Tor.Com August 2016

TOR.COM AUGUST 2016

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

Kij Johnson

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.

But the journey sends her on a quest across the Dreamlands and into her own mysterious past, where some secrets were never meant to surface.

PRAISE "Kij Johnson has an unrivalled gift for making the unreal real and the real unreal. In this spellbinding story, the intense reality of a quest through dreamland finds its goal in a here-and-now America that seems even stranger than the mountains and caverns of the dream." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

FICTION / FANTASY / DARK FANTASY "With 'The Dream-quest of Vellitt Boe,' Kij Johnson has deftly spun a delight and Tor.com | 8/16/2016 9780765386519 | $3.99 / $3.99 Can. a wonder. Truly, this is one of my favorite weird tales of the last several years, E-Book | 166 pages weaving beauty, terror, and bittersweet triumph from a corner of Lovecraft's Other Available Formats: mythos that all too few dreamers dare to explore. Brava!" -- Caitlin R. Kiernan Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765391414 KIJ JOHNSON is an American fantasy writer noted for her adaptations of Japanese myths and folklore. Her Tor.com story "Ponies" won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her story MARKETING "Fox Magic" won the 1994 Theodore Sturgeon Award, her novel The Fox Woman won the Crawford TOR.COM Award for best debut fantasy novel, and her subsequent novel Fudoki was a finalist for the World -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion Fantasy Award and was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the best fantasy novels of its year. She -Author features & review is also an associate direct... -Excepts & audio excerpts -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Online advertising focused on H.P. Lovecraft & genre fans -Author appearances & promotion including WorldCon -Dedicated social media channels -Goodreads ARC Sweepstakes -Galley campaign & review coverage -Print ads in ma...

2 TOR.COM JULY 2016

City of Wolves

Willow Palecek

A hard-boiled detective hunted by werewolves

Alexander Drake, Investigator for Hire, doesn’t like working for the Nobility, and doesn’t prefer to take jobs from strange men who accost him in alleyways. A combination of hired muscle and ready silver have a way of changing a man’s mind.

A lord has been killed, his body found covered in bite marks. Even worse, the late lord’s will is missing, and not everyone wants Drake to find it. Solving the case might plunge Drake into deeper danger.

Willow Palecek is the writer of the role-playing games Awesome Adventures, Escape from Tentacle City, and The Arm. City of Wolves is her first published novella. Willow resides in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and their two cats. FICTION / FANTASY / PARANORMAL Tor.com | 7/26/2016 9780765387356 | $3.99 / $3.99 Can. E-Book | 112 pages

Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765389756 Audio ISBN: 9781427274021

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3 TOR.COM AUGUST 2016

Spiderlight

Adrian Tchaikovsky

The path to victory will only be seen through a spider's eyes.

The Church of Armes of the Light has battled the forces of Darkness for as long as anyone can remember. The great prophecy has foretold that a band of misfits, led by a high priestess will defeat the Dark Lord Darvezian, armed with their wits, the blessing of the Light and an artifact stolen from the merciless Spider Queen.

Their journey will be long, hard and fraught with danger. Allies will become enemies; enemies will become allies. And the Dark Lord will be waiting, always waiting…

An exhilarating fantasy quest from the author of Guns at Dawn and the Shadows of the Apt series. FICTION / FANTASY / EPIC Tor.com | 8/2/2016 9780765388353 | $4.24 / $4.99 Can. Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed Shadows of the Apt fantasy series and the epic E-Book | 304 pages science fiction blockbuster Children of Time. He has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Other Available Formats: Award and a British Fantasy Society Award. In civilian life he is a lawyer, gamer and amateur Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765388360 entomologist. Audio ISBN: 9781427281005 Audio ISBN: 9781427281012

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4 TOR.COM AUGUST 2016

Spiderlight

Adrian Tchaikovsky

The path to victory will only be seen through a spider's eyes.

Their journey will be long, hard and fraught with danger. Allies will become enemies; enemies will become allies. And the Dark Lord will be waiting, always waiting…

An exhilarating fantasy quest from the author of Guns at Dawn and the Shadows of the Apt series. FICTION / FANTASY / EPIC Tor.com | 8/2/2016 9780765388360 | $19.99 / $27.99 Can. Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed Shadows of the Apt fantasy series and the epic Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 24 science fiction blockbuster Children of Time. He has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend 8 in H | 5 in W | 0.7 in T | 0.7 lb Wt Award and a British Fantasy Society Award. In civilian life he is a lawyer, gamer and amateur Other Available Formats: entomologist. Ebook ISBN: 9780765388353 Audio ISBN: 9781427281005 Audio ISBN: 9781427281012

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5 TOR.COM JULY 2016

Nightshades A Paranormal Thriller

Melissa F. Olson

It takes a special kind of agent to police the creatures of the night.

Alex McKenna is the new Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the Bureau of Paranormal Investigations—the division tasked with investigating crimes involving shades.

Or vampires, as they’re more widely known.

Children have been going missing, and agents are routinely being slaughtered. It’s up to McKenna, and some unlikely allies, to get to the bottom of the FICTION / FANTASY / problem, and find the kids before it’s too late. PARANORMAL Tor.com | 7/19/2016 9780765388490 | $3.99 / $3.99 Can. PRAISE E-Book | 176 pages "Melissa F. Olson writes with razorblades made of moonlight, cutting through Other Available Formats: shadows to share with us the beating heart of her characters and story. My only Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765388506 problem with being immersed in Nightshades is that I had to keep coming up for Audio ISBN: 9781427280985 air. If I could breathe words, they’d be hers." —Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award Winner

MARKETING TOR.COM "Nightshades is a tautly written paranormal mystery, and Melissa Olson’s -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion bloodsuckers don’t screw around. This is a suspenseful, fast-paced, enjoyable -Author features & review read—a bloody-knuckled X-Files with a dash of Silence of the Lambs, featuring the -Excerpts & audio excerpts -Dedicated social media channels scariest vampires this side of Peter Watts’ Blindsight." —Marko Kloos, author of -ARC sweepstakes the Fro... -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Melissa F. Olson is the author of the Scarlett Bernard series of urban fantasy novels for Amazon's Publishing newsletters 47North and the mystery The Big Keep. -Post series on supernatural procedurals PROMOTION & OUTREACH She lives in Madison, WI, with her family and two comically oversized dogs. -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Full support for author, including other recent work -Targeted online advertising -Cover reveal -Goodreads ARC sweepstakes -...

6 TOR.COM JULY 2016

Nightshades A Paranormal Thriller

Melissa F. Olson

It takes a special kind of agent to police the creatures of the night.

Alex McKenna is the new Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the Bureau of Paranormal Investigations—the division tasked with investigating crimes involving shades.

Or vampires, as they’re more widely known.

Children have been going missing, and agents are routinely being slaughtered. It’s up to McKenna, and some unlikely allies, to get to the bottom of the FICTION / FANTASY / problem, and find the kids before it’s too late. PARANORMAL Tor.com | 7/19/2016 9780765388506 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. PRAISE Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Carton Qty: 34 "Melissa F. Olson writes with razorblades made of moonlight, cutting through 8 in H | 5 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.5 lb Wt shadows to share with us the beating heart of her characters and story. My only Other Available Formats: problem with being immersed in Nightshades is that I had to keep coming up for Ebook ISBN: 9780765388490 Audio ISBN: 9781427280985 air. If I could breathe words, they’d be hers." —Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award Winner

MARKETING "Nightshades is a tautly written paranormal mystery, and Melissa Olson’s TOR.COM bloodsuckers don’t screw around. This is a suspenseful, fast-paced, enjoyable -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion read—a bloody-knuckled X-Files with a dash of Silence of the Lambs, featuring the -Author features & review -Excerpts & audio excerpts scariest vampires this side of Peter Watts’ Blindsight." —Marko Kloos, author of -Dedicated social media channels the Fro... -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) Melissa F. Olson is the author of the Scarlett Bernard series of urban fantasy novels for Amazon's -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com 47North and the mystery The Big Keep. Publishing newsletters -Post series on supernatural procedurals She lives in Madison, WI, with her family and two comically oversized dogs. PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Full support for author, including other recent work -Targeted online advertising -Cover reveal -Goodreads ARC sweepstakes -...

7 TOR.COM JULY 2016

City of Wolves

Willow Palecek

A hard-boiled detective hunted by werewolves

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8 TOR.COM MAY 2016

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S.B. Divya

A race for her future.

The Minerva Sierra Challenge is a grueling spectacle, the cyborg's Tour de France. Rich thrill-seekers with corporate sponsorships, extensive support teams, and top-of-the-line exoskeletal and internal augmentations pit themselves against the elements in a day-long race across the Sierra Nevada.

Marmeg Guinto doesn’t have funding, and she doesn’t have support. She cobbled her gear together from parts she found in rich people’s garbage and spent the money her mother wanted her to use for nursing school to enter the race. But the race is the only chance she has at a better life for herself and her younger brothers, and she’s ready to risk it all.

FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / PRAISE ACTION & ADVENTURE “A thrilling romp through a gleaming cybernetic future that's neither dystopia nor Tor.com | 5/17/2016 9780765389787 | $3.39 / $3.99 Can. utopia, but embedded in our reality— I wish more science fiction were as exciting E-Book | 118 pages and relevant as Runtime.” — Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award Other Available Formats: winner and author of The Grace of Kings Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765389794 Audio ISBN: 9781427280923 "S. B. Divya is a new light on the science fiction scene, a writer with the promise and talent to become one of our genre's stars. Have a read; she's a wonderful storyteller." — Catherine Asaro, Nebula Award winning author. MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion S. B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She enjoys subverting -Author features & review expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. In her past, she’s used a telescope to find -Excerpts & audio excerpts Orion’s nebula, scuba dived with manta rays, and climbed to the top of a thousand year old stupa. -Dedicated social media channels You can find more of her writing at www.eff-words.com. -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Targeted online advertising -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Cover reveal -Goodreads ARC sweepstakes -Galley campaign & review coverage

9 TOR.COM MAY 2016

Runtime

S.B. Divya

A race for her future.

FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / PRAISE ACTION & ADVENTURE “A thrilling romp through a gleaming cybernetic future that's neither dystopia nor Tor.com | 5/17/2016 9780765389794 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. utopia, but embedded in our reality— I wish more science fiction were as exciting Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Carton Qty: 58 and relevant as Runtime.” — Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award 8 in H | 5 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.3 lb Wt winner and author of The Grace of Kings Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765389787 "S. B. Divya is a new light on the science fiction scene, a writer with the promise Audio ISBN: 9781427280923 and talent to become one of our genre's stars. Have a read; she's a wonderful storyteller." — Catherine Asaro, Nebula Award winning author.

MARKETING TOR.COM S. B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She enjoys subverting -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. In her past, she’s used a telescope to find -Author features & review Orion’s nebula, scuba dived with manta rays, and climbed to the top of a thousand year old stupa. -Excerpts & audio excerpts You can find more of her writing at www.eff-words.com. -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Targeted online advertising -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Cover reveal -Goodreads ARC sweepstakes -Galley campaign & review coverage

10 TOR.COM MAY 2016

The Jewel and Her Lapidary

Fran Wilde

A compact and moving epic from one of the best new writers in modern fantasy

The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power has kept the peace and tranquility, and the kingdom has flourished.

Jewel Lin and her Lapidary Sima may be the last to enjoy that peace.

Other Available Formats: “The Jewel and Her Lapidary is a splendid tale of courage and transformation in a Ebook ISBN: 9780765384973 world as exquisite as Wilde's prose. You will be utterly entranced.” Audio ISBN: 9781427273901 -- Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner and author of The Grace of Kings

MARKETING TOR.COM -Frequent Tor.com contributor “Extraordinary world-building and cascading levels of intrigue make Wilde’s -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion debut fantasy novel soar.” -Author features & review -Excepts & audio excerpts --Publishers Weekly on Updraft -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes Fran Wilde’s short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Nature, and elsewhere. Her debut novel Updraft -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast was published in 2015 to wide acclaim. She blogs about food and genre at Cooking the Books (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com (franwilde.wordpress.com/cooking-the-books) and for the popular social-parenting website Publishing newsletters GeekMom. She lives in Philadelphia with her family. PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Author appearances at major conventions -Cross-promotion with authors Updraft paperback -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Targeted online advertising -Cover reveal -Goo...

11 TOR.COM JUNE 2016

Pride's Spell A Sin du Jour Affair

Matt Wallace

Pride comes before The Fallen.

The team at Sin du Jour—New York’s exclusive caterers-to-the-damned—find themselves up against their toughest challenge, yet when they’re lured out west to prepare a feast in the most forbidding place in America: Hollywood, where false gods rule supreme.

Meanwhile, back at home, Ritter is attacked at home by the strangest hit-squad the world has ever seen, and the team must pull out all the stops if they’re to prevent themselves from being offered up as the main course in a feast they normally provide

FICTION / FANTASY / URBAN Tor.com | 6/21/2016 Starring: The Prince of Lies, Lena Tarr, Darren Vargas. With Byron Luck. 9780765390004 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Introducing: the Easter Bunny. Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 30 8 in H | 5 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.6 lb Wt PRAISE Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765390011 "Magic and humor combine with delicious results in this unusual, wildly fun Audio ISBN: 9781427280947 novella." - Publishers Weekly starred review of Lustlocked

Matt Wallace is the author of The Next Fix, The Failed Cities, and the novella series, Slingers. He's MARKETING also penned over one hundred short stories, some of which have won awards and been nominated for TOR.COM others, in addition to writing for film and television. In his youth he traveled the world as a -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion professional wrestler and unarmed combat and self-defense instructor before retiring to write -Author features & review full-time. He now resides in Los Angeles with the love of his life and inspiration for Sin du Jour's -Excepts & audio excerpts res... -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Standalone story in ongoing Sin du Jour series -Ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Targeted online advertising -Extensive promotion by author -Recipe & food-in-fiction site features

12 TOR.COM JUNE 2016

Pride's Spell A Sin du Jour Affair

Matt Wallace

Pride comes before The Fallen.

FICTION / FANTASY / URBAN Tor.com | 6/21/2016 Starring: The Prince of Lies, Lena Tarr, Darren Vargas. With Byron Luck. 9780765390011 | $3.99 / $3.99 Can. Introducing: the Easter Bunny. E-Book | 208 pages

Other Available Formats: PRAISE Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765390004 Audio ISBN: 9781427280947 "Magic and humor combine with delicious results in this unusual, wildly fun novella." - Publishers Weekly starred review of Lustlocked

MARKETING Matt Wallace is the author of The Next Fix, The Failed Cities, and the novella series, Slingers. He's TOR.COM also penned over one hundred short stories, some of which have won awards and been nominated for -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion others, in addition to writing for film and television. In his youth he traveled the world as a -Author features & review professional wrestler and unarmed combat and self-defense instructor before retiring to write -Excepts & audio excerpts full-time. He now resides in Los Angeles with the love of his life and inspiration for Sin du Jour's -Dedicated social media channels res... -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Standalone story in ongoing Sin du Jour series -Ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Targeted online advertising -Extensive promotion by author -Recipe & food-in-fiction site features

13 TOR.COM MAY 2016

A Whisper of Southern Lights

Tim Lebbon

Demon and hunter battle across history.

Death and destruction follow the demon wherever he treads, and Gabriel is rarely far behind, waiting for his chance to extinguish the creature known as Temple once and for all.

But in Singapore during the Second World War, a lone soldier in possession of a shattering secret gets caught up in their battle. The knowledge he holds could change the course of their ancient conflict… and the fate of the world.

A standalone tale in the Assassins series.

Tim Lebbon is the New York Times bestselling author of the movie novelizations of 30 Days of Night and The Cabin in the Woods. He has also written many critically acclaimed dark fantasy and crime FICTION / FANTASY / novels. Tim has won three British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker, a Tombstone HISTORICAL and been a finalist for the International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. Tor.com | 5/10/2016 9780765390233 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Carton Qty: 60 8 in H | 5 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.3 lb Wt

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765384508 Audio ISBN: 9781427273925

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14 TOR.COM JUNE 2016

Return of Souls

Andy Remic

The brutal second part of the trilogy that began with the astonishing A Song for No Man’s Land.

If war is hell, there is no word to describe what Private Jones has been through. Forced into a conflict with an unknowable enemy, he awakes to find himself in a strange land, and is soon joined by young woman, Morana, who tends to his wounds and tells him of the battles played out in this impossible place.

She tells him of an Iron Beast that will end the Great War, and even as he vows to help her find it, enemy combatants seek them, intent on their utter annihilation.

Andy Remic has been described as the natural successor to David Gemmell, an accolade he refuses FICTION / FANTASY / to admit starting himself. He began his writing career writing high-octane science fiction novels, but HISTORICAL soon diversified into visceral fantasy with his debut fantasy trilogy, The Clockwork Vampire Tor.com | 6/14/2016 Chronicles. Remic lives in the north of England. 9780765390240 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Carton Qty: 34 8 in H | 5 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.5 lb Wt

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765384027 Audio ISBN: 9781427273963

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15 TOR.COM JULY 2016

The Ghoul King A Story of the Dreaming Cities

Guy Haley

Quinn returns to battle zombie gladiators and uncover robotic secrets in this post-apocalyptic science fantasy from Guy Haley.

The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world — whatever that means, any more — to restock his small but essential inventory.

After fighting a series of gladiatorial bouts against the dead, he finds himself in the employ of a woman on a quest to find the secret to repairing her semi-functional robot. FICTION / FANTASY / EPIC Tor.com | 7/12/2016 But the technological secret it guards may be one truth too many… 9780765390257 | $14.99 / $20.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Carton Qty: 44 8 in H | 5 in W | 0.4 in T | 0.4 lb Wt A prolific freelance author and journalist, Guy Haley is the author of Reality 36, the Warhammer 40,000 novels Valedor and Baneblade, among others. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife and son. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781466891982 Audio ISBN: 9781427273987

MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion -Author features & review -Excepts & audio excerpts -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Cover & excerpt reveal for early buzz -Blog tour, interviews & podcasts -Goodreads ARC Sweepstakes -Online advertising targeting gaming fans -Ongoing support for the...

16 TOR.COM AUGUST 2016

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

Kij Johnson

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.

But the journey sends her on a quest across the Dreamlands and into her own mysterious past, where some secrets were never meant to surface.

FICTION / FANTASY / DARK FANTASY "With 'The Dream-quest of Vellitt Boe,' Kij Johnson has deftly spun a delight and Tor.com | 8/16/2016 9780765391414 | $14.99 / $20.99 Can. a wonder. Truly, this is one of my favorite weird tales of the last several years, Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 42 weaving beauty, terror, and bittersweet triumph from a corner of Lovecraft's 8 in H | 5 in W | 0.4 in T | 0.4 lb Wt mythos that all too few dreamers dare to explore. Brava!" -- Caitlin R. Kiernan Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765386519 KIJ JOHNSON is an American fantasy writer noted for her adaptations of Japanese myths and folklore. Her Tor.com story "Ponies" won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her story "Fox Magic" won the 1994 Theodore Sturgeon Award, her novel The Fox Woman won the Crawford MARKETING Award for best debut fantasy novel, and her subsequent novel Fudoki was a finalist for the World TOR.COM Fantasy Award and was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the best fantasy novels of its year. She -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion is also an associate direct... -Author features & review -Excepts & audio excerpts -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Online advertising focused on H.P. Lovecraft & genre fans -Author appearances & promotion including WorldCon -Dedicated social media channels -Goodreads ARC Sweepstakes -Galley campaign & review coverage -Print ads in ma...

17 TOR.COM JULY 2016

The Ghoul King A Story of the Dreaming Cities

Guy Haley

Quinn returns to battle zombie gladiators and uncover robotic secrets in this post-apocalyptic science fantasy from Guy Haley.

The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world — whatever that means, any more — to restock his small but essential inventory.

After fighting a series of gladiatorial bouts against the dead, he finds himself in the employ of a woman on a quest to find the secret to repairing her semi-functional robot. FICTION / FANTASY / EPIC Tor.com | 7/12/2016 But the technological secret it guards may be one truth too many… 9781466891982 | $3.99 / $3.99 Can. E-Book | 178 pages A prolific freelance author and journalist, Guy Haley is the author of Reality 36, the Warhammer Other Available Formats: 40,000 novels Valedor and Baneblade, among others. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife and son. Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765390257 Audio ISBN: 9781427273987

MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion -Author features & review -Excepts & audio excerpts -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Cover & excerpt reveal for early buzz -Blog tour, interviews & podcasts -Goodreads ARC Sweepstakes -Online advertising targeting gaming fans -Ongoing support for the...

18 TOR.COM JUNE 2016

Return of Souls

Andy Remic

The brutal second part of the trilogy that began with the astonishing A Song for No Man’s Land.

She tells him of an Iron Beast that will end the Great War, and even as he vows to help her find it, enemy combatants seek them, intent on their utter annihilation.

Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765390240 Audio ISBN: 9781427273963

MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion -Author features & review -Excepts & audio excerpts -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Series promotion with rapid-fire follow-up -Online advertising targeting military fantasy fans -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -UK & international review coverage -Highly anticipated cover reve...

19 TOR.COM MAY 2016

A Whisper of Southern Lights

Tim Lebbon

Demon and hunter battle across history.

Death and destruction follow the demon wherever he treads, and Gabriel is rarely far behind, waiting for his chance to extinguish the creature known as Temple once and for all.

A standalone tale in the Assassins series.

Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765390233 Audio ISBN: 9781427273925

MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion -Author features & review -Excerpts & audio excerpts -Dedicated social media channels -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters -Cross-promotion with Titan PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Targeted online advertising -Cover reveal -Goodreads ARC sweepstakes -Galley campaign & review coverage

20 TOR.COM MAY 2016

The Jewel and Her Lapidary

Fran Wilde

A compact and moving epic from one of the best new writers in modern fantasy

Jewel Lin and her Lapidary Sima may be the last to enjoy that peace.

The Jeweled Court has been betrayed. As screaming raiders sweep down from the mountains, and Lapidary servants shatter under the pressure, the last princess of the Valley will have to summon up a strength she’s never known. If she can FICTION / FANTASY / EPIC assume her royal dignity, and if Sima can master the most dangerous gemstone Tor.com | 5/3/2016 in the land, they may be able to survive. 9780765384973 | $2.99 / $2.99 Can. E-Book | 80 pages PRAISE Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765389831 “The Jewel and Her Lapidary is a splendid tale of courage and transformation in a Audio ISBN: 9781427273901 world as exquisite as Wilde's prose. You will be utterly entranced.” -- Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner and author of The Grace of Kings MARKETING TOR.COM -Frequent Tor.com contributor -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion “Extraordinary world-building and cascading levels of intrigue make Wilde’s -Author features & review debut fantasy novel soar.” -Excepts & audio excerpts -Dedicated social media channels --Publishers Weekly on Updraft -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads & featured in newsletter blast Fran Wilde’s short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Nature, and elsewhere. Her debut novel Updraft (170k subscribers) was published in 2015 to wide acclaim. She blogs about food and genre at Cooking the Books -Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters (franwilde.wordpress.com/cooking-the-books) and for the popular social-parenting website PROMOTION & OUTREACH GeekMom. She lives in Philadelphia with her family. -Author appearances at major conventions -Cross-promotion with authors Updraft paperback -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Targeted online advertising -Cover reveal -Goo...

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Infomocracy Book One of the Centenal Cycle

Malka Older

A high-tech political thriller about a global information monopoly attempting to prevent election sabotage and world war. Little Brother meets The West Wing.

It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.

FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the CYBERPUNK Tor.com | 6/7/2016 idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, 9780765385147 | $9.99 / $10.99 Can. the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the E-Book | 384 pages pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole Other Available Formats: situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765392367 political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain? Hardcover ISBN: 9780765385154 Audio ISBN: 9781427273949 All three begin to realize that not everyone plans to play fair at the next election. The Liberty party is ascending on the back of subtle promises of warfare, and Heritage will do anything to keep itself in power. A perfect storm is brewing, MARKETING one that might bring the new world order to its knees. TOR.COM • Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion • Author features & review PRAISE • Excepts and audio excerpts • ARC sweepstakes "Kinetic and gripping, the plot hurtles toward an electoral climax that leaps off • Cover reveal the page." —NPR • Banner ads and featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) PROMOTION AND OUTREACH "Futurists and politics geeks will love this unreservedly." —The New York Times • Genre and political promotions including Review of Books Mother Jones & SFX magazine • Targeted online advertising • Pre-order campaign "This brilliant book is unquestionably one of the greatest literary debuts in recent • Dedicated social media channels history." —The Huffington Post • ARC Sweepstakes • Interviews and author tour "A fast-paced, post-cyberpunk political thriller . . . If you always wanted to put The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin in a particle accelerator with Snow Crash to see what would happen, read this book." –Max Gladstone, author of Last First Snow

MALKA OLDER is a writer, humanitarian worker, and PhD candidate at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations studying governance and disasters. Named Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for 2015, she has more than eight years of experience in humanitarian aid and development, and has responded to complex emergencies and natural disasters in Uganda, Darfur, Indonesia, Japan, and Mali. Infomocracy is her first novel.

22 TOR.COM JUNE 2016

Infomocracy Book One of the Centenal Cycle

Malka Older

A high-tech political thriller about a global information monopoly attempting to prevent election sabotage and world war. Little Brother meets The West Wing.

FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the CYBERPUNK idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, Tor.com | 6/7/2016 the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the 9780765385154 | $24.99 / $34.99 Can. Hardcover | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole 8.5 in H | 5.7 in W | 1.3 in T | 1 lb Wt situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain? Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780765392367 Ebook ISBN: 9780765385147 All three begin to realize that not everyone plans to play fair at the next election. Audio ISBN: 9781427273949 The Liberty party is ascending on the back of subtle promises of warfare, and Heritage will do anything to keep itself in power. A perfect storm is brewing, one that might bring the new world order to its knees. MARKETING TOR.COM PRAISE • Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion • Author features & review "Kinetic and gripping, the plot hurtles toward an electoral climax that leaps off • Excepts and audio excerpts • ARC sweepstakes the page." —NPR • Cover reveal • Banner ads and featured in newsletter "Futurists and politics geeks will love this unreservedly." —The New York Times blast (170k subscribers) PROMOTION AND OUTREACH Review of Books • Genre and political promotions including Mother Jones & SFX magazine "This brilliant book is unquestionably one of the greatest literary debuts in recent • Targeted online advertising • Pre-order campaign history." —The Huffington Post • Dedicated social media channels • ARC Sweepstakes "A fast-paced, post-cyberpunk political thriller . . . If you always wanted to put • Interviews and author tour The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin in a particle accelerator with Snow Crash to see what would happen, read this book." –Max Gladstone, author of Last First Snow

23 Index

City of Wolves; Willow Palecek...... 3, 8 Divya, S. B.; Runtime...... 9, 10 Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, The; Kij Johnson...... 2, 17 Ghoul King, The: A Story of the Dreaming Cities; Guy Haley ...... 16, 18 Haley, Guy; The Ghoul King: A Story of the Dreaming Cities ...... 16, 18 Infomocracy: Book One of the Centenal Cycle; Malka Older ...... 22, 23 Jewel and Her Lapidary, The; Fran Wilde...... 11, 21 Johnson, Kij; The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe...... 2, 17 Lebbon, Tim; A Whisper of Southern Lights...... 14, 20 Nightshades: A Paranormal Thriller; Melissa F. Olson. . . 6, 7 Older, Malka; Infomocracy: Book One of the Centenal Cycle ...... 22, 23 Olson, Melissa F.; Nightshades: A Paranormal Thriller. . . . . 6, 7 Palecek, Willow; City of Wolves...... 3, 8 Pride's Spell: A Sin du Jour Affair; Matt Wallace...... 12, 13 Remic, Andy; Return of Souls...... 15, 19 Return of Souls; Andy Remic...... 15, 19 Runtime; S. B. Divya...... 9, 10 Spiderlight; Adrian Tchaikovsky...... 4, 5 Tchaikovsky, Adrian; Spiderlight...... 4, 5 Wallace, Matt; Pride's Spell: A Sin du Jour Affair...... 12, 13 Whisper of Southern Lights, A; Tim Lebbon...... 14, 20 Wilde, Fran; The Jewel and Her Lapidary...... 11, 21