Locus, August 2014

by Locus Publications

  Of course that doesn’t disprove the accusations.

  As for the Estate, no change. All of the profits from Marion’s work go to charity. The Estate is run by wonderful people whom I consider friends. The works are a valuable contribution to civilization and I won’t abandon my responsibility to them. If people choose not to read these works because of what Moira Greyland has written, that is their own decision.

  While the public allegations of Bradley’s abuse are new, many members of fandom were well aware of her husband Breen’s crimes, and of the fact that Bradley knew about his criminal activities while they were ongoing.

  Breen’s proclivities were an open secret in fandom during the ’60s, were discussed in fanzines at the time, and led to attempts to ban him from conventions. He was first convicted of child molestation in 1954, and was given probation. He was arrested again in 1990, plead guilty and was sentenced to three years probation. The following year he was arrested on eight counts of felony child molestation for his abuse of a 13-year-old boy, and was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1992, dying a year later. His daughter Moira Greyland gave testimony that helped lead to his conviction.

  Depositions given by Bradley in 1998 during a civil suit revealed that she was aware of Breen’s sexual involvement with underage individuals, and that she defended his actions. When asked, ‘‘So it was your personal opinion that a boy of 14 to 15 years old was old enough to make decisions about having sex with a 50-year-old man?’’ Bradley replied ‘‘Yes, I was. I believe so,’’ before noting that Breen had been 30 at the time, not 50. When pressed about why she never warned anyone about Breen’s predilections, and why she fought attempts to ban him from conventions, Bradley explained, ‘‘I thought it was his own business.’’

  The depositions, with many more statements by Bradley, are available online at .

  In her comments to The Guardian, Greyland said, ‘‘I am so glad I spoke out, because on the blog, so many people have shared their OWN stories of abuse and incest and heartbreak. I am going to keep talking about it, if only so that those people who need to share their own stories will do so now.’’

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  PEOPLE AND PUBLISHING

  MILESTONES

  Meredith Trauner Moles & David Moles with Miriam Hannah Moles

  TERRY PRATCHETT, 66, has canceled plans to attend the International Discworld Convention in Manchester, England later this year, due to declining health: ‘‘I have been putting off writing this announcement for quite some time and on good days thought I wouldn’t have to write it at all. I am very sorry about this, but I have been dodging the effects of PCA [a form of Alzheimer’s] and have been able to write much longer than any of us ever thought possible, but now The Embuggerance is finally catching up with me, along with other age-related ailments.’’

  Christopher Reynaga & Marguerite Croft

  DAVID MOLES & MEREDITH TRAUNER MOLES are the parents of MIRIAM HANNAH MOLES, born June 6, 2014.

  CHRISTOPHER REYNAGA & MARGUERITE CROFT were married July 8, 2014 in Homer AK.

  GUY GAVRIEL KAY, 59, has been made a Member of the Order of Canada for his ‘‘outstanding contributions to the field of speculative fiction as an internationally celebrated author.’’ The Order was established in 1967 and recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community, and service to Canada.

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2012)

  SALMAN RUSHDIE is the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize, to be presented October 9, 2014 at the British Library in London. The award is given annually ‘‘to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world, and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination… to define the real truth of our lives and our societies.’’’

  BOOKS SOLD

  JEFFREY FORD’s collection A Natural History of Autumn sold to Gavin J. Grant at Small Beer Press via Howard Morhaim of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

  MICHAEL SWANWICK sold and delivered Darger & Surplus novel Chasing the Phoenix to David G. Hartwell at Tor via Martha Millard.

  SIMON GREEN sold Dark Side of the Road, his ‘‘take on Agatha Christie,’’ to Edwin Buckhalter at Severn House via John Berlyne of the Zeno Agency on behalf of Joshua Bilmes of JABberwocky Literary Agency.

  CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN’s next two horror novels, Ararat and Dead Ringers, went to Michael Homler at St. Martin’s via Howard Morhaim of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

  Brenna Yovanoff (2010)

  LINDA NAGATA sold her Nebula Award-nominated self-published novel The Red: The First Light and two more in the military SF trilogy to Joe Monti at Saga via Howard Morhaim of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

  J.V. JONES sold the sixth and final Sword of Shadows novel to Tom Doherty at Tor via Russell Galen of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency.

  IAN ESSLEMONT sold three new Malazan novels, exploring that world’s origins, to Whitney Ross at Tor via Howard Morhaim of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

  Former Naval officer BEN COLES sold military SF trilogy Virtues of War to Steve Saffel at Titan via Howard Morhaim of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

  WARREN HAMMOND’s Tides of Maritinia went to David Pomerico at Voyager Impulse via Richard Curtis of Richard Curtis Associates.

