The View From Monday - October 26, 2020

Happy Monday. Please note that this list is still being checked for accuracy and may change!

There are 2 debuts this week:

Northern Wrath (The Hanged God Trilogy 1) by Thilde Kold Holdt;

and

The Witch Hunter by Max Seeck.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

From formerly featured DAC authors:

Interference (Semiosis Duology 2) by Sue Burke is out in Trade Paperback;

and

How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge (The Thorne Chronicles 2) by K. Eason.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

October 27, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Hammer and the Eagle: The Icons of the Warhammer Worlds	Dan Abnett	SF - Warhammer 40,000 0
Gamechanger (h2tp)	L. X. Beckett	SF/AC/CyP
Interference (h2tp)	Sue Burke	SF/AC/HSF - Semiosis Duology 2
Madeleine Is Sleeping (ri)	Sarah Shun-lien Bynum	LF/CoA/FairyT/FolkT/LM
The Best of Jerry Pournelle	John F. Carr (Ed)	SF/SS
The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition	Rae Carson	SF/SO/MTI - Star Wars
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five	Neil Clarke (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Bane's Choice	Alyssa Day	PNR
How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge	K. Eason	SF/SO/HU - The Thorne Chronicles 2
48 Hours (tp2mm)	William R. Forstchen	TechTh/SF/AP/PA
Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)	Gabriel García Márquez	MR/LF/Classics - Vintage International
Till Sudden Death Do Us Part (h2tp)	Simon R. Green	SupM/DF - An Ishmael Jones Mystery 7
Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First	David Guymer	SF/SO - The Horus Heresy: Primarchs/td>
Dune: House Atreides (ri)	Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson	SF - Prelude to Dune 1
Dune: House Harkonnen (ri)	Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson	SF - Prelude to Dune Series 2
Dune: House Corrino (ri)	Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson	SF - Prelude to Dune Series 3
Northern Wrath (D)	Thilde Kold Holdt	The Hanged God Trilogy 1
Critical Point (h2mm)	S. L. Huang	SF/TechTh - Cas Russell 3
Syn & Salvation	Beth Kander	SF/GenEng/AP/PA/Dys/TechTh - Original Syn Trilogy 3
Sinder	Kathleen Kaufman	Occ/Sup/Horror - Diabhal 2
Accepting the Lance	Sharon Lee Steve Miller	SF/SO - Liaden Universe® 22
Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon (h2tp)	James Lovegrove	Occ/Sup/HistM
People of the City	Marshall Ryan Maresca	UF/F - Maradaine Elite 3
Antediluvian (h2mm)	Wil McCarthy	SF/HSF
The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas	Syd Moore	Cr/SS/H - An Essex Witch Museum Mystery Collection
Nexus & Other Stories	Thomas Parrott	SF/SE - Warhammer 40,000
The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume One	Terry Pratchett	F
Chicory Up (e)(ri)	Irene Radford	F - Pixie Chronicles 2
Life and Limb (h2tp)	Jennifer Roberson	F/UF/DF - Blood and Bone 1
The Peril of Barnabas Collins	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 12
Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 13
Song of the Risen God: A Tale of the Coven (h2mm)	R. A. Salvatore	F/DF - Coven 3
The Tower of Fools	Andrzej Sapkowski David French (Tr)	F/HistF - Hussite Trilogy 1
The Witch Hunter (D- US)	Max Seeck	PP/Occ/Sup
Seduced by the Wolf	Terry Spear	PNR/P - Heart of the Wolf
Dead Before Dark (ri)	Wendy Corsi Staub	Sus/H/WS
Dead Lies Dreaming	Charles Stross	CF/DF - Laundry Files 10
Lord of Secrets (ri)	Breanna Teintze	F/HU/RF - The Empty Gods 1
The Very Hungry Zombie: A Parody (ri)	Michael Teitelbaum	HU
The Very Thirsty Vampire: A Parody (ri)	Michael Teitelbaum	HU
Sacrosanct & Other Stories	C L Werner	F - Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
London Centric: Tales of Future London	Ian Whates (Ed)	SF - Anthology

October 28, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Little Witch: A Tor.com Original (e)	M. Rickert	DF

October 31, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
A Stitch in Time	Kelley Armstrong	Sup/Sus - A Stitch in Time 1
Seven of Infinities	Aliette de Bodard	SF
Dying With Her Cheer Pants On: Stories of the Fighting Pumpkins	Seanan McGuire	F - SS

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Ke - Kindle eBook
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic BHU - Black Humor
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CM - Crime & Mystery
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
GothicR - Gothic Romance
GW&CC - Global Warming and Climate Change
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HistR - Historical Romance
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
Med - Medical
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
PP - Police Porcedural
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
RF - Romantic Fantasy
ScF - Science Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SFTh - Science Fiction Thriller
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
SS - Short Stories
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TTR - Time Travel Romance
UF - Urban Fantasy
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical
WS - Women Sleuths

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

The View From Monday ... On Tuesday

 
Happy Tuesday!

