The Qwillery

Happy 1st Monday in September and Happy Labor Day!


There are 4 debuts this week:

Terra Nullius by Clare G. Coleman;

Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark by Charlie J. Eskew;

The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen 1) by Signe Pike;

and

Walking Through Fire (Misbegotten 1) by Sherri Cook Woosley.

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


From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Magefall (Age of Dread Series 2) by Stephen Aryan;

Daughters of Forgotten Light by Sean Grigsby;

Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha 2) by Kameron Hurley is out in Mass Market Paperbook;

Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition by Mur Lafferty;

MJ-12: Endgame (MAJESTIC-12 Thriller 3) by Mike J. Martinez;

and

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz is out in Trade Paperback.

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

September 1, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (ri)	Mike Ashley	SF - British Library Science Fiction Classics
Crusade	Daniel M. Ford	F - Paladin Trilogy Series 3
Grunt: The Task Force Ombra Trilogy (e)	Weston Ochse	SF
Mother of Invention	Rivka Rafael (Ed) Tansy Rayner Roberts (Ed)	SpecFic - Anthology
Happy Doomsday	David Sosnowski	SF/AP/PA

September 3, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Wish Factor: A Bewitching Bedlam Short Story (e)	Yasmine Galenorn	PNR - Bewitching Bedlam

September 4, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Realmgate Wars: Volume 2	David Annandale Guy Haley Rob Sanders Josh Reynolds David Guymer Gave Thorpe C L Wener Matt Westbrook	F - Collection
The Ink Master's Silence	C.J. Archer	HistF - Glass and Steele 6
Magefall	Stephen Aryan	F - Age of Dread Series 2
Gridlinked (ri)	Neal Asher	SF/HSF/SO - Agent Cormac 1
The Silence of the Girls	Pat Barker	LF/Hist/War and Military
Terra Nullius (D)	Claire G. Coleman	LF/FL/Dys
Target Rich Environment	Larry Correia	F - Collection
To Guard Against the Dark (h2mm)	Julie E. Czerneda	SF/AC/HSF/SO - Reunification 3
The Only Thing to Fear (e)	Julie E. Czerneda	SF/SO/AC/HSF - Web Shifters Novella
The Chrysalis	Brendan Deneen	H/SupTh/DF
Halo: Silent Storm: A Master Chief Story	Troy Denning	SF - HALO 23
Seventh Decimate (h2tp)	Stephen R. Donaldson	F/DF - The Great God's War 1
The Land of Stone Flowers: A Fairy Guide to the Mythical Human Being	Sveta Dorosheva Jane Bugaeva (Tr)	F/HU
The Spaceship Next Door	Gene Doucette	SF/AC
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark (D)	Charlie J. Eskew	SF/SH/Satire
Fright Into Flight	Amber Fallon (Ed)	H - Anthology
Dark Sentinel	Christine Feehan	PNR - Carpathian 32
Hidden Sun	Jaine Fenn	F/SF/GenEng - Shadowlands 1
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction	Irene Gallo	SF/F - Anthology
Daughters of Forgotten Light	Sean Grigsby	SF/SE/SO
Alien Covenant: David's Drawings	Dane Hallett	PerfArts/SF
Salvation	Peter F. Hamilton	SF/SO/SE - Salvation Sequence 1
The Darker Lord	Jack Heckel	F/HU/FairyT/FolkT/LM - The Mysterium Series 2
Harryhausen - The Movie Posters	Richard Holliss	PerfArts/SF/F/Hist
Infidel (ri)	Kameron Hurley	SF/DF - Bel Dame Apocrypha 2
The Cats Came Back	Sofie Kelly	PCM - A Magical Cats Mystery 10
Exile of the Seas	Jeffe Kennedy	F - Chronicles of Dasnaria 2
Flight or Fright	Stephen King (Ed) Bev Vincent (Ed)	H - Anthology
Bag of Bones (ri)	Stephen King	Sus
Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition	Mur Lafferty	SF/SO/MTI - Star Wars
The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (h2tp)	James Lovegrove	M/Detective/P - Cthulhu Casebooks 2
The Necroscope Quintet: Necroscope, Vamphyri, The Source, Deadspeak, Deadspawn (e)	Brian Lumley	H/P - Necroscope
Of Honour and Iron	Ian St. Martin	SF - Space Marine Conquests
MJ-12: Endgame	Michael J. Martinez	SF/HistF/Th - MAJESTIC-12 Thriller 3
Night and Silence	Seanan McGuire	UF/CF/P - October Daye 12
The Dinosaur Lords Trilogy: Dinosaur Lords, Dinosaur Knights, Dinosaur Princess (e)	Victor Milán	F - Dinosaur Lords
Sheepfarmer's Daughter (ri)	Elizabeth Moon	F - Deed of Paksenarrion 1
Redeemer (e)	C. E. Murphy	HistF - Redeemer Wars 1
Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art	Susan Napier	PerftArts/HC
Autonomous (h2tp)	Annalee Newitz	SF/HSF/GenEng/CyP
H. P. Lovecraft: He Who Wrote in the Darkness: A Graphic Novel	Alex Nikolavitch	P
Choosing Names: Man-Kzin Wars VIII (e)	Larry Niven	SF - Man-Kzin Wars Series 8
Companion Pieces: Stories from the Old World and beyond (Ke)	Melissa F. Olson	F - Collection
Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa	David Peace	LF/SS/Bio
The Lost Queen (D)	Signe Pike	Hist - The Lost Queen 1
The Dreaming Stars	Tim Pratt	SF/SO/HSF - The Axiom 2
The Real-Town Murders	Adam Roberts	SF
Salvation's Fire: After The War	Justina Robson	F
Timeless: A Drizzt Novel	R. A. Salvatore	F - Drizzt 1
The Complete Virga Series: Sun of Suns, Queen of Candesce, Pirate Sun, Sunless Countries, Ashes of Candesce (e)	Karl Schroeder	SF/SO/SP - Virga
Live Long And . . .: What I Learned Along the Way	William Shatner David Fisher	Bio/PerfArts
Frankenstein (ri)	Mary Shelley	Gothic
Special Deliverance (ri)	Clifford D. Simak	SF
Mastodonia (ri)	Clifford D. Simak	SF
The Bastard Legion: Friendly Fire	Gavin G. Smith	SF - The Bastard Legion 2
Hell Divers III: Deliverance	Nicholas Sansbury Smith	SF/AP/PA - Hell Divers 3
The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction	Mingwei Song (Ed) Theodore Huters (Ed)	SF/Chinese- Anthology
Tinker (ri)	Wen Spencer	CF - Elfhome 1
Occupy Me	Tricia Sullivan	SF/Sus
Ashes of Victory - Special Limited Edition	David Weber	SF - Honor Harrington 9
Tor Classics Collection: H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau (e)	H. G. Wells	SF - Tor Classics
Her Majesty's American	Steve White	SF
The Accidental War	Walter Jon Williams	SF - World of Dread Empire's Fall
Walking Through Fire (D)	Sherri Cook Woosley	Dys - Misbegotten 1
Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion (h2tp)	Chris Wraight	SF - Watchers of the Throne
Embers	Suzanne Wright	PNR - The Dark in You 4

September 5, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Triquetra: A Tor.com Original (e)	Kirstyn McDermott	SF

September 6, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach	Ramsey Campbell	H/DF
The Siren and The Specter	Jonathan Janz	H/DF
The Sky Woman	J.D. Moyer	SF
Creature	Hunter Shea	H/DF
The Mouth of the Dark	Tim Waggoner	H/DF

September 7, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Mutilation Song (e)	Jason Hrivnak	H/Occ/Sup/VisM

September 8, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders	Susan Forest (Ed) Lucas K Law (Ed)	SpecFic - Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction

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
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
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
Hist R - Historical Romance
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Parnormal Cozy Mystery
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
Sc - Science
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
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
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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

Fan Down Under: Paul Weimer on his DUFF experiences

By Michael J. Martinez

The absolutely lovely humans who run the Qwillery have been early and generous supporters of my work, for which I remain grateful indeed. And yes, I have a new book out Sept. 5, MJ-12: Shadows, the second in my series of super-powered Cold War spy thrillers.

