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"True Blood," the Golden Globe award-winning, Emmy-nominated TV show, based off of Charlaine Harris' #1 NY Times-bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series, is now on TV! Episodes air Sunday nights on HBO in the US (9PM ET; confirm with your local listings), the series has been renewed for a third season, and it has by now started airing in almost every major TV market in the world. The series is created by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty), stars Academy Award-winner Anna Paquin (The Piano, X-Men Trilogy) as Sookie Stackhouse (who won the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her first season TRUE BLOOD work!); Stephen Moyer (Starter Wife) as Bill; Ryan Kwanten (Summerland, Dead Silence) as Jason, Sookie's brother; and Sam Trammell (What If God Were the Sun?) as Sam, the bar-owner. And in a week reminiscent of the Beatles in April 1964, a record nine books in the Sookie Stackhouse series appeared across the NY Times hardcover (#11) and mass-market bestseller lists (8 spots between #5-15) for the week of August 9, 2009! To purchase Season 1 of TRUE BLOOD, click here. If you haven't read the novels, you have some catching up to do! "Blood Ties", the Lifetime series based on Tanya Huff's popular "Blood" books, has finished its 2nd season on Lifetime, but is now airing in reruns on Lifetime's "Real Woman" network, at 4PM Monday-Friday, and on Saturday and Sunday nights at 10PM (and again at 3AM, for you night owls). The series launched in August 2007 in Canada on City TV and Space, and overseas launches followed in Germany, Italy and many other markets. On the Web: You can still head on over to http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/shows/blood-ties for all kinds of goodies. The whole series is now available on DVD in the US, here. And to play the "Blood Ties" hidden object video game, kindly follow the appropriate link: PC download | PC retail box | Mac download
You can also visit Tanya's Livejournal: http://andpuff.livejournal.com/tag/blood+ties. **BOOK GIVEAWAY!** With the recent publication of paperback and omnibus editions of some of our clients' titles, we now find ourselves with extra copies of books. So, we're giving them away! If you would like a any of the following books, please e-mail us. They will be given away on a first-come, first-serve basis: Marjorie Kellogg: LEAR'S DAUGHTERS 1/26/2010: We at JABberwocky have gotten even more great year-end news! Peter Brett's THE WARDED MAN (aka THE PAINTED MAN) has been named the Best Book of 2009 by Fantasy Book Critic's Mihir Wanchoo, and the ALA named it one of the Top Five Fantasy novels of 2009! Way to go, Peter! The Onion/AV Club and Library Journal both named Brandon Sanderson's WARBREAKER as one of their favorite books of 2009--and on top of that, the ALA also named it among the Top Five Fantasy novels of 2009. Congrats, Brandon! And Tim Akers's debut novel HEART OF VERIDON was named the #8 SFF book of the year by Fantasy Book Critic's Liviu Siciu. Well done, Tim! Congratulations to all! This is fantastic news! We're also proud to announce that the "True Blood" series has been nominated in the Oustanding Drama category for the GLAAD media awards. Check out the awards here, and big congratulations to the cast and crew!
1/20/10: We have just learned that Dene Low has been named a finalist for the Edgar Award! Her debut, PETRONELLA SAVES NEARLY EVERYONE (reviews | buy), is up for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel (press release). The Edgar Awards will be presented to the winners April 29th at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in NYC. PETRONELLA SAVES NEARLY EVERYONE (reviews | buy) has been all over best-of lists lately. It was nominated for a Cybil, chosen by The Children's Hour (a California literacy group) as one of their Top 5 middle-grade novels of 2009, and named to the Historical Novel Society's Fall 2009 Editor's Choice list! (Hers was the only children's book chosen.) Way to go, Dene! We at JABberwocky are thrilled at this wonderful news! 1/11/10: Paloppa Pictures LLC and Brandon Sanderson are pleased to announce that Paloppa has taken an option on film rights to Sanderson's NY Times bestselling Mistborn fantasy trilogy! Here's more, excerpted from the official announcement: The principals in Paloppa Pictures LLC are Christopher Geary, Rob Micai and Marc Bryant. Micai is a co-producer of the forthcoming Letters to God, a Possibility Pictures release through Vivendi-Universal; all three have extensive backgrounds in film and television. Paloppa Pictures is currently in development on three feature film projects with the first scheduled to start production in late 2010/early 2011. Said Geary, "As I was reading the book I felt more and more that this was a story that just had to be seen on the big screen. I contacted Brandon Sanderson, and was able to persuade him that Paloppa Pictures was the right team for the job. Obviously we're very excited by the opportunity to bring his work to life." Congratulations, Brandon! We at JABberwocky can't wait to see this in the theater! 1/06/10: Charlaine Harris is (drumroll please!), according to Publishers Weekly, the best selling female author of 2009! Publishers Weekly just released its list of the Bestselling Books of 2009, and Charlaine has three of the ten spots on the Mass Market Paperback list! This is more than any other author of adult fiction; John Grisham and James Patterson each had two titles on the mm top ten. FROM DEAD TO WORSE, CLUB DEAD, and DEAD UNTIL DARK, the first three books in the #1 bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series, came in at numbers 3, 8, and 9, respectively. According to Nielsen Bookscan, Charlaine is the #5 bestselling fiction author of 2009, after Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, Nora Roberts (counting her J.D Robb sobriquet), and Dan Brown. Congratulations, Charlaine! This is wonderful news! 1/06/10: Great news for John Zakour! Famed sf bookstore Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, California has listed John's SAPPHIRE SIRENS (reviews | buy) as their #1 paperback bestseller for the first week of January. Mysterious Galaxy has also listed Brandon Sanderson's ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE KNIGHTS OF CRYSTALLIA (reviews | buy) as one of their Featured Titles of the Month. Check out Mysterious Galaxy here, and congratulations to John and Brandon! 1/06/10: Congratulations are in order for Del Howison and Jeff Gelb! DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTED (reviews | buy), the third of their star-studded anthologies, might just get another jewel in its crown: it has been named a finalist for the Black Quill Award for Best Anthology! UPDATE: DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTED has also been selected as one of the two best anthologies of 2009 by Famous Monsters of Filmland! These are well-deserved nominations, and we at JABberwocky are pleased at the news. 1/04/10: We have just learned that Elizabeth Moon's THE SPEED OF DARK (reviews | buy) has been chosen as the January 2010 sf selection by GoodReads! The GoodReads sf/fantasy book club will be reading and discussing the book, which won the 2003 Nebula for Best Novel, throughout the month. So, whether this is your first time reading the novel, or you've read it before, now is the ideal time to read Moon's modern classic, especially if you're a GoodReads user (and given that there are 2,500 active members in their sf/fantasy book club, odds are that you or someone you know is...).
See what everyone's been raving about; get the first seven books in a handsome, yet economical boxed set here.
12/15/09: We have great news today from the Romantic Times! Three different JABberwocky authors are up for 2009 Romantic Times Awards in five different categories:
12/15/09: Congratulations are again in order for Brandon Sanderson! Brandon's stand-alone fantasy novel WARBREAKER (reviews | buy) was just chosen by Barnes & Noble as #4 in their list of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels of 2009. This comes on the heels of Library Journal picking the book for their top five sf/fantasy list last month.
Way to go, Brandon!
12/14/09: We just learned that books by Charlaine Harris and Kat Richardson have been chosen by Paul Goat Allen for Barnes & Noble's list of the best paranormal fantasy novels of the last decade!
Charlaine Harris' DEAD UNTIL DARK and Kat Richardson's VANISHED were the books chosen, and we couldn't be more thrilled to see two of the top authors in the field get the critical recognition they so richly deserve. Congratulations, Kat and Charlaine!
12/14/09: Congratulations are in order for Alan Ball and the cast and crew of True Blood! The series, based off of Charlaine Harris's #1 NY Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series, was chosen as one of the Top Ten TV series of 2009 by the American Film Institute, and has subsequently been chosen as an official selection for the 10th annual AFI Awards!
We at JABberwocky are delighted at the news. This is a great honor!
11/4/09: THE GATHERING STORM (get your copy) is a #1 New York Times bestseller!
We at JABberwocky just received word that the twelfth book in Robert Jordan's beloved Wheel of Time series, which is being continued for its concluding three volumes by Brandon Sanderson from extensive notes left by the late Mr. Jordan, beat out Dan Brown's THE LOST SYMBOL for the top slot on the Times hardcover list! In the UK, it debuted at #5 on the Bookscan hardcover fiction bestseller list.
We give our most heartfelt congratulations to Brandon, who joins Charlaine Harris as the second JABberwocky client to become a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
11/4/09: Congratulations are in order for Charlaine Harris! This time, Harper Connelly fans get to have the good news.
GRAVE SECRET (get your copy), debuted at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list!
We at JABberwocky are thrilled to see Harper finally get her due, as this final volume in the four-book series marks the first time a Harper Connelly mystery has debuted in the NYT top 10. It is also, we have learned, the first time a book from Berkley's lovely Prime Crime imprint (if you like cozies, you should check out other books on their list) has done the same.
Incidentally, this is the first week three JABberwocky titles have graced the NYT hardcover printed list (A TOUCH OF DEAD, the Sookie Stackhouse short story collection, also made the printed list -- for its fourth consecutive week!).
Meanwhile, in the UK, A TOUCH OF DEAD had the biggest hardcover week ever for Charlaine, appearing at #18 on the UK Bookscan hardcover fiction bestseller list. DEAD AND GONE appeared at #30, and in total, Charlaine had four books appear on UK bestseller lists last week. We're positively thrilled, and it shows that Sookie is becoming an increasingly global phenomenon.
11/3/09: Congratulations are in order for Charlaine Harris! Sookie Stackhouse fans will be pleased to learn that last week Charlaine's new Sookie short story collection, A Touch of Dead, debuted at #2 on all major bestseller lists, including the New York Times!
11/3/09: The wait is finally over! Brandon Sanderson is on tour now for THE GATHERING STORM (buy), the twelfth book of Robert Jordan's beloved Wheel of Time series. Check out the tour schedule here and visit his blog for his reflections on the tour and for updates on TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT, book 13 in the series.
9/21/09: We at JABberwocky are thrilled to learn that TRUE BLOOD, based off of the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, is now not only a Golden Globe award-winning series, but an Emmy winner as well! The series received the Emmy for Best Casting, beating out "Mad Men" and "Friday Night Lights."
We have to say, we feel this was a particularly well-deserved award. The casting for the series is outstanding, and the brilliant choice of actors is one of the biggest reasons why the series has become HBO's most watched show since "The Sopranos."
Congratulations to the cast of TRUE BLOOD, to casting directors Libby Goldstein and Junie Lowry-Johnson, and to the rest of the casting team!
8/21/09: We've just learned that Jeri Westerson has been named a finalist for the Shamus Award! Jeri is up for the Shamus for her debut, VEIL OF LIES (reviews | buy). She has also been named a finalist for the Macavity Award.
The Shamus is given by the Private Eye Writers of America, the winner chosen by committee, and the Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International and subscribers to Mystery Reader Journal. The winner of each award will be announced at Bouchercon in Indianapolis in October.
Congratulations, Jeri!
8/19/09: We have big news today for fans of Brandon Sanderson!
At Worldcon, we made official something that has been in the works for the last few months. Brandon has signed a major book deal with Tor for a new series, called The Stormlight Archives. The first book will be titled THE WAY OF KINGS, and there's a spoof Amazon page up for it right now (don't take too seriously the reviewer who claims the magic system is based off of the Sarbanes-Oxley rules for corporate accountants).
Additionally, we have a photo from the contract signing in Montreal:
Congratulations, Brandon! We're looking forward to the new books!
8/18/09: We at JABberwocky would like to congratulate all the cast and crew of True Blood on their recent Emmy nominations!
The series received three nominations:
We're thrilled at the news, and these nominations are all richly deserved!
8/12/09: Congratulations are in order for Kat Richardson! VANISHED, the fourth book in Kat's national-bestselling Harper Blaine series (reviews | buy), reached #4 on the Nielsen Bookscan hc fantasy bestseller list, in a busy week for fantasy launches.
By the way, if you're in California or plan to attend Dragon*Con, Kat's making a number of appearances at bookstores in the former before heading off to the latter. For locations, check out her blog post here.
7/29/09: JABberwocky Literary Agency is delighted to announce that filmmaker Paul W. S. Anderson and longtime producing partner Jeremy Bolt, the duo behind the globally popular Resident Evil film franchise, have picked up film rights to Peter V. Brett's debut fantasy novel THE WARDED MAN (aka THE PAINTED MAN).
The Hollywood Reporter was chosen to break the news to the trade, and their article by reporter Borys Kit can be found here.
THE WARDED MAN (reviews | buy), the first novel in the author's Demon Cycle, is the biggest fantasy debut internationally of 2008. It was an instant top 50 bestseller in the UK (under the title THE PAINTED MAN) upon its release in August by Harper Voyager. It was an immediate genre bestseller in the US where it was released in March 2009 by Random House/Del Rey. It is already available in translation in Germany, Japan, Poland and Spain, and editions are forthcoming in France, Portugal, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, Greece, Taiwan, Indonesia and Russia, with more to come.
Stephanie Johnson at Clover Entertainment submitted the project to Bolt, whom she knew was looking for something franchise-worthy on par not only with Resident Evil but with the Mortal Kombat and AVP: Aliens vs. Predator projects directed by Anderson. He and Anderson knew almost instantly that THE WARDED MAN was a must buy for them. Said Anderson and Bolt, "For us, this is a stunningly fresh novel which will make an epic movie. The genius of the novel is in having the epic scope and the pleasures of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings while being entirely fresh in every facet of the writing itself. You are always looking for something new, this has it, and like Lord of the Rings, it's a perfect four quadrant movie."
Congratulations, Peter! We at JABberwocky can't wait to see this in theaters!
7/8/09: We at JABberwocky are pleased to announce good news from our agents abroad, with regard to Charlaine Harris!
Charlaine is the first JABberwocky client to reach an important milestone -- her Sookie Stackhouse novels are now, or soon will be, available in more than 30 languages. The milestone was reached with Finnish publisher Gummerus' offer on the first two books in the series.
Next, Sookie has taken Australia by storm! We've learned that the series occupies nine of the top 10 spots on the Sun Herald science fiction bestseller list, and eight of the top 10 on the Sydney Morning Herald sf/fantasy bestseller list.
Congratulations, Charlaine! (And by the way, the tenth book has a title now -- DEAD IN THE FAMILY.)
6/17/09: Fans of Kat Richardson, take note! (If you haven't read Kat yet and enjoy good urban fantasy, you too should pay attention to this news item).
Kat's gearing up for a big summer book tour in support of her new novel, VANISHED (pre-order!), which hits stores August 4th, as well as the mass-market releases of GREYWALKER (reviews | buy), POLTERGEIST (reviews | pre-order), and UNDERGROUND (reviews | pre-order).
The tour is national, and will include San Diego Comic-Con and Dragon*Con in Atlanta, as well as appearances in Houston, Seattle, Hollywood, and on national daytime TV! For full details and the latest updates, check out her tour info here.
6/15/09: Congratulations are in order for Brandon Sanderson!
Brandon's new standalone fantasy, WARBREAKER (reviews | buy) debuted at #24 on the NY Times hardcover list for the week ending June 13.
This is the second consecutive book of Brandon's to make the hardcover list, and we at JABberwocky are delighted at the news.
6/15/09: A note from the big Kahuna at JABberwocky here. Eddie is too modest to really say it himself, but the news about Dene Low and Jon Sprunk is very totally Eddie Schneider going on a first anniversary tear, taking on great published authors like Dene and doing his very first solo book deals, first for Jon Sprunk and now last week adding another feather to his cap, selling THE STAR SHARD by Frederic S. Durbin to Houghton Mifflin. Which I just don't think would've happened if Eddie hadn't taken to his mandate to help build our presence in YA and Middle Grade fiction with total enthusiasm and dedication from Day #1 on the job. Eddie did that initially because he was told it was part of his job description (Eddie: I discovered quickly that I really like middle-grade and YA, and could go on about why at length), and I'd love to see what he could do with some great literary fiction to work with, because that's been a strong personal passion of his. Yeah, we are the leading agency right now for sf and fantasy, but if you're reading this website and you know someone with really good literary fiction you let us know. I'm 90% sure there are some more breakthroughs coming through in the YA area, thanks to Eddie, and he'll do the same here.
6/4/09: Great news! We at JABberwocky would like to welcome our newest client, Jon Sprunk!
Jon's debut novel, the dark fantasy SHADOW'S SON, sold to Pyr in a three-book deal yesterday. To find out more about him and his writing, you can visit his website. Congratulations, Jon!
6/2/09: We'd like to give a big JABberwocky welcome to Dene Low, the latest author to join our ranks! Her debut, supernatural middle-grade mystery PETRONELLA SAVES NEARLY EVERYONE, comes out today (see below). She's been getting wonderful reviews, and for more on Dene, you can check out her website here.
We would also like to congratulate Dene, as Junior Library Guild has made her novel a July pick!
6/2/09: Today is a big day here at JABberwocky! A number of exciting new books by JABberwocky authors have officially hit stores. These include Simon R. Green's THE SPY WHO HAUNTED ME (reviews | buy), Tanya Huff's THE ENCHANTMENT EMPORIUM (reviews | buy), and Dene Low's PETRONELLA SAVES NEARLY EVERYONE (reviews | buy).
Kat Richardson's GREYWALKER (reviews | buy). comes out in paperback today, and next week, Brandon Sanderson's WARBREAKER (reviews | buy) hits store shelves.
Happy reading! (We apologize in advance for any lack of sleep you may encounter from trying to keep up with all the new releases.)
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