
Spells for the Dead	Faith Hunter	UF - Soulwood 5
A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (h2tp)	John Hornor Jacobs	H
Flyaway	Kathleen Jennings	CF/DF/Gothic
At Death's Door (hmm)	Sherrilyn Kenyon	HistF/FR/PNR - Deadman's Cross 3
Cold Storage (h2mm)	David Koepp	Sus
Kinsman's Oath (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - The Kinsman  2
Prince of Shadows (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - Val Cache 3
The Forest Lord (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - Fane 1
Star-Crossed (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	SF
Prince of Dreams (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - Val Cache 2
Prince of Wolves (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - Val Cache 1
Twice a Hero (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR
Body & Soul (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR
Kin	Snorri Kristjansson	Cr/Hist/HistTh - Helga Finnsdottir Mysteries 1
Crossings (D)	Alex Landragin	LF/MR
Sabella (ri)	Tanith Lee	SF/SO
Bound by Shadows (ri)	Kathy Lyons	PNR - Grizzlies Gone Wild  1
The Dawn of a Nazi Moon	Douglas MacKinnon	SF - Dawn of the Nazi Moon 1
Tyger Burning (tp2mm)	T. C. McCarthy	SF
The Five Books of (Robert) Moses	Arthur Nersesian	AH/LF/AB/Sagas
Chaos Vector	Megan E. O'Keefe	SF/SO/SE/GenEng- Protectorate 2
The Memory Police (h2tp)	Yoko Ogawa Stephen Snyder (Tr)	LF/SF/Dys
River of Night (h2mm)	John Ringo Mike Massa	SF/AP/PA - Black Tide Rising 8
Deal with the Devil (h2tp)	Kit Rocha	SF/SFR - Mercenary Librarians 1
Demon in White	Christopher Ruocchio	SF/SO/HSF/AC - Sun Eater 3
Relentless: A Drizzt Novel	R. A. Salvatore	F - Generations  3
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (h2mm)	Brandon Sanderson	SF - Collection
Doctor Who: Dalek	Robert Shearman	SF - Doctor Who
Automatic Reload	Ferrett Steinmetz	SF/CyP/HSF
Privateer (h2mm)	Margaret Weis Robert Krammes	F - The Dragon Corsairs 2
The Worst of All Possible Worlds	Alex White	SF/GenEng/SO - Salvagers 3
Doctor Who: The Witchfinders	Joy Wilkinson	SF - Doctor Who
Master of the World (tp2mm)	Edward Willett	F - Worldshapers 2

July 31, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Gray Matters (D)	John Webster Gastil	SF/CyP/Medical/PolTh
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3	William Schafer (Ed)	DF - Anthology

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



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
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)
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
LMF - Legends, Myths, Fables
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
RF - Romantic Fantasy
ScF - Science Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

Happy First Monday in August.

There are 2 debuts this week:

A Short Film About Disappointment by Joshua Mattson

and

Implanted by Lauren C. Teffeau.

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


From formerly featured DAC Authors

King of Assassins (The Wounded Kingdom 3) by RJ Barker;

The Tao Novels by Wesley Chu are out in eBook Bundle;

The Point by John Dixon;

Temper by Nicky Drayden;

Tarnished City (Dark Gifts 2) by Vic James is out in Trade Paperback;

Friendly Fire (The Fifth Ward 2) by Dale Lucas;

Null States (The Centenal Cycle 2) by Malka Older is out in Trade Paperback;

The Recoletta Novels by Carrie Patel are out in eBook Bundle;

Legends of the Duskwalker by Jay Posey are out in eBook Bundle;

The Tower of Living and Dying (Empire of Dust 2) by Anna Smith Spark;

Herokiller by Paul Tassi;

and

The Tropic of Eternity (The Amaranthine Cycle 3) by Tom Toner.

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

August 6, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Iron Bones (e)	Yasmine Galenorn	PNR - Wild Hunt 3
City of Kings	Rob J Hayes	F

August 7, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Garrison Girl	Rachel Aaron	Dys/SF - Attack on Titan
Bad Man	David Auerbach	H/PsyTh/Sus
King of Assassins	RJ Barker	F - The Wounded Kingdom 3
The Divine Cities Trilogy: City of Stairs, City of Blades, and City of Miracles, with an excerpt from Foundryside (e)	Robert Jackson Bennett	F - The Divine Cities
The Third Hotel	Laura van den Berg	LF/Psy
The Tao Novels - Limited Edition (e)	Wesley Chu	SF/AP/PA
Knightsblade	Andy Clark	SF- Imperial Knights 2
The Outposter (ri)	Gordon R. Dickson	SF
The Point	John Dixon	SF/Th
Temper	Nicky Drayden	CF
Gift of Griffins	V. M. Escalada	F - Faraman Prophecy 2
Halls of Law (h2mm)	V. M. Escalada	F - Faraman Prophecy 1
Worlds 2	Eric Flint	SF - Collection
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction (h2tp)	Diana Gabaldon	Hist/HistF - Collection
The Burden of Loyalty	Laurie Goulding (Ed)	SF - The Horus Heresy 48
Dark Alpha's Hunger (e)	Donna Grant	PNR - Reapers 6
Serpentine	Laurell K. Hamilton	P/UF/H -Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 26
The Triumph of the Dwarves	Markus Heitz	F - The Dwarves
A Girl of White Winter	Barb Hendee	HistF/DF - Dark Glass 3
The Talented Ribkins (h2tp)	Ladee Hubbard	CF/FL
Tarnished City (h2tp)	Vic James	CF/Dys - Dark Gifts 2
Bellewether	Susanna Kearsley	MR/P/Hist/TTR/PNR
In a Time of Treason	David Keck	F - The Tales of Durand 2
Avalanche: The Secret World Chronicles	Mercedes Lackey Cody Martin Dennis Lee Veronica Giguere	SF - Secret World Chronicle 5
Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World	Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro (Ed) Fabio Fernandes (Tr)	SF/HSF - Anthology
Friendly Fire	Dale Lucas	F - The Fifth Ward 2
In Truth and Claw	Ari Marmell	UF/DF/F - Mick Oberon Job 4
Wild Cards VIII: One-Eyed Jacks	George R. R. Martin (Ed)	SF/SH - Wild Cards 8
A Short Film About Disappointment (D)	Joshua Mattson	LF/Dys/Satire
Come Back to the Swamp	Laura Morrison	SupTh
Null States (h2tp)	Malka Older	SF/CyP/TechTh/PolTh - The Centenal Cycle 2
The Recoletta Novels - Limited Edition (e)	Carrie Patel	F
Legends of the Duskwalker - Limited Edition (e)	Jay Posey	SF/AP/PA/HSF
Alternate Routes	Tim Powers	CF
Lukas the Trickster	Josh Reynolds	SF - Lukas the Trickster 1
Haven	Adam Roberts	SF/AP/PA - The Aftermath 2
Before She Sleeps	Bina Shah	Dys
The Tower of Living and Dying	Anna Smith Spark	F - Empires of Dust 2
Herokiller	Paul Tassi	SF/Dys/Th
Implanted (D)	Lauren C. Teffeau	SF/CyP/AP/PA
The Tropic of Eternity	Tom Toner	SF/SO/AC - The Amaranthine Spectrum 3
The Seas of Distant Stars	Francesca G. Varela	SF
War for Armageddon: The Omnibus	Various	SF
The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies	Jane de La Vaudère Brian Stableford (Tr)	H - Collection
An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000	Jo Walton	LC/SF/F
Privateer	Margaret Weis Robert Krammes	F - The Dragon Corsairs 2
Rogue Protocol	Martha Wells	SF - The Murderbot Diaries 3
The Cityborn (h2mm)	Edward Willett	F/DF
Nebula Awards Showcase 2018	Jane Yolen (Ed)	SF/F - Anthology

August 9, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction	Jesse Weiner (Ed) Benjamin Eldon Stevens (Ed) Brett M. Rogers (Ed)	HC - Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

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



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
Cr - Crime
CulH - Cultural Heritage
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
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
MU - Mash Up
Noir - Noir
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PI - Private Investigator
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PP - Police Procedural
PolTh - Political Thriller
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
Sagas - Sagas
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
TV - Television
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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

Happy 1st Monday in July!

There are 2 debuts this week:

Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco;

and

Lost in Arcadia by Sean Gandert.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton is out in Trade Paperback;

Roses and Rot by Kat Howard is out in Trade Paperback;

Sungrazer by Jay Posey;

and

Wicked Kiss by Rebecca Zanetti.

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

July 1, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Royal Enchantment (e)	Sharon Ashwood	PNR
Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy	Liz Bourke	SF/F/HC
Lost In Arcadia (D)	Sean Gandert	LF/Dys
The Big Meat	Carlton Mellick III	PA/H
The Man of Legends	Kenneth Johnson	SupTh
Kris Longknife's Relief: Grand Admiral Santiago on Alwa Station (Ke)	Mike Shepherd	SF - Kris Longknife
Her Guardian Shifter (e)	Karen Whiddon	PNR

July 3, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Contingency Plan (e)	Robyn Bachar	SFR - Galactic Cold War 2
Wolf's Empire: Gladiator (h2tp)	Claudia Christian Morgan Grant Buchanan	SF
Dune: Legends, Heroes, Schools (e)	Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson	SF - Dune
The Wheel of Time, Books 5-9 (e)	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time
The Corean Chronicles, Volume One (e)	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	F - Corean Chronicles Series
Hell's Bounty (h2tp)	Joe R. Lansdale John L. Lansdale	H/W
Zombie Gold (h2tp)	John L. Lansdale	Z/W/H
Batman: Metal Die-Cast Bat-Signal	Running Press	MTI
Drakon's Plunder (e)	N.J. Walters	PNR - Blood of the Drakon 3

July 4, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Royal Enchantment	Sharon Ashwood	PNR
Straight Outta Tombstone	David Boop (Ed)	F - Anthology
Good Morning, Midnight (h2tp)	Lily Brooks-Dalton	LF/SF
The Icarus Corps: The Darkside War; Titan's Fall; Jupiter Rising	Zachary Brown	SF - The Icarus Corps
Jupiter Rising (e)	Zachary Brown	SF - Icarus Corps 3
Out in the Open (D)	Jesús Carrasco Margaret Jull Costa (Tr)	Dys/LF
Wolfling (ri)	Gordon R. Dickson	SF
The Reluctant Queen	Sarah Beth Durst	F - Queens of Renthia 2
The Alexander Inheritance	Eric Flint Gorg Huff Paula Goodlett	AH - Ring of Fire
The Rift Uprising (h2tp)	Amy S. Foster	SF - The Rift Uprising Trilogy 1
Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions	Lois H. Gresh	M/F - Cthulhu Vs. Sherlock
Midnight Crossroad (ri)	Charlaine Harris	MTI/PM -  Midnight, Texas 1
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook	Christina Henry	DF
Roses and Rot (h2tp)	Kat Howard	CF
Heroine Worship	Sarah Kuhn	UF - Heroine Complex 2
Heroine Complex (tp2mm)	Sarah Kuhn	UF - Heroine Complex 1
A Panicked Premonition	Victoria Laurie	PM - Psychic Eye Mystery 15
The Storm Lord (ri)	Tanith Lee	F - Wars of Vis 1
A Fading Sun	Stephen Leigh	F/FairyT/FolkT/LM/ DF
The Hike (h2tp)	Drew Magary	CF
The Crooked Path	E.V. Morrigan	F
Key Out of Time (e)(ri)	Andre Norton	SF - Time Traders 4
The Time Traders (e)(ri)	Andre Norton	SF - Time Traders 1
The Defiant Agents (e)(ri)	Andre Norton	SF - Time Traders 3
Threading the Needle (h2mm)	Joshua Palmatier	F - Ley 2
Sungrazer	Jay Posey	SF - Outriders
The Song of the Orphans	Daniel Price	SF - Silvers 2
Grave Ransom	Kalayna Price	UF - Alex Craft 5
Crashing Heaven	Al Robertson	SF
The Shipshape Miracle: And Other Stories (e)	Clifford D. Simak	SF - Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak 10
Dusty Zebra: And Other Stories (e)	Clifford D. Simak	SF - Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak 11
The Goblin Reservation (ri)	Clifford D. Simak	SF
The Thing in the Stone: And Other Stories (e)	Clifford D. Simak	SF - Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak 12
Time Is the Simplest Thing (ri)	Clifford D. Simak	SF
A Heritage of Stars (ri)	Clifford D. Simak	SF
In Evil Times	Melinda Snodgrass	SF - Imperials Saga 2
An Oath of Dogs	Wendy Wagner	SF
The Harbors of the Sun	Martha Wells	F
Her Guardian Shifter	Karen Whiddon	PNR
The Cityborn	Edward Willett	SF/Dys
Wicked Kiss	Rebecca Zanetti	PRS - Realm Enforcers 4

July 5, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams: A Tor.com Original (e)	Sunny Moraine	DF
When the Devil Drives: A Tor.com Original (e)	Melinda Snodgrass	SF/SH - Wild Cards

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
CW - Contemporary Women
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GH - Ghost(s)
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GO - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Noir - Noir
Occ - Occult
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
RPGs - Role Playing Games
Satire - Satire
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superhero(es)
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisMeta - Visionary and Metaphysical
W - Western
Z - Zombies

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

Christopher Buehlman (2011)

The Suicide Motor Club
Berkley, June 7, 2016
Hardcover and eBook, 368 pages

“Rising horror star”* Christopher Buehlman, author of The Lesser Dead, returns with a chilling and thrilling tale of dark evil lurking on the lonely, open road…

Bram Stoker, quoting the ballad “Lenore,” said, “The dead travel fast.”

Those words have never rung more true…

Remember that car that passed you near midnight on Route 66, doing 105 with its lights off? You wondered where it was going so quickly on that dark, dusty stretch of road, motor roaring, the driver glancing out the window as he blew by.

Did his greedy eyes shine silver like a coyote’s? Did he make you feel like prey?

You can’t remember now.

You just saw the founder of the Suicide Motor Club. Be grateful his brake lights never flashed. Be grateful his car was already full.

They roam America, littering the highways with smashed cars and bled-out bodies, a gruesome reflection of the unsettled sixties. But to anyone unlucky enough to meet them in the lonely hours of the night, they’re just a blurry memory.

That is—to all but one…

Two years ago, they left a witness in the mangled wreck of her family car, her husband dead, her son taken. She remembers their awful faces, despite their tricks and glamours. And she’s coming for them—her thirst for vengeance even more powerful than their hunger for blood.

On the deserted highways of America, the hunters are about to become the hunted…

Sara Humphreys (2011)

Trouble Walks In
The McGuire Brothers 2
Sourcebooks Casablanca, August 2, 2016
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 320 pages

He could be the man to rescue her

Big city K-9 cop Ronan McGuire loves women, loves his dog, loves his job—but when old flame Maddy Morgan moves into his jurisdiction, he can’t think about anyone else. Ronan knows she’s way out of his league, but he’s determined to help Maddy live life to the fullest.

In more ways than one

With tragedy in her past, Maddy has immersed herself in work and swiftly made a name for herself in the hot New York City real estate market. She’s looking for safety, not love, but Ronan McGuire is as persistent as he is sexy, and his crooked smile is hard to resist. But all other concerns are wiped away when Maddy goes missing and Ronan and his bloodhound K-9 partner are tasked with finding her and bringing her home.

Suzanne Palmieri (2013)

The Witch House of Persimmon Point
St. Martin's Griffin, October 11, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 352 pages

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Jay Posey (2013)

Outriders
Angry Robot, May 3, 2016 (North America Print and eBook)
     May 5, 2016 (UK Print)
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 448 pages

A daring hostage rescue leads to the discovery of an imminent terrorist attack. Thanks to the Outriders, thousands of lives are saved. Until they aren’t.

Despite the intelligence and the warnings provided by the unit, the terrorist attack goes off unhindered. What was supposed to be a triumph becomes a tragedy, and a “mission completed” completely unravels. And when they learn the reasons why, the Outriders find themselves tasked with stopping a war before it can ever start.

A dangerously cunning woman who most assuredly should be dead has seemingly returned. And her plans aren’t just devastating, they might be unstoppable.

How do you defeat a hidden enemy when you can’t let them know they’ve been discovered?

You send in the Outriders.

File Under: Science Fiction

Anthony Ryan (2013)

The Waking Fire
The Draconis Memoria 1
Ace, July 5, 2016
Hardcover and eBook, 592 pages

The New York Times bestselling Raven’s Shadow Trilogy was a perfect read for “fans of broadscale epic fantasy along the lines of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series and George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire novels.”* Now, Anthony Ryan begins a new saga, The Draconis Memoria…

Throughout the vast lands controlled by the Ironship Syndicate, nothing is more prized than the blood of drakes. Harvested from the veins of captive or hunted Reds, Green, Blues and Blacks, it can be distilled into elixirs that give fearsome powers to the rare men and women who have the ability harness them—known as the blood-blessed.

But not many know the truth: that the lines of drakes are weakening. If they fail, war with the neighboring Corvantine Empire will follow swiftly. The Syndicate’s last hope resides in whispers of the existence of another breed of drake, far more powerful than the rest, and the few who have been chosen by fate to seek it.

Claydon Torcreek is a petty thief and an unregistered blood-blessed, who finds himself pressed into service by the protectorate and sent to wild, uncharted territories in search of a creature he believes is little more than legend. Lizanne Lethridge is a formidable spy and assassin, facing gravest danger on an espionage mission deep into the heart of enemy territory. And Corrick Hilemore is the second lieutenant of an ironship, whose pursuit of ruthless brigands leads him to a far greater threat at the edge of the world.

As lives and empires clash and intertwine, as the unknown and the known collide, all three must fight to turn the tide of a coming war, or drown in its wake.

*Library Journal

Emma Newman (2013)

Planetfall
Roc, November 3, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 336 pages

From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown.

More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony’s 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret.

Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi.

