Juno Books News

ISSUE 6
12.05.07

In This Issue:

New Books
Current Successes
Editorial Matters
Ebook Update
Thither & Yon
Werewolf Winner
The Cold Quiz
Special Stuff

NEW BOOKS

Juno Books has just published our final two titles of 2007: CHASING SILVER by Jamie Craig and THE SARSEN WITCH by Eileen Kernaghan. AMBERLIGHT by Sylvia Kelso came out in November when you weren't looking.

Eighteen books in less than twelve months!

THE SARSEN WITCH was delayed a bit, but we are proud it is finally available. The last (that we have planned, anyway) of our trade paperbacks, it is a re-issue of a fine novel originally published in 1989. Eileen Kernaghan's historical fantasy is the third book in her "Grey Isles" series. Shortlisted for an Aurora Award in 1990, it's a tale of earth-magic, megaliths, and high adventure in the bronze-age world of the Wessex warrior-chieftain. THE SARSEN WITCH is distributed differently than our mass market paperbacks, but it can be easily ordered through Ingram by any bookstore, will soon be available through Amazon.com (to avoid the OLD edition, here's a direct link and if you want copies right away -- we have them available through the Wildside Press Store.

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CHASING SILVER isn't *quite* in the stores yet, although it should be hitting them any day. If you just can't wait, you can get it from us right now. Warning: The melting point for silver is 1615 degrees Fahrenheit. CHASING SILVER is even hotter than that! Heroine Remy Capra, a streetwise resident of a future Washington DC, finds herself back in our time and across a continent in Los Angeles -- at the feet of bounty hunter Nathan Pierce. Things heat up rapidly both between them and for them with a murderous gang lord in pursuit and the appearance of Remy's vengeful enemy from her own time. Vivien Dean and Pepper Espinoza make up the writing team of Jamie Craig. They'd love to see pictures of CHASING SILVER "in the wild" so check out their contest at http://writingintandem.blogspot.com/.

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AMBERLIGHT by Sylvia Kelso has justifiably received tons of praise from the likes of Lois McMasters Bujold, Rosemary Edghill, Delia Sherman, and others. Briefly it's about a city, a mystery, and an impossible love. Read Carole McDonnell's interview with Sylvia for BlogCritics and Moondancer's Author's Spotlight and find out more about a fascinating author and her fascinating book. AMBERLIGHT is in stores, on Amazon, and we, of course, have it in stock, too.

CURRENT SUCCESSES

DANCING WITH WEREWOLVES by Carole Nelson Douglas is still a hot seller and we've gone to a second printing. A starred review in Publishers Weekly and positive reviews elsewhere (included Locus, Juno's first there) prove it to be a critical as well as popular success.

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THE ETERNAL ROSE by Gail Dayton has also gone to print again, so there should be no holiday shortage of this title either!

EDITORIAL MATTERS

WARRIOR WOMEN will not be out till February at the earliest. I'm having some editorial challenges getting it together.

I'm also making decisions now for BEST NEW ROMANTIC FANTASY 3, so if you have suggestions or submissions, now's the time to act.

Although I have several novels under serious consideration, I've not responded on many manuscript submissions in the last two months. Tempus fugit! Submissions tend to come in bunches and I've gotten over a dozen in the last week or so alone, but I expect to get back to them soon.

EBOOKS UPDATE

Addition of Fictionwise e-books got stalled after MATTERS OF THE BLOOD by Maria Lima, THE ETERNAL ROSE by Gail Dayton UNVEILING THE SORCERESS by Saskia Walker, and WIND FOLLOWER by Carole McDonnell. We will be adding more soon!

We'll also be adding Kindle ebooks on Amazon in the coming year.

THITHER & YON

We attended the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY the first of November. Authors Matt Cook and Chris Howard were also there along with several "best new" contributors. A spiffy Juno Books display caught many an eye and a few dollars as well.

My next convention foray (along with several Juno authors!) will be for the Romantic Time Booklovers Convention in Pittsburgh, PA, April 16 - 20, 2008.

WEREWOLF WINNAH!

And, although it was a late announcement on the blog, ALICIA VERLANGER won our WEREWOLF QUIZ. The answers are now posted with the original questions. I noticed when posting the answers that I'd met four of the ten werewolvian authors and offered a Juno Book of your choice for the first person to guess which of the authors I've met. No one took up the challenge, so it still stands! Email me with "4UMet" as the subject if you want to take a stab at it.

BUT, there's a BIGGER contest . . .

THE COLD QUIZ

You can find the new JUNO BOOKS COLD QUIZ at:

http://www.juno-books.com/cold_quiz.html.

Each answer is the title of an sf/f novel. All titles include a word association with the winter season and weather. If we were using, for example, children's books, Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin might have been used; Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier would have been in a historical fiction quiz; a detective mystery quiz might include Killing Frost by Michael A. Black; romance -- Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher. But, remember, these are fantasy and science fiction novels!

SPECIAL STUFF

In addition to the quiz and the new book pages, there's a new CHASING SILVER bookmark to download http://juno-books.com/downloads.html and a Backlist Page (a href="http://juno-books.com/backlist.html">http://juno-books.com/backlist.html has been added.

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." -- Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer. (July 27, 1916 - December 2, 2007)