- 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
- BestsellersWe 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 &
2/20/2013
- NewsWe 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
2/20/2013
- 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
- NewsWe’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
2/15/2013
- NewsThere 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
2/13/2013
- NewsAs 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
2/6/2013
- NewsMarie 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
1/28/2013
- NewsAccording 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
1/11/2013
- News2013 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
1/7/2013
- NewsFirst 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
1/2/2013
- NewsThe 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
12/26/2012
- NewsHappy 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
12/24/2012
- NewsJABberwocky 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
12/19/2012
- NewsIt’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
12/13/2012
- NewsWe’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!
11/5/2012
- NewsOnce 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
10/31/2012
- NewsIndividual 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
10/24/2012
- NewsWe’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
10/24/2012
- NewsWe 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
10/4/2012
- NewsJames 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
10/4/2012
- NewsIn 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
10/4/2012
- NewsAs 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
9/12/2012
- NewsWe’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.
9/4/2012
- NewsWhat 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
9/2/2012
- Newsio9.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
8/24/2012
- NewsThe 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
8/22/2012
- NewsSummer 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
8/21/2012
- NewsOn 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
8/10/2012
- NewsWe’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!
8/2/2012