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

As of this April, Jabberwocky now has the privilege  of representing the complete works of Ellery Queen, the mystery writer and American detective extraordinaire. Ellery Queen is the creation and nom de plume of mystery writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Writing for over 40 years, the character of Ellery Queen became one of the

We’re delighted to say that we’ve taken on the charming and talented T.C. McCarthy as our newest client. T.C. has three books currently available from Orbit, and we’re looking forward to many more.

What a thrilling Sunday night at Chicago’s Chicon 7 for all of us at JABberwocky as our client Jim C. Hines won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer !!! For those of you who don’t know, the Hugo Awards are the biggest to be had in the sf/fantasy field, voted on by thousands of

io9.com just released their list of “Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books” for Fall 2012, and representing the best and brightest in autumnal literature  is Jabberwocky’s very own Mark Hodder! Coming out in December from Pyr, A RED SUN ALSO RISES is Mark’s first standalone novel after his Philip K. Dick Award-winning Burton & Swinburne Adventures

The fifth book in Jeri Westerson’s Crispin Guest series, BLOOD LANCE, is due out in the U.S. on October 16th, but those fortunate enough to have received advance review copies already have great things to say about it! Kirkus Reviews says BLOOD LANCE is “a lively tale of historical interest smoothly combined with a worthy

Summer 2012 has been a great one for Jabberwocky and, with the children now heading back to school, we are sad to see it go. But like the closing ceremony of the London Olympic Games, this season went out with a bang. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you LIBRIOMANCER by Jim Hines! Hitting shelves earlier

On Monday, author Myke Cole was officially promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves. The ceremony took place early in the morning at the USCG base on Staten Island. In attendance were many fellow members of the Coast Guard along with Myke’s friends and family. Congratulations to Lt. Cole on

We’ve just gotten some great news — Adam-Troy Castro’s middle-grade debut, GUSTAV GLOOM AND THE PEOPLE TAKER (pre-order) has been named an Amazon Book of the Month pick for August! This is fantastic news, and we’re already seeing pre-orders shoot up in its wake. Way to go, Adam!

Film Engine yesterday announced their option on film rights to the big new Brandon Sanderson series Steelheart, which has sold to Delacorte Press in the US, Orion in the UK, and to Audible for audio rights, for combined advances into seven figures. This is going to be big, really really big, and we’re excited to

HBO announced on Tuesday that is has renewed True Blood, based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, for a 6th season.  The show continues to be the most-watched on HBO, and is usually atop the 18-49 ratings for summer TV shows even though HBO is in far fewer homes than the TV networks.

It’s been a wonderful last few days at JABberwocky with great reviews and recommended reading list mentions flooding in from all over. Wired Magazine came out with a summer reading list of new sf books and 3 of the 11 are from JABberwocky clients, a ratio we’d happily take every time one of these lists

Joshua says on his bio that The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, which won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, is the book he’s proudest of from his quarter century in the business, so we are all extremely delighted to announce that plans are afoot for a Ballantine Reader Circle 10th anniversary edition to

The big week at JABberwocky continues, with news that two of our clients are up for the 2012 Macavity Award, Charlaine Harris for The Sookie Stackhouse Companion for Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction, and Jeri Westerson for the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award for the latest Crispin Guest mystery, Troubled Bones.  This is the third award nomination

JABberwocky Literary Agency today announced the arrival of Brady McReynolds to head up our growing foreign rights department.  We met Brady through his work at the Penguin publicity department, where he spearheaded the launch campaign for Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole, hailed far and wide as a clear contender for best debut novel

Simultaneous releases have gone out today from Random House/Delacorte in the US and from Orion/Gollancz in the UK to announce major new deals for Brandon Sanderson‘s YA trilogy, Steelheart, which is also already sold to Fantasy Foundation in Taiwan.  Total advances are already into seven figures, and we’ve been hearing from our global partners all

We’re delighted to announce that The Sookie Stackhouse Companion edited by Charlaine Harris is a finalist for the Anthony Award for Best Critical Nonfiction Book.  Named for the noted writer Anthony Boucher, the awards are presented annually as part of Bouchercon, the world mystery convention, to be held this year in Cleveland the first weekend

Over the weekend, Dead Ever After was officially revealed as the title of the 13th and concluding Sookie Stackhouse novel, which will go on sale on May 7, 2013. The first official word came from our friends at Orion/Gollancz in the UK, as part of a series of newsletters going out on the 13th of

JABfriends, we are happy to announce that we’ve completed our move into our shiny new office. Our phone line has been transferred over to the new space, so you can call us at the usual number–in case you forgot, it’s (718) 392-5985–and we’ll answer in the usual way. We have a new fax number, so

WIth Deadlocked, Charlaine Harris was not only once again a #1 bestseller in the US and UK for her debut week, but in the UK, she had the fastest-selling hardcover so far this year in the UK. She also hit her highest ever ranking in Ireland at #3. Charlaine also reports in with some very

Our long-time client Scott Mackay is once again a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award. Given by the Crime Writers of Canada, the Arthur Ellis is the Edgar equivalent for our friends up north, and this year Scott contends in the Best Short Story category for “The Girl with the Golden Hair,” a Doctor Deacon

We’re scheduled to move during the week of May 7.  If all goes well, packing and phone installation occur on the 7th, physical moving on the 8th, internet installation on the 9th, and we’ll just be all beautifully and wonderfully up and running on the 10th.  Any bets on the “all goes well” part?  The

Not to make Writing Excuses, but Brandon Sanderson is part of the team behind the 2012 Hugo-nominated podcast Writing Excuses, along with Jordan Sanderson, writers Dan Wells and Mary Robinette Kowal, cartoonist Howard Tayler. This weekly podcast is a must for the aspiring writer, with weekly topics that cover the craft of writing, the business

We’re tempted to break into song — this song in particular — to celebrate our client Jim C. Hines, who is a 2012 Hugo Nominee for Best Fan Writer. On Live Journal and mirrored on his blog (check both to catch all the robust comments), Jim maintains a robust and diverse web presence. His “First

The paperback edition of Dead Reckoning, the 11th Sookie Stackhouse novel by Charlaine Harris, was released on March 28, and  quickly headed to the highest echelons of the NY Times paperback list, debuting at #4.  The list will be published in the Sunday NY Times Book Review on April 15. Charlaine also cracked the Top