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The JAB team had a blast at one of the most song-filled events we've ever attended: the book launch for THE PERIODIC TABLE OF BROADWAY MUSICALS by Andrew Gerle and Joseph Zellnik!

This stunning book is a great gift for any Broadway lover, spanning musical history from Showboat to Legally Blonde 💃🎶
A hand holding up a copy of THE PERIODIC TABLE OF BROADWAY MUSICALS against the backdrop of the Drama Bookshop Authors Andrew Gerle and Joseph Zellnik holding up a copy of their book, THE PERIODIC TABLE OF BROADWAY MUSICALS
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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It's a double #bookbirthday today 🎉✨🎉

Happy book birthday to THE TOWER OF THE TYRANT by @jeremyteg.bsky.social and ALL THE WICKED by Catelyn Wilson!
The cover for THE TOWER OF THE TYRANT by J.T. Greathouse. The main character stands in the foreground with her back to the reader. She carries a staff with a bird figure sitting atop it and gazes intently at a large mountain in the cover's background. On top of the mountain is an enormous tree that may or may not be significant to the plot (you'll have to read the book to find out!). The cover for ALL THE WICKED by Catelyn Wilson. Two graceful hands are mirroring each other against a black background. One hand is on the top part of the book and has a sharp dagger going through the middle of the palm (ouch) with some blood coming from the wound. The other hand is on the bottom part of the cover and holds an elaborate bronze key. Three luna moths of various poses encircle the hands.
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Today's the day: @jeremyteg.bsky.social's new standalone epic fantasy THE TOWER OF THE TYRANT is now available in ebook! awfulagent.com/ebooks/tower...
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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THE TOWER OF THE TYRANT, @jeremyteg.bsky.social's new fantasy epic, is up for pre-order now! awfulagent.com/ebooks/tower...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Hoping for a good comic book this spooky season? Our friends at @thevaultcomics.bsky.social have you covered with their extensive line-up of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy titles!
A full-page ad for Vault Comics and Aethon Books, recommending multiple of their comic & LitRPG titles across the genres of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. The top of the ad reads "Haunting Reads" in a spooky font and Vault's website, vaultcomics.com, is included at the bottom.
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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We were pleased to see @randeedawn.com (and a giant bear?) also featured in this week's PW! Her fantasy novels THE ONLY SONG WORTH SINGING and LEAVE NO TRACE are available now! 🎶
A full-page ad for Caezik SF&F, with JAB client Randee Dawn featured on the bottom half of the page. Book covers for THE ONLY SONG WORTH SINGING and LEAVE NO TRACE, along with the author's headshot, are displayed. The text underneath Randee's photo reads: "Meet RANDEE DAWN and her worlds of faeries, magic, music...and a giant bear?"
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Debut author Yah Yah Scholfield also made their PW debut in an interview about global Gothic fiction! ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS is set in southern Georgia and is forthcoming 1/27/25 🥀

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A PW article by Elyse Martin titled Moor or Less, with the subtitle reading "New Novels Unearth Ghotic Horrors in an Arizona Mine, Rural Japan, and Beyond". The first few paragraphs read as follows: "Since 1764, when Horace Walpole captivated readers with The Castle of Otranto, gothic novels have been shaped by, and have sometimes been synonymous with, their locales. “With all genres, setting matters,” says Yah Yah Scholfield, debut author of the Southern gothic On Sundays She Picked Flowers (Saga, Jan. 2026). “But with gothic fiction in particular, the setting is a character all its own. You can’t have Wuthering Heights without the moors, and you can’t have Rebecca without Manderley.” PW spoke with Scholfield and other authors about the importance of place in their forthcoming gothic horror novels. As in real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. Scholfield’s gothic references include Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, particularly “the concept of this place that is so sick and heavy with human living,” they say. Their debut follows Judith Rice, who as an adult in 1965 flees her abusive mother abusive to a run-down house in the forests of southern Georgia, where she contends with the ghosts of the house’s violent past as well as her own." The rest of the article continues on with non-JAB clients.
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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As Seen in Print!

It's a double @jimchines.com feature in this week's issue of Publishers Weekly — both KITEMASTER (published 5/27/25) and SLAYERS OF OLD (forthcoming 10/21/25) get some time in the print spotlight!
A vertical ad for SLAYERS OF OLD by Jim C. Hines, forthcoming from DAW Books, that shows the book cover and reads: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Golden Girls. Slayers of Old is a humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time. October 21, 2025. ISBN: 9780756419684" A full-page ad for Caezik SF&F Books, with the book cover for Jim C. Hines' KITEMASTER in the center. The text under the cover reads a review quote from Locus Magazine: "If you like epic fantasy, then Kitemaster is one you will not want to miss."
October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Looking for a perfect spooky season read? Our ebook edition of @tanyahuff.bsky.social's SUMMON THE KEEPER is now available! awfulagent.com/ebooks/summo... Come for the love triangle, stay for the talking cat.
October 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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For @pvbrett.bsky.social fans attending on Sunday, he’ll be signing books and giving out free (!) copies of The Desert Prince! Be sure to stop by the @delreybooks.bsky.social booth #3021 at 4:30pm and close out your NYCC weekend with signed books!