There are 4 debuts this week:

Shadows of the Short Days by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson;

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Adult Debut);

The Mirror Man by Jane Gilmartin;

and

The Night Will Find Us by Matthew Lyons.

From formerly featured DAC Authors: 

Ruby by Nina Allan;

Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter;

Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee;

and

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James is out in Trade Paperback.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

October 20, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ri)	John Joseph Adams (Ed)	MD - Anthology
Ruby	Nina Allan	SF/F/LF
Ninth House (h2tp)	Leigh Bardugo	SupTh/P/Occ/Sup
Machine	Elizabeth Bear	SF/SO - White Space 2
The Last Druid	Terry Brooks	F - Fall of Shannara 4
Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters	Emily Carpenter	Gothic/CW/Southern
Shadows of the Short Days (D - US)	Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson	CF/Pol/AB
Plain Bad Heroines (D-Adult)	Emily M. Danforth	Gothic
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Twelve	Ellen Datlow (Ed)	H - Anthology
Halo: Shadows of Reach: A Master Chief Story	Troy Denning	SF - Halo 27
Voodoo Heart	John Everson	H - Fiction Without Frontiers 0
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	Neil Gaiman	SS
The Mirror Man (D)	Jane Gilmartin	SF/HSF/Sus/GenEng/Th
World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde & Lord of the Clans: The Illustrated Novels	Christie Golden	F
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One	Paula Guran (Ed)	DF/H - Anthology
A Shadow on the Lens	Sam Hurcom	HistTh/Cr/Gothic
The Shirley Jackson Collection	Shirley Jackson Joyce Carol Oates (Ed) Ruth Franklin (Ed)	LF/PsyTh/Classics
Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s: The Road Through the Wall / Hangsaman / The Bird's Nest / The Sundial	Shirley Jackson Ruth Franklin (Ed)	Psy/PsyTh/Classics
The Portal	Russell James	H - Fiction Without Frontiers 0
Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology	Mur Lafferty (Ed) S. B. Divya (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Greyfriars Reformatory	Frazer Lee	H - Fiction Without Frontiers 0
Phoenix Extravagant	Yoon Ha Lee	F
To Hold Up the Sky	Cixin Liu	SF - Collection
Knight of Stars	Tom Lloyd	F - God Fragments
The Night Will Find Us (D)	Matthew Lyons	H/SupTh/Occ/Sup
Sabbath (h2tp)	Nick Mamatas	SupTh/DF
The Dark Library	Cyrille Martinez Joseph Patrick Stancil (Tr)	AB/MR/LF
Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children, Volumes 1-3: Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Beneath the Sugar Sky	Seanan McGuire	CF/DF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Wayward Children
After Sundown	Mark Morris (Ed)	H - Anthology - Fiction Without Frontiers 0
Don't Move	James S. Murray Darren Wearmouth	H
In the Forest (ri)	Edna O'Brien	LF
The Necessary Beggar (ri)	Susan Palwick	SF/HSF/PA/AP
Wild Fell: A Ghost Story (e)(ri)	Michael Rowe	H
October (e)(ri)	Michael Rowe	H
Enter, Night (e)(ri)	Michael Rowe	H
The Sun Down Motel (h2tp)	Simone St. James	SupTh/H/CW
An Argumentation of Historians	Jodi Taylor	HistF - Chronicles of St. Mary's 9
Unfinished Tales Illustrated Edition	J.R.R. Tolkien	F
Fourth Island	Sarah Tolmie	HistF/FairyT/FolkT/LM
Boy	Brent van Staalduinen	LF/CoA/MR
Mean Machine	Aleksandr Voinov	Dys/Sports
The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton	Edith Wharton	Classics/GH/SS - VMC Designer Collection,Virago Modern Classics Series
The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street	Karen White	CW/GH - Tradd Street Series 6
Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction	Joshua Whitehead (Ed)	LGBT/Native American & Aboriginal/SF - Anthology
The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn (ri)	Tyler Whitesides	F - Kingdom of Grit 1

