It was a whirlwind weekend at Seattle WorldCon, and we’re thrilled to celebrate four JABberwocky clients who were announced winners at the 2025 Hugo Awards! Best Poem: “A War of Words” by Marie Brennan, originally published in Strange Horizons, won for Best Poem! Best known for her Memoirs of Lady Trent historical fantasy series (starting with A
NewsIt is our pleasure to announce that Sam Morgan has rejoined JABberwocky as our first Book-to-Film Rights Agent! Sam will be working with our entire client list to help unlock additional opportunities on screens both big and small. Sam says “It is my honor to be joining JABberwocky once again and working with all of7/15/2025
AwardsA 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 Fantasy7/8/2025
BestsellersA 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 that5/22/2025
- AwardsIt’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
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AwardsWe’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 cameo4/9/2025
AwardsExciting 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 New4/9/2025
BestsellersIt’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 in12/12/2024
- Hello readers, writers, and lovers of books! We can hardly believe it’s December already but time slows for no literary agent. As has become tradition, this is our end-of-year wrap-up on all of the exciting news and amazing projects we got to work on in 2024! JABberwocky hit a huge milestone this year — it’s
AwardsWe’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 more12/11/2024
- NewsThis November is JABberwocky Literary Agency’s 30th anniversary, and in honor of that we’re highlighting 30 of our JAB ebooks by putting them on sale for 30% off, for all 30 days of November. Bestsellers, award winners, personal favorites—we’ve got an ebook for everyone! Check out the sale starting today—and keep coming back throughout November
11/1/2024
NewsCongratulations to Graphic Audio for turning 20 years old this month! Graphic Audio adapts books into full-cast, dramatized audio productions—like “a movie in your mind.” JABberwocky is proud to say that we’ve been working with them since before Graphic Audio could even be considered a separate company, and . To celebrate their 20th anniversary, why10/7/2024
BestsellersExtraordinarily 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 on10/7/2024
AwardsThe 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 is9/3/2024
- AwardsThe awards just keep coming! Earlier this week, Locus announced the winners and finalists for the Analog Analytical Laboratory Awards and the Asimov’s Readers awards. We’re excited to celebrate Mary Soon Lee and Adam-Troy Castro for being shortlisted for AnLab awards, and to keep celebrating Mary Soon Lee for having two poems make it to
8/16/2024
AwardsWith DragonCon coming up at the end of the month the finalists for the 2024 Dragon Awards were announced yesterday! We’re so excited to see some of our own authors on there. Raking in yet another award nomination is Bethany Jacobs’s THESE BURNING STARS, up for Best Science Fiction Novel. This debut is the first8/7/2024
NewsExciting 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 both7/24/2024
NewsJABberwocky, in partnership with Zeno Agency Ltd, is thrilled to announce that this summer, we will be re-issuing six titles by the Pushcart Prize, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Carroll! These will be the first releases in a planned roll-out to make the author’s extensive backlist available to readers in its entirety.6/25/2024
- AwardsLast week, the finalists for the 2024 Locus Awards were announced, and we’re thrilled to see so many of our authors nominated! Six JABberwocky clients made the list across six different categories, both for their writing and for editorial work in various anthologies and magazine editorships. We’re so glad to see their hard work recognized
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- AwardsMost books are lucky to receive one starred review from the trade review journals; multiple award-winning author Samantha Mills‘s debut science fantasy novel THE WINGS UPON HER BACK is one of the very few books to receive four. In this newest starred review, Kirkus writes: “…the real power here is in [Mill’s] exploration of finding
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- AwardsHUGE congratulations to Bethany Jacobs—her debut novel, THESE BURNING STARS, is the winner of the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award! The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by
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AwardsMassive congratulations to JABberwocky author Robin Gow, who has TWO books listed as finalists for the prestigious Lambda Literary Award. DEAR MOTHMAN, which has been raking in accolades, is a finalist in the category of Best LGBTQ+ Middle Grade, and LANTERNFLY AUGUST is a finalist for Best LGBTQ+ Poetry DEAR MOTHMAN is a moving novel-in-verse,3/29/2024
BestsellersFans of the Cosmere, rejoice — Brandon Sanderson’s THE SUNLIT MAN has officially become a bestseller! The novel has hit #12 on the New York Times bestseller list as well as #50 on the USA Today bestseller list this week. Across the pond, THE SUNLIT MAN also hit #8 on the Sunday Times list in3/14/2024
NewsAt the beginning of February, Locus released their 2023 Recommended Reading list, and we were thrilled to see how many of our incredibly talented JABberwocky authors made it onto this year’s list. For full length novels, seven amazing books made the cut. Perennial bestsellers Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Grady Hendrix were both featured in the horror3/1/2024
AwardsTriple the congratulations are in order for THREE JABberwocky award finalists this February! THESE BURNING STARS — 2024 Philip K. Dick Award Nominee Bethany Jacobs‘s THESE BURNING STARS is one of six books on the final ballot for the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award! The Philip K. Dick Award is awarded to the best original2/22/2024
- NewsHello readers, writers, and lovers of books! It’s the most wonderful time of the year: our JABberwocky end-of-year wrap-up post. We love celebrating the hard work of our clients and our employees, and it was hard to narrow down this year to just the highlights. Buckle up: this year’s JAB Wrapped is a long one!
12/7/2023
BestsellersWe’re thrilled to announce that the release of DEFIANT last week has put SKYWARD back up on the New York Times Bestseller list! The November 21 release of the fourth book in the series, DEFIANT, has put it at #4 on the Children’s Series chart. In SKYWARD, #1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson11/30/2023
NewsLongtime JABberwocky client and internationally bestselling author, Brandon Sanderson, is hosting his third annual Dragonsteel convention to celebrate the release of DEFIANT, the fourth book in the Skyward series—and JABberwocky Agency will be there to celebrate! Joshua Bilmes, James Farner, and Valentina Sainato will all be flying out to Salt Lake City to man the11/16/2023
NewsThe bestselling Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch is getting an exciting new TV adaptation, and today Broadcast reports that the 6-person writing team is being assembled, with an eye towards diversity in experience and background. John Jackson, who previously wrote for hit TV series Being Human and The Gentleman, is the lead writer11/2/2023
- AwardsHuge congratulations are in order for the four JABberwocky clients who are winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards! Samantha Mills won Best Short Story for “Rabbit Test,” originally published in Uncanny Magazine, November/December 2022. “Rabbit Test” is sweeping this awards season, having also won the Locus, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards for Best Short Story
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