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

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