  JAMES ROLLINS sold four more Sigma novels to Lyssa Keusch at William Morrow in an eight-figure deal via Russell Galen of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency.

  HELEN PHILLIPS sold novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat and collection Some Possible Solutions to Sarah Bowlin at Holt in a pre-empt via Faye Bender of Faye Bender Literary Agency.

  DELILAH DAWSON sold Wicked Ever After, fourth in the Blud series, to Abby Zidle at Pocket Star via Kate McKean of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

  MARGARET FORTUNE sold Nova and four more books to Betsy Wollheim at DAW via Lindsay Ribar of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.

  MICHAEL FLETCHER sold Beyond Redemption to David Pomerico at Voyager via Cameron McClure of Donald Maass Literary Agency.

  KATIE SCHICKEL sold Mer, ‘‘Jaws meets ‘The Little Mermaid’,’’ to Kristin Sevick at Forge via Marlene Stringer of Stringer Literary agency.

  LEXIE DUNNE’s Superheroes Anonymous, beginning a new urban fantasy series, and a second book sold to Rebecca Lucash at Avon Impulse via Rebecca Strauss at DeFiore and Company.

  RYAN SOHMER sold a novelization of his webcomic Looking for Group to 47North, plus two more books, with Jason Kirk editing.

  ANTHONY PRYOR sold The Shepherd and two more books to Michael Wilson at Permuted Press via Kimberley Cameron of Kimberley Cameron & Associates.

  HAWK MacKINNEY sold The Missing Planets, sequel to The Bleikovat Event, to Jake George at Sage Words via Barbara Casey of Barbara Casey Literary Agency.

  GILLIAN ADAMS sold Orphan’s Song, Songkeeper, and Song of Leira to Steve Laube at Enclave (formerly Marcher Lord) via Amanda Luedeke of MacGregor Literary.

  DAVID BALDACCI sold a sequel to YA fantasy The Finisher and six adult books to Trisha Jackson at Pan Macmillan via Abner Stein on behalf of the Aaron Priest Literary Agency.

  BRENNA YOVANOFF sold Fourteen Dreams, described as ‘‘Say Anything meets Donnie Darko,’’ and a second book went to Krista Marino at Delacorte via Sarah Davies of Greenhouse Literary Agency.

  MACKENZI LEE sold The Shadow Boys Are Breaking, ‘‘a reimagining of Frankenstein set in an industrialized 1818 Geneva,’’ and a second book to Laurel Symonds at Katherine Tegen Books via Rebecca Podos of Rees Literary Agency.

  MORGAN RHODES sold three books in the A Book of Spirits and Thieves (a high fantasy spin-off of the Falling Kingdoms) series to Elizabeth Tingue at Razorbill via Jim McCarthy of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.

  ZORAIDA CORDOVA sold YA fantasy Encantrix to Aubrey Poole at Sourcebooks Fire via Adrienne Rosado of
Nancy Yost Literary Agency.

  SHELLEY MOORE THOMAS sold YA fantasy Secrets of Selkie Bay to Wesley Adams at Farrar, Straus & Giroux Children’s via Joanna Volpe of New Leaf Literary & Media.

  CHELSEA CAMPBELL sold YA fantasy Fire & Chasm to Miriam Juskowicz at Skyscape via Holly Root of Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.

  ELLE COSIMANO sold Holding Smoke and a second YA to Emily Meehan at Disney Hyperion via Sarah Davies of Greenhouse Literary Agency.

  SAMANTHA MABRY sold Leaves, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’’, to Krestyna Lypen at Algonquin Young Readers via Michelle Andelman of Regal Literary.

  ELI K.P. WILLIAM sold Cash Crash Jubilee and The Naked World, first in a ‘‘post-cyberpunk saga,’’ to Jason Katzman at Talos Press via Monica Pacheco of Anne McDermid Associates.

  BETH BOWLAND’s Polaris sold to Georgia McBride at Tantrum with Ashlynn Yuhas editing.

  ABI KETNER & MISSY KALICICKI sold Branded and two more titles to Georgia McBride of Month9Books via Stacey Donaghy of Donaghy Literary Group.

  BRENDA DRAKE sold YA fantasy Library Jumpers to Liz Pelletier at Entangled Teen via Pete Knapp of Park Literary Group.