(image from the man, the myth, the legend himself)
Photo of JAB author Peter V. Brett signing books and looking cool. The text on the photo reads: “NY Comic Con! I’ll be at the Penguin Random House booth #3021 Sunday Oct 12 fron 4:30-5:30pm signing & giving out free copies of The Desert Prince!”
October 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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We played a little I SPY on the Show Floor and found:

🥀 ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield
👑 THE DESERT PRINCE by @pvbrett.bsky.social
✨ TAILORED REALITIES by @brandonsanderson.com
The Saga Press section at the Simon & Schuster booth. A red neon sign reads Saga Press on the top of the booth. Printed on the wall are various Saga titles, including ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS, the debut horror from JAB client Yah Yah Scholfield The wall of the Penguin Random House booth. Printed on the wall are various PRH titles, including THE DESERT PRINCE, the first book in the new fantasy series by JAB author Peter V. Brett The Tor section at the Macmillan booth. A blue neon sign reads Tor on the top of the booth. Printed on the wall are various Tor titles, including TAILORED REALITIES by JAB author Brandon Sanderson, forthcoming this December
October 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Our pals over at @thevaultcomics.bsky.social have been popular this weekend! In addition to their great line-up of SFF and horror comics, they had a live set-up of Post Malone’s BIGRIG (not to mention an event with the artist himself)!

Bonus: @brandonsanderson.com’s THE DARK ONE on display!
Angled shot of the various and super-cool comics that Vault Comics has available, including THE DARK ONE by JAB client Brandon Sanderson In the background, Post Malone’s BIGRIG but made reality: a giant, decked-out truck with skulls and spikes and seriously cool features (oh my!). In the foreground, a small table featuring the BIGRIG comic and Aethon and Vault’s names
October 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Speaking of E.C. Myers, copies of his interactive #fnaf book, Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Week Before, were spotted at the Scholastic booth!
Three interactive Five Nights at Freddy’s novels in a row, with E.C. Myers’ Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Week Before in the middle
October 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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While not exactly at the Javits Center, we were thrilled to see @ecmyers.com in person at the YA Thrills and Chills event hosted by Books of Wonder!

His latest book, Little Nightmares: The Lonely Ones, is a media tie-in to the recently released (and very scary 🫣) game, Little Nightmares 3
JAB author E.C. Myers sitting at a panel table at Books of Wonder and holding his new book, Little Nightmares: The Lonely Ones, with another copy displayed in front of him A shot of the full YA Thrills and Chills panel table at Books of Wonder. Panelists include (left to right): Yueh Yang, L.C. Rosen, E.C. Myers, Mariko Tamaki, and Nicole Goux
October 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Over on the Show Floor, @alexshvartsman.bsky.social is selling books and talking about all of the creative projects that has kept him busy lately! Find Alex at the MAYA booth (#3325) before he sells out of his works for the weekend!
JAB author Alex Shvartsman standing in front of booth 3325 and holding up copies of his books, THE MIDDLING AFFLICTION and KAKISTOCRACY
October 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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It’s been a whirlwind time at New York Comic Con so far — here are some client highlights we’ve seen! 🧵

@mauricebroaddus.bsky.social was on the fantastic Young, Gifted & Whack panel, covering the intersections of creativity and nerdom among Black communities, moderated by Wayne Brady! #nycc
October 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Ari Marmell's HOT LEAD, COLD IRON introduces readers to their new favorite fantasy noir detective, Mick Oberon! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
October 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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After you tear through the Pact & Pattern trilogy, make sure to pre-order THE TOWER OF THE TYRANT, Greathouse's next epic! awfulagent.com/ebooks/tower...
October 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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For a limited time only, @jeremyteg.bsky.social's THE HAND OF THE SUN KING is on sale for 99 cents wherever you buy ebooks! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
October 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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We've been busy — here are some of the exciting projects our clients announced in the month of September alone 🥳

Congratulations to JAB clients Emily Rath, Isaac Fitzsimons, @jessmeywrites.bsky.social, @brandonsanderson.com, and Peter Orullian on their book deals!
Book deal announcement reading "Author of the Jacksonville Rays series and the Tuonela duet Emily Rath's DEVOUR ME, the first in an MMF paranormal trilogy, in which a young woman becomes caught between a handsome witch and a cursed wraith in a brewing war against dark forces, to Laura Schreiber at Avon, in a major deal, for seven figures, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal, by Susan Velazquez at JABberwocky Literary Agency (NA). Rights also to Gillian Green at Bramble UK, at auction, in a six-figure deal, by Stevie Finegan at Zeno Agency." Book deal announcement reading "Author of THE PASSING PLAYBOOK Isaac Fitzsimons's ASTRA FOX AND THE WONDERWORKERS REBELLION, the author's middle grade debut, set in an alternate Gilded Age where an aspiring wonderworker gains a once-in-a-lifetime apprenticeship, only to discover the illusions she creates uphold the very system that exploits her people and conceals the city's rotten core, pitched as a magical take on Newsies, to Alyson Heller at Aladdin, for publication in fall 2026, by Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Literary Agency (world English)." Book deal announcement reading "Jess Mey's GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER, in which two witty and wise millennial women team up to solve a murder—or at least try to, to Gemma Creffield at Datura, with Ella Chappell editing, in a nice deal, for publication in October 2026, by James Farner at JABberwocky Literary Agency (world English). Rights: susan@awfulagent.com" Book deal announcement reading "Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian's SONGS OF THE DEAD, the first book in the Strata Wars contemporary fantasy trilogy, following a struggling musician who, after his death, wakes up in a new reality, where music and light are considered magic and past eras play out underneath the streets of London, to Joe Monti at Saga Press, in a three-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky Literary Agency (NA). Audio rights also to Georgia Holmes at Bolinda (UK), by Stevie Finegan at Zeno Agency."
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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For a limited time only, J.D. Netto's THE OTHER SIDE OF THE OCEAN is on sale for $1.99! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-o...
September 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Deal of the Day!

A huge congratulations to Emily Rath, @susanvcolmant.bsky.social, and @steviefinegan.bsky.social 🎉 DEVOUR ME is forthcoming from Avon!
Screenshot from Publisher's Marketplace with a headline of "Deal of the Day". The deal reads: "Author of the Jacksonville Rays series and the Tuonela duet Emily Rath's DEVOUR ME, the first in an MMF paranormal trilogy, in which a young woman becomes caught between a handsome witch and a cursed wraith in a brewing war against dark forces, to Laura Schreiber at Avon, in a major deal, for seven figures, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal, by Susan Velazquez at JABberwocky Literary Agency (NA). Rights also to Gillian Green at Bramble UK, at auction, in a six-figure deal, by Stevie Finegan at Zeno Agency."
September 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Happy #bookbirthday to not one, not two, but three (3) new titles from our clients today!

Now out in the world:

💖 SHABBAT IS... written by @sassinsf.com
🎮 LITTLE NIGHTMARES: THE LONELY ONES by @ecmyers.com
✈️ RED DAWN by William C. Dietz
The book cover for SHABBAT IS... written by A.J. Sass and illustrated by Noa Kelner. The cover features an aerial view of a dining table surrounded by happy children of various genders and races enjoying a meal together The book cover for LITTLE NIGHTMARES: THE LONELY ONES by E.C. Myers. The cover shows three small protagonists standing in front of a twisted carnival looking up at the dark sky, where a large monstrous face (made up of weird clouds or smoke) is looking back down at them The book cover for RED DAWN by William C. Dietz, a new novella in the Winds of War series. The cover features an airplane on fire and about to crash out of the sky, with a dark and damaged American flag making up the background
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Starting today, @atsayre.bsky.social's THE LAST DAYS OF GOOD PEOPLE is on sale for 99 cents wherever ebooks are sold! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-l...
August 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The JABberwocky team had a wonderful time celebrating @timchawaga.bsky.social's debut, SALVAGIA, at WORD Bookstore last night! Congratulations to Tim on a lively event, and shoutout to @victormanibo.com for being a great moderator ✨

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Extremely cool JAB clients Tim Chawaga (left) and Victor Manibo (right) sitting on the stage at WORD Bookstore and smiling for the camera. A copy of SALVAGIA by Tim Chawaga is displayed between them, and a lighted sign of the bookstore's name, WORD, hangs on the wall behind them. Extremely cool JAB clients Tim Chawaga (left) and Victor Manibo (right) sitting on the stage at WORD Bookstore and speaking into microphones. A copy of SALVAGIA by Tim Chawaga is displayed between them, and a lighted sign of the bookstore's name, WORD, hangs on the wall behind them. Extremely cool JAB client Tim Chawaga sitting on the stage at WORD Bookstore and reading from his debut novel, SALVAGIA. A lighted sign of the bookstore's name, WORD, hangs on the wall behind them. Extremely cool JAB agent James Farner (left), and JAB clients Tim Chawaga (center) and Victor Manibo (right) posing in front of the stage at WORD Bookstore. Tim is holding a copy of his debut SALVAGIA by Tim Chawaga, and a lighted sign of the bookstore's name, WORD, hangs on the wall behind them.
August 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM