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

Our biggest news since True Blood! Now that the press release has gone out and the website has gone live, we’re delighted to finally share the big news: Brandon Sanderson and Little Orbit have teamed up to create a video game set in the world of Sanderson’s NYT bestselling Mistborn novels. The all-new story, penned

Echoes of Betrayal (reviews/buy) by Elizabeth Moon, the newest novel in the Paladin’s Legacy series which continues the story of Moon’s enduring fantasy classic The Deed of Paksenarrion, hit #22 on the NY Times Hardcover Bestseller List, for launch week sales thru February 25.  This is the highest-ever NY Times placement for a Paks book,

Brandon went to Taiwan in January and had an awesome visit. (Read his recap here.) Our Taiwanese subagent, Gray Tan of the Grayhawk Agency, shared this lovely photo, and we wanted to share it with you! Back row from the left: Oz Chang (editor), Vivi (editor), Sherry Wang (Brandon’s editor), Evanna Hsu (rights manager), Fanny

We’re delighted to congratulate Charlaine Harris and Jeri Westerson on their Agatha Award nominations! Charlaine has been nominated in the Nonfiction category for 2011’s THE SOOKIE STACKHOUSE COMPANION, and Jeri has been nominated in the Historical Mystery category for THE TROUBLED BONES. We’re glad they’re nominated in different categories, since we would have a tough

Big congrats are due to Adam-Troy Castro, who has made the short list for both the Bram Stoker Award and the Nebula Award. His short story “Her Husband’s Hands” (Lightspeed Magazine) has been nominated for both the Bram Stoker and Nebula Awards, and his novella “With Unclean Hands” (Analog) is a Nebula finalist. These are

Jabberwocky loves Twitter so much that we’re branching out into new social media … we’re finally on Facebook! The project kicks off with a page for Rick Shelley, a Jabberwocky client whose deep backlist we’ve been making available as ebooks. Like his page to stay up to date on all the latest happenings. You can

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