We are thrilled to announce that Daniel Jose Older’s SHADOWSHAPER has been optioned for TV/film! Older’s debut YA title, SHADOWSHAPER was a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and also won the 2016 International Latino Book Award. Tony-winning actress Anika Noni Rose has now optioned the rights through her production company, Roaring Virgin Productions. “Shadowshaper

If you’ve not yet had a chance to view today’s Publishers Marketplace announcement (4/26), then you might have missed the news that JABberwocky has added and sold the first book by a debut non-fiction author! A horror filmmaker and writer living in Los Angeles, Mallory O’Meara has long been fascinated with all things that go

We have some great news on the film rights front, as Bryce Moore’s THE MEMORY THIEF is headed to development as a live-action/animated movie. The Stranger Things team at Shawn Levy’s Fox-based 21 Laps is working with Adaptive Books to adapt for Fox Animation. From Variety: “21 Laps produced ‘Arrival,’ which was nominated for eight Academy

We’re very excited to announce we finally have a premiere date for NBC’s Midnight, Texas! On Tuesday, July 25, at 10 p.m., the latest Charlaine Harris adaptation will be hitting the small screen. Here’s a little more about to what to expect from the show for those who haven’t read the books yet: From the visionary director

Mark your calendars! On Sunday, March 19th, DEAD OVER HEELS will be making its premiere on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel! The fifth installment of the Aurora Teagarden series, and based on the book of the same title, DEAD OVER HEELS continues the (mis)adventures of small town librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden.

Congratulations to Daniel Jose Older, whose debut YA has already received considerable attention since its release in 2015, and now SHADOWSHAPER has been named the #ReadBrave book in the Saint Paul Public Library for the year of 2017! The Saint Paul library also has a monthly teen book club, called the Teens Reading Bravely Book Club. The Read

Not only has NBC picked up Charlaine Harris’s Midnight, Texas series, they will produce a new series called Redliners, based on Harris’s short story “Small Kingdoms.” The story, one of Harris’s bestselling short stories, was originally published in the November 2013 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and then was included in The Best American Mystery Stories

          It’s Groundhog day, or that time we ask a rodent to predict the weather because the lack of sun and warmth has made us all collectively lose our minds. Or it’s that movie with Bill Murray! Or…it’s February 2nd and January is finally over. Anyway. These five classics are on sale for

HUNTED, a new reality show on CBS, premiered last night after the AFC Championship Game. A total of 11.83 million viewers watched the premiere, according to Variety. The show follows nine pairs of Fugitives as they attempt to evade capture for a month while being tracked by an elite team of Command Center investigators and

Film rights to Brandon Sanderson’s latest novella Snapshot (forthcoming in April from Vault Books) were sold this week to MGM! A science fiction detective story, Snapshot follows Anthony Davis, a cop who must solve a horrific crime in a world where “snapshots” allow characters to relive an entire day – for the purposes of investigation, of course. Broken Road Productions

Titan Books and BioWare will publish original novels set in the MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA universe, and the first is co-written by JABberwocky’s own K.C. Alexander! The novels will be directly woven into the action and adventure of the game—one of the most anticipated games of 2017—and will add depth to the MASS EFFECT saga. The

Drumroll please . . . Wait for it . . . Congratulations are in order for Mike Grosso, whose debut, I AM DRUMS, is an Illinois Reads selection for 2017! I AM DRUMS is a contemporary middle grade novel that tells the story of twelve-year-old Sam, whose dreams of becoming a drummer come up against hard

Congratulations to Silvia Moreno-Garcia on CERTAIN DARK THINGS’ being named to NPR’s Best Books of 2016! This is just the latest in a string of accolades for the buzzed-about book. Earlier this fall, it’s been: Selected as one of Publishers Weekly‘s “Top 10 for Fall 2016“ Named an “All New Scifi and Fantasy Book You

Malka Older’s debut science-fiction novel INFOMOCRACY was listed as a best book of 2016 by Kirkus, Washington Post, and Barnes & Noble! Kirkus called it “timely and perhaps timeless” in its Best Fiction of 2016 list, and according to Barnes & Noble’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2016 list, “Older’s fierce imagination and eye

We’ve decided to put some books on sale from $0.99-2.99 that highlight some of the wonderful books in our eBook program. All of these titles feature kickass heroines, LGBTQ, people of color, or disabled characters. Pick them up now at your e-tailer of choice! Daniel José Older‘s anthology SALSA NOCTURNA deluxe edition includes two new

