Book deal report

When invaders occupy Cleveland, life in Dayton becomes very uncomfortable

Add another forthcoming book to the growing list of novels about the collapse of the U.S. Martha Moody, author of Best Friends and The Office of Desire, just sold a dystopian-sounding novel, Sharp and Dangerous Virtues, to Ohio University Press. It’s fascinating to see how many different ways authors imagine the near-future decline and/or fall…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 15

New book will illuminate the endless wonders of fake science for you

The latest Tumblr to get a book deal is Fake Science, the site “for when the facts are too confusing.” “Senior Fake Scientist” Phil Edwards will turn his amazing site into Fake Science 101, a textbook for Adams Media. The blurb at Publishers Marketplace describes the book as “a humorous tour of all the subjects…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 29

The hot new young adult novel that’s being compared to Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse

Would Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse have been a bigger hit if it had been pitched more to teenagers, a population who know a little something about people trying to erase their identities? A new young-adult novel aims to find out. Jennifer Rush just sold her debut novel Altered to Little, Brown, and it’s described in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 24

New author gets a book deal after publisher finds him on Twitter

For many new authors, the hardest part of getting published is just getting the attention of publishers. You have a brilliant book, but the publishing industry seems huge and monolithic. Except that now, publishers are paying attention to online sources. Angry Robot Books put out a press release saying that they signed up a new…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 15

Charles Stross’ Next 3 Novels: Lovecraftian Horror, Space Opera and Utopian Politics

If you’ve been hoping Charles Stross would return to the diverse territories of his Laundry series, Saturn’s Children or Halting State, then you’ll be excited by his next few novels. The award-winning author just signed a deal with Orbit UK to put out his next three novels, which cover the territory of Lovecraftian horror, space-opera…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Mar 8

“Soon I Will Be Invincible” author Austin Grossman tells us about his two forthcoming novels

Today Mulholland Books announced it bought the next two books from Austin Grossman, whose 2007 novel Soon I Will Be Invincible won critical praise and devoted fans for its tale of a melancholy, neurotic supervillain. Grossman, an io9 contributor, talked to us on Friday about the six-figure book deal, what the books are about, and…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Mar 7

A Million-Dollar Novel With A Roland Emmerich-Worthy Premise: The Earth’s rotation slows

We were just getting excited for Louis Leterrier’s G, in which the Earth stops spinning and gravity stops. And now there’s another great take on the burgeoning “rotational disaster” subgenre. https://gizmodo.com/louis-leterrier-finally-gets-green-light-to-direct-the-5767977 (Update: To be clear, the “Earth stops spinning and gravity stops” thing is the premise of Louis Leterrier’s movie. The novel we’re discussing here…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24

The Vampire Sound of Music, Brought to Us by the Creator of the Zombie Beatles

The trend of remixing classic texts with horror elements keeps getting crazier. Case in point: Alan Goldsher, author of the “zombie Beatles” novel Paul Is Dead, returns with My Favorite Fangs, a book that reinvents Sound of Music with vampires. He told us what to expect — including vampires bitchslapping Nazis. According to the book’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 23

Disney gets into the dystopian YA novel game

We’re just guessing that the bioengineered paradise where a teenage girl and her clone fight over the same guy will turn out to be less than perfect once the truth is revealed, in the new young adult novel Beta by Rachel Cohn. Beta, coming Fall 2012 from Disney-Hyperion, will be the first of four books…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 7

Suicide is definitely not painless, in Tim Pratt’s new dark fantasy novel

What if you could really get on board the mothership or enter a higher state by killing yourself? That’s the question Tim Pratt’s new dark fantasy novel asks. Pratt, who also writes the Marla Mason novels as T.A. Pratt, just sold his novel Briarpatch to ChiZine Publications. Here’s the official blurb about the book: A…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 2

Sandman Slim’s life is only going to get more violent in the next three books

Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series will continue with a second trilogy after the third book, Aloha From Hell, comes out. And Kadrey’s new deal with the newly global Harper Voyager will get his books into the U.K. as well. https://gizmodo.com/harper-collins-creates-global-science-fiction-imprint-5629777 The second Sandman Slim trilogy will continue the plot arc that “escalates” in the third…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jan 21

High Concept Post-Apocalyptic Novel: A Blinding White Flash, then Darkness and Monsters

Peter Crowther’s PS Publishing has put out some of the UK’s most cutting-edge books of late, and now he’s publishing his own trilogy with Angry Robot Books. In Darkness Falling, a blinding light covers the Earth… then the nightmare begins. Here’s how Angry Robot describes the trilogy in a press release: The Forever Twilight trilogy…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 17

Finally, A Whole Anthology about Power Armor

Powered armor rocks our world, whether it’s the ultra-realistic exoskeletons of the near future or the super-enhanced mecha of thousands of years from now. So we’re excited to see anthology-editor extraordinaire John Joseph Adams doing a book of power-armor stories. Adams, editor of Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazine as well as such anthologies as The Living…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 5

Extreme Body Modification in a Nightmarish Sexual Underworld

Jay Lake just sold a novella to Prime Books, which could be his darkest, most intense work yet. Body modification and an exploration of the sexual underworld are just the start in Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh. Here’s the blurb for Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh from Prime Books:…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Dec 24

Urban fantasy author’s novel gets a great book deal — after 50 agents turned it down

A night nurse goes to work at a secret ward, where she treats supernatural creatures, and gets involved in a 300-year vampire feud. Cassie Alexander’s Nightshifted has an intriguing premise… and the story of its road to publication is inspirational. According to Publishers Marketplace, Cassie Alexander’s first novel got a three-book deal with St. Martins,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Dec 17

N.K. Jemisin’s newest saga: deadly corruption among the magicians of sleep

N.K. Jemisin’s telling us a grand saga of gods and godlings in her Kingdoms trilogy, and now she’s sold a new duology about sleep magic in a society based on bronze-age Egypt. Here’s the first blurb for Jemisin’s novels Reaper and Conqueror, coming in July and August of 2012 from Orbit Books: In the city-state…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 9

Afghanistan’s strangest gift to one U.S. soldier: an awareness of the dead in our midst

A soldier comes home from Afghanistan with a strange gift — she can see ghosts. How did Deborah Coates’ Wide Open manage to win a three-book deal with Tor? Here’s how Publishers Marketplace describes Coates’ first book, which convinced Tor to ante up for her whole trilogy: Deborah Coates’s WIDE OPEN, in which a woman…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Dec 9

Another dystopian YA trilogy gets a half-million dollar book contract, plus a movie deal

Think the dystopian young-adult novel craze has died down? Guess again. A post-apocalyptic dystopian trilogy just scored over half a million dollars from a major publisher, plus a movie deal. We talked to author Julianna Baggott about her PURE trilogy. According to last night’s Publishers Marketplace, Julianna Baggott scored a “major deal” (which means more…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 19

When anything in books can become real, you should watch what you read

We’ve seen stories about worlds where anything from a book can become real, but Jim Hines has a clever twist. In his new series, the popularity of paranormal and urban fantasy novels leads to a plague of book-spawned monsters. Hines just sold Libriomancer, the first book in his Magic ex Libris series, to Daw Books,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 18

Inside Tu Books, a new publisher focusing on multicultural SF and fantasy books for kids

Science fiction and fantasy books for younger audiences are booming — but they still mostly feature white heroes and are aimed at white audiences. So Stacy Whitman is launching Tu Books, a new publisher of multicultural children’s and young-adult SF. Whitman, a former editor with Wizards of the Coast imprint Mirrorstone Books, decided to start…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 5

When invaders occupy Cleveland, life in Dayton becomes very uncomfortable

New book will illuminate the endless wonders of fake science for you

The hot new young adult novel that’s being compared to Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse

New author gets a book deal after publisher finds him on Twitter

Charles Stross’ Next 3 Novels: Lovecraftian Horror, Space Opera and Utopian Politics

“Soon I Will Be Invincible” author Austin Grossman tells us about his two forthcoming novels

A Million-Dollar Novel With A Roland Emmerich-Worthy Premise: The Earth’s rotation slows

The Vampire Sound of Music, Brought to Us by the Creator of the Zombie Beatles

Disney gets into the dystopian YA novel game

Suicide is definitely not painless, in Tim Pratt’s new dark fantasy novel

Sandman Slim’s life is only going to get more violent in the next three books

High Concept Post-Apocalyptic Novel: A Blinding White Flash, then Darkness and Monsters

Finally, A Whole Anthology about Power Armor

Extreme Body Modification in a Nightmarish Sexual Underworld

Urban fantasy author’s novel gets a great book deal — after 50 agents turned it down

N.K. Jemisin’s newest saga: deadly corruption among the magicians of sleep

Afghanistan’s strangest gift to one U.S. soldier: an awareness of the dead in our midst

Another dystopian YA trilogy gets a half-million dollar book contract, plus a movie deal

When anything in books can become real, you should watch what you read

Inside Tu Books, a new publisher focusing on multicultural SF and fantasy books for kids

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