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Till Golem do us part? NewCon Press acquires The Crafter’s Wife (book news).
NewCon Press has acquired World English rights to The Crafter’s Wife, the debut fantasy novel by Dani Raanan, proving once again that arranged…
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July 2026
NewsScifi
Best of British science fiction gets bundled (news).
What is this, we hear at the Nest, somebody has now bundled fifteen rather fine examples of British science fiction, fantasy and horror…
May 2026
NewsFantasy
Jon Courtenay Grimwood signs two-book Historical Fantasy deal with Transworld (Heaven immediately looks nervous) (news)
Transworld UK has pre-emptively acquired two new historical fantasy novels from bestselling author Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which is a sentence that already sounds…
April 2026
NewsBooks
Ian Watson RIP: another one of the greats gone (author news).
The science fiction world has dimmed a little this week with the passing of Ian Watson, a writer whose work never quite behaved…
March 2026
NewsFantasy
Jon Courtenay Grimwood heads back into fantasy with John Jarrold in tow (publishing news).
Some books arrive neatly pressed, polished and ready for market. Others spend twenty years rattling chains in the attic, refusing to die until…
February 2026
NewsScifi
Aces High: A Wild Cards Collection (book 31) edited by George RR Martin.
Another ‘Wild Cards’ book from TOR, when the Wild Cards Trust has moved to Random House Worlds? Under their Reactor Internet imprint, eleven…