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The following is a list of the current John Jarrold Literary Agency client roster, complete as of February 28th 2007. Please click on a name to view a short profile of the client in question and their work. FICTION NON-FICTION DAVID BARNETT David Barnett is an award-winning journalist and has worked as a specialist correspondent, a news editor, a columnist and a features editor on newspapers in the north of England. He has reported from Bosnia and Kosovo; once made a pilgrimage to Jack Kerouac's grave in Massachusetts; counts taking part in the "running of the bulls" at Pamplona's St Fermin fiesta as his most frightening experience ever; and spent most of the Nineties lying in a field at the Glastonbury Festival wondering if it was time to go home yet. David's first novel, HINTERLAND, was published to critical acclaim in the UK earlier this year by Immanion Press. His second novel, ANGELGLASS, is set in Prague both in the present day and 1584, and mixing elements of the fast-moving thriller and literary SF, whilst his third, DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOU ALIVE, features the ghost of Sid Vicious, daytime TV and the security service's Department for Extra-Usual Affairs, and is the first in a series starring the Department. He is also the lead singer with charismatic pop combo Choppersquad. David lives in West Yorkshire with his wife Claire, their young children Charlie and Alice, and two cats, Kali and Shiva. Delivery date: Available now CHRIS BECKETT British SF author Chris Beckett has had short fiction published over a number of years in INTERZONE and ASIMOVS, and his first novel, THE HOLY MACHINE, was published by Wildside Press in the US in 2004. It has been highly praised on both sides of the Atlantic ('This book is incredible' INTERZONE; 'One of the most accomplished novel debuts to attract my attention in some time' ASIMOVS; 'If Beckett can keep it up, he will soon be as well known for his novels as he already is for his short fiction' ANALOG'; 'I found myself unable to put down what turns out to be one of the very finest sf novels I have read in really rather a long time. This isn't just good sf - this is the kind of sf that should be written, that we ought to be out on the streets outside publishers demanding should be written. It was only published recently too, so you can't say you don't know about it now.' Gary Gibson Beckett has completed his next novel, MARCHER, set on an Earth like our own that is facing incursions from parallel worlds. His third, EDEN, is set on a colony planet. MARCHER US rights: Prime Books CHAZ BRENCHLEY Chaz Brenchley is the author of twelve novels, including the Books of Outremer and a number of dark fantasy/crime novels, three books for children and short fiction as well as various pseudonymous material Chaz is a founder member of The Write Fantastic writers' group, who promote fantasy fiction, was Northern Writer of the Year in 2000, and won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1998 for LIGHT ERRANT. Chaz lives in Newcastle on Tyne. His latest novel is BRIDGE OF DREAMS, set in a fantasy analogue of the Ottoman Empire and Constantinople, which was published in the USA by Ace Books in May 2006. Contact John Jarrold for further details of Chaz Brenchley's new projects in the dark fantasy/horror, fantasy and YA areas. Visit his website at www.chazbrenchley.co.uk ANNE BROOKE UK thriller writer Anne Brooke has been writing fiction for several years, and has won and been shortlisted for a number of story and novel prizes. Her novel MALONEY'S LAW is set in London and described by the author in these words: '... a dark crime thriller about Paul Maloney, a small-time private investigator who against his better judgement takes on a case brought to him by his ex-lover, Dominic Allen. Soon he finds himself battling with the forces of big business and international crime, and his own life comes under threat. Can he solve the puzzle and protect those he loves before it's too late?' MALONEY'S LAW was shortlisted for the Harry Bowling Prize in 2006. Anne's new novel, THORN IN THE FLESH, begins as a thriller of a woman in peril following a rape, but soon turns into something much darker. Delivery date: Available now ERIC BROWN British SF writer Eric Brown is the author of many highly-acclaimed novels, including THE VIREX TRILOGY, THE FALL OF TARTARUS and ENGINEMAN. He has also written some of the best short SF of the last twenty years, and six books for children. Eric Brown has new SF and children's novels to discuss with publishers. Please contact John Jarrold for more details.HELIX UK/US rights: Black Library/Solaris KETHANI UK/US rights: Black Library/Solaris Published works sold by JJLA:
SAXON BULLOCK Saxon Bullock has been working as a freelance writer since 2000, and has written for a variety of magazines and websites including SFX, DVD Review, Channel4.Com and Hotdog magazine. He has just completed his first novel an epic science fiction tour-de-force entitled THE HYPERNOVA GAMBIT. Visit Saxon's website at www.saxonbullock.com and read his blog, Crawling From the Wreckage, at saxonb.livejournal.com. RAMSEY CAMPBELL UK and Commonwealth rights only Ramsey Campbell is the winner of four World Fantasy Awards, eleven British Fantasy Awards, the Horror Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, the World Horror Convention's Grand Master Award and many other honours in the horror and fantasy fields. He is the only living horror writer to appear in the Oxford Companion to English Literature. His most recent novel, THE GRIN OF THE DARK, about the search for a lost star of silent comedy, which becomes both dangerous and deeply scary, was published by PS Publishing in limited edition hardcover and will be published in paperback by Virgin Books in May 2008. Published works sold by JJLA:
