2025 truly was the year of the witch, and it seems members of the Horror Writers Association agree — THE BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix are 2025 Bram Stoker Award nominees for Superior Achievement in a Novel! In addition to both novels featuring witches, they also both have

Awards season is in full force and we’re excited to be caught in the tide of good news. We’re excited to see that ESPERANCE by Adam Oyebanji is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes! The novel is a finalist in the Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction category. The winners will be

They say three’s a crowd, but we say the more the merrier in this case: we’re so excited that Brandon Sanderson‘s ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK is a triple national bestseller! ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK has landed at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list, #29 on the USA Today bestseller list, and #6 on

We have BIG news to share: Apple TV have landed the film & tv rights to the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, the two internationally bestselling series by Brandon Sanderson! More specifically, Apple TV is looking to adapt Mistborn into feature films while The Stormlight Archive is being eyed for television. This news follows on

The JABberwocky team is absolutely thrilled to celebrate ONE OF THE BOYS by Victoria Zeller, which has just won the 2026 Stonewall Book Award! The American Library Association announced the 2026 Youth Media Awards, honoring the outstanding children’s and young adult titles from the previous year. The ceremony feature many prestigious awards including the Caldecott

1/27/26 update: Allison Epstein has won the 2026 Sophie Brody Medal! That makes four honors for FAGIN THE THIEF — congratulations! We’re thrilled to see Allison Epstein‘s latest novel making the 2026 award circuit — FAGIN THE THIEF has been nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award

We’re so excited to share that SABER-TOOTH by Robin Gow is a January/February Kids’ Indie Next Pick! The Kids’ Indie Next list is a bimonthly list that features the top nominations from independent booksellers across the country, highlighting the stand-out children’s books across genre and ages. We’re pleased to see that SABER-TOOTH is included among

Since its publication earlier this week, TAILORED REALITIES by Brandon Sanderson has hit #10 on the New York Times bestseller list and #9 on the USA Today list! A deviation from the usual doorstopper novels that Brandon is known to write, his latest book is a collection of short fiction. It blends science fiction and

Let the countdown to takeoff begin — BADASSTRONAUTS by Grady Hendrix is being developed into a movie! Deadline announced the exciting news in an exclusive, revealing that Paramount Pictures is developing the project with Grady to exec produce as well as Todd Garner and Adam Goldworm to produce. This makes BADASSTRONAUTS the seventh Grady Hendrix

The JABberwocky team extends a HUGE congratulations to longtime client, Brandon Sanderson — he has officially sold over 50 million copies of his books across the world! Over the past weekend, during Dragonsteel Nexus, a lucky fan was showered in confetti after they purchased the symbolic 50 millionth copy of a Brandon Sanderson book. That

We’re excited to see that WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix has been voted as Readers’ Favorite Horror Book in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2025! The Goodreads Choice Awards are annual, reader-voted awards across a variety of fiction and nonfiction categories. In addition to Grady, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s spellbinding novel, THE BEWITCHING, was also a

A huge congratulations goes out to JABberwocky client, Samantha Mills — THE WINGS UPON HER BACK is a World Fantasy Award Finalist for Best Novel! Locus Magazine announced the World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2024 yesterday, which feature five finalists for Best Novel. The awards will be presented during the 2025 World Fantasy

A double congratulations is in order for JABberwocky client, Victoria Zeller — ONE OF THE BOYS is a New York Times and Indie List bestseller! ONE OF THE BOYS debuted at #9 on the New York Times list for YA hardcover fiction, and #5 on the Indie List for YA. What’s especially exciting is that

It’s an exciting week for us here at JABberwocky, because Samantha Mills’s debut science-fantasy novel, THE WINGS UPON HER BACK, has just won the 2025 Compton Crook Award. The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year, and will be presented this May at Balticon 59 in Baltimore, MD. In THE WINGS UPON

We’re very excited to announce that Del Howison is a recipient of a 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writer Association. The award will be presented on June 14, 2025, during the Bram Stoker Awards Presentation at StokerCon 2025 in Stamford, CT. Del Howison is an award-winning author, journalist, and actor (including a cameo

Exciting news: it’s Hugo season once again! Reactor announced the nominees earlier this week, and 6 JABberwocky clients are finalists for this year’s awards. Best Series: The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Its highly-anticipated fifth and final installment, Wind and Truth, came out in December 2024 to wide acclaim and was an instant #1 New

It’s official — Brandon Sanderson has stuck the landing. WIND AND TRUTH, the highly anticipated fifth book and finale of the Stormlight Archive, is an instant #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller! In addition to hitting to the NYT and USA Today, WIND AND TRUTH is also a #2 Indie List bestseller in

We’re so excited that Rebecca Fraimow‘s LADY EVE’S LAST CON was included on this list of the New York Times’s 11 best romance books of the year! Romance columnist Olivia Waite called it “a heist romance that really sticks the landing. With heist romances, you’re always waiting for the moment when the mark becomes more

Extraordinarily exciting news for fans of Emily Rath‘s viral Jacksonville Rays hockey romance series—the third book in the series, PUCKING SWEET, has debuted at #8 on the New York Times Bestselling Trade Paperback list! Previous installations in the series have hit #1 in the Amazon Kindle store, #10 on the Amazon charts, and #105 on

The 2024 Dragon Award Winners have finally been announced, and we are so excited to share that Charlaine Harris is the winner of the Best Alternate History Novel for ALL THE DEAD SHALL WEEP, the fifth in the Gunnie Rose series. Following the murderous events of the “gripping…thrill-ride” (Karin Slaughter) Serpent of Heaven, Lizbeth Rose is

Exciting news for all the vampire fans out there—a TV adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES is in the works at HBO. Deadline shared the news today that the New York Times bestselling novel, previously in development at Amazon, has moved to HBO. Grady Hendrix will be on both