October 21, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat: A Tor.com Original (e)	Usman T. Malik	F

D - Debut

e - eBook

Ed - Editor

h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback

h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback

Ke - Kindle eBook

ri - reissue or reprint

tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback

Tr - Translator

AB - Absurdist

AC - Alien Contact

AH - Alternative History

AP - Apocalyptic

BHU - Black Humor

CF - Contemporary Fantasy

CM - Crime & Mystery

CoA - Coming of Age

Cr - Crime

CW - Contemporary Women

CyP - CyberPunk

DF - Dark Fantasy

Dys - Dystopian

F - Fantasy

FairyT - Fairy Tales

FL - Family Life

FolkT - Folk Tales

FR - Fantasy Romance

GenEng - Genetic Engineering

GH - Ghost(s)

GothicR - Gothic Romance

GW&CC - Global Warming and Climate Change

H - Horror

HC - History and Criticism

Hist - Historical

HistF - Historical Fantasy

HistM - Historical Mystery

HistR - Historical Romance

HistTh - Historical Thriller

HSF - Hard Science Fiction

HU - Humorous

LC - Literary Criticism

LF - Literary Fiction

LM - Legend and Mythology

M - Mystery

Med - Medical

MR - Magical Realism

MTI - Media Tie-In

Occ - Occult

P - Paranormal

PA - Post Apocalyptic

PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery

PNR - Paranormal Romance

Pol - Political

PolTh - Political Thriller

PopCul - Popular Culture

PP - Police Porcedural

Psy - Psychological

R - Romance

RF - Romantic Fantasy

ScF - Science Fantasy

SE - Space Exploration

SF - Science Fiction

SFR - Science Fiction Romance

SFTh - Science Fiction Thriller

SH - Superheroes

SO - Space Opera

SP - Steampunk

SpecFic - Speculative Fiction

SS - Short Stories

STR - Small Town and Rural

Sup - Supernatural

SupM - Supernatural Mystery

SupTh - Supernatural Thriller

Sus - Suspense

TechTh - Technological Thriller

Th - Thriller

TT - Time Travel

TTR - Time Travel Romance

UF - Urban Fantasy

VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

WS - Women Sleuths

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Guest Blog by Anton Strout - Home, Creep, Home, or Returning to a Fan Favorite World

Please welcome Anton Strout to The Qwillery. Anton is the author of the Simon Canderous series, the Spellmason Chronicles, and many short stories. Speaking of short stories, Claw & Order, a collection of stories from the Department of Extraordinary Affairs (DEA), is on Kickstarter now! 

I love the DEA! I may even have a DEA baseball cap and more. My recommendation - check out this wonderful collection on Kickstarter!

Home, Creep, Home, or Returning to a Fan Favorite World 

-Anton Strout

The first ever book that featured Manhattan’s underfunded and (mostly) secret paranormal protection agency, The Department of Extraordinary Affairs, hit shelves way back in February of 2008. That would have been my first published novel Dead To Me, which means I had probably conceived of the DEA around 2005. That original original series covered about four books and nearly a dozen anthologies, but it was the years 2008 to 2012 that really defined who the Dept was, what it stood for, and most importantly, did the good guys have the budget for a wide range of monster repelling holy symbols.

The Kickstarter for my latest collection, Claw & Order, brings together all the stories related to those paranormal events in the Manhattan of my Simon Canderous and Spellmason Chronicles series. And hopefully with enough funding, we’ll be seeing brand new stories set in their shared world, too.

People ask what it’s like returning to the world of the DEA, but in my mind, I never left. It’s how I built the Department within the world of the books in the first place. Deep below the Lower East Side Lovecraft Café front, the secret agency has a sprawling haunted archive called The Gauntlet which collects and records paranormal events in the greater metropolitan area, so even if I wasn’t writing something in the main series, there were always stories popping up that built upon that deep paranormal history. Even now, my mind imagines Simon & his detective partner Connor working the Graveyard shift, filing another case file they somehow managed to live through without succumbing to a new silver allergy or aversion to garlic knots at their favorite Little Italy eatery. 

Evil never rests, and the forces of good at the Dept don’t either. They couldn’t possibly, what with barely being able to keep up with the backload of paperwork. 

Claw & Order allowed me the opportunity to descend the ancient staircase to those archives once more, and Kickstarter gives me the chance to see who wants to come along and revisit that creeptacular world with me. It will dictate the future of the Simon Canderous series, specifically, and ultimately the fate of the Department of Extraordinary Affairs itself. Can you see them, dear reader, getting ready to hit the streets of haunted Manhattan? Gathering potions, and arming themselves with spells, retractable steel bats, and snacks! The wicked never rest, so neither has the Department. Won’t you come along? 

Come explore USA Today bestselling author, me, and my world of magic and mayhem with tales featuring: 

- A young NYU student trapped in a modern-day fairy tale with only a red hoodie to help save the day 

- The secret history of Ben Franklin, Necromancer

- The Department’s underground archival library known as The Gauntlet, and the bookwyrm that resides within 

- The origin of the Belarus family gargoyle who is the basis of The Spellmason Chronicles 

- A celebration of Lupercalia in NYC, complete with demonic cherub drowning! 

- A fae enchantress bent on revenge against an ancient foe—in a way only she can 

- The impromptu paranormal pet detective adventures of alchemist Caleb Kennedy 

- A glimpse into Simon Canderous’s previous life as a psychometric art thief and his first encounter with psychotic redheaded menace Mina Saria 

- A romantic birthday date night with Spellmason sidekicks Rory Torres and Marshall Blackmoore, including polearms, liches, and real housewives 

- Simon Canderous takes on an early case with the Department as he desperately tries to impress his ghosthunting partner high atop a skyscraper with a haunted castle penthouse 

- A Lovecraftian tale of horror that begs the question: who chooses the chosen ones?

Come. We’re dying to have you!

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clawandorder/claw-and-order-an-urban-fantasy-anthology-set-in-nyc

About Anton

Fantasy and science fiction author Anton Strout has given readers equal shares of chills and laughter since the first book of his Simon Canderous paranormal detective series, Dead To Me, came out from Penguin/Ace Books in 2008. He continues his tales of mayhem in Manhattan with his second series, the Spellmason Chronicles, as he treats readers to the story of a girl and her gargoyle, and explores themes of friendship, loyalty, and love with his trademark snarky twist. He's also the host of The Once and Future Podcast, where he talks about writing, games, and other nerdy stuff with some of today's most popular speculative fiction authors. His latest project is CLAW AND ORDER, a collection of his short fiction and more, now on Kickstarter!

Website  ~  Facebook  ~  Twitter @antonstrout  ~ The Once & Future Podcast

2020 Debut Author Challenge Cover Wars - October 2020 Debuts

Each month you will be able to vote for your favorite cover from that month's debut novels. At the end of the year the 12 monthly winners will be pitted against each other to choose the 2020 Debut Novel Cover of the Year. Please note that a debut novel cover is eligible in the month in which the novel is published in the US. Cover artist/illustrator/designer information is provided when we have it.

I'm using PollCode for this vote. After you the check the circle next to your favorite, click "Vote" to record your vote. If you'd like to see the real-time results click "View". This will take you to the PollCode site where you may see the results. If you want to come back to The Qwillery click "Back" and you will return to this page. Voting will end sometime on July 31, 2020, unless the vote is extended. If the vote is extended the ending date will be updated.

Vote for your favorite October 2020 Debut Cover!

Consensual Hex

The Mirror Man

The Night Will Find Us

Northern Wrath

Once Again

Plain Bad Heroines

Shadows of the Short Days

White Trash Warlock

Whiteland

You Will Love What You Have Killed

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Cover art by Larry Rostant

Cover image (c) Alexandre Cappellari / Arcangel Images Cover design by Adam Auerbach and Anthony Ramondo Book design by Katy Riegel

The View From Monday - October 12, 2020

 

Happy Monday! After more than a week off just because, we are back.

There are 2 debuts this week;

Whiteland (The Whiteland Novels 1) by Rosie Cranie-Higgs;

and

White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder Novels 1) by David R. Slayton.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Raven Lady (Faery Rehistory 2) by Sharon Lynn Fisher;

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow;

The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk;

Black Sun (Between the Earth and Sky 1) by Rebecca Roanhorse;

and

In the Black by Patrick S. Tomlinson.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

