JABberwocky Literary Agency congratulates Brandon Sanderson on his first (certainly not the last!) fiction Hugo Award nomination, for his novella THE EMPEROR’S SOUL. If you haven’t read EMPEROR’S SOUL, you simply must.   Take advantage of the handy links on Brandon’s website.  We at JABberwocky knew is was an award-caliber piece of fiction the moment

A hero is nothing without a trusty sidekick. Where would Sherlock be without Watson? Batman without Robin? Sidekicks are essentials. Which is why we’re excited to announce that Rochelle Staab’s BRUJA BROUHAHA was awarded The Watson – the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Sidekick! Check out Rochelle’s reaction as her name was read: We expect

Publisher’s Weekly gave Brandon Sanderson’s debut novel for the young adult audience, THE RITHMATIST, a starred review! They said: “Featuring ingenious magic (complete with profuse chalk drawing–style diagrams and illustrations from [illustrator Ben] McSweeney), feisty characters, and a complex plot likely to unwind over several volumes, this high-spirited, exciting story will appeal to readers of

Jabberwocky had a double dose of good news when we found out that not one, but two, of our authors have been nominated for the Compton Crook Award! The Baltimore Science Fiction Society selected SHADOW OPS: CONTROL POINT by Myke Cole and FAIR COIN by E.C. Myers as finalists for their award which celebrates debut

Debut novel VODNIK by Bryce Moore (Tu Books) is one of the winners for the 2013 Westchester Fiction Award for Exemplary YA Fiction.  This is the first award for this wonderful first novel, and we’re certain it will be the first of many accolades for its author.  Brandon Sanderson said of VODNIK “compelling, interesting and

Peter Brett got a surprise during this week’s tour of Austria and Germany, his newest novel THE DAYLIGHT WAR made the German bestseller lists even before it was officially on sale. And not only that, it was his highest-ever placement on the German bestseller lists as well, getting to #6 on the Der Spiegel paperback

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced the finalists for the 2013 Derringer Awards for mystery short fiction, and the “Best Novelette” category includes two stories from AN APPLE FOR THE CREATURE, edited by our clients Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner.  The nominated stories are Iphigenia in Aulis by Mike Carey, and “Pirate

The second book in The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson finally has an official title! WORDS OF RADIANCE is tentatively scheduled for publication this fall by Tor Books. Sanderson fans, rejoice! Tor.com and the Gollancz blog simultaneously revealed this wonderful news this morning. They also talk a bit about how the title was selected, including the humorous title

We are happy to announce that two Jabberwocky clients have been nominated for Audie Awards for 2013. Simon R. Green‘s final Nightside title, THE BRIDE WORE BLACK LEATHER, published in audio by Audible, has been nominated in the Paranormal category. Jack Campbell (aka John G. Hemry)’s INVINCIBLE, the second in his Lost Fleet: Beyond the

We are super excited (for the second time in two days–it’s been a great week) that Peter V. Brett’s new epic fantasy masterpiece, THE DAYLIGHT WAR, will debut on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list at #19! He’ll also be at #28 on the e-book bestseller list and #25 on the combined print &

We at Jabberwocky are incredibly proud to announce that E.C. Myers is a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction for FAIR COIN! The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America have released the nominees for the 2012 Nebula Awards and FAIR COIN joins a prestigious list of nominees. The awards ceremony

Peter V. Brett’s THE DAYLIGHT WAR will debut at #3 on the UK’s Sunday Times bestseller list this Sunday! We are all so excited.This is Peter’s best UK debut yet–not too shabby for only his third novel. On top of the great sales, THE DAYLIGHT WAR has been getting great reviews, and his tour events

We’re delighted to be publishing three brand-new short story collections by Jack Campbell (also known as John G. Hemry). AD ASTRA is a collection of eleven military and far-future sf stories, exploring different questions about what our future might look like. (Kindle | Nook | iTunes | Kobo | Sony) BORROWED TIME is a collection

There aren’t wards powerful enough to keep from fans from gobbling up Peter V. Brett’s latest – THE DAYLIGHT WAR! Peter and the Jabberwocky team celebrated the highly anticipated book with a launch at Brooklyn’s Singularity and Co. The book is already #91 in Kindle Books and tune in next week to find out where

As of yesterday, Open Road Media published a dozen novels from the great Ellery Queen collection for the first time as eBooks and are available for purchase wherever eBooks are sold. Including such classics as Cat of Many Tails and The Dutch Shoe Mystery, what once was old is new again and available for another

Marie Brennan‘s A NATURAL HISTORY OF DRAGONS has popped up as one of three science fiction and fantasy titles on Publishers Weekly‘s “Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2013” list. Here’s what PW has to say: This book has been getting a ton of anticipatory attention, and rightly so. This memoir of a Victorian lady’s adventures

According to an article in Daily Variety on Monday January 7, HBO programming head Michael Lombardo thinks there’s still a lot of creative potential in True Blood, and doesn’t see the series coming to an end in the near future. That’s a great way to start what promises to be a big year for Charlaine

2013 is still off to a great start as the ‘Best of 2012’ accolades continue to roll in for several of our authors. The Ranting Dragon chose Brandon Sanderson, Myke Cole, and Tanya Huff’s latest releases for their “Top 20 Best Speculative Fiction Novels of 2012” and did they ever have great things to say

First things first: Joshua, Eddie, Jessie, Brady, Sam, & Lisa would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2013! Now on to new business: JABberwocky is a literary agency and therefore isn’t in the business of bragging. But if we were in the business of bragging, even Nate Silver wouldn’t be able to estimate

The Los Angeles Review of Books has some lovely things to say about Lavie Tidhar’s OSAMA, including: “Osama is a work of art. And Tidhar is a word-painter, constructing vibrant and poetic landscapes of narrative in spite of the novel’s dark and brooding subject matter.” And: “Osama is the narrative symphony Philip K. Dick wished

Happy holidays, everyone!  JABberwocky is looking forward to the arrival of 2013 next week but, before we say goodbye to 2012, we wanted to reflect on just how good a year it has been for our authors. Jim Hines published LIBRIOMANCER this August (his first ever hardcover release) and the book was celebrated by fans

JABberwocky is delighted to welcome Benjamin Parzybok into the ranks today! His second novel, SHERWOOD NATION, just sold to Small Beer Press, who published his debut COUCH to considerable acclaim. On top of everything else, COUCH was named an Indie Next List pick. SHERWOOD NATION is planned for publication in 2014. It tells the story

It’s that time of year when the annual lists are starting to come out, and the world reinforces that we get to hang out with the best darned authors! On a forward-looking basis: Fantasy Faction has Peter V. Brett’s The Daylight War as their most anticipated Fantasy Title of 2013, Brandon Sanderson is at #7

We’re very proud to share that Lavie Tidhar’s OSAMA has won the World Fantasy Award! Lavie is a client of our sister agency in the UK, the Zeno Agency, and OSAMA is available in ePub format through Jabberwocky’s e-book program. Find it on iTunes, Nook, and coming soon to Kobo!

Once upon a time, Sandy used to be the bus you took to get to the Portland airport! Now it will be the hurricane that made life interesting for JABberwocky for a week, happily not as interesting for us as for some other people, but very interesting nonetheless.  Our office is in an area that

  Individual booksellers can make a huge difference, and that point was recently re-made to us at JABberwocky, emphatically so. !ndigo, Canada’s leading bookstore chain, has a program called the “CEO 100” where a bookseller can choose a book they love, order in 100 copies of it, and if they can sell through that stock

We’re lucky to have the rights (via the Zeno Agency) to make Lavie Tidhar’s OSAMA available as an ePub file for Nook & iTunes around the world, with Kobo coming soon. Lavie’s been nominated for a World Fantasy Award, a Campbell Award, and the BFSA Award for this book, and with so many award committees

We are delighted to report that Charlaine Harris just moments ago won the Macavity Award for Best Mystery-Related Non-fiction for The Sookie Stackhouse Companion. Just out in Ace trade paperback after a 2011 hardcover release (also available on audio and from the SF Book Club), this Sooke compendium includes Charlaine’s all-new Sookie novella “Small Town

James Patterson’s ReadKiddoRead is giving away ten signed copies of Adam-Troy Castro’s GUSTAV GLOOM AND THE PEOPLE TAKER! To enter, check out http://www.readkiddoread.com/uploads/gustavsweeps.php. Entries will be accepted until November 4th, and you can get full sweepstakes details through the link. If you’d rather not wait that long, you can always buy your copy now! Castro will

In case you missed it, this week Wired Magazine sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Junot Diaz on their Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. In the interview, when the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was asked who some of his favorite contemporary authors are, chief among them