PETER CROWTHER Author, editor, anthologist and publisher Peter Crowther is prolific (eighteen anthologies, four story collections including British Fantasy Award-winner LONESOME ROADS and, in his longer work, the FOREVER TWILIGHT series and ESCARDY GAP, written in collaboration with James Lovegrove). He set up the highly praised and multiple award-winning PS Publishing specialist press in 1998. His horror and fantasy stories have been adapted for British TV and optioned for the big screen with two set for production in 2006/7. He is presently writing a short SF novel, THE KINGS OF INFINITE SPACE, and a decidedly dark mainstream novel, THANKSGIVING. Delivery dates: THANKSGIVING: TBA THE KINGS OF INFINITE SPACE: TBA CORY DANIELLS Australian fantasy author Cory Daniells (real name Rowena Lindquist) has had three fantasy novels published by Bantam US, Random House (Transworld) in Australia and in Germany, as well as YA and short fiction over a number of years. She recently finished writing the first of a new epic trilogy, KING ROLEN'S KIN, which mixes great characterisation and eternal questions with magnificent action and a sweeping narrative. Delivery date: Available now STEPHEN DEAS Stephen Deas' debut fantasy novel, BLOODLINE, runs on two time-lines. The Arian Empire has existed for centuries, but now an ancient enemy stirs and dark forces come together to plot the empire's destruction. In the present Sharda, a royal prince, is called on to find his niece the Princess Royal, whose sorcery holds the key to future salvation and who has disappeared. Sharda's quest takes him down previously-trodden paths which recall bitter memories and lead the reader into the past and the demons of Sharda's youth, and earlier encounters with those forces. These two story-lines intertwine and come together in an extremely powerful denouement. He is presently writing further novels set in this world. BLOODLINE has already received the following quotes: "Powerful, ambitious, achieves a passionate intensity; a unique new voice in modern fantasy" TOM HOLT "Stephen Deas' Bloodline is an intriguing and challenging look at the eventual cost of youthful impetuosity and the redeeming nature of unselfish love." L E MODESITT Deas works for BAE Systems, having studied Theoretical Physics at Cambridge. He has previously written reviews for the BSFA's magazine, VECTOR. He is writing a series of loosely related novels set in the world of BLOODLINE. Delivery date: Available now IAN CAMERON ESSLEMONT Canadian author Ian Cameron Esslemont is the joint creator of the world of Malaz, well known to readers from Steven Erikson's bestselling novels. The world was created by the two authors, and Esslemont's first short novel set there, NIGHT OF KNIVES, was published recently by PS Publishing and has already sold out in limited-edition hardback, having received a number of wonderful reviews, including from the official Malazan Empire website: 'if you rather enjoyed GARDENS OF THE MOON, you'll probably find the style and approach of NIGHT OF KNIVES to your liking as well... a well-realized short novel... it fits well into the Malazan world', and the SF Crowsnest website: 'a delight... We get good helpings of most the things that make the Erikson books so enjoyable. Grim and cynical soldiers, much demon mayhem, strange dreamy scenes and nasty deeds in the shadows, all told with either wry humour or great intensity'. In future volumes, Esslemont weaves his own tales of Malaz he is at present writing RETURN OF THE CRIMSON GUARD, which picks up events shortly after Erikson's new novel THE BONEHUNTERS. NIGHT OF KNIVES and RETURN OF THE CRIMSON GUARD World Rights: Bantam UK Published works sold by JJLA:
CHRISTOPHER EVANS British SF writer Christopher was born in South Wales and now lives in South London, where he teaches science part-time at a secondary school. His first novel, CAPELLA'S GOLDEN EYES, was published in 1980, and since then six more have appeared under his own name, the most recent being AZTEC CENTURY, which won the BSFA Award for Best Novel and was runner-up for the Welsh Book of the Year Award, and MORTAL REMAINS. With Robert Holdstock he co-edited the OTHER EDENS series of original SF and fantasy anthologies.He has recently completed a new novel, OMEGA. OMEGA Limited edition rights: PS Publishing JAINE FENN British SF author Jaine Fenn claims descent from an itinerant Irish sea-captain, the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell and half of West London. A cheerful mess of paradoxes, she enjoys the genteel pace of country living but will, if given the chance, party like it's still 1999. She hates seeing SF dissed for being escapist or pigeonholed as geek-fodder, but equally, shies away from calling it "literature without frontiers" for fear of being thought of as a pretentious eejit. Most of her fiction is set in a seven-thousand-year future history that sees humanity rewarded for their mistakes and punished for their virtues. The first book in a sequence set near the end of this period is due out from Gollancz in June 2008; PRINCIPLES OF ANGELS is a tale of unwise love, necessary murder and fearful revelations set in a lawless floating city. It is one of many stories that need telling about this particular future. More info about the author at her official website: www.jainefenn.com Published works sold by JJLA:
