Posts filed under ‘2011 Book Releases’
Heads up!
Over the last few days, I’ve come across a few books that I’m really excited about. They won’t be out quite yet, but I’m already counting the days.
I saw Deborah Harkness in a video of a NY ComicCon panel of Fantasy authors. She was the newbie author among some of my favorites, Naomi Novik, Jim Butcher, and Brandon Sanderson.
After watching the video, I checked out her site, and was really intrigued by A Discovery of Witches.
When historian Diana Bishop opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library it represents an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordinary life. Though descended from a long line of witches, she is determined to remain untouched by her family’s legacy. She banishes the manuscript to the stacks, but Diana finds it impossible to hold the world of magic at bay any longer.
For witches are not the only otherworldly creatures living alongside humans. There are also creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires who become interested in the witch’s discovery. They believe that the manuscript contains important clues about the past and the future, and want to know how Diana Bishop has been able to get her hands on the elusive volume.
Chief among the creatures who gather around Diana is vampire Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin. Together, Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the manuscript’s secrets. But the relationship that develops between the ages-old vampire and the spellbound witch threatens to unravel the fragile peace that has long existed between creatures and humans—and will certainly transform Diana’s world as well.
While writing this post, I also came across a giveaway hosted by Doug over at SciFi Guy.
A Discovery of Witches will be out February 8, 2011.
Another book I’m really excited about is the long-awaited installment in the Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne series, One Was a Soldier. The original publication date had been pushed back, so it feels like it’s been forever since I last heard from Clare and Russ.
The excerpt to this book has been up for a while, but now that the cover and blurb are up at the author’s site, my anticipation has doubled!
I love Clare, an Army veteran and the unconventional rector of an Episcopal church in rural upstate New York. Her relationship with Russ, the police chief, has had its ups and downs, but their chemistry together always leaps off of the page.
The events of One Was a Soldier are timely and poignant.
The Iraq War has been hard on Millers Kill. A maimed Marine, an angry M.P., a doctor trying to deal with his own injuries, and a helicopter pilot who saw more than she could bear hope counseling will enable them to go back to their old lives. But when the war follows a young Army specialist home, tragedy ensues. Chief of police Russ Van Alstyne rules the soldier’s death a suicide–a verdict the Reverend Clare Fergusson vehemently disputes. Now Clare will go against Russ and the MKPD to prove the death a murder–or die trying.
One Was a Soldier will be out April 26, 2011.
Are there some far off releases that you are excited about?
People are going to talk…