  JULIETTE CROSS sold Waking the Dragon to Renee Rocco at Lyrical Press via Brittany Booker of the Booker Albert Agency.

  TINA FERRARO sold Half-Life to Judith Graves at Leap Books: SHINE.

  STEVEN LEE CLIMER’s horror Drawing Down the Moon went to INK’d Press.

  JENN BENNETT sold ghost romance Grave Phantoms to Leis Pederson at Berkley Sensation via Laura Bradford of Bradford Literary Agency.

  KELLY MORAN sold paranormal romances Ghost of a Promise, Give up the Ghost, and Ghost of You to Candace Havens at Entangled Covet via Dawn Dowdle of Blue Ridge Literary Agency.

  SARAH KUHN sold first novel Heroine Complex, described as ‘‘The Devil Wears Prada with superheroes,’’ and two more titles to Betsy Wollheim at DAW via Diana Fox of Fox Literary.

  Alastair Reynolds (2011)

  LINDSEY KLINGELE’s debut YA fantasy The Marked Girl and two more novels sold to Jessica MacLeish of HarperCollins Children’s via Reiko Davis of the Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency.

  First novelist SUSAN MAUPID SCHMID’s children’s fantasy One Hundred Dresses and two more books sold to Diane Landolf of Random House Children’s in a pre-empt via Sara Crowe of Harvey Klinger.

  Debut writer ASA MARIA BRADLEY sold Valhalla’s Vikings and two more books to Cat Clyne at Sourcebooks via Sarah Younger at Nancy Yost Literary Agency.

  Game designer and editor MARK LATHAM’s debut historical fantasy series the Apollonian Case Files sold to Alice Nightingale at Titan Books, beginning with The Lazarus Gate.

  New writer GAVRIEL SAVIT’s Anna and the Swallow Man sold to Erin Clarke at Knopf Children’s at auction via Catherine Drayton of Inkwell Management.

  MEG KASSEL sold debut novel Black Bird of the Gallows, a YA fantasy, to Regina Griffin at Egmont via Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger.

  ALASTAIR REYNOLDS sold novella Slow Bullets to Jacob Weisman at Tachyon via Robert Kirby of United Artists.

  BOOKS RESOLD

  ELIZABETH BEAR sold UK e-book rights to Hammered and seven other novels to Gollancz for their SF Gateway program via Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Bear turned in Karen Memory to Beth Meacham at Tor.

  Cecelia Holland (2010)

  RACHEL VINCENT resold YA fantasy The Stars Never Rise and a second title to Anna Baggaley at Mills & Boon via Angharad Kowal of Writers House UK on behalf of Merrilee Heifetz of Writers House US. Delacorte will publish in the US.

  SHERI S. TEPPER’s novel Fish Tails resold to Gillian Green at Gollancz via Howard Morhaim of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Morrow will publish in the US.

  ADAM CHRISTOPHER sold UK rights to SFnal alternate history the LA Trilogy to Natalie Laverick at Titan Books via Stacia Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Tor will publish in the US.

  ALAN CUMYN resold Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend to Jane Griffiths at Simon & Schuster UK Children’s via Meredith Miller of Trident Media Group on behalf of Ellen Levine.

  BOOKS DELIVERED

  CECELIA HOLLAND delivered a new fantasy novel to David G. Hartwell at Tor.

  STEPHEN BAXTER handed in Ultima to Diana Gill at Ace.

  WILLIAM C. DIETZ delivered Mutant Files novel Redzone to Diana Gill at Ace.

  MELANIE RAWN handed in the fourth Glass Thorns book, Window Wall, to Beth Meacham at Tor.

  PUBLISHING

  Lee Harris (2012)

  LEE HARRIS is joining the new Tor.com publishing imprint as senior editor. Harris was previously a senior editor at Angry Robot, where he began working in 2009.

  MEDIA

  NEIL GAIMAN’s American Gods is being adapted by writer/producers Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, who will act as showrunners and executive producers, for cable network Starz. The show is produced by FreemantleMedia North America, and Gaiman will be an executive producer.

  TERRY BROOKS’s The Elfstones of Shannara is being adapted as a ten-episode TV series, Shannara, for MTV. Miles Millar and Al Gough are writing and executive producing, and Brooks, Jon Favreau, Jonathan Liebesman, and Dan Farah are also executive producers.

