By superwench83, on March 10th, 2010
Spellwright
by Blake Charlton
Tor Books
Hardcover – $24.99 (discounted at Amazon and elsewhere)
Reviewed by Superwench83
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Not so in Blake Charlton’s world. In his novel Spellwright, not only can words break your bones, but they can chop off your limbs, stab your heart, and create all [...]
By Tia Nevitt, on March 9th, 2010
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.
There, to her shock, Yeine is [...]
By Tia Nevitt, on February 16th, 2010
I did a little experiment on you guys. I posted the last Showcase without any of my usual impressions after each book. Superwench was the only one who commented. Therefore, this time, I added my comments and left off the images. Something has to go; these posts take hours to assemble as it is. And [...]
By Tia Nevitt, on January 26th, 2010
Congratulations to the following debut novelists!
Gutshot Straight: A Novel
by Lou Berney
William Morrow
Hardcover – $24.99
General Fiction
When Charles “Shake” Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he’s only got two problems: he’s too nice a guy for the life he’s led, but not nice enough for any other. [...]
By Tia Nevitt, on January 12th, 2010
Deadtown
by Nancy Holzner
Penguin/Ace Fantasy
Paperback – $7.99
Genre: Urban Fantasy (looks humorous, too!)
They call it Deadtown: the city’s quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders—but Victory Vaughn, Boston’s only professional demon slayer, isn’t exactly human…
Vicky’s demanding job keeping the city safe from all manner of monsters is one reason [...]
By Tia Nevitt, on December 27th, 2009
I’m officially back! I’ve had a nice break, which was much-needed because I spent a large part of it sick. But the antibiotics appear to be working and since I was up early today, I decided I’d finish up this debut round-up. I also have a bunch of reviews in the works — being sick [...]
By Tia Nevitt, on November 20th, 2009
I found some more debuts for you, courtesy of the Edelweiss catalog search tool, which I will be making great use of from this day forward. For now, I’m including paperback debuts where the novel has already released in hardcover. Mostly, because I had a bunch of these before I realized they were there. But [...]
By Raven, on November 10th, 2009
In my quest to be able to provide debut news for all genres, I bought a subscription to Publishers Marketplace. It is valuable to me because it has deal announcements, and the deal announcements have a special category for debuts. I got my first Lunch Weekly on Friday, and it had five debuts. They aren’t [...]
By Raven, on November 3rd, 2009
At present, I’m running low of debuts on my calendar. Since I have not yet moved my debut submission form to this blog, I wanted to point out that the form is still available and operative at Fantasy Debut, on this post:
Inform Me of a Debut
I would like to add that I now intend to [...]
By Tia Nevitt, on October 22nd, 2009
The Windup Girl (Amazon USA – UK – Canada)
by Paolo Bacigalupi (website)
Night Shade Books (includes excerpt and stories from the same world)
Hardcover – 24.99
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent [...]
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