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Happy Monday!

There are 4 debuts this week!

The Unwilling by Kelly Braffet (Fantasy Debut);

The Light Years by R.W.W. Greene;

The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates 1) by A. K. Larkwood;

and

A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders is out in Trade Paperback;

Book of the Just (The Bohemian Trilogy 3) by Dana Chamblee Carpenter is out in Trade Paperback;

The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson;

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks is out in Trade Paperback;

Blood Tally (Valkyrie Collections 2) by Brian McClellan;

and

Stormsong (The Kingston Cycle 2) by C. L. Polk.

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

February 11, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The City in the Middle of the Night (h2tp)	Charlie Jane Anders	SF/AC
The Unwilling (D - Fantasy)	Kelly Braffet	F
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Martian Menace	Eric Brown	HistM - Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 30
Book of the Just (h2tp)	Dana Chamblee Carpenter	Fiction - The Bohemian Trilogy 3
The Chill	Scott Carson	SupTh
Wisteria Cottage	Robert M Coates	H/PsyTh - Valancourt 20th Century Classics
The Boatman's Daughter	Andy Davidson	Gothic
Daughter from the Dark	Sergey and Marina Dyachenko	DF
The Pandora Room (h2tp)	Christopher Golden	SupTh
The Light Years (D)	R.W.W. Greene	SF/SO
The Mercies	Kiran Millwood Hargrave	Hist
Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones (h2tp)	Micah Dean Hicks	CF
Tyll	Daniel Kehlmann Ross Benjamin (Tr)	LF
The Bear	Andrew Krivak	CoA/Dys
The Unspoken Name (D)	A. K. Larkwood	F - The Serpent Gates 1
In Accelerated Silence: Poems	Brooke Matson	Poetry - Jake Adam York Prize
Blood Tally (e)	Brian McClellan	UF - Valkyrie Collections 2
Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope	Una McCormack	SF - Star Trek: Picard
Stormsong	C. L. Polk	F/Gaslamp - The Kingston Cycle 2
A Dangerous Collaboration	Deanna Raybourn	HistM - Veronica Speedwell Series 4
A Witch in Time (D)	Constance Sayers	Occ/Sup
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges	Amber Sparks	SS
Age of Death	Michael J. Sullivan	F - Legends of the First Empire 5
The Siren Depths (ri)	Martha Wells	F - Books of the Raksura 3

February 12, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Snow Collectors	Tina May Hall	HistM/Gothic

February 14, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Loneliest Band in France: A Novella	Dylan Fisher	LF

February 15, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Neon Leviathan	T R Napper	SF/HSF - Collection

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
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - Cyperpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FR- Fantasy Romance
GothicM - Gothic Mystery
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy
W - Western
WW - Weird Western

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

It's time to vote for the 2019 Debut Author Challenge COVER OF THE YEAR! Below you will find the 12 monthly winners in alphabetical order by book title (excluding "the" or "a" or "an", etc.).

Vote for your favorite from the monthly 2019 Winners! Note that there was only 1 debut for December 2019 so it is automatically the December 2019 winner.

I'm using PollCode for this vote. After you the check the circle next to your favorite, click "Vote" to record your vote. If you'd like to see the real-time results click "View". This will take you to the PollCode site where you may see the results. If you want to come back to The Qwillery click "Back" and you will return to this page.

Voting will end sometime on January 30, 2020 unless voting is extended.

Vote for your favorite 2019 Debut Cover!

The Age of Anxiety

The Border Keeper

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones

Gideon the Ninth

The Gutter Prayer

The Hungry Ghost

Lies of Descent

A Memory Called Empire

The Revisionaries

The Vine Witch

Waste Tide

Westside

 

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Each month you will be able to vote for your favorite cover from that month's debut novels. At the end of the year the 12 monthly winners will be pitted against each other to choose the 2019 Debut Novel Cover of the Year. Please note that a debut novel cover is eligible in the month in which the novel is published in the US. Cover artist/illustrator/designer information is provided when we have it.

I'm using PollCode for this vote. After you the check the circle next to your favorite, click "Vote" to record your vote. If you'd like to see the real-time results click "View". This will take you to the PollCode site where you may see the results. If you want to come back to The Qwillery click "Back" and you will return to this page. Voting will end sometime on March 7, 2019, unless the vote is extended. If the vote is extended the ending date will be updated.

Vote for your favorite February 2019 Debut Cover!

10,000 Bones

The Beast's Heart

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones

The Familiars

Polaris Rising

The Psychology of Time Travel

The Ruin of Kings

Same Same

 

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Happy Monday! February is top heavy with debuts; that is, most of the month's debuts are out tomorrow. Since February always seems like the longest month of the year to me I'm glad to have so many debuts to read.


There are 5 debuts this week:

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks;

The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons 1) by Jenn Lyons;

Same Same by Peter Mendelsund;

Polaris Rising (Consortium Rebellion 1) by Jessie Mihalik;

and

10,000 Bones by Joe Ollinger.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Strife's Bane (The Shattered Kingdoms 3) by Evie Manieri;

and

Thirty-Seven by Peter Stenson is out in Trade Paperback.

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

February 5, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Gaunt's Ghosts: The Anarch	Dan Abnett	SF - Gaunt's Ghost 15
Sea Monsters	Chloe Aridjis	LF/CoA/MR
Line War (ri)	Neal Asher	SF/AP/PA - Agent Cormac 5
Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds: The first official Stranger Things novel	Gwenda Bond	SupTh/SF/H
Sealskin (ri)	Su Bristow	MR/FairyT/FolkT/LM/F
Titanborn	Rhett C. Bruno	SF - Children of Titan 1
Competence (h2tp)	Gail Carriger	F/HistF/FR/P - Custard Protocol 3
House of Assassins	Larry Correia	F - Saga of the Forgotten Warrior 2
Witch Hunter & Kindling the Darkness	Shannon Curtis Jane Kindred	PNR
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror	Graeme Davis (Ed)	H - Anthology
Three Eves: The Marked Series (Eve of Darkness, Eve of Destruction, Eve of Chaos)	Sylvia Day	UF/P/PNR - Marked
Outpost (h2mm)	W. Michael Gear	HSF/SF/SO - Donovan 1
Wild Life (ri)	Molly Gloss	CF
Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems	Theodora Goss	F
Dark Alpha's Awakening	Donna Grant	PNR - Reaper 7
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations	Ursula K. Le Guin David Streitfeld (Ed)	Bio/SF/VisM - The Last Interview Series
Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones (D)	Micah Dean Hicks	CF
The Ingenious	Darius Hinks	F/UF
Black Leopard, Red Wolf	Marlon James	HistF/HistAA/F - The Dark Star Trilogy 1
Pale Blue: A Thriller	Mike Jenne	TechTh - Blue Gemini 3
Endgames	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	F - Imager Portfolio 12
Detonation Event	John Andrew Karr	SF/SO/PA - Mars War 1
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers	Victor LaValle (Ed) John Joseph Adams (Ed)	SF/AP/PA/LF - Anthology
The Ruin of Kings (D)	Jenn Lyons	F - A Chorus of Dragons 1
Blood of Iax	Robbie MacNiven	SF- Warhammer 40,000
Unbury Carol (h2tp)	Josh Malerman	H
Strife's Bane	Evie Manieri	F - The Shattered Kingdoms 3
Stray Moon (ri)	Kelly Meding	UF/P/PNR -  Strays Novel 2
Same Same (D)	Peter Mendelsund	SF/Dys/Satire
Polaris Rising (D)	Jessie Mihalik	SF/SO - Consortium Rebellion 1
Ciaphas Cain: Choose Your Enemies	Sandy Mitchell	SF - Ciaphas Cain 10
Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You	Scotto Moore	H/SupTh/AC
Man-Kzin Wars XV	Larry Niven (Cr)	SF - Man-Kzin Wars Anthology
Binti: The Complete Trilogy	Nnedi Okorafor	SF - Binti
10,000 Bones (D)	Joe Ollinger	SF/HSF/Cr/Dys
Fog Season	Patrice Sarath	HistF/M - Tales of Port Saint Frey 2
The Beast of Nightfall Lodge	S. A. Sidor	Occ/Sup/HistF - The Institute for Singular Antiquities 2
Thirty-Seven (h2tp)	Peter Stenson	H/Noir/LF
The Gone World (h2tp)	Tom Sweterlitsch	SF/AP/PA/PP
The Black Wolf & Enticing the Dragon: An Anthology	Linda Thomas-Sundstrom Jane Godman	PNR
War of Honor (Limited Leatherbound Collector's Edition)	David Weber	SF/SO - Honor Harrington 1
Sisters of the Fire	Kim Wilkins	F - Daughters of the Storm 2
The Lords of Silence	Chris Wraight	SF - Warhammer 40,000

February 6, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Articulated Restraint: A Tor.com Original (e)	Mary Robinette Kowal	SF

February 7, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Earthlight (ri)	Sir Arthur C. Clarke	SF - Golden Age Masterworks
The Best of R. A. Lafferty	R. A. Lafferty	SF - Collection

Cr - Creator
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
AP - Apocalyptic
Bio - Biographical
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
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
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
NF - Near Future
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Parnormal Cozy Mystery
PI - Private Investigators
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PP - Police Procedural
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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