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

Simon Green’s latest, FOR HEAVEN’S EYES ONLY (get it here!), is on shelves now! FOR HEAVEN’S EYES ONLY is the fifth in Simon’s Eddie Drood/Secret Histories series. It’s also (drumroll please) his 40th novel. If you’re a fan of Simon’s enormous backlist, be sure to check out the books we’ve made available as ebooks here.

Congrats again to Brandon Sanderson as the mass market release of The Way of Kings (reviews/buy) has debuted at #25 on the NY Times Mass Market Fiction bestseller list.  The hardcover release was #7 on the NY Times hardcover list, and Brandon’s been #1 on the hardcover list and also on the mass market list

Congratulations to Brandon Sanderson, whose Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians has made the list for the Sunshine State Young Readers Awards, Grades 6-8. This is the third state where Brandon’s Alcatraz Smedry has been making friends in the past several weeks, following the Nene Award voted on by Hawaiian schoolchildren and the Battle of the

Charlaine Harris’s latest DEAD RECKONING has gone into its second week as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Charlaine’s previous book, DEAD IN THE FAMILY, also spent two weeks at #1 on the hardcover list, and this week will be #15 on the mass market bestseller list. Congratulations, Charlaine! This is wonderful news.

Charlaine Harris’s latest, DEAD RECKONING, will debut at #1 on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. This is the third in the series to debut at #1, after DEAD IN THE FAMILY and DEAD AND GONE. DEAD RECKONING is the 11th book in her Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which is sold in 35

With the release of her latest book, DEAD RECKONING (book #11 in the Sookie Stackhouse series; get it in print | for Kindle), Charlaine Harris has sold over a million copies for Kindle, reports Amazon. She is only the fourth author to have done so, joining fellow publishing phenomena Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, and Nora

UK numbers are in today for last week’s global English language launch of Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris.  Not only is it #1 on the Sunday Times of London bestseller list to appear on the 14th, which uses the Nielsen UK Bookscan numbers, but it’s #1 with a box of bullets.  Reported sales of 24,000

Big congratulations are in order for John Hemry: his latest book, DREADNAUGHT (buy it! | reviews), has hit #15 on the New York Times bestseller list! DREADNAUGHT is the first book in a new series, The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier, published under the pen name Jack Campbell. Beyond the Frontier picks up where the

The shortlist for the David Gemmell Legend Award went up last week, and we’re proud to say that two JABberwocky clients (and three JABberwocky books!) are on it. Peter V. Brett‘s sophomore novel THE DESERT SPEAR, second in his Demon Cycle, is shortlisted. So is Brandon Sanderson‘s THE WAY OF KINGS, the opening of his

Congratulations are in order for Mark Hodder!  His debut, THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK (reviews | buy), won the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award, presented at Norwescon on April 22nd. Here’s a shot of Mark’s US editor Lou Anders (at left) accepting on his behalf at the convention:   You can also read Mark

Congratulations are in order: the mass market release of DEAD IN THE FAMILY (get it here!), book #10 in Charlaine Harris‘s Sookie Stackhouse series, debuted at #3 on the New York Times mass market bestseller list last week. The hardcover edition was the #5 bestselling hardcover fiction title in 2010, according to figures released by

We’re pleased to announce that Brandon Sanderson‘s ALCATRAZ VS. THE EVIL LIBRARIANS (get it here!) has been included in North Carolina School Library Association’s Battle of the Books. ALCATRAZ will be read alongside classics by Robert Louis Stevenson and Elizabeth George Speare. Congratulations, Brandon! We’re excited to have so many students in North Carolina reading