The books coming out in 2015

[AncalagonTheBlack]

Orbit Books Spring / Summer 2015 Frontlist Catalog:
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/CatalogOverview.aspx?catalogID=460353

From the Little Brown Spring/Summer 2015 & Grand Central Spring/Summer 2015 Frontlist Catalog:

The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy (Grand Central Publishing)
On Sale Date: April 14, 2015
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=4&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=460363&org=&sku=1455528242

When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord (Mulholland Books)
On Sale Date: April 21, 2015
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=10&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=460361&org=&sku=0316297933

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown and Company)
On Sale Date: May 26, 2015
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=15&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=460361&org=&sku=0316176532

Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones (Mulholland Books)
On Sale Date: May 26, 2015
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=22&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=460361&org=&sku=0316254487

Day Four by Sarah Lotz (Little, Brown and Company)
On Sale Date: June 16, 2015
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=28&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=460361&org=&sku=0316242942

Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley (Little, Brown and Company)
On Sale Date: June 30, 2015
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=31&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=460361&org=&sku=0316228044

Crooked by Austin Grossman (Mulholland Books)
On Sale Date: July 28, 2015
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=39&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=460361&org=&sku=031619851X

Court of Fives by Kate Elliott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
On Sale Date: August 18, 2015
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=86&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=466092&org=&sku=0316364193

[Jslay427]

Looking forward to Sculls new book.

[RedEyedGhost]

Tor spring/summer 2015 catalog:

http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/CatalogOverview.aspx?catalogID=390166

Missing books:

Endlords by J.V. Jones

Spellbreaker by Blake Charlton

A King in Cobwebs by David Keck

Hymn by Ken Scholes

Thanks for the update, Jussi :thumbsup: That's too bad about Hymn, because Scholes is definitely not a big enough author to get his book pushed to the front of the line when it is completed.

[Jussi]

You are welcome.

Here is Little, Brown Book Group spring 2015 catalogue (includes Orbit UK)

and Orion Publishing Group January-July 2015 catalogue (includes Gollancz).

[Diziet]

Thanks Jussi. The Orbit catalog extends to June 2015, does that mean that Orbit won't release TUC in the first half of 2015 for sure?

[Calibandar]

Thanks Jussi. The Orbit catalog extends to June 2015, does that mean that Orbit won't release TUC in the first half of 2015 for sure?

Yes it does. The second half of 2015 still has room for Orbit to put in all sorts of titles.

I also think Penguin Canada and Overlook might publish their editions a bit earlier, but it seems late 2015 has become the best we can hope for.

[Anatúrinbor]

Bakker said that his Canadian publisher pulled the plug on the series after TWLW. So we're left with Orbit and Overlook.

[Corvinus85]

Bakker said that his Canadian publisher pulled the plug on the series after TWLW. So we're left with Orbit and Overlook.

Isn't he Canadian? Treachery!

[RedEyedGhost]

Jeebus, really?

I'm now even more afeared that it will all end after TUC.

The board should really try to rig the Hugo's so that he at least gets a nomination for TUC when it's eligible. That might then increase his profile enough so that he can continue writing.

[Darth Richard II]

That is a bizarrely not bad idea.

[Bastard of Godsgrace]

The board should really try to rig the Hugo's so that he at least gets a nomination for TUC when it's eligible. That might then increase his profile enough so that he can continue writing.

I am absolutely for it. It only takes about 150 votes, perhaps less, if attendance will be lower than this year.

[Calibandar]

Jeebus, really?

I'm now even more afeared that it will all end after TUC.

That actually looks to be the plan.

He calls it Aspect Emperor and it may be divided into two books after all, but that will be it.

I think all hope should be focused on him even getting this final book out, don't even think about whether there may be something after that.

[Jussi]

He calls it Aspect Emperor and it may be divided into two books after all,

Yeah, here is a direct quotation:

No decisions have been made on whether the tome will be divided or not. If so, the first will be called The Great Ordeal, and the second, The Unholy Consult.

[Anatúrinbor]

http://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/the-eliminativistic-implicit-ii-brandom-in-the-pool-of-shiloam/

From the comments,

Q: I hear on some forum that your publisher decided not to print TUC afterall... Any truth to that?

rsbakker: My Canadian publisher decided to pull the plug after WLW years back, and to distribute Overlook's version instead. If this refers to someone else, something new, well then, that would be cause for a heart attack!

Now I don't know much about publishing so correct me if I've misunderstood that.

[Diziet]

That actually looks to be the plan.

He calls it Aspect Emperor and it may be divided into two books after all, but that will be it.

I think all hope should be focused on him even getting this final book out, don't even think about whether there may be something after that.

What are the chances that we won't get TUC at all?

[Maester Llama]

From someone who knows *nothing* and hasn't been following the situation for a while: At all, ever? Low. Quite low. I believe we've been told before by Orbit, Bakker's UK publisher, that they are very happy with how the series does for them; I can't see them not finishing Aspect-Emperor. It sounds like the manuscript is in an advanced state, so I'm sure Bakker will want to see it done. Overlook, the publisher in the States, is a smallish outfit; this has hurt their ability to push the series properly in the past in significant ways -- did they ever get American paperbacks out? -- but may also give them lower required sales bars. They've come this far.

I didn't know that Bakker had been dropped by his Canadian publisher -- though it sounds like they'll still distribute in Canada, which is something I suppose. That's very sad. Ever are men deceived by penguins -- I think it was Penguin.

Several interesting release tidbits:

Bradley P. Beaulieu, one of the widely-liked epic fantasy authors to get caught up in the Night Shade Books thing, recently announced the tentative release date for his next epic fantasy novel on his blog: It's called Twelve Kings in Sharakai, it's the first book in The Song of the Shattered Sands, it's being published by Daw, and the plan is that it will appear in August 2015. Apparently it has pit fighting and battle against powerful kings in a desert city. Sounds quite intriguing.

For Michelle West fans, the sixth book in The House War, Oracle, will be out in May. Dunno how she writes so much. It's amazing.

Nnedi Okorafor's prequel to her novel Who Fears Death, The Book of Phoenix, will also be published by Daw in May. Sadly, it doesn't appear that Daw, or any other house, is making plans to bring Lagoon, her sf novel set in Lagos, to the States anytime soon -- it's published by Hodder in the UK.

And finally, some people may remember Stina Leicht? She had the series with the faeries in Ireland during the height of the IRA conflict that got quite good reviews? Apparently she has a new two book deal with Saga Press, S and S's new sf and fantasy imprint. It's for a flintlock fantasy series. First book's called Cold Iron. June 2015. This is good news; I never got around to trying her books published by Night Shade, but they sounded up my alley and I heard good things.

[RedEyedGhost]

I am absolutely for it. It only takes about 150 votes, perhaps less, if attendance will be lower than this year.

There's 36 unique posters in the current Bakker thread, and I'm sure many more fans of his on this board that don't post in those threads who would support him. Could this board alone get 150... I'm not sure. I also wonder how this year'sVox and Correia nominations will effect future years (I think there will probably be a marked uptick in nomination percentage next year, but it will probably return to normal after that).

And finally, some people may remember Stina Leicht? She had the series with the faeries in Ireland during the height of the IRA conflict that got quite good reviews? Apparently she has a new two book deal with Saga Press, S and S's new sf and fantasy imprint. It's for a flintlock fantasy series. First book's called Cold Iron. June 2015. This is good news; I never got around to trying her books published by Night Shade, but they sounded up my alley and I heard good things.

There fantastic books, and you should definitely give them a look. She has stated that she's planning on releasing the final book as a self-pub, but I haven't seen anything about that recently.

[Darth Richard II]

Night shade is back in business though correct? And yeah Michelle West makes Sander look like a slacker.

[Maester Llama]

They are indeed back in business, yep; just been looking at their stuff on amazon. They have a full slate out into next summer, and a lot of it is new material, not just reprints -- including next books by several of the authors who were under contract with them when they went under. Their biggest recent thing seems to be Veil of the Deserters by Salyards, which is the sequel to Scourge of the Betrayer -- military fantasy that stirred up some excitement a couple years ago. Amazon also claims Night Shade's publishing an edition of Bradley Beaulieu's third novel in that epic fantasy series based in part on Finnish myth this October, and I don't know how that could possibly be because he negotiated his rights back and self-published it like a year ago when they were imploding. It also looks like they're doing paperbacks of Mazarkis Williams' series starting with The Emperor's Knife, which is of interest to me because I heard those were really good but I couldn't quite bring myself to spend hardcover money. So Night Shade's totally around. But, and this is subjective, it feels to me like, though they're back in business as a publishing house, their books aren't back in the conversation in a big way yet. I don't think I've yet seen reviewers / readers going apeshit over anything new from this relaunched Night Shade, and that used to happen all the time. Feels a lot like what seems to have happened to Pyr.

REG, thanks very much for recommending Leicht's books -- I think your previous posts about them were one of the things I was remembering. The possibility that the series would never be completed was one of the things holding me off, so I'm glad to know that last book might get self-published. I'm looking forward to trying them.

[Darth Richard II]

Jeez I just read veil of the deserters not long ago. Duh, now I feel dumb.