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Frankfurt Book Fair
2018
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THE BURNING MAGUS Book #3 in the Blue Unicorn trilogy by Don Allmon Riptide Publishing, November 2018
“The explosive final book in Allmon’s Blue Unicorn erotic fantasy trilogy (after Apocalypse Alley) is a delightful mix of action, emotion, and surprisingly raw sexuality.”– Publishers Weekly
Rainbow Awards Finalist for Best Gay Debut, Best Gay Book and Best Gay Paranormal Romance (for THE GLAMOUR THIEVES)
JT was a perfectly happy orc building cars in the Arizona desert until his old friend and sometimes lover Austin showed up and talked him into one last crime. Now "one last crime" has snowballed. With a new team of thieves--a supersoldier, a hacker, a driver, a graffiti artist, and a seafaring wizard--JT and Austin are determined to free an artificial intelligence from the dungeon of the Burning Magus.
Don recently completed a Mastter of Arts in English Literature from the University of Kansas. By day he works in IT support and by night he writes fiction. He loves comic books, folk tales, pulp, noir and horror.
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HER ELEMENTAL DRAGONS series: Stroke The Flame, Kiss The Sky, Shake The Earth, and Ride The Wave by Elizabeth Briggs Self-published; May 2018, July 2018, December 2018, February 2019
Four sexy dragon shifters. A huntress with a dark past. A bond that could save the world.
Kira has spent her entire life running from her past and staying out of trouble, ever since her parents were killed by the Black Dragon, who’s ruled the world under her oppressive talons for as long as anyone can remember.
But it’s hard to keep a low profile when four handsome strangers turn up in her village claiming Kira is destined to save the world. According to them, they’ve been chosen by the gods to become elemental dragons—and she’s their mate.
Which means one day she will be the most powerful dragon of all, able to control all four elements. Assuming she can unlock her powers first by getting intimate with each of her sexy mates: Auric, the clever prince; Jasin, the cocky soldier; Slade, the protective blacksmith; and Reven, the mysterious assassin. With Kira, they’re the only ones who can bring balance to the world and overthrow the Black Dragon—if she doesn’t tear them to shreds first.
Elizabeth Briggs is a full-time geek who writes books for teens and adults. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in Sociology, currently mentors teens in writing, and volunteers with a dog rescue group. She's also the author of the young adult New York Times bestselling FUTURE SHOCK series. Elizabeth lives in Los Angeles with her husband and a pack of fluffy dogs.
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THE HANGED MAN by K.D. Edwards Book #2 in the Tarot Sequence Pyr, January 2019
“A fast-paced mystery, and an original magical hierarchy.” – Library Journal, starred review
The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck.
Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Throne, is backed into a fight of high court magic and political appetites in a desperate bid to protect his ward, Max, from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man.
Rune's resistance will take him to the island's dankest corners, including a red light district made of moored ghost ships; the residence of Lady Death; and the floor of the ruling Convocation, where a gathering of Arcana will change Rune's life forever.
K.D. lives and writes in North Carolina, but has spent time in Massachusetts, Maine, Colorado, New Hampshire, Montana, and Washington. (Common theme until NC: Snow. So, so much snow.)
Mercifully short careers in food service, interactive television, corporate banking, retail management, and bariatric furniture has led to a much less short career in Higher Education.
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MEMORY’S BLADE by Spencer Ellsworth TOR Books., February 2018
Nominated for the Compton Crook Award
“The conclusion to Spencer Ellsworth's Starfire trilogy begins with a jolt and maintains a frenetic pace that doesn't let up until the story reaches its close.” – RT Book Reviews
At the heart of the Dark Zone, a duel for the universe rages.
In an ancient Jorian temple, Jaqi faces John Starfire, the new ruler of the Empire. He has set all the worlds aflame in his quest to destroy humankind. Jaqi has sworn to stop him. Problem is, Jaqi isn't much of a fighter.
Meanwhile, the sun-eating cosmic spiders, the Shir, have moved out of the Dark Zone and are consuming the galaxy. Araskar knows that he must hold them back, but to do that, he has to give himself over to the Resistance, under the command of John Starfire's wife. And she wants him dead more than she wants the stars to live.
If Jaqi and Araskar can fight their way out, they can use a secret at the heart of the Dark Zone to free the galaxy, and end John Starfire's new tyranny. They lose, and every star in the sky will go dark.
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Spencer is an author, dad, musician and teacher. His work has appeared at Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine and Beneath the Ceaseless Sky.
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GRAVEYARD SHIFT by Michael F. Haspil TOR Books, July 2017
“For those who enjoy police action mixed with urban fantasy.” – Library Journal, starred review
Nominated for the Colorado Book Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel of 2017
Alex Menkaure once ruled as pharaoh. Marcus once lived in the time of Caesar. Now, mummy and vampire are partners in a special police unit, fighting to keep the streets safe from both supernatural criminals and anti- vampire vigilantes.
When someone starts poisoning the artificial blood used by vampires, relations between vampires and humans deteriorate to the brink of anarchy. While the city threatens to tear itself apart, Alex and Marcus must form an unnatural alliance with a vigilante gang and a shape-shifter woman in a desperate battle against an ancient conspiracy.
