News – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

Bestsellers
12/12/2024
WIND AND TRUTH is a #1 Bestseller
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
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Awards Bestsellers News
12/11/2024
JABberwocky Wrapped: 2024 in Review
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
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Awards
12/11/2024
Lady Eve’s Last Con is a New York Times Best Romance Book of 2024!
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
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News
11/1/2024
Ebook Sale: 30 for 30 for 30! (for 30)
This 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
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News
10/7/2024
20 Years of Graphic Audio
Congratulations 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, why
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Bestsellers
10/7/2024
The Most Boring NYT Bestsellers…
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
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Awards
9/3/2024
Charlaine Harris wins a 2024 Dragon Award
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
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Awards
8/16/2024
2023 Analog AnLab and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards Winners
The 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
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Awards
8/7/2024
Our 2024 Dragon Award Finalists!
With 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 first
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News
7/24/2024
Southern Vampires On Their Way to HBO
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
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News
6/25/2024
Jonathan Carroll Re-Releases This Summer!
JABberwocky, 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.
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Awards
5/13/2024
Our 2024 Locus Awards Finalists
Last 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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Awards
4/5/2024
THE WINGS UPON HER BACK nabs fourth starred review!
Most 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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Awards
4/1/2024
Bethany Jacobs wins Philip K. Dick Award!
HUGE 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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Awards
3/29/2024
Our 2024 Lambda and Hugo Award finalists
Massive 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,
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Bestsellers
3/14/2024
THE SUNLIT MAN is a NYT and USA Today Bestseller
Fans 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 in
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News
3/1/2024
JAB Clients on Locus’s 2023 Recommended Reading List!
At 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 horror
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Awards
2/22/2024
Bram Stoker and Philip K. Dick Awards Finalists
Triple 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 original
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News
12/7/2023
JABberwocky Wrapped: 2023 in Review
Hello 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!
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Bestsellers
11/30/2023
SKYWARD is a New York Times Bestselling Series
We’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 Sanderson
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News
11/16/2023
JABberwocky is going to Dragonsteel 2023!
Longtime 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 the
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News
11/2/2023
Rivers Of London TV Series Assembles Writers
The 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 writer
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Awards
10/23/2023
Our 2023 Hugo Award Winners
Huge 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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Bestsellers
10/12/2023
YUMI AND THE NIGHTMARE PAINTER is a New York Times Bestseller
We’re thrilled to say that YUMI AND THE NIGHTMARE PAINTER is both a New York Times bestselling novel, debuting #13 on the Hardcover Fiction chart, and a Sunday Times bestselling novel, debuting #10 on the Hardcover Fiction chart! In YUMI AND THE NIGHTMARE PAINTER, #1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us a gripping story
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News
10/3/2023
MEXICAN GOTHIC Listed in TIME’s 100 Best Mysteries & Thrillers of All Time
We’re thrilled to see that Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic has been included in TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Mysteries & Thrillers of All Time! Since its release in summer 2020, Mexican Gothic has consistently remained a bestseller, hitting #9 on the New York Times Bestseller List for fiction and #5 on the Washington Post bestseller list while also running for 31
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News
9/26/2023
Lilliam Rivera Named MacDowell Fellow for Forthcoming Book TINY THREADS
Congratulations are in order for JABberwocky author Lilliam Rivera, who has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, a highly prestigious artist residency program! This excellent news is followed by another exciting announcement: Lilliam’s first adult book, Tiny Threads, will be published from Del Rey! Tiny Threads is a dark supernatural thriller that follows a young woman
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Awards
7/6/2023
Our 2023 Hugo Awards Finalists
We’re thrilled to share our latest good news on the awards front: a number of JABberwocky authors and editors are finalists for the 2023 Hugo Awards! The Hugo finalists were announced today in advance of this fall’s awards, which will be presented at Worldcon 81 in Chengdu, China. Our clients’ work spans five different categories:
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News
6/29/2023
Jordan Joins JABberwocky!
JABberwocky Literary Agency is pleased to announce that Jordan Hamessley has joined as a literary agent. Jordan Hamessley has had a distinguished career in publishing for the past fifteen years, beginning in editorial at Penguin Books for Young Readers’ Grosset & Dunlap division and Egmont USA to heading the Adaptive Books imprint of Adaptive Studios.
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News
6/8/2023
Aurora Teagarden Returns to Hallmark in New Prequel
EDIT: The air date for the new Aurora Teagarden prequel have been announced! The first movie, “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New” will air Friday, June 9th, at 9/8 c on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Young Aurora returns home to Lawrenceton after college to pursue her post-grad degree and finds herself embroiled in a mystery involving
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Awards
5/15/2023
Samantha Mills is a Nebula Award Winner
We’re thrilled to share that Samantha Mills won the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Short Story this weekend! Sam’s short story, “Rabbit Test“, weaves together a brilliantly heartbreaking story about abortion laws throughout history and into the near-future, tying together several perspectives of women and people with uteruses, and their struggle for bodily autonomy. It
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