21s macm tor - raincoast books

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

A Psalm for the Wild-Builtby Becky Chambers

In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers'sdelightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future.

It's been centuries since the robots of Earth gained self-awareness and laiddown their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into thewilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth andurban legend.

One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there tohonor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until thequestion of what do people need?" is answered.

But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.

They're going to need to ask it a lot.

Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what theywant, does having more matter?"

This was an optimistic vision of a lush, beautiful world that came back fromthe brink of disaster. Exploring it with the two main characters was a fun andfascinating experience." - Martha Wells

"I'm the world's biggest fan of odd couple buddy road trips in science fiction,and this odd couple buddy road trip is a delight: funny, thoughtful, touching,sweet, and one of the most humane books I've read in a long time.

Author Bio

Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. Sheis best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series. Her books havealso been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and theWomen's Prize for Fiction, among others.

Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavilyinvolved in space science. She spends her free time playing video andtabletop games, keeping bees, and looking through her telescope. Havinghopped around the world a bit, she's now back in her home state, where shelives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.

TorOn Sale: Jul 13/215 x 8 • 160 pages9781250236210 • $28.50 • CL - With dust jacketFiction / Science Fiction / AdventureSeries: Monk & Robot

Notes

Promotion

Page 1 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

A Master of Djinna novelby P. Djeli Clark

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djeli Clark returns to hispopular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master ofDjinn

Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working forthe Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she'scertainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of theuniverse last summer.

So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the mostfamous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiztransformed the world fifty years ago when he opened up the veil between themagical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. Thismurderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for itssocial oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in thestreets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage.

Alongside her Ministry colleagues and her clever girlfriend Siti, Agent Fatmamust unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city - orface the possibility he could be exactly who he seems. . .

A Master of Djinn is poised to launch P. Djeli Clark's SFF career to newheights as the highly-anticipated debut readers are clamoring for.

Novellas by P. Djeli ClarkThe Black God's DrumsThe Haunting of Tram Car 015Ring Shout

A clever, wickedly fun steampunk mystery with an excellent balance of humorand heart. I (...)

Author Bio

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston,P. DJALI CLARK spent theformative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and TobagoP. Djeli Clark is the author of the novellas The Black God's Drums, winner of a2019 Alex Award from the American Library Association; The Haunting ofT C 015 d A D d Dji i C i Hi h t t Th S t Li f

TorOn Sale: May 11/215.38 x 8.25 • 400 pages9781250267689 • $37.99 • CL - With dust jacketFiction / Fantasy / Historical

Notes

Promotion-Ongoing support for P. Djeli Clark, featuring pairingwith The Haunting of Tram Car 015, "A Dead Djinn inCairo," & other works, as well as an extended DigitalPreview for consumers.

-Publicity, bespoke mailings & advertising targetingexisting fans as well as multi-genre outreach toreaders of alternate history & adventurous fantasy,with an enamel pin driven preorder campaign.

-Extensive coverage on Tor.com, which averages 1million unique visitors and 3 million pageviews permonth, with more than half a million newslettersubscribers and over 240K social media followers

Page 2 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

The Chosen and the Beautifulby Nghi Vo

Like Jordan's own paper creations, The Chosen and the Beautifulcaptivates with its artistry and its power." - Helene Wecker

" Gatsby the way it should have been written - dark, dazzling,fantastical." - R. F. Kuang

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician.

Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society- she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some ofthe most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer, Asian, adopted,and treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most importantdoors remain closed to her.

But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lostghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn thecut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how.

Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic ofthe American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, andglittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice."

Nghi Vo's stellar transformation of The Great Gatsby recasts the 'careless'Jordan Baker as a woman of depth and sharpness, a socialite forced (...)

Author Bio

Nghi Vo was born in central Illinois, and she retains a healthy respect for andlove of corn mazes, scarecrows, and fifty-year floods. These days, she liveson the shores of Lake Michigan, which is less a lake than an inland sea thatshe is sure is just biding its time. Her short fiction has appeared in StrangeHorizons, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies,PodCastle, and Fireside, and her short story Neither Witch nor Fairy" madethe 2014 Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award Honor List. Nghi mostly writesabout food, death, and family, but sometimes detours into blood, love, andrhetoric. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the rightto change your mind.

