We at JABberwocky would like to officially welcome author Janci Patterson aboard! Janci’s debut, the YA novel SKIPPED, sold in a pre-empt to Christy Ottaviano for her eponymous imprint at Henry Holt, just before the London Book Fair. Congratulations, Janci!

Great news! We’ve just learned that Brandon Sanderson has been named a finalist, not once, but twice for the David Gemmell Legend Award! Brandon has been nominated, both for his NYT-bestselling standalone WARBREAKER (reviews | buy), and the #1 bestselling THE GATHERING STORM, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Congratulations, Brandon! This is wonderful recognition

Peter V. Brett is officially a Sunday Times bestseller! Peter’s second novel, The Desert Spear (buy: US | UK) debuted at #9 on the Sunday Times hardcover list last Sunday, a tremendous feat for a genre novel. Plus, we’ve just learned that the novel has earned a place on next Sunday’s list as well. Congratulations,

Great news for Tanya Huff fans! Kaleidoscope Entertainment and The Fremantle Corporation today announced that vampire Henry Fitzroy is returning to action in an all-new series based on the ‘Smoke’ books by Tanya Huff whose ‘Blood’ novels were turned into the series Blood Ties. We at JABberwocky are excited at the news, and greatly look

More big news abroad for Charlaine Harris! Last week, she hit the charts in the UK, and this week the French edition of DEAD AND GONE has debuted at #13 on the bestseller list of Livres Hebdo, the French version of Publisher’s Weekly. Big congratulations, Charlaine! And back at the ranch, we’re getting ready for

Charlaine Harris is officially a Sunday Times bestseller! After conquering the NY Times list in 2009 with DEAD AND GONE (reviews | buy) , Charlaine and her smash Sookie Stackhouse series have now crossed over into the UK, with spectacular results. DEAD AND GONE (reviews | buy) is now the #10 selling hardback novel in

We have just learned that Peter V. Brett and Brandon Sanderson have been nominated for the Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire! The Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire is the French-language equivalent of the Hugo or Nebula, and both have been nominated in the category for Roman etranger (foreign novels translated into French). The books nominated were Brett’s

Locus loves Tobias Buckell! His new short story collection, TIDES FROM THE NEW WORLDS, is on the Locus Recommended Reading list for 2009. Congratulations, Toby!

We at JABberwocky are thrilled to announce that the debut novel of one of our newest clients, Jon Sprunk, has now sold in more than five countries! Jon’s debut novel, the dark fantasy SHADOW’S SON, sold to Pyr in a three-book deal for English-language rights, and subsequently tied for JABberwocky’s largest-ever deal in Germany, to

We at JABberwocky have gotten even more great year-end news! Peter V. Brett‘s THE WARDED MAN (aka THE PAINTED MAN) has been named the Best Book of 2009 by Fantasy Book Critic’s Mihir Wanchoo, and the ALA named it one of the Top Five Fantasy novels of 2009! Way to go, Peter! The Onion/AV Club

We have just learned that Dene Low has been named a finalist for the Edgar Award! Her debut, PETRONELLA SAVES NEARLY EVERYONE (reviews | buy), is up for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel (press release). The Edgar Awards will be presented to the winners April 29th at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in

Paloppa Pictures LLC and Brandon Sanderson are pleased to announce that Paloppa has taken an option on film rights to Sanderson’s NY Times bestselling Mistborn fantasy trilogy! Here’s more, excerpted from the official announcement: The principals in Paloppa Pictures LLC are Christopher Geary, Rob Micai and Marc Bryant. Micai is a co-producer of the forthcoming

Charlaine Harris is (drumroll please!), according to Publishers Weekly, the best selling female author of 2009! Publishers Weekly just released its list of the Bestselling Books of 2009, and Charlaine has three of the ten spots on the Mass Market Paperback list! This is more than any other author of adult fiction; John Grisham and

Congratulations are in order for Del Howison and Jeff Gelb! DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTED (reviews | buy), the third of their star-studded anthologies, might just get another jewel in its crown: it has been named a finalist for the Black Quill Award for Best Anthology! UPDATE: DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTED has also been selected as

We have just learned that Elizabeth Moon’s THE SPEED OF DARK (reviews | buy) has been chosen as the January 2010 sf selection by GoodReads! The GoodReads sf/fantasy book club will be reading and discussing the book, which won the 2003 Nebula for Best Novel, throughout the month. So, whether this is your first time

Congratulations are again in order for Brandon Sanderson! Brandon’s stand-alone fantasy novel WARBREAKER (reviews | buy) was just chosen by Barnes & Noble as #4 in their list of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels of 2009. This comes on the heels of Library Journal picking the book for their top five sf/fantasy list last month.

We just learned that books by Charlaine Harris and Kat Richardson have been chosen by Paul Goat Allen for Barnes & Noble’s list of the best paranormal fantasy novels of the last decade! Charlaine Harris‘ DEAD UNTIL DARK and Kat Richardson‘s VANISHED were the books chosen, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to see two

Congratulations are in order for Alan Ball and the cast and crew of True Blood! The series, based off of Charlaine Harris‘s #1 NY Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series, was chosen as one of the Top Ten TV series of 2009 by the American Film Institute, and has subsequently been chosen as an official selection

THE GATHERING STORM (get your copy) is a #1 New York Times bestseller! We at JABberwocky just received word that the twelfth book in Robert Jordan’s beloved Wheel of Time series, which is being continued for its concluding three volumes by Brandon Sanderson from extensive notes left by the late Mr. Jordan, beat out Dan

Congratulations are in order for Charlaine Harris! This time, Harper Connelly fans get to have the good news. GRAVE SECRET (get your copy), debuted at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list! We at JABberwocky are thrilled to see Harper finally get her due, as this final volume in the four-book series marks the

Congratulations are in order for Charlaine Harris! Sookie Stackhouse fans will be pleased to learn that last week Charlaine’s new Sookie short story collection, A Touch of Dead, debuted at #2 on all major bestseller lists, including the New York Times!

We at JABberwocky are thrilled to learn that TRUE BLOOD, based off of the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, is now not only a Golden Globe award-winning series, but an Emmy winner as well! The series received the Emmy for Best Casting, beating out “Mad Men” and “Friday Night Lights.” We have to say,

We’ve just learned that Jeri Westerson has been named a finalist for the Shamus Award! Jeri is up for the Shamus for her debut, VEIL OF LIES (reviews | buy). She has also been named a finalist for the Macavity Award. The Shamus is given by the Private Eye Writers of America, the winner chosen

We have big news today for fans of Brandon Sanderson! At Worldcon, we made official something that has been in the works for the last few months. Brandon has signed a major book deal with Tor for a new series, called The Stormlight Archive. The first book will be titled THE WAY OF KINGS, and

We at JABberwocky would like to congratulate all the cast and crew of True Blood on their recent Emmy nominations! The series received three nominations: Art Direction (Single-Camera Series) for “Burning House of Love,” “Cold Ground,” and “Sparks Fly Out;” Casting (Drama Series) Main Title Design We’re thrilled at the news, and these nominations are

Congratulations are in order for Kat Richardson! VANISHED, the fourth book in Kat’s national-bestselling Harper Blaine series (reviews | buy), reached #4 on the Nielsen Bookscan hc fantasy bestseller list, in a busy week for fantasy launches.