The Qwillery

Happy 1st Monday in October!

There are 3 debuts this week:

salt slow by Julia Armfield;

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo;

and

The Furies by Katie Lowe.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse (The Thorne Chronicles 1) by K. Eason;

The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi out in Trade Paperback;

The True Bastards (The Lost Lands 2) by Jonathan French;

The Princess Beard (Tales of Pell 3) by Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson;

A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories by Kat Howard is out in Trade Paperback;

A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs;

and

A Conjuring of Light Collector's Edition (Shade of Magic 3) by V. E. Schwab.

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

October 7, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Wasteland (ri)	Terry Goodkind	F - Children of D'Hara 3
Iron & Velvet	Alexis Hall	UF - Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator 1

October 8, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
salt slow (D)	Julia Armfield	SS/LF/SF/AP/PA
The Penguin Book of Mermaids	Cristina Bacchilega (Ed) Marie Alohalani Brown (Ed)	FairyT/FolkT/LM/Sup
Ninth House (D-Adult)	Leigh Bardugo	SupTh/Occ/Sup
The Remaking	Clay McLeod Chapman	H/SupTh/Occ/Sup
Metropolitan Stories	Christine Coulson	LF/SS
The Princess Beard	Delilah S. Dawson Kevin Hearne	F/HU/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Tales of Pell 3
Merlin Redux	Dave Duncan	HistF - Enchanter General 3
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse	K. Eason	SF/SO/HU - The Thorne Chronicles 1
The Oyster Thief (h2tp)	Sonia Faruqi	F
The True Bastards	Jonathan French	F/DF - The Lot Lands 2
Sudden Traveler: Stories	Sarah Hall	SS
Duchamp Versus Einstein	Christopher Hinz Etan Ilfeld	SF/AC/AP/PA
A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories (h2tp)	Kat Howard	SS
A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror	John Hornor Jacobs	H
Warrior of the Altaii	Robert Jordan	F
Dark Ink	Gary Kemble	H/AH/SupTh
The Furies (D)	Katie Lowe	Th/CoA
Collateral Damage	David Mack	SF - Star Trek: The Next Generation
Hazards of Time Travel (h2tp)	Joyce Carol Oates	Dys
Before the Devil Fell	Neil Olson	LF/M&D/Cr
The Forbidden Stars	Tim Pratt	SF/HSF - The Axiom Series 3
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts	Kate Racculia	LF
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control	Stuart Russell	Tech & Eng/Robotics/Biotechnology
A Conjuring of Light Collector's Edition	V. E. Schwab	HistF/Gaslamp - Shades of Magic 3
Skin (ri)	Ilka Tampke	HistF
A Punk Rock Future	Steve Zisson (Ed)	SF/F - Anthology

October 9, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement	Isiah Lavender III	LC - New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
mm - Mass Market Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade 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
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M&D - Mystery & Detective
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

Happy Monday!

There are 2 debuts this week:

The Lost Puzzler by Eyal Kless;

and

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh




From formerly feature DAC Authors:

Lipstick Voodoo (Kincaid Strange 2) by Kristi Charish;

The Fall of Io (Io 2) by Wesley Chu;

A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories by Kat Howard

Ninth Step Station (Episode 1) by Malka Older, Fran Wilde, Jacqueline Koyanagi, and Curtis Chen.

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

January 7, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Game Changers of the Apocalypse (e)	Mark Kirkbride	PA/H
To Free a Captured Heart (e)	R.L. Naquin	FR - Djinn Haven 3