TorOn Sale: Jun 1/215.38 x 8.25 • 272 pages9781250784780 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacketFiction / Fantasy / Historical

Notes

Promotion-Outreach aimed at readers of the Great Gatsby,literary SFF, queer narratives, and the Asian diasporaincluding digital assets, targeted ads & grouppromotions with other books featuring historical fiction

-National print and online publicity campaign to genreand literary outlets, featuring review coverage,excerpts, interviews, and special mailings toinfluencers, book clubs, & more

-Author support for Nghi Vo, with sweepstakes &promotions for fans of her critically acclaimed SingingHills Cycle novellas, bookseller & librarian buzzpresentations, galley mailings, IndieNext campaign, &swag to drive consumer preorders


Page 3 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

Star Eaterby Kerstin Hall

From Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall

A layered and incisive examination of power." - Rory Power,New YorkTimes bestselling author of Wilder Girls

"Stunning, bloody, and everything I adore in fantasy." - Emily Duncan,New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints

"Both haunted and haunting." - A. K. Larkwood, author of The UnspokenName

She swallowed a star, and the Sisterhood called her the Eater.

Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, itwill kill her. Though she's able to stomach the gruesome day-to-day duties, thereality of preserving the Order's magical bloodline horrifies her, but the Sistersof Aytrium have sworn to pay a price for the safety of their nation.

Elfreda wants out, whatever the cost.

So when a shadowy cabal approaches her with an offer of escape, she leapsat the opportunity. As their spy, she gains access to the highest reaches of theOrder, and enters a glittering world of opulent parties, subtle deceptions, andunexpected (...)

Author Bio

KERSTIN HALL is a writer and editor based in Cape Town, South Africa. Shecompleted her undergraduate studies in journalism at Rhodes University and,as a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, continued with a Masters degree at theUniversity of Cape Town. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons,and she is a first reader for Beneath Ceaseless Skies . She also enjoysphotography and is inspired by the landscapes of South Africa and Namibia.

TorOn Sale: Jun 22/215.38 x 8.25 • 416 pages9781250625311 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacketFic / Fantasy / Action & Adventure

Notes

Promotion

Page 4 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

The Past Is Redby Catherynne M. Valente

The Candide of our #@$\*%?! age." - Ken Liu, award-winning author

Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator ofSpace Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns withThe Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl whomade two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love theworld.

The future is blue. Endless blue. . . except for a few small places that floatacross the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers.One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown.

Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown, but she's the onlyone who knows it. She's the only one who knows a lot of things: thatGarbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world, that it's full of hope,that you can love someone and 66% hate them all at the same time.

But Earth is a terrible mess, hope is a fragile thing, and a lot of people arevery angry with her. Then Tetley discovers a new friend, a terrible secret, andmore to her world than she ever expected."

A gorgeous, funny, melancholy, splendid romp through a post-apocalypticwonderland in which hope and despair are indistinguishable, and the humanspirit burns with the (...)

Author Bio

Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over twodozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan's Talesseries, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The GirlWho Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making (and the four booksthat followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, PrixImaginales, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus,Romantic Times' Critics Choice and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist forthe Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast ofMaine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which arehuman.

TorOn Sale: Jul 20/215 x 8 • 160 pages9781250301130 • $28.50 • CL - With dust jacketFiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic

Notes

Promotion

Page 5 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

Never Say You Can't SurviveHow to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Storiesby Charlie Jane Anders

From the internationally bestselling and critically-acclaimed writer CharlieJane Anders comes Never Say You Can't Survive, a nonfiction manual aboutwriting and life.

Author Bio

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the firstbook in a new young-adult trilogy, along with the short story collection EvenGreater Mistakes . Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Nightand All the Birds in the Sky . Her fiction and journalism have appeared in theNew York Times, theWashington Post, Slate, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, the Boston Review,Tor.com, Tin House, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. HerTED Talk, Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its firstweek. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions AreCorrect.

TorOn Sale: Aug 17/215.38 x 8.25 • 288 pages9781250800015 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket

Notes

Promotion-"The Year of Charlie Jane Anders", featuring cross-market promotion with her fiction collection EvenGreater Mistakes & her first YA book, Victories Greaterthan Death, with a major publicity & awards campaign& national author tour

-Continuous promotion up to publication with eachessay published periodically on Tor.com, includingvirtual events & multi-platform engagement from anauthor with more than 54K social media followers


Page 6 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

Escape from Purolandby Charles Stross

Regular reader of the Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard'sabsence from the events of The Nightmare Stacks, and his subsequent returnfrom Tokyo at the start ofThe Delirium Brief .

Escape from Puroland explains what he was doing there.

Bob's been assigned to work with the Miyamoto Group, checking the wardsthat lock down Japan's warded sites - a task previously handled by hispredecessor Dr. Angleton, the Eater of Souls. This mostly involves policingyokai: traditional magical beings, increasingly grown more annoying andenergetic.

But then Bob's simple trip turns into a deadly confrontation with the ultimateyokai. It's massively powerful. It's pink. And it says Hello.

Author Bio

CHARLES STROSS is a full-time science fiction writer and resident ofEdinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella,including for the Laundry Files tale Equoid." His work has been translated intoover twelve languages. His novels include the bestselling Merchant Princesseries, the Laundry series (including Locus Award finalist The Dilirium Brief ),and several stand-alones including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn'sChildren .

Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second policestakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup(with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst) totechnical writer and prolific journalist covering the IT industry. Along the wayhe collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him theworld's first officially qualified cyberpunk writer.

TorOn Sale: Jul 13/215 x 8 • 128 pages9781250805706 • $26.99 • CL - With dust jacketFiction / Fantasy / ContemporarySeries: Laundry Files

Notes

Promotion-Series support for Stross' Laundry series &engagement through author's blog and 46.2 socialmedia followers, as well as group promotions withother Lovecraft reimagining & advertising targetingexisting fans as well as other readers of literary horror,spy thrillers & dark humor

-Publicity outreach aimed at online & genre outletswith an awareness campaign for consumers, bigmouths, institutions and bookstores featuring digitalgalley access, review coverage


Page 7 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

The Album of Dr. Moreauby Daryl Gregory

Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau combines the science fictionpremise of the famous novel by H. G. Wells with the panache of a classicmurder mystery and the spectacle of a beloved boy band.

It's 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world's hottest boy band, and definitelythe world's only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group.When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the boyz"become the prime suspects. Was it Bobby the ocelot ("the cute one"), Matt themegabat ("the funny one"), Tim the Pangolin ("the shy one"), Devin thebonobo ("the romantic one"), or Tusk the elephant ("the smart one")?

Las Vegas Detective Luce Delgado has only twenty-four hours to solve a casethat goes all the way back to the secret science barge where the WyldBoyZ'journey first began - a place they used to call home.

Author Bio

Daryl Gregory was the 2009 winner of IAFA William L. Crawford FantasyAward for his first novel Pandemonium . His second novel, The Devil'sAlphabet, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and was named one ofthe best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly . His short fiction has appearedin The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's Science FictionMagazine, and The Year's Best SF.He has also written comics for BOOM!Studios and IDW.

TorOn Sale: May 18/215 x 8 • 176 pages9781250782106 • $20.99 • pbFiction / Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering

Notes

Promotion- Consumer and trade-facing advertising, sweepstakesand promotions for readers of fast-paced sci-fiadventures and dark humor in SFF, as well as existingfans of Daryl Gregory's technothriller and New Weirdworks

- Publicity aimed at genre and alternative outlets withan award focused buzz campaign and multi-channelmarketing including early mailings to booksellers,institutions, influencers

- Extensive coverage on Tor.com, which averages 1million unique visitors and 3 million pageviews permonth, with more than half a million newslettersubscribers and over 240K social media followers

Page 8 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

Hard Rebootby Django Wexler

Django Wexler's Hard Reboot features giant mech arena battles andintergalactic diplomacy. When did academia get to be so complicated?

Kas is a junior researcher on a fact-finding mission to old Earth. But when acon-artist tricks her into wagering a large sum of money belonging to heruniversity on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawninto the seedy underworld of old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights.

Is it time to get back to the books, yet?

Praise for Django Wexler:

Warning: You'll probably be hooked on Wexler's insane 'flintlock fantasy'worldbuilding." - Charlie Jane Anders on "The Penitent Damned"

"A standout. . . . There's no time like the present to lose oneself in the militaryand political struggles of the Vordanai Empire." - Fonda Lee on The ShadowCampaigns series

" Ship of Smoke and Steel is a brisk, gritty adventure starring a heroine withgenuine agency and power, despite the overwhelming odds stacked againsther. The world is sharp and unforgiving, the mysteries are deep, the action isharrowing and triumphant." - Scott Lynch (...)

Author Bio

Django Wexler is a self-proclaimed computer/fantasy/sci-fi geek. Hegraduated from Carnegie Mellon University with degrees in creative writingand computer science, worked in artificial intelligence research and as aprogrammer/writer for Microsoft, and is now a full-time fantasy writer. Djangois the author of The Shadow Campaigns, an epic fantasy series for adultspublished by Roc (an imprint of Penguin), and The Forbidden Library, aclassic fantasy series for young readers publishedby Kathy Dawson Books(an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group)

TorOn Sale: May 25/215 x 8 • 144 pages9781250790262 • $18.99 • pbFiction / Science Fiction / Adventure

Notes

Promotion

Page 9 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

Inside Manby K. J. Parker

K. J. Parker returns to the amoral world of Prosper’s Demon with a wry,sardonic novella that flips the eternal, rule-governed battle between men anddemons on its head.

An anonymous representative of the Devil, once a high-ranking Duke of Helland now a committed underachiever, has spent the last forever of an eternityleading a perfectly tedious existence distracting monks from their liturgicaldevotions. It’s interminable, but he prefers it that way, now that he’s beenofficially designated by Downstairs as “fragile.” No, he won’t elaborate.

All that changes when he finds himself ensnared, along with a sadisticexorcist, in a labyrinthine plot to subvert the very nature of Good and Evil. Insuch a circumstance, sympathy for the Devil is practically inevitable.

Author Bio

Having worked in journalism, numismatics and the law,K. J. Parker nowwrites for a precarious living. He is the author of Devices and Desires, Evil forEvil, The Devil You Know, and other novels, and has won the World FantasyAward twice. Parker also writes under the name Tom Holt.

TorOn Sale: Jun 15/215 x 8 • 144 pages9781250786142 • $18.99 • pbFiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy

Notes

Promotion

Page 10 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

Light Chaserby Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell

In Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell's action-packed sci-fiadventure Light Chaser, a love powerful enough to transcend death canbring down an entire empire.

Amahle is a Light Chaser - one of a number of explorers, who travel theuniverse alone (except for their onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories.

But when she listens to the stories sent down through the ages she hears thesame voice talking directly to her from different times and on different worlds.She comes to understand that something terrible is happening, and only sheis in a position to do anything about it.

And it will cost everything to put it right.

Praise for the authors:

[Gareth L.] Powell's writing is fast-paced and fun and full of adventure. He's onmy must-read list." - Ann Leckie

"[Peter F.] Hamilton handles massive ideas with enviable ease." - Guardian

Author Bio

Peter F. Hamiltonbegan writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fearmagazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the GregMandel series, the Night's Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Sagaa and theVoid trilogy, as well as several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon andGreat North Road . Gareth L. Powell is the author of seven science fictionnovels and two short story collections as well as a non-fiction book aboutwriting. His third novel, Ack-Ack Macaque, book one in the Macaque Trilogy,was the winner of the 2013 BSFA novel award (joint winner with Anne Leckie'sAncillary Justice ). He lives in Bristol, UK.

TorOn Sale: Aug 24/215 x 8 • 144 pages9781250769824 • $18.99 • pbFiction / Science Fiction / Adventure

Notes

Promotion-Dual author support for the bestselling and awardwinning Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powellfeaturing targeted outreach, paired promotions andpersonal engagement

-Advertising, mailings and digital assets forbooksellers, institutions, influencers & consumersincluded a dedicated international sales and marketingteam

-Publicity aimed at mainstream and genre outlets andbuzz campaign for consumers, booksellers andinstitutions, including galleys and sweepstakes


Page 11 of 12

21S Macm TOR.com

Sales Rep

In the Watchful Cityby S. Qiouyi Lu

S. Qiouyi Lu’s debut is stunning, unique collection of narratives arranged as amosaic novella in the style of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

Author Bio

S. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific.Their fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov's, F&SF, and StrangeHorizons, and their translations have appeared in Clarkesworld . They edit theflash fiction and poetry magazine Arsenika

TorOn Sale: Aug 31/215 x 8 • 192 pages9781250792983 • $20.99 • pbFiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk

Notes

Promotion

Page 12 of 12

21s macm tor - raincoast books

Documents