October 13, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Non-Stop (e)(ri)	Brian W. Aldiss	SF
Recipes from the World of Tolkien: Inspired by the Legends	Robert Tuesley Anderson	Cooking/History
The Divers' Game (h2tp)	Jesse Ball	LF
Perish	L. C. Barlow	SF - Jack Harper Trilogy 2
To Lose the Earth	Kirsten Beyer	SF - Star Trek: Voyager
My Favorites: A Collection of Short Stories	Ben Bova	SF/SS
The Sensation	Amanda Bridgeman	WS/CrTh/SF/AP/PA - The Salvation 2
Pirate of the Prophecy	Jack Campbell	F - Empress of the Endless Sea 1
Explorer of the Endless Sea	Jack Campbell	F - Empress of the Endless Sea 2
Fate of the Free Lands	Jack Campbell	F - Empress of the Endless Sea 3
Ring Shout	P. Djèlí Clark	DF/HistF/H
Rendezvous with Rama (ri)	Arthur C. Clarke	SF/AC
Radio Free Albemuth (ri)	Philip K. Dick	SF/AC
Attack Surface	Cory Doctorow	SF/AP/PA/HSF/TechTh
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume 4	James D. Jenkins (Ed) Ryan Cagle (Ed)	H - Anthology
We Will All Go Down Together (ri)	Gemma Files	H
Experimental Film (ri)	Gemma Files	H
The Hexslinger Series: A Book of Tongues, A Rope of Thorns, and A Tree of Bones (e)(ri)	Gemma Files	H
A Book of Tongues (ri)	Gemma Files	H - Hexslinger 1
A Rope of Thorns (ri)	Gemma Files	H - Hexslinger 2
A Tree of Bones (ri)	Gemma Files	H - Hexslinger 3
The Worm in Every Heart: Stories (e)(ri)	Gemma Files	H - SS
Kissing Carrion: Stories (e)(ri)	Gemma Files	H - SS
The Raven Lady	Sharon Lynn Fisher	F - Faery Rehistory 2
Trinity Sight (h2tp)	Jennifer Givhan	MR/LF
Forgotten Work	Jason Guriel	LF/Satire/CyP/Dys
Flesh and Steel	Guy Haley	SF/CM - Warhammer 40,000 0
The Once and Future Witches	Alix E. Harrow	AH/Occ/Sup/FL/HistF
Dune: The Duke of Caladan	Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson	SF/SO - The Caladan Trilogy 1
The Children of Tomorrow (e)	Paul Antony Jones Robert Greenberger	SF - This Alien Earth 3
Tindalos Asset	Caitlin R. Kiernan	DF/SF/H - Tinfoil Dossier 3
Changing Planes: Stories (ri)	Ursula K. Le Guin	SF
The Land	Thomas Maltman	STR/Gothic/Psy
Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense (h2tp)	Lisa Morton (Ed) Leslie S Klinger(Ed)	H - Anthology
The Midnight Bargain	C. L. Polk	HistF/RF/CW
Black Sun	Rebecca Roanhorse	F - Between Earth and Sky 1
The Emperor's Wolves	Michelle Sagara	F - The Wolves of Elantra 1
Vigil (ri)	Angela Slatter	UF/P/Cr - Verity Fassbinder 1
White Trash Warlock (D)	David R. Slayton	CF - Adam Binder Novels 1
Earth Abides (ri)	George R Stewart	SF/AP/PA
In the Black	Patrick S. Tomlinson	SF
The Age of Anxiety (h2tp)	Pete Townshend	Psy/CoA/LF/VM
Elegy for the Undead: A Novella	Matthew Vesely	H/SF/AP/PA
Night Terrors	Tim Waggoner	F/H/Cr - Shadow Watch
Video Palace: In Search of the Eyeless Man: Collected Stories	Dr Maynard Wills	H
Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick	David Wong	SF/Th/HU - Zoey Ashe 2
The Art of Magic: The Gathering - War of the Spark	James Wyatt	The Art of Magic: The Gathering 8

October 14, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse): A Tor.com Original (e)	Rachel Swirsky	SF/TT

October 15, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Whiteland	Rosie Cranie-Higgs	H/DF - The Whiteland Novels 1

October 16, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Kitty's Mix-Tape	Carrie Vaughn	UF/P/DF/SS

D - Debut

e - eBook

Ed - Editor

h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback

h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback

Ke - Kindle eBook

ri - reissue or reprint

tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback

Tr - Translator

AB - Absurdist

AC - Alien Contact

AH - Alternative History

AP - Apocalyptic

BHU - Black Humor

CF - Contemporary Fantasy

CM - Crime & Mystery

CoA - Coming of Age

Cr - Crime

CW - Contemporary Women

CyP - CyberPunk

DF - Dark Fantasy

Dys - Dystopian

F - Fantasy

FairyT - Fairy Tales

FL - Family Life

FolkT - Folk Tales

FR - Fantasy Romance

GenEng - Genetic Engineering

GH - Ghost(s)