January 8, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Power (h2tp)	Naomi Alderman	SF/AP/PA/CoA/Dys/LF
The Coming Storm	Mark Alpert	TechTh/SF/AP/PA
The Winter of the Witch	Katherine Arden	F/MR/LF - Winternight Trilogy 3
Lipstick Voodoo	Kristi Charish	UF/P/M - Kincaid Strange 2
The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times	Jerome Charyn	MR
Emergence (h2mm)	C. J. Cherryh	SF/AC/SO/HSF - Foreigner 19
Alliance Rising: The Hinder Stars I	C. J. Cherryh Jane S. Fancher	SF/HSF/SO - Alliance-Union Universe
Regenesis (ri)	C. J. Cherryh	SF/GenEng/CyP - Alliance-Union : Cyteen 4
The Fall of Io	Wesley Chu	SF/AC - Io 2
Bones Behind the Wheel	E. J. Copperman	PCM - A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery 10
The Outlaw and the Upstart King	Rod Duncan	SP/AH - Map of Unknown Things 2
It Devours! (h2tp)	Joseph Fink Jeffrey Cranor	F/HU - A Welcome to Night Vale Novel
48 Hours	William R. Forstchen	TechTh/SF/AP/PA
Inferno! #2	Guy Haley	F - Tales from the Worlds of Warhammer
For the Winner: A Novel of Jason and the Argonauts (h2tp)	Emily Hauser	Hist
Mephiston: Revenant Crusade	Darius Hinks	SF - Mephiston 2
A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories	Kat Howard	F - Collection
Warrior of the World	Jeffe Kennedy	F - Chronicles of Dasnaria 3
Serpent in the Heather (h2tp)	Kay Kenyon	HistF - A Dark Talents Novel 2
The Lost Puzzler (D)	Eyal Kless	SF/HSF - Tarakan Chronicles 1
The Water Cure (D)	Sophie Mackintosh	Psy/CoA/Dys
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way to the Stars	Una McCormack	SF - Star Trek: Discovery 4
In an Absent Dream	Seanan McGuire	CF/DF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Wayward Children 4
The Uriel Ventris Chronicles	Graham McNeill	SF
The Night Market (h2tp)	Jonathan Moore	PsyTh
The Outcasts of Time (h2tp)	Ian Mortimer	Hist
Mouthful of Birds: Stories	Samanta Schweblin Megan McDowell (Tr)	F/MR - Collection
Through Fiery Trials	David Weber	SF - Safehold 10
The Heart of What Was Lost (tpmm)	Tad Williams	F - A Novel of Osten Ard 1
War of the Flowers (ri)	Tad Williams	F/DF
The Void Protocol	F. Paul Wilson	MedTh/SupTh

January 9, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Beyond the El: A Tor.com Original (e)	John Chu	SF
Ninth Step Station	Malka Older Fran Wilde Jacqueline Koyanagi Curtis C. Chen	NF/M

January 10, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Junction	Daniel M. Bensen	SF/SE - Fiction Without Frontiers
The Haunting of Henderson Close	Catherine Cavendish	GH - Fiction Without Frontiers
Savage Species (ri)	Jonathan Janz	H - Fiction Without Frontiers

January 11, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Sins of the Angels (e)	Lydia M. Hawke	UF - Grigori Legacy 1

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
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CulH - Cultural Heritage
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
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
Hu - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
MedTh - Medical Thriller
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
NF - Near Future
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Parnormal Cozy Mystery
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
Sc - Science
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

Ben Aaronovitch (2011)

Lies Sleeping
Rivers of London 7
DAW, November 13, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 304 pages

The seventh book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.

The Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud, and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring him to justice.

But even as the unwieldy might of the Metropolitan Police bears down on its foe, Peter uncovers clues that the Faceless Man, far from being finished, is executing the final stages of a long term plan. A plan that has its roots in London’s two thousand bloody years of history, and could literally bring the city to its knees.

To save his beloved city Peter’s going to need help from his former best friend and colleague–Lesley May–who brutally betrayed him and everything he thought she believed in. And, far worse, he might even have to come to terms with the malevolent supernatural killer and agent of chaos known as Mr Punch….

Sean Grigsby (2018)

Daughters of Forgotten Light
Angry Robot, September 4, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 352 pages

A floating prison is home to Earth’s unwanted people, where they are forgotten… but not yet dead, in this wild science fiction adventure.

