Faith Hunter sells five books to Audible.com
Faith Hunter sold audio rights to the first three Rogue Mage books and the first two Jane Yellowrock novels to Audible.com...
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Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock
Launch party for Fantagraphics’ Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s
Fantagraphics Books is publishing NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s, and celebrating the publication with a party at their store in Seattle, Washington, on 30 January...
Read more [...] Albedo One’s International Aeon Award 2010 Contest
Irish sf magazine Albedo One's International Aeon Award writing contest begins once again with the new year...
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Nick Tosches sells urban vampire novel to Little, Brown
Nick Tosches sold a new novel about vampires who move in the bars and streets and subterranean places of New York City's night, to Michael Pietsch at Little, Brown. Expected publication is Autumn 2012.
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JABberwocky reports foriegn rights sales for Brett, Green, Huff, and Sanderson
JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Peter V. Brett, Simon R. Green, Tanya Huff, and Brandon Sanderson, in Brazil, Czech, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the UK...
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Stefan Petrucha sells 18th century vampire Indiana Jones novel to Grand Central
Stefan Petrucha sold Blood Prophecy to Alex Logan at Grand Central Publishing, via agent Joe Veltre of The Veltre Company. The books is "set during Napoleon's late-18th-century invasion of Egypt, featuring a 'vampire Indiana Jones' who searches for ancient clues in an effort to become human again."
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Elizabeth Moon’s Paksenarrion coming to Brilliance Audio
Agent Joshua Bilmes reports selling audio rights to Elizabeth Moon's Oath of Fealty, and two additional new Paksenarrion novels, to Brilliance. Del Rey will publish Oath of Fealty in hardcover in March.
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Jedediah Berry’s Manual of Detection wins Crawford Award
Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection wins the William L. Crawford Award for best first fantasy novel...
Read more [...] Kathryn Ptacek to receive HWA’s Silver Hammer Award
Kathryn Ptacek receives the HWA's award for service to the organization...
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2009 BSFA Award Shortlists Announced
The shortlists for this year's British Science Fiction Association Awards are now available, and voting is open until late March. The nominees are...
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2009 Aurealis Award Winners
The winners of this year's Aurealis Awards, for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, are...
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Promotions at Weird Tales
Ann VanderMeer is now Weird Tales' Editor in Chief, Mary Robinette Kowal is the new Art Director, and Paula Guran is the new Nonfiction Editor. Stephen H. Segal is stepping away from the magazine's day-to-day operations...
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Contents of Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year #2
Editor Ellen Datlow announces the contents of The Best Horror of the Year #2, the second edition of her annual reprint anthology to be published by Night Shade Books...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in January 2010
There's finally been some movement at the top of the charts, but Avatar is #1 for an incredible fifth straight week. Otherwise, the charts are a lonely place for sf/f/h films, with some movement in and out at the bottom...
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Most Popular Articles: 17-23 January 2010
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week...
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