Congratulations to Alta Hensley as THEY KNOW IF YOU'VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD hits #74 on the USA Today bestseller list! There’s no escaping the holiday spirit in this dark, forced-proximity, why choose, Christmas stalker romance, the sequel to Alta Hensley’s New York Times bestselling He Knows When You’re Awake!

From the peerless master of contemporary fantasy comes a tale of three cousins and the world of creatures, ghosts, and murderers that surrounds their trailer park. Illustrated throughout with comics pages! Maisie: hasn't gotten her life back on track since her best friend died and she saw Owl, harbinger of ill tidings and doom. Joel: Streaming prodigy with questionable decision-making who's been exiled to a summer of kitten fostering.

Antigone is no stranger to death. For the women of her family, death always comes in the form of a black dog. When Antigone’s own black dog arrives, she isn’t afraid. She invites it inside, where it soon becomes a daily source of companionship and comfort. It also forces her to reflect on the life she’s led—the parts of herself she’s hollowed out for the sake of others, and the bone-deep exhaustion that’s hounded her every step.

A boundary-pushing fantasy that blends magical realism with dark academia, perfect for fans of Bunny by Mona Awad and Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth. In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town, strange happenings are common. And the local government secondary school is teeming with supernatural entities. For Thamarai, an outsider considered strange by her peers, life is dreary and frustrating.

Shop ’til you drop . . . dead Colleen’s life feels as hollow as the abandoned Beechnut Mall—the 90s hangout where neon lights and endless laughter defined her teens thirty years before. When her old high school clique reassembles for one last night of rebellion inside the now condemned building, she joins them, never expecting the mall to give something back.

She is the life of the party. He is the villain you never wish to meet alone. Tait Heartwalker may be the cousin of the Ever King, but royally good company he is not. He’s ill-tempered and unapproachable, sharpened by the hard responsibilities of life and loyalty. But to the dismay of Mira Sekundär, princess of the glamour fae, he’s also intoxicating to look at.

Library Journal: Lawyer Gwen Bailey’s nearly inhuman ability to consistently turn in perfect work in practically no time has elevated her to the status of legend at her firm. No one else in the office knows that Gwen uses time travel to get her work done and fix her mistakes. Jumping in the back of any New York City yellow cab, Gwen tells the driver where and when she wants to go, and poof, she’s there.

New York Times Bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries Martha Wells has partnered with Cosmic Lighthouse for a graphic novel adaptation of All Systems Red. All Systems Red by Martha Wells is being officially adapted into a graphic novel by Erica Schultz (Daredevil, Spawn and X-Men) and Gary Erskine (Dan Dare, Hellblazer, Punisher and Wolverine), published by Cosmic Lighthouse, and containing a new Murderbot short story by Martha Wells, exclusive to the graphic novel.

Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning author Thomas Ha's SONS OF NOD, a novella about a group of boys laboring to build machinery for a reckless corporation on a strange and desolate island, to Avery Davis at Tordotcom, with Ann VanderMeer editing, for publication in fall 2027, by Michael Curry (World English).

Audio rights to Molly Tanzer's FERRY-LOUPERS, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency, on behalf of Cameron McClure (World English). Audio rights to Elle Madison's A Legacy of Broken Thrones series, to Julie Constantine at Podium Audio, in a four-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency (NA).

French rights to Rachel Reiss's SECONDS TO SPARE, to Larousse Jeunesse, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency. German rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells' WITCH KING and QUEEN DEMON, the first two books in the Rising World trilogy, to Cross Cult, by Sarah Knofius at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death. At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy made what she thought was an innocent wish: to build a house where nothing bad could happen.

Shelf Awareness: The fourth solo novel for young readers from Newbery Honor-winning author Darcie Little Badger (A Snake Falls to Earth; Elatsoe) is a fairytale, a ghost story, and a striking narrative about trauma, community, and what we owe to the dead. In a desert trailer park in Mockingtown, Tex., three Lipan Apache cousins battle with both personal and real ghosts.

Publishers Weekly: A hapless traveler, an unhelpful safety pamphlet, and one very persistent bear collide in this adroitly constructed comedy from collaborators Sharpson and Santat (Don’t Trust Fish). Upon arriving at an airport information desk in Alaska, the dark-haired, tan-skinned protagonist—sporting bright orange cargo pants and narrating in a confiding voice—receives a welcome pamphlet called WHAT TO DO IF YOU MEET A BEAR.

There’s no escaping the holiday spirit in this dark, forced-proximity, why choose, Christmas stalker romance, the sequel to Alta Hensley’s New York Times bestselling He Knows When You’re Awake! Stalkin’ around the Christmas tree… Hailey Parker thought she had outrun her past. As the assistant to a successful jewelry designer, she’s started a new life in New York City, and may even have a new boyfriend to cozy up with this holiday.

Do you dream of writing a novel but can’t seem to find the time? Maybe you’ve started and stalled, or you’ve been waiting for the “perfect” moment that never comes. With humor, proven strategies, and inspiration from your favorite authors, novelist and writing teacher Kim Purcell shows you how to finish your book—even if you only have 15 minutes a day.

Congratulations to Jim Butcher for his 2026 Dragon Award win in the Best Fantasy Novel category for TWELVE MONTHS! The Dragon Awards are a set of literary and media awards presented annually by Dragon Con. Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day—but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, can he save himself?

Library Journal: Haven has been shutting down all strong emotions and blending into the scenery for years. When she lets herself feel anger at her boss, he turns up dead, and she knows she caused it. News of her dying father drags her back to her hometown and the family she left behind. Only being perfect is acceptable there, and Haven breaks the rules just by existing.

Something lives under Willa’s bed. As an adult, her fondest childhood memories are of the invisible entity under her bed who taught her how to read. Now thirty-two, Willa is a reclusive but successful painter until a bombshell news report exposes her identity as the controversial survivor of the unsolved Rapture Mystery Slayings, a small-town tragedy that splashed across headlines during her senior year of high school.

Mattie French has always known how to tell a good story. It’s why she stopped at nothing to land her dream career as a copywriter at a scrappy independent advertising agency. In fact, if it weren’t for one person, Mattie would probably be the most-talked-about rising star in town. Campbell Porter is a senior copywriter at Chicago’s slickest agency. Absurdly talented, incredibly aware of it, and the bane of Mattie’s existence since they were interns together, Campbell is always just…there, with his golden-boy smirk and the familiar gaze that never fails to taunt her across a crowded room.

Library Journal: YA novelist Purcell’s (Trafficked) first foray into nonfiction is a dependable road map for all those who want to take the ultimate leap and write a novel. She doesn’t shy away from the fact that the act of writing a novel can be tied up in so many real-life obstacles. Purcell outlines the process by breaking the steps down into a tangible timeline and manageable exercises.

Publishers Weekly: Impossible shadows visible even in darkness, a Friends rerun that diverges creepily from the episode that originally aired, and reflections in a mirror that lag behind reality—these are just some of the unsettling phenomena that Marino (The Swarm) lobs at lovers Mara and Soren after they move into an old house in the Catskills in this masterful work of subtle horror.

School Library Journal: Collaborators Sharpson and Santat take on another suspicious species in this follow-up to their 2025 picture book Don’t Trust Fish. Here, a pair of fancy traveling pants leads a man from his Ireland home to the Alaskan wilderness. Upon arrival, the man receives an important—but unfortunately unhelpful—pamphlet explaining what to do if he encounters a bear. The bear arrives, seemingly while the man is still in the airport; misunderstandings and ill-advised survival attempts ensue, ultimately changing the course of man and bear’s futures forever.

Looking after a defecting scientist should have been Vycol Ferec's easiest mission. But now he's on the run from the intelligence agency he works for, dodging a handler who might have gone rogue and relying on a secret patchwork of illicit resources and dodgy contacts. Turns out his defector might be carrying an apocalypse-level magical weapon — and protecting it requires Ferec and his team to go underground, literally.

For two days and three nights, Françoise de Montesquiou d’Artagnan has slept, trapped in a strange dream of a shifting world of spirits. Everyone in the dream is clad in the forms of animals, including Françoise herself, and they are discussing secret affairs of monsters and princes – until a host of vampires attacks them in the dream. A man with a beautiful voice faces them down, telling her to run.

Tor Publishing has acquired a new novel, FLORALINDA, from Tamsyn Muir, the New York Times bestselling author of the Locked Tomb series. Set to be published on July 27, 2027 by Tor Books (and simultaneously by Tor Nightfire UK) this full-length novel will be Muir's first in five years, and her first novel outside the widely-beloved Locked Tomb series! Floralinda branches out into the world of fairy tale, showing what happens when a princess in a tower doesn't get rescued by a brave and charming prince, and instead has to rescue herself.

Time for a brand-new adventure from the Gideon the Ninth author.

Congratulations to our DMLA authors for their 2026 Hugo Awards! Best Urban Fantasy: "In My Country" by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld) Best Related Work: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer (University of Chicago Press; Head of Zeus) Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Murderbot: “All Systems Red”, written by Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, directed by Roseanne Liang, based on the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Apple TV)

School Library Journal: Parker feels hemmed in by his conservative Tennessee hometown, where his bisexuality and unapologetic ­LGBTQIA+ activism garner derision from his peers. When he discovers that there is no rule against males competing in the Miss Spirit beauty pageant, he enters to get material for his college admissions essay. Realizing that Parker’s in over his head, student council president and pageant liaison Dean comes to the rescue.

Audio rights to Ada Palmer's AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON and AND ODIN IN HIS TREE, the Norse duology, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

Bulgarian rights to Aggie Blum Thompson's YOU DESERVE TO KNOW, to Enthusiast, by  Tamara Vukićević  at Prava i Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier. Catalan rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells' EXIT STRATEGY and NETWORK EFFECT, books 4 and 5 in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, to Rayo Verde, by Elena Rodríguez at International Editors & Yáñez Co’ S.L.

Kirkus: Unhappy about being at summer camp instead of getting to stay home with his desperately ill brother, a 12-year-old boy follows a mysterious fog and meets the infamous witch of Cabin 23. Vernon’s brother had told him about the witch, but he’s surprised by how much the witch knows about him. Reluctant to talk about his own life, he settles in instead to hear “the scariest story ever told.” In it, a sixth grade Lipan Apache boy named Sean leaves Texas to stay with his cousin, Zeke, in Massachusetts after his mother’s cancer treatment led to bankruptcy.

We're excited to share that DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY by Birdie Horne rings in at #118 on the USA Today Bestseller list! A laugh-out-loud mystery following the indomitable hot mess Mo Ellery, whose job as a school crossing guard pulls her into an unhinged murder investigation.

A Fated Purpose Tessalyn Ausra has taken her revenge, and it’s never tasted so sweet. Feared by the rulers of Devram, she’s under the protection of the Achaz Kingdom where she can fulfill her purpose. But with power she can’t control and the bond still in place, she finds temptation and chaos around every corner. Correcting the balance promises the ultimate freedom, but the dark still calls, even if destiny beckons.

Wall Street Journal: "As always, Murderbot is snarky and deadly but unsure of where it stands in the world of humans when it isn’t the one holding the gun. For some foul-mouthed and lethal summer fun, this is a perfect escape."

Booklist: Avery and Shantell have been friends for decades, while the two fear Tobias, Avery’s older brother, who has uncontrolled anger. Avery takes care of and protects Shantell, who struggles with agoraphobia. They move from the city to a house in Mississippi that has been in Avery’s family for some time. The plan is that over the course of the summer, Shantell, Avery, and Avery's girlfriend Emily will stay there and work on the house with the help of Tobias, who is a contractor.

Publishers Weekly: Inspired by Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” this delightful fantasy from Hackwith (Toto) plunges readers into a memorable and wonderfully off-kilter magical world. A decade after goblin changeling Toast was retrieved from the mortal world, where she spent her childhood believing herself to be human, she’s reluctantly made a life in the Goblin Market, helping human visitors find the right merchant or perfect deal.

In an exclusive essay, Birdie Horne — the pen name of author team Eden Robins and MW Garguilo — reflect on their debut co-written novel ‘Don’t Cross Mo Ellery’ in this exclusive feature in People Magazine! "The story of how we went from being mortal enemies to writing a comedy murder mystery novel together is worthy of its own novel."

Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett as A TRADE OF BLOOD comes in at #10 on the NYT Bestseller list! Detective Ana Dolabra must prove a condemned man’s innocence and confront a terrifying magical technology in this fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy awards.

Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett! A TRADE OF BLOOD debuts at #8 on the Indie bestseller list and #16 on USA Today! Detective Ana Dolabra must prove a condemned man’s innocence and confront a terrifying magical technology in this fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy awards.

The finalists for the 2026 World Fantasy Awards have been announced! Congratulations to DMLA authors Thomas Ha and Elise C. Tober! Best Long Fiction  “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories) Best Short Fiction “In My Country”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25) Best Collection Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow) Special Award – Non-Professional Elise C. Tobler, for The Deadlands

Elyria Lightbreaker may have survived the Arcane Crucible, but the scars of the deadly trials remain. Haunted by betrayal, Elyria must master the darkness within her and reclaim the Crown of Concord before the human and fae realms are plunged back into war. Yet every step forward brings her closer to Cedric Thorne, the human knight who poses an entirely new danger to her heart.

Mo Ellery’s 29th birthday is a disaster. After one small accident—the exposure of her boyfriend’s genitals (well, maybe not that small) on a work video call—she manages to get fired, dumped, and kicked out of their overpriced Chicago apartment. Luckily, a sign appears to guide Mo to her new life: “Looking for flexible part-time work? Become a school crossing guard!” It’s everything Mo has been looking for: health insurance.

Booklist: Willa is the center of Zinnikas' debut, and readers will enjoy getting to know all three versions of her. As a child, Willa made friends with a presence under her bed. It—or he—likes to be read to and doesn’t like it when Willa’s mom vacuums under the bed, but Willa doesn’t seem afraid. Teenage Willa is known as the sole survivor of the Rapture Mystery Slayings.

Sean knows that one disaster tends to leads to another—like when his mother got sick and the cost of the treatment meant they had to move out of their cozy Texas home. As they try to get back on their feet, Sean’s parents send him to stay with his aunt and cousin, Zeke, in Victorvale, Massachusetts—a seaside town that has seen its own share of bad luck, with crumbling houses sitting on an eroding coastline that threatens to fall into the sea.

When art professor Vika Chen discovers the strangled body of Professor McGuire in a campus art studio, she becomes the prime suspect in a murder connected to an exhibition exposing AI-generated art. Since local law enforcement fails to find any optional leads, Vika and her partner, journalism professor Sam Worthing, take the investigation into their own hands. Vika, who until recently worked as a curator at MoMA, and Sam, a former crime reporter for the New York Times, find themselves uniquely suited for the job.

The heir to one of the Empire’s most powerful families sits in jail, accused of murder. His hands are covered in the victim’s blood, and he can neither deny his guilt nor explain his actions. But if the great detective Ana Dolabra cannot save him from the noose, the farming canton of Sapirdad will explode into war, threatening to plunge the whole Empire into starvation and chaos.

In a forgotten corner of small-town Indiana, Adrianna McMahon serves up nuts and fudge at the mall while hiding from her dark past. When her seventeen-year-old coworker, Rebel James, drops off a bloodstained notebook full of stories about missing girls, Adrianna recognizes a haunting pattern—one leading straight to New Day High School, where her own nightmare began decades ago. Then Rebel disappears and the bodies of dead girls start appearing.

Arabic rights to Aggie Blum Thompson's YOU DESERVE TO KNOW, to Falak  (Saudi Arabia), by Iklele Montaser at Bears Factor Literary Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier. French rights to Nebula Award winner Premee Mohamed's THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS, to L’Atalante, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry. German rights to Elle Madison and Robin D.

An eccentric detective turns to the fantastical to solve a cold case in a short story by the Hugo Award–winning author of The Tainted Cup. On a long carriage journey with her assistant Din, brilliant investigator Ana Dolabra ponders a solution to an impossible crime that has remained unsolved for centuries. A lavish wedding for two noble scions of the Empire descended into chaos when the newlyweds were found murdered in their marriage bed. But Ana—an expert in ancient myths, awakened beasts, and magic—knows that nothing is impossible, only unimaginable.