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Happy Monday! There are 3 debuts this week: Nophek Gloss (The Graven 1) by Essa Hansen; Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi; and Eartheater by Dolores Reyes. From formerly featured DAC Authors: Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection by Ben Aaronovtich; and The Burning God (The Poppy War 3) by R. F. Kuang.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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



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

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

For more from RJ Barker, check out:

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

November 3, 2020

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

November 4, 2020

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

November 5, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Aurora	Jo M. Thomas	AH

November 6, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Mr. Cables	Ronald Malfi	H

November 10, 2020

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

November 11, 2020

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

November 13, 2020

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

November 16, 2020

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

November 17, 2020

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

November 18, 2020

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

November 23, 2020

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

November 24, 2020

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

November 30, 2020

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

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



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

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

 

Happy Monday? We are back after a 4 day hiatus. Hope that everyone is okay during these strange times. Keep well!

There is one debut this week:

Red Noise by John P. Murphy.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

ReV (The Machine Dynasty 3) by Madeline Ashby;

When Jackals Storm the Walls (Song of Shattered Sands 5) by Bradley P. Beaulieu;

The Amberlough Dossier: Amberlough, Armistice, Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly (eBook Bundle);

The Dragon Republic (Poppy War 2) by R. F. Kuang is out in Trade Paperback;

The Adventures of Arabella Ashby: Arabella of Mars, Arabella and the Battle of Venus, Arabella The Traitor of Mars by David D. Levine (eBook Bundle);

and

Road Seven by Keith Rosson.

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

July 14, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Jest Right (ri)	Piers Anthony	F/HU - Magic of Xanth 43
ReV: The Machine Dynasty	Madeline Ashby	SF/AP/AP/CyP - The Machine Dynasty 3
When Jackals Storm the Walls	Bradley P. Beaulieu	F - Song of Shattered Sands 5
Unicorn Mountain (ri)	Michael Bishop	SF/AC
Peace Talks	Jim Butcher	UF - Dresden Files 16
The Amberlough Dossier: Amberlough, Armistice, Amnesty (e)	Lara Elena Donnelly	HistF
Final Fantasy XV: The Dawn of the Future	Jun Eishima Final Fantasy XV Team	F/MTI - Final Fantasy XV
The Vessels	Anna M. Elias	SupTh/VM/F - Vessels 1
Queen of Storms	Raymond E. Feist	F - Firemane Saga 2
Silver Ravens	Jane Fletcher	F/MR
His Dark Materials and Philosophy	Richard Greene (Ed) Rachel Robinson-Greene (Ed)	Philosophy - Popular Culture and Philosophy 132
The Only Good Indians	Stephen Graham Jones	H
The Relentless Moon	Mary Robinette Kowal	SF/AH/HSF - Lady Astronaut 3
The Dragon Republic (h2tp)	R. F Kuang	HistF - Poppy War 2
In the Kingdom of All Tomorrows	Stephen R. Lawhead	F/HistF - Eirlandia 3
The Adventures of Arabella Ashby: Arabella of Mars, Arabella and the Battle of Venus, Arabella The Traitor of Mars (e)	David D. Levine	SF/SP
The Passengers (h2tp)	John Marrs	TechTh/Sus/SF
Knaves Over Queens (h2tp)	George R.R. Martin (Ed) Wild Cards Trust	SH/SF - Wild Cards 22
The Dreaming Tree (h2tp)	Matthew Mather	M - Delta Devlin Novels 1
The Storyteller’s Daughter (e)	Victoria McCombs	RF
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing	John Jackson Miller	SF - Star Trek: Discovery 7
Utopia Avenue	David Mitchell	LF/SF/Dys
Gideon the Ninth (h2tp)	Tamsyn Muir	SF/SO/F - The Locked Tomb Trilogy 1
Red Noise (D)	John P. Murphy	SF/SO/AP/PA
At the Lucky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers	Goran Petrović Peter Agnone (Tr)	MR/LF
All Up	J. W. Rinzler	AH
Road Seven	Keith Rosson	MR/LF
Shadows Rising	Madeleine Roux	F - World of Warcraft Shadowlands 3
Best of British Science Fiction 2019	Donna Scott (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Heart of Gold (e)	Sharon Shinn	SF/CyP
Hell Divers VII: Warriors	Nicholas Sansbury Smith	SF/CyP - Hell Divers 7

July 15, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Everything's Fine: A Tor.com Original (e)	Matthew Pridham	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
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
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)
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
LMF - Legends, Myths, Fables
M - Mystery
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
RF - Romantic Fantasy
ScF - Science Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

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.

July 1, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Ones Who Look: A Tor.com Original (e)	Katharine Duckett	SF
Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future	Carter F. Hanson	LC
Scarlet Odyssey (D)	C. T. Rwizi	F/CoA/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Scarlet Odyssey 1

July 2, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The House on Widows Hill	Simon R. Green	SupM - An Ishmael Jones Mystery 9
Dark Harvest	Cat Sparks	SF/PA

