The Qwillery

Monday again!

There are 4 debuts this week:

The Immortals of Tehran by Ali Araghi;

Weave the Lightning by Corry L. Lee;

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth;

and

Legacy of Ash (Legacy Trilogy 1) by Matthew Ward.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Dark Age (Red Rising 5) by Pierce Brown is out in Trade Paperback;

and

Titan's Day (The Carter Archives 2) by Dan Stout.

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

April 7, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Immortals of Tehran (D)	Ali Araghi	MR/Pol/Sagas
The Red-Stained Wings (h2tp)	Elizabeth Bear	F - Lotus Kingdoms 2
Malicroix	Henri Bosco Joyce Zonana (Tr)	STR/Psy/Gothic
Dark Age (h2tp)	Pierce Brown	SF/Dys - Red Rising 5
Secrets in the Dark	Darcy Coates	H/Occ/Sup/AP/PA/SupTh/Dys - Black Winter 2
Overruled!	Hank Davis (Ed) Christopher Ruocchio (Ed)	SF - Anthology
A Tale of Truths	Berit Ellingsen	F
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36	David Farland (Ed)	SF/F - Anthology - Writers of the Future  36
A Time of Courage	John Gwynne	F/HistF - Of Blood & Bone 3
Fantastic Hope	Laurell K. Hamilton  (Ed) William McCaskey (Ed)	Dys/F/SF - Anthology
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires	Grady Hendrix	H/SupTh/Southern
Eden	Tim Lebbon	SupTh/H/SF
Weave The Lightning (D)	Corry L. Lee	F
The Beetle (ri)	Richard Marsh	H/Gothic/Sus/SupTh
Middlegame (h2tp)	Seanan McGuire	CF/DF
The Obsoletes (h2tp)	Simeon Mills	SF
The Age of Witches	Louisa Morgan	Occ/Sup/HistF/HistR
Starborn and Godsons	Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle Steven Barnes	SF - Heorot 3
The Time Seer	Richard Phillips	F - Endarian Prophecy 5
The Malevolent Volume	Justin Phillip Reed	Poetry
Chosen Ones (D-Adult)	Veronica Roth	CF
Bonds of Brass	Emily Skrutskie	SF/SO - The Bloodright Trilogy 1
The Glass Magician	Caroline Stevermer	HistF/RF
Titan's Day	Dan Stout	The Carter Archives 2
Temptation	Janos Szekely Marl Baczoni (Tr)	UF/DF
The Nothing Girl	Jodi Taylor	RF/HU - Frogmorton Farm 1
The Ancestor	Danielle Trussoni	LF
Legacy of Ash (D)	Matthew Ward	F - Legacy Trilogy 1

April 8, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Little Free Library: A Tor.com Original (e)	Naomi Kritzer	UF

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



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
BlHu - Black Humour
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CH - Cultural Heritage
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - Cyperpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
Esp - Espionage
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator(s)
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PP - Police Procedural
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Spec - Speculative
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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

Happy Monday!

There are no debuts this week. From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Iron Gods (Spin Trilogy 2) by Andrew Bannister;

Death Goddess Dance (The Mythos War 3) by Levi Black;

Dark Age (Red Rising 5) by Pierce Brown;

and

The Spider (Under the Northern Sky 2) by Leo Carew.

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

July 30, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Uncharted (h2mm)	Kevin J. Anderson Sarah A. Hoyt	Hist F - Arcane America
Iron Gods	Andrew Bannister	SF/SO/HSF -  Spin Trilogy 2
Mage Against the Machine (h2tp)	Shaun Barger	SF
Death Goddess Dance	Levi Black	DF/H - The Mythos War 3
The Toynbee Convector (ri)	Ray Bradbury	SF
Dark Age	Pierce Brown	SF/Dys - Red Rising 5
Rotherweird	Andrew Caldecott	HistF/P - Rotherweird 1
The Spider	Leo Carew	F - Under the Northern Sky 2
Brave the Tempest	Karen Chance	UF - Cassie Palmer 9
Alien: Isolation	Keith R.A. DeCandido	SF/AC/MTI
Halo: Silent Storm: A Master Chief Story (h2tp)	Troy Denning	SF - HALO 24
Worlds 2 (tp2mm)	Eric Flint	SF - Collection
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (h2tp)	Hank Green	CoA/SF/CF
An Easy Death (h2mm)	Charlaine Harris	DF - Gunnie Rose 1
The Book Charmer	Karen Hawkins	CW
Dune: The Battle of Corrin (ri)	Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson	SF/SO - Legends of Dune 3
Stygian (h2mm)	Sherrilyn Kenyon	FR/P/UF - Dark-Hunter22
The Edge	Tim Lebbon	DF/CF/H - Relics 3
And Then There Were Dragons	Alcy Leyva	Occ/HU - Shades of Hell
Dragon's Code (h2mm)	Gigi McCaffrey	SF/F - The Dragonriders of Pern
Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War	John Jackson Miller	SF - Star Trek: Discovery
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (h2tp)	Alec Nevala-Lee	Biography
The Hound of Justice	Claire O'Dell	Dys - Janet Watson Chronicles 2
Tide of Battle (tp2mm)	Michael Z. Williamson	SF
Mrs. Morris and the Ghost	Traci Wilton	PCM - A Salem B&B Mystery 1
The Ember Blade	Chris Wooding	F - Darkwater Legacy 1
Ascent to Godhood	JY Yang	F - The Tensorate 4

July 31, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Flowers of Vashnoi	Lois McMaster Bujold	SF - Vorkosigan Saga
Atmosphæra Incognita	Neal Stephenson	SF

August 1, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Drive-Thru Crematorium	Jon Bassoff	H
Till Sudden Death Do Us Part	Simon R. Green	SupTh/SupM - Ishmael Jones Mystery 7
Skinwrapper (Ke)	Stephen Kozeniewski	SF
Grandghost: A haunted house mystery	Nancy Springer	GH/M

August 2, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The October Boys (Ke)	Adam Millard	H

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



AA - Action and Adventure
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
Eng - Engineering
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
GothicR - Gothic Romance
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
Ke - Kindle eBook
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SS - Short Stories
ST+R - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
Tech - Technology
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
WS - Women Sleuths

Happy Monday!

There is 1 debut this week:

A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Case of the Hidden Daemon (Dr Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural 3) by Lucy Banks;

Iron Gold (Red Rising 4) by Pierce Brown is out in Trade Paperback;

Roar of Sky (Blood of Earth 3) by Beth Cato;

and

The Silver Scar by Betsy Dornbusch.

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

October 22, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet	Mike Ashley (Ed)	SF - Collection

October 23, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Slender Man	Anonymous	SupTh
Restless Lightning	Richard Baker	SF - Breaker of Empires 2
The Case of the Hidden Daemon	Lucy Banks	PCM - Dr Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural 3
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles An Alphabettery	Becket Anne Rice	Occ/Sup/P/SupTh
Immortal Life: A Soon To Be True Story (h2tp)	Stanley Bing	SF
The Dream Gatherer	Kristen Britain	F/FR - Green Rider
Iron Gold (h2tp)	Pierce Brown	SF/Dys - Red Rising 4
Cold Iron	Miles Cameron	F/HistF - Masters & Mages 1
Roar of Sky	Beth Cato	HistF - Blood of Earth 3
Damned by the Ancients	Catherine Cavendish	H - Nemesis of the Gods 3
The Silver Scar	Betsy Dornbusch	F/DF
The Guardian	Sarah Fine	UF - The Immortal Dealers 2
Hark! The Herald Angels Scream	Christopher Golden (Ed)	H/Occ/Sup - Anthology
American Ghost (h2tp)	Paul Guernsey	GH/Occ/Sup/F/CF
Pulse	Michael Harvey	Cr
Virtual Sabotage	Julie Hyzy	Sus
No Sleep till Doomsday	Laurence MacNaughton	UF/HU/FR - A Dru Jasper Novel 3
Best British Horror 2018	John Mains (Ed)	H - Anthology
Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker (h2tp)	Gregory Maguire	LF
Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future (h2tp)	Jamie Metzl	MedTh
Thin Air	Richard K. Morgan	SF/TechTh/HSF
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction	Alec Nevala-Lee	Biography
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School	Kim Newman	F/H/SupTh
The Geeky Chef Drinks: Unofficial Cocktail Recipes from Game of Thrones, Legend of Zelda, Star Trek, and More	Cassandra Reeder	Cookbooks
The Making of Planet of the Apes	Jonathan Rinzler	PerfArts
Red Moon	Kim Stanley Robinson	SF/SO/HSF
Fallout: The Vault Dweller's Official Cookbook	Victoria Rosenthal	Cookbooks
A Conspiracy of Truths (D)	Alexandra Rowland	F
The Devil's Fingers (e)	Hunter Shea	H - Hunter Shea: One Size Eats All 3
The Scent of Tears	Adrian Tchaikovsky  et al.	F - Tales of the Apt 4
The Great Tales of Middle-earth: Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin	J.R.R. Tolkien Christopher Tolkien (Ed)	F
Sin du Jour: The Final Course (e)	Matt Wallace	UF/HU - A Sin du Jour Affair Omnibus
Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana [Special Edition, Boxed Book & Ephemera Set]: A Visual History	Michael Witwer Kyle Newman Jon Peterson Sam Witwer	F/Role Playing
Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History	Michael Witwer Kyle Newman Jon Peterson Sam Witwer	F/Role Playing
The Art of Magic: The Gathering: Concepts & Legends	James Wyatt	F/Role Playing - The Art of Magic: The Gathering

October 25, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor (e)	Juno Dawson	SF - Doctor Who

October 26, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Science Fiction - The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future: Prometheus to the Martians (e)	Thomas Lombardo	LC/SocSc/Psy

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



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

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

Happy Monday!

There are 6 debuts this week:

Senlin Ascends (Books of Babel 1) by Josiah Bancroft;

Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse by H. G. Bells;

A Conspiracy of Whispers by Ada Harper;

Palaces by Simon Jacobs;

Heartland by Ana Simo;

and

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Apart in the Dark: Novellas by Ania Ahlborn;

Nightwise (Nightwise 1) by R.S. Belcher is out in a new Trade Paperback edition;

Iron Gold (Red Rising 4) by Pierce Brown;

Danger's Cure (Holly Danger 4) by Amanda Carlson;

and

Indelible by Adelia Saunders in out in Trade Paperback.

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

January 15, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Danger's Cure (e)	Amanda Carlson	Dys/PA - Holly Danger 4
A Conspiracy of Whispers (D)(e)	Ada Harper	SFR
Ornaments in Jade (ri)	Arthur Machen	H/Sup - Prose Poems

January 16, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Apart in the Dark: Novellas	Ania Ahlborn	H - Collection
The House of Rumour (ri)	Jake Arnott	LF/Hist/Occ
Senlin Ascends (D)	Josiah Bancroft	F - Books of Babel 1
Nightwise (h2tp)	R. S. Belcher	UF - Nightwise 1
Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse (D)	H. G. Bells	SF/AP/PA
The World of The Orville	Jeff Bond	TV/SF
Iron Gold	Pierce Brown	SF - Red Rising 4
HALO: Smoke and Shadow	Kelly Gay	SF - HALO
Palaces (D)	Simon Jacobs	LF/H
Black Wings of Cthulhu 5	S. T. Joshi (Ed)	H - Black Wings of Cthulhu 5 - Anthology
Dreamcatcher (ri)	Stephen King	SF/AC
Iron Will (Ke)	James Maxwell	SF - The Shifting Tides 4
The Last Days of New Paris (h2tp)	China Miéville	F
The Night Market	Jonathan Moore	PsyTh
Binti: The Night Masquerade	Nnedi Okorafor	SF - Binti 3
Beauty	Sarah Pinborough	DF - Fairy Tales 3
The Complete Ack-Ack Macaque Trilogy	Gareth L. Powell	SF - Ack-Ack Macaque Omnibus
City of Endless Night	Douglas Preston Lincoln Child	Th/Occ - Agent Pendergast 17
A Treacherous Curse	Deanna Raybourn	HistM - A Veronica Speedwell Mystery 3
Indelible (h2tp)	Adelia Saunders	LF/MR
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text	Mary Shelley	Gothic/SF - Penguin Classics
Heartland (D)	Ana Simo	Dys
NightSun	Dan Vining	Dys
Blue Plague: Rage	Thomas A. Watson	SF/AP/PA - Blue Plague 4
The Beauty (D - US)	Aliya Whiteley	H
The Infinite Future	Tim Wirkus	LF
The Swan Book (h2tp)	Alexis Wright	LF
Red Clocks	Leni Zumas	CW/Dys

January 17, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Ghoul Goes West: A Tor.com Original (e)	Dale Bailey	F
Power Struggles (e)	E. C. Myers	SFTh - ReMade Season 2 #9

January 18, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (e)	Douglas Adams James Goss	SF

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



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FiaryT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
GB - Genre Bender
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
GothicR - Gothic Romance
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM -  Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
Meta - Metaphysical
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Myth - Mythology
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
Ref - Reference
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SFTh - Science Fiction Thriller
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SocSci - Social Science
SP - SteamPunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance

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

Gerald Brandt (2016)

The Rebel
San Angeles 3
DAW, November 14, 2017
Hardcover and eBook, 304 pages

The third and final installment in the San Angeles trilogy, a thrilling near-future cyberpunk sci-fi series

Kris Merrill has lost everything. Her family when she was thirteen, her identity when she joined the anti-corporate movement, and now the man she loved. Living in a small room the resistance gave her, she feels alone. Abandoned.

A year ago, Kris’s life was torn apart when a delivery went wrong. The last year spent training with the anti-corporate movement had been the closest she’d ever gotten to normal.

Now, war has broken out between the corporations, and the lower levels of San Angeles are paying the price. Water and food are rationed. People are being ripped from their families in massive sweeps, drafted to fight. Those remaining live in a wasteland. The insurgents are trying to help, but Kris is being left out, given menial tasks instead of doing what she was trained for.

She is torn between working with the insurgents as they become more like the corporations they are fighting, and helping the people of the lower levels.

Caught in one of SoCal’s draft sweeps and being hunted by an enemy who will stop at nothing to have revenge are just the tip of the iceberg. Kris is pregnant, and she might have to choose between bringing down the corporations that destroyed her family or saving the life of her unborn son.

The Operative
San Angeles 2
DAW, November 7, 2017
Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages
Hardcover and eBook, November 1, 2016

The second installment in the San Angeles trilogy, a thrilling near-future cyberpunk sci-fi series

Kris Merrill was a survivor. She’d lost her parents as a young girl, and she’d been forced to flee the dubious shelter of her aunt’s home at thirteen to escape the unwanted attentions of her uncle. She’d lived on the streets of San Angeles, finding refuge in the lowest level of the city. When she got the chance, Kris found a room to rent on Level 2, earning a precarious living as a motorcycle messenger, a courier delivering sensitive materials the megacorporations would not trust to any method that could be hacked.

A year ago, Kris’s life changed irrevocably when a delivery went terribly wrong, and she was targeted for termination by the Meridian corporation, one of the most powerful of the megaconglomerates that controlled the government. Salvation came in the form of Ian Miller, who rescued Kris from certain death, recruiting her for the underground resistance group of which he was a part.

Since then, Kris has been hidden with the resistance, training to become an operative. Just as her training with the anti-corporate movement is nearing its end, their compound is destroyed by surprise attack.

Ready or not, Kris and the other trainees are recalled to the dangerous metropolis of San Angeles. But their transport is shot down and Ian Miller, the man she loves, is captured. Someone, it seems, is using him to get to Kris.

With the help of a retired operative with PTSD, and the mysterious man who fled the scene when Kris’s parents were killed, Kris searches for any sign of Ian. As the corporations battle civil unrest—and each other—the city slowly shuts down. Kris and San Angeles are running out of time….

Pierce Brown (2014)

Iron Gold
Red Rising Saga 4
Del Rey, January 16, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 480 pages

Pierce Brown expands the size and scope of his #1 New York Times bestselling Red Rising series with a brand-new adventure of revolution and betrayal among the stars.

Geoffrey Girard (2013)

Truthers
Carolrhoda Lab™, August 1, 2017
Hardcover and eBook, 360 pages

Katie Wallace has never given much thought to 9/11. She was only a year old when terrorists struck American soil. But now her dad has landed in a mental institution after claiming to know what really happened. He insists the attacks were part of a government conspiracy. And he claims that Katie is living proof: the lone survivor of a massive cover-up. Hoping to free her dad, Katie sets out to investigate his bizarre claims. Soon she's drawn into the strange and secretive world of 9/11 conspiracy theorists known as the Truthers. What is fact and what is fiction? Katie no longer knows what to believe.

Mary Behre (2014)

Harmonized
A Tidewater Novella
Intermix, July 21, 2015
eBook, 125 pages

From the author of Energized and Guarded comes an all-new novella in the series that’s “a perfect mix of paranormal, suspense, and romance”(SnS Reviews).

After nearly dying on assignment, Tidewater police officer Zig Harmon has been awarded the Silver Star and desk duty. But handling every case that walks through the door while his entire department is out hunting a serial killer is nothing compared to dealing with his former flame, Karma De La Cruz.

As much as she hates it, Karma knows that her best chance of finding the kidnapped baby haunting her visions is the man she once left behind. Forced to work together, Karma and Zig start to realize that they may have let go of something incredible. But now, time is running out, both for the missing infant and for their chance to start again...

Includes an exclusive preview of the latest Tidewater novel, Energized.

Deborah Blake (2014)

Veiled Magic
InterMix, November 17, 2015
eBook, 280 pages

A spellbinding new novel from the author of the Baba Yaga novels.

Since Witches came out of the broom-closet in the early 21st century, they have worked alongside humans as police officers, healers, stock traders, and more. But they aren’t the only paranormal entities in our world…

Police officer and Witch Donata Santori spends her days interrogating dead witnesses by summoning their spectral forms. Normally the job is little more than taking statements and filing reports. But when she’s called in on the case of a murdered art restorer, she finds herself suddenly in possession of a mystical portrait that both the human and paranormal communities would kill to get their hands on.

Unable to take on the forces hunting her alone, Donata seeks help from two unlikely and attractive allies: a reluctant shape-changer and a half-dragon art forger. But as the three of them hurry to uncover the truth about the powerful painting, Donata realizes that she’s caught in the middle of not one but two wars—one for possession of the painting’s secrets and one for possession of her heart…

Includes an exclusive preview of the next Baba Yaga novel, Wickedly Powerful.

Wickedly Powerful
A Baba Yaga Novel
Berkley, February 2, 2016
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 304 pages

The author of Wickedly Wonderful returns to her “addicting”* world of Russian witches in the latest Baba Yaga novel.

Known as the wicked witch of Russian fairy tales, Baba Yaga is not one woman, but rather a title carried by a chosen few. They keep the balance of nature and guard the borders of our world, but don’t make the mistake of crossing one of them…

The only thing more fiery than Bella Young’s red hair is her temper. She knows that a Baba Yaga’s power without strict control can leave the people she cares about burned, so to protect her heart—and everyone around her—the only company she keeps is her dragon-turned-Norwegian-Forest-cat, Koshka.

But when Bella is tasked with discovering who’s setting magical fires throughout Wyoming’s Black Hills, she finds herself working closely with former hotshots firefighter Sam Corbett—and falling hard for his quiet strength and charm.

Sam may bear the scars of his past, but Bella can see beyond them and would do anything to help him heal. Only before she can rescue her Prince Charming, she’ll have to overcome the mysterious foe setting the forest fires—a truly wicked witch who wields as much power and even more anger than Bella…

Pierce Brown (2014)

Morning Star
Book III of The Red Rising Trilogy
Del Rey, February 9, 2016
Hardcover and eBook, 544 pages

Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.

Finally, the time has come.

But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender.

Jeremy P. Bushnell (2014)

The Insides
Melville House, June 7, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 288 pages

The highly anticipated follow-up to Jeremy P. Bushnell’s “wonderfully weird and entertaining” (Esquire) debut, The Weirdness

Ollie Krueger’s days as a punk kid practicing street magic are are mostly behind her. Now she’s a butcher at Carnage, a high-end restaurant offering deconstructed takes on meat, and on the busiest nights of the week she and her partner, Guychardson, race to see who can produce more finished cuts. Ollie’s the better butcher, but somehow Guychardson almost always wins.  And Ollie thinks maybe it’s because the mysterious knife he uses is magic.

Before she knows it, Ollie’s interest in the knife has thrown her square in the path of a dangerous ex-marine called “Pig” and his hired psychic, Maja, who are on the hunt for the knife too—who want it so badly, in fact, that they might kill for it.

Now, magic is back in Ollie’s life and she’s being chased through New York City, with the fabric of space-time tattering around her and weird inter-dimensional worms squirming their way into her kitchen. And before all this is over she’s going to need to face up to the Possible Consequences of some bad decisions, to look at the uncomfortable truths that she stuffed away long ago, deep down inside . . .

James L. Cambias (2014)

Corsair : A Science Fiction Novel
Tor Books, May 10, 2016
9780765379115, 0765379112
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Hardcover and eBook, May 5, 2015

In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT, where Schwartz is sneaking into classes, and have a brief affair. David is amoral and out for himself, and soon disappears. Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes a military job after graduating. Nearly ten years later, David is setting himself to become a billionaire by working in the shadows under a multiplicity of names for international thieves, and Elizabeth works in intelligence preventing international space piracy. With robotic mining in space becoming a lucrative part of Earth's economy, shipments from space are dropped down the gravity well into the oceans. David and Elizabeth fight for dominance of the computer systems controlling ore drop placement in international waters. If David can nudge a shipment 500 miles off its target, his employers can get there first and claim it legally in the open sea. Each one intuits that the other is their real competition but can't prove it. And when Elizabeth loses a major shipment, she leaves government employ to work for a private space company to find a better way to protect shipments. But international piracy has very high stakes and some very evil players. And both Elizabeth and David end up in a world of trouble.

Space pirates and computer hackers . . . James L. Cambias's Corsair is a thrilling near-future adventure!

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Jacob Bacharach

The Bend of the World
Liveright, April 13, 2015
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Previously published in Hardcover and eBook, April 2014

“Bacharach has a great comic voice— shrewd, deadpan, and dirty—and The Bend of the World fears no weirdness.”—Sam Lipsyte

“Mighty strange doings” mark the Pittsburgh of Jacob Bacharach’s audacious and hilarious debut novel, a town where “yeti, UFOs, rumors of orgiastic rites, intimations of the Mayan apocalypse and ‘psycho-temporal distortions’ add that extra zing to the bustling night life” (James Wolcott). On the edge of thirty, and comfortably adrift in life, Peter Morrison finds his personal and professional life taking a turn for the weird as his attempts to transition into adulthood are thwarted by conspiracies both real and imagined. In this madcap coming-of-age novel, where no one quite comes of age, Bacharach brings an “immensely entertaining” and “Vonnegut-like sensibility” (Library Journal ) to the “aptly surreal satire” (Dan Chaon) of hipsters, corporations, and American life in the adolescent years of the twenty-first century. “A disarming, intelligent and seriously funny debut,” The Bend of the World “marks the arrival of Jacob Bacharach as a writer to watch” (Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

Mary Behre

Energized
Tidewater 3
Berkley, August 4, 2015
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 

In the new Tidewater novel by the author of Guarded, a kiss between strangers draws both into unexpected danger and unforgettable desire . . .

She’s searching for a sign . . .

Hannah Halloran has always believed in her gift. The things she sees through her psychic touch have never led her wrong before. Not when they led her to an unforgettable night with a sexy marine at a bar. Not when she felt a need to leave her home and find the sisters she barely knows. And not now, when she is an unwilling witness to a brutal murder . . .

He’s ready to show her . . .

All Niall Graham wants is some peace. He’s recovering from the horrors of war, struggling to save his family’s restaurant, and desperate to forget Hannah, the beautiful woman who left him with memories of a mind-blowing night together and a bogus phone number. But a quiet life is hard to manage—especially when Hannah strides back into his restaurant with the news that a serial killer is on the loose and lurking closer than anyone could have guessed . . .



Harmonized, a Tidewater eNovella, will be published in July 2015.

Pierce Brown

Golden Son
Red Rising Trilogy 2
Del Rey, Janaury 6, 2015
Hardcover and eBook, 464 pages

With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom.

As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution. And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within.

A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals. To wage and win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for retribution—and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people.

He must live for more.

Monica Byrne

The Girl in the Road
Broadway Books, February 17, 2015
Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Previously published in Hardcover and eBook, May 2014

A debut that Neil Gaiman calls “Glorious. . . . So sharp, so focused and so human.” The Girl in the Road describes a future that is culturally lush and emotionally wrenching.
Monica Byrne bursts on to the literary scene with an extraordinary vision of the future.  In a world where global power has shifted east and revolution is brewing, two women embark on vastly different journeys—each harrowing and urgent and wholly unexpected.

When Meena finds snakebites on her chest, her worst fears are realized: someone is after her and she must flee India.  As she plots her exit, she learns of the Trail, an energy-harvesting bridge spanning the Arabian Sea that has become a refuge for itinerant vagabonds and loners on the run.  This is her salvation.  Slipping out in the cover of night, with a knapsack full of supplies including a pozit GPS, a scroll reader, and a sealable waterproof pod, she sets off for Ethiopia, the place of her birth.

Meanwhile, Mariama, a young girl in Africa, is forced to flee her home.  She joins up with a caravan of misfits heading across the Sahara. She is taken in by Yemaya, a beautiful and enigmatic woman who becomes her protector and confidante. They are trying to reach Addis Abba, Ethiopia, a metropolis swirling with radical politics and rich culture.  But Mariama will find a city far different than she ever expected—romantic, turbulent, and dangerous.

As one heads east and the other west, Meena and Mariama’s fates are linked in ways that are mysterious and shocking to the core.

Written with stunning clarity, deep emotion, and a futuristic flair, The Girl in the Road is an artistic feat of the first order: vividly imagined, artfully told, and profoundly moving.

Kenneth Calhoun

Black Moon
Hogarth, January 20, 2015
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Previously published in Hardcover and eBook, March 2014

For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls “Gripping and expertly constructed.”

Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows.  Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world.  Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.

He ventures out into a world ransacked by mass confusion and desperation, where he meets others struggling against the tide of sleeplessness.  Chase and his buddy Jordan are devising a scheme to live off their drug-store lootings; Lila is a high school student wandering the streets in an owl mask, no longer safe with her insomniac parents; Felicia abandons the sanctuary of a sleep research center to try to protect her family and perhaps reunite with Chase, an ex-boyfriend.  All around, sleep has become an infinitely precious commodity. Money can’t buy it, no drug can touch it, and there are those who would kill to have it. However, Biggs persists in his quest for Carolyn, finding a resolve and inner strength that he never knew he had.

Kenneth Calhoun has written a brilliantly realized and utterly riveting depiction of a world gripped by madness, one that is vivid, strange, and profoundly moving.