Deep space penal colony Oubliette, population: scum. Lena “Horror” Horowitz leads the Daughters of Forgotten Light, one of three vicious gangs fighting for survival on Oubliette. Their fragile truce is shaken when a new shipment arrives from Earth carrying a fresh batch of prisoners and supplies to squabble over. But the delivery includes two new surprises: a drone, and a baby. Earth Senator Linda Dolfuse wants evidence of the bloodthirsty gangs to justify the government finally eradicating the wasters dumped on Oubliette. There’s only one problem: the baby in the drone’s video may be hers.

File Under: Science Fiction [ Banged Up | Out of Mind | Girls Gone Bad | Moppet in Space ]

Kat Howard (2016)

A Cathedral of Myth and Bone
Saga Press, October 23, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 368 pages

From the acclaimed author of Roses and Rot— a “Brothers Grimm tale for the contemporary reader” (School Library Journal, starred review)—Kat Howard’s exquisite shorter works, nominated for the World Fantasy Award, and performed on WNYC's Selected Shorts.

Kat Howard has already been called a “remarkable young writer” by Neil Gaiman and her “dark and enticing” (Publishers Weekly) debut novel, Roses and Rot, was beloved by critics and fans alike.

Now, you can experience her collected shorter works, including two new stories, in A Cathedral of Myth and Bone. In these stories, equally as beguiling and spellbinding as her novels, Howard expands into the enchanted territory of myths and saints, as well as an Arthurian novella set upon a college campus, “Once, Future,” which retells the story of King Arthur—through the women’s eyes.

Captivating and engrossing, and adorned in gorgeous prose, Kat Howard’s stories are a fresh and stylish take on fantasy. “Kat Howard seems to possess a magic of her own, of making characters come alive and scenery so vivid, you forget it exists only on the page” (Anton Bogomazov).

Happy 1st Monday in June!

There are 6 debuts this week:

Treeborne by Caleb Johnson;

The Traitor God by Cameron Johnston;

The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War by Jane Rosenberg LaForge;

Free Chocolate (The Chocoverse 1) by Amber Royer;

The Book of M by Pend Shepherd;

and

A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal.





From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Adrift by Rob Boffard;

The Visitors by Catherine Burns is out in Trade Paperback;

Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller;

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard is out in Trade Paperback;

Chaos Queen - Blood Requiem (Chaos Queen 3) by Christopher Husberg;

Refugees (Born to the Blade Season 1, Episode 8) by Malka Older;

Outbreak (Nightshades 3) by Melissa F. Olson;

After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Rob Reid is out in Trade Paperback;

and

The Legion of Flame (The Draconis Memoria 2) by Anthony Ryan is out in Trade Paperback.

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

June 4, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
In Darkness Transformed (e)	Alexis Morgan	PNR - Paladin Strike Team 1

June 5, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 4	David Afsharirad (Ed)	SF - Year's Best Military & Adventure Science 4
Devil's Due (h2mm)	Taylor Anderson	SF/AH - Destroyermen 12
The Wisdom of Madness	C.J. Archer	HistF - Ministry Of Curiosities 10
Adrift	Rob Boffard	SF
Brothers in Arms (ri)	Lois McMaster Bujold	SF/SO - Vorkosigan Saga 9
The Visitors (h2tp)	Catherine Burns	PsyTh
Brief Cases	Jim Butcher	UF - Dresden Files Collection
Grantville Gazette VIII	Eric Flint (Ed) Walt Boyes (Ed)	SF/TT - The Ring of Fire 8
Denver Moon: The Minds of Mars	Warren Hammond Joshua Viola	SF/CyP - Denver Moon
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded	Jason Heller	SocSci/PopCul/LC/SF/F
An Unkindness of Magicians (h2tp)	Kat Howard	DF
A Peace Divided (h2tp)	Tanya Huff	SF/AC - Peacekeeper 2
Chaos Queen - Blood Requiem	Christopher Husberg	F/DF - Chaos Queen 3
Treeborne (D)	Caleb Johnson	LF/FL
The Traitor God (D)	Cameron Johnston	F/DF/UF
The Mist (ri)	Stephen King	Th
Carrie (ri)	Stephen King	H
The Hills Have Spies	Mercedes Lackey	F/FR - Valdemar: Family Spies 1
The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War (D)	Jane Rosenberg LaForge	FairyT/FolkT/LM/MR/LF
A Panicked Premonition (h2mm)	Victoria Laurie	PM/Occ/Sup - Psychic Eye Mystery 15
Companions on the Road (ri)	Tanith Lee	F
Sparrow Hill Road (ri)	Seanan McGuire	P/UF/CF - Ghost Roads 1
Outbreak	Melissa F. Olson	P/UF - Nightshades 3
Expiration Date	Tim Powers	CF
After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley (h2tp)	Rob Reid	Satire/TechTh/SF/HU
2312 (h2mm)	Kim Stanley Robinson	SF/SO/Dys
Aurora (ri)	Kim Stanley Robinson	SF/SO/HSF
Plum Rains	Andromeda Romano-Lax	SF/AP/PA/Hist/Med
Free Chocolate (D)	Amber Royer	SF/SO - The Chocoverse 1
The Golden House (h2tp)	Salman Rushdie	LF/Satire/Political
The Legion of Flame (h2tp)	Anthony Ryan	F/DF - The Draconis Memoria 2
Koko Uncaged	Kieran Shea	SF
The Book of M (D)	Peng Shepherd	LF/NF
The Sea Peoples (h2mm)	S. M. Stirling	SF/AP/PA/AH/F - A Novel of the Change 14
The Delirium Brief (h2tp)	Charles Stross	CF/DF - Laundry Files 8
The Shimmer	Carsten Stroud	Th/SupTh/PsyTh
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself	James Swallow	SF - Star Trek: Discovery 3
Her Beautiful Monster (h2tp)	Adi Tantimedh	M - Ravi PI 2
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (e)	Sarena Ulibarri (Ed)	SF/HSF/Tech - Anthology
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising (D)	Raymond A. Villareal	CulH/H/Pol/SupTh
Finding the Texas Wolf	Karen Whiddon	PNR
The Maw	Taylor Zajonc	Sus/SF

June 6, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Meat And Salt And Sparks: A Tor.com Original (e)	Rich Larson	SF/M
Refugees (e)	Malka Older	F - Born to the Blade Season 1, Episode 8

June 7, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Ghost Stories (ri)	M. R. James	GH - The Penguin English Library
At the Mountains of Madness (ri)	H. P. Lovecraft	SF - The Penguin English Library
The Last Children of Tokyo	Yoko Tawada	Dys/LF

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
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CW - Contemporary Woman
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
FL - Family Life
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
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LegalTh - Legal Thriller
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
PI - Private Investigator
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy Th - Psychological Thriller
Rel - Religious
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SocSci - Social Science
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
Tech - Technological
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TTR - Time Travel Romance
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical
W - Western

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

Happy Last Monday in September!

There are 2 debuts this week:

The Visitors by Catherine Burns;

and

Leech Girl Lives by Rick Claypool.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

War and Craft (America Craft 3) by Tom Doyle;

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard;

Provenance by Ann Leckie;

Of Flame and Fate (A Weird Girls Novel 8) by Cecy Robson;

The Eternity War: Pariah (The Eternity War 1) by Jamie Sawyer;

Everfair by Nisi Shawl is out in Trade Paperback;

and

Horizon (Bone Universe 3) by Fran Wilde.

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

September 25, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Warlord Wants Forever (e)(ri)	Kresley Cole	PNR - Immortals after Dark
Forsaken by Night (e)	Larissa Ione	PNR - Moonbound Clan Vampires 3
Lazy Son	Eve Langlais	PNR - Hell's Son 1
Dark Swan (e)	Gena Showalter	PNR - Alien Huntress 3

September 26, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Sound of Seas (h2tp)	Gillian Anderson Jeff Rovin	SF - The EarthEnd Saga 3
Lost Gods (h2tp)	Brom	DF
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (ri)	Lois McMaster Bujold	SF - Vorkosigan Saga 17
The Visitors (D)	Catherine Burns	PsyTh
Ender's Game Gift Edition	Orson Scott Card	SF - The Ender Quintet
Leech Girl Lives (D)	Rick Claypool	SF/HU
Paradox Bound	Peter Clines	SF/H/TT
Wolf Unbound (ri)	Lauren Dane	PNR - Cascadia Wolves 4
Blade Runner (ri)	Philip K. Dick	MTI/SF
War and Craft	Tom Doyle	CF/SF - American Craft 3
Planet of the Apes Omnibus 3	George Alec Effinger	MTI/SF - Planet of the Apes
Castaway Odyssey (h2mm)	Eric Flint Ryk E. Spoor	SF/SO - Boundary 5
Alien: Covenant Origins - The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film	Alan Dean Foster	MTI/SF - Alien
Kane (e)(ri)	Jacquelyn Frank	PNR - Nightwalkers 1.5
Neverwhere Illustrated Edition	Neil Gaiman	SF
Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse	James Goss	TV/SF
An Angel's Touch (h2mm)	Heather Graham	R/F/FR
Slayers & Vampires: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy & Angel	Edward Gross Mark A. Altman	TV/HC
The Cocktail Guide to the Galaxy: A Universe of Unique Cocktails from the Celebrated Doctor Who Bar	Andy Heidel	Beverages/SF
An Unkindness of Magicians	Kat Howard	DF
Original Sin	David R. George III	SF - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Sleeping Beauties	Stephen King Owen King	Th/Sus
Provenance	Ann Leckie	SF
Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours	David Mack	SF - Star Trek: Discovery 1
The Corporation Wars: Emergence	Ken MacLeod	SF/SO - Second Law Trilogy 3
When the Floods Came	Clare Morrall	LF
The Hunt	Chloe Neill	UF/PA - A Devil's Isle Novel 3
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School (tp2mm)	Kim Newman	F/P/H/AH
The Two of Swords: Part Nineteen (e)	K. J. Parker	F - Two of Swords
Death (e)	Madhuri Pavamani	FR - Keeper Series 3
Of Flame and Fate (e)	Cecy Robson	PNR - A Weird Girls Novel 8
Immortally Yours	Lynsay Sands	PNR - An Argeneau Novel 23
Savage Woods	Mary SanGiovanni	H
The Eternity War: Pariah	Jamie Sawyer	SF - The Eternity War 1
Everfair (h2tp)	Nisi Shawl	SP/HistF/AH
Archangel's Viper	Nalini Singh	PNR - Guild Hunter 10
Oceans: The Anthology (e)	David Smith (Ed)	SpecFic - Anthology
Extinction End	Nicholas Sansbury Smith	SF/PA/AP - The Extinction Cycle 5
Ghost in the Shell: The Official Movie Novelization	James Swallow	MTI/SF
The Lilitu, Primordial, The Cain Prophecy	Toby Tate	SF - The Lilitu Trilogy
Your Brother's Blood (h2tp)	David Towsey	SF - The Walkin' Trilogy 1
The Chosen (h2mm)	J.R. Ward	PNR - Black Dagger Brotherhood 15
Horizon	Fran Wilde	F - Bone Universe 3
The Emperor's Legion	Chris Wraight	SF - Watchers of the Throne 1
The Black Tides of Heaven	JY Yang	F - The Tensorate Series Novella
The Red Threads of Fortune	JY Yang	F - The Tensorate Series Novella

September 27, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Crossing Over (e)	Margaret Dunlap	UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #11

September 28, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Belador Cosaint (e)	Dianna Love	PNR - Belador 9
The Wind	Jay Caselberg	Sus/H - NewCon Press Novellas Set 2 4

September 29, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Visionary Tongue	Storm Constatine (Ed)	SpecFic - Anthology

September 30, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
River's Edge	James P. Blaylock	SupTh
University	Bentley Little	H
The Collection	Bentley Little	H
The Policy	Bentley Little	H
The Summoning	Bentley Little	H
The Emperor and the Maula	Robert Silverberg	SF/AC

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



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
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
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PopCul - Popular Culture
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
RSus - Romantic Suspense
Satire - Satire
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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

Geoffrey Girard (2013)

Mary Rose
Adaptive Books, October 17, 2017
Trade Paperback, 272 pages

Mary Rose Moreland and Simon Blake are the perfect couple: successful young professionals in Philadelphia, attractive, madly in love, and ready to start a life together. When they travel to England for Simon to ask her parents’ permission to marry Mary Rose, he learns an unsettling secret: Mary Rose disappeared when she was a little girl while the family was vacationing on a remote Scottish island. She reappeared mysteriously thirty-three days later in the exact same spot without a scratch on her and no memory of what had happened.

After Simon hears about this disturbing episode in Mary Rose’s childhood, he becomes obsessed with finding out what happened. He proceeds to launch his own investigation and arranges during their honeymoon for them to visit the island where she disappeared. But as Mary Rose’s behavior gets stranger after their engagement, the need for Simon to unlock the truth about her past grows even more urgent. What he uncovers is beyond his most terrifying fears.

Mary Rose is author Geoffrey Girard’s chilling and modern take on a classic ghost story originally written by J. M. Barrie. And for years, master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock attempted to adapt Mary Rose into a film but was never successful. With this novel, Girard taps into the nightmarish fears that inspired both Barrie and Hitchcock, while also bringing the story to the present day with his own unique voice.

Kat Howard (2016)

An Unkindness of Magicians
Saga Press, September 26, 2017
Hardcover and eBook, 368 pages

There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city’s magicians’ power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard.

In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney—a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. But Sydney doesn’t want to help the system, she wants to destroy it.

Sydney comes from the House of Shadows, which controls the magic with the help of sacrifices from magicians.

Ken Liu (2015)

The Legends of Luke Skywalker
Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    J.G. Jones (Illustrated by)
Disney Lucasfilm Press, October 31, 2017
Hardcover, 432 pages
    Juvenile Fiction \ Media Tie-In

As a cargo ship rockets across thegalaxy to Canto Bight, the deckhands on board trade stories about legendary JediKnight Luke Skywalker. But are the stories of iconic and mysterious LukeSkywalker true, or merely tall tales passed from one corner of the galaxy toanother? Is Skywalker really a famous Jedi hero, an elaborate charlatan,or even part droid? The deckhands will have to decide for themselves when they hear The Legends of Luke Skywalker.

A collection of myths and tall-tales about the legendary Jedi Luke Skywalker, written by Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy award-winning author Ken Liu.

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.

Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far-Away Galaxies
Saga Press, April 18, 2017
Hardcover, Trade Paperback and eBook, 352 pages

A collection of original, epic science fiction stories by some of today’s best writers—for fans who want a little less science and a lot more action—and edited by two-time Hugo Award winner John Joseph Adams.

Inspired by movies like The Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars, this anthology features brand-new stories from some of science fiction’s best authors including Dan Abnett, Jack Campbell, Linda Nagata, Seanan McGuire, Alan Dean Foster, Charlie Jane Anders, Kameron Hurley, and many others.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime—Charlie Jane Anders
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance—Tobias S. Buckell
• The Deckhand, the Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts—Becky Chambers
• The Sighted Watchmaker—Vylar Kaftan
• Infinite Love Engine—Joseph Allen Hill
• Unfamiliar Gods—Adam-Troy Castro, with Judi B. Castro
• Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World—Caroline M. Yoachim
• Our Specialty is Xenogeology—Alan Dean Foster
• Golden Ring—Karl Schroeder
• Tomorrow When We See the Sun—A. Merc Rustad
• Bring the Kids and Revisit the Past at the Traveling Retro Funfair!—Seanan McGuire
• The Dragon that Flew Out of the Sun—Aliette De Bodard
• Diamond and the World Breaker—Linda Nagata
• The Chameleon’s Gloves—Yoon Ha Lee
• The Universe, Sung in Stars—Kat Howard
• Wakening Ouroboros—Jack Campbell
• Warped Passages—Kameron Hurley
• The Frost Giant’s Data—Dan Abnett

Eve Chase (2016)

The Wilding Sisters
G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 25, 2017
Hardcover and eBook, 384 pages

An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart of Applecote Manor.

Four sisters. One summer. A lifetime of secrets.

When fifteen-year-old Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the sisters become divided by new tensions when two handsome neighbors drop by, Margot finds herself drawn into the life Audrey left behind. When the summer takes a deadly turn, the girls must unite behind an unthinkable choice or find themselves torn apart forever.

Fifty years later, Jesse is desperate to move her family out of their London home, where signs of her widower husband’s previous wife are around every corner. Gorgeous Applecote Manor, nestled in the English countryside, seems the perfect solution. But Jesse finds herself increasingly isolated in their new sprawling home, at odds with her fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, and haunted by the strange rumors that surround the manor.

Rich with the heat and angst of love both young and old, The Wildling Sisters is a gorgeous and breathtaking journey into the bonds that unite a family and the darkest secrets of the human heart.

Black Rabbit Hall
G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 4, 2017
Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Hardcover and eBook, February 9, 2016

For fans of Kate Morton and Daphne du Maurier, here’s a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall.

Amber Alton knows that the hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall, her London family’s country estate, where no two clocks read the same. Summers there are perfect, timeless. Not much ever happens. Until, of course, it does.

More than three decades later, Lorna is determined to be married within the grand, ivy-covered walls of Pencraw Hall, known as Black Rabbit Hall among the locals. But as she’s drawn deeper into the overgrown grounds, half-buried memories of her mother begin to surface and Lorna soon finds herself ensnared within the manor’s labyrinthine history, overcome with an insatiable need for answers about her own past and that of the once-happy family whose memory still haunts the estate.

Stunning and atmospheric, this debut novel is a thrilling spiral into the hearts of two women separated by decades but inescapably linked by the dark and tangled secrets of Black Rabbit Hall.

From the Hardcover edition.

G.S. Denning (2016)

Warlock Holmes: The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles
Warlock Holmes 2
Titan Books, May 16, 2017
Trade Paperback and eBook, 320 pages

The game’s afoot once more as Holmes and Watson face off against Moriarty’s gang, the Pinkertons, flesh-eating horses, a parliament of imps, boredom, Surrey, a disappointing butler demon, a succubus, a wicked lord, an overly-Canadian lord, a tricycle-fight to the death and the dreaded Pumpcrow. Oh, and a hell hound, one assumes.

Lena Gregory (2016)

Occult and Battery
A Bay Island Psychic Mystery 2
Berkley, April 4, 2017
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 304 pages

A murder mystery weekend becomes a little too real in the latest Bay Island Psychic Mystery from the author of Death at First Sight—

Cass Donovan uses her skills as a former psychiatrist to get away with pretending to be psychic, but she’s not about to let anyone get away with murder…

The outlook is not so good for Cass’s psychic shop, Mystical Musings. With winter winds discouraging tourists from riding the ferry from Long Island to Bay Island, Cass hopes to draw in more customers by hosting a murder mystery weekend, complete with a séance, in a supposedly haunted mansion.

But Cass begins to lose her spirit when her ex-husband shows up, along with his fiancée—Cass’s ex-best friend. Then, after one of the guests is found dead, a blizzard blows in, trapping everyone inside with a murderer. Now Cass must divine who did the deed before her reputation and her livelihood fade away.

Kat Howard (2016)

Rose and Rot
Saga Press, July 4, 2017
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Hardcover and eBook, May 17, 2016

Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, whether it be art or love in this critically acclaimed debut novel from “a remarkable young writer” (Neil Gaiman, American Gods).

What would you sacrifice for everything you ever dreamed of?

Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn’t imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program—Imogen as a writer and Marin as a dancer. Soon enough, though, they realize that there’s more to the school than meets the eye. Imogen might be living in the fairy tale she’s dreamed about as a child, but it’s one that will pit her against Marin if she decides to escape her past to find her heart’s desire.

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

Kat:  I started writing seriously in late 2007, when I decided to apply to Clarion. I was basically in a situation where my personal life had taken an unexpected turn, and it was one of those “Okay, well, let’s see if I can do this thing, what have I got to lose” moments. I was so sure that I wouldn’t succeed that it stopped me from feeling afraid about it.