July 7, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Aftermath of an Industrial Accident: Stories	Mike Allen	H/DF
The Vanished Seas	Catherine Asaro	SF/SO - Major Bhaajan 3
In the Palace of Shadow and Joy	D. J. Butler	SF/SO
Hollow Kingdom (h2tp)	Kira Jane Buxton	LF/F/HU/SF/AP/PA
Whispers in the Mist	Darcy Coates	H/Occ/Sup/AP/PA/SupTh/Dys - Black Winter 3
The Librarians Trilogy (e)	Greg Cox	F/MTI
Kill Orbit (e)	Joel Dane	SF - Cry Pilot 3
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (e)	Aliette de Bodard	DF/H - Dominion of the Fallen Story
Little Brother & Homeland	Cory Doctorow	SF/CyP
Unconquerable Sun	Kate Elliott	SF/SO - The Sun Chronicles 1
Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air	Jackson Ford	SF/CyP/GenEng/HU - Frost Files 2
The Bright Lands (D)	John Fram	SupTh
At the End of the World	Charles E. Gannon	SF/AP/PA - Black Tide Rising 8
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor	Hank Green	CoA/SF/CF
Titandeath	Guy Haley	SF/SO - Horus Heresy 53
Genetics and the Literary Imagination	Clare Hanson	SF/HC - Oxford Textual Perspectives
The Strawberry Thief	Joanne Harris	LF
The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet	Marc Hartzman	PopCul/Astronomy/Science History
Children of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 3
Heretics of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 5
Chapterhouse: Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 6
God Emperor of Dune (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 4
Dune Messiah (ri)	Frank Herbert	SF - Dune 2
Mephiston: City of Light	Darius Hinks	SF/SE - Warhammer 40,000
Haunted Heroine	Sarah Kuhn	UF/RF/CF - Heroine Complex 4
The Name of All Things (h2tp)	Jenn Lyons	F - Chorus of Dragons 2
Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother	Douglas A. Martin	LF/AH
Where the Veil Is Thin	Cerece Rennie Murphy (Ed) Alana Joli Abbott (Ed)	F - Anthology
Binti: The Complete Trilogy (h2tp)	Nnedi Okorafor	SF/SO/AC
The Need	Helen Phillips	LF/SpecFic
Every Sky a Grave	Jay Posey	SF/SO - The Ascendance 1
Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems	Martin Shaw Tony Hoagland	Poetry
Things From the Flood	Simon Stålenhag	SF/AP/PA
The Book of Dragons: An Anthology	Jonathan Strahan (Ed)	F
Battle Luna	Travis S. Taylor Timothy Zahn Michael Z. Williamson	SF/HSF
Growing Things and Other Stories (h2tp)	Paul Tremblay	Occ/Sup
A Peculiar Peril	Jeff VanderMeer	YA/F/AH - Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead 1
The Beast of Blackmoor (e)	Milla Vane	F/P/PNR
Or What You Will	Jo Walton	CF
Arms of the Ocean (e)	Jamie Webster M. Dalto	F
Red Dust	Yoss David Frye (Tr)	SF - Cuban Science Fiction

July 8, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Necessary Arthur: A Tor.com Original (e)	Garth Nix	ScF

July 14, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Jest Right (ri)	Piers Anthony	F/HU - Magic of Xanth 43
ReV: The Machine Dynasty	Madeline Ashby	SF/AP/AP/CyP - The Machine Dynasty 3
When Jackals Storm the Walls	Bradley P. Beaulieu	F - Song of Shattered Sands 5
Unicorn Mountain (ri)	Michael Bishop	SF/AC
Peace Talks	Jim Butcher	UF - Dresden Files 16
The Amberlough Dossier: Amberlough, Armistice, Amnesty (e)	Lara Elena Donnelly	HistF
Final Fantasy XV: The Dawn of the Future	Jun Eishima Final Fantasy XV Team	F/MTI - Final Fantasy XV
The Vessels	Anna M. Elias	SupTh/VM/F - Vessels 1
Queen of Storms	Raymond E. Feist	F - Firemane Saga 2
Silver Ravens	Jane Fletcher	F/MR
His Dark Materials and Philosophy	Richard Greene (Ed) Rachel Robinson-Greene (Ed)	Philosophy - Popular Culture and Philosophy 132
The Only Good Indians	Stephen Graham Jones	H
The Relentless Moon	Mary Robinette Kowal	SF/AH/HSF - Lady Astronaut 3
The Dragon Republic (h2tp)	R. F Kuang	HistF - Poppy War 2
In the Kingdom of All Tomorrows	Stephen R. Lawhead	F/HistF - Eirlandia 3
The Adventures of Arabella Ashby: Arabella of Mars, Arabella and the Battle of Venus, Arabella The Traitor of Mars (e)	David D. Levine	SF/SP
The Passengers (h2tp)	John Marrs	TechTh/Sus/SF
The Dreaming Tree (h2tp)	Matthew Mather	M - Delta Devlin Novels 1
The Storyteller’s Daughter (e)	Victoria McCombs	RF
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing	John Jackson Miller	SF - Star Trek: Discovery 7
Utopia Avenue	David Mitchell	LF/SF/Dys
Gideon the Ninth (h2tp)	Tamsyn Muir	SF/SO/F - The Locked Tomb Trilogy 1
Red Noise (D)	John P. Murphy	SF/SO/AP/PA
At the Lucky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers	Goran Petrović Peter Agnone (Tr)	MR/LF
All Up	J. W. Rinzler	AH
Just Make Believe	Maggie Robinson	PCM - Lady Adelaide Mysteries 3
Road Seven	Keith Rosson	MR/LF
Shadows Rising	Madeleine Roux	F - World of Warcraft Shadowlands 3
Best of British Science Fiction 2019	Donna Scott (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Heart of Gold (e)	Sharon Shinn	SF/CyP
Hell Divers VII: Warriors	Nicholas Sansbury Smith	SF/CyP - Hell Divers 7
Knaves Over Queens (h2tp)	Wild Cards Trust	SH/SF - Wild Cards 22