But, you know, I figure if “super-powered Cold War spy thriller” didn’t grab you, I don’t know what a guest post could do to rectify that. So instead, I’m using this space to interview prolific SF/F reviewer, podcaster and super-fan Paul Weimer about his trip to Australia and New Zealand as part of the DUFF program. Because both Paul and DUFF are super cool.

What is DUFF? The Down Under Fan Fund helps American fans head to Australia and New Zealand for science fiction and fantasy conventions, and also helps fans from Down Under head to fan conventions elsewhere in the world. Paul was the DUFF delegate for 2017, and you can read about his adventures in his DUFF Report, available here for $7, with all proceeds going to the Down Under Fan Fund.

Without further ado, here’s the interview:

You've been involved in the SF/F community for a very long time. Tell me about the book, or books, that made you take the leap from reader to fan. Barring that, was there an incident or experience of some kind instead?

The advent of the High Blog Era of the Internet is what let me get into fandom in a real way, rather than just reading quietly. In the mid 2000's, I started to write short book reviews on my then-blog. This led to me participating in an online community that SF Signal was building. That got me gigs at The Functional Nerds, SF Signal itself, and I was off to the races. Podcasting came almost hand in hand with that, when I got invited to a SF Signal episode.


You're also an avid traveler. I've often thought travel has made me a better writer. Has it made you a better reader? A better community member/fan? A better reviewer?

Yes. Looking back on a travel adventure, its framed as a narrative, a story. Its moments, tender pieces, encounters, and an overall story from start to finish. Seeing how I construct my own story of my travels helps me write and think about how fictional stories work, or don't work.


What keeps you going within the fandom community? What keeps you coming back and staying involved?

Stubborness, persistence, determination and a desire to try and do good. I can try and do good, and use my powers to help illuminate authors, books, communities. Besides, I have one of the most mundane and boring jobs out there. Fandom is a way to channel my creative energies and escape the monochrome mundanity of daily life.


How different or similar is fandom in Aus/NZ? What stands out the most there?

For New Zealand, it was its tiny and very intertwined fandom/author community. The con in Taupo got 150 to attend, which means you could drop them into a Worldcon and have difficulty finding them again. There is also a strong recognition of the native (Maori) community and what that historical perspective and narrative brings to NZ SF and fantasy.

Australian fandom felt like a thousand points of light that do not interconnect as much as they themselves might like. The size of Australia meant that a National Convention (which moves every year) is mostly just the local population, with a few infusions from elsewhere. This means that the National Convention every year is a rotating set of people, rather than a repeat of the same far flung community. This gives Australian fandom the feel of a moveable feast.


For that matter, from what you've read and experienced, what perspectives to Aussies and Kiwis bring to the genre that we're missing out on?

The Aussies and Kiwis are very cognizant of being small players in the SF world. Getting visibility outside of their two smallish worlds is something they crave, and even more to the point, even New Zealand writers want more visibility just across "the ditch" in Australia.

There is also a strong ecological perspective in Australasian SF and fantasy, because climate change, invasive species, and other ecological problems are something they live with and cannot escape. It shows in their fiction, and in their panels and discussions.


What authors from Down Under should we be reading?

Plenty, but I will name just a couple: Thoraiya Dyer's debut fantasy novel, Crossroads of Canopy provides a lush world of Gods and life in the canopy of a rainforest. Cat Sparks strongly engages ecological perspectives in her fantasy and science fiction. Readers of Epic fantasy should be reading Helen Lowe, who has been quietly (too quietly from my perspective) putting out a strong, traditional epic fantasy series, the Wall of Night series. Even for its relatively comfortable lines, Lowe features strong female characters and a world where the often overweening patriarchal crap a lot of fantasy worlds revel in is nowhere to be seen.


What U.S. authors do you think would resonate particularly well with Aussie/Kiwi readers?

Kate Elliott, because I think writing in Hawaii as she does, has helped give her a perspective on worlds and societies and a global sort of understanding that Aussies and Kiwis can resonate with. Similarly, Max Gladstone, who has spent a lot of time in Asia, a part of the world very important to Australasia, has themes and ideas that will resonate well with readers down there. Similarly in the same vein, Ken Liu's fiction, both short and epic, would be something I think they could and should eat up with a spoon.


Your report has some gorgeous photography along with it. How long have you been shooting, what drew you to it, and for the photo nerds in the crowd, what rig are you using?

I came very late to photography in my life. Oh, I had a film camera since back in the early 90's, but many of the pictures I took on my first Trip to London them were plagued with pink blobs. I had no idea what I was doing and it showed. I discarded photography as a hobby worth doing for years.

Although I lost the roll and never developed the pictures, my last full day in Orange County, in 2003 was the next major attempt at trying photography again. I tried to document my trip to San Juan Capistrano, and started to feel what I had felt, and denied back on that London trip a decade earlier--that taking photographs of places, of adventures, was something I liked.

I got a digicam not long after arriving in Minnesota, ahead of a camping trip with my friends the Olsons. I thought taking some photos of our trip to Yellowstone might be fun. We went in 2005. Boy was I right. My first attempt at photography on a vacation turned out wonderfully, especially since I had a "big sister" in my friend Felicia, who had a DSLR and was not afraid to use it. I started practicing and learning more after that trip with my digicam, exploring Minnesota with my friends and on my own.

A second camping trip in 2007 to the Canadian Rockies was the clincher. Plenty of waterfalls and mountains convinced me that, yes, I liked this photography thing, especially a travel photography thing, and I wanted to capture better images. I bought a DSLR not long after that trip.

I currently shoot with a Canon 7D. My usual lens of choice is a 24mm Prime lens, although the "beast" of a 100mm macro lens got to see some good use on my DUFF trip.


Finally, waterfalls. What is it about shooting waterfalls?

Why waterfalls? First and foremost, the sound of rushing water makes them an appealing place to be around. I love visiting waterfalls because of the peace and balm they bring to me.

But why photograph them while I am at it?

Because waterfalls are in that space of being static and dynamic, remaining in place and yet ever changing, moment by moment, season by season. I can visit a waterfall in different seasons, different years, and due to the flow, the foliage, time of day, lighting and more, get an infinite variety of shots from the same cascade.

And if that wasn't enough, the sheer variety of waterfalls, from huge curtain ones to thin ones that plunge into a punchbowl means that a new-to-me waterfall will always have something I've not quite seen before.


Again, I urge you to buy Paul’s report and give it a read. It’s a very cool travelogue, has some great photos, and will make you want to book a trip post-haste. And the money is going to the Down Under Fan Fund to keep fans around the world connected.

About Paul

Paul Weimer is a SF writer, reviewer, and podcaster and an avid amateur photographer. When he isn’t doing any of that, he’s often found rolling dice and roleplaying. His audio work can be found on the Skiffy and Fanty Show and SFF audio. His reviews and columns can also be found at Tor.com and the Barnes and Noble SF/F blog, amongst other places. Paul is best seen on Twitter as @princejvstin.

About Michael

Michael J. Martinez is the author of five novels, including the Daedalus trilogy of Napoleonic era space opera adventures and the MAJESTIC-12 series of spy-fi thrillers. His short fiction has appeared in Cthulhu Fhtagn!, Unidentified Funny Objects 4, Geeky Giving and Endless Ages: Vampire. He's a proud member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. You can find him online at michaeljmartinez.net or on Twitter at @mikemartinez72.

Michael's latest novel:

MJ-12: Shadows
A MAJESTIC-12 Thriller 2
Night Shade Books, September 5, 2017
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 384 pages

It’s 1949, and the Cold War is heating up across the world. For the United States, the key to winning might be Variants—once ordinary US citizens, now imbued with strange paranormal abilities and corralled into covert service by the government’s top secret MAJESTIC-12 program.

Some Variants are testing the murky international waters in Syria, while others are back at home, fighting to stay ahead of a political power struggle in Washington. And back at Area 51, the operation’s headquarters, the next wave of recruits is anxiously awaiting their first mission. All the while, dangerous figures flit among the shadows and it’s unclear whether they are threatening to expose the Variants for what they are . . . or to completely destroy them. Are they working for the Soviet Union, or something far worse?

Happy 1st Monday in September!

I'm including books from September 1st in this Monday's post since they were not included in last Monday's post.

There are 6 debuts:

Clade by James Bradley;

Skyfarer by Joseph Brassey;

Song of Edmon ( The Fracture Worlds 1) by Adam Burch;

Beforelife: A Likely Story by Randal Graham;

The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones;

and

The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker.





And from formerly featured DAC Authors:

Highland Dragon Warrior (Dawn of the Highland Dragon 1) by Isabel Cooper;

Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson;

Ruin of Angels (A Craft Sequence Novel) by Max Gladstone;

Godsgrave (Nevernight Chronicles 2)  by Jay Kristoff;

Making Amends (Bookburners Season 3 #8) by Mur Lafferty;

MJ-12: Shadows (Majestic-12 #2) by Michael J. Martinez;

The Uploaded by Ferrett Steinmetz;

and

Cloudbound by Fran Wilde is out in Trade Paperback.

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

September 1, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Daughter of Eden	Chris Beckett	SF - The Eden Trilogy 3
Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories	Venita Blackburn	SS - Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Song of Edmon (D)	Adam Burch	SF - The Fracture Worlds 1
Phasma	Delilah S. Dawson	SF/SO - Star Wars
The Death of All Things (e)	Laura Anne Gilman  (Ed) Kat Richardson (Ed)	SF/F - Anthology
One Night with the Valkyrie (e)	Jane Godman	PNR
Charmed by the Wolf (e)	Kristal Hollis	PNR
Servant of the Forest (e)	Shona Husk	PNR/FairyT
The Master of Time	David Wingrove	SF/TT - Roads to Moscow 3

September 5, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Ravenor Rogue	Dan Abnett	SF - Ravenor 3
Ashes Reborn	Keri Arthur	UF - Souls of Fire 4
The Bronze Skies	Catherine Asaro	SF - Skolian Empire 8
Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy (h2tp)	Jay Bonansinga	H - The Walking Dead 7
Clade (D)	James Bradley	SF/AP/PA
Skyfarer (D - Solo)	Joseph Brassey	F/SF/SO
Sea of Rust	C. Robert Cargill	SF/AP/PA
Highland Dragon Warrior	Isabel Cooper	Hist/PNR - Dawn of the Highland Dragon 1
The Gates to Futures Past (h2mm)	Julie E. Czerneda	SF - Reunification Series 2
The Last to See Me	M Dressler	Hist/LF/GH
Eye of Ezekiel	C Z Dunn	SF - Space Marine Battles Series
The Devil You Know (h2mm)	Erin M. Evans	F
Dark Legacy	Christine Feehan	PNR - Carpathian 31
Iron Angels	Eric Flint Alistair Kimble	UF
Ruin of Angels	Max Gladstone	F/UF/CF - A Craft Sequence Novel
Time Travel: A History (h2tp)	James Gleick	Hist/PopCul/Sc
One Night with the Valkyrie	Jane Godman	PNR
Beforelife: A Likely Story (D)	Randal Graham	F/SF/HU
Doctor Who: Paper Dolls	Simon Guerrier Christel Dee	SF - Doctor Who
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories	Ursula K. Le Guin	SF - Library of America
Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Vol. 1	Ursula K. Le Guin	SF - Library of America
Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Vol. 2	Ursula K. Le Guin	SF - Library of America
Five Ways to Forgiveness (e)	Ursula K. Le Guin	SF - Library of America E-Book Classics
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures	William Hodgson	F  - Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Vol. 1
Charmed by the Wolf	Kristal Hollis	PNR
Battlefield Earth (ri)	L. Ron Hubbard	SF
Acadie	Dave Hutchinson	SF/GenEng
The Salt Line (D - SpecFic)	Holly Goddard Jones	LF/SF/AP/AP
Godsgrave	Jay Kristoff	F/SP/HistF - The Nevernight Chronicle 2
Who's Afraid?	Maria Lewis	FR - Tommi Grayson 1
Death's End (h2tp)	Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Tr)	SF - Remembrance of Earth's Past 3
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (h2tp)	James Lovegrove	M/PI - Cthulhu Casebooks 1
MJ-12: Shadows	Michael J. Martinez	SF/Th - Majestic-12 #2
The Brightest Fell	Seanan McGuire	UF - October Daye 11
The Legend of Sigmar	Graham McNeill	F - Warhammer Chronicles
Fever	Deon Meyer	Dys/LF/Th
Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen (h2tp)	Michael Moorcock	HistF
A Secret History of Witches	Louisa Morgan	MR
Circle's End	Lisanne Norman	SF/SO/AC - Sholan Alliance 9
Norma	Sofi Oksanen	CW/F/Sleuths
Star Trek The Next Generation: The Art of Juan Ortiz	Juan Oritz	PopCul/Art - Star Trek
Immortal Architects	Paige Orwin	SF/AP/PA/SH/F/UF - Interminables 2
The Two of Swords: Part Sixteen (e)	K. J. Parker	F - Two of Swords
The Family Plot (h2tp)	Cherie Priest	UF/Occ/Sup/Gothic/GH
The Devil's Rosary	Seabury Quinn	F/H/DF/P - The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin 2
Star Wars: The Blueprints	J.W. Rinzler	Film
Secrets in Death	J.D. Robb	In Death 45
White Trash Zombie Unchained	Diana Rowland	P/UF/CF - White Trash Zombie  6
The Golden House	Salman Rushdie	LF/Satire
Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World	Brandy Schillace	History
Frankenstein Dreams	Michael Sims (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Sourdough	Robin Sloan	LF/UF/F
The Uploaded	Ferrett Steinmetz	SF/CyP
Her Dark Half	Paige Tyler	PRS - X-Ops 7
The End of the World Running Club (D)	Adrian J. Walker	Dys
Cloudbound (h2tp)	Fran Wilde	F - Bone Universe 2
Forged in Blood	Michael Z. Williamson	SF - Freehold Anthology

September 6, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Angel of the Blockade: A Tor.com Original	Alex Acks	SF
Making Amends (e)	Mur Lafferty	UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #8

September 7, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
In the Dark: Tales of Terror by E. Nesbit (e)	Hugh Lamb (Ed)	GH - HarperCollins Chillers

September 8, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound (e)	Susan Forest (Ed) Lucas K. Law (Ed)	SF - Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction 2

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



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

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

Rajan Khanna (2014)

Raining Fire
Ben Gold 3
Pyr, July 18, 2017
Trade Paperback and eBook, 271 pages

Ben Gold, former airship pilot has lost everything: his airship, his friends, and Miranda, the woman he loves. All that he has left is a thirst for revenge, a reckless plan to sate it, and some journal entries from Miranda to help ground him in the chaos. As he spirals out of control, he must survive old friends, new enemies, and of course Ferals, the mindless, violent victims of the global pandemic that shattered the world.

Meanwhile, the Cabal, a group of scientists on the floating city of Valhalla, are using the disease as a weapon while the militant Valhallans continue their raiding and destruction across the continent. When raiders from Valhalla massacre a town of innocents, Ben finds a new purpose in doing anything he can to undermine their power.

Ben must reunite with old friends and find new ones if he is to succeed. Can he overcome the forces arrayed against him in time to save himself—and maybe the world?

Michael J. Martinez (2013)

MJ-12: Shadows
A MAJESTIC-12 Thriller 2
Night Shade Book, September 5, 2017
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 384 pages

It’s 1949, and the Cold War is heating up across the world. For the United States, the key to winning might be Variants—once ordinary US citizens, now imbued with strange paranormal abilities and corralled into covert service by the government’s top secret MAJESTIC-12 program.

Some Variants are testing the murky international waters in Syria, while others are back at home, fighting to stay ahead of a political power struggle in Washington. And back at Area 51, the operation’s headquarters, the next wave of recruits is anxiously awaiting their first mission. All the while, dangerous figures flit among the shadows and it’s unclear whether they are threatening to expose the Variants for what they are . . . or to completely destroy them. Are they working for the Soviet Union, or something far worse?

Ilana C. Myer (2015)

Fire Dance
Tor Books, April 10, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 368 pages

Palace intrigue, dark magic, and terrifying secrets drive the beautifully written standalone novel set in the world of Last Song Before Night.

Espionage, diplomacy, conspiracy, passion, and power are the sensuously choreographed steps of the soaring new high fantasy novel by Ilana C. Myer, one woman's epic mission to stop a magical conflagration.

Lin, newly initiated in the art of otherwordly enchantments, is sent to aid her homeland's allies against vicious attacks from the Fire Dancers: mysterious practitioners of strange and deadly magic. Forced to step into a dangerous waltz of tradition, treachery, and palace secrets, Lin must also race the ticking clock of her own rapidly dwindling life to learn the truth of the Fire Dancers' war, and how she might prevent death on a scale too terrifying to contemplate.

Myer's novel is a symphony of secret towers, desert winds, burning sands, blood and dust. Her prose soars, and fluid movements of the politically charged plot carry the reader toward a shocking crescendo.

Happy first Monday in June!

There are five debuts this week:

In the Valley of the Sun by Any Davidson;

Blackout by Marc Elseberg;

Necessary Monsters by Richard A. Kirk;

The Rebellion's Last Traitor by Nik Korpon;

and

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry.





From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black is out in Trade Paperback;

The Weight of Lies by Emily Carpenter;

Tyrant's Throne (The Greatcoats 4) by Sebastien de Castell;

Crown of Stars (Night Song Trilogy 2) by Sophie Jaff;

MJ-12: Inception (A MAJESTIC-12 Thriller 1) by Michael J. Martinez is out in Mass Market Paperback;

All Good Things (The Split Worlds 5) by Emma Newman;

A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl is out in Trade Paperback;

The Himalayan Codex (R. J. MacCready 2) by Bill Schutt and J. R. Finch;

and

Talen (Dark Protectors) by Rebecca Zanetti.

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


June 5, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
A Grave Calling (e)	Wendy Roberts	PM/SupTh - Bodies of Evidence 1

June 6, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Boxed In (e)	Rebecca York	PRS - Decorah Security 16
Year's Best Military and Adventure SF Volume 3	David Afsharirad (Ed)	SF - Year's Best Military & Adventure Science Series 3
Betrayals	Kelley Armstrong	F/Th - Cainsville 4
The DNA of Orphan Black	Abbie Bernstein	SF/MTI
The Day After Roswell (ri)	William J. Birnes Philip Corso	SocSci/CoT
Ninth City Burning (h2tp)	J. Patrick Black	SF
The Weight of Lies	Emily Carpenter	FL/Gothic
Tyrant's Throne	Sebastien de Castell	HistF - The Greatcoats 4
Tyrant of the Hollow Worlds	Mark Clapham	SF - Space Marine Battles
The Day After Gettysburg	Robert Conroy J. R. Dunn	AH
Monster Hunter Alpha Signed Leatherbound Edition	Larry Correia	F - Monster Hunter International 3
In Valley of the Sun (D)	Andy Davidson	H/W/Occ/Sup
The Master of Mankind	Aaron Dembski-Bowden	SF - The Horus Heresy 41
Starliner (ri)	David Drake	SF
Red Vengeance	Brendan DuBois	SF - Dark Victory 2
Blackout (D)	Marc Elsberg	TechTh
Slow Boat	Hideo Furukawa David Boyd (Tr)	LF - Japanese Novellas
Valley of the Moon (h2tp)	Melanie Gideon	CW/LF
Sovereign Silk	ElizaBeth Gilligan	F/FR/DF - Silken Magic 3
Moonbreaker	Simon R. Green	UF/CF - A Secret Histories Novel 11
Strangers of the Night	Megan Hart	PNR
Executed	RR Haywood	SF/TT/Dys - Extracted Trilogy 2
Wonder Woman: The Official Movie Novelization	Nancy Holder	MTI
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 Edition	Rich Horton (Ed)	SF/F - Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
ME	Tomoyuki Hoshino Charles De Wolf (Tr)	Dys/LF/Psy
A Peace Divided	Tanya Huff	SF - Peacekeeper 2
Crown of Stars	Sophie Jaff	DF - Night Song Trilogy 2
Grim Expectations	K.W. Jeter	SP/AH/SF - George Dower 3
Protector Wolf	Linda O. Johnston	PNR - Alpha Force 11
Carnivalesque	Neil Jordan	LF/F
The Kill Society	Richard Kadrey	UF/Th - Sandman Slim 9
War for the Planet of the Apes: Revelations	Greg Keyes	MTI/SF - War for the Planet of the Apes
Necessary Monsters (D)	Richard A. Kirk	HistF
Alexander Outland: Space Pirate (ri)	Gini Koch	SF/HU
The Rebellion's Last Traitor (D -SFF)	Nik Korpon	SF/AP/PA
A Study in Sable (h2mm)	Mercedes Lackey	HistF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Elemental Masters 11
A Grave Prediction (h2mm)	Victoria Laurie	PM - Psychic Eye Mystery 14
Blood Wedding (h2tp)	Pierre Lemaitre	PsyTh
Dear Cyborgs	Eugene Lim	LF/Political/SH
Sherlock Holmes - The Labyrinth of Death	James Lovegrove	M/Detective/Cr
Dead West: Omnibus Two	Tim Marquitz (Ed) J.M. Martin Kenny Soward	HistF - Dead West 2
MJ-12: Inception (h2mm)	Michael J. Martinez	HistF - A MAJESTIC-12 Thriller 1
Lot and Lot's Daughter (e)(ri)	Ward Moore	SF - Collection
All Good Things	Emma Newman	UF/HistF - The Split Worlds 5
Juma (e)	Madhuri Pavamani	FR - Keeper Series 2
The Essex Serpent (D)	Sarah Perry	Hist
A Hundred Thousand Worlds (h2tp)	Bob Proehl	FL/CoA/LF
The Secret Language of Stones (h2tp)	M. J. Rose	Hist - The Daughters of La Lune 2
Maestro (h2mm)	R.A. Salvatore	F - Homecoming 2
The Himalayan Codex	Bill Schutt J. R. Finch	Th - R. J. MacCready 2
Bound (e)	Sue Tingey	CF - Soulseer Chronicles 3
Doctor Who: A Brief History of Time Lords	Steve Tribe	SF - Doctor Who
Wolf Hunt	Paige Tyler	PRS - SWAT 6
The Refrigerator Monologues	Catherynne M. Valente Annie Wu (Illus)	CF
The End of Temperance Dare	Wendy Webb	Psy/Gothic
Nothing Left to Lose	Dan Wells	SupTh - John Cleaver 6
Bladestorm	Matt Westbrook	F - The Realmgate Wars 8
The Fortune Teller	Gwendolyn Womack	SupTh/RSus
Talen (e)	Rebecca Zanetti	PNR - Dark Protectors

June 12, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Soul of Fire (e)(ri)	Laura Anne Gilman	FR - Portals 2

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
tp - Trade Paperback
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator


AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CoT - Conspiracy Theories
Cr - Crime
CyP - Cyberpunk
CW - Contemporary Women
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GB - Genre Bender
GH - Ghost(s)
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RSus - Romantic Suspense
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superhero(es)
SocSci - Social Science
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisMeta - Visionary and Metaphysical
W - Western
WW - Weird Western

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

Here We Go Again: Starting a New Series

By Michael J. Martinez


I won’t kid you. Starting a brand new series is daunting.

I started writing the book that became The Daedalus Incident in 2010, and I had worldbuilding notes on it dating from 2003. The book came out in 2013, with The Enceladus Crisis in 2014 and The Venusian Gambit last year.

Basically, I spent at least six years with these characters, and well over a decade with the whole notion of Napoleonic era sailing ships in space. That’s a long time to get comfortable with something, and I think if you read all three books, you’ll see me get better as a writer and storyteller as you go.

And now for something completely different.

I certainly could’ve told more Daedalus stories; there are large gaps in the timeline that could’ve been fun to fill in. Maybe I’ll go back and do that someday. But it struck me that it was time to try a new thing, to stretch writerly muscles that hadn’t been used much when writing Daedalus and the others.

I wanted to do something darker and more nuanced, and my teenaged love of spy thrillers kept popping into my head. It was time to give it a whirl. The MAJESTIC-12 series is the result, starting with MJ-12: Inception, out this week in hardcover.

The trick here, of course, was to try to make something that really was different. It couldn’t be the same swashbuckling adventure as the Daedalus series. The characters in MJ-12: Inception shouldn’t be papered-over characters from the other books. I was really conscious of trying to differentiate, and that’s the daunting part. I didn’t want to be formulaic.

If you’ve read Dan Brown, you’ll know what I mean. If you look at the plots of The Da Vinci Code and Deception Point, you’ll find some really striking similarities – a code to crack, a shadowy conspiracy, a mentor-figure that switches sides at the last minute, global repercussions. Honestly, and with all due respect to Dan and his success, I found the similarities in plot beats striking.

But you could say the same thing about many authors – there’s a formula to what they do, and it works. More power to ‘em. I wanted to be different.

That meant building MAJESTIC-12 from the ground up, with a variety of different and nuanced characters, with a different pace and different plot devices. To me, the only real similarities between Daedalus and MJ-12: Inception is that they’re both historical fantasy, they both mash-up a variety of genres, and I wrote ‘em.

I learned a lot writing the Daedalus books, and I’m hopeful that the learning has translated well into the MAJESTIC-12 series. I’m already as comfortable with these characters and this setting as I ever was with those in the Daedalus series, which I consider a plus. They feel right.

I feel like if I’m going to start a new series, then for better or worse, it’s going to be a very different thing, even if it means more work for me, and more risk as well. As my alleged career progresses, I may find I have a firmer footing in certain genres or subgenres, or a facility with certain tropes or themes more than others. But I’m still finding out. And as I do…thanks for coming along for the ride.

MJ-12: Inception
Series:  MAJESTIC-12 #1
Publisher:  Night Shade Books, September 6, 2016
Format:  Hardcover and eBook,
List Price:  US$24.99 (print); US$16.99 (eBook)
ISBN:  978-1-59780-877-4 (print): 978-1-59780-887-3 (eBook)

A team of superhuman covert operatives emerges from the ashes of World War II in a Cold War-era paranormal espionage thriller from acclaimed genre-bender Michael J. Martinez.

It is a new world, stunned by the horrors that linger in the aftermath of total war. The United States and Soviet Union are squaring off in a different kind of conflict, one that’s fought in the shadows, where there are whispers of strange and mysterious developments. . .

Normal people across the United States have inexplicably gained paranormal abilities. A factory worker can heal the sick and injured. A schoolteacher bends emotions to her will. A car salesman alters matter with a simple touch. A former soldier speaks to the dying and gains their memories as they pass on.

They are the Variants, controlled by a secret government program called MAJESTIC-12 to open a new front in the Cold War.

From the deserts of Nevada to the palaces of Istanbul, the halls of power in Washington to the dark, oppressive streets of Prague, the Variants are thrown into a deadly game of shifting alliances. Amidst the seedy underbelly of nations, these once-ordinary Americans dropped in extraordinary circumstances will struggle to come to terms with their abilities as they fight to carve out a place for themselves in a world that may ultimately turn against them.

And as the MAJESTIC-12 program will soon discover, there are others out there like them, some with far more malevolent goals. . .

Tracey's/Trinitytwo's Point of View

MJ-12: Inception is the first novel in an early Atomic Age, paranormal spy series by Michael J. Martinez, author of the Daedalus series. It opens with a devastating post WWII situation during a routine night patrol in the American sector of Berlin. Only Lieutenant Frank Lodge survives the ambush, but he emerges changed. A few months later in Hiroshima, U.S. Navy Lt. Danny Wallace investigates an anomaly given top secret priority. In the tunnels below the wreckage of a hospital, Wallace discovers a phenomenon of intense white light thought to have a connection with the detonation of the A-bomb. This light is believed by an elite few to be linked to the changes experienced by several unsuspecting Americans. U.S. officials call these people Variants; normal people who have been spontaneously endowed with unique abilities that they are not sure how to control and don't fully understand. President Harry S. Truman green lights a highly classified agenda designed to contain, control, and possibly exploit these metahumans' abilities and, in doing so, Operation Majestic Twelve is born.

The main characters in this story are feared because they possess paranormal powers. It's all too easy to believe that our government would go to great lengths to keep their existence a secret. It's also conceivable that they would immediately try to use them as spies. Martinez brilliantly introduces the U.S. government's first paranormal team, Frank, Cal, Ellis, and Maggie, by revealing their bios via confidential reports, and by narrating in the POVs of the Variants themselves. The story follows them through their military quarantine and training, as they learn to control their abilities and work as a unit. I was fascinated by the psychological impact that becoming a metahuman under the government's influence had on each of the Variants.

Martinez also takes the time to detail some of the social injustices experienced by his diverse cast of characters in this Cold War era tale. I was outraged for Cal, the African American factory worker who is definitely my favorite character. His interactions with the bigoted Ellis alternately made me uncomfortable and frustrated by the lack of justice in the world. Through it all, Cal maintains his compassionate nature and I never stopped rooting for him. Maggie, the school teacher who can manipulate people's emotions, is the most terrifying. Her lack of deep emotional commitment or connection to anyone makes her truly scary. Martinez achieves a perfect balance of delving just deep enough into each character to give the reader a detailed understanding while still leaving a tantalizing amount of information open for exploration in future novels in the MAJESTIC-12 series.

Martinez is truly a gifted writer in that MJ:12 Inception has a distinct and utterly different flavor than his previous series. Although I only know about organizations like the CIA from books, movies and literature, his portrayal of the inner workings of government programs seems authentic. I enjoyed reading the confidential reports written from the perspective of top officials in the CIA. Martinez, a master at genre blending, has created an exciting new series by mixing a pinch of James Bond to a dash of the X-Men and then combining that with a dose of politics and old-fashioned cloak and dagger espionage.

With MJ-12 Inception, Martinez weaves an intense tale of patriotism, Cold War politics, the U.S. spy network, and the nuances of human relationships which I simply couldn't put down.

About Michael

Photo by Anna Martinez

I’m a husband, father and writer living the dream in the Garden State. I’ve spent nearly 20 years as a professional writer and journalist, including stints at The Associated Press and ABCNEWS.com. After telling other people’s stories for the bulk of my career, I’m happy that I can now be telling a few of my own creation. I’m a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and International Thriller Writers.

When not being a husband, parent or writer, I enjoy beer and homebrewing, cooking and eating, the outdoors and travel. If you’re curious about our travels,  my wife does a far better job of describing our adventures, so check out her blog at katrinawoznicki.com.

Website  ~  Twitter @mikemartinez72

Happy Monday and Happy Independence Day to the USA!

There are 5 Debuts this week - from Horror to a Psychological Thriller in an postapocalyptic setting. There is Fantasy - Dark and Contemporary - and literary Speculative Fiction. Something for everyone!

The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone;

Night of the Animals by Bill Broun;

The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis;

The Interminables by Paige Orwin;

and

The Copper Promise (Copper Cat 1) by Jen Williams.





And from previously featured DAC Authors:

Take the Monkey and Run (A Call of the Wilde Mysery 4) by Laura Morrigan;

and

The Waking Fire (The Draconis Memoria 1) by Anthony Ryan.

In new formats:

Unbreakable (Chronicles of Promise Paen 1) by W.C. Bauers is out in Trade Paperback;

The Venusian Gambit (Daedalus 3) by Michael J. Martinez is out in Mass Market Paperback;








July 5, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Flameout	Keri Arthur	UF - A Souls of Fire Novel 3
Unbreakable (h2tp)	W. C. Bauers	SF - Chronicles of Promise Paen 1
Killing Titan (h2tp)	Greg Bear	SF/SO - War Dogs 2
A Toxic Trousseau	Juliet Blackwell	PM - A Witchcraft Mystery 8
Faces (h2mm)	E. C. Blake	F/DF - The Masks of Aygrima 3
The Hatching (D)	Ezekiel Boone	H - The Hatching Series 1
The Best of Bova: Volume 2	Ben Bova	SF - Collection
Night of the Animals (D)	Bill Broun	LF/SpecFic
The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut's Windlass (h2mm)	Jim Butcher	F/SP - The Cinder Spires 1
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (h2tp)	Becky Chambers	SF - Wayfarers 1
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (ri)	D. G. Compton	SF/GenEng/TechTh/Noir
The Dragon Hammer	Tony Daniel	F - Wulf's Saga 1
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection	Gardner Dozois (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties	Neil Gaiman	GN
Roaring Dawn: Macey Book 3 (e)	Colleen Gleason	PNR- The Gardella Vampire Hunters 10
The Traveler	David Golemon	Th/SF - Event Group Thrillers 11
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk (h2tp)	David A. Goodman	SF
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016 Edition	Paula Guran (Ed)	DF/H - Anthology
Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold	Paula Guran (Ed)	F - Anthology
The Black Fox (e)(ri)	H. F. Heard	GO/M
The Great Fog: And Other Weird Tales (e)(ri)	H. F. Heard	H/SF - Collection
The Lost Cavern: And Other Stories of the Fantastic (e)(ri)	H. F. Heard	H/SF - Collection
Doppelgangers (e)(ri)	H. F. Heard	H/M
Murder by Reflection (e)(ri)	H. F. Heard	PsyTh/H
A Taste for Honey (e)(ri)	H. F. Heard	M - Mycroft Holmes Mysteries 1
Reply Paid (e)(ri)	H. F. Heard	M - Mycroft Holmes Mysteries 2
The Notched Hairpin (e)(ri)	H. F. Heard	M - Mycroft Holmes Mysteries 3
The Conclave of Shadow	Alyc Helms	UF - Missy Masters 2
Satan's Lambs (e)(ri)	Lynn S. Hightower	M/Occ - The Lena Padget Mysteries 1
Fortunes of the Dead (e)(ri)	Lynn S. Hightower	M - The Lena Padget Mysteries 2
When Secrets Die (e)(ri)	Lynn S. Hightower	M - The Lena Padget Mysteries 3
In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the Modern Prometheus	Stephen Jone (Ed)	H - Anthology
Until Death We Do Part (e)	Sherrilyn Kenyon	PNR - Dark Hunter Novella
Heroine Complex	Sarah Kuhn	UF/HU/P - Heroine Complex 1
The Harrows of Spring	James Howard Kunstler	LF/Dys - A World Made by Hand Novel 4
Lammas Night (e)(ri)	Katherine Kurtz	Sup/Hist/Occ
The Legacy of Lehr (e)(ri)	Katherine Kurtz	SF/M
St. Patrick's Gargoyle (e)(ri)	Katherine Kurtz	F
The Temple and the Crown (e)(ri)	Katherine Kurtz Deborah Turner Harris	F - Knights Templar 2
The Temple and the Stone (e)(ri)	Katherine Kurtz Deborah Turner Harris	F - Knights Templar 1
Song Of The Shiver Barrens	Glenda Larke	F - Mirage Makers 3
Syndicate's Pawns (e)	Davila LeBlanc	SF/SO- A Tale of the Jinxed Thirteenth 2
Alliance of Equals	Sharon Lee Steve Miller	SF - Liaden Universe 19
The Wolf Road (D)	Beth Lewis	PsyTh/PA/AP/Sus
After Alice (h2tp)	Gregory Maguire	LF
The Last Adventure of Constance Verity	A. Lee Martinez	F - Constance Verity 1
The Venusian Gambit (tp2mm)	Michael J. Martinez	SF - Daedalus 3
The Dinosaur Knights	Victor Milán	F - The Dinosaur Lords 2
The Burning City	Megan Morgan	UF - Siren Song 3
Take the Monkey and Run	Laura Morrigan	PM - A Call of the Wilde Mystery 4
The Interminables (D)	Paige Orwin	CF/SH/UF
Threading the Needle	Joshua Palmatier	F - The Ley 2
The Nethers: Frontiers of Hinterland	M.E. Parker	SF/AP/PA/Dys - Hinterland 2
Departure (h2tp)	A. G. Riddle	SF/TT
The Waking Fire	Anthony Ryan	F - The Draconis Memoria 1
The Transference Engine	Julia Verne St. John	SP/HistF/F
A Death in the House: And Other Stories (e)	Clifford D. Simak	SF - Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak 7
Earth for Inspiration: And Other Stories (e)	Clifford D. Simak	SF - Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak 9
Good Night, Mr. James: And Other Stories (e)	Clifford D. Simak	SF - Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak 8
The High Ground	Melinda Snodgrass	SF - Imperials 1
Billionaire in Wolf's Clothing	Terry Spear	PNR - Billionaire Wolf 1
Half Wolf	Linda Thomas-Sundstrom	PNR
Oath of the Vayuputras	Amish Tripathi	F - Shiva 3
The Devil's Evidence	Simon Kurt Unsworth	M/Cr/H - Devil 2
Wolf in his Heart	N.J. Walters	PNR - Salvation Pack 7
Flag in Exile - Signed Leatherbound Limited Edition	David Weber	SF - Honor Harrington 5
Tempting the Dragon	Karen Whiddon	PNR
The Copper Promise (D)	Jen Williams	F/DF - Copper Cat 1
Panacea	F. Paul Wilson	Th
Underground Airlines	Ben Winters	Th
The Prisoner of Hell Gate	Dana I. Wolff	SupTh/H
The Memory Painter (h2tp)	Gwendolyn Womack	Th
The Cobra War Trilogy	Timothy Zahn	SF - Cobra Omnibus

July 6, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Sic Semper, Sic Semper, Sic Semper: A Tor.Com Original (e)	Douglas F. Warrick	SF/TT

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



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CM - Cozy Mystery
Cr - Crime
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
GB - Genre Bender
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost
GN - Graphic Novel
GO - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
Noir - Noir
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
RR - Regency Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
Z - Zombies

Note: Not all of these genres are represented in the book above.

Bradley Beaulieu (2011) and Rob Ziegler (2011)

The Burning Light
Tor.com, November 1, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 192 pages

Disgraced government operative Colonel Chu is exiled to the flooded relic of New York City. Something called the Light has hit the streets like an epidemic, leavings its users strung out and disconnected from the mind-network humanity relies on. Chu has lost everything she cares about to the Light. She’ll end the threat or die trying.

A former corporate pilot who controlled a thousand ships with her mind, Zola looks like just another Light-junkie living hand to mouth on the edge of society. She’s special though. As much as she needs the Light, the Light needs her too. But, Chu is getting close and Zola can’t hide forever.

A thrilling and all-too believable science fiction novella from the authors of Twelve Kings in Sharakhai and Seed.

C.A. Higgins (2015)

Lightless
The Lightless Trilogy 1
Del Rey, July 26, 2016
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Hardcover and eBook, September 29, 2015

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • With deeply moving human drama, nail-biting suspense—and bold speculation informed by a degree in physics—C. A. Higgins spins a riveting science fiction debut guaranteed to catapult readers beyond their expectations.

Serving aboard the Ananke, an experimental military spacecraft launched by the ruthless organization that rules Earth and its solar system, computer scientist Althea has established an intense emotional bond—not with any of her crewmates, but with the ship’s electronic systems, which speak more deeply to her analytical mind than human feelings do. But when a pair of fugitive terrorists gain access to the Ananke, Althea must draw upon her heart and soul for the strength to defend her beloved ship.

While one of the saboteurs remains at large somewhere on board, his captured partner—the enigmatic Ivan—may prove to be more dangerous. The perversely fascinating criminal whose silver tongue is his most effective weapon has long evaded the authorities’ most relentless surveillance—and kept the truth about his methods and motives well hidden.

As the ship’s systems begin to malfunction and the claustrophobic atmosphere is increasingly poisoned by distrust and suspicion, it falls to Althea to penetrate the prisoner’s layers of intrigue and deception before all is lost. But when the true nature of Ivan’s mission is exposed, it will change Althea forever—if it doesn’t kill her first.

Supernova
The Lightless Trilogy 2
Del Rey,July 26, 2016
Hardcover and eBook, 304 pages

C. A. Higgins’s acclaimed novel Lightless fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. Now the dazzling Supernova heightens the thrills and deepens the haunting exploration of technology and humanity—and the consequences that await when the two intersect.

Once Ananke was an experimental military spacecraft. But a rogue computer virus transformed it—her—into something much more: a fully sentient artificial intelligence, with all the power of a god—and all the unstable emotions of a teenager.

Althea, the ship’s engineer and the last living human aboard, nearly gave her life to save Ananke from dangerous saboteurs, forging a bond as powerful as that between mother and daughter. Now she devotes herself completely to Ananke’s care. But teaching a thinking, feeling machine—perhaps the most dangerous force in the galaxy—to be human proves a monumental challenge. When Ananke decides to seek out Matthew Gale, the terrorist she regards as her father, Althea learns that some bonds are stronger than mortal minds can understand—or control.

Drawn back toward Earth by the quest, Althea and Ananke will find themselves in the thick of a violent revolution led by Matthew’s sister, the charismatic leader Constance, who will stop at nothing to bring down a tyrannical surveillance state. As the currents of past decisions and present desires come into stark collision, a new and fiery future is about to be born.

Mur Lafferty (2013)

Six Wakes
Orbit Books, December 20, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 352 pages

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer --- before they kill again.

It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood.

At least, Marie Shea had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died: from illness once and from injury once.

Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. And Maria wasn't the only one to die recently...

Michael J. Martinez (2013)

MJ-12: Inception
A MAJESTIC-12 Thriller 1
Night Shade Book, September 6, 2016
Hardcover and eBook, 300pages

It is a new world, stunned by the horrors that linger in the aftermath of total war. The United States and Soviet Union are squaring off in a different kind of conflict, one that’s fought in the shadows, where there are whispers of strange and and mysterious developments….

Normal people across the United States have inexplicably gained paranormal abilities. A factory worker can heal the sick and injured. A schoolteacher bends emotions to her will. A car salesman alters matter with a simple touch. And there are even stranger abilities than these, all seemingly stemming from a unique and reality-bending anomaly found in the depths of Hiroshima’s rubble.

Now, the government conspiracy known as MAJESTIC-12 has gathered together these individuals, called Variants. The government will use them if it can…and destroy them if it cannot.

Arianne 'Tex' Thompson (2014)

Dreams of the Eaten
Children of the Drought 3
Solaris, December 27, 2016
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 384 pages

As the funeral cortege draws near, the crows begin to gather...

The stunning conclusion of this extraordinary trilogy.

After trials by fire and thirst, Appaloosa Elim's quest to bring home the body of the crow prince is finally nearing its end.

But the coffin is missing, the funeral party is hopelessly scattered, and the fishmen are hell-bent on revenge. Worse yet, the pilgrimage has disturbed an ancient power – and the earth is crumbling in its grip.

As the ground shakes and the crows gather, the final reckoning promises to unite the living and the dead in a battle for the land itself. One way or another, blood debts will come due, Elim will face his judgment, and the World That Is will be forever changed.

Happy Monday! The sun is out here after a week a rain and there are 4 debuts this week!

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley;

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota 1) by Ada Palmer;

and

The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay.



And from formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Corsair by James L. Cambias is out in Trade Paperback;

The Voodoo Killings (Kincaide Strange 1) by Kristi Charish;

Love is Red (The Nightsong Trilogy 1) by Sophie Jaff is out in Trade Paperback;

The Enceladus Crisis (Daedalus 2) by Michael J. Martinez is out in Mass Market Paperback;

The Vagrant by Peter Newman is out in Hardcover;

and

Binary ((R)evolution 2) by Stephanie Saulter is out in Trade Paperback.








Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels by formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors are highlighted in green.



May 10, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Unburdened	David Annandale	SF - The Horus Heresy
Pyres of Armageddon (h2tp)	David Annandale	SF - Yarrick 2
Corsair: A Science Fiction Novel (h2tp)	James L. Cambias	SF
The Voodoo Killings	Kristi Charish	SF - Kincaide Strange 1
Nemesis Games (h2tp)	James S.A. Corey	SF - The Expanse 5
The World Engine	Ben Counter	SF - Space Marine Battles
Vengeance of the Demons	Rebekah R. Ganiere	PNR - The Society 3
Dark Orbit (h2tp)	Carolyn Ives Gilman	SF/AC
The Pier Falls: And Other Stories	Mark Haddon	LF/MR - Collection
The Stealers' War	Stephen Hunt	F -Far-Called Trilogy 3
The Loney (D)	Andrew Michael Hurley	LF/GO
Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest	Bryan Hurt (Ed)	SF/LF - Anthology
Love Is Red (h2tp)	Sophie Jaff	H/F - The Nightsong Trilogy 1
Mongrels	Stephen Graham Jones	CoA/P/UF
Children of Earth and Sky	Guy Gavriel Kay	HistF
The Wolf in the Attic	Paul Kearney	F
A Whisper of Southern Lights	Tim Lebbon	HistF - The Assassins Series 2
The Corporation Wars: Dissidence	Ken MacLeod	SF - Corporation Wars 1
The Enceladus Crisis (tp2mm)	Michael J. Martinez	SF - Daedalus 2
The Alchemists' Council	Cynthea Masson	F
The Last Phoenix	Graham McNeill	SF - The Horus Heresy Omnibus 2
Secondhand Souls (h2tp)	Christopher Moore	Hu
The Vagrant	Peter Newman	DF
Too Like the Lightning (D)	Ada Palmer	SF - Terra Ignota 1
Binary (h2tp)	Stephanie Saulter	SF - (R)evolution 2
The Mirror Thief (D)	Martin Seay	Hist/M/Vis/Meta
The Potemkin Mosaic	Mark Teppo	SupTh
Central Station	Lavie Tidhar	AP/PA/CyberP
A Head Full of Ghosts (h2tp)	Paul Tremblay	H
Look Who's Back (h2tp)	Timur Vermes	Satire

May 11, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Pigeon Summer: A Tor.Com Original (e)	Brit Mandelo	F

May 13, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Operation Sea Mink (e)	Addison Gunn	SF - Extinction Biome: Invasion 4

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


AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CyberP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tale
FolkT - Folk Tale
FR - Fantasy Romance
GB - Genre Bender
GH - Ghost
GO - Gothic
GoR - Gothic Romance
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
Hu - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
Meta - Metaphysical
MR - Magical Realism
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
Phil - Philosophy
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
PTh - Paranormal Thriller
R - Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SocSci - Social Science
SP - Steampunk
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechnoTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
V - Visionary

Note: not all of these genres are represented in the above releases.

Happy Pi Day and Happy first Monday after Daylight Savings Time starts in the majority of the United States. I'm not a fan of Daylight Savings Time. We spend more months on Daylight Savings Time than Standard Time now. Some of the reasons put forth for this are simply ridiculous and not grounded in reality. I think we should pick a time and just stick to it.  Now back to books.

There are 2 debuts this week:

Snakewood by Adrian Selby;

and

Dissension (An Echo Hunter 367 Novel) by Stacey Berg.


From formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors:

The Machine Awakes (Spider War 2) by  Adam Christopher is out in Trade Paperback;

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins is out in Trade Paperback;

Cursed: A Collection of Coveted Short Stories by Shawntelle Madison;

The Daedalus Incident (Daedalus 1) by Michael J. Martinez is out in Mass Market Paperback;

The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne 3) by Brian Staveley;

and

Running Down A Dream (The Shattered Ones 3) by Minerva Zimmerman.

March 14, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Your Orisons May Be Recorded: A Tor.Com Original (e)	Laurie Penny	F
The Darkest Whisper (e)(ri)	Gena Showalter	PNR - Lords of the Underworld 4

March 15, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim	Brian Michael Bendis Neil Kleid	SH
Dissension (D)	Stacey Berg	SF/AP/PA - An Echo Hunter 367 Novel
Tomorrow War (h2tp)	J. L. Bourne	Tech/Th - Chronicles of Max 1
Progeny of Vale	Rhett C. Bruno	SF - The Circuit 2
The Machine Awakes (h2tp)	Adam Christopher	SF - Spider War 2
Dark Promises	Christine Feehan	PNR - Carpathian/Dark 29
New Blood	Matt Forbeck	SF - HALO
Smoke and Fire: Part 1 (e)	Donna Grant	PNR - Dark Kings
Second Life (h2tp)	Paul Griner	LF/Th
The Phoenix Descent	Chuck Grossart	SF
The Library at Mount Char (h2tp)	Scott Hawkins	CF
Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume 4)	S.T. Joshi (Ed)	H - Anthology
Blood Oath (e)(ri)	William W. Johnstone	H - Satan Influenced 2
Black Creek	Gregory Lamberson	H
Pieces of Hate	Tim Lebbon	HistF - The Assassins Series 1
Thirty Hours with a Corpse: and Other Tales of the Grand Guignol	Maurice Level S. T. Joshi (Ed)	H
Cursed: A Collection of Coveted Short Stories (e)	Shawntelle Madison	PNR - Coveted Collection
The Daedalus Incident (tp2mm)	Michael J. Martinez	SF - Daedalus 1
Fall of the Dragons: The Dragon's Apprentice; The Dragons of Winter; The First Dragon	James A. Owen	HistF - The Age of Dragons
The Two of Swords: Part 14 (e)	K. J. Parker	F
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: 1948-1988 The Man Who Learned Better (h2tp)	William H. Patterson	Biography
Snakewood (D)	Adrian Selby	F
The Last Mortal Bond	Brian Staveley	F - Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne 3
A Man Lies Dreaming	Lavie Tidhar	HistTh/AH
Running Down A Dream	Minerva Zimmerman	UF - The Shattered Ones 3

March 17, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Haunted Heist	Angie Fox	PM - Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries 3
The Stealers' War (e)	Stephen Hunt	F - Far-Called 3

March 18, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Man with No Name	Laird Barron	H - A Nanashi Novella
Operation Wild Tarpan (e)	Addison Gunn	SF/PA - Extinction Biome: Invasion 2

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - editor
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint


AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
F - Fantasy
H - Horror
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
LF - Literary Fiction
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
Tech - Technological
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy