This is a quick post during a busy week for me, but I did want to let you know about these two debuts in particular.

The Last Page by Anthony Huso Tor Books Hardcover – 25.99

(Complementary hardcover provided by Tor Books.)

The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel [...]

I included publisher’s links on this edition because most of these publishers are either small presses or are significantly discounted at the publisher’s site. Enjoy!

The Loving Dead by Beamer, Amelia Night Shade Books Trade Paperback – 14.95

Girls! Zombies! Zeppelins!

If Chuck Palahniuk and Christopher Moore had a zombie love child, it [...]

Here are some debut authors who have novels that became available through Carina Press in the past few weeks. From this point on, Carina debuts of the genres that I usually cover will appear in my regular debut showcases.

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On her Trail by Marcelle Dube Carina Press

Romantic Suspense – [...]

Happy release day to Shannon Delany for her debut novel, 13 to Life! Check out that bookmark!

Shannon has done a great job publicizing her novel, and I’ve even gotten in on the action. She’ll be by here on Friday to tell us the unusual means by which she achieved publication. She is also [...]

Here are some debuts that were on my debut calendar from May. I meant to keep up on these from week to week, but believe me when I say that May was the busiest I’ve been in longer than I can remember.

Some of these were on my Debut Calendar, but I never got [...]

Black Blade Blues by J. A. Pitts Tor Books Trade Paperback – 15.99

Sarah Beauhall has more on her plate than most twenty-somethings: day job as a blacksmith, night job as a props manager for low-budget movies, and her free time is spent fighting in a medieval re-enactment group.

The lead actor breaks [...]

Mind Games by Carolyn Crane Bantam/Spectra MM Paperback – 7.99 Urban Fantasy

Justine Jones isn’t your typical kick-ass type – she’s a hopeless hypochondriac whose life is run by fear.

She’s lured into a restaurant, Mongolian Delites, by tortured mastermind Sterling Packard, who promises he can teach her to channel her fears. In exchange, [...]

If You Follow Me: A Novel by Malena Watrous Harper Perennial Trade Paperback – $14.99/$16.99 Can. General Fiction

Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father’s suicide, Marina, a recent college graduate, has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, [...]

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin Orbit Books Trade Paperback – $13.99 Epic Fantasy

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky – a palace above the clouds where gods’ and mortals’ lives are intertwined.

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