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Happy Last Monday in January! There are 3 debuts this week: Dead Money by Srinath Adiga; Faye, Faraway by Helen Fisher; and Gutter Child by Jael Richardson.

From formerly featured DAC Authors: False Value (Rivers of London 8) by Ben Aaronovitch is out in Mass Market Paperback; We Could be Heroes by Mike Chen; The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez is out in Trade Paperback; The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu is out in Trade Paperback; A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry is out in Trade Paperback; Brother Red by Adrian Selby; The Mask Falling (Bone Season 4) by Samantha Shannon; and Shades of Allegiance (Anomaly 3) by Sandy Williams.

 

 

 

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green. January 26, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
False Value (h2mm)	Ben Aaronovitch	UF - Rivers of London  8
Dead Money (D)	Srinath Adiga	Dys/Th
Stake (h2tp)	Kevin J. Anderson	H
Dealbreaker	L. X. Beckett	SF/AC/CyP - The Bounceback 2
The Queen's Bargain (h2mm)	Anne Bishop	DF/RF - Black Jewels 10
Straight Outta Dodge City (tp2mm)	David Boop (Ed)	DF - Anthology
The Science of Doctor Who: The Scientific Facts Behind the Time Warps and Space Travels of the Doctor	Mark Brake	Science - The Science of
Penric's Progress (h2mm)	Lois McMaster Bujold	F
One Poison Pie	Lynn Cahoon	CM - Kitchen Witch Mysteries 1
The Swallowed Man	Edward Carey	FairyT/FolkT/LM/MR/Hist
We Could Be Heroes	Mike Chen	SH/SF/HU
Faye, Faraway (D)	Helen Fisher	CW/TT
The Spear of Malice	R.S. Ford	F/DF - War of the Archons 3
Empire City	Matt Gallagher	LF
Agency (h2tp)	William Gibson	TechTh/SF/LF - The Jackpot Trilogy 2
The New Improved Sorceress (tp2mm)	Sara Hanover	F - Wayward Mages 2
Pawn's Gambit (Ke)	Rob J. Hayes	F - Mortal Techniques  2
The Vanished Birds (h2tp)	Simon Jimenez	SF/SO/LF
The Only Good Indians (h2tp)	Stephen Graham Jones	H
Breaking Silence (h2mm)	Mercedes Lackey Cody Martin	CF - Serrated Edge 10
The Unspoken Name (h2tp)	A. K. Larkwood	F - Serpent Gates 1
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (h2tp)	Ken Liu	SF - Collection
The One (h2mm)	John Marrs	LF/GenEng/Dys
Doctor Who: All Flesh is Grass: Time Lord Victorious	Una McCormack	SF - Doctor Who
A Tapestry of Treason	Anne O'Brien	His/LF/CW/AH
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (h2tp)	H. G. Parry	HistF/Occ/Sup/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Shadow Histories 1
The Mistress of Illusions (h2mm)	Mike Resnick	F/DF - Dreamscape Trilogy 2
Gutter Child (D)	Jael Richardson	LF
Brother Red	Adrian Selby	DF
The Mask Falling	Samantha Shannon	Dys/CF/UF - Bone Season 4
A Cat on the Case	Clea Simon	PCM - Witch Cats of Cambridge 3
The Expert System's Champion	Adrian Tchaikovsky	SF/GenEng - The Expert System's Brother 2
Mazes of Power (h2tp)	Juliette Wade	SF/AP/PA - The Broken Trust 1
Knight's Ransom	Jeff Wheeler	F/HistF - First Argentines 1
Shades of Allegiance	Sandy Williams	SF/SO - Anomaly 3

January 27, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Shards: A Tor.com Original (e)	Ian Rogers	H

January 28, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise	Miles Booy	HC/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.

Mike Chen (2019) We Could Be Heroes
MIRA, January 26, 2021
Hardcover and eBook, 336 pages

An extraordinary and emotional adventure about unlikely friends and the power of choosing who you want to be.

Jamie woke up in an empty apartment with no memory and only a few clues to his identity, but with the ability to read and erase other people’s memories—a power he uses to hold up banks to buy coffee, cat food and books.

Zoe is also searching for her past, and using her abilities of speed and strength…to deliver fast food. And she’ll occasionally put on a cool suit and beat up bad guys, if she feels like it.

When the archrivals meet in a memory-loss support group, they realize the only way to reveal their hidden pasts might be through each other. As they uncover an ongoing threat, suddenly much more is at stake than their fragile friendship. With countless people at risk, Zoe and Jamie will have to recognize that sometimes being a hero starts with trusting someone else—and yourself.

Adrian Selby (2016) Brother Red
Orbit, January 26, 2021
Trade Paperback and eBook, 512 pages

From one of the most exciting new voices in dark epic fantasy comes an intensely brutal and brilliantly cinematic novel: the story of a soldier torn between loyalty to her family and her quest to preserve a kingdom's future.

She was their hope, their martyr, their brother . . .

Driwna Marghoster, a soldier for the powerful merchant guild known as The Post, is defending her trade caravan from a vicious bandit attack when she discovers a dead body hidden in one of her wagons.

Born of the elusive Oskoro people, the body is a rare and priceless find, the center of a tragic tale and the key to a larger mystery.

But as Driwna investigates who the body was meant for, she finds herself on a trail of deceit and corruption . . . a trail that will lead her to an evil more powerful than she can possibly imagine.

Also by Adrian Selby:
Snakewood
The Winter Road

C. M. Waggoner (2019) The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
Ace, January 12, 2021
Trade Paperback and eBook, 384 pages

Sparks fly in this enchanting fantasy novel from the author of Unnatural Magic when a down-and-out fire witch and a young gentlewoman join forces against a deadly conspiracy.

Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent in the city of Leiscourt—again. Then she sees the “wanted” sign, seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance, prior to the celebration of her Marriage. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins a team of highly peculiar women tasked with protecting their wealthy charge from unknown assassins.

Delly quickly sets her sights on one of her companions, the confident and well-bred Winn Cynallum. The job looks like nothing but romance and easy money until things take a deadly (and undead) turn. With the help of a bird-loving necromancer, a shapeshifting schoolgirl, and an ill-tempered reanimated mouse named Buttons, Delly and Winn are determined to get the best of an adversary who wields a twisted magic and has friends in the highest of places.

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

 

 

 

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 2 debuts this week:

Followers by Megan Angelo;

and

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen;

The Broken Heavens (The Worldbreaker Saga 3) by Kameron Hurley;

and

Bloodchild (The Godblind Trilogy 3) by Anna Stephens.

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

January 13, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Blood Red (e)(ri)	Heather Graham	PNR - Alliance Vampires 8
Chronicles of Elantra Vol 5 (e)	Michelle Sagara	F - The Chronicles of Elantra

January 14, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Followers (D)	Megan Angelo	LF/CW/Dys
The Wrong Heaven (h2tp)	Amy Bonnaffons	SS/HU/LF
The Great Concert of the Night	Jonathan Buckley	Psy/FL/LF
A Beginning at the End	Mike Chen	SF/AP/PA/FL/LF/SF
Just After the Wave	Sandrine Collette Alison Anderson (Tr)	LF/Dys/FL
Archangel Rising	Evan Currie	SF/SO - Archangel One
Hauntings	Edouard Dujardin Brian Stableford (Tr)	Occ
The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man	Rod Duncan	SF/Gaslamp Fantasy - The Map of Unknown Things 3
Hearts of Ice	David Hair	F/HistF - The Sunsurge Quartet  3
The New Improved Sorceress	Sara Hanover	F/Arthurian - The Wayward Mages 2
A Longer Fall	Charlaine Harris	P - Gunnie Rose 2
Null Set (h2tp)	S. L. Huang	SF/TechTh/HU - A Cas Russell Novel 2
Fabulous: Stories (e)	Lucy Hughes-Hallett	SS
Burn the Dark	S. A. Hunt	H/CF -Malus Domestica 1
The Broken Heavens	Kameron Hurley	F/DF/Sagas - The Worldbreaker Saga 3
The Vanished Birds (D)	Simon Jimenez	SF/SO/LF
Zed	Joanna Kavenna	Satire/LF/Dys
Nest of the Monarch (h2tp)	Kay Kenyon	HistF - A Dark Talents Novel 3
The End of the Ocean	Maja Lunde Diane Oatley (Tr)	LF
A Gathering of Ravens (h2tp)	Scott Oden	HistF - Grimnir 1
Night Theater	Vikram Paralkar	LF/Medical/Occ/Sup
Imaginary Museums: Stories	Nicolette Polek	SS/LF/AB/FairyT/FolkT/LM
All Hallows Horror (h2tp)	John Llewellyn Probert Stephen Jones (Creator)	H - The Lovecraft Squad 1
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks	Eric Saward	SF/MTI - Doctor Who
An Incantation of Cats	Clea Simon	PCM - A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery 2
Bloodchild	Anna Stephens	DF - The Godblind Trilogy 3
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir	Anna Wiener	Autobiography/Science/Technology
Golden State (h2tp)	Ben Winters	PolTh/TechTh
John Dies at the End (ri)	David Wong	H/HU/Th

January 15, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Supervillain Reader	Robert Moss Peaslee (Ed) Robert G. Weiner (Ed)	LC/Comics/PopCul

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 - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CL - City Life
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR- Fantasy Romance
GH - Ghost(s)
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
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 - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
RS - Romantic Suspense
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

Happy last Monday in August!

There are 2 debuts this week:

Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff;

and

Steel Frame by Andrew Skinner (Trade Paperback edition).

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


From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen is out in Trade Paperback;

The Queen of Crows (Sacred Throne 2) by Myke Cole is out in Trade Paperback;

Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire (Star Wars) by Delilah S. Dawson;

The Golden Wolf (Golden Wolf Saga 3) by Linnea Hartsuyker;

The Fifth Ward: Good Company (The Fifth Ward 3) by Dale Lucas;

and

Spaceside (Planetside 2) by Michael Mammay.

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

August 27, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Blacksmith Queen	G.A. Aiken	F/ PNR -The Scarred Earth Saga 1
Kill Zone: A High-Tech Thriller	Kevin J. Anderson Doug Beason	TechTh
Restless Lightning (h2mm)	Richard Baker	SF - Breaker of Empires 2
Divine by Mistake (ri)	P. C. Cast	RF - Partholon 1
Divine by Choice (ri)	P. C. Cast	RF - Partholon 2
Divine by Blood (ri)	P. C. Cast	RF - Partholon 3
Elphame's Choice (ri)	P. C. Cast	RF - Partholon 4
Brighid's Quest (ri)	P. C. Cast	RF - Partholon 5
Here and Now and Then (h2tp)	Mike Chen	LF/SF/TT
The Queen of Crows (h2tp)	Myke Cole	F - Sacred Throne 2
Pandemic (h2mm)	Robin Cook	MedTh/Sus
Target Rich Environment (h2mm)	Larry Correia	F - Collection
Last Ones Left Alive (D)	Sarah Davis-Goff	Dys/CoA/SF/AP/PA
Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire	Delilah S. Dawson	SF/SO/MTI - Star Wars
The Golden Wolf	Linnea Hartsuyker	Sagas - Golden Wolf Saga 3
Dune Boxed Set #1	Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson	SF/SO - Dune
Hollywood Dead (h2tp)	Richard Kadrey	UF - Sandman Slim 10
The Fifth Ward: Good Company	Dale Lucas	F - The Fifth Ward 3
Spaceside	Michael Mammay	SF - Planetside 2
The Passengers	John Marrs	TechTh/Sus/SF
The Boughs Withered: When I Told Them My Dreams	Maura McHugh	F - Collection
Supercute Futures	Martin Millar	Dys/HU/DF
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School (tp2mm)	Kim Newman	SupTh/H/F
Alternate Routes (h2mm)	Tim Powers	CF
Oathbringer (h2mm)	Brandon Sanderson	CF - Stormlight Archive 3
Steel Frame (D)	Andrew Skinner	SF
The Witchstone Amulet	Mason Thomas	FR
The Secret Life of Sam Holloway	Rhys Thomas	LF/R/SH/FL
Through Darkest Europe (h2tp)	Harry Turtledove	SF/AH
Soot And Steel: Dark Tales of London	Ian Whates (Ed)	Anthology
Her Majesty's American (tp2mm)	Steve White	SF

August 30, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Joanna Russ	Gwyneth Jones	LC/SF - Modern Masters of Science Fiction

August 31, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Girl on the Porch	Richard T. Chizmar	Th

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
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
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
HistM - Historical Mystery
HL - Hispanic and Latino
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
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
Tech - Technology
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
W - Westerns

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

TQ:  Welcome to The Qwillery. What is the first piece of fiction you remember writing?

Mike:  I drew a lot of my own fan-fic comic strips when i was a kid -- I used to draw a lot and considered going into graphic design in college. When I was about 9 or 10, the one thing I remember using sheets of paper on was a crossover fan-fic between DOS adventure game Space Quest (with intrepid janitor hero Roger Wilco) and the groundbreaking animated series Robotech (specifically, the Sentinels era). I still love both properties dearly, by the way. I even wrote a big piece for Tor about rebooting Robotech without the nasty legal entanglements of the Macross license.



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

Mike:  Probably a hybrid. I do really like the Save the Cat beat sheet and I feel like that really rescued my early issues with structure. At the same time, writing in the moment sparks ideas that previously weren't there. So I keep a loose 3-act structure and then I try to write it out. I feel like it takes about 30k words for me to really get the character voices, and after that, things may get tweaked around so I can better understand their decisions.



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

Mike:  Time is my biggest challenge. I have a day job and a young daughter and other hobbies (which are basically ignored now), and I still enjoy writing for geek media. That all creates a heck of a challenge. At the same time, it's forced me to become a more efficient writer and I've better understood my strengths and weaknesses regarding process.



TQ:  What has influenced / influences your writing?

Mike:  I think the most influential piece of advice I ever got was from my creative writing teacher at UC Davis, Wendy Sheanin. She's now an executive with Simon & Schuster. At the end of the quarter, she asked if I wanted to change majors from mechanical engineering. When I said I wasn't, she told me to “keep writing.” That was obviously a major moment for me, but it's the best advice for any situation. Anytime I hit a problem I can't figure out, I put in a placeholder so I can keep writing; the issue usually resolves itself later organically.



TQ:  Describe Here and Now and Then using only 5 words.

Mike:  Time travel with big feels.



TQ:  Tell us something about Here and Now and Then that is not found in the book description.

Mike:  The book description mentions our present day and 2142 but there's also another time period in the book. When is it? You'll just have to read to find out!



TQ:  What inspired you to write Here and Now and Then? What appeals to you about writing Science Fiction?

Mike:  Sci-fi has been with me my whole life, as evidenced by my childhood fan fics. There's just something about it that gets in my blood (that's an obscure Robotech reference for the sharp-eyed long-time geeks out there). So I always think about it, but at the same time, the stories that draw me in most tend to be character stories within those settings. One of my favorite hours of sci-fi is Lower Decks from Star Trek: The Next Generation, which follows four ensigns in their everyday lives among the Enterprise crew. I love thinking about the reality among the fantastic, that's where I want to tell stories.



TQ:  What sort of research did you do for Here and Now and Then?

Mike:  When planning my future world, I researched historical trends for names and food. I propagated this out to fill out my future world. I also looked at other SFF works and noted what they did to ground their worldbuilding efforts -- little things like methods of communication, impacts of climate change, etc.



TQ:  Please tell us about the cover for Here and Now and Then.

Mike:  The design team was Gigi Lau and Emmanuel Polanco. I couldn't have asked for more inspired work, it's striking and unique and beautiful.



TQ:  In Here and Now and Then who was the easiest character to write and why? The hardest and why?

Mike:  The hardest had to be Miranda, specifically because she's a teenage girl and I am not. My daughter is only four so she doesn't deal with the angst issues of a teen. Making sure that voice worked was a big challenge, and I had friends who write YA and/or have teenage children read early versions to make sure the voice felt authentic.

The easiest probably was Penny. I'd modeled her after actress Jenna Coleman, and I could translate her speaking affect and emotions from what I see on screen to prose probably the smoothest. I felt the same way about Idris Elba as Kin, except since he's the protagonist/POV, capturing his internal processing was more complicated.



TQ:  Does Here and Now and Then touch on any social issues?

Mike:  Not explicitly. However, I put specific intention in my future worldbuilding about portraying the world that I want to see for my daughter and future generations. Part of this is practical extrapolation of how much things can get socially normalized over generations, and part of this is wishful thinking.



TQ:  Which question about Here and Now and Then do you wish someone would ask? Ask it and answer it!

Mike:  What are your favorite Easter Eggs in the story?

There are a lot of Doctor Who Easter Eggs throughout the book -- the names of minor characters, locations, and protocol numbers are riffed off Doctor Who historical tidbits. But I think my favorite Easter Eggs are from the missing TCB agents in Chapter 9. Those names are based on characters/locations from Kat Howard’s books Roses & Rot and An Unkindness Of Magicians. In addition to being an amazing and award-winning writer, Kat helped me with a major revision of this manuscript (note: she’s available for hire and totally worth it) and has been one of the best authors-turned-pals in my support system. She sent me a note about how this moment made her day when she was reading the final manuscript for blurbing, and it was the least I could do to tip my hat her way. She’s simply the best in all ways.



TQ:  Give us one or two of your favorite non-spoilery quotes from Here and Now and Then.

Mike:

“Hope. Of course. What else would a penny be to him?”

This is from the prologue and I think it sums up the entire theme of the book. The story is about holding onto hope while circumstances push and pull into extremes, and in the end, your hope comes down to the core of relationships. The penny is symbolic of that for Kin, both in the past and the future.



TQ:  What's next?

Mike:  My second book, a character-driven post-apocalyptic story titled A BEGINNING AT THE END, is due from Mira Books in January 2020. Six years after a global pandemic, it turns out that the End of the World was more like a big pause. Coming out of quarantine, 2 billion unsure survivors split between big cities, hippie communes, and wasteland gangs. When the father of a presumed-dead pop star announces a global search for his daughter, four lives collide: Krista, a cynical wedding planner; Moira, the ex-pop star in hiding; Rob, a widowed single father; and Sunny, his seven-year-old daughter. As their lives begin to intertwine, reports of a new outbreak send the fragile society into a panic. And when the government enacts new rules in response to the threat, long-buried secrets surface, causing Sunny to run away seeking the truth behind her mother's death. Now, Krista, Rob, and Moira must finally confront the demons of their past in order to hit the road and reunite with Sunny -- before a coastal lockdown puts the world on pause again.

I’ll be talking much more about A BEGINNING AT THE END in coming months. But first things first, we have time travelers to deal with!



TQ:  Thank you for joining us at The Qwillery!

Here and Now and Then
MIRA, January 29, 2019
Hardcover and eBook, 336 pages

To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere—and any-when…

Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.

Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler’s brain. Until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives—eighteen years too late.

Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he’s only been gone weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can’t remember.

Torn between two lives, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself, his daughter’s very existence is at risk. It’ll take one final trip across time to save Miranda—even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.

A uniquely emotional genre-bending debut, Here and Now and Then captures the perfect balance of heart, playfulness, and imagination, offering an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father’s heart and its capacity to stretch across both space and time to protect the people that mean the most.

About Mike

Mike Chen is a lifelong writer, from crafting fan fiction as a child to somehow getting paid for words as an adult. He has contributed to major geek websites (The Mary Sue, The Portalist, Tor) and covered the NHL for mainstream media outlets. A member of SFWA and Codex Writers, Mike lives in the Bay Area, where he can be found playing video games and watching Doctor Who with his wife, daughter, and rescue animals. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram: @mikechenwriter

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Happy Tuesday!

There is one debut this week:

Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky;

Tides of the Titans (Titan's Forest 3) by Thoraiya Dyer;

and

The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith is out in Trade Paperback.

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

January 29, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Dark Lands	Greig Beck	AH/SF - The Valkeryn Chronicles 2
Vigilance	Robert Jackson Bennett	SF/HSF/PolTh
Lake Silence (h2mm)	Anne Bishop	DF/CF/FR - World of the Others 1
Burn Bright (h2mm)	Patricia Briggs	PNR/UF - Alpha and Omega 5
The Wolf in the Whale	Jordanna Max Brodsky	Hist/CulH/F/HistF/CoA/FairyT/FolkT/LM
Witchy Winter (h2mm)	D.J. Butler	HistF - Witchy 2
Here and Now and Then (D)	Mike Chen	LF/FL/SF/TT
The Queen of Sorrow (h2mm)	Sarah Beth Durst	F - Queens of Renthia 3
Tides of the Titans	Thoraiya Dyer	F - Titan's Forest 3
Vengeance Road	Christine Feehan	PNR - Torpedo Ink 2
King of Ashes (tp2mm)	Raymond E. Feist	F - Firemane Saga 1
Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead	Gordon Van Gelder (Ed)	SF/AP/PA/Dys - Anthology
Trouble No Man	Brian Hart	LF
Never Die	Rob J. Hayes	F
Crazy Cupid Love	Amanda Heger	PNR/FR -  Let's Get Mythical 1
The Smoke	Simon Ings	SF/GenEng/LF
Sins of Her Father (h2mm)	Mike Kupari	SF/SO - Privateer Andromeda 2
In the Region of the Summer Stars (h2mm)	Stephen R. Lawhead	F - Eirlandia 1
The Line Between	Tosca Lee	Sus
The Long Sunset (h2mm)	Jack McDevitt	SF - The Academy
Embers of War (tp2mm)	Gareth L. Powell	SF/SO - Embers of War 1
Miracle Workers	Simon Rich	MTI/HU/F
Cast in Oblivion	Michelle Sagara	F - The Chronicles of Elantra 14
Reckoning of Fallen Gods	R. A. Salvatore	F/DF - A Tale of the Coven 2
The Sky Is Yours (h2tp)	Chandler Klang Smith	LF/SF/AP/PA/F
Age of War (h2mm)	Michael J. Sullivan	F/HistF - The Legends of the First Empire 3
Bringers of Hell (h2mm)	Travis S. Taylor	SF - Tau Ceti Agenda 6

January 31, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Barren	Peter V. Brett	DF/F
The Prisoner of Limnos	Lois McMaster Bujold	F

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
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CulH - Cultural Heritage
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)
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
Hu - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
MedTh - Medical Thriller
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
NF - Near Future
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Parnormal Cozy Mystery
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
Sc - Science
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

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

I'm using PollCode for this vote. After you the check the circle next to your favorite, click "Vote" to record your vote. If you'd like to see the real-time results click "View". This will take you to the PollCode site where you may see the results. If you want to come back to The Qwillery click "Back" and you will return to this page. Voting will end sometime on January 31, 2019, unless the vote is extended. If the vote is extended the ending date will be updated.

Vote for your favorite January 2019 Debut Cover!

The Gutter Prayer

Here and Now and Then

The Lost Puzzler

The Post

The Water Cure

 

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Mike Chen

Here and Now and Then
MIRA, January 29, 2019
Hardcover and eBook, 336 pages

To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere—and any-when…

Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.

Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler’s brain. Until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives—eighteen years too late.

Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he’s only been gone weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can’t remember.

Torn between two lives, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself, his daughter’s very existence is at risk. It’ll take one final trip across time to save Miranda—even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.

A uniquely emotional genre-bending debut, Here and Now and Then captures the perfect balance of heart, playfulness, and imagination, offering an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father’s heart and its capacity to stretch across both space and time to protect the people that mean the most.

Gareth Hanrahan

The Gutter Prayer
The Black Iron Legacy 1
Orbit, January 22, 2019
Trade Paperback and eBook, 560 pages

A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy.

Enter a city of saints and thieves . . .

The city of Guerdon stands eternal. A refuge from the war that rages beyond its borders. But in the ancient tunnels deep beneath its streets, a malevolent power has begun to stir.

The fate of the city rests in the hands of three thieves. They alone stand against the coming darkness. As conspiracies unfold and secrets are revealed, their friendship will be tested to the limit. If they fail, all will be lost, and the streets of Guerdon will run with blood.

The Gutter Prayer is an epic tale of sorcerers and thieves, treachery and revenge, from a remarkable new voice in fantasy.

Eyal Kless

The Lost Puzzler
The Tarakan Chronicles 1
Harper Voyager, January 8, 2019
Trade Paperback and eBook, 528 pages

A brilliantly written, page-turning, post-dystopian debut from Eyal Kless, about a society hoping to salvage the technology of a lost generation, a mysterious missing boy who can open doors no one else can, and a scribe who must piece together the past to determine humanity’s future.

More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Those who survived are changed. The Wildeners have reverted to the old ways—but with new Gods—while others place their faith in the technology that once powered their lost civilization.

In the mysterious City of Towers, the center of the destroyed Tarakan empire, a lowly scribe of the Guild of Historians is charged with a dangerous assignment. He must venture into the wilds beyond the glass and steel towers to discover the fate of a child who mysteriously disappeared more than a decade before. Born of a rare breed of marked people, the child, Rafik—known as “The Key”—was one of a special few with the power to restore this lost civilization to glory once again.

In a world riven by fear and violence, where tattooed mutants, manic truckers, warring guilds and greedy mercenaries battle for survival, this one boy may have singlehandedly destroyed humanity’s only chance for salvation—unless the scribe can figure out what happened to him.

Sophie Mackintosh

The Water Cure
Doubleday, January 8, 2019
Hardcover and eBook, 288 pages

“A gripping, sinister fable!”–Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE l The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men

King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. He has lain the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter. Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave. Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world.

But when their father, the only man they’ve ever seen, disappears, they retreat further inward until the day two men and a boy wash ashore. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent. Can they survive the men?

A haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire, The Water Cure both devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.

Kevin A. Muñoz

The Post
Diversion Books, January 15, 2019
Trade Paperback and eBook, 254 pages

Zone One meets Station Eleven in this chilling, post-apocalyptic debut, perfect for fans of The Walking Dead and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Ten years after the world’s oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population, Sam Edison is the chief of police of The Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Those who survived share the world with what are known as hollow-heads: creatures who are no longer fully human.

A man and a pregnant teenager arrive at the gate and are welcomed into the town. They begin to settle in when suddenly both are murdered by an unknown assailant. In the course of investigation, Chief Edison discovers that the girl was fleeing a life of sexual slavery, and that some members of the Atlanta community were complicit in the human trafficking network that had ensnared her.

In retaliation for Edison’s discoveries, agents of the network abduct the stepdaughter of the town’s mayor. Sam Edison and three companions track the kidnappers to Athens, Georgia, where they discover that the entire city is engaged in human trafficking. By the time Edison has recovered the kidnapped girl, the other three rescuers have been killed, leaving Edison alone to bring the mayor’s stepdaughter home. Further complicating their return is Sam’s realization that a prominent member of the community is in truth the ringleader of the slave-trading network. Against such great odds, will Sam ever make it to Little Five alive?