GothicR - Gothic Romance

GW&CC - Global Warming and Climate Change

H - Horror

HC - History and Criticism

Hist - Historical

HistF - Historical Fantasy

HistM - Historical Mystery

HistR - Historical Romance

HistTh - Historical Thriller

HSF - Hard Science Fiction

HU - Humorous

LC - Literary Criticism

LF - Literary Fiction

LM - Legend and Mythology

M - Mystery

Med - Medical

MR - Magical Realism

MTI - Media Tie-In

Occ - Occult

P - Paranormal

PA - Post Apocalyptic

PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery

PNR - Paranormal Romance

Pol - Political

PolTh - Political Thriller

PopCul - Popular Culture

PP - Police Porcedural

Psy - Psychological

R - Romance

RF - Romantic Fantasy

ScF - Science Fantasy

SE - Space Exploration

SF - Science Fiction

SFR - Science Fiction Romance

SFTh - Science Fiction Thriller

SH - Superheroes

SO - Space Opera

SP - Steampunk

SpecFic - Speculative Fiction

SS - Short Stories

STR - Small Town and Rural

Sup - Supernatural

SupM - Supernatural Mystery

SupTh - Supernatural Thriller

Sus - Suspense

TechTh - Technological Thriller

Th - Thriller

TT - Time Travel

TTR - Time Travel Romance

UF - Urban Fantasy

VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

WS - Women Sleuths

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

2020 Debut Author Challenge - October 2020 Debuts

There are 11 debuts for October 2020.

Please note that we use the publisher's publication date in the United States, not copyright dates or non-US publication dates.

The October debut authors and their novels are listed in alphabetical order by author (not book title or publication date). Take a good look at the covers. Voting for your favorite October cover for the 2020 Debut Author Challenge Cover Wars will take place starting on or about October 15, 2020.

Rosie Cranie-Higgs

Whiteland

The Whiteland Novels 1

BHC Press, October 15, 2020

Hardcover, Trade Paperback and eBook, 328 pages

In a lonely Swiss mountain village, Kira’s holiday erupts. It’s winter, it’s eerie, and out in the woods something imbeds its claws into her sister.

When Romy returns, she’s different. She’s violent, inhuman, and by rights, should be dead. Even though things aren’t normal, all their parents care about is that she’s still alive.

In the otherworldly forest, Kira starts to pry, but secrets like to be kept. With the help of Callum, a sarcastic Scotsman, Kira stumbles upon the folkloric world of Whiteland, eating all she knows.

If Kira runs away, she’ll be safe. If she doesn’t, her family might not survive. In the end, there’s no mercy in revenge.

Amazon : Barnes & Noble : Bookshop : Books-A-Million : IndieBound

Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson

Shadows of the Short Days

Titan Books, October 20, 2020

Trade Paperback and eBook, 464 pages

For fans of China Mieville and Neil Gaiman. A tale of revolution in a Reykjavik fuelled by industrialised magic, populated by humans, dimensional exiles, otherworldly creatures, psychoactive graffiti and demonic familiars.

A tale of revolution in a Reykjavik fuelled by industrialised magic, populated by humans, dimensional exiles, otherworldly creatures, psychoactive graffiti and demonic familiars.

HERE LIES A CITY…

FUELLED BY INDUSTRIALISED MAGIC. RULED BY A DESPOTIC CROWN. DEMANDING REVOLUTION.

WELCOME TO REYKJAVIK

Rebels and revolutionaries disappear into the infamous prison, the Nine, never to be heard from again. Masked police roam the streets, dark magic lurks in the shadows, and the implacable flying fortress casts its baleful eye over all below.

Sæmundur, addict and sorcerer, has been cast out from university, and forbidden to study magic. Dissident artist, Garún, is desperate for a just society and will do anything to achieve it. Both seek revolution in their own ways. Both seek power.

Together, they will change Reykjavik forever.

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Emily M. Danforth

Plain Bad Heroines

William Morrow, October 20, 2020

Hardcover and eBook, 640 pages

“Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake.” –O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

“Brimming from start to finish with sly humor and gothic mischief. Brilliant.” — SARAH WATERS

Named a Most Anticipated Book by O, The Oprah Magazine • Vulture • Parade • Popsugar • Bustle • GoodReads • Autostraddle • Literary Hub • and more!