July 15, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Everything's Fine: A Tor.com Original (e)	Matthew Pridham	SF

July 20, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
All the Dead Men	Errick Nunnally	H - Alexander Smith 2

July 21, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Saturnine	Dan Abnett	SF/SO - The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra 4
MEG: Generations	Steve Alten	SupTh/SF - Meg 6
Uranus	Ben Bova	SF/HSF/AC - Outer Planets Trilogy 1
Alpha Omega	Nicholas Bowling	SF/TechTh/H
The Killing Light (h2tp)	Myke Cole	F - Sacred Throne  3
Fearful Symmetries (e)(ri)	Ellen Datlow (Ed)	H - Anthology
John Landis Presents The Library of Horror Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors that Should Never Be Opened	DK	H - The Library of Horror
The Pull of the Stars	Emma Donoghue	Hist/Dys
Axiom's End (D)	Lindsay Ellis	SF/AC/Th
The Year of the Witching (D)	Alexis Henderson	H/Occ/Sup/DF
A Summoning of Souls	Leanna Renee Hieber	GH/Gaslamp - A Spectral City Novel 3
I Come with Knives	S. A. Hunt	H/CF - Malus Domestica 2
Trouble the Saints	Alaya Dawn Johnson	HistF/LF
Darkdawn (h2tp)	Jay Kristoff	F - The Nevernight Chronicle 3
Inch by Inch (h2tp)	Morgan Llywelyn	SF/AP/PA - Step by Step 2
Malorie: A Bird Box Novel	Josh Malerman	Sus/H/SF/AP/PA - Bird Box 2
Quantum Shadows	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	SF
Restoration	Angela Slatter	UF - Verity Fassbinder 3
Vigil	Angela Slatter	UF - Verity Fassbinder 1
The Rightful Queen	Isabelle Steiger	F - Paths of Lantistyne 2
Annihilation Aria	Michael R. Underwood	SF/SO - Space Operas 1
The Sin in the Steel (D)	Ryan Van Loan	F - The Fall of the Gods 1
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy	Ann VanderMeer(Ed) Jeff VanderMeer (Ed)	F - Anthology
A Touch of Stone and Snow	Milla Vane	FR/F/PNR - A Gathering of Dragons 2
Mean Machine	Aleksandr Voinov	Dys
Savage Legion	Matt Wallace	F - Savage Rebellion 1
South of the Buttonwood Tree	Heather Webber	CW/MR/STR
Ashes of the Sun	Django Wexler	F - Burningblade & Silvereye 1

July 23, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Chimera Code (e)	Wayne Santos	SF - Witchware 1

July 27, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
House of the Rising Sun	Richard Cox	SF/AP/PA
The Best of Greg Egan: 20 Stories of Hard Science Fiction	Greg Egan	SF/HSF

July 28, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Doctor Who: Pirate Planet	Douglas Adams James Goss	SF - Doctor Who
The Technician (tp2mm)>	Neal Asher	SF/SO - Polity 4
The Butterfly Lampshade	Aimee Bender	LF/MR/FL
Afterland	Lauren Beukes	Sus/Dys
The Baron of Magister Valley	Steven Brust	F - Dragaera 4
Reaping Willow (e)	Boone Brux	UF - Grim Reality 4
Lies of Descent (h2mm)	Troy Carrol Bucher	F/DF - Fallen Gods' War 1
My Enemy's Enemy (tp2mm)	Robert Buettner	SF
Kushiel's Chosen (ri)	Jacqueline Carey	RF/F - Kushiel's Legacy 2
The Perfect Wife (h2tp)	JP Delaney	Sus/Psy/GenEng
Empire of Wild (D - US)	Cherie Dimaline	Native American & Aboriginal/STR/SupTh
William Shakespeare's The Merry Rise of Skywalker: Star Wars Part the Ninth	Ian Doescher	SF/SO - William Shakespeare's Star Wars 9
Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror	Mark Gatiss	SF - Doctor Who
The Imago Stage	Karoline Georges Rhonda Mullins (Tr)	LF/Dys/FL
Spells for the Dead	Faith Hunter	UF - Soulwood 5
A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (h2tp)	John Hornor Jacobs	H
Flyaway	Kathleen Jennings	CF/DF/Gothic
At Death's Door (hmm)	Sherrilyn Kenyon	HistF/FR/PNR - Deadman's Cross 3
Cold Storage (h2mm)	David Koepp	Sus
Kinsman's Oath (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - The Kinsman  2
Prince of Shadows (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - Val Cache 3
The Forest Lord (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - Fane 1
Star-Crossed (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	SF
Prince of Dreams (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - Val Cache 2
Prince of Wolves (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR - Val Cache 1
Twice a Hero (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR
Body & Soul (e)(ri)	Susan Krinard	PNR
Kin	Snorri Kristjansson	Cr/Hist/HistTh - Helga Finnsdottir Mysteries 1
Crossings (D)	Alex Landragin	LF/MR
Sabella (ri)	Tanith Lee	SF/SO
Bound by Shadows (ri)	Kathy Lyons	PNR - Grizzlies Gone Wild  1
The Dawn of a Nazi Moon	Douglas MacKinnon	SF - Dawn of the Nazi Moon 1
Tyger Burning (tp2mm)	T. C. McCarthy	SF
The Five Books of (Robert) Moses	Arthur Nersesian	AH/LF/AB/Sagas
Chaos Vector	Megan E. O'Keefe	SF/SO/SE/GenEng- Protectorate 2
The Memory Police (h2tp)	Yoko Ogawa Stephen Snyder (Tr)	LF/SF/Dys
River of Night (h2mm)	John Ringo Mike Massa	SF/AP/PA - Black Tide Rising 8
Deal with the Devil (h2tp)	Kit Rocha	SF/SFR - Mercenary Librarians 1
Demon in White	Christopher Ruocchio	SF/SO/HSF/AC - Sun Eater 3
Relentless: A Drizzt Novel	R. A. Salvatore	F - Generations  3
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (h2mm)	Brandon Sanderson	SF - Collection
Doctor Who: Dalek	Robert Shearman	SF - Doctor Who
Automatic Reload	Ferrett Steinmetz	SF/CyP/HSF
Privateer (h2mm)	Margaret Weis Robert Krammes	F - The Dragon Corsairs 2
The Worst of All Possible Worlds	Alex White	SF/GenEng/SO - Salvagers 3
Doctor Who: The Witchfinders	Joy Wilkinson	SF - Doctor Who
Master of the World (tp2mm)	Edward Willett	F - Worldshapers 2

July 31, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Gray Matters (D)	John Webster Gastil	SF/CyP/Medical/PolTh
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3	William Schafer (Ed)	DF - Anthology

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



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
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)
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
LMF - Legends, Myths, Fables
M - Mystery
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
RF - Romantic Fantasy
ScF - Science Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

Happy first Monday in August!

There are two debuts this week:

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton;

and

Blood of an Exile (Dragons of Terra 1) by Brian Naslund.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Magebane (Age of Dread 3 ) by Stephen Aryan;

The Great Faerie Strike by Spencer Ellsworth;

The Dragon Republic (Poppy War 2) by R. F. Kuang;

and

The Darwin Strain (An R. J. MacCready Novel 3) by Bill Schutt and J. R. Finch.

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

August 5, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Marked Prince (e)	M.A. Grant	DF - The Darkest Court 2
The Desert Raven (e)	Peggy A. Wheeler	PM

August 6, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Magebane	Stephen Aryan	F - Age of Dread 3
Xeelee: Redemption	Stephen Baxter	SF/SO/AC
Vallista (h2tp)	Steven Brust	F - Vlad 15
Witchy Kingdom	D.J. Butler	HistF
Hollow Kingdom (D)	Kira Jane Buxton	Animals/LF/F/HU/SF/AP/PA
The New Achilles	Christian Cameron	Hist - Commander
Reticence	Gail Carriger	Gaslamp/HistF/RF/P - Custard Protocol 4
Monster Hunter Guardian	Larry Correia Sarah A. Hoyt	UF - Monster Hunter 7
The Gossamer Mage	Julie E. Czerneda	F/DF
Cry Pilot	Joel Dane	SF - Cry Pilot 1
Hour of the Horde (ri)	Gordon R. Dickson	SF
Bone Driven	Hailey Edwards	UF - Foundling 2
The Great Faerie Strike	Spencer Ellsworth	FairyT/SP/F
Dark Sentinel (h2mm)	Christine Feehan	PNR - Carpathian 32
Bursts of Fire	Susan Forest	F - Addicted to Heaven 1
The Horus Heresy: The Burden of Loyalty	Laurie Goulding (Ed)	SF - Horus Heresy 48
Serpentine (h2mm)	Laurell K. Hamilton	P/UF/H - Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 26
Raging Storm	Markus Heitz	F
The Orion Trilogy	Darius Hinks	F - Warhammer Chronicles
The Man Who Wouldn't Die	A. B. Jewell	M/Neo-Noir
Clash of Empires	Ben Kane	Hist - Clash of Empires 2
Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation	Tom Kratman (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Dragon Republic	R. F. Kuang	HistF - Poppy War 2
Sing Your Sadness Deep	Laura Mauro	DF/SS
Blood of an Exile (D)	Brian Naslund	F - Dragons of Terra 1
The Spirit	Thomas Page	Occ/UF - Paperbacks from Hell
The Shattered Trident	Richard Phillips	F - Endarian Prophecy 4
First Cosmic Velocity	Zach Powers	LF/Hist/AH
The Hotel Neversink	Adam O'Fallon Price	FL/Jewish
The Darwin Strain	Bill Schutt J. R. Finch	Th - An R. J. MacCready Novel 3
Kingmaker	Margaret Weis Robert Krammes	F/SP - The Dragon Corsairs 3
Worldshaper (tp2mm)	Edward Willett	F - Worldshapers 1
The Ember Blade (h2tp)	Chris Wooding	F - The Darkwater Legacy 1

August 8, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist	Oronzo Cilli	HC

August 9, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Monkey Farm (e)	S.A. Check	Occ/GenEng/H

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



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 Romance
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.

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 2018 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.

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All the Ever Afters

Armed In Her Fashion

The Dead House

Exit Strategy

Freyja's Daughter

The Honey Farm

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The Poppy War

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

R.F.:  I wrote a novel in fifth grade called Liberty or Death about the American Revolution. It was about a freedom fighter named Patrick Dawson whose best friend die sin the Boston Massacre, and it is really, really bad. There’s a scene where he takes this girl Hannah on a date, winks at her, and says something like “I don’t drink on dates.” The whole point of alcohol is drinking on dates.



