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opens in a new windowThe Fallen by Eric Van Lustbader

Placeholder of  -6The End of Days has been predicted for the last two thousand years. Now, without warning, it is upon us. In a hidden cave in the mountains of Lebanon, a man makes a fateful discovery. He will bring what has been forbidden for thousands of years out of the darkness and into the light: the Testament of Lucifer.

Now an unfathomable danger has arisen: Lucifer’s advance guard, the Fallen. Humankind is in danger of being enslaved by the forces of evil.

opens in a new windowThe Distance Home by Orly Konig

Image Placeholder of - 5Sixteen years ago, a tragic accident cost Emma Metz her two best friends—one human and one equine. Now, following her father’s death, Emma has reluctantly returned to the Maryland hometown she’d left under a cloud of guilt.

Sorting through her father’s affairs, Emma uncovers a history of lies tying her broken family to the one place she thought she could never return—her girlhood sanctuary, Jumping Frog Farm.

opens in a new windowThe Guns Above by Robyn Bennis

Image Place holder  of - 86They say it’s not the fall that kills you.

For Josette Dupre, the Corps’ first female airship captain, it might just be a bullet in the back.

On top of patrolling the front lines, she must also contend with a crew who doubts her expertise, a new airship that is an untested deathtrap, and the foppish aristocrat Lord Bernat, a gambler and shameless flirt with the military know-how of a thimble.

opens in a new windowHigh Stakes edited by George R.R. Martin & Melinda M. Snodgrass

Place holder  of - 92Perfect for old fans and new readers alike, High Stakes (Wild Cards) delves deeper into the world of aces, jokers, and the hard-boiled men and women of the Fort Freak police precinct in a pulpy, page-turning novel of superheroics and Lovecraftian horror.

After the concluding events of Lowball, Officer Francis Black of Fort Freak, vigilante joker Marcus “The Infamous Black Tongue” Morgan, and ace thief Mollie “Tesseract” Steunenberg get stuck in Talas, Kazakhstan.

Pawn by Timothy Zahn

Poster Placeholder of - 53Nicole Lee’s life is going nowhere. No family, no money, and stuck in a relationship with a thug named Bungie. But, after one of Bungie’s “deals” goes south, he and Nicole are whisked away by a mysterious moth-like humanoid to a strange ship called the Fyrantha.

Once aboard, life on the ship seems too good to be true. All she has to do is work on one of the ship’s many maintenance crews. However, she learned long ago that nothing comes without a catch. When she’s told to keep quiet and stop asking questions, she knows she is on to something.

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opens in a new windowAll Systems Red by Martha Wells

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.

But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

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opens in a new windowA Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron

opens in a new windowEasy Pickings and the First Dance by Richard S. Wheeler

opens in a new windowMEG: Nightstalkers by Steve Alten

opens in a new windowSacred Ground by Mercedes Lackey

opens in a new windowThe Seascape Tattoo by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes

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opens in a new windowArpeggio of Blue Steel Vol. 10 Story and art by Ark Performance

opens in a new windowDreamin’ Sun Vol. 1 Story and art by Ichigo Takano

opens in a new windowMagical Girl Site Vol. 2 Story and art by Kentaro Sato

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24 Audiobooks to Match Your Travel Time

Fourth of July weekend is almost here and that has us thinking about SUMMER VACATION! We’ve planned our trip and packed our bags. The car is gassed up and ready to go. But here’s the hardest part: what audiobook are we going to listen to on the drive?

If we’re having this problem, we’re assuming you are too. So we decided to put together a list of recommended audiobooks of varying lengths. Whether it’s a short train ride or a long flight with transfers, here are 24 audiobooks that will help make the journey memorable!

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Paperback Spotlight: The House of the Four Winds

opens in a new windowThe House of the Four Winds by Mercedes Lackey and James MalloryOnce a month, we’re spotlighting a Tor book that’s about to become available in paperback. Today, we’re featuring opens in a new windowThe House of the Four Winds, by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, publishing June 30th.

In The House of the Four Winds, Princess Clarice, disguising herself as a sailor named Clarence, intends to work her way to the New World. When the crew rebels, Clarice/Clarence, an expert with rapier and dagger, sides with the handsome navigator, Dominick, and kills the cruel captain. Full of swashbuckling adventure, buoyant magic, and irrepressible charm, The House of the Four Winds is a lighthearted fantasy romp by a pair of bestselling writers. We hope you enjoy this excerpt.

FAREWELL TO SWANSGAARDE

THE EARLY-MORNING sunlight shone through the French doors that led out to the balcony of Princess Clarice’s tower bedroom. From the balcony was the sweeping vista of the Borogny Mountains, spreading their pristine robes for admiration, their high peaks crowned in clouds and their slopes robed in snow year-round. They were the first thing Princess Clarice saw each morning as the sun rose over the Swanscrown.

I shall miss this. The thought came before Clarice quite realized she was awake.

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How many syllables was that again, or, “Can I buy a vowel?”

How many syllables was that again, or, “Can I buy a vowel?”

Crown of Vengeance by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

Written by Melissa Ann Singer, Senior Editor

At this point, Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory, and I have worked on seven books together. They’ve all been fascinating and fun but there were a couple of times on this last book, Crown of Vengeance, where I thought my head was going to explode.

Because of spelling.

The world that Lackey and Mallory have created is populated by many wonderful creatures . . . and a whole lot of elves. Not the “Shoemaker and the Elves” kind—the tall, beautiful, magical, warrior/artist kind. And they (and the places they live, and their horses) all have names. Long names. Multi-syllable names. Names that go on and on and on (Galathornthadan, Runacarendalur, Peldalathiriel, Aralhathumindrion) . . . .

As I was working on the final edits, I began to worry about the copyeditor who was going to have to cope with all those names—and would not have the advantage I’d had of reading the book several times. So I decided to put together a style sheet—a list of character names, place names, frequently-used words in Elvish, a list of the “books” mentioned in the novel, etc. And I decided to annotate that list a little bit so that the writers and I could use it as quick reference to make sure we had all the family connections right . . . and, as war and battle became the order of the day, to keep track of who died, and when, and where, and how.

Making up that style sheet just about drove me around the bend! But it was a useful thing. Because in a book of this size—Crown of Vengeance is around 200,000 words long (and all of them entertaining, even “a” and “of” and “the”)—a character might appear in chapter four and then not be seen again until chapter ten, and sometimes there was a slight change in the spelling of the character’s name between the two scenes . . . at one point, a married couple swapped names . . . and once or twice, the name of a character or a location added or dropped a syllable or two along the way . . . .

Emails flew as we worked out what was correct, because Elvish has rules about how things are spelled and what certain suffixes and prefixes indicate, so it wasn’t like we flipped a coin and said, “this should be an ‘a,’ not an ‘e’.”

I wound up with three separate style sheets. One for elves, demons, and horses (there are 16 named horses in the book), one for locations of various kinds (countries, places of worship, forests), and one for things like military ranks, job titles, noble ranks, numbers, and the names of months. About 16 pages in all.
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Turned it all over to production and heaved a sigh of relief that I would no longer have to remember the difference between Denarcheliel and Dendinirchiel, or where the “u” belonged in Hamphuliadiel.

And then, weeks later, there was . . .

The Map.

A lovely map, created by Jon Lansberg, showing many of the countries and places through which the High King’s army travels as it attempts to conquer the world. And when I looked at it for the very first time, a tiny voice in the back of my mind said, “Isn’t that spelled Jaeglenhend, not Jaeglenheld?”

I can’t wait for book two . . . .

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Dragon*Con Events!

For those of you in the Atlanta area there is an action-packed weekend ahead of you at Dragon*Con .  Just check out this MASSIVE list of panels that some of our authors will be speaking at.

There are also autograph sessions and readings with these same authors throughout the weekend.

And of course, The Wheel of Time track, is tearing it up with another excellent year of awesome programming.  Head on over to Dragon*Con’s homepage for more information.

September, 2nd

Fightin’ and Writing’
Friday Sep, 2 10:00 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With David B. Coe

Breaking In: How It’s Done
Friday, Setember 2nd at 1:00 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With Carole Nelson Douglas and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Things I Wish Some Pro Had Told Me
Friday, Sept 2nd at 2:30 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With Kevin J. Anderson

Vampires are the New Vampires
Friday, September 2nd 2:30
Hyatt  Regency VI – VII
With Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

World Building 101
Hilton – Grand Salon
Friday, September 2nd 4:00 PM
With Tracy Hickman

Delphic Oralce
Friday, September 2nd at 4:00 PM
Hyatt – Vinnings
With Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Alternate Twentieth Centuries
Friday, September 2nd at 5:30 PM
Westin – International BC
With Carole Nelson Douglas

Spotlight: Darkside Detectives
Friday, September 2nd at 7:00 PM
Hyatt 0 Cairo
With Carole Nelson Douglas

Wait! I Gotta Deadline
Friday, September 2nd  8:30 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With A.J. Hartley and Timothy Zahn

September, 3rd

SF and Fantasy: A Woman’s View
Saturday, September 3rd 11:30 AM
Hyatt – Fairlie
With Mary Robinette Kowal

Plotting or Plodding
Saturday, September 3 at 1:00 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With A.J. Hartley

Sword and Laser Live Podcast
Saturday, September 3rd at 1:00 PM
Marriott A601 – A602
With Robert J. Sawyer

Writer’s Roundtable
Saturday Sept 3rd at 1:00 PM
Westin – Atlanta CDEF
With Kevin J. Anderson

Old School D&D
Saturday, September 3rd at 2:30
Hilton – Crystal Ballroom
With Track Hickman

First Ladies of Fiction
Saturday, September 3rd at 4:00 PM
Hyatt – Centennial II – III
With Mercedes Lackey and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Heir to the Empire
Saturday, September 3rd at 4:00 PM
Marriott – A706
With Timothy Zahn

Characters that Come To Life
Saturday, September 3rd 4:00 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Signapore
With Tracy Hickman and Carole Nelson Douglas

Xtreme Dungeon Mastery
Saturday, September 3rd at 4:00 PM
Hilton – Grand Salon B
With Tracy Hickman

Writing Short Fiction
Saturday Sep 3 7:00 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With David B. Coe and Mary Robinette Kowal

Shadowed Streets
Sunday, September 4th at 7:00 PM
Hyatt – Cairo
With Carole Nelson Douglas

The Adventure Continues – authors discuss creating and maintaining dark and urban fantasy series
Saturday, September 3rd 8:30 PM
Hyatt – Cairo
With David B. Coe

Crossing the line: Too Much or not enough
Saturday, Sept 3rd 8:30 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With A. J. Hartley

Misty Lackey’s Secret Worlds: Secret World Chronicle
Saturday, September 3rd at 10:00 PM
Hyatt – Fairlie
With Mercedes Lackey

September, 4th

Mythology, Philosophy, & Truth of Star War
Sunday, September 4th 10:00 AM
Marriott – A706

NYT Bestselling Authors Tell All
Sunday September 4th at 1:00 PM
Hyatt-Regency VI – VII
With Kevin J. Anderson

The Occult: Fact vs. Fiction
Sunday 4th, 1:00 PM
Hyatt – Montreal/Vancouver
With Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The Regency Era: Myth and Realty
Sunday, September 4th  2:30
Westin – International BC
With Mary Robinette Kowal

Unsung Science Fiction Movies
Sunday, Sept 4th  4:00 PM
Hyatt – Cairo
With Robert J. Sawyer

Ask the Authors – Star Wars Track
Sunday Sept 4th at 5:30
Marriott A706
With Kevin J. Anderson and Timothy Zahn

Drawing Plans Against Us: War of the Worlds
Hyatt – Hanover C-E
Sunday, Sept 4th 7:00 PM
With Kevin J. Anderson

An Hour with Robert Sawyer
Sunday, Sept 4th 7:00 PM
Hyatt – Fairlie
With Robert Sawyer

Knowing Your Audience
Sunday, Sept 4th 7:00 PM
Hyatt  – Manila/Singapore
With Chelsea Quinn Yarbro an A.J. Hartley

Puppets in Genre Storytelling
Sunday, September 4th at 8:30
Hyatt – The Learning Center
With Mary Robinette Kowal

Spotlight: Werewolves
Sunday, September 4 at 8:30 PM
Hyatt – Montreal/Vancouver
With Chelse Quinn Yarbro

Blood & Steel
Sunday Sept, 4th at 10:00 PM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With David B. Coe and Carole Nelson Douglas

September 5th

Your Voice
Monday, September 5th 10:00 AM
Hyatt – Manila/Singapore
With David B. Coe, Chelsea Quinn Yabro, and A.J.Harley

Things that go Bump in the Timeline: Supernatural Alternate History
Monday,  September 5th  11:30 AM
Westin – International BC
With Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Who Wants to Be A Writer
Monday, September 5th at 11:30 AM
Hyatt – Centennial I
With Mercedes Lackey and Timothy Zahn

Staying Afloat in an Everchanging Market
Monday, September 5th at 1:00 PM
Hyatt – Manilla/Singapore
With Carole Nelson Douglas

The Quest for Search
Monday, September 5th 1:00 PM
Marriott – A703
With Robert J. Sawyer

Readings

A Reading with David B. Coe
Sunday, Sep 4th 11:30 am
Hyatt – Roswell
With David B. Coe

A Reading with Tracy Hickman
Friday, Sept 2nd at 2:30 PM
Hyatt – Edgewood

A Reading with Mary Robinettte Kowal
Friday, September 2nd at 1:00 PM
Hyatt – Edgewood

A Reading with Carole Nelson Douglas
Saturday, September 3rd at 1:00 PM
Hyatt – Marietta

A Reading with Kevin J. Anderson
Saturday September 3rd 4:00 PM
Hyatt – Marrietta

A Readiing with A.J. Harley
Sunday, September 4th at 1:00 PM
Hyatt – Roswell

A Reading with Mercedes Lackey
Sunday, September 4th at 11:30 AM
Hyatt – Edgewood

A Reading with Robert J. Sawyer
Sunday, May 4th 1:00 PM
Hyatt  – University

Autographs

Dragon*Autographs Session with Mary Robinette Kowal
Friday, September 2nd at 4:00 PM
Marriot M301-M304

Dragon*Autographs Session with Timothy Zahn
Friday, September 2nd at 5:30 PM
Marriott – M301-M304

Dragon Autographs Session with A. J. Hartley
Saturday, September 3rd at 11:30 PM
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Dragon*Atutographs Session with Tracy Hickman
Saturday, Sep 3rd at 1:00 PM
Marriott – M301-M304

Dragon*Autographs Session w/ Mercedes Lackey
Sunday, September 4th at11:30 AM
Marriott M301-M304

Dragon*Autographs Session with Carole Nelson Douglas
Sunday, September 4th at 2:30 PM
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Dragon* Autographs Session w/ Kevin J. Anderson
Sunday Sept 4th at 11:30 AM
Marriot M301

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