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

Kat:  In my initial drafts, I’m almost entirely a pantser. Once I have that down, I then go back and figure out what I’ve left out, and try to do things like impose some sort of structure and make sure a plot gets in there at some point.



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

Kat:  In case that answer above didn’t give it away, I do have to remember to put the plot in, and it has been and continues to be a challenge for me to get my brain to think about plot in a way that translates to things actually happening on the page. I’m also someone who is, for the most part, much more comfortable when I’m revising, rather then when I’m writing that very first draft, so learning to relax and write something that’s “good enough for now” so that I can move on and then make it better later is an ongoing thing as well.



TQ:  What has influenced/influences your writing?

Kat:  I think it can be hard to see your own influences sometimes, to recognize the thing that itches your brain until it becomes a story. But I’m inspired by a lot of writers currently working: Holly Black and Elizabeth Hand and Sarah McCarry and Kelly Link and Sofia Samatar and Maggie Stiefvater and Victoria Schwab and Maria Dahvana Headley and Fran Wilde and Genevieve Valentine and Zen Cho and Carmen Maria Machado and that’s a non-exhaustive list.



TQ:  Describe Roses and Rot in 140 characters or less.

Kat:  It’s a gender-flipped riff on Tam Lin set at a modern day artists’ colony.



TQ:  Tell us something about Roses and Rot that is not found in the book description.

Kat:  It contains two kittens, a train, and chocolate mousse.



TQ:  What inspired you to write Roses and Rot? What appeals to you about writing Contemporary Fantasy?

Kat:  I’ve loved the story of Tam Lin ever since I first read Pamela Dean’s novel. Roses and Rot came out of thinking about one particular part of that story – the tithe that Fairy pays, and the way to break that tithe. Who do you love enough to risk that much for? Once I had that question, I had the beginning of the book.

I write fantasy because it’s a genre that allows me to start with the metaphor, and move on from there. I like weirdness and magic and wonder, and writing fantasy allows me to make all of those things literal.



TQ:  What sort of research did you do for Roses and Rot?

Kat:  I read a lot of biographies of women artists, and I watched a lot of ballet. Let me tell you, it’s not a bad life, watching videos of Misty Copeland or Sergei Polunin for work.



TQ:  Why did you set the novel in rural New Hampshire?

Kat:  I knew and loved the area.



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

Kat:  The easiest character was probably Imogen – I had her voice in my head from the beginning, and I always felt like I knew her. The most difficult was probably Imogen and Marin’s Mom, because she was so unpleasant.



TQ:  Give us one or two of your favorite non-spoilery quotes from Roses and Rot.

Kat:  “You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.”



TQ:  Do you have any favorite fairy tales?

Kat:  My favorite is probably “Beauty and the Beast” – I collect different versions of it. I also really love “The Six Swans.”



TQ:  What's next?

Kat:  Well, I’m always writing short fiction, and – speaking of fairy tales – I have a retelling of “The Snow Queen” that will be a part of The Starlit Wood anthology, coming later this year from Saga. I’ll also have a new novel (completely unrelated to Roses and Rot, which is fully a standalone) out from Saga in the fall of 2017.



TQ:  Thank you for joining us at The Qwillery.

Rose and Rot
Saga Press, May 17, 2016
Hardcover and eBook, 320 pages

Publishers Weekly Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Novel of Summer 2016

Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, whether it be art or love in this haunting debut novel from “a remarkable young writer” (Neil Gaiman).

What would you sacrifice for everything you ever dreamed of?

Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn’t imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program—Imogen as a writer and Marin as a dancer. Soon enough, though, they realize that there’s more to the school than meets the eye. Imogen might be living in the fairy tale she’s dreamed about as a child, but it’s one that will pit her against Marin if she decides to escape her past to find her heart’s desire.

About Kat

Photograph © Shane Leonard

Kat Howard lives in New Hampshire. Her short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in year's best and best of collections, and performed on NPR. Roses and Rot is her debut novel. You can find her on twitter at @KatWithSword.












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