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P.C. HODGELL’s eighth Kencyrath novel sold to Toni Weisskopf at Baen via Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.
MIKE SHEPHERD sold three more Kris Longknife novels to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace via Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. He also delivered Kris Longknife: Tenacious to Buchanan.
KAMERON HURLEY sold The Mirror Empire and a second book in the Mirror Empire series to Lee Harris at Angry Robot via Hannah Bowman of Liza Dawson Associates.
DALE BAILEY sold mosaic novel Acheron: A City in Seven Stories to Mark Teppo at Resurrection House via Matt Bialer of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.
STINA LEICHT’s Cold Iron and a second book sold to Joe Monti at Saga Press via Barry Goldblatt of Barry Goldblatt Literary.
GENEVIEVE VALENTINE sold near-future political thriller Persona to Navah Wolfe at Saga Press via Barry Goldblatt of Barry Goldblatt Literary Agency.
VICTORIA SCHWAB, writing as V.E. SCHWAB, sold fantasy A Darker Shade of Magic and a sequel to Miriam Weinberg at Tor via Holly Root of Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.
CHRIS WILLRICH sold Gaunt and Bone novel The Charts of Tomorrow to Lou Anders at Pyr via Barry Goldblatt of the Barry Goldblatt Literary.
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI sold A Deafening Silence in Heaven, the final Remy Chandler novel, to Ginjer Buchanan at Roc via Kate Testerman.
JAMES ROLLINS & REBECCA CANTRELL’s third Blood Gospel novel sold to Lyssa Keusch at Morrow for seven figures via Russell Galen of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary.
NICOLE KORNHER-STACE sold Archivist Wasp to Kelly Link at Big Mouth House via Kate McKean of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.
DAVE ZELTSERMAN sold The Boy Who Killed Demons to Mark Krotov at Overlook.
PETER NEWMAN’s The Vagrant and The Malice sold to Natasha Bardon at Voyager via Juliet Mushens of the Agency Group.
JOSH GAYLORD, writing as ALDEN BELL, sold When We Were Animals, about a world where teens turn feral at the full moon for a year, to Josh Kendall at Mulholland Books via Eleanor Jackson of Dunow, Carlson & Lemer. Film rights were optioned by Scott Rudin Productions for Sony Pictures via Sylvie Rabineau of RWSG on behalf of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
MARIKO KOKE sold horror novel The Graveyard Apartment, translated by Deborah Boehm, to Brendan Deneen on behalf of Thomas Dunne Books via Diego Nunez of the Wylie Agency.
JACQUELINE BAKER sold The Broken Hours, about H.P. Lovecraft and his ‘‘sinister house,’’ to Jane Warren at Harper Canada via Martha Webb and Anne McDermid of Anne McDermid Associates.
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PAUL KRUEGER sold an urban fantasy series about ‘‘a secret society of bartenders who make magical, monster-fighting cocktails’’ to Blair Thornburgh of Quirk Books via Jennie Goloboy of Red Sofa Literary.
BETSY SCHOW sold Spelled, ‘‘The Wizard of Oz collides with fairy tales,’’ to Aubrey Poole at Sourcebooks via Michelle Witte of Mansion Street Literary Management.
ROD DUNCAN sold The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter and Unseemly Science to Marc Gascoigne at Angry Robot via Ed Wilson of Johnson & Alcock.
ALAN GLYNN sold doppelganger thriller Paradime and Under the Night, a sequel to The Dark Fields (adapted as SF film Limitless), to Picador USA via Antony Harwood of Antony Harwood Literary Agency.
DAVID WALTON’s Superposition and sequel Supersymmetry sold to Lou Anders at Pyr via Eleanor Wood of Spectrum Literary Agency.
Dutch writer BAVO DHOOGE sold Styx to Sarah Knight at Simon451 with Brit Hvide to edit via Peter Riva of International Transactions.
J.C. NELSON’s Three Hearts – ‘‘The Mummy meets Indiana Jones’’ – went to Leis Pederson at Ace via Pam van Hylckama Vlieg of Foreword Literary.
MARINA MYLES sold Sleeping Beauty and the Demon and Cinderella and the Ghost, latest in the Cursed Princes series, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington via Louise Fury of the Bent Agency.
JONATHAN MOORE’s Close Reach sold to Sarah Peed at Hydra via Alice Martell of the Martell Agency.
CLEVE LAMISON sold Full-Blood Half-Breed to Sarah Peed at Hydra via Judith Hansen of Hansen Literary Agency.
HOWARD ODENTZ’s Bloody Bloody Apple went to Debra Dixon at Bell Bridge Books via Lois Winston of Ashley Grayson Literary Agency.
ROGER BRUNER sold The Devil and Pastor Gus, a ‘‘tongue-in-cheek modern retake on ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’,’’ to Eddie Jones of Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas via Terry Burns of Hartline Literary Agency.
GWYN CREADY sold Scottish time-travel romance Just in Time for a Highlander and two more titles to Deb Werksman at Sourcebooks via Claudia Cross of Folio Literary Management.
D.B. REYNOLDS sold Vampires in America and six more books in the series to Brenda Chin at Imajinn Books.
DALIA RODDY sold The Keeper to Alisa Gus at Curiosity Quills Press via Kimberley Cameron of Kimberley Cameron & Associates.
MISHELL BAKER sold first novel Borderline to Navah Wolfe at Saga Press via Rachel Kory and Russell Galen of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency.
RHONDA MASON’s first novel Empress Game, beginning a space opera trilogy, sold to Alice Nightingale at Titan at auction via Richard Curtis of Richard Curtis Associates.
SHALLEE McARTHUR’s debut YA The Unhappening of Genesis Lee sold to Kristin Kulsavage of Sky Pony Press via Hannah Bowman of Liza Dawson Associates.
JESSICA LEAKE sold first novel Arcana to Nicole Frail and Constance Renfrow at Talos Press via Brianne Johnson of Writers House.
MICHAEL SOLANA sold debut YA Citizen Zim to Mink Choi of Thought Catalog.
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS will edit Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse for Steve Saffel at Titan via Barry Goldblatt of Barry Goldblatt Literary.
BOOKS RESOLD
JACK McDEVITT’s first novel The Hercules Text resold to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace via Chris Lotts. It was published as an Ace Science Fiction Special in 1987. He delivered Alex Benedict novel Coming Home to Buchanan.
BENTLEY LITTLE resold The Revelation, The Mailman, The Summoning, University, Dominion, The Ignored, The Walking, The Association, The Collection, The Policy, Dispatch, and The Burning to Cemetery Dance Publications.
RICHARD KADREY resold first novel Metrophage and handed in The Getaway God to Diana Gill at Voyager.
HUGH HOWEY resold Sand to Jack Fogg at Century in the UK via Jenny Meyer of Jenny Meyer Literary Agency and Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency.
STEVEN KENT resold The Clone Apocalypse to Titan via Danny Baror at Baror International in association with Richard Curtis Associates.
DALE BROWN’s near-future thriller Starfire and a second book sold to Constable & Robinson in the UK via Sylvie Rosokoff of Trident Media Group on behalf of Robert Gottlieb.
BOOKS DELIVERED
STEPHEN BAXTER turned in Proxima to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.
CHARLAINE HARRIS turned in Midnight Crossroad, first in a new series, and Harris & TONI KELNER delivered anthology Games Creatures Play, both to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.
NANCY KRESS delivered novella Yesterday’s Kin to Jacob Weisman at Tachyon.
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DARYL GREGORY turned in novella We Are All Completely Fine to Jacob Weisman at Tachyon.
S.M. STIRLING delivered The Golden Princess to Ginjer Buchanan at Roc.
WILLIAM DIETZ turned in Andromeda’s War and Bonebreaker (first in the Mutant Files series) to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.
SIMON R. GREEN handed in Secret Histories novel Property of a Lady Faire and Ghostfinders novel Voices from Beyond to Ginjer Buchanan at Roc.
SHARON SHINN sold a fantasy novel and an Elemental Blessing novel to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace via Ethan Ellenberg, and delivered latest Shifting Circle novel, The Turning Season, to Buchanan.
STEVE PERRY turned in Cutter’s War novel The Tejano Conflict to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.
KATHERINE KURTZ turned in The King’s Deryni to Ginjer Buchan at Roc.
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urned in Prince of Fools, book one of the Red Queen’s War, to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.
AMBER BENSON delivered The Witches of Echo Park: Homecoming, first in a new series, to Ginjer Buchanan at Roc.
TAYLOR ANDERSON turned in Destroyermen novel Deadly Shores, to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace via Russell Galen of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency.
BAILEY CUNNINGHAM’s Parallel Parks novel Path of Smoke was handed in to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.
CHRIS MARIE GREEN turned in Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire novel Every Breath You Take to Ginjer Buchanan at Roc.
DESIRINA BOSKOVICH & JEFF VANDERMEER delivered ‘‘sumptuous coffee table book’’ The Steampunk User’s Manual to David Cashion at Abrams Image.
PUBLISHING
GILLIAN REDFEARN has been promoted to publishing director at Gollancz, with JON WOOD becoming managing director as well as Orion deputy group publisher.
David Moench (2013)
KIM HOVEY was promoted to senior vice president and deputy publisher of Ballantine Bantam Dell. In Random House’s publicity department, DAVID MOENCH and CINDY MURRAY have both been promoted to deputy director of publicity, with LINDSAY KENNEDY promoted to publicist and KATIE McNALLY to associate publicist.
CARL ENGLE-LAIRD is now editorial assistant at Tor.com.
MEDIA
Film rights to ROBERT SILVERBERG’s novella ‘‘How It Was When the Past Went Away’’ were optioned by Lava Films, with Alex & David Pastor writing the screenplay.
TV rights to NEIL GAIMAN’s American Gods were optioned by Stefanie Berk at Freemantle Media (after development attempts at HBO ended) via Jon Levin of CAA on behalf of Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.
JOHN SCALZI’s Redshirts is being adapted as a miniseries for cable network FX by producer Jon Shestack, producer-director Ken Kwapis, and his partner Alexandra Beattie, via Joel Gotler of IPG.
Film rights to Mockingbird by Walter Tevis were optioned by Robert Schwartz at Seismic Pictures via Susan Schulman of Susan Schulman Literary Agency.
JOHN CONNOLLY’s supernatural horror story ‘‘Mr. Pettinger’s Daemon’’ was optioned by 20th Century Fox via Steve Fisher of APA on behalf of the Darley Anderson Literary Agency.
JONATHAN MABERRY is adapting his V-Wars anthologies as a comic series for Ted Adams at IDW Publishing via Sara Crowe of Harvey Klinger.
JOSEPH FINK & JEFFREY CRANOR resold the novel based on their Welcome to Night Vale podcast to Jenni Hill at Orbit UK at auction via Angharad Kowal of Writers House UK on behalf of Jodi Reamer of Writers House.
(For ‘‘Books Sold – YA and Children’s,’’ see ‘‘The Data File.’’)
NASA SOCIAL
SF writers Sandra D. McDonald, David D. Levine, Mary Louise Davie, and Steven D. Covey attended a ‘‘NASA Social’’ to coincide with the launch of the TDRS-L satellite at Cape Canaveral FL, January 23, 2014.
Sandra D. Mcdonald, David D. Levine, Mary Louise Davie, Steven D. Covey
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THE DATA FILE
SFWA Responds to Anti-Censorship Petition • Introducing Saga Press • MacAdam/Cage Bankruptcy • World Conventions News • Announcements • Legal News • ALA Awards • 2013 BSFA Shortlist • Awards News • Books Sold – YA and Children’s • Noble Librarians Prize • Nook Layoffs • Publishing News • Magazine News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Publications Received • Catalogs Received
SFWA RESPONDS TO ANTI-CENSORSHIP PETITION
SFWA President Steven Gould has responded to Dave Truesdale’s recently circulated petition opposing proposed changes to the Bulletin’s editorial structure, ‘‘SFWA President Endorses PC Bulletin Censorship’’, subsequently signed by several prominent authors. Truesdale is a former editor of the Bulletin, though he is not currently a SFWA member. The petition can be read here:
The editorial structure of the Bulletin is being revamped after some members expressed concern about problematic material in the publication last year. A task force was assigned to consider changes to the Bulletin. After surveying the membership about what they wanted from the organization’s official publication, SFWA put out a call for a new editor which mentions taking part in the ‘‘proofing and review process with select volunteer and board members,’’ along with some other points that Truesdale and others have construed as having the potential for censorship, including choosing cover art ‘‘in line with SFWA standards’’ and choosing ‘‘topics and columnists that fit within vision of the Bulletin.’’
SFWA President Steven Gould posted an official response, which reads in part:
While this petition has not been formally presented to SFWA, I have seen versions and they express concerns for something that does not and will not exist:
Specifically, the editor of the Bulletin will not have to go to any selection or editorial review board to approve material.
In compliance with the by-laws and the will of our members, there will be regular oversight of the Bulletin to ensure that it is inclusive of and reflects the diversity of all our members, and that it continues to address the changing needs of professional writers.
With all of our publications, SFWA will continue to stand strong for the rights of writers. This includes opposition to censorship.
Discussion of the issues raised in the petition continue to be discussed widely and vociferously online by members and non-members of SFWA alike.
INTRODUCING SAGA PRESS
The new ‘‘YA and above’’ SF imprint from Simon & Schuster Children’s, helmed by executive editor Joe Monti, has been given a name: Saga Press. Monti says,
Taking our cue from the myth, Saga Press is an all-inclusive fantasy and science fiction imprint publishing the best of speculative fiction from literary to commercial appeal, with a special emphasis on works that speak to a broad readership. First announced in October 2013, the imprint will be led by executive editor Joe Monti, editor Navah Wolfe, and publisher Justin Chanda. The imprint will be housed within the Simon & Schuster Children’s Division, while publishing a list of titles that will appeal primarily to adults and teens. The Saga team’s initial acquisitions reflect the imprint’s wide range and passion for storytelling.
And so our saga begins in Spring 2015….
The first books from the new imprint include a debut fantasy epic by Ken Liu, a near-future political thriller by Nebula Award finalist Genevieve Valentine, and Zachary Brown’s first book in an SF series, as well as reprints of the Harper Hall Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey and the Monstrumologist Quartert by Rick Yancey.
MACADAM/CAGE BANKRUPTCY
San Francisco indie publisher MacAdam/Cage filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in January 2014. The company’s ongoing financial problems worsened after founder David Poindexter’s death in April 2013, and they were unable to find a buyer for the company. They have almost $1.4 million in liabilities from unsecured creditors, $64,000 in liabilities from secured creditors, and only $130,000 in assets, most in the form of book inventory. The largest secured creditor is Penguin, owed nearly $25,000. Unsecured creditors include their printer, distributors, bookstores, and numerous authors, including Audrey Niffenegger. Creditors meet for the first time on February 25, 2014.
WORLD CONVENTIONS NEWS
The 40th World Fantasy Convention, to be held November 6-9, 2014 in Washington DC, has published Progress Report Two, which includes the World Fantasy Awards nomination ballot; announces guests of honor Guy Gavriel Kay, Les Edwards, and Stuart David Schiff; special guest Lail Finlay; and toastmaster Jane Yolen; plus information on the art show, dealer’s room, program items, membership list, and other information.
Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, August 14-18, 2014 at ExCel, London Docklands, issued Media Release #11, announcing that more than 5,000 people have signed up as members of the convention. Four thousand have purchased adult or young-adult atten
ding memberships. It is expected to be the largest Worldcon held outside the US.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nnedi Okorafor will be the young-adult author special guest at Detcon1, the 2014 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC), held July 17-20, 2014 in Detroit Michigan. Okorafor will also present two awards for YA and middle-grade speculative fiction at the 2014 Golden Duck Awards, as part of a special focus on YA literature at Detcon1.
‘‘Science Fiction: New Death’’ is ‘‘a major contemporary science fiction exhibition’’ being held at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool, England from March 27 to June 22, 2014. The exhibit is inspired by the works of J.G. Ballard, and includes a series of short texts by China Miéville, in addition to art by James Bridle, Mark Leckey, Karen Mirz & Brad Butler, Jon Rafman, and Larissa Sansour that ‘‘explore how technology is creating new ways of living (and dying), of fashioning identities and the growth of cult-like communities; making our everyday lives feel increasingly like science fiction.’’ For details:
LEGAL NEWS
Apple’s appeal to limit the powers of court-appointed antitrust compliance monitor Michael Bromwich was partly successful. Apple contended that Bromwich was demanding access to documents and executives that exceeded the scope of his powers. Apple did not succeed in removing the monitor entirely, but the Court of Appeals agreed that his role should be limited, noting that he is ‘‘empowered to demand only documents relevant to his authorized responsibility as so defined, and to interview Apple directors, officers, and employees only on subjects relevant to’’ his mission to ‘‘assess the appropriateness of the compliance programs adopted by Apple and the means used to communicate those programs to its personnel.’’ They stressed that he is not meant to determine whether Apple is complying with ‘‘antitrust or other laws’’ and that he’s not looking for ‘‘new violations of antitrust laws.’’ The court explicitly said Bromwich cannot ‘‘demand access to any document, and… interview Apple executives with respect to any subject, without limitation, and without regard to the relevance of such documents or subjects to the specific purpose of the monitorship.’’
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