DEBBIE GALLAGHER Debbie has previously written for 2000AD's Slaine and DC Comics' Batman Book of Shadows, as well as working in TV production and Role-Playing Games. Her first novel is THE SPIDER'S BRIDE, a crossover novel set in a world of faerie inhabited by strange and frightening beings and a human woman, who has been chosen by the Spider Prince as his bride. Reminiscent of the darker work of Arthur Rackham, it also features the insane Victorian artist, Richard Dadd, as a character. THE SPIDER'S BRIDE US rights: Prime Books Published works sold by JJLA:
JON GEORGE Jon George is the highly-praised author of two SF novels that mix the genre with utterly realistic depictions of war. His first novel, FACES OF MIST AND FLAME, published by Tor UK in 2004, received blanket approval, including these reviews: "Jon George mixes quantum physics and time travel with a frighteningly realistic depiction of World War 11." - SFX magazine "Jon George has made a crashing entrance with his debut novel ... securing what I believe will be a devoted fan base and his place among great Science Fiction authors ... the whole book is an outstanding accomplishment in writing ..." - SF Crowsnest "War and heroics and politics and the doing of science - Jon George's debut novel is far better at all of this than might be guessed from its title." - Roz Kaveney, Time Out "The main thrust ... is a gritty and realistic story about the American re-capture of Guam during WW11 ... fascinating to watch unfold." - Cheryl Morgan, Emerald City "It mixes ... Sci-Fi, a nicely humorous account of the mythical labours and the out-and-out horror of combat to enthralling effect." - Starburst It was followed up earlier this year by ZOOTSUIT BLACK, which also mixed genres with great success. Jon is now writing his third novel, SIMIANT. Delivery date: Spring 2007 SIMON HAYNES Simon Haynes is an Australian SF/Humour writer. Simon's first two HAL SPACEJOCK novels have been published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Featuring an inept interstellar cargo pilot, HAL SPACEJOCK hit the bestseller list at Dymocks (one of the big two bookselling chains across Australia and New Zealand) on release, and is outselling major SF and Fantasy authors in specialist bookshops. A second printing is expected soon, and together with its sequel, HAL SPACEJOCK SECOND COURSE, it has gained these reviews, amongst many others: "Fast, funny, quirky, enthralling comedy adventure; not just a genre parody but a well-made story in its own right, told with a light, deft touch. Better than RED DWARF!" - Tom Holt "A dizzying ride, lurching from planet to planet and crisis to crisis as Hal bumbles his way through meetings with inept assassins, murderous rich guys, gullible officials and a bailiff with a very nasty robot. Blithely oblivious to the havoc he causes, quite astonishingly incompetent, and someone I wouldn't trust to use my toaster without a fire-extinguisher and a team of firemen standing by, Hal Spacejock is one of the most memorable figures in sci-fi. It'll never be high literature, and it's unlikely to make the classics list, but who cares when it's this much fun? A book to be enjoyed over and over again." - Joules Taylor, SF Crowsnest reviewer "The quirkiest genre satire to hit bookshelves since Terry Pratchett's Discworld" - The West Australian "Riddled with slapstick humour and glib one-liners" - Courier Mail, Brisbane You can visit the Hal Spacejock website here: www.spacejock.com.au. IAN HOCKING British SF author Ian Hocking's first novel, a science fiction technothriller entitled Déjà Vu, was published in 2005 by the UKA Press. The Guardian described it as 'showing quiet skill' and SFX called it 'a solid technothriller'. Author Ian Watson praised it as 'gripping, fascinating, and powerful'. Other reviewers have written 'crisp and professional', 'a smart read full of fresh, clever dialogue', 'mind-blowing', and 'thought-provoking'. The book is thriller that encompasses time travel, virtual reality, and digital minds. Hocking is presently writing another novel in the Déjà Vu universe. JUSTINE HOPKINS Daughter of Z CARS creator John Hopkins and grand-daughter of novelist Nigel Balchin, Justine Hopkins graduated from Bristol University with First Class Honours in English and Drama, she went on to take an MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art History, where she specialized in the Romantic period, and wrote her dissertation on the early career of her step-grandfather, the painter, sculptor, critic and novelist, Michael Ayrton. She has worked for various Universities, including Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and London; at both Tates, the V&A, National and National Portrait Galleries, Covent Garden, Christies, and numerous independent art groups. She has now written the first of a three-book historical sequence, HEARTWOOD. This novel is set in seventh-century Ireland, and deals with events surrounding the struggle for High-Kingship and the creation of the mystical Unicorn Harp of Tara. Future volumes are set in the Viking Age, around the first millennium, and Norman England. The on-going fate of the Harp binds them all together. Justine's next project is a novel of the life of St Paul. Delivery date: Trilogy: Available now RHYS HUGHES Rhys Hughes was born in 1966 in Cardiff, Wales, and began to compose short stories in earnest until 1980, writing regularly before his first acceptance in 1992. Since then he has persisted in attempting to become the most prolific author in Wales, with short fiction and novels published in the UK and US. He presently has new novels, novellas and story collections ready to discuss with publishers. Contact John Jarrold for further information. Here are some quotes for Rhys Hughes and his writing:"Here's a Welshman worthy to succeed John Cowper Powys. The stories in The Smell of Telescopes are quirky, dark, funny and weirdly Celtic." - Michael Moorcock "Gloriously demented." - Washington Post "Quirky and fantastic and sometimes quite twisted, this is a treat for those in the mood for something utterly different." - Ellen Datlow STEPHEN HUNT Stephen Hunt's first fantasy novel, FOR THE CROWN AND THE DRAGON, was published by W H Smith's, having won their New Talent initiative in the 90s. It received excellent reviews from many sources in both the UK and the US, including the Guardian and the leading SF magazines Locus and Interzone, and sold well over 10,000 paperbacks through WHS alone. Stephen set up the website SF Crowsnest - which Google now ranks as the second most-popular SF site in the world - and works as an Associate Director for an international investment banking house. Stephen has now finished a sweeping new fantasy novel, THE COURT OF THE AIR, in which two young people are hunted across the Kingdom of the Jackals by opposing power factions who employ magic and murder. Featuring magical gateways to the Fey, city-sized dirigible balloons and gentleman assassins, this is a breakthrough novel, which echoes both Kipling's KIM and Philip Pullman's NORTHERN LIGHTS. Rights to this and two sequels were immediately snapped up. World rights: HarperCollins UK Published works sold by JJLA:
PAUL KEARNEY Kearney was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. He went to a local grammar school, and then to Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and Middle English and was a keen member of the Mountaineering Society and the Officer Training Corps. He was also an enthusiastic and very bad rower. Shortly after leaving Oxford, he went on a solitary climbing trip to the Isle of Skye, and it was after tumbling off a mountain there that the character of Michael Riven first came to him. The first half of his debut novel, The Way to Babylon, was composed shortly after, and acquired by Gollancz, who then published Kearney's next seven books, including the Monarchies of God series. In the eight years subsequent to the publication of The Way to Babylon, Kearney lived in Copenhagen, New Jersey, and Cambridgeshire, but at present he makes his home a stone's throw from the sea in County Down, with his wife, two dogs, a beat-up old boat, and far too many books. At present he is working on The Ten Thousand, a new novel for Solaris Books. Visit his website at www.paulkearneyonline.com. LEIGH KENNEDY Leigh Kennedy is the author of the highly-regarded novels THE JOURNAL OF NICHOLAS THE AMERICAN, which was nominated for the Nebula, and SAINT HIROSHIMA, as well as many short stories, some of which have been nominated for World Fantasy, Nebula and BSFA awards. Her writing has been translated into German, Finnish, Spanish and Japanese, and in 1998 she received an Arts Council Grant. She lives in Hastings, East Sussex, with her husband, the novelist Christopher Priest, and their teenage children. Leigh is now working on a new novel. JASPER KENT Jasper Kent's first novel, TWELVE, is a fantastical thriller, set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. Four Russian soldiers and spies are ordered to disrupt the French army as it approaches Moscow after the battle of Borodino. They call on a group of mercenaries from Wallachia, known to one of them, for help... but these mercenaries love the taste of blood. Full of first-class characters, outstanding descriptive writing and sparkling imagination, it is the debut of a new star. Jasper has also written a thriller, YOURS ETC., MR SUNDAY. As a book about a 1930s serial killer, who murdered a number of young women in pre-war Brighton and remained uncaught, is being launched, another murder takes place in the seaside town. It is the same in every detail as those earlier crimes including some details that were never released by the police. A journalist and two experts on the original crimes are drawn into uncovering the perpetrator... His third novel, SIFR, takes in Roger Bacon, Oxford spies and a mathematical code that could render internet security useless, and is a fast-moving thriller for the 21st century. Jasper Kent lives in Brighton, UK, works part-time as a software consultant and has co-written two musicals - one of which was produced for Jerusalem's 3,000th birthday celebrations. He has plans for a number of further novels, including a sequel to TWELVE. Visit his website at www.jasperkent.com Delivery date: Available now. WILLIAM KING William King is writing a series of fast-moving, adventure-fantasy novels, which could be characterised as a mixture of David Gemmell and Sharpe, featuring human warriors who fight in the army of the Terrarchs, human-appearing aliens (think of Michael Moorcock's Vadhagh, from the Prince Corum novels) forced from their own world. They conquered humankind with magic and ancient knowledge. Now our heroes fight both human and demonic foes for their masters with sword, axe and arrow, while the Terrarchs long to re-capture their own world...the first novel is titled DEATH'S ANGELS. King has written a number of novels in the WARHAMMER and WARHAMMER 40K series for Games Workshop, which have been translated into Spanish, German, Polish, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian, Russian and Italian - more languages than any other Games Workshop novels. William King is Scottish, but presently lives in Prague, Czech Republic. Delivery date: Available now Czech rights Polaris (for trilogy) German rights Piper (for trilogy) Spanish rights Timun Mas (for trilogy) Polish rights Polaris (for trilogy) SUZANNE MCLEOD World Rights in Suzanne McLeod's novel sequence of three supernatural thrillers has been sold to Jo Fletcher at Gollancz. The series features Genevieve Taylor, one of the noble fae, a Sidhe. The Sidhe are a reclusive race, uncomfortable in the modern world, preferring to live in The Fair Lands and follow the old traditions. So Genny is unusual, even in present-day London where celebrity vampires, eccentric goblins and scheming lesser fae mix freely with the human population. Genny is a rising star at Spellcrackers.com where she finds the 'M' in magic. Mischief. Malice. Murder. Spellcrackers is affiliated to the Witch Council, whose ancient tenets prohibit any contact with vampires. Genny also works as a volunteer at a clinic which treats victims of vampire attacks. Then there's her extra-curricular activity, extracting vulnerable fae lured by the local fang gangs. Genny neither wants nor needs any closer involvement with the vampires. But when one of the hot calendar pin-up vamps, Mr October, is accused of murdering his girlfriend, a longstanding obligation means Genny can't refuse to help prove his innocence. Initially, she agrees with the police that he is guilty. But as events unfold, Genny begins to have doubts. McLeod (a pseudonym) lives on the South Coast of England about a mile away from the sea along with her husband and their two dogs. Delivery date Spring 2007 W.J. MARYSON Maryson is a Dutch fantasy writer, the well-established author of eleven novels (including the Unmagician series) and a number of short stories, which have been published in nine different languages. As well as writing he undertakes master classes and workshops on writing. He is presently working on the second novel in the Great Legend series, three short stories, and 'Maryson' (the band in which he features as a songwriter and keyboardist) are about to create their third album. He won the Elf Fantasy Award for the best fantasy novel of 2004, elected by the readers of Elf Fantasy Magazine, for The Lord of the Depths, the third Unmagician novel, beating out Robin Hobb and Raymond Feist. Contact John Jarrold for further information. MARK MORRIS Mark Morris is a UK horror and thriller author. Since the publication of his first novel, TOADY, in 1989, Morris has had eleven further novels published, as well as a story collection, CLOSE TO THE BONE, a non-fiction book, CINEMA MACABRE, and two Doctor Who novels. His work has been highly praised on both sides of the Atlantic, and published in translation. His latest novel is COLD HARBOUR. Visit his website at www.markmorriswriter.com ADAM NEVILL Adam is the author of the highly-praised novel BANQUET FOR THE DAMNED, published by PS in 2004, set in St Andrews, Scotland, which as been favourably compared with the ghost writings of M R James and has received stunning reviews in the UK and the US. His short story WHERE ANGELS COME IN has recently been selected for both The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17, edited by Stephen Jones. Having received a BA Hons in English Literature at University College Worcester, Adam worked in broadcast TV for eight years before returning to St Andrews University (the later setting of his novel) where he received at MLitt in Creative Writing. He presently works as a commissioning editor for a London publisher, overseeing more than seventy novels a year. He is writing his second novel. Trade rights to BANQUET OF THE DAMNED Available now MARK CHARAN NEWTON Mark Charan Newton's debut novel, THE REEF, has echoes of China Miéville's best-selling New Crobuzon novels in its original usage of fantasy tropes and ideas, and a plethora of memorable characters and settings. It features strange undersea beings, a search for revenge and a mystery and was published by small press Pendragon in April 2008. The Guardian said: "Newton treads new ground in his attempt to bring literary concerns to the fantasy genre." NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR is his first major deal with Peter Lavery at Macmillan / Tor UK -- due for publication early in 2009. An impending ice age looms over all other events in the book, which include the death of an emperor and his daughter's return to claim the throne in an ancient city; a crime noir plot that involves high-profile murders; an immortal who discovers he is dying; a cocky womaniser who is acting as dance tutor to the new Empress's sister; and on the fringes of the Empire, a sudden genocide... It will appeal to the readers of George R R Martin, Steven Erikson and Scott Lynch. Mark was born in 1981, has worked in the book trade as SF and Fantasy buyer for an Ottakar's bookstore, and now works for the genre publisher Solaris. He lives in Nottingham. "Mark Newton is a promising new writer whose prose is dynamic and whose imagination is often startling." - Jeff VanderMeer Visit his website at www.markcnewton.com PHILIP PALMER Philip Palmer is a screen and TV writer whose credits include the BBC 1 film THE MANY LIVES OF ALBERT WALKER, starring John Gordon Sinclair, Rebus and The Bill. He has also written radio plays including THE KING'S COINER, about Isaac Newton, private detective, which starred Ian McDiarmid, and adapted Spenser's Faerie Queen for BBC Radio, as well as teaching writing, acting as a script executive, executive producer and in many other roles. His first sweeping SF novel, DEBATABLE SPACE, features Lena, a relation of the despotic Human emperor the Cheo who is kidnapped by Flanagan, a space pirate. But both of these characters are far more than they initially appear to be and as the book unfolds a subtle history of the future of humanity appears, in a focused, witty and inventively-thrilling novel that is both epic and character led. World rights in this and two further SF novels by Philip Palmer have been pre-emptively acquired by Orbit. World rights: Orbit (Little, Brown UK) Visit his website at www.philippalmer.net Published works sold by JJLA:
RUARIDH PRINGLE Ruaridh Pringle is a Scottish author who has previously written and contributed to various non-fiction books about walking, climbing and ecology over the last ten years and more. He has also worked as a freelance photographer, folk musician, and in many other fields. His short fiction has been successfully published in INTERZONE. His first novel, SANCTUARY, is a science fiction epic, spread over five hundred years and many planets. It has the depth and massive concepts of both Iain M Banks and Peter Hamilton. Ruaridh lives in Scotland. Delivery date: Available now HARVEY RAINES Harvey Raines is the pen name of American-Scottish writer, Phil Raines. Raines has had several stories published over the last decade, including in the most recent Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. In 1997, he won the Bridport Prize for short fiction. Raines' first novel is MOONDOG, a long and multi-layered novel wherein the coming end of the world sees angels plummeting to Earth, although that is only one aspect of this 190,000-word book. The novel takes in a skewed version of the music industry, a strange 'grease' which allows people to sample their own lives, and a varied bunch of characters (not all entirely human) drawn into a struggle for the future of the universe. The author lives in Glasgow. Delivery date: Available nowROBERT V.S. REDICK Robert von Stein Redick's first novel, CONQUISTADORS, was a finalist for the 2002 AWP/Thomas Dunne Novel Award (under the title Wilderness). An excerpt was published in the 40th anniversary (2005) edition of Puerto del Sol. Now Redick has written the first in a three-book fantasy series, THE RED WOLF CONSPIRACY. It is set largely aboard a huge, 600-year-old ship and takes in sorcery, murder and politicking, with a cast of believable characters ranging from a teenage ships' boy and the ship's captain, who is famed for his sadism, to a girl being offered up as a bride to a foreign prince by her emperor and her father, the new ambassador but not all is as it seems. Empires may fall, mighty spells may be unleashed, and a dead leader may live again. Redick works as the editor for the Spanish and French websites of Oxfam America (www.oxfamamerica.org/es and www.oxfamamerica.org/fr) and as an instructor in the International Development and Social Change program at Clark University. Born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, he lives in rural western Massachusetts. Visit his website at www.redwolfconspiracy.com. World rights in THE RED WOLF CONSPIRACY and two sequels were acquired pre-emptively by Gollancz. Published works sold by JJLA:
ROD REES Rod Rees has spent his time travelling throughout Africa, the Middle East, Bangladesh and Russia, finding himself living, en route, in Qatar, Tehran and Moscow. He has built pharmaceutical factories in Dhaka, set-up a satellite communication network in Moscow, conceived and designed a jazz-themed hotel in the UK and created one of the most successful counter-trade operations ever seen in Africa. Living and working throughout the world has convinced him of one thing: that all Men are created equal in their duplicity and their ability to say one thing and do another. Rod Rees has written one other novel and numerous short stories under a nom-de-plume (which he will keep to himself until his children are older!) but Dark Charismatic is his first book under his own name. He lives in Norfolk where he acts a roadie to his lovely wife Nelli (a jazz singer and jewellery designer) and his two children Kit (saxophone and talking) and Ellie (bass and sarcasm). He spends his days writing, waiting for the return of democracy to Great Britain and the classification of 'The OC' as Class-A addictive substance for the under 16's. His novel Dark Charismatic is set in the London of 1878, this is a reworking of the Jekyll & Hyde story, told through the eyes of Henry Jekyll's cold, aloof and religious wife, Margaret. Rees has also created a new order of humanity, taking his lead from Stevenson's novel but expanding its ideas greatly in the social, sexual and other areas. Although the main thrust of the book explores of the propensity for evil that exists in everyone, it does so in a way that is authentic to the era and captures the black humour which sustained the working-class during those difficult times. However it remains a book about evil: as Hyde says, there is no good in Man, just a deficiency of courage to embrace wickedness. IAN SALES Ian Sales has co-edited a small press science fiction magazine, The Lyre, with Nicholas Mahoney, containing original fiction by Gwyneth Jones, Peter F Hamilton, Keith Brooke and others. He has reviewed books for the British Science Fiction Associations critical journal, Vector, and is now writing a massive science fiction trilogy, AN AGE OF DISCORD. In the tradition of DUNE and Kevin J Anderson's SAGA OF THE SEVEN SUNS, Sales' novels are galaxy-spanning, with political intrigue, space battles and personal feuds between families and power groupings. The first novel in the series is A PROSPECT OF WAR. Delivery date: Available now GAIE SEBOLD Gaie Sebold was born in Massachusetts to an American father in the USAF and English mother. She was brought up just outside Oxford, took English, (with Drama and Ancient History in the first year) at Swansea, and plunged into a series of clerical jobs in order to keep the wolves at bay while trying to write. She currently works for the Royal Society of Arts, and finally got around to becoming a British citizen a couple of years ago, having lived in the UK as a Yank since she was five. She has sold short fiction and poetry (and received an Honorable Mention in the 2004 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology for her story Wet Work), and had pieces performed on stage. Her new novel, A TOUCH OF MAGIC, features a heroine who works in a New Age shop selling fake Elven remedies and is somewhat taken aback by the appearance of six-foot-eight elves with tattoos asking about the provenance of these 'remedies'. . . and the possible end of life as we know it. Like Jasper Fforde, Gaie's witty, intelligent and thoughtful work will appeal to a massive audience of non-genre readers. Delivery date: Available now IAN STEWART & JACK COHEN Best known as the authors of the bestselling SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD, Ian and Jack are, respectively, a professor of mathematics and a reproductive biologist. The John Jarrold Agency represents their jointly-written science fiction novels. Their two previous novels, WHEELERS and HEAVEN, have received praise from bestselling authors including Stephen Baxter, David Brin, Larry Niven and Gregory Benford, as well as the mainstream press. They are working on two new projects, one set in the same universe as he two previous novels but not a direct sequel and another that they characterize as: 'far-future Wide-Screen Baroque Hard SF on a truly cosmic scale'. Contact John Jarrold for further details. DIRK STRASSER Dirk Strasser has had over 20 books published by major publishers in Australia. He won the Ditmar for Best Professional Achievement in 2002 and has been short-listed for the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards a number of times. His Ascension series of fantasy novels Zenith, Equinox and Eclipse was published by Pan Macmillan in Australia and by Heyne Verlag in Germany. He has also had SF/fantasy/horror short stories published in magazines and anthologies in Australia, the UK, the USA and Germany, including Robert Silverberg's Universe Two, Borderlands 4, Metaworlds and Alien Shores. His story "The Doppelgänger Effect" appeared in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Dreaming Down-Under. Several stories have appeared in "Best of" anthologies and lists in Australia and the USA, including regular appearances in the Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction Honorable Mentions. His articles have appeared in most of the major newspapers in Australia, and he co-edited Aurealis magazine from 1990 to 2001. His new series of epic fantasy novels is entitled THE MYRIAD, and the opening volume is THE SHADOWED ROAD. The series is set in a version of the pre-Islamic Persian empire. Dirk was born in Germany in 1959 but has lived most of his life in Australia. He was a secondary school teacher of Mathematics and German for 12 years, is currently employed as a Senior Publisher for Harcourt Education Australia, and is living in Melbourne with his wife and two children. Delivery date: Available now MARTYN TAYLOR Martyn has had a number of short stories published in SF/Fantasy magazines and in computer games magazines. He has written for television and radio (and been paid for it) without ever quite getting anything produced. And hes written numerous book and film reviews in the specialist SF magazines. As a novelist, he is particularly interested in the possibilities of what might be happening just beyond the edges of perceptions, but is also interested in exploring the possibilities of conventional fantasy. His new novel, HAPPYLAND, is a fantastical work, set mostly in our world but taking in the realms of imagination and a family whose sins echo over three generations. It mixes real-life horrors with dark fairy tales that would make the Brothers Grimm shudder. RICHARD WEBB Richard Webb's first novel, THE SEEDS OF DISCONTENT, is a wonderfully written fantasy novel, peopled with three-dimensional characters, that has the immediacy of David Gemmell and the overarching plotlines of Steven Erikson and George R R Martin. Richard's ideas for this series are amongst the most fascinating and best thought-out in the fantasy genre. Webb has run event management, property development, and lighting design and installation companies during a varied life. He now intends to write full-time. He says: 'An avid reader of myth and folklore since childhood, I have, whenever time has permitted, written about and sketched imaginary worlds, but work schedules left me with few hours to dedicate to perfecting my projects. Now I have created I'Tearath, a mythical world where magic, not science, predominates, over a planned series of fifteen books. The adventure starts with The Seeds of Discontent, the first in an intended trilogy. It is an epic escapade with timeless themes set in a vibrant magical land where mirror birds flit past winged cats, yet where hero and villain alike show their all-too-human qualities.' Delivery date September/October 2006 JOHN WHITBOURN John Whitbourn won the Gollancz/BBC Radio First Fantasy Novel competition in the 1990s with A DANGEROUS ENERGY. Since then, he has written eight more novels which mix history and fantasy, as well as a number of short stories and non-fiction articles. His knowledge of history and archaeology feed his fiction, as does his love of the fantastical. Like Susanna Clarke, Neal Stephenson and Jasper Fforde, he is both an outstanding storyteller and a writer of sophistication. He is presently writing a new novel entitled BABYLONDON (Babylon/London), taking in the Gordon Riots of 1780, a remnant of the Faerie Folk, a gangster-esque Lord Mayor of London and William Blake and his Visions of Angels amongst many other characters and settings. He has also written FRANKENSTEIN'S LEGION, a novel related to a multi-media project including a computer game and graphic novels. Delivery dates: BABYLONDON: TBC FRANKENSTEIN'S LEGION: Available now NEIL WILLIAMSON Scottish author Neil Williamson has had a number of stories published in magazines, including INTERZONE and THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE, and anthologies. He also has a story collection, THE EPHEMERA, appearing from Elastic Press in spring 2006. He is presently writing a novel somewhere between fantasy and SF entitled THE MOON KING, which contains echoes of M John Harrison's classic VIRICONIUM and Iain Banks' THE BRIDGE. Here is Neil's own description: "Glassholm, the city that stole the moon, unchanging for centuries, is suddenly starting to decline into chaos, but can anyone save it - even the man who founded it, the revered and mysterious Moon King?" Delivery date: Early 2007 TIM WOOD New UK genre novelist Tim Wood has completed an innovative trilogy. The first novel, TEPESCH DRAKUL, is set in the present day and, in the authors words: "reveals the true history and ecology of the vampire. Where they originated, their grand design, how they work and who they really are." The stories are centred around a legendary demon slayer, Finn Angmon, and draws on the legends of Fionn mac Cumaill. The novels pay tribute to the dark eroticism of Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, whilst entering the world of science fiction, taking the narrative to Vasudha, the home planet of the vampire kind. In the fourth novel of the Finn Angmon series, Vasudha becomes a battle ground when it is invaded by the Zilon, and humans must join forces with their enemy to save the planet. Currently, Tim leads a busy life as he is also information solutions director for Atkins management consultants. ZORAN ZIVKOVIC English Language Rights only Zoran Zivkovic is a Serbian writer, living in Belgrade. He won the World Fantasy Award in 2003 for his novella THE LIBRARY, as well as major literary awards in his own country. His work has been published in nine foreign countries, ranging from the US and UK to Hungary and South Korea. Since 1993, Zoran has written ten fictions, beginning with THE FOURTH CIRCLE, which Locus called: "One of the more extraordinary moments in recent SF, and one of the most beautiful". His work has drawn comparison with Kafka, Stanislaw Lem, Italo Calvino and Milan Kundera. His latest works are a four-part novel, titled FOUR STORIES TILL THE END and a linked collection TWELVE STORIES AND THE TEASHOP. Contact John Jarrold for more details of Zoran Zivkovic's backlist and forthcoming titles. Limited edition rights to IMPOSSIBLE STORIES, including the story suites TIME GIFTS, IMPOSSIBLE ENCOUNTERS, SEVEN TOUCHES OF MUSIC, THE LIBRARY and STEPS THROUGH THE MIST PS Publishing Limited edition rights to TWELVE STORIES AND THE TEASHOP PS Publishing US and Canadian rights to SEVEN TOUCHES OF MUSIC, STEPS THROUGH THE MIST, IMPOSSIBLE ENCOUNTERS Aio Publishers. Published works sold by JJLA:
ERIC FUREY Eric Furey is a Training and Management Consultant, living in Country Wicklow, Ireland with his wife, the novelist Maggie Furey. He has a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Having worked in various parts of the chemicals industry for a number of years, he set up his own company, Furey Associates, in 1997, since when he has worked in many areas of Management Consultancy. His professional qualifications include being a Certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) communication skills, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) - communication skills, and a Certified Master Practitioner of Timeline Therapy® and Hypnotherapy.His first book, DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR, is subtitled: 'The Manager's Handbook for Interpersonal Influence', and deals with areas not fully covered in the plethora of management handbooks presently on the market. Delivery date: TBC SUB-AGENTS France, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro: Patricia Pasqualini Germany: Thomas Schlueck Russia: Anastasia Lester |
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