Book for book, Jeri Westerson and her Crispin Guest Medieval Noir series are the most accoladed author and series of any of the JABberwocky list. That amazing run over four books in the series and counting continues with the great news that Troubled Bones (reviews/buy) is a Finalist for the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), which is part of the American Library Association, has just released their list of 2012 Notable Children’s Recordings, and leading the list (well, because it’s an alphabetical list, but still, it’s leading) is the Recorded Books version of Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians (reviews/buy in print/download audio)

We’ve just gotten word that the Bulgarian Fantasy & Horror Club has awarded Simon R. Green its “Author of the Year” prize in something of a landslide, while his 11th Nightside novel A Hard Day’s Knight (reviews/buy) was the winner in a close race for International Hit of the Year for 2011.  We believe these

Charlaine Harris has once again hit the French bestseller lists, with the translation of Dead Reckoning (J’ai Lu) reaching #7 on the Livres Hebdo list in the 20 January issue of that magazine, the French equivalent of Publishers Weekly.  The first printing is reported at 70,000 copies.

There are so many good reviews coming in as we head toward the on-sale for Myke Cole’s debut novel Shadow Ops: Control Point (on sale from Ace on Jan. 31) that tweeting the links doesn’t seem quite sufficient.  Here’s a round-up of some: Civilian Reader, we had to underline almost the entire review for the

Great news from the UK this morning: Brandon Sanderson and Jon Sprunk have been longlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award! Sanderson was nominated for THE ALLOY OF LAW (reviews | buy), and Sprunk for SHADOW’S LURE (reviews | buy). This is the third consecutive year for Sanderson, who won last year for THE WAY OF

It’s a great month for the JABberwocky list in Taiwan, with Brandon Sanderson debuting last week at #3 on the Eslite foreign literature bestseller list (Eslite is Taiwan’s leading bookstore chain) with his Mistborn: The Alloy of Law, which appeared in a stunningly gorgeous package from Fantasy Foundation, and now this week his #3 spot

Fast on the heels of all the other great Goodreads news, we at JABberwocky have just learned that for steampunk month in January 2012, the 6,500+ member sf/f book club has chosen Mark Hodder’s THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK (reviews | buy) as its sf pick! Now you too can join in the

Over at Barnes & Noble, Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught is on the Honorable Mention for their Year’s Best, putting it as one of the top 25 titles of 2011. Mistborn: The Alloy of Law from Brandon Sanderson is on the 2011 Year’s Best SF/Fantasy list from January Magazine, and Jon Sprunk’s Shadow’s Lure was

JABberwocky is delighted to announce that  a role playing game, Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Adventure Game, is just out from our friends at Crafty Games.  It’s the first RPG to be based on a JABberwocky property, which makes this, as Dean Wormer might say, double secret exciting.  You can buy it as a deluxe hardcover, a

This has been in the works for a while now, but now it’s website-official: we are delighted to announce that we’ve conquered Ari Marmell, author of THE CONQUEROR’S SHADOW and other illustrious works. We are big fans of his books, and looking forward to getting started on the latest.

We have a lot of our clients on Graphic Audio and couldn’t be prouder or happier to relay the good news that their edition of Simon R. Green’s Blood & Honor has just taken honors from AudioFile Magazine as one of the ten best Full Cast audio of 2011.  The production was directed by Terence

Congratulations to Charlaine Harris, whose Dead Reckoning has made the Amazon UK list of the best sf/fantasy titles of 2011.  We’re pleased Dead Reckoning was a #1 bestseller, and super proud to have this recognition for the 11th Sookie Stackhouse novel.

A JABberwocky salute today to Charlaine Harris and Jack Campbell (aka John Hemry), both of whom are nominees for the Goodreads polling for the best books of 2011.  Charlaine contends in the Paranormal Fantasy category for Dead Reckoning, the 11th Sookie Stackhouse novel.  In the sf category, Campbell’s Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught, which

Joshua would never say he has a voice just waiting for a radio show; nonetheless people sometimes want to interview him.  You can click here to find an interview he did with Moses Siregar III at World Fantasy for the Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcast.

It’s hard to believe another season of year-end lists and 2012 awards is rolling around, but yet it is! And it’s kicking off in style for Jeri Westerson, whose TROUBLED BONES (reviews/buy), the newest Crispin Guest medieval noir historical mystery is a finalist for the Romantic Times 2011 Award for Best Historical Mystery. This is

This week, Jabberwocky client and Coast Guard Reserve Officer Myke Cole presented his editor, Anne Sowards, with the ESGR Patriot Award. The Patriot Award honors employers who support employees participating in the National Guard and Reserve. Congratulations to Anne! You can read Myke’s blog post on the award here.

Congratulations are in order for Brandon Sanderson! We received the great news today that Towers of Midnight, written by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, debuted on the New York Times mass market fiction bestseller list at #11. This is the highest mass market debut for any book in the Wheel of Time series (there have

We have just learned that Jon Sprunk’s SHADOW’S SON (reviews | buy) has been chosen as the October 2011 fantasy selection by GoodReads! The GoodReads sf/fantasy book club (now 5,500 members strong) will be reading and discussing the book throughout the month. Now is the ideal time to read Sprunk’s action-packed, award-nominated debut, especially if you’re

This time, it’s the SOOKIE STACKHOUSE COMPANION (buy! | reviews!) that’s rocketed to the top of the list, debuting as the #2 New York Times hardcover bestseller. It’s not quite a Sookie Stackhouse novel, but it might be as good: the latest title from Charlaine Harris features an all-new novella, “Small Town Wedding,” as well

For the second time, Heart of Veridon (reviews/buy) by Tim Akers has made a Top 20 Steampunk list, this time from Ranting Dragon, which calls the novel “imaginative and absorbing.”  The previous time ’round it was Library Journal that gave the honors to the book.  We couldn’t be more delighted for Tim, whose other work

Congratulations to Peter V. Brett, whose debut novel THE PAINTED MAN (known in the US as The Warded Man) has been chosen for Australia’s 2011 Get Reading: 50 Books You Can’t Put Down.  This is the largest country-wide reading program in Australia, we were there a year ago when Charlaine Harris’ Dead Until Dark was

We’re delighted to announce that Home Improvement: Undead Edition, the 4th anthology edited by Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner, debuts at #28 on the NY Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list for the week ending August 6.  We tip our hammers to Charlaine and Toni and to all the contributors, with a special shout out

[Updated] We are delighted to welcome DAW fantasy author Joshua Palmatier as the newest addition to the JABberwocky list. Palmatier’s written under both his own name with The Skewed Throne, The Cracked Throne and The Vacant Throne, and most recently as Benjamin Tate, whose debut novel Well of Souls is just out in DAW mass

We are delighted to announce that preorders are now being taken for the Mistborn Role Playing Game, soon to be released from Crafty Games and based on the bestselling Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson It’s the first JABberwocky title to be adapoted into an RPG, which is just super nifty, the game book includes an original

The 104 degree temperatures in NYC on Friday, the highest reading since 1977 and in the entire 25 year history of Joshua’s agenting career, must have gotten to us. Because we’re officially open to electronic submissions, per the updated Submissions tab that you can happily click atop the page. Eddie and Jessie each have dedicated

A new set of Jabberwocky ebooks have gone live. The Dirigent Mercenary Corps books are military SF classics, available for the first time in years. Keep an eye out for many more books coming from Rick Shelley …

Great news from Eslite, the biggest bookstore chain in Taiwan, which is reporting that Peter V. Brett’s Warded Man (reviews/buy ) debuts on their foreign literature chart  at #4, behind books from Japan, Korea and Jo Nesbo.  Simon Green, Brandon Sanderson and Charlaine Harris have all made the Eslite lists, but none starting as quickly

August 2008 Joshua was excited to see the first articles on True Blood, the HBO series based on Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels,  several weeks ahead of the series launch, today he’s going gaga over the June 19 Arts & Leisure section in the NY Times. Here’s your link to an article on Sookie Stackhouse

Good things always happen on Friday the 17th.  This year, the exciting news that Brandon Sanderson won the David Gemmell Award for Best Fantasy Novel of 2010.  There was some stiff competition, not only Brandon himself for his Wheel of Time collaboration The Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, but The Desert