  Four books by two different JABberwocky authors have been shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Awards! THE BANDS OF MOURNING by Brandon Sanderson and AGE OF MYTH by Michael J. Sullivan are both contenders for the Best Fantasy award. Also by Brandon Sanderson, CALAMITY (the third book in the Reckoners trilogy) is shortlisted for Best Young Adult

Congratulations are in order to Silvia Moreno-Garcia, as her SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS just won the 2016 World Fantasy Award for best anthology! The anthology compiles stories by women who delve into Lovecraftian depths to write women who are monsters and mothers, heroes and devourers. “What I love more than anything about this collection, and which I think blows

We’re excited to announce that DMG Entertainment has bought the film and licensing rights to Brandon Sanderson’s “Cosmere” universe in one of the largest literary deals of the year! Though his books unfold in different worlds and time periods, the “Cosmere” universe links most of Sanderson’s writing through an intricate system of magic. “Sanderson’s library of

From Niels Arden Oplev (the visionary director of Mr. Robot) and Charlaine Harris, the author behind HBO’s True Blood, comes a new series based on her best-selling trilogy Midnight, Texas. NBC held an exclusive viewing of the pilot episode at New York Comic Con earlier this month, and you can now watch the official trailer! The cast of

New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s latest release, ALL THE LITTLE LIARS, was #19 on the New York Times bestseller list for the week of October 8th. Thirteen years after the release of POPPY DONE TO DEATH, the previous Aurora Teagarden book, Aurora is back with a new mystery in ALL THE LITTLE LIARS. Harris’s well-loved

Congratulations to award-winning author Silvia Moreno-Garcia on her new honorific—SIGNAL TO NOISE is the recipient of the Copper Cylinder Award (as seen here at left)! The Copper Cylinder Award is presented every year by the Sunburst Award Society. From the Society’s page: The Copper Cylinder Award is an annual award for Canadian literature of the fantastic,

We are excited to announce that Spike Seldin and Hans Futterman of New Harlem Partnership have acquired the film rights to Peter V. Brett’s THE WARDED MAN, the first book in the bestselling Demon Cycle series. THE WARDED MAN (also called THE PAINTED MAN in the UK edition) has been published in 25 territories. Peter V. Brett will adapt

We are excited to announce the upcoming exhibition on the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine at Columbia University’s Butler Library! The exhibition will kick off with the EQMM 75th Anniversary Symposium on September 30. This is shaping up to be a great event! We are proud to represent Ellery Queen and we’re proud to have had

Congratulations are in order for Daniel José Older, as his Shadowshaper just won the International Latino Book Award for Best YA novel (link)! The awards ceremony took place at California State University—Dominguez Hills on September 8th. We were also excited to see a recent interview of Young People’s Poet Laureate Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming, Another Brooklyn) in the New

Our pyroclastic congratulations go out to Brandon Sanderson, as CALAMITY, the #1 bestselling finale to the Reckoners trilogy, has been shortlisted for the inaugural Dragon Award for Best Young Adult/Middle Grade Novel! The Dragon Awards are open to public voting (you can vote here!), and winners will be announced at Dragon Con, held in Atlanta, GA

NBC has released a poster for the upcoming MIDNIGHT, TEXAS series at San Diego Comic Con! The television series, which will premiere in late 2016 or early 2017, is led by Executive Producer/Writer Monica Owusu-Breen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), and Executive Producers David Janollari (Six Feet Under) and Niels Arden Oplev (Mr. Robot). The cast includes Dylan Bruce

Silvia Moreno-Garcia‘s anthology SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award! This collection of short stories, penned entirely by women, takes a new look at the worlds of HP Lovecraft. Mad Scientist Journal wrote, “Several of the stories stuck with me long after I finished reading the anthology, and some may linger in my

We are happy to announce another new JABberwocky title is on the New York Times bestseller list this week! Brandon Sanderson’s WHITE SAND hit #2 on the graphic novel bestseller list. WHITE SAND is a graphic novel adaptation of a previously unpublished work by Sanderson, set in the Cosmere universe. Pick up your copy of

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s SIGNAL TO NOISE is a finalist for the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, on top of all her other accolades! The award is presented every year by the British Fantasy Society at Fantasycon, to be held in Scarborough this coming September. Update: Silvia was also just longlisted for the Sunburst Award in Canada for SIGNAL TO

Big congrats to Marie Brennan, whose novel, A NATURAL HISTORY OF DRAGONS, won the 2016 French Prix Imaginales award, for the best translation! This book is the first in Brennan’s Memoirs of Lady Trent series, and has had great acclaim both in France and in the U.S. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raved: “Brennan’s world-building