John Jarrold

Dobrovsky publishers have acquired Czech rights to the first two volumes of The Bound and The Broken fantasy series, which has sold over 150,000 copies so far, by bestselling self-published author Ryan Cahill: OF BLOOD AND FIRE and OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT. The books will be published on their fantasy/SF imprint Fobos. Among their authors already published there are Dan Simmons, Mary Robinette Kowal, John Langan, Graham Masterton, Darcy Coates, J. S. Dewes, Gene Wolfe, Dean Koontz, Robert R. McCammon, Robert Bloch and many others. The agent was Laura Karayotov of the SAS Lester Literary Agency & Associates representing the John Jarrold Literary Agency.

Born in fire. Tempered in blood.

Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North.

In the remote villages of southern Epheria, still reeling from the tragic loss of his brother, Calen Bryer prepares for The Proving – a test of courage and skill that not all survive.

But when three strangers arrive in the village of Milltown, with a secret they are willing to die for, Calen’s world is ripped from under him and he is thrust headfirst into a war that has been raging for centuries.

There is no prophecy. His coming was not foretold.

He bleeds like any man, and bleed he will.

“Might be the 21st Century’s own Tolkien or Robert Jordan” – Mike Shackle, author of the LAST WAR series

“A triumph of a debut” – FANFI ADDICT

“Impressive, enthralling and breathtaking” – LIBRARYOFAVIKING

“A truly stunning debut” – Zack Argyle, author of the THREADLIGHT series

I’m really delighted to share this:  The winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction is Morta by James Bennett (in The Book of Queer Saints, Medusa Publishing Haus).

I could not be happier for James, a wonderful writer – and this is an outstanding story!

Epic Publishing in the US has acquired English Language rights to RABBIT IN THE MOON, a previously unpublished 2018 science fiction novel by Fiona Moore. The agent was John Jarrold.

Ken Usagi, a young journalist from Nunavut, finds himself travelling south through a war-torn former United States after a terrifying encounter with a biotechnical machine that he remembers from his childhood, which might hold the key to ending the war. Meanwhile Totchli, a young biotechnician from a Mesoamerican society under threat from catastrophic climate change, is ordered to travel north to find out what happened to a colonial expedition on which everyone’s hopes for survival were pinned– but whose members have gone silent after an apparent descent into madness.  As the two journeys approach each other, realities merge and cracks appear in the logic of both worlds. When Usagi and Totchli meet, will they shape a new universe, or destroy civilization for all time?

Dr Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Cossmass Infinities, and five consecutive editions of The Best of British SF. She has  been a BSFA Award finalist three times and has published one novel, Driving Ambition (with Bundoran Press), three stage plays, four audio plays, a number of guidebooks to cult television series, and the nonfiction crossover Management Lessons from Game of Thrones – which has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award  She is also a regular contributor to Galactic Journey, a multi-Hugo-nominated blog dedicated to the science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s.

Her new novel, Captain Artemis and the Martian Undead, will soon be submitted to major publishers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Steve J Shaw, the publisher of Black Shuck Books, has acquired rights to a brilliant folk-horror novella, CHARLIE SAYS, by Neil Williamson . The agent was John Jarrold.

CHARLIE SAYS is a sizzling urban folk horror novella that resurrects the universal dread of 1970s British public information films for post-Brexit, blood and soil Britain. Where the jokes you’re allowed to tell–and what you get to be afraid of–very much depend on who’s listening.

Since his first publication in Territories magazine in 1994, Neil’s stories have appeared regularly in magazines and anthologies.

His books include, The Moon King, Queen of Clouds, The Memoirist, Secret Language and The Ephemera.

Neil has been a finalist for British Science Fiction Association, British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards.

Black Shuck Books launched in 2015, and publish novels, novellas and anthologies of horror fiction.

Dr Fiona Moore has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency. She is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London

She characterises her new novel, Captain Artemis and the Martian Undead, as “Gerry Anderson but with lesbians. It’s a queer #ownvoices novel that blends the cheeky lesbian protagonist of A Master of Djinn with the alternate twentieth-century space exploration of the Lady Astronaut series and For All Mankind.”

It’s 1965 and Captain Evangeline Artemisia ‘Artie’ Quelch is the lead pilot on the British Commonwealth Space Programme’s shuttle run between Earth and its thriving Mars colony, with adventure beckoning in the archaeological dig site nearby and romance with the lovely Doctor Evelyn Verity in full swing. And then people begin dying. As unexplained deaths and equipment failures mount up, the colony’s security officer Margaret Salmond accuses the rival European colony, while others blame the ancient Martian technology unearthed at the dig. Artie’s attempts at investigating are thwarted when her problematic journalist ex-girlfriend turns up to ask awkward questions. When the dead begin mysteriously coming back to life, it’s up to Artie to prevent war between the Commonwealth and Europe and to save the lives of everyone on Mars from the terrors the colonists have accidentally unleashed—but it all depends on her being able to atone for her past and win the heart of Evelyn…

Fiona’s earlier work (including two stories set in the same universe as this novel) has appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Cossmass Infinities, and five consecutive editions of The Best of British SF. She has  been a BSFA Award finalist three times and has published one novel, Driving Ambition (with Bundoran Press), three stage plays, four audio plays, a number of guidebooks to cult television series, and the nonfiction crossover Management Lessons from Game of Thrones. She is also a regular contributor to Galactic Journey, a multi-Hugo-nominated blog dedicated to the science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s.

“Two pages and I was hooked,” said John Jarrold. “Fiona has created a wonderful, believable  alternate history and outstanding characters – I love Artie! This is a universe that needs full exploration!”