The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart…

Note that the first three Split Worlds novels are being republished by Diversion Press in 2016 and there will be 2 additional novels in the series published as well. In addition, After Atlas (a standalone SF novel) will be published in late 2016 by Roc.

Suzanne Palmieri (2013)

The Witch of Bourbon Street
St. Martin's Griffin, June 30, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 336 pages

Situated deep in the Louisiana bayou is the formerly opulent Sorrow Estate. Once home to a magical family-the Sorrows-it now sits in ruins, ever since a series of murders in 1902 shocked the entire community. Now the ghosts of girls in white dresses shift in and out of view, stuck in time as they live out the past on repeat.

When Frances Green Sorrow is born carrying the "signs" of the so-called chosen one, it is believed she will bring her family back from the brink of obscurity, finally resurrecting the glory of what it once was and setting the Sorrows ghosts free.

But Frances is no savior.

Fleeing from heartbreak, she seeks solace in the seductive chaos of New Orleans, only to end up married too young in an attempt to live an ordinary life. When her marriage falls apart shortly after having a son, she returns home again-alone-just out of reach from the prying eyes of her family. But when her son disappears, she is forced to rejoin the world she left behind, exposing her darkest secret in order to find him and discovering the truth of what really happened that fateful year in the process.

Set amidst the colorful charm of The French Quarter and remote bayous of Tivoli Parish, Louisiana, Suzanne Palmieri's The Witch of Bourbon Street is a story of family, redemption, and forgiveness. Because sometimes, the most important person you have to forgive.... is yourself.

M.C. Planck (2013)

Gold Throne in Shadow
World of Prime 2
Pyr, October 13, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 315 pages

The continuing adventures of Christopher Sinclair, mechanical engineer turned priest of war.

Christopher, raised from the dead and promoted to a moderate rank, takes command of the army regiment he trained and equipped. Sent south to an allegedly easy posting, he finds himself in the way of several thousand rabid dog-men. Guns and fortifications turn back the horde, but Christopher has other problems that cannot be solved with mere firepower: a wicked assassin; hostile clergymen; dubious allies including a bard, Lalania, with a connection to a mysterious group of scholars; and worst of all his own impolitic tongue. But all of these pale into mere distractions once he discovers the true enemy: an invisible, mind-eating horror who plays the kingdom like a puppet-master’s stage. Lalania claims she can help—but will it be enough?

Jay Posey (2013)

Dawnbreaker
Legends of the Duskwalker 3
Angry Robot, August 4, 2015 (North America Print and eBook)
     August 6, 2016 (UK Print)
Mass Market Paperback and eBook
Cover Art: Steven Meyer-Rassow

Wren is living in Greenstone under the temporary care of Charles and Mol, and the protection of Chapel. Unable to determine the fate of his mother and those he left behind in Morningside, Wren believes there is nothing left to do but wait for Asher’s final blow … until a man named Haiku walks into the Samurai McGann, looking for Three.

After learning of Three’s fate, Asher’s ascension, and Wren’s gift, Haiku offers his help, and together they set out to find the remnants of House Eight and convince them to help.

As Cass and the few who survived the fall of Morningside face overwhelming odds to escape Asher and the Weir, they realize it is impossible…until their daring and probably suicidal plan to strike turns out to have surprising results and unexpected discoveries.

File Under: Science Fiction [ Third of Three / Nil Desperandum / Against the Weir / jCharles the First ]

Amy Raby (2013)

The Fire Seer and Her Quradum
Coalition of Mages 2
Amy Raby, March 24, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 314 pages

Mandir would rather wrestle a lion with his bare hands than confront the dark secrets of his past. He’s a quradum, one of the Coalition’s magic-using warriors, and when the Coalition elders send him to his childhood home to recruit a boy with magical abilities, Mandir must face his sadistic father and the family he hoped never to see again.

Taya, his partner and lover, arranges to join him on the mission, knowing that Mandir will need the support of a companion he trusts. But when someone in the household is murdered and Mandir finds himself the prime suspect, Taya will need all her wits, not to mention her fire magic, in order to clear his name.

Happy first Monday in August. It's a very full release week with 4 debuts:

The Daughters by Adrienne Celt;

The Norma Gene by M.E. Roufa;

The Casualties by Nick Holdstock;

and

The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks.

You can read more about these debuts here: 2015 Debut Author Challenge Update - August 2015 Debuts.


From formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors:

The Contrary Tale of the Butterfly Girl (The Peculiar Adventures of John Loveheart, Esq. 2) by Ishbelle Bee;

Dark Ascension (Generation V #4) by M.L. Brennan;

Devil's Pocket (Phoenix Island 2) by John Dixon;

Supervillains Anonymous (Superheroes Anonymous 2) by Lexie Dunne;

Veiled (Alex Verus 6) by Benedict Jacka;

Waterborne Exile (Waterborne Blade 2) by Susan Murray;

and

Dawnbreaker (Legends of the Duskwalker 3) by Jay Posey.

August 3, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Daughters (D)	Adrienne Celt	LF
A Better Way to Die: The Collected Short Stories (Ke)	Paul Cornell	SF - Collection
The Returned, Part II (e)	Peter David	SF - Star Trek: New Frontier
The Law of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock	Jeff Gardiner	SF/H&C
The Norma Gene (D)	M.E. Roufa	SF/AH/Hu
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany	Nisi Shawl (ed) Bill Campbell (ed)	SF - Anthology
Legends 2: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell (Ke)	Ian Whates (ed)	F/DF - Anthology

August 4, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Necropolis	Dan Abnett	SF - Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt's Ghosts 3
Murder in the Paperback Parlor	Ellery Adams	PM - A Book Retreat Mystery 2
The Barter (h2tp)	Siobhan Adcock	Psy/Th
Finches of Mars	Brian W. Aldiss	SF
Frozen in Amber	Phyllis Ames	UF/PNR
Magic Shifts	Ilona Andrews	UF - Kate Daniels 8
Primal Heat: A Paranormal Shapeshifter Werejaguar Romance	A. C. Arthur	PNR - The Shadow Shifters 6
Primal Heat Part 4: A Paranormal Shapeshifter Werejaguar Romance (e)	A. C. Arthur	PNR - The SHadow Shifters
Angel of Doom	James Axler	SF - Outlanders 74
Dark Screams: Volume Four (e)	Brian James Freeman (ed) Richard Chizmar (ed)	H
Ultima	Stephen Baxter	SF - Proxima 2
Proxima (h2mm)	Stephen Baxter	SF - Proxima 1
Crossways	Jacey Bedford	SF/SO - Psi-Tech 2
The Contrary Tale of the Butterfly Girl	Ishbelle Bee	HistF - The Peculiar Adventures of John Loveheart, Esq. 2
Energized	Mary Behre	PRS - Tidewater 3
Lamp Black, Wolf Grey	Paula Brackston	HistF
Dark Ascension	M.L. Brennan	UF - Generation V #4
Skin of the Wolf	Sam Cabot	AA -A Novel of Secrets 2
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday	Italo Calvino (ed)	F - Anthology
Sweetness #9 (h2tp)	Stephan Eirik Clark	Dys
His Father's Eyes	David B. Coe	CF - Case Files of Justis Fearsson 2
Love, Lattes and Danger (e)	Sarah Cox	UF - Mutants 2
Devil's Pocket	John Dixon	AA/Th/SF - Phoenix Island 2
The Song of Synth	Seb Doubinsky	Dys
Supervillains Anonymous	Lexie Dunne	CF - Superheroes Anonymous 2
Fire in the Blood (h2mm)	Erin M. Evans	F - Forgotten Realms: Neverwinter: Brimstone Angels 3
The Eternal World	Christopher Farnsworth	Th/P
Edge of Darkness	Christine Feehan Maggie Shayne Lori Herter	PNR - Anthology
The Mountain	David L. Golemon	AA - Event Group Thrillers 10
Exo (h2mm)	Steven Gould	SF - Jumper 4
Smoke on the Water	Lori Handeland	FR - Sisters of the Craft 3
Alice	Christina Henry	DF
Fable: Blood of Heroes	Jim C. Hines	F - Fable Tie-In
The Casualties (D)	Nick Holdstock	LF/PA
Sing the Four Quarters (e) (ri)	Tanya Huff	F - Quarters 1
The Storm Lord (e)	M. K. Hume	F - Twilight of the Celts 2
Veiled	Benedict Jacka	UF - Alex Verus 6
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings	Shirley Jackson Laurence Hyman (ed) Sarah Hyman DeWitt (ed)	Collection
Enchantress of Paris: A Novel of the Sun King’s Court	Marci Jefferson	HistF
The Fifth Season	N. K. Jemisin	F - The Broken Earth 1
Dragonbane	Sherrilyn Kenyon	CF - Dark-Hunter Novels 19
The Complete Arrows Trilogy	Mercedes Lackey	F - The Arrows Trilogy
After the Saucers Landed	Douglas Lain	SF - Short Stories
Liaden Universe Constellation	Sharon Lee Steve Miller	SF - Liaden Universe Constellation 3
The Dragon Factory (ri)	Jonathan Maberry	Th/H - Joe Ledger 2
Starry Knight	Nina Mason	PNR - Knights of Avalon 1
The Twice and Future Caesar	R. M. Meluch	SF - Tour of the Merrimack 6
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville	LF/F/CF - Collection
The Aftermath	Michela Montgomery	SF/AP/PA - Wind Cave 2
The Bull and the Spear	Michael Moorcock	F - Corum / The Eternal Champion 4
Creatures of the Storm (e)	Brad Munson	PA/SF - Rain Triptych 1
Wind/Pinball: Two novels	Haruki Murakami	MR
Waterborne Exile	Susan Murray	F - Waterborne Blade 2
The Veil	Chloe Neill	UF - Devil's Isle 2
A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd (ri)	Patrick Ness	F/FairyT/FolkT/L&M
Dawnbreaker	Jay Posey	SF/AP/PA - Legends of the Duskwalker 3
Revenant (h2mm)	Kat Richardson	UF - Greywalker 9
Your Face in Mine (h2tp)	Jess Row	LF/Dys
Blood Call	Lilith Saintcrow	Th/Sup
Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf (h2mm)	R. A. Salvatore	F - Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms: Companions Codex III
The Madagaskar Plan	Guy Saville	Th/AH
Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future (h2mm)	John Scalzi	SF
Twilight Vendetta (e)(ri)	Maggie Shayne	PNR - Wings in the Night: Reborn 2
If Onions Could Spring Leeks	Paige Shelton	PM - Country Cooking School Mystery 5
Rage	Ken Shufeldt	Th
Mother of Demons	Maynard Sims	H - Department 18 #5
The Raven's Child	Thomas E. Sniegoski	GN/SF
The Edge of Dawn	Melinda Snodgrass	CF - Edge 3
The Doorway	Alan Spencer	H
The Way of Sorrows	Jon Steele	Sus/ Oc/Sup/Th - The Angelus Trilogy 3
The Moreau Quartet: Volume One	S. Andrew Swann	SF/CyP/R - The Moreau Quartet 1
Robin Hood - Mark of the Black Arrow	Debbie Viguie James R. Tuck	HistF/DF - Robin Hood: Demon Bane 1
Chase the Darkness	J.D. Tyler	PNR - Alpha Pack 7
Wolf Trouble	Paige Tyler	PRS - SWAT 2
Kitty Saves the World	Carrie Vaughn	CF - Kitty Norville 14
The Sword of the South	David Weber	F - Sword of the South 1
Undying Hope	Emma Weylin	PNR - Undying Chronicles 1
Soldiers Out of Time	Steve White	SF/TT - Temporal Regulatory Authority 5
The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster (D)	Scott Wilbanks	HistF