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

R.F.:  I used to be a pantser, realized that that does not work for trilogies or for long complicated military campaigns, and now I’m a hybrid. I only let myself writes scenes that I’m really feelin’, like emotionally, on a given day. So I always write the emotional “peaks” first–the cool scenes where things blow up and people die–and then try to make everything else fit around them. I write horrifically messy firsts drafts and it’s always a challenge making them internally coherent. But if I did it the other way, my prose would be lifeless.



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

R.F.:  Balancing writing with schoolwork. I’m in the middle of finishing my senior thesis. There are not enough hours in the day. And it’s only going to get worse because I’m about to head off to grad school, so RIP my soul. Pray for me.



TQ:  What has influenced / influences your writing?

R.F.:  Music! I write scenes by putting on songs and directing little music videos in my head. If I don’t know the right vibe for a scene I’ll play around with different songs until I start seeing the right images.



TQ:  Describe The Poppy War in 140 characters or less.

R.F.:  everything was good until the fire nation attacked. wait. we are the fire nation. where is drug man? Rin no. Rin YES!



TQ:  Tell us something about The Poppy War that is not found in the book description.

R.F.:  The second half of the book gets really dark. Uncomfortable dark. You can find content warnings on my Goodreads review and just about every other SFF review site. Here they are just in case!
      -      Self-harm
      -      Genocide
      -      Graphic violence
      -      Rape/sexual assault
      -      Emotional and physical abuse
      -      Drug use
Please read with discretion.



TQ:  What inspired you to write The Poppy War? What appeals to you about writing Historical Fantasy?

R.F.:  The book is inspired by 20th century Chinese history, specifically the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Rape of Nanjing. This isn’t historical fantasy, it’s secondary world fantasy with historical roots.



TQ:  What sort of research did you do for The Poppy War?

R.F.:  I researched it like I would an academic paper. I read a bunch of secondary source material on both the twentieth century and the Song Dynasty to form a framework for the plot. Then to make the world feel fully realized, I consulted primary source material, like military manuals. I got really excited about one text in particular: the Huolongjing, translated as the Fire Drake Manual, which is this amazing 14th century military treatise on all the different possible uses of gunpowder. Granted, that’s a few hundred years after the period that The Poppy War is purportedly set in, but this is fantasy. I’ll blur the lines if it means I get to give my characters fire lances.



TQ:  Please tell us about the cover for The Poppy War.

R.F.:  I’m so excited about the cover! The artist is a Taiwanese illustrator named who goes by JungShan, and she’s extraordinarily talented. I love her ink brush style so much. Here’s the link to her Deviantart! https://jungshan.deviantart.com/



TQ:  In The Poppy War who was the easiest character to write and why? The hardest and why?

R.F.:  Jiang was the easiest because he’s so much fun, and because I know things about him that you don’t so it’s always a game of how much I want to reveal. Altan was the hardest, because he’s modeled on an ex-boyfriend, so I kept wanting to punch him in the face. Fuck Altan.



TQ:  Which question about The Poppy War do you wish someone would ask? Ask it and answer it!

R.F.:

Question: Which two characters do you ship hardest?
Answer: Jiang and Jun. No question.



TQ:  Give us one or two of your favorite non-spoilery quotes from The Poppy War.

R.F.:  I’ll give you two related quotes:

“You can’t kill me,” Altan hissed. “You love me.”
“I don’t love you,” Rin said. “And I can kill anything.”



TQ:  What's next?

R.F.:  Next up is Untitled Book Two. And then Untitled Book Three! And then unnamed projects that haven’t sold because I haven’t written them! It’s all very mysterious.



TQ:  Thank you for joining us at The Qwillery.

R.F.:  Thank you for having me!

The Poppy War
Harper Voyager, May 1, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 544 pages

A "Best of May" Science Fiction and Fantasy pick by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible, The Verge, SyFy Wire, and Kirkus

“I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year [...] I have absolutely no doubt that [Kuang’s] name will be up there with the likes of Robin Hobb and N.K. Jemisin.” -- Booknest

A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy.

When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . .
.
Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.

About the Author

R.F. Kuang studies modern Chinese history. She has a BA from Georgetown University and is currently a graduate student in the United Kingdom on a Marshall Scholarship. The Poppy War is her debut novel.








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Melissa Broder

The Pisces
Hogarth, May 1, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 288 pages

“Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic – there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.” —Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter 

Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety — not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound’s easy affection.

Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucy’s understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love, lust, and meaning in the one life we have.

Julia Fine

What Should Be Wild
Harper, May 8, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 368 pages

“Delightful and darkly magical. Julia Fine has written a beautiful modern myth, a coming-of-age story for a girl with a worrisome power over life and death. I loved it.”  —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry

In this darkly funny, striking debut, a highly unusual young woman must venture into the woods at the edge of her home to remove a curse that has plagued the women in her family for millennia—an utterly original novel with all the mesmerizing power of The Tiger’s Wife, The Snow Child, and Swamplandia!

Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family’s manor at the edge of a mysterious forest. Maisie’s father, an anthropologist who sees her as more experiment than daughter, has warned Maisie not to venture into the wood. Locals talk of men disappearing within, emerging with addled minds and strange stories. What he does not tell Maisie is that for over a millennium her female ancestors have also vanished into the wood, never to emerge—for she is descended from a long line of cursed women.

But one day Maisie’s father disappears, and Maisie must venture beyond the walls of her carefully constructed life to find him. Away from her home and the wood for the very first time, she encounters a strange world filled with wonder and deception. Yet the farther she strays, the more the wood calls her home. For only there can Maisie finally reckon with her power and come to understand the wildest parts of herself.

Kate Heartfield

Armed in Her Fashion
ChiZine Publications, May 22, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 352 pages

In 1328, Bruges is under siege by the Chatelaine of Hell and her army of chimeras―humans mixed with animals or armour, forged in the deep fires of the Hellbeast. At night, revenants crawl over the walls and bring plague and grief to this city of widows.

Margriet de Vos learns she’s a widow herself when her good-for-nothing husband comes home dead from the war. He didn’t come back for her. The revenant who was her husband pulls a secret treasure of coins and weapons from under his floorboards and goes back through the mouth of the beast called Hell.

Margriet killed her first soldier when she was 11. She’s buried six of her seven children. She’ll do anything for her daughter, even if it means raiding Hell itself to get her inheritance back.

Margriet’s daughter is haunted by a dead husband of her own, and blessed, or cursed, with an enchanted distaff that allows her to control the revenants and see the future. Together with a transgender man-at-arms who has unfinished business with the Chatelaine, a traumatized widow with a giant waterpowered forgehammer at her disposal, and a wealthy alderman’s wife who escapes Bruges with her children, Margriet and Beatrix forge a raiding party like Hell has never seen.

R. F. Kuang

The Poppy War
Harper Voyager, May 1, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 544 pages

“I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year [...] I have absolutely no doubt that [Kuang’s] name will be up there with the likes of Robin Hobb and N.K. Jemisin.” -- Booknest

A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy.

When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . .
.
Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.

Harriet Alida Lye

The Honey Farm
Liveright, May 29, 2018
Hardcover snd eBook, 336 pages

Lily King meets Patricia Highsmith in this slyly seductive debut set on an eerily beautiful farm teeming with secrets.

The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia knows how to breathe life back into her farm: offer it as an artists’ colony with free room, board, and “life experience” in exchange for backbreaking labor. Silvia, a wide-eyed graduate and would-be poet, and Ibrahim, a painter distracted by constant inspiration, are drawn to Cynthia’s offer, and soon, to each other.

But something lies beneath the surface. The Edenic farm is plagued by events that strike Silvia as ominous: taps run red, scalps itch with lice, frogs swarm the pond. One by one, the other residents leave. As summer tenses into autumn, Cynthia’s shadowed past is revealed and Silvia becomes increasingly paralyzed by doubt. Building to a shocking conclusion, The Honey Farm announces the arrival of a bold new voice and offers a thrilling portrait of creation and possession in the natural world.

Bethany C. Morrow

MEM
The Unnamed Press, May 22, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 192 pages

MEM is a rare novel, a small book carrying very big ideas, the kind of story that stays with you long after you’ve finished reading it.

Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete.

The Mems exist as mirror-images of their source — zombie-like creatures destined to experience that singular memory over and over, until they expire in the cavernous Vault where they are kept. And then there is Dolores Extract #1, the first Mem capable of creating her own memories. An ageless beauty shrouded in mystery, she is allowed to live on her own, and create her own existence, until one day she is summoned back to the Vault.

What happens next is a gorgeously rendered, heart-breaking novel in the vein of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Debut novelist Bethany Morrow has created an allegory for our own time, exploring profound questions of ownership, and how they relate to identity, memory and history, all in the shadows of Montreal’s now forgotten slave trade.

Jen Neale

Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
ECW Press, May 8, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 288 pates

A startling, moving magic realist debut

Almost immediately upon Julie Bird’s return to the small port town where she was raised, everyday life is turned upside down. Julie’s Gulf War vet father, Marty, has been on the losing side of a battle with PTSD for too long. A day of boating takes a dramatic turn when a majestic blue whale beaches itself and dies. A blond stranger sets up camp oceanside: she’s an agitator, musician-impersonator, and armchair philosopher named Jennie Lee Lewis — and Julie discovers she’s connected to her father’s mysterious trip to New Mexico 25 years earlier. As the blue whale decays on the beach, more wildlife turns up dead — apparently by suicide — echoing Marty’s deepest desire. But Julie isn’t ready for a world without her father.

A stunning exploration of love and grief, Land Mammals and Sea Creatures is magic realism on the seaside, a novel about living life to the fullest and coming to your own terms with its end.

Billy O'Callaghan

The Dead House
Arcade Publishing, May 1, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 244 pages

Sometimes the past endures—and sometimes it never lets go.
 
This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she’s healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit. On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff side, she spies the shell of a cottage that dates back to Great Famine and decides to buy it. When work on the house is done, she invites her dealer to come for the weekend to celebrate along with a couple of women friends, one of whom will become his wife. On the boozy last night, the other friend pulls out an Ouija board. What sinister thing they summon, once invited, will never go. 

Ireland is a country haunted by its past. In Billy O'Callaghan's hands, its terrible beauty becomes a force of inescapable horror that reaches far back in time, before the Famine, before Christianity, to a pagan place where nature and superstition are bound in an endless knot.

Charlton Pettus

Exit Strategy
Hanover Square Press, May 1, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 400 pages

Sometimes you just need to escape. For crooked politicians, military brass from third-world nations, and white-collar criminals looking to avoid either prison or a deadlier form of payback, there’s Exit Strategy. With just one call, Exit Strategy helps these wealthy-but-wanted types disappear completely. They can fake your death, give you a new name and face, and launder whatever ill-gotten funds you need to establish a new life on the other side of the world.

When Jordan Parrish, the brilliant founder of a medical technology start-up, made the call, he thought he had no other way out. With his marriage in shambles and his company on the brink of financial ruin, it seemed the only way to make things right. But after his exit, he began to wonder about the circumstances that led him to make that momentous decision: was someone, in fact, working against him? To find out, Jordan will have to break the cardinal rule of Exit Strategy: you can never, ever go back.

Charlton Pettus’s Exit Strategy is a cutting-edge, globe-trotting thriller about the type of shadowy organization that most of us have long suspected exists behind the scenes.

Rachel Pudelek

Freyja's Daughter
Wild Women 1
City Owl Press, May 22, 2018
eBook, 328 pages

Meet Faline. Bounty-Hunter. Huldra. Wild Woman.

Well behaved women seldom make history, but they still end up as the monsters of folklore.

Faline Frey is a bounty-hunter, more comfortable relying on perp files and handcuffs than using her huldra powers to take down a suspect. No sense in catching the unwanted attention of her local Hunter authority, a group of holy soldiers born to police the supernatural and keep Wild Women--huldras, mermaids, succubae, rusalki and harpies--in check.

All that changes the night she heads out for a date, hoping to get lucky. Instead, she gets screwed.

Now her sister is missing, along with Wild Women from all over the country. The Hunters are on her tail and the one person offering to help is her ex-lover, Officer David Garcia, who has just enough ties to the supernatural world. To unite her enemies against their common foe, Faline will need to convince the Wild Women to do the one thing she fears most--exhume their power buried deep beneath centuries of oppression. That is, if she can keep them from killing each other.

Danielle Teller

All the Ever Afters
  The Untold Story of Cinderella's Steppmother
William Morrow, May 22, 2018
Hardcover and eBook, 384 pages

Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella’s "evil" stepmother.
We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we?
As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. . . .

A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated from her family and forced into servitude as a laundress’s apprentice when she is only ten years old. Using her wits and ingenuity, she escapes her tyrannical matron and makes her way toward a hopeful future. When teenaged Agnes is seduced by an older man and becomes pregnant, she is transformed by love for her child. Once again left penniless, Agnes has no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind. Her new position is nursemaid to Ella, an otherworldly infant. She struggles to love the child who in time becomes her stepdaughter and, eventually, the celebrated princess who embodies everyone’s unattainable fantasies. The story of their relationship reveals that nothing is what it seems, that beauty is not always desirable, and that love can take on many guises.

Lyrically told, emotionally evocative, and brilliantly perceptive, All the Ever Afters explores the hidden complexities that lie beneath classic tales of good and evil, all the while showing us that how we confront adversity reveals a more profound, and ultimately more important, truth than the ideal of "happily ever after."

Tyler Whitesides

The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn
Kingdom of Grit 1
Orbit, May 15, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 784 pages
(Adult Debut)

The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn is the first in an action-packed epic fantasy series featuring master con artist Ardor Benn.

Ardor Benn is no ordinary thief. Rakish, ambitious, and master of wildly complex heists, he styles himself a Ruse Artist Extraordinaire.

When a priest hires him for the most daring ruse yet, Ardor knows he’ll need more than quick wit and sleight of hand. Assembling a dream team of forgers, disguisers, schemers, and thieves, he sets out to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known.

But it soon becomes clear there’s more at stake than fame and glory – Ard and his team might just be the last hope for human civilization.

Happy Monday!

There are 4 debuts this week:

The Pisces by Melissa Broder;

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang;

The Dead House by Billy O'Callaghan;

and

Exit Strategy by Charlton Pettus.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

A Baby's Bones by Rebecca Alexander;

Talon of Scorpio (Shadowstorm 3) by G.T. Almasi;

Every Single Secret by Emily Carpenter;

Tyrant's Throne (The Greatcoats 4) by Sebastien de Castell is out in Trade Paperback;

The Amiestrin Gambit (King's Daughter 1) by J. Kathleen Cheney;

The Glory of the Empress (Admiral 3) by Sean Danker;

The Summer Dragon (Evertide 1) by Todd Lockwood is out in Mass Market Paperback;

Only Human (The Themis Files 3) by Sylvain Neuvel;

and

D'Arc (War with No Name 2) by Robert Repino is out in Trade Paperback.

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

April 30, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
At Blade's Edge (e)(ri)	Lauren Dane	PNR - Goddess with a Blade 4
Goddess with a Blade Collection Volume 1: Goddess with a Blade\Blade to the Keep\Blade on the Hunt\At Blade's Edge (e)	Lauren Dane	PNR - Goddess with a Blade
April in Atlantis (e)	Alyssa Day	PNR
Phoresis	Greg Egan	HSF
The Halloween Children	Brian James Freeman Norman Prentiss	H
Ghost Night (e)(ri)	Heather Graham	Th/GH - Bone Island Trilogy 3
Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja's Library!	Hans-Åke Lilja (Ed)	H - Anthology
I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land	Connie Willis	VisM/SF

May 1, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
S.T.A.R. Labs: Cisco Ramon's Journal	Nick Aires	MTI/CF
A Baby's Bones	Rebecca Alexander	Cr - Sage Westfield 1
Talon of Scorpio (e)	G. T. Almasi	SF/GenEng/Th - Shadowstorm 3
Uncharted	Kevin J. Anderson Sarah A. Hoyt	AH/HistF - Arcane America 1
The Military Science of Star Wars	George Beahm	SF/Performing Arts
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	SF/Dys
Dragon Road	Joseph Brassey	SciFan/SO - Drifting Lands
The Pisces (D)	Melissa Broder	LF/Psy/HU
Tiassa	Steven Brust	F - Vlad 13
Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction	Bill Campbell (Ed) Francesco Verso (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Every Single Secret	Emily Carpenter	Th/Sus
Tyrant's Throne (h2tp)	Sebastien de Castell	HistF - The Greatcoats 4
The Amiestrin Gambit (e)	J. Kathleen Cheney	F - King's Daughter 1
Diary of a Drug Fiend and Other Works by Aleister Crowley	Aleister Crowley	Occ/Sup
Wolf Undaunted (e)	Shannon Curtis	PNR
Harlequin Nocturne May 2018 Box Set: Wolf Undaunted\Witch's Fury (e)	Shannon Curtis Deborah LeBlanc	PNR
The Glory of the Empress (e)	Sean Danker	SF/SO - Admiral 3
Medusa Uploaded	Emily Devenport	SF/GenEng/Th - The Medusa Cycle 1
Miss Subways	David Duchovny	LF/UF/FairyT/FolkT/LM
Reborn	Lance Erlick	SF - Android Chronicles 1
Shotguns & Sorcery Omnibus	Matt Forbeck	F
The Story Peddler	Lindsay A. Franklin	F - The Weaver Trilogy 1
Dead But Once	Auston Habershaw	DF - Saga of the Redeemed 3
Pale Guardian: A Vampire Mystery (h2tp)	Barbara Hambly	H/M - A James Asher Vampire Novel 7
Dark Queen	Faith Hunter	UF - Jane Yellowrock 12
Worlds Apart (e)	Tracy St. John	SF - Warriors of Risnar 2
Black Helicopters	Caitlin R. Kiernan	DF
The Poppy War (D)	R. F Kuang	HistF
Witch's Fury (e)	Deborah LeBlanc	PNR
The Summer Dragon (tp2mm)	Todd Lockwood	F - Evertide 1
The Classic Horror Collection	H.P. Lovecraft	H
Science Fiction: A Literary History	Roger Luckhurst (Ed)	LC/SF/F
King Rat (ri)	China Mieville	UF/H
Civil War (ri)	Stuart Moore	MTI/SH - Marvel Universe 2
A Secret History of Witches (h2tp)	Louisa Morgan	MR
Men Without Women: Stories (h2tp)	Haruki Murakami Ted Goossen (Tr)	MR/LF - Collections
Only Human	Sylvain Neuvel	SF/TechTh - The Themis Files 3
Kim Newman's Video Dungeon (e)	Kim Newman	Performing Arts
The Dead House (D)	Billy O'Callaghan	SupTh
Reaping the Aurora (h2mm)	Joshua Palmatier	F - Ley 3
Song of Blood & Stone	L. Penelope	HistF/FR - Earthsinger 1
Bandwidth	Eliot Peper	TechTh - An Analog Novel 1
Exit Strategy (D)	Charlton Pettus	TechTh/Cr/LF
D'Arc (h2tp)	Robert Repino	F/SF/AP/PA - War with No Name 2
Wired	Douglas E. Richards	SFTh/NF - Wired 1
A Hymn Before Battle (mm2tp)	John Ringo	SF - Legacy of Aldenata 1
Moontide and Magic Rise	Sean Russell	F/DF - Moontide and Magic Rise Omnibus
Infinite Stars (h2tp)	Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed)	SF/SO - Anthology
All the Fabulous Beasts	Priya Sharma	Gothic - Collection
Kris Longknife: Commanding (e)	Mike Shepherd	SF - Kris Longknife
Fury From the Tomb	SA Sidor	F/Occ/Sup/HistF - Institute for Singular Antiquities 1
All's Fair in Love and Wolf	Terry Spear	PNR - Silver Town Wolf 8
Avengers of the Moon (h2tp)	Allen Steele	SF/SO - Captain Future
A.L.F.A. Instincts	Milly Taiden	PNR - An A.L.F.A. Novel
An Argumentation of Historians	Jodi Taylor	SF/TT/HistF - The Chronicles of St. Mary's 9
Echoes of Honor Limited Leatherbound Edition	David Weber	SF - Honor Harrington 8
Oblivion	Steve White Charles E. Gannon	SF - Starfire 8
The Witchwood Crown (h2tp)	Tad Williams	F/DF - Last King of Osten Ard 1
Pawn (h2mm)	Timothy Zahn	SF/AC - A Chronicle of  the Sibyl's War 1

May 2, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Baby Shower (e)	Cassandra Khaw	F - Born to the Blade Season 1, Episode 3
Crossroads of Darkover (e)	Deborah J. Ross (Ed)	F - Darkover Anthology 18
The Flight of Morpho Girl: A Tor.com Original (e)	Caroline Spector Bradley Denton	SF/SH - Wild Cards

May 4, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Midnight Gods	Greg F. Gifune	H

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
CW - Contemporary Woman
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
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
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
Psy Th - Psychological Thriller
SF - Science Fiction
SciFan - Science Fantasy
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical