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It is the last Monday in November. An early Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. There are no debuts this week. From formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors: Call of the Bone Ships (Tide Child Trilogy 2) by RJ Barker
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen is out in Trade Paperback Forged (Alex Verus 11) by Benedict Jacka; and The Broken Girls by Simone St. James is out in Trade Paperback.

Debut novels are highlighted inblue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted ingreen. November 24, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Princess Knight	G.A. Aiken	HistF - The Scarred Earth Saga 2
Walk the Wild With Me (tp2mm)	Rachel Atwood	HistF//FairyT/FolkT/LM
Pious	Mark Barber	F - Kings of War
Call of the Bone Ships	RJ Barker	F - Tide Child Trilogy 2
1636: Flight of the Nightingale (tp2mm)	David Carrico	SF/TT - Ring of Fire 28
A Beginning at the End (h2tp)	Mike Chen	SF/AP/PA
Alliance Rising (tp2mm)	C. J. Cherryh Jane S. Fancher	SF/HSF/SO - The Hinder Stars 1
Ready Player Two	Ernest Cline	SF/Dys/Th - Ready Player One 2
The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire	Glen Cook	F/DF - Collection
Last Stand in Lychford	Paul Cornell	CF/UF - Witches of Lychford 5
War Lord	Bernard Cornwell	Hist - Saxon Tales 13
Monster Hunter Guardian (h2mm)	Larry Correia Sarah A. Hoyt	F - Monster Hunter 8
Infernal	Mark de Jager	F - Stratus 1
The Science Fiction Puzzle Book: Inspired by the Works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Robert A Heinlein and Ursula K Le Guin	Tim Dedopulos	Puzzles/SF
Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology	S.B. Divya (Ed) Mur Lafferty (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Poison Prince	S. C. Emmett	F/HistF - Hostage of Empire 2
The Solar War	John French	SF/SO - The Horus Heresy
Forged	Benedict Jacka	UF/CF - Alex Versus 11
The Broken Girls (tp2mm)	Simone St. James	SupTh/H/CW
Impolitic Corpses (h2tp)	Paul Johnston	M/Dys - Quint Dalrymple Mystery 8
Passages	Mercedes Lackey (Ed)	F - Valdemar Anthology
Beyond Kuiper	Matthew Medney John Connelly	HSF/SF - The Galactic Star Alliance
Rasputin's Bastards (ri)	David Nickle	Th/HSF
The 'Geisters (ri)	David Nickle	H/GH
Monstrous Affections: Stories (e)(ri)	David Nickle	H/SS
Knife Fight: And Other Struggles	David Nickle	H/SS
36 Righteous Men (h2tp)	Steven Pressfield	SupTh
Grave War	Kalayna Price	UF/CF/PF - Alex Craft 7
Gotrek and Felix: The Fifth Omnibus	Josh Reynolds	F - Warhammer Chronicles
The Awakening	Nora Roberts	PF/FR - The Dragon Heart Legacy 1
Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration	Ben Robinson Mark Wright	PerfArts/SF
Archangel's Sun	Nalini Singh	PNR/UF/PF - Guild Hunter13
Wolf Fever (ri)	Terry Spear	PNR/FR - Silver Town Wolf 2
Freehold: Resistance (tp2mm)	Michael Z. Williamson (Ed)	SF - Freehold Anthology

November 30, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Comes a Pale Rider	Caitlín R. Kiernan	H
Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories	Joe R. Lansdale	F - Anthology
Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower	Tamsyn Muir	F
No Period: A Tor.com Original	Harry Turtledove	AH
Take a Look at the Five and Ten	Connie Willis	SF

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



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

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

 

 

 

 

Ben Aaronovitch (2011) Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
JABberwocky Literary Agency, November 17, 2020
Trade Paperback, 238 pages
eBook, July 31, 2020

Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time.

 

Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper exploration into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must read for any Rivers of London fan.

 

Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. Discover what’s haunting a lonely motorway service station, who still wanders the shelves of a popular London bookshop, and what exactly happened to the River Lugg…

 

With an introduction from internationally bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris.

 

This collection includes:
The Home Crowd Advantage
The Domestic
The Cockpit
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny
King of The Rats
A Rare Book of Cunning Device
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Favourite Uncle
Vanessa Sommer’s Other Christmas List
Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby
Moments One-Three

 

Praise for the Rivers of London series:
‘Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London’ –Nick Frost‘As brilliant and funny as ever’ –The Sun
‘Charming, witty, exciting’ –The Independent
‘An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups’ –The Times

 

Discover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you’re a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams―don't panic―you will love Ben Aaronovitch.

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Bookshop : Books-A-Million : IndieBound
Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

 

 

 

 

 

RJ Barker (2017) Call of the Bone Ships
The Tide Child Trilogy 2
Orbit, November 24, 2020
Trade Paperback and eBook, 528 pages

A brilliantly imagined epic fantasy of honor, glory, and warfare, Call of the Bone Ships is the action-packed sequel to David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker's The Bone Ships.

 

Dragons have returned to the Hundred Isles. But their return heralds only war and destruction.

 

When a horde of dying slaves are discovered in the bowels of a ship, Shipwife Meas and the crew of the Tide Child find themselves drawn into a vicious plot that will leave them questioning their loyalities and fighting for their lives.

 

The Tide Child Trilogy
The Bone Ships
Call of the Bone Ships

 

For more from RJ Barker, check out:

 

The Wounded Kingdom
Age of Assassins
Blood of Assassins
King of Assassins

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Bookshop : Books-A-Million : IndieBound
Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

 

 

 

 

 

R. F. Kuang (2018) The Burning God
The Poppy War 3
Harper Voyager, November 17, 2020
Hardcover and eBook, 640 pages

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.

 

After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.

 

Despite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much—the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges—and unexpected opportunities. While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.

 

Backed by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it?

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Bookshop : Books-A-Million : IndieBound
Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

 

 

 

 

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green. November 1, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Dungeon Party	John Webster Gastil	CF/SupTh
The Haunting of Brynn Wilder	Wendy Webb	Gothic/CW/MR

November 3, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020	John Joseph Adams (Ed) Diana Gabaldon (Ed)	SF/F - Anthology
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set	Margaret Atwood	Dys
Serpent Daughter	D.J. Butler	HistF - Witchy War 4
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line	Eric Flint Charles E. Gannon	SF/TT - Ring of Fire 29
This Virtual Night	C. S. Friedman	SF/SO/SE/GenEng - The Outworlds 2
The Alpha Enigma	W. Michael Gear	SF/Cr/M - Team Psi 1
The Harpy	Megan Hunter	FL/LF/AB/MR
Boneset & Feathers	Gwendolyn Kiste	H/DF
Firefly: Generations	Tim Lebbon	MTI/SF/SO
Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon (h2tp)	James Lovegrove	Occ/Sup/HistM
A Storm of Swords: The Illustrated Edition	George R. R. Martin	F - A Song of Ice and Fire Illustrated Edition 3
Agent of the Imperium	Marc Miller	SF
Debt of War	Christopher G. Nuttall	SF/SO - Embers of War 3
A Sword in the Sun (e)	Shannon Page	CF - Nightcraft Quartet 2
The Fractured Void	Tim Pratt	SF/SO - Twilight Imperium
The Phantom and Barnabas Collins (ri)	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 10
The Foe of Barnabas Collins (ri)	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 9
Busted Synapses	Erica L. Satifka	SF/CyP
The Novels of Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, The Last Man, and Mathilda (e)	Mary Shelley	Gothic/SF/AP/F
The Last Ritual	S. A. Sidor	DF - Arkham Horror
An Unprivate War	TS Snow	SF - Star Smuggler 5
The God Game (h2tp)	Danny Tobey	TechTh/SF/CyP/CoA
Almost Dark (ri)	Letitia Trent	Th/GH
Legacy of Steel	Matthew Ward	F - Legacy Trilogy 2
The Shattered Realm of Ardor Benn	Tyler Whitesides	F - Kingdom of Grit 2
The Preserve	Ariel S. Winter	PP/NF
The Women of Weird Tales: Stories by Everil Worrell, Eli Colter, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Greye La Spina	Everil Worrell Eli Colter Mary Elizabeth Counselman Greye La Spina	H - Monster, She Wrote 2

November 4, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Blood of the Sun	Dan Rabarts Lee Murray	M/H - Path of Ra 3

November 5, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Aurora	Jo M. Thomas	AH

November 6, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Mr. Cables	Ronald Malfi	H

November 10, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Followers (h2tp)	Megan Angelo	LF/CW/Dys
Refuge	JJ Blacklocke	SF/SO - Tradepoint Sage 1
Second Chances	P.D. Cacek	SupTh - Fiction Without Frontiers
Night Call (D)	Brenden Carlson	SF/Cr/M/TechTh/AH - Walking Shadows 1
Judge Fear's Big Day Out and Other Stories	Michael Carroll (Ed)	SF/AP/AP - Anthology
Star Trek: The Wisdom of Picard	Chip Carter	PerfA/SF - Star Trek
One Night Two Souls Went Walking	Ellen Cooney	LF/CW/Med/VisM
A Contest of Principles	Greg Cox	SF - Star Trek: The Original Series
The Book of Malachi (D - US)	T.C. Farren	SF/GenEng/H
Leopard's Rage	Christine Feehan	PNR - Leopard 13
Spectrum 27: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	John Fleskes (Ed)	Art
Toy Soldiers: The Complete Series (Ke)	Devon C. Ford	SF/Dys - Toy Soldiers
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	Neil Gaiman	SS
Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery (h2tp)	Christopher Golden (Ed) Rachel Autumn Deering (Ed)	F/DF/P/H - Anthology
Sudden Traveler: Stories (h2tp)	Sarah Hall	SS
A Longer Fall (h2tp)	Charlaine Harris	F/P - Gunnie Rose 2
Refraction	Christopher Hinz	SF/GenEng
XX (D)	Rian Hughes	SF/AC/SE/Typography
Reconstruction: Stories	Alaya Dawn Johnson	F/SS
Warrior of the Altaii	Robert Jordan	F
The Arrest	Jonathan Lethem	SF/AP/PA
The Men Who Take Eyes	Justin Little	AH/Dys
Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons	James Lovegrove	HistM/Occ/Sup
Kraft	Jonas Lüscher Tess Lewis (Tr)	LF/Satire/Dys
Factory Witches of Lowell	C. S. Malerich	HistF/DF
The Dark Library	Cyrille Martinez Joseph Patrick Stancil (Tr)	AB/MR/LF
Harmada	João Gilberto Noll Edgar Garbelotto (Tr)	LF/Psy/AB
Queen of the North	Anne O'Brien	Hist/HistR/CoA/AH
At the Lucky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers	Goran Petrović Peter Agnone (Tr)	MR/LF
Bloodquest	Gordon Rennie	SF/AC - Warhammer 40,000
The Auctioneer (ri)	Joan Samson	H
The Chimera Code (D)	Wayne Santos	SF
Secret Santa	Andrew Shaffer	H/HU/SupTh
The Darkest King: William's Story	Gena Showalter	PNR - Lords of the Underworld 15
On the Beach (ri)	Nevil Shute	AH/Hist
Living Forever and Other Terrible Ideas	Emily C Skaftun	SF/HU/SS
The Troll Guide	Anders Skoglind	F/HU/FairyT/FolkT/LM
The Rush's Edge (D)	Ginger Smith	SF/SO
Familiar Spirit	Lisa Tuttle	H - Paperbacks from Hell
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back	Various	MTI/SF/SO - Star Wars
From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars (h2tp)	Various	MTI/SF/SO - Star Wars
The Fires of Vengeance	Evan Winter	F - The Burning 2
The Green and the Gray (e)(ri)	Timothy Zahn	SF
Manta's Gift (e)(ri)	Timothy Zahn	SF

November 11, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law: A Tor.com Original (e)	Lavie Tidhar	DF

November 13, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Bite of the Jackal (Ke)	Paolo Di Orazio	H
Nucleation (D)	Kimberly Unger	SF/HSF/AC

November 16, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction: A Survey, 1841-2000	Laird R. Blackwell	M/SF/F
Sacred Evil (e)(ri)	Heather Graham	GH/Th - Krewe of Hunters 3
Night Study (e)(ri)	Maria V. Snyder	F - The Chronicles of Ixia

November 17, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection	Ben Aaronovitch	F/SS - Rivers of London
They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears (h2tp)	Johannes Anyuru Saskia Vogel (Tr)	LF/SF/TT/Th/Terrorism/Dys
The Human (h2tp)	Neal Asher	SF/SO - Rise of the Jain 3
Foundation and Earth (ri)	Isaac Asimov	SF/HSF/Classics/SO - Foundation 5
Foundation's Edge	Isaac Asimov	SF/HSF/Classics/SO - Foundation 4
I Don't Seem So Bright in a Well-Lit Room	Sean Browning	SF/HU
Lost Acre	Andrew Caldecott	HistF/P - Rotherweird 3
The Water Dancer (ri)	Ta-Nehisi Coates	HistF/MR
The Complete Lychford (e)	Paul Cornell	CF/UF - Lychford
The Andromeda Evolution (mm2tp)	Michael Crichton Daniel H. Wilson	SF
Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash	Yahtzee Croshaw	Satire/SF/SO - Jacques McKeown 2
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology	Jeffrey Deaver et al.	M/SupTh - Anthology
The Children of Red Peak	Craig DiLouie	H/PsyTh/SupTh
Madrenga (e)	Alan Dean Foster	F - Madrenga 1
Smoke & Ashes	Alexis Hall	UF - Kate Kane Paranormal Investigator 4
The Saints of Salvation	Peter F. Hamilton	SF/SO/SE - Salvation Sequence 3
Nophek Gloss (D)	Essa Hansen	SF/AC/GenEng/SE - The Graven 1
Stillicide	Cynan Jones	Dys/LF/Climate
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (D - English)	Toshikazu Kawaguchi	MR/F/SF
Daughter of the Serpentine	E.E. Knight	F - A Dragoneer Academy Novel 2
The Burning God	R. F Kuang	HistF - The Poppy War 3
The Silver Shooter	Erin Lindsey	M/GH/P - A Rose Gallagher Mystery 3
Ink	Jonathan Maberry	SupTh/H
Child of the Prophecy (ri)	Juliet Marillier	HistF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Sevenwaters Trilogy 3
Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children, Volumes 1-3: Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Beneath the Sugar Sky	Seanan McGuire	CF/DF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Wayward Children
The Bright and Breaking Sea	Chloe Neill	F/HistF/RF - A Captain Kit Brightling Novel 1
Home Front (e)	Rick Partlwo	SF - Drop Trooper 5
Eartheater (D)	Dolores Reyes Julia Sanchez (Tr)	LF
Barnabas Collins and Quentin's Demon	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 14
Rhythm of War	Brandon Sanderson	F - Stormlight Archive 4
The Round-dance of Water	Kuznetsov Sergey Valeriya Yermishova (Tr)	LF/MR/MU - Russian Literature Series
Age of Death	Michael J. Sullivan	F/HistF - Legends of the First Empire 5
Salamis	Harry Turtledove	AH/HistF/TT - Hellenic 5
Strange Lands Short Stories: Thrilling Tales	Various	SF - Anthology
Spin (ri)	Robert Charles Wilson	SF/AP/PA/AC/TT - Spin 1
Rubicon	Gareth Worthington	SF/AH - Children of the Fifth Sun 3

November 18, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera: A Tor.com Original (e)	Elizabeth Bear	DF

November 23, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Exo-Hunter	Jeremy Robinson	AC/SF/PA

November 24, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Princess Knight	G.A. Aiken	HistF - The Scarred Earth Saga 2
Walk the Wild With Me (tp2mm)	Rachel Atwood	HistF//FairyT/FolkT/LM
Pious	Mark Barber	F - Kings of War
Call of the Bone Ships	RJ Barker	F - Tide Child Trilogy 2
1636: Flight of the Nightingale (tp2mm)	David Carrico	SF/TT - Ring of Fire 28
A Beginning at the End (h2tp)	Mike Chen	SF/AP/PA
Alliance Rising (tp2mm)	C. J. Cherryh Jane S. Fancher	SF/HSF/SO - The Hinder Stars 1
Ready Player Two	Ernest Cline	SF/Dys/Th - Ready Player One 2
The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire	Glen Cook	F/DF - Collection
Last Stand in Lychford	Paul Cornell	CF/UF - Witches of Lychford 5
War Lord	Bernard Cornwell	Hist - Saxon Tales 13
Monster Hunter Guardian (h2mm)	Larry Correia Sarah A. Hoyt	F - Monster Hunter 8
Infernal	Mark de Jager	F - Stratus 1
The Science Fiction Puzzle Book: Inspired by the Works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Robert A Heinlein and Ursula K Le Guin	Tim Dedopulos	Puzzles/SF
Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology	S.B. Divya (Ed) Mur Lafferty (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Poison Prince	S. C. Emmett	F/HistF - Hostage of Empire 2
The Solar War	John French	SF/SO - The Horus Heresy
Forged	Benedict Jacka	UF/CF - Alex Versus 11
The Broken Girls (tp2mm)	Simone St. James	SupTh/H/CW
Impolitic Corpses (h2tp)	Paul Johnston	M/Dys - Quint Dalrymple Mystery 8
Council	Snorri Kristjansson	Hist/HistF/HistTh - Helga Finnsdottir Mysteries 2
Passages	Mercedes Lackey (Ed)	F - Valdemar Anthology
Beyond Kuiper	Matthew Medney John Connelly	HSF/SF - The Galactic Star Alliance
Rasputin's Bastards (ri)	David Nickle	Th/HSF
The 'Geisters (ri)	David Nickle	H/GH
Monstrous Affections: Stories (e)(ri)	David Nickle	H/SS
Knife Fight: And Other Struggles	David Nickle	H/SS
36 Righteous Men (h2tp)	Steven Pressfield	SupTh
Grave War	Kalayna Price	UF/CF/PF - Alex Craft 7
Gotrek and Felix: The Fifth Omnibus	Josh Reynolds	F - Warhammer Chronicles
The Awakening	Nora Roberts	PF/FR - The Dragon Heart Legacy 1
Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration	Ben Robinson Mark Wright	PerfArts/SF
Archangel's Sun	Nalini Singh	PNR/UF/PF - Guild Hunter13
Wolf Fever (ri)	Terry Spear	PNR/FR - Silver Town Wolf 2
Freehold: Resistance (tp2mm)	Michael Z. Williamson (Ed)	SF - Freehold Anthology

November 30, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Found in Translation: New People in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction	Jing Jiang	SF/Antholgy
Comes a Pale Rider	Caitlín R. Kiernan	H
Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories	Joe R. Lansdale	F - Anthology
Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower	Tamsyn Muir	F
No Period: A Tor.com Original	Harry Turtledove	AH
Take a Look at the Five and Ten	Connie Willis	SF

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



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

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

 

Happy Monday!


There are no debuts this week.


From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Bone Ships (Tide Child Trilogy 1) by RJ Barker;

The Mansion by Ezekiel Boone is out in Trade Paperback;

The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade 2) by Seth Dickinson is out in Trade Paperback;

Fallen (Alex Verus 10) by Benedict Jacka;

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz;

Unearthed (A Death Seeker Novel 1) by Cecy Robson;

Grave Importance (A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel 3) by Vivian Shaw;

A Savage Generation (ri) by David Tallerman;

and

Venom: Lethal Protector Prose Novel by James R. Tuck is out in Mass Market Paperback.

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

September 23, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
A Fist or a Heart	Kristín Eiríksdóttir Larissa Kyer (Tr)	LF/CW/VisM
Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture (ri)	Simon J. James	SF/HC

September 24, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Winter Vow (h2mmp)	Tim Akers	F - Hallowed War 3
Harpy Thyme (e)	Piers Anthony	F/HU - Magic of Xanth 17
Demons Don't Dream (e)	Piers Anthony	F/HU - Magic of Xanth 16
Geis of the Gargoyle (e)	Piers Anthony	F/HU - Magic of Xanth 18
The Bone Ships	RJ Barker	F - Tide Child Trilogy 1
The Mansion (h2tp)	Ezekiel Boone	H
The Kingdom of Copper (h2tp)	S. A Chakraborty	F - Daevabad Trilogy 2
The Water Dancer	Ta-Nehisi Coates	HistF/MR
Star Destroyers (tp2mm)	Tony Daniel (Ed) Christopher Ruocchio (Ed)	SF/SO - Anthology
The Monster Baru Cormorant (h2tp)	Seth Dickinson	F - The Masquerade 2
Gift of Griffins (h2mm)	V. M. Escalada	F/DF - Faraman Prophecy 2
Toxic Game (h2mm)	Christine Feehan	PNR/GenEng - GhostWalker 15
Shatter War (h2tp)	Dana Fredsti David Fitzgerald	SF/TT - Time Shards
The Monster of Elendhaven	Jennifer Giesbrecht	DF/H
Siege of Stone: Sister of Darkness (h2mm)	Terry Goodkind	F - Nicci Chronicles 3
The Late Great Wizard (tp2mm)	Sara Hanover	F - Wayward Mages 1
Japanese Ghost Stories	Lafcadio Hearn Paul Murray (Ed)	Occ/Sup/H/SupTh
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store	Keigo Higashino	MR
The World That We Knew	Alice Hoffman	LF
Fallen	Benedict Jacka	UF/CF - Alex Versus 10
The Orchid Throne	Jeffe Kennedy	FR - Forgotten Empires 1
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham	Leslie S. Klinger (Ed)	H/Classics
Heartsong	TJ Klune	PNR - Green Creek 3
Steel Crow Saga	Paul Krueger	F
The Bartered Brides (h2mm)	Mercedes Lackey	HistF/Gaslamp - Elemental Masters 13
Past Master	R. A. Lafferty	SF/HU/TT
Bright Morning Star	Simon Morden	HSF/AC
The Future of Another Timeline	Annalee Newitz	SF/TT
Only Some Can Hear My Voice	Brian O'Grady	SF/AP/PA/UF/TechTh/PolTh/SupTh
The Warrior Moon	K Arsenault Rivera	F/HistF - Ascendant 3
Year One (h2mm)	Nora Roberts	F/PNR/SupTh/SF/AP/PA/Dys - Chronicles of The One 1
Unearthed (e)	Cecy Robson	UF/DF - Death Seeker 1
The Secret of Life (ri)	Rudy Rucker	SF/CyP
The Sex Sphere (ri)	Rudy Rucker	SF/CyP
Mistborn: The Final Empire (ri)	Brandon Sanderson	F - Mistborn 1
Immortal Born	Lynsay Sands	PNR - An Argeneau Novel 30
The Consuming Fire (h2mm)	John Scalzi	SF/SO - Interdependency 2
The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr	Susan Holloway Scott	Hist/Bio/AH
The Fool and Other Moral Tales	Anne Serre Mark Hutchinson (Tr)	FairyT/FolkT/LM
Grave Importance	Vivian Shaw	CF/P/UF - A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel 3
Archangel's War	Nalini Singh	PNR - Guild Hunter 12
The Sky-Blue Wolves (h2mm)	S.M. Stirling	SF/AP/PA/AH -  Novel of the Change 15
The Riyria Revelations: Theft of Swords, Rise of Empire, Heir of Novron	Michael J. Sullivan	F
Split Tooth (h2tp)	Tanya Tagaq	LF/MR
Violet	Scott Thomas	GH/Sus/H
Venom: Lethal Protector Prose Novel (h2mm)	James R. Tuck	SH/CF
The Savior (h2mm)	J.R. Ward	PNR - Black Dagger Brotherhood 17
Uncompromising Honor (h2mm)	David Weber	SF/So - Honor Harrington 19
The Beauty (tp2mm)	Aliya Whiteley	SF/AP/PA
Sisters of the Fire (h2tp)	Kim Wilkins	F - Daughters of the Storm 2

September 26, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
One by One (ri)	D.W. Gillespie	H/DF - Fiction Without Frontiers
The Guardian (ri)	J.D. Moyer	SF/AP/PA/DF - Fiction Without Frontiers
A Savage Generation (ri)	David Tallerman	H - Fiction Without Frontiers

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
Bio - Biographical
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romane
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
H - Horror
HC - History & Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
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
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
RS - Romantic Suspense
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

RJ Barker (2017)

The Bone Ships
The Tide Child Trilogy 1
Orbit, September 24, 2019
Trade Paperback and eBook, 512 pages

A crew of condemned criminals embark on a suicide mission to hunt the first sea dragon seen in centuries in the first book of this adventure fantasy trilogy.

Violent raids plague the divided isles of the Scattered Archipelago. Fleets constantly battle for dominance and glory, and no commander stands higher among them than “Lucky” Meas Gilbryn.

But betrayed and condemned to command a ship of criminals, Meas is forced on suicide mission to hunt the first living sea-dragon in generations. Everyone wants it, but Meas Gilbryn has her own ideas about the great beast. In the Scattered Archipelago, a dragon’s life, like all lives, is bound in blood, death and treachery.


The Tide Child Trilogy
The Bone Ships

For more from RJ Barker, check out:

The Wounded Kingdom
Age of Assassins
Blood of Assassins
King of Assassins

Rene Denfeld (2014)

The Butterfly Girl
Harper, October 1, 2019
Hardcover and eBook, 272 pages

The Butterfly Girl is a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life.

The search takes her to Portland, Oregon, where scores of homeless children wander the streets like ghosts, searching for money, food, and companionship. The sharp-eyed investigator soon discovers that young girls have been going missing for months, many later found in the dirty waters of the river. Though she does not want to get involved, Naomi is unable to resist the pull of children in need—and the fear she sees in the eyes of a twelve-year old girl named Celia. Running from an abusive stepfather and an addict mother, Celia has nothing but hope in the butterflies—her guides and guardians on the dangerous streets. She sees them all around her, tiny iridescent wisps of hope that soften the edges of this hard world and illuminate a cherished memory from her childhood—the Butterfly Museum, a place where everything is safe and nothing can hurt her.

As danger creeps closer, Naomi and Celia find echoes of themselves in one another, forcing them each to consider the question: Can you still be lost even when you’ve been found? But will they find the answer too late?

Marshall Ryan Maresca (2015)

Shield of the People
The Maradaine Elite 2
DAW, October 29, 2019
Mass Market Paperback, 400 pages

The second novel in the Maradaine Elite series blends fast-paced high fantasy and political intrigue.

After stopping Tharek Pell and saving the Druth Parliament, Dayne Heldrin and Jerinne Fendall find themselves on the margins of the Tarian Order: lauded as heroes in public but scorned and ignored in private, their future in the Order hazy. Dayne is given an assignment that isolates him from the Order, and Jerinne is hazed and bullied at the bottom of the initiate rankings.

But it’s a grand holiday week in the city of Maradaine, celebrating over two centuries of freedom and the foundation of the reunified modern nation, and with that come parades, revelry… and protests and demonstrations. A dissident group called The Open Hand–and their mysterious, charismatic leader, Bishop Ret Issendel–seeks to disrupt the Parliament elections with their message of secession and dissolution.

Despite orders to stay out of the public eye, Dayne and Jerinne are drawn into the intrigue of the Open Hand and kept apart by dark powerful conspiracies that brew around them. Dayne and Jerinne must fight for their own principles, and protect the will of the people as the election is thrown into chaos.

Book 1

Happy First Monday in August.

There are 2 debuts this week:

A Short Film About Disappointment by Joshua Mattson

and

Implanted by Lauren C. Teffeau.

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


From formerly featured DAC Authors

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

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

The Point by John Dixon;

Temper by Nicky Drayden;

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

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

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

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

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

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

Herokiller by Paul Tassi;

and

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

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

August 6, 2018

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

August 7, 2018

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

August 9, 2018

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

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



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
Cr - Crime
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CW - Contemporary Woman
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
MU - Mash Up
Noir - Noir
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PI - Private Investigator
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PP - Police Procedural
PolTh - Political Thriller
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
Sagas - Sagas
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TTR - Time Travel Romance
TV - Television
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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

Happy Monday!

There are 3 debuts this week:

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi;

The Philosopher's Flight by Tom Miller;

and

Gunpowder Moon by David Pedreira.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Blood of Assassins (Wounded Kingdom 2) by RJ Barker

Olympus Bound (Olympus Bound 3) by Jordanna Max Brodsky;

Amberlough (Amberlough Dossier 1) by Lara Elena Donnelly is out in Trade Paperback;

Echoes of Understorey (Titan's Forest 2) by Thoraiya Dyer;

The World Awakening (Gateways to Alissia 3) by Dan Koboldt;

Shadow Hunt (Disrupted Magic 3) by Melissa F. Olson;

Thirty-Seven by Peter Stenson;

and

Unclean Spirits (reissue) by Chuck Wendig.

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

February 12, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Night of the Hunter	Susan Harris	PNR/FairyT/FolkT/LM/ - Ever Chace Chronicles 4

February 13, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Blood of Assassins	RJ Barker	F - Wounded Kingdom 2
Madness is Better Than Defeat	Ned Beauman	LF
The Edda of Burdens Trilogy: All the Windwracked Stars, By the Mountain Bound, Sea They Mistress (e)	Elizabeth Bear	SF - Edda of Burdens
Olympus Bound	Jordanna Max Brodsky	UF - Olympus Bound 3
Michael Chabon's The Escapist: Amazing Adventures	Michael Chabon	GN
The Expanse: Origins	James S. A. Corey Hallie Lambert Georgia Lee Huang Danlan Triona Farrell Juan Useche	GN/MTI
The Ghost Notebooks	Ben Dolnick	LF/Sup
Amberlough (h2tp)	Lara Elena Donnelly	HistF - Amberlough Dossier1
Echoes of Understorey	Thoraiya Dyer	F - Titan's Forest 2
Freshwater (D)	Akwaeke Emezi	LF
Shadowbahn (h2tp)	Steve Erickson	LF
Malazan Book of the Fallen: Books 1-4: Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains (e)	Steven Erikson	F - Malazan Book of the Fallen
The Turn of the Screw and Other Tales	Henry James Philip Horne (Ed)	GH
Pride and Prometheus	John Kessel	HistF
The World Awakening (e)	Dan Koboldt	F - Gateways to Alissia 3
The Complete Glamourist Histories: Shades of Milk and Honey, Glamour in Glass, Without a Summer, Valour and Vanity, Of Noble Family (e)	Mary Robinette Kowal	HistF - Glamourist Histories
Tomorrow's Kin (h2tp)	Nancy Kress	SF/HSF - Yesterday's Kin Trilogy 1
The Philosopher's Flight (D)	Tom Miller	HistF
Altered Carbon (ri)	Richard K. Morgan	SF/MTI - Takeshi Kovacs 1
Shadow Hunt	Melissa F. Olson	UF - Disrupted Magic 3
Gunpowder Moon (D)	David Pedreira	SF/HSF
Black Sheep Boy: A Novel in Stories	Martin Pousson	MR
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales	Haruo Shirane (Ed)	LitCol - Translations from the Asian Classics
Thirty-Seven	Peter Stenson	LF
Art of War: Anthology for Charity (Ke)	Petros Triantafyllou (Ed)	F - Anthology
Annihilation: A Novel: Movie Tie-In Edition	Jeff VanderMeer	LF/MTI - The Southern Reach Trilogy 1
Starlings	Jo Walton	F - Collection
The Shape Of Things To Come	H. G. Wells	SF - S.F. Masterworks
Unclean Spirits (ri)	Chuck Wendig	F
The Book of Joan (h2tp)	Lidia Yuknavitch	Dys

February 14, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Enchanted (e)	Barbara Bretton	PNR - Sugar Maple Chronicles 5

February 15, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Eleanor Cameron: Dimensions of Amazement	Paul V. Allen	HC

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



AC - Alien Contact
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GH - Ghost(s)
GN - Graphic Novel
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
LF - Literary Fiction
LitCol - Literary Collection
LM - Legend and Mythology
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
NR - Near Future
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

RJ Barker (2017)

Blood of Assassins
The Wounded Kingdom 2
Orbit, February 13, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 480 pages

The king is dead, long live the king...

The assassin Girton Club-foot and his master have returned to Maniyadoc in hope of finding sanctuary, but death, as always, dogs Girton's heels.

The place he knew no longer exists. War rages across Maniyadoc, with three kings claiming the same crown - and one of them is Girton's old friend Rufra. Girton finds himself hurrying to uncover a plot to murder Rufra on what should be the day of the king's greatest victory. But while Girton deals with threats inside and outside Rufra's war encampment, he can't help wondering if his greatest enemy hides beneath his own skin.

Blood of Assassins is the epic sequel to RJ Barker's debut Age of Assassins, set in a world ravaged by magic, featuring a cast of assassins, knights, ambitious noblemen, and fools.

Callie Bates (2017)

The Waking Land
The Waking Land 1
Del Rey, January 2, 2018
Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Hardcover and eBook, June 27, 2017

In the lush and magical tradition of Naomi Novik’s award-winning Uprooted comes this riveting debut from brilliant young writer Callie Bates—whose boundless imagination places her among the finest authors of fantasy fiction, including Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir.

Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder—and must flee for her life.

Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father, branded a traitor long ago. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world, she also must face the truth about the forces she has always denied or disdained as superstition—powers that suddenly stir within her.

But an all-too-human threat is drawing near, determined to exact vengeance. Now Elanna has no choice but to lead a rebellion against the kingdom to which she once gave her allegiance. Trapped between divided loyalties, she must summon the courage to confront a destiny that could tear her apart.

The Memory of Fire
The Waking Land 2
Del Rey, June 5, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 448 pages

Callie Bates’s debut novel, The Waking Land, announced the arrival of a brilliant new talent in epic fantasy. Now, with The Memory of Fire, Bates expertly deepens her tale, spinning glittering threads of magic and intrigue into a vibrant tapestry of adventure, betrayal, and romance.

Thanks to the magic of Elanna Valtai and the Paladisan noble Jahan Korakide, he lands once controlled by the empire of Paladis have won their independence. But as Elanna exhausts her powers restoring the ravaged land, news that the emperor is readying an invasion spurs Jahan on a desperate mission to establish peace.

Going back to Paladis proves to be anything but peaceful. As magic is a crime in the empire, punishable by death, Jahan must hide his abilities. Nonetheless, the grand inquisitor’s hunters suspect him of sorcery, and mysterious, urgent messages from the witch who secretly trained Jahan only increase his danger of being exposed. Worst of all, the crown prince has turned his back on Jahan, robbing him of the royal protection he once enjoyed.

As word of Jahan’s return spreads, long-sheathed knives, sharp and deadly, are drawn again. And when Elanna, stripped of her magic, is brought to the capital in chains, Jahan must face down the traumas of his past to defeat the shadowy enemies threatening his true love’s life, and the future of the revolution itself.

Ada Palmer (2016)

Seven Surrenders
Terra Ignota 2
Tor Books, November 28, 2017
Trade Paperback,
Hardcover and eBook, March 7, 2017

From 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second book of Terra Ignota, a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity

“A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war…a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.

For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed locations, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the globe in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy than he can ever admit. Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description. And both Mycroft and Carlyle are privy to the greatest secret of all: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to life.

Shot through with astonishing invention, Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders is the next movement in one of the great science fiction epics of our time.

“Seven Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics. I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time.” —Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead

The Will to Battle
Terra Ignota 3
Tor Books, December 19, 2017
Hardcover and eBook, 352 pages

The Will to Battle—the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series—a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity

“A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings

The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.

Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location.

The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world’s stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held.

The Hives’ façade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order, for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past. But as the great secret becomes more and more widely known, that façade is slipping away.

Just days earlier, the world was a pinnacle of human civilization. Now everyone—Hives and hiveless, Utopians and sensayers, emperors and the downtrodden, warriors and saints—scrambles to prepare for the seemingly inevitable war.

“Seven Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics. I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time.” —Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead

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

RJ:  Hello Qwillery! Lovely to meet you. I don't think I can answer that very well, it feels like I've always been writing. My earliest definite writing memory is from primary school when I was about ten and I wrote a poem that my teacher sent off to a book. No idea if it got in or not but I do remember the title of the poem and the first line. It was called 'The House' and the first line was 'Within these dark forsaken walls.' That makes me sound like I should have been an Adam's family child, considering how I ended up maybe it was foreshadowing.[1]



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

RJ:  I make everything up on the spot, almost completely. I usually know the end and a couple of things I'd quite like to happen but outside of that I'm as surprised by half the stuff that happens as someone reading it for the first time will be[2]. It's a tremendously fun way of doing it, for me, anyway.



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

RJ:  This is a really hard question for me to answer because I simply really enjoy writing[3]. Sometimes I struggle to just sit down and do it because I am distracted by other things, or I am being plan lazy, but the actual doing it is never what I would describe as hard because it's fun. Copy editing is less creative though, that's maybe more challenging, but it's still, overall, something I like doing. It's a process that makes me think about all the decisions I've made and, hopefully, makes what I'm doing into a better book. Which is good for everyone.



TQ:  What has influenced / influences your writing?

RJ:  Everything. The temptation is to reel off books and authors but I think I'm influenced by far more than that (we all are, I imagine) so I shall steer clear of it. Where I am from, northern England, definitely comes through in the landscapes and some of the voices. And I played in bands[4] for a long time so music is huge influence, it definitely informs the mood of the book and everything I write. And the world around me, it seeps in and makes its way out in words.



TQ:  Describe Age of Assassins in 140 characters or less.

RJ:  A fantasy murder mystery with magic, swordfights and intrigue. And antlers. The antlers are the most important bit.



TQ:  Tell us something about Age of Assassins that is not found in the book description.

RJ:  Oh, Mounts! I have a thing about antlers (dunno if you noticed) and in the book they ride about on huge antlered fighting creatures called mounts. Girton and Merela's (his master) mount is called Xus and although he's not in it a huge amount and he can't speak he's absolutely one of my favourite characters.



TQ:  What inspired you to write Age of Assassins? What appeals to you about writing fantasy?

RJ:  The answer to both of these is the same, sort of. I'm not really the sort of person who has an allegiance to any one genre I'm just not very good at doing one thing. There are so many different things out there and I am endlessly curious. I want to try and sample as much as possible so I wouldn't ever describe myself as an “X” reader or writer, I just like books. But when the idea for Age of Assassins came to me it had to be fantasy because, in the great tradition of such things[5], a fantasy element was central to the plot. So it wasn't really a decision, it was a necessity of the story I wanted to tell. I very rarely make decisions if I'm honest, I just do what seems like a good idea at the time.



TQ:  Please tell us about the cover for Age of Assassins.

RJ:  I really like the cover, now. It's by Tom Sanderson, at the-parish.com and he's done a good job of catching the air of mystery and melancholy that pervades the book. It was quite difficult for me to separate out my taste in art, which is very left of field, from the cover of a book which is an illustration with a job to do – to sell the book. But Orbit know their stuff and have nailed it as far as the reception of readers goes[6]. Though you won't learn anything about the book from the cover, apart from a kind of feeling of mystery. And that there is a castle in the book.



TQ:  In Age of Assassins who was the easiest character to write and why? The hardest and why?

RJ:  This is really quite boring but it was all really easy. I wrote it in six weeks, it was literally like being hit by a bolt. I had an idea, dropped everything else I was thinking about to do it and wrote it. It's not changed a huge amount from the first version. It was a bit like being possessed, I just knew what I had to do and it all fitted together. In a way it felt like cheating. It's all seen from Girton's point of view and because that felt so clear to me I didn't really have any problems, I'm trying to think of something to talk about that was difficult so I seem a bit more interesting but I'm not getting anywhere.

Wait!

Something that was hard was that there are no horses in this world, they use the aforementioned mounts but 'horse' is so ingrained into me that I kept writing it, again and again and again. And the same in book two, Blood of Assassins. I wouldn't be surprised if some horses had crept through and made it into the book y'know. Horses, they're sneaky like that. Tiptoeing past the editing process on their hooves. Bloody horses, sticking their velvety noses in where they're not wanted. *shakes fist*.



TQ:  Why have you chosen to include or not chosen to include social issues in Age of Assassins?

RJ:  The act of making the lead character disabled makes it hard to avoid social issues, and you could read the use of magic in the book as an environmental allegory – if that's what you want to do. I think some reflection of our world makes a book more interesting as well, as long as it doesn't interrupt the flow of the book and become preaching. Social issues that are allegorical to our world exist in Age of Assassins but you could easily read the book without noticing – if that's your thing. Books are like onions, layer upon layer and what a reader gets out of it depends on how deeply they want to read. It's an exciting adventure, but there's more there if you want it.



TQ:  Which question about Age of Assassins do you wish someone would ask? Ask it and answer it!

RJ:  What was the first idea you had for Age of Assassins?

RJ: Thanks, RJ, I've always wanted someone to ask me that. It was the name of the world it takes place in: The Tired Lands. There was something so very evocative about those three words. They popped into my head and it was as if I could see the landscape lain out before me. I was amazed it didn't already exist if I'm honest, it felt like somewhere that already existed and it was a really loaded name, it brings a lot with it. And after The Tired Lands the rest followed, the allegory of the disabled hero (echoes of the Fisher King there), this gradually decaying land and his story within it.



TQ:  Give us one or two of your favorite non-spoilery quotes from Age of Assassins.

RJ:  I am going to neatly sidestep this question. There are genuinely funny moments in AoA and thrilling actiony moments too but it's all dependant on you knowing Girton and the characters around him. I always feel that nipping a short quote out of a book is a bit like saying you have a beautiful coat and when someone asks to see it showing them two small bits of the yarn it's made from. It might be very nice string and everything, but it won't help you see the jacket. Gosh, that makes me sound incredibly po-faced and serious doesn't it?[7] Read the book, it's best for everyone, then you can choose your own quotes and I won't feel like I'm crowing.



TQ:  What's next?

RJ:  Well, book two is edited and book three is written, so next up I have copy edits for book 2 and making book 3 good. Then something new, hopefully. I'd quite like to do something involving sailing ships and big cannons but I really am quite fickle so this may change.



TQ:  Thank you for joining us at The Qwillery.

RJ:  Thank you for having me, Qwillery.



1 - There are a lot of black clothes in our house. A lot.
2 - Hopefully.
3 - What is that noise? It's the hubris alarms, Sir.
4 - Badly.
5 - How do you know something is a fantasy book? If you take out the fantasy element it falls apart. I can't remember whose rule this is and it was originally for SF but it is a good one that works most of the time.
6 - Also, a mystery, for who is that hooded figure on the cover?
7 - I am making a serious face.

Age of Assassins
The Wounded Kingdom 1
Orbit, August 1, 2017
Paperback and eBook, 432 pages

IT'S A GAME OF ASSASSIN VERSUS ASSASSIN

Girton Club-foot has no family, a crippled leg, and is apprenticed to the best assassin in the land.

He's learning the art of taking lives, but his latest mission tasks him with a far more difficult challenge: to save a life. Someone is trying to kill the heir to the throne, and it is up to Girton to uncover the traitor and prevent the prince's murder.

Age of Assassins is the first in an epic new trilogy set in a world ravaged by magic, featuring a cast of assassins, knights, ambitious noblemen, and fools.

About RJ Barker

RJ Barker is a softly-spoken Yorkshireman with flowing locks. He lives in the frozen north with his wife and son, and divides his time between writing and looking after his son.

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