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The View From Monday - May 3, 2021

Published: May 03, 2021 | 10:15

Happy 1st Monday in May!

There are 2 debuts this week:

Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Adult Debut);

and

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.

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

From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Bottle Demon (Eric Carter 6) by Stephen Blackmoore;

Immunity Index by Sue Burke;

The Godel Operation by James L. Cambias;

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon;

The Dragon of Jin-Sayeng (Chronicles of the Wolf Queen 3) by K. S. Villoso;

and

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

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

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

May 4, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition	Douglas Adams	SF/HU - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1
Cursed Luck	Kelley Armstrong	RF - Cursed Luck 1
The Vanished Seas (tp2mm)	Catherine Asaro	SF/SO - Major Bhaajan 3
Providence (h2tp)	Max Barry	SF/Th/Dys
Bottle Demon	Stephen Blackmoore	UF/DF/CF - Eric Carter 6
Penric's Travels (h2tp)	Lois McMaster Bujold	F
Immunity Index	Sue Burke	SF/AP/PA/HSF/GenEng
Master Artificer	Justin Travis Call	F - Silent Gods 2
The Godel Operation	James L. Cambias	SF
May Day	Emma Coleman	H
The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait	Cleo Coyle	PCM - Haunted Bookshop Mystery 7
Second Place	Rachel Cusk	LF/HistF
1637: The Peacock Throne	Eric Flint Griffin Barber	SF/TT - Ring of Fire 31
Unreconciled (h2mm)	W. Michael Gear	SF/HSF/SO - Donovan 4
The Shadow of the Gods	John Gwynne	F - The Bloodsworn Trilogy 1
My Name Is Monster	Katie Hale	LF/Dys/Feminist
Orfeia	Joanne M. Harris	FairyT/FolkT/LM/F/FR
The Shadow in the Glass	JJA Harwood	HistF/DF/Gaslamp/FairyT/FolkT/LM/Hist
In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities	Lafcadio Hearn	FairyT/FolkT/LM
Walk Among Us: Compiled Edition	Cassandra Khaw Genevieve Gornichec Caitlin Starling	H - Vampire: The Masquerade
Firebreak (D - Adult)	Nicole Kornher-Stace	SF/AP/PA
Elsa Bloodstone: Bequest	Cath Lauria	MTI - Marvel Heroines
Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future	Gideon Lichfield (Ed)	SF/AP/PA/Anthology - Twelve Tomorrows
Firefly - The Ghost Machine (h2tp)	James Lovegrove	MTI/SF
Blue Ticket	Sophie Mackintosh	Dys/FL/Women
The Reincarnationist Papers (ri)	D. Eric Maikranz	MTI/Fiction
Utopia Avenue (h2tp)	David Mitchell	LF/SF/Dys
Shadowed Steel	Chloe Neill	P/PNR - An Heirs of Chicagoland Novel 3
A Deadly Education	Naomi Novik	F/CF/CoA - Scholomance 1
Driving the Deep (h2mm)	Suzanne Palmer	SF/SO/AC - The Finder Chronicles 2
Mamelukes (h2mm)	Jerry Pournelle David Weber Phillip Pournelle	SF
Ariadne (D)	Jennifer Saint	LF/FairyT/FolkT/LM/Women
Sorrowland	Rivers Solomon	African American & Black/Gothic/SF/LGBTQ+
By Force Alone (h2tp)	Lavie Tidhar	F/Arthurian
The Dragon of Jin-Sayeng	K. S. Villoso	F - Chronicles of the Wolf Queen 3
Project Hail Mary	Andy Weir	SF/HSF/Sus
Freehold: Defiance	Michael Z. Williamson (Ed)	SF - Anthology

May 5, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Lost World: A Professor Challenger Adventure	Sir Arthur Conan	SF - Wordfire Classics

May 6, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy	Elizabeth Knox (Ed) David Larsen (Ed)	SF/F - Anthology

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

AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
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.

2017 Debut Author Challenge Cover Wars - October Debuts

Published: October 15, 2017 | 07:30

Each month you will be able to vote for your favorite cover from that month's debut novels. At the end of the year the 12 monthly winners will be pitted against each other to choose the 2017 Debut Novel Cover of the Year. Please note that a debut novel cover is eligible in the month in which the novel is published in the US. Cover artist/illustrator/designer information is provided when we have it.

I'm using PollCode for this vote. After you the check the circle next to your favorite, click "Vote" to record your vote. If you'd like to see the real-time results click "View". This will take you to the PollCode site where you may see the results. If you want to come back to The Qwillery click "Back" and you will return to this page. Voting will end sometime on October 31, 2017.

Jacket illustration - Martin Deschambault

Jacket design - Greg Stadnyk

Cover design - Adam Auerbach

Cover art - photograph of cloaked figure &copy: Malgorzata Maj/

Arcangel Images; photograph of raven courtesy of

Shutterstock Images

Cover illustration - Steve Stone

Cover design - Lex Maudlin

Cover - Lovely Creatures Studio

Cover illustrations - Crystal Ben, Arcangel

Cover design - Lisa Marie Pompilio

Cover art - Jaime Jones

Cover design - Jaime Stafford-Hill

Cover art and design - John Coulthart

Interview with Rivers Solomon, author of An Unkindness of Ghosts

Published: October 11, 2017 | 07:23

Please welcome Rivers Solomon to The Qwillery as part of the of the 2017 Debut Author Challenge Interviews. An Unkindness of Ghosts was published on October 3rd by Akashic Books.

Interview with Rivers Solomon, author of An Unkindness of Ghosts

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

Rivers: I’ve been writing stories since at least Kindergarten, I think, one of my earlier efforts winning some silly prize for first graders and put on display at a local mall. That type of encouragement made me keep at it, and I definitely learned to think of myself as a very writerly, literary sort of person. We all get tracked into things, don’t we? At varying points I left and came back, but in college I had a professor who was really amazing and made me believe I could actually make a go at doing it more professionally.

I wish that I could remember all the fanciful tales I concocted in my early elementary years, but they are lost to time, I’m afraid. I do remember a story from middle school I wrote about a kid who wakes up and it turns out that all along the Earth has been flat. Everybody’s talking about it at school and he feels left out, having not watched the news that morning. I distinctly recall he overhears a girl in the hallway say, “If even the Earth is flat, there’s no hope for my chest.”

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

Rivers: I am a bit of both, so a hybrid—but I suppose everyone’s a hybrid to some extent because it’s impossible to write purely using either method.

I’d say if forced to choose I’d go with plotter. I do not usually let the words take me where they will beyond a few scenes or maybe a few chapters. I like to write purposefully and with meaning. Characters tends develop in a pantsy-fashion. Subplots, too. But I start most projects I write with a sense of the arc.

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

Rivers: I deal with chronic illness, so finding the energy and will to keep at it is definitely difficult for me. Also, I’m quite a meticulous person, in the worst sense of the word, so I will spend hours on single phrases when writing a story. I’m not exaggerating at all. I can’t just let go of the language and get the story out, not matter how hard I try! All that is to say I’m a pretty slow writer unless I happen to catch a manic burst.

TQ: What has influenced / influences your writing?

Rivers: Is it cheating to answer, “the world”? I bet it is. Hmm, let’s narrow it down. I’m definitely heavily influenced by Black Diasporic peoples’ culture, language, food, and religion. Jewish thought and practice. Battlestar Galactica (2004). Star Trek, specifically The Original Series. All sorts of history, from all times and all places. I really love Ursula LeGuin and Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker. I think about The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison a lot. A whole lot. Protest movements, now and today. The Russian Revolution, the Black Panthers, the IRA. The Matrix! The aesthetic eye in that trilogy is just next level. Isn’t Zion so beautiful? I like to keep an open mind and let in as much as the world as I can (as much as feels safe to me). I hope people read my work and see the wide world seeping into it.

TQ: Tell us something about An Unkindness of Ghosts that is not found in the book description.

Rivers: There’s a small but present romance in the book that is deeply meaningful to me. There are lots of descriptions of food. There are comic books! There is humor, believe it or not, despite the heaviness of it all.

TQ: What inspired you to write An Unkindness of Ghosts? What appeals to you about writing Science Fiction?

Rivers: When I started it, it was definitely at a time when a lot of really awful things were getting a fair bit of media attention. Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown (and countless other names). I was thinking a lot about queerness and reproductive justice. I was thinking a lot about my ancestors because that’s just something I do sometimes. I’d recently read a poem by Kiki Petrosino called “Ancestors” that still speaks to me and haunts me occasionally. Maps were on my mind. The violence of borders. All of it kind of meshed together, I guess, and the seed of an idea was born. The story has changed so much since I first started it, but it has always been about a young woman who rebels in some way, either for her own safety or that of others.

As far as sci-fi, well I’ve always been quite fond of it. Mostly just because it’s inherently a bit wild and surreal! I’d typically rather read a story that had something strange in it, something different that I’m not likely to encounter in my own real life. I love make-believe. I’m one of those people who eats a bowl of porridge and imagines that they’re on the Nebuchadnezzar eating that protein goop from the Matrix. Head in the clouds, as they say.

TQ: What sort of research did you do for An Unkindness of Ghosts?

Rivers: I had various points where I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the exact theoretical science of everything, but then realized I didn’t care that much and I remembered my favorite kind of sci-fi tended to be more magical sci-fi. I read a bit about fusion reactors, and a friend of mine who studied physics helped me think about designs.

TQ: Please tell us about the cover for An Unkindness of Ghosts?

Rivers: The cover is the protagonist Aster’s likeness against a background of stars. I don’t know the artist, and now I feel terribly bad about the fact! That’s something I’m going to have to look up, and I’m certain I should know. We (me and the editor and design people at Akashic Books) had a fair bit of back and forth before we landed on the final design, and I think it conveys something central about the book: a woman on the edge, a woman torn, a woman at odds with her life and surroundings.

TQ: In An Unkindness of Ghosts who was the easiest character to write and why? The hardest and why?

Rivers: Giselle was the easiest to write because I think she has very few inhibitions. It was always easy to figure out what she might do because she’s the sort that generally does the first thing to come to mind. Aster and Theo, the other two main characters, are much more controlled, I think. They don’t always necessarily behave in consistent fashions because life is a puzzle, and they’re trying to figure out what’s the best move forward.

The hardest to write was a character called Aint Melusine, because I think older Black women are often written in really narrow and limiting ways. There are a few ‘types’ out there. Mammies, basically, or really matronly, kind women who love to cook and sing, and there often isn’t much more to them than that. I was hyper aware of making her feel full and complete and also very complicated. I’m not sure if I 100% achieved it but it was definitely something I worked hard to at least make a go at.

TQ: Why have you chosen to include or not chosen to include social issues in An Unkindness of Ghosts?

Rivers: I think social issues are just life, really, so including them is not really different than talking about the weather or the time of day or the year. There are certain populations who feel social issues more because they are more personally affected by them. Perhaps they themselves are the ‘social issues’ depending on point of view. But that seems like a cop out; we’re all wrapped up in it one way or another. For example, the unequal distribution of wealth and power is a social issue, but like, either you’re a person with a lot of wealth or you’re a person with not a lot of wealth, and whatever side of the coin you’re on, it’s a social issue and you play a part in it.

TQ: Which question about An Unkindness of Ghosts do you wish someone would ask? Ask it and answer it!

Rivers: I don’t necessarily have one question I wish people would ask, but of course I have a lot of random thoughts about the book that people will probably never think to ask about! Here’s one:

What is your favorite non-canon romantic pairing?

Theo and Giselle. They are such complete and utter opposites but I think they both have a very mystical and apocalyptic way of viewing the world that would lead them to shared interests and goals.

TQ: Give us one or two of your favorite non-spoilery quotes from An Unkindness of Ghosts.

Rivers:

There was an excitement coming from Giselle. She was standing on the edge of a new world and so ready to jump. How Lucifer felt upon leaving Heaven. He didn’t fall. He dove.

TQ: What's next?

Rivers: The world is wide open at the moment, and I’m on so many paths I really can’t say exactly where I will end up!

TQ: Thank you for joining us at The Qwillery.

An Unkindness of Ghosts
Akashic Books, October 3, 2017
Trade Paperback and eBook, 340 pages

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.

Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot—if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war.

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About Rivers

RIVERS SOLOMON graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Though originally from the United States, they currently live in Cambridge, England, with their family. An Unkindness of Ghosts is their debut novel.

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The View From Monday - October 2, 2017

Published: October 02, 2017 | 07:35

Happy 1st Monday in October!

There are 6 debuts this week:

The Bloodprint (The Khorasan Archives 1) by Ausma Zehanat Khan;

Blackwing (Raven's Mark 1) by Ed McDonald;

Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng;

The Tiger's Daughter (Their Bright Ascendancy 1) by K Arsenault Rivera;

Orthogonal Procedures by Adam Rothstein;

and

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.

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

From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Mageborn (The Age of Dread 1) by Stephen Aryan;

William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher;

The Trials of Solomon Parker by Eric Scott Fischl;

The Light That Binds (The Sundered World Trilogy 3) by Nathan Garrison;

The Imposters of Aventil (Maradaine 3) by Marshall Ryan Maresca;

The Seven (Vagrant Trilogy 3) by Peter Newman;

and

The Tower and Knife Trilogy (eBundle) by Mazarkis William.

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

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

October 1, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Haunted Blade	J.C. Daniels	DF - Colbana Files 6
Brimstone Prince (e)	Barbara J. Hancock	PNR
The Witch's Quest (e)	Michele Hauf	PNR - Decadent Dames 3
Harlequin Nocturne October 2017 Box Set: The Witch's Quest\Brimstone Prince (e)	Michele Hauf Barbara J. Hancock	PNR

October 2, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Her Vampire Husband (e)	Michele Hauf	PNR - Wicked Games 4
Tanith By Choice: The Best of Tanith Lee	Tanith Lee	DF/H
Blackwater: The Complete Saga	Michael McDowell	Gothic/Occ
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two	James D. Jenkins (Ed) Ryan Cagle (Ed)	H - Anthology

October 3, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
From a Certain Point of View	Various	SF/SO - Star Wars
Mermaids: The Myths, Legends, and Lore (e)	Skye Alexander	FairyT/FolkT/LM
The Complete Psychotechnic League, Vol. 1	Poul Anderson	SF
Monster: The Early Life of Mary Shelley	Mark Arnold	Hist/SFR/Gothic/LF/Fem
Mageborn	Stephen Aryan	F - The Age of Dread 1
The Scarlet Gospels (tp2mm)	Clive Barker	H
Nimbus	Jacey Bedford	SF/SO - A Psi-Tech Novel 3
Star Trek Beyond - The Makeup Artistry of Joel Harlow	Titan Books	Film - Star Trek
Apes and Angels (h2mm)	Ben Bova	SF - Star Quest Trilogy 2
The Core	Peter V. Brett	F - The Demon Cycle 5
The Baron in the Trees	Italo Calvino Ann Goldstein (Tr)	LF
Chain of Command	Frank Chadwick	SF
Virtues of War - March of War	Bennett R. Coles	SF - Virtues of War 3
Leviathan Wakes (Signed)	James S. A. Corey	SF - The Expanse 1
The Monster Hunter Files	Larry Correia (Ed) Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed)	CF - Monster Hunter Anthology
Haunted Nights	Ellen Datlow (Ed) Lisa Morton (Ed)	H/Occ/Sup - Anthology
Colonial Horrors: Sleepy Hollow and Beyond	Graeme Davis (Ed)	H - Anthology
William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh	Ian Doescher	SF - William Shakespeare's Star Wars 7
The Motion of Puppets (h2tp)	Keith Donohue	LF/CF/H
Catacombs of Terror! (h2tp)	Stanley Donwood	Noir/Gothic/H
The Trials of Solomon Parker	Eric Scott Fischl	F/HistF/Occ/Sup
The Light That Binds (e)	Nathan Garrison	DF - The Sundered World Trilogy 3
The Long Past and Other Stories	Ginn Hale	HistF
Brimstone Prince	Barbara J. Hancock	PNR
Ghost Times Two (h2mm)	Carolyn Hart	PCM - A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel 7
The Witch's Quest	Michele Hauf	PNR - Decadent Dames 3
For the Winner: A Novel of Jason and the Argonauts	Emily Hauser	Hist
Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories	Hugh Howey	SF - Collection
In the Footsteps of Dracula: Tales of the Un-Dead Count	Stephen Jones (Ed)	H - Anthology
The Lovecraft Squad: Waiting	Stephen Jones (Creator)	Occ/Sup
Treachery's Tools (h2mm)	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	F - The Imager Portfolio 10
The Bloodprint ( D - SpecfFic)	Ausma Zehanat Khan	F - The Khorasan Archives 1
Closer to the Chest (h2mm)	Mercedes Lackey	F - Valdemar: The Herald Spy 3
Moonbath	Yanick Lahens Emily Gogolak (Tr)	LF/Hist/CW/MR
Picnic at Hanging Rock (ri)	Joan Lindsay	LF/Gothic/H
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado	SF - Collection
Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker	Nick Mamatas (Ed) Molly Tanzer (Ed)	Beverages - Anthology
The Imposters of Aventil	Marshall Ryan Maresca	UF/F - Maradaine 3
Den of Wolves (h2mm)	Juliet Marillier	HistF/FR - Blackthorn & Grim 3
Halloween Carnival Volume 1 (e)	Brian James Freeman (Ed)	H - Anthology
Blackwing (D)	Ed McDonald	DF/F - Raven's Mark 1
The Seven	Peter Newman	F - Vagrant Trilogy 3
Under the Pendulum Sun (D)	Jeannette Ng	F/DF/FairyT/FolkT/LM
Aftertaste	Andrew Post	UF/HU/H/P
The Tiger's Daughter (D)	K Arsenault Rivera	F/HistF - Their Bright Ascendency 1
The Name of the Wind: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition	Patrick Rothfuss	CF/DF - Kingkiller Chronicle 1
Orthogonal Procedures (D)	Adam Rothstein	SF/TT
Hero	R.A. Salvatore	F - Homecoming 3
The Witcher Boxed Set: Blood of Elves, The Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire	Andrzej Sapkowski	F - Witcher
Money Back Guarantee (e)	Hunter Shea	H - Mail Order Massacres 3
Alone (h2tp)	Scott Sigler	SF - The Generations Trilogy 3
An Unkindness of Ghosts (D)	Rivers Solomon	SF/SO/LF/PA/AP
Dreaming of a White Wolf Christmas	Terry Spear	PNR - White Wolf 1
The Murders of Molly Southbourne	Tade Thompson	H/DF
Doctor Who: Time Trips (h2mm)	Various	SF - Anthology
The Genius Plague	David Walton	SF/Th
To Fall Among Vultures (e)	Scott Warren	SF - Union Earth Privateers 2
The Tower & Knife Trilogy (e)	Mazarkis Williams	F
Quillifer	Walter Jon Williams	F - Quillifer 1
What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror	David Wong	H/HU/Th - John Dies at the End 3
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017	Charles Yu (Ed) John Joseph Adams (Series Ed)	SF - Anthology

October 4, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Crispin's Model: A Tor.com Original (e)	Max Gladstone	H
Broken Vessels (e)	Brian Francis Slattery	UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #12

October 6, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Wilderness Within	John Claude Smith	PsyTh/H

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

AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fem - Feminist
FL - Family Life
Folklore - Folklore
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MF - Military Fantasy
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Noir - Noir
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Phil - Philosophy
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SocHis - Social History
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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

2017 Debut Author Challenge - October Debuts

Published: October 01, 2017 | 07:11

There are 12 debut novels for October.

Please note that we use the publisher's publication date in the United States, not copyright dates or non-US publication dates.

The October debut authors and their novels are listed in alphabetical order by author (not book title or publication date). Take a good look at the covers. Voting for your favorite October cover for the 2017 Debut Author Challenge Cover Wars will take place starting on October 15, 2017.

If you are participating as a reader in the Challenge, please let us know in the comments what you are thinking of reading or email us at "DAC . TheQwillery @ gmail . com" (remove the spaces and quotation marks). Please note that we list all debuts for the month (of which we are aware), but not all of these authors will be 2017 Debut Author Challenge featured authors. However, any of these novels may be read by Challenge readers to meet the goal for October 2017 The list is correct as of the day posted.

Updated to include Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng.
Updated to include Court of Twilight by Mareth Griffith.

Melissa Caruso

The Tethered Mage
Swords and Fire 1
Orbit, October 24, 2017
Trade Paperback and eBook, 480 pages
Epic Fantasy

In the Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled — taken as children and conscripted into the Falcon Army.

Zaira has lived her life on the streets to avoid this fate, hiding her mage-mark and thieving to survive. But hers is a rare and dangerous magic, one that threatens the entire empire.

Lady Amalia Cornaro was never meant to be a Falconer. Heiress and scholar, she was born into a treacherous world of political machinations.

But fate has bound the heir and the mage. And as war looms on the horizon, a single spark could turn their city into a pyre.

The Tethered Mage is the first novel in a spellbinding new fantasy series.

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