  Film rights to MICHAEL MOORCOCK’s Elric series were optioned by Mythology, with writer/showrunner Glen Mazzara of The Walking Dead attached, via Howard Morhaim of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

  Film rights to ROBERT HOLDSTOCK’s Mythago Cycle were optioned by Mythology via Howard Morhaim of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

  JEAN M. AUEL’s The Clan of the Cave Bear has received a pilot order from cable TV network Lifetime, produced by Fox 21 and Lionsgate in association with Imagine Television and Allison Shearmur Productions, with Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Allison Shearmur, Linda Woolverton, Francie Calfo, and Auel as executive producers, via Jennifer Weltz of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency and Jerry Kalajian of the Intellectual Property Group. Woolverton will write the adaptation for the pilot.

  Genevieve Valentine (2012)

  GENEVIEVE VALENTINE will take over writing the Catwoman comic for DC Comics in October.

  KEVIN J. ANDERSON & DOUG BEASON’s Ill Wind was optioned by Fox Studios, with Steve Asbell to executive produce, and a script by Harry Kloor & Rantz Hosely.

  JAMES PATTERSON’s Zoo, about an animal uprising, was optioned by CBS with Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, and Scott Rosenberg to write and executive produce with James Mangold, Cathy Konrad, James Patterson, Bill Robinson, Leopoldo Gout, and Steve Bowen. His Maximum Ride series will be adapted as an online video series in ‘‘a major YouTube programming event’’ by Collective Digital Studios, with Gary Binkow, Patterson, Leopoldo Gout, and Bill Robinson to executive produce.

  Film rights to JONATHAN MABERRY’s Joe Ledger series were optioned by Tony Eldridge and Donna Isham of Lone Tree Entertainment via Jon Cassir of Creative Artists Agency. Maberry will edit a series of X-Files anthologies for Ted Adams at IDW Publishing.

  HOWARD ANDREW JONES sold and delivered Pathfinder Tales novel Beyond the Pool of Stars to James Sutter at Paizo.

  GARY KLOSTER turned in Pathfinder Tales novel Firesoul to James Sutter at Paizo.

  JOSH VOGT handed in Pathfinder Tales novel Forge of Ashes to James Sutter at Paizo.

  JULIE PLEC sold three novels set in the world of vampire TV show The Originals to Annie Stone at Harlequin, with Margo Lipschultz to edit, in a pre-empt via Josh Bank and Hayley Wagreich of Alloy Entertainment.

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  THE DATA FILE

  2014 Chesley Awards Finalists • Hachette Acquires Perseus • Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A Shut Down • B&N Spins Off Nook • New SFWA Board Members • Publishing News • World Conventions News • Patterson Donation • World Book Night US Closes • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Audiobooks Received • Publications Received • Catalogs Received


  2014 CHESLEY AWARDS FINALISTS

  Finalists for the 2014 Chesley Awards, given by the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA), have been announced. The winners will be announced at the Chesley Awards ceremony, to be held at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, August 14-18, 2014.

  Best Cover Illustration – Hardback Book: Jason Chan for Lost Covenant: A Widdershins Adventure by Ari Marmell (Pyr); Kekai Kotaki for Quintessence by David Walton (Tor); Maurizio Manzieri for Book of Iron by Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean); Todd Lockwood for A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (Tor); Michael Whelan for A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (Tor); Allen Williams for ‘‘Light Reading’’, Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Tor).

  Best Cover Illustration – Paperback Book: Kerem Beyit for The Scroll of Years by Chris Willrich (Pyr); Jason Chan for Harbinger by Phillippa Ballantine (Ace); Julie Dillon for Ancient Discovery: Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0 Book One (Crossed Genres); Justin Gerard for Power Under Pressure by Andrew P. Mayer (Pyr); Dehong He for Shield of Sea and Space by Erin Hoffman (Pyr).

  Best Cover Illustration – Magazine: Julie Dillon for Clarkesworld #87 (12/13); Dan Dos Santos for Fables #136 (12/13); Maurizio Manzieri for F&SF (3-4/13); Cynthia Sheppard for Bull Spec #8 & 9 (Spring 2013).

  Best Interior Illustration: Robert Hunt for ‘‘Fire Above, Fire Below’’ by Garth Nix (Tor.com 5/13); Brian Kesinger for Walking Your Octopus (Baby Tattoo); John Jude Palencar for ‘‘A Terror’’ by Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com 7/13); John Picacio for ‘‘The Button Man and the Murder Tree’’ by Cherie Priest (Tor.com 5/13); John Picacio for ‘‘The Good Life’’ (Popular Science 6/13); Greg Ruth for ‘‘Dragonkin’’ by Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com 7/13); Greg Ruth for ‘‘The Running of the Bulls’’ by Harry Turtledove (Tor.com 3/13).