The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit

Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.

Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, oppo­site B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern her­oines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.

A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period-inspired illustrations, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read.

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Jane Gilmartin

The Mirror Man

MIRA, October 20, 2020

Hardcover and eBook, 352 pages

Meet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him.

The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out of his life for a year, and be paid hugely for it. When ViMed Pharmaceutical asks Jeremiah to be part of an illegal cloning experiment, he sees it as a break from an existence he feels disconnected from. No one will know he’s been replaced—not the son who ignores him, not his increasingly distant wife—since a revolutionary drug called Meld can transfer his consciousness and memories to his copy.

From a luxurious apartment, he watches the clone navigate his day-to-day life. But soon Jeremiah discovers that examining himself from an outsider’s perspective isn’t what he thought it would be, and he watches in horror as “his” life spirals out of control. ViMed needs the experiment to succeed—they won’t call it off, and are prepared to remove any obstacle. With his family in danger, Jeremiah needs to finally find the courage to face himself head-on.

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Amanda Harlowe

Consensual Hex

Grand Central Publishing, October 6, 2020

Hardcover and ebook, 320 pages

The Craft for the #MeToo era, this debut unfolds a riveting psychological drama shot through with sharp humor and dark magic for readers of Ninth House and The Power.

When Lee, a first year at Smith, is raped under eerie circumstances during orientation week by an Amherst frat boy, she's quickly disillusioned by her lack of recourse. As her trauma boils within her, Lee is selected for an exclusive seminar on Gender, Power, and Witchcraft, where she meets Luna (an alluring Brooklyn hipster), Gabi (who has a laundry list of phobias), and Charlotte (a waifish, chill international student). Granted a charter for a coven and suddenly in possession of real magic, the four girls are tasked by their aloof Professor with covertly retrieving a grimoire that an Amherst fraternity has gotten their hands on. But when the witches realize the frat brothers are using magic to commit and cover up sexual assault all over Northampton, their exploits escalate into vigilante justice. As Lee's thirst for revenge on her rapist grows, things spiral out of control, pitting witch against witch as they must wrestle with how far one is willing to go to heal.

Consensual Hex is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive portrait of a young woman coming of age, uncovering the ways in which love and obsession and looking to fit in can go hand in hand. Lee, an outstanding, magical anti-heroine, refuses to be pigeonholed as a model victim or a horrific example. Instead, her caustic voice demands our attention, clawing out from every page, equally vicious and vulnerable as she lures us, then dares us, to transgress. Dark, biting, and archly camp, Consensual Hex announces Harlowe as a significant talent.

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Thilde Kold Holdt

Northern Wrath

The Hanged God Trilogy 1

Solaris, October 27, 2020

Trade Paperback and eBook, 700 pages

"Packs a punch worthy of the Thunderer himself. It rocks!" -- Joanne Harris, author of The Gospel of Loki

“Holdt wows in her Norse mythology–inspired debut…an electrifying adventure” -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

A dead man, walking between the worlds, foresees the end of the gods. A survivor searching for a weapon releases a demon from fiery Muspelheim. A village is slaughtered by Christians, and revenge must be taken.

The bonds between the gods and Midgard are weakening. It is up to Hilda, Ragnar, their tribesmen Einer and Finn, the chief's wife Siv and Tyra, her adopted daughter, to fight to save the old ways from dying out, and to save their gods in the process.

Following in the steps of Neil Gaiman & Joanne Harris, the author expertly weaves Norse myths and compelling characters into this fierce, magical epic fantasy.

"Ferocious, compelling, fiercely beautiful. Fantasy at its very best." -- Anna Smith Spark, author of the Empires of Dust series

“This is fantasy as it should be written: savage, liminal, full of wonder and magic.” -- Gavin G. Smith, author of The Bastard Legion series

“A promising start for a series that will gratify lovers of epic tales.” -- Aurealis

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Catherine Wallace Hope

Once Again

Alcove Press, October 6, 2020

Hardcover and eBook 

An imaginative, emotional debut novel for fans of Ann Patchett about one woman’s fight to save her daughter from repeating a deadly fate.

What if you had one chance to save someone you lost?

Isolated in the aftermath of tragedy, Erin Fullarton has felt barely alive since the loss of her young daughter, Korrie. She tries to mark the milestones her therapist suggests–like today, the 500th day without Korrie–but moving through grief is like swimming against a dark current.

Her estranged husband, Zac, a brilliant astrophysicist, seems to be coping better. Lost in his work, he’s perfecting his model of a stunning cosmological phenomenon, one he predicts will occur today–an event so rare, it keeps him from being able to acknowledge Erin’s coinciding milestone.

But when Erin receives a phone call from her daughter’s school, the same call she received five hundred days earlier when Korrie was still alive, Erin realizes something is happening. Or happening again. Struggling to understand the sudden shifts in time, she pieces together that the phenomenon Zac is tracking may have presented her with the gift of a lifetime: the chance to save her daughter.

Unable to reach Zac or convince the authorities of what is happening, Erin is forced to find the answer on her own. Erin must battle to keep the past from repeating–or risk losing her daughter for good.

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Kevin Lambert

David Winkler (Translator)

You Will Love What You Have Killed

Biblioasis, October 6, 2020

Trade Paperback and eBook, 186 pages

Faldistoire’s grandfather thinks he’s a ghost. Sylvie’s mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witch’s justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, Sébastien’s father hides dark designs. It’s Croustine’s grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but it’s his father, the cannily-named Kevin Lambert, who always seems to be nearby when tragedy strikes, and in the cemetery, under the baleful eyes of toads, small graves are dug one after the other: Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a dangerous place for children. But these young victims of rape, arbitrary violence, and senseless murder keep coming back from the dead. They return to school, explore their sexualities, keep tabs on grown-up sins—and plot their apocalyptic retribution.

Surreal and darkly comic, this debut novel by Kevin Lambert, one of the most celebrated and controversial writers to come out of Quebec in recent memory, takes the adult world to task—and then takes revenge.

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Matthew Lyons

The Night Will Find Us

Keylight Books, October 20, 2020

Trade Paperback, 336 pages

They say never go into the woods at night…

School’s out for summer and that means one thing to Parker, Chloe, and their four friends: a well-deserved camping trip in the Pine Barrens, a million-acre forest deep in the heart of New Jersey. But when old grudges erupt, an argument escalates into the unthinkable, leaving one of them dead and the killer missing. As darkness descends and those left alive try to determine a course of action, the forest around them begins to change…

In the morning, more of the group has vanished and the path that led them into the woods is gone―as if consumed by the forest itself. Lost and hungry, the remaining friends set out to find help, only to realize that the forest seems to have other plans―a darker, ancient horror lies dead and dreaming in a lake in the center of the woods. And it’s calling to them.

Meanwhile, deep in the trees, the killer is still at large, and one of the group’s own has started to transform and warp into something other. Something inhuman. Something that wants to feast.

Banding together to survive, the friends soon begin to understand the true nature of the horror waiting for them in the Pine Barrens―and that not all of them will make it out alive.

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Max Seeck

The Witch Hunter

Berkley, October 27, 2020

Trade Paperback and eBook, 400 pages

A shocking murder in an affluent Helsinki suburb has ties to witchcraft and the occult in this thrilling U.S. debut from Finnish author Max Seeck.

A bestselling author’s wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black evening gown, sitting at the head of an empty dining table. Her most chilling feature—her face is frozen in a ghastly smile.

At first it seems as though a deranged psychopath is reenacting the gruesome murders from the Witch Hunt trilogy, bestsellers written by the victim’s husband. But investigator Jessica Niemi soon realizes she’s not looking for a single killer but rather for dozens of believers in a sinister form of witchcraft who know her every move and are always one step ahead.

As the bodies start piling up, Jessica knows they won’t stop until they get what they want. And when her dark past comes to light, Jessica finds herself battling her own demons while desperately trying to catch a coven of killers before they claim their next victim.

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David R. Slayton

White Trash Warlock

The Adam Binder Novels 1

Blackstone Publishing, October 13, 2020

Trade Paperback and eBook, 320 pages

Not all magicians go to schools of magic.

Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. But for much of Adam’s life, that power has been a curse, hindering friendships, worrying his backwoods family, and fueling his abusive father’s rage.

Years after his brother, Bobby, had him committed to a psych ward, Adam is ready to come to grips with who he is, to live his life on his terms, to find love, and maybe even use his magic to do some good. Hoping to track down his missing father, Adam follows a trail of cursed artifacts to Denver, only to discover that an ancient and horrifying spirit has taken possession of Bobby’s wife.

It isn’t long before Adam becomes the spirit’s next target. To survive the confrontation, save his sister-in-law, and learn the truth about his father, Adam will have to risk bargaining with very dangerous beings … including his first love.

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