August 5, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Night of the Salamander: A Tor.com Original (e)	Michael Swanwick	F

August 6, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas 2015	Paula Guran (ed)	SF/F - Anthology
A City Called Smoke	Justin Woolley	Dys - The Territory 2

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


AA - Action Adventure
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CyP - Cyber Punk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT -Fairy Tale
FolkT - Folk Tale
FR - Fantasy Romance
GN - Graphic Novel
H - Horror
H&C - History and Criticism
HistF - Historical Fantasy
Hu - Humor
L&M - Legends and Myth
LF - Literary Fiction
MR - Magical Realism
Oc - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Psy - Psychological
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
Sup - Supernatural
Sus - Suspense
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

       It’s a fairly common experience: you’re hanging out at a party, or a conference, or a convention, and you meet someone new, and they ask you what you do for a living. For me, this exchange generally falls into a somewhat predictable pattern that looks something like:

New Acquaintance (politely feigning interest): “So, Jay, what do you do for a living?”

Me (nervous, as usual): “Oh, I’m a writer.”

New Acquaintance (leaning forward with genuine interest): “Oh, really? Wow that’s cool! What do you write?”

Me (nervous, as usual): “Video games!”

New Acquaintance (leaning back, scanning room for reason to escape): “Oh … that sounds … interesting. I’m sorry, would you excuse me for a moment?”

       And I get it. Video games aren’t exactly known for their ground-breaking, revolutionary writing and mastery of story-telling. It’s not a secret that writers of other media sometimes think of game writing as the sort of thing you do if you aren’t good enough to write anything else. Which is a real shame, because some of the most talented writers I’ve ever met work in games, and can (and do) move effortlessly from games to novels to movies to TV shows. I won’t get up on my soapbox about the complexity involved in writing your average video game, but I will say that one of the coolest things about the discipline is that it draws from just about every other form of writing there is out there.

       Though I’ve been interested in all forms of creative writing since I was a wee lad, I came into the game industry with more of a screenwriting background than anything else. Like most people, I assumed that if I knew how to write a movie, writing a game would be easy. I will pause now for all of my game writing brothers and sisters to have their laugh and wipe the tears away.

        Suffice to say, I had a lot to learn from games, and I was fortunate to have an excellent mentor in the legendary Richard Dansky. After a few years in the game industry, when I decided to take a stab at writing a novel, I was amazed at how much I was able to bring over. I probably don’t have the space to cover everything that you can learn from game writing and apply to novel writing, but three big things jump out to me.

        The first is in world building, and there are two important lessons I picked up. One lesson, which is probably kind of obvious, was in what it took to establish the world. That’s mostly in regards to the amount of work and the level of detail that needs to go into building up a new world from scratch for the writer’s use. Learning what kinds of questions to answer and what kind of topics to consider when creating a consistent, credible world was a huge help to me when I started my novel writing. But just as important was learning what of all that information actually needed to be communicated to the audience. I found myself constantly tempted to want to tell ALL THE INFORMATIONS, because hey, I spent so much time figuring out the details, it only seemed natural to share it all with everyone. But game writing taught me a lot about the difference between writer’s needs and the audience’s needs.

       Another thing I learned from game writing was to trust my own creativity to deliver in times of crisis. Game development is typically a chaotic process where budget concerns or looming deadlines might suddenly gut your entire meticulously-crafted second act break without warning. Or, you know, your second act entirely. It’s not necessarily a pleasant process, but having to pick up your broken story bits and then reforge them into a meaningful narrative develops a certain confidence in being able to face those crisis moments. When I hit a wall while writing a novel, I still tend to have a little freak out, but I also know that if I take a little time to breathe and contemplate, my story brain will generally find a solution.

       And probably the biggest influence that game writing has had on my personal writing style is that it’s made me more comfortable with the idea of the audience collaborating to create their own experience. When I first started out writing prose, I was always very concerned with making sure that readers would picture things exactly as I saw them. But in games, the story you write is only part of the equation; it’s not really complete until the player steps in and adds their choices and actions, and experiences it all for themselves. In writing games, I learned that it was okay if your version of a character didn’t look exactly the same as mine, or if that fight scene played out for you with fewer elbows and more flips. It’s a natural part of reading anyway, to personalize your own vision of the material, but it’s one I had just never really embraced the idea of. These days I spend more energy trying to sketch the right feeling for a particular scene or setting, giving readers enough to understand what’s going on and to build their own picture of it, without necessarily trying to enforce my personal vision for every little thing.

       I could ramble on a lot longer talking about all the things that writing video games has taught me about all the other forms of writing I like to do, but I’d likely go on until I was the only one left listening. Suffice to say, the depth and complexity of video game narrative provides ample opportunities to learn and to practice a lot of the craft found in other disciplines, and I’m grateful for the experiences I’ve had writing in the industry.

Morningside Fall
Legends of the Duskwalker 2
Angry Robot Books, April 29, 2014 (US/Canada and eBook)
      May 1, 2014 (UK)
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 432 pages
Cover Art: Steven Meyer-Rassow

The lone gunman Three is gone, and Wren is the new governor of the devastated settlement of Morningside, but there is turmoil in the city. When his life is put in danger, Wren is forced to flee Morningside until he and his retinue can determine who can be trusted.

They arrive at the border outpost, Ninestory, only to find it has been infested with Weir in greater numbers than anyone has ever seen. These lost, dangerous creatures are harbouring a terrible secret – one that will have consequences not just for Wren and his comrades, but for the future of what remains of the world.

File Under: Science Fiction

Three
Legends of the Duskwalker 1
Angry Robot Books, July 30, 2013 (US/Canada and eBook)
     August 1, 2013 (UK)
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 480 pages
Cover Art: Steven Meyer-Rassow

The world has collapsed, and there are no heroes any more.

But when a lone gunman reluctantly accepts the mantle of protector to a young boy and his dying mother against the forces that pursue them, a hero may yet arise.

File Under: Science Fiction [ Three For All | Apocalyptic Wasteland | A Journey Home | Fear the Weir ]

About Jay

Jay is a narrative designer, author, and screenwriter by trade. He started working in the video game industry in 1998, and has been writing professionally for over a decade. Currently employed as Senior Narrative Designer at Red Storm Entertainment, he’s spent around eight years writing and designing for Tom Clancy’s award-winning Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six franchises.

A contributing author to the book Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing, Jay has lectured at conferences, colleges, and universities, on topics ranging from basic creative writing skills to advanced material specific to the video game industry.

You can find him online at his website, jayposey.com, as well as on Twitter (@HiJayPosey).