If they succeed, they'll be pariahs, hunted by everyone. If they fail, the result will be a war bloodier than any the world has ever seen.
Michael F. Haspil is a geeky engineer and nerdy artist. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he had the opportunities to serve as an ICBM crew commander and as a launch director at Cape Canaveral.
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BY THE HOUR by Roni Loren Published in April 2017
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author! RITA Award Winner for Best Romance Novella (for NICE GIRLS DON’T RIDE)
Dr. Elle McCray has a plan. Work hard. Be the best. And do it alone. After her ex-husband’s betrayal, she’s learned being feared is a hell of a lot easier than being humiliated. So when trouble personified, Lane Cannon, dares to flirt with her, she shuts him down cold. Too gorgeous. Too cocky. And his job as The Grove’s sexual surrogate is to sleep with patients. No, thank you.
Former escort Lane Cannon has spent enough years with people looking down on him. Stupid. Trailer trash. Rent boy. He’s heard it all. He’s worked too hard to shed his past to let some haughty doctor cut him down. But something about Elle’s ice queen act has his dominant instincts perking up and his body taking notice. He can’t walk away.
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Roni wrote her first romance novel at age fifteen when she discovered writing about boys was way easier than actually talking to them. Since then, her flirting skills haven’t improved, but she likes to think her storytelling ability has.
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MAJESTIC 12: ENDGAME Book #3 in the MAJESTIC 12 series by Michael J. Martinez Skyhorse Publishing, September 2018
“High-octane action!” – B&N SF/F blog
A Cold War fought by superhuman agents reaches a boiling point in the thrilling finale to the MAJESTIC-12 historical thriller/superhero mash-up series from Michael J. Martinez.
Josef Stalin is dead. In the aftermath, the Soviet Union is thrown into crisis, giving former secret police chief Laverentiy Beria exactly the opening he needs. Beria’s plan is to secretly place his country’s Variants—ordinary people mysteriously embued with strange, superhuman powers—into the very highest levels of leadership, where he can use them to stage a government coup and seize control of the USSR.
America's response comes from its intelligence communities, including the American Variants recruited for the top-secret MAJESTIC-12 program, who are suddenly thrown into their most dangerous and important assignment yet. From the halls of the Kremlin to the battlefields of Korea, superpowered covert agents face off to determine the future of the planet—a future their very existence may ultimately threaten.
Michael is a husband, father and writer living the dream in the Garden State. He has spent nearly 20 years as a professional writer and journalist, including stints at The Associated Press and ABCNEWS.com.
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RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE by Casey McQuiston St. Martins Griffin, June 2018
"Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy—this book had everything I crave!" - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of Love and Other Words and Roomies
First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides―namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations.
The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex is busy enough handling his mother’s bloodthirsty opponents and his own political ambitions without an uptight royal slowing him down. But beneath Henry’s Prince Charming veneer, there’s a soft-hearted eccentric with a dry sense of humor and more than one ghost haunting him.
Casey is a writer—books, essays, books,
articles, books. She writes stories to make you laugh, to make you feel your feelings, to make the marginalized and queer and weird people of the world feel like there's a place for them in bright, joyful fiction, too.
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HEARTHFIRE Book #1 in the STONEBREAKER series by Emmie Mears BHC Publications, July 2018
“I want to steal Emmie's amazing world-building skills!” – actress & author Amber Benson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
Magic forms both feast and famine…
Carin has never known hunger. Born into the Hearthland, a lush world of fertile fields and abundant resources, her biggest worry is whether she and her three friends will find their true names on their Journeying. But when one of them is murdered on the morning of their departure, Carin’s peaceful world is stained with blood.
As they travel north, Carin and her friends discover a horrible truth: their land’s bounty is no mystery. An ancient spell cast by their ancestors is draining the very life force from the lands across the northern mountains, withering the earth and starving its people.
Forced to confront the truth, Carin must decide her own fate. Remain silent and allow the murder of the earth itself—or risk her own life in exile and break the spell.
Emmie Mears writes the books they always needed to read about characters they wish they could be. Emmie is multilingual, autistic, agender, and a bad pescetarian. Emmie makes their home with two cats in Glasgow, Scotland and hopes to keep it that way.
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PICTURE PERFECT COWBOY by Tiffany Reisz 8th Circle Press, November 2018
USA Today Bestselling Author!
“Reisz (the Original Sinners series) ignites Kentucky with the blazingly erotic adventures of a man who’s desperate to express his kinky urges for the first time.” – Publishers Weekly
Jason "Still" Waters' life looks perfect from the outside—money, fame, and the words "World Champion Bull- Rider" after his name. But Jason has a secret, one he never planned on telling anybody...until he meets Simone. She's the kinky girl of his dreams...and his conservative family's worst nightmare.
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Tiffany Reisz is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning Original Sinners series for Mira Books (Harlequin/Mills & Boon). Tiffany's books inhabit a sexy shadowy world where romance, erotica and literature meet and do immoral and possibly illegal things to each other.
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THE PHOENIX EMPRESS Book #2 in the Bright Ascendency trilogy by K Arsenault Rivera TOR Books, October 2018
"Rich, expansive, and grounded in human truth...simply exquisite.” ―V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of the Shades of Magic series
“Badass ladies slaying demons, defying conventions, and saving the world on their own terms.” – Indie Bound
Once they were the heirs to a prophecy that predicted two women would save an empire.
Now Shefali is dying―and her wife is unaware of the coming tragedy. Shizuka is too busy trying to reunite a fractured empire and right the wrongs of her ancestors.
As the Imperial Army gathers against a demonic invasion, Shizuka must do all she can with an empire on the brink of civil war.
Born in Puerto Rico, K and her family moved to New York when she was three. They landed in the middle of a blizzard, and K’s been complaining about the snow ever since.
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Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ By Rebecca Roanhorse Apex Magazine, July 2017
2017 Apex Magazine Reader’s Choice Winner
2018 Hugo Award Winner for Best Short Story
2017 Nebula Award Winner for Best Short Story
2017 Locus Recommended Short Story
2017 Apex Magazine Reader’s Choice Winner
Narrated by LeVar Burton on LeVar Burton Reads Podcast
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Rebecca is an Ohkay Owingeh /African American author, a.2015 VONA/Voices graduate and a graduate of Yale Law In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written, all of the white people School. She is based in Northern New Mexico. will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts. —Sherman Alexie, How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
You maintain a menu of a half dozen Experiences on your digital blackboard,
but Vision Quest is the one the Tourists choose the most. That certainly makes Short Story your workday easy. All a Vision Quest requires is a dash of mystical shaman, North American English Rights Sold Translation Rights: KT Literary a spirit animal (wolf usually, but birds of prey are on the upswing this year), Audio Rights: KT Literary Dramatic Rights: Kassie Evashevski at Anonymous Content and the approximation of a peyote experience. Tourists always come out of PDFs Available the Experience feeling spiritually transformed. (You’ve never actually tried peyote, but you did smoke your share of weed during that one year at Arizona State, and who’s going to call you on the difference?) It’s all 101 stuff, really, these Quests. But no other Indian working at Sedona Sweats can do it better. Your sales numbers are tops…
5,800 words PUSHBACK by John E. Stith ReAnimus Press, November 2018
Hugo Award-Nominated Author
“a lovely, twisty thriller that moves like a roller coaster—ratcheting up the suspense, then plunging into crisis, or doing a swift loop-the-loop through the flashbacks of PTSD before the climb starts again.” - #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon
Dave goes to his high school reunion for his very small school where he knew everyone... and nobody at the party was in his class, nor is he shown in the photo of everybody in the graduating class. He's brought his new girlfriend with him, who's understandably now wondering about if he's right in the head. He knows he is (PTSD notwithstanding) but he doesn't know what's up... or who shot holes in his car... Things turn even more deadly as someone seems to have it in for him, but he has no idea who or why.
John is a member of Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America. He’s been nominated for Nebula Award and a Hugo Award and classifies his books as “hard SF.”
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MANHATTAN TRANSFER by John E. Stith Originally published by TOR Books in 1993 Republished by ReAnimus Press in 2016
Hugo Award Honorable Mention
Some ideas are just too good to pass up... the pleasure is in the nonstop action and the problem the characters must solve. — New York Review of Science Fiction
The list of science fiction authors who play the game the hard way by sticking to the rules of science is all too short. Now to that group which includes Clarke, Niven, Asimov, Bear, and Clement should be added the name of John E. Stith. — Dan Simmons
When aliens abduct New York City, carrying it into space inside a huge dome, the citizens trapped inside must find out why, what they can do to save themselves . . . and to save the dozens of other cities which the aliens have stolen from other planets. A stunning tour-de-force of science fiction storytelling, with gripping action, believable characters, and a plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
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John is a member of Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America. He’s been nominated for Nebula Award and a Hugo Award and classifies his books as “hard SF.”
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PLAY FOR KEEPS Book #2 in the Love Games series by Maggie Wells Sourcebooks Casablanca., April 2018
“Play for Keeps is entertaining, heartbreaking, and sexy. Maggie Wells provides drama, angst, conflict, humor, and plenty of heat..” –Harlequin Junkies
Mixing business and pleasure is a dangerous game...
Tyrell Ransom, the new men's basketball coach, is ready to whip his team into shape and start winning some games. But when compromising photos of his soon-to-be-ex-wife with one of his players go viral, everything comes crashing down. With reporters thick on the ground, Ty and his team need some serious damage control--now.
When public relations guru Millie Jensen arrives in her leopard-print cape to save the day, things really heat up... Soon they're going to have to work double time to keep their white-hot chemistry out of the headlines.
By day, Maggie Wells is buried in spreadsheets. At night she pens tales of people tangling up the sheets. The product of a charming rogue and a shameless flirt, you only have to scratch the surface of this mild- mannered married lady to find a naughty streak a mile wide.
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