Happy last Monday in October! Halloween is Friday and it may snow here on Saturday! That's a bit early for us though we did have a Halloween Nor'easter in 2011. That was not a nice trick! Hopefully we'll have a better Halloween this year. Do you celebrate? Hand out candy?

For Anne Rice fans - Prince Lestat is out tomorrow. This is the 11th novel in The Vampire Chronicles and a return to the this world after a decade away.

Caitlin Kittredge debuts a new series tomorrow with Black Dog. The first novel in Hellhound Chronicles.


There is one Debut this week:

Bring me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell: A Horror Novel by Martin Rose


And from formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors:

Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy 1) by Pierce Brown is out in Trade Paperback;

William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy: The Royal Box Set: Includes William Shakespeare's Star Wars, The Empire Striketh Back, The Jedi Doth Return, and poster by Ian Doescher;

Sky Pirates (Chronicles of Light and Shadow 3) by Liesel Schwarz.

October 27, 2014

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
'Til Dragons Do Us Part (e)	Lorenda Christensen	PNR - Never Deal with Dragons
Taste of Treason	April Taylor	HistF - Tudor Enigma 2

October 28, 2014

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Arrow - Heroes and Villains	Nick Aires	F
Burn for Me	Ilona Andrews	PNR - Hidden Legacy 1
Esrever Doom (h2mm)	Piers Anthony	F - Xanth 37
Otherworld Nights: An Anthology	Kelley Armstrong	UF - Otherworld
Penumbra	Keri Arthur	PNR - Spook Squad 3
Red Rising (h2tp)	Pierce Brown	SF - Red Rising Trilogy 1
The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man	W. Bruce Cameron	Hu/F
Love Me to Death	Marissa Clarke	PNR - Underveil 1
The Wolf in Winter	John Connolly	Th - Charlie Parker 12
Deadly Pursuit	Nina Croft	PNR - Dark Desires 2
William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy: The Royal Box Set: Includes William Shakespeare's Star Wars, The Empire Striketh Back, The Jedi Doth Return, and poster	Ian Doescher	MU - Star Wars / Shakespeare
Inner Demon: Part 3 of the Final Asylum Tales (e)	Jocelynn Drake	UF - Final Asylum Tales
The Book of Strange New Things	Michel Faber	SF
The Peripheral	William Gibson	SF
Black Spring	Christina Henry	UF - Black Wings 7
Blood of Dragons (h2mm)	Robin Hobb	F - Rain Wilds Chronicles 4
The Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel, Volume Three (Wheel of Time Other)	Robert Jordan	Wheel of Time Other 3
Riding the Unicorn	Paul Kearney	F
Black Dog	Caitlin Kittredge	UF - Hellhound Chronicles 1
Revolution (h2mm)	Mercedes Lackey	SF - Secret World Chronicle 3
Star Trek: Section 31: Disavowed	David Mack	SF - Star Trek
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Slipcased Edition)	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	MR
Dangerous Women 2	George R. R. Martin (ed) Gardner Dozois (ed)	F - Anthology
The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones	George R. R. Martin Elio Garcia Linda Antonsson	F - Games of Thrones
An Exchange of Gifts (ri)	Anne McCaffrey	F
Drawn Blades	Kelly McCullough	F - Fallen Blade 5
Starhawk (h2mm)	Jack McDevitt	SF - Priscilla Hutchins 7
The Undead Hordes of Kan-Gul (tp2mm)	Jon F. Merz	F - Shadow Warrior 1
The Compleat Ankh-Morpork	Terry Pratchett	F - Discworld
Going Postal (ri)	Terry Pratchett	F - Discworld 33
Making Money (ri)	Terry Pratchett	F - Discworld 36
Raising Steam (ri)	Terry Pratchett	F - Discworld 40
Thud! (ri)	Terry Pratchett	F - Discworld 34
Unseen Academicals (ri)	Terry Pratchett	F - Discworld 37
Prince Lestat	Anne Rice	H - The Vampire Chronicles 11
Doctor Who: The Secret Lives of Monsters	Justin Richards	SF - Doctor Who
Bring Me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell: A Horror Novel (D)	Martin Rose	H
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	Patrick Rothfuss	F - Kingkiller Chronicle 2.5
Infection and Containment: Alaskan Undead Apocalypse Books 1 and 2	Sean Schubert	H/Ap
Sky Pirates	Liesel Schwarz	HistF - Chronicles of Light and Shadow 3
Kris Longknife: Tenacious	Mike Shepherd	SF - Kris Longknife 12
The Darkest Passion (ri)	Gena Showalter	PNR - Lords of the Underworld 6
Archangel's Shadows	Nalini Singh	PNR - Guild Hunter 7
Razor's Edge: Star Wars (Empire and Rebellion) (h2mm)	Martha Wells	SF - Star Wars - Legends
Scars (tp2mm)	Chris Wraight	SF - The Horus Heresy 28

October 30, 2014

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
All Souls Trilogy Boxed Set	Deborah Harkness	F - All Souls Trilogy
The Mailman (ri)	Bentley Little	H

October 31, 2014

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
SNAFU: Heroes (K e)	Jonathan Maberry Weston Ochse James A Moore Joseph Nassise	MilitaryH - Anthology
They Thirst (ri)	Robert McCammon	H
The Drawing of the Dark (ri)	Tim Powers	F
Fangoria Cover To Cover	Anthony Timpone (ed)	H

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


Ap - Apocalyptic
F - Fantasy
H - Horror
HistF - Historical Fantasy
Hu - Humor
MR - Magical Realism
MU - Mashup
PNR - Paranormal Romance
SF - Science Fiction
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

Pierce:  It’s hard to say. I’ve always told stories. My parents have video of me hyperventilating during a story about a dragon finding a cave where the king of bats lived. I talked and talked and talked and then fell asleep sitting up.

I tell stories for the same reason I love cooking food for friends at my house. I want to share. I want to go on trips. I want to embark upon a pilgrimage together and then discuss the places we’ve been, the wonders we’ve seen, and the new things we now believe.



TQ:  Are you a plotter or a pantser?

Pierce:  Pantser, through and through. I aspire to be a plotter, yet time and again I fail. I suppose in the end, I find pantsing, despite the daily horror of being lost and confused as to where the story is going, much more natural a writing style. Imagine there are ten great epiphanies that go into those days when you outline. That’s wonderful! Ten! But when I write with only a vague notion of the end, I can have an epiphany every day. That’s one of the most rewarding parts about being a writer.



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

Pierce:  Deciding. Sometimes there are a thousand routes to take in the story and a hundred ways to present each route, and I have such indecision about which is the most meaningful, most impacting. I’m best when I write brashly, then come back with the spectacles on and say, “oh, well that’s just rubbish; we shall fix this, and this, and put this scene on a mountain top. But oh, however shall we get to the mountain top...”



TQ:  Who are some of your literary influences? Favorite authors?

Pierce:  Gene Wolfe, a master of fantasy and prose. Neil Gaiman, one of the best mood/world builders I’ve ever read. JK Rowling, who taught me so many things. Robert Heinlein, the man who perfected science fiction as social commentary. Bernard Cornwell, my favorite writer of historical fiction. George R. R. Martin, the godfather of modern epic fantasy.



TQ:  Describe Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy 1) in 140 characters or less.

Pierce:  Red Rising is the story of a young man’s journey to bring down the empire that kept his people in slavery and stole the woman he loved.



TQ:  What inspired you to write Red Rising? Why did you choose to write a Dystopian Adventure/Fantasy novel? Do you want to write in any other genres?

Pierce:  Red Rising was inspired by my relationship with bullies when I was younger. I moved seven times with my parents, so I was always breaking into new schools with new bullies. Some used words, some used money, others fists.

Another inspiration was the play Antigone, in which a young woman sacrifices herself to reveal a corrupt law when she is forbidden from burying her dead brother.

I want to write a great many things. Some stories are buried in the back of my head. Others are out there waiting to be discovered. It’s a thrill not knowing when inspiration will next rear its strange head.



TQ:  What sort of research did you do for Red Rising?

Pierce:  Very little. Much of it was drawn from things I liked as a boy—Roman and Greek mythology, planets, space travel, etc. What I did research was gravitational fields, future technology, anthropological studies of immigrants and slave groups throughout history.



TQ:  Who was the easiest character to write and why? The hardest and why? Who is your favorite good guy, bad guy or ethically ambiguous character?

Pierce:  Eo was the easiest because she was the point of the novel. In the end, Darrow has to go through trial and tribulation to understand what she knew at the very beginning—that there is more to life than what is given you.

I saw her so vividly in my head that I rarely found myself editing her lines or wondering if Eo would indeed say what I’d written. She really was a pleasure to write.



TQ:  Give us one of your favorite lines from Red Rising.

Pierce:  The very first: “I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”



TQ:  What's next?

Pierce:  Book 2, which is nearing completion. Then Book 3. I think my editor would fly to LA and knock my door down if I said anything else!



TQ:  Thank you for joining us at The Qwillery.

Pierce:  Absolutely my pleasure. I hope to be back next year for book 2.

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