The nominees for this year’s World Fantasy Awards have been announced and we’re beyond excited to share the news that Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney is nominated for Best Novel!
The winners will be announced at the 2023 World Fantasy Convention, which is due to take place at the Sheraton Crown Center in Kansis City, MO from 26-29 October 2023.
Check out the full list of finalists here!
Happy book birthday to The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan!
This luscious tale of Jewish folklore set in a mythical 15th century Spain marks the beginning of a stunning new trilogy that will delight fans of Katherine Arden, Naomi Novik and Ava Reid.
Two worlds bound by a pomegranate gate…
Toba Peres can speak but she can’t shout; she can walk but she can’t run; and she can write in five languages… with both hands at the same time.
Naftaly Cresques dreams every night of an orange-eyed stranger; when awake, he sees things that aren’t real; and he carries a book he can never lose and never read.
When the Queen of Sefarad orders all the nation’s Jews to leave or convert, Toba and Naftaly are forced to flee, but an unlucky encounter leaves them both separated from their caravan. Lost in the wilderness, Toba follows an orange-eyed stranger through a mysterious gate in a pomegranate grove, leaving Naftaly behind.
With a single step, Toba enters an ancient world that mirrors her own. There, she finds that her fate—and Naftaly’s—are bound to an ancient conflict threatening to destroy both realms.
“The Pomegranate Gate is an unforgettable journey to a world lush with magic and imagination. Every page is unearthly and delightful in equal measure—I couldn’t put it down.”—Natasha Siegel, author of Solomon’s Crown
“Wow, I loved it. It’s mythic and human, breathtaking and special. I want to read everything Ariel Kaplan does. You’ll break the rules and eat the fruit just so you can stay in this magical world for a little while longer.”—C.L. Polk, Nebula Award-winning author of Even Though I Knew the End
“A spellbinding work of storytelling with profoundly real characters who will stay with you long after you turn the last page. I loved everything about this book.”—H.G. Parry, author of The Magician’s Daughter
We’re wishing Charming by Jade Linwood a very happy book birthday!
Shrek meets John Tucker Must Die in this reimagined fairy tale of con artistry, vengeance and girl power.
Brave, Resourceful, Deceitful, Double-Crossing… Charming.
Prince Jean-Marc Charming Arundel, known to friends and enemies alike as “Prince Charming,” is handsome, well-mannered, brave, a peerless swordsman, a cunning tactician – and a liar, a con man and a fraud. For years he has been travelling from one kingdom to the next, rescuing endangered princesses and maidens, securing their troths and his place in their fathers’ palaces, then looting their treasuries and having it away before dawn.
Until a chance meeting of three of his victims – raven-haired Marie Blanche de Neige, the sorceress Doctor Emilia Rapunzel and the long-slumbering Bella Lucia dei’ Sogni – suggests a course of revenge…
“Fans of Alix E. Harrow’s Fractured Fables series or Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson’s The Tales of Pell series will enjoy this story”—Library Journal
“Delightful”—Booklist
The nominees for the 2023 Hugo Awards were recently announced and we’re delighted that three Solaris titles are finalists this year!
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal is nominated for Best Novel, Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky has made the cut for Best Novella and “The Difference Between Love and Time” by Catherynne M. Valente from Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance ed. by Jonathan Strahan is a finalist for Best Novelette.
We’re sending huge congratulations to all of the nominees across all categories! The winners will be announced at Chengdu Worldcon on Saturday 21 October 2023.
Clay Harmon’s grimdark epic, Flames of Mira, is out now in paperback!
Magic and redemption in a world of fire and ice.
Among boiling volcanoes under Mira’s frozen lands, people like Ig are forced to undergo life-threatening trials that bind chemical elements to the human body. One of Mira’s most powerful elementals, Ig serves as an enforcer for Magnate Sorrelo Adriann, but is cursed with flesh binding magic that will kill him at the first sign of disobedience.
When Sorrelo is overthrown, Ig quickly learns he can do far worse than what has been asked of him so far. If he can’t escape the flesh binding in time, he will have to kill friend and foe alike to stop his master reclaiming the throne, or sacrifice himself trying.
“A layered, tightly-written debut that explores the terrible costs of power” — Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters
“An awesome, explosive story” — JT Greathouse, author of The Hand of the Sun King
“Dark, tense, and full of action” — Grimdark Magazine
We’re wishing If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu a very happy book birthday! A wizarding firm intern gets more than they bargained for in our second 2023 Solaris Satellites novella…
“Welcome to One Wizard! How may I help you?”
Being an intern at a wizarding firm sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yelled at by senior mages—and angry clients who’ve been turned into platypuses. So when Journeyman Wen receives a frantic call from a young man who’s awoken to a talisman on his bedroom wall and no memory of how it got there, they jump at the chance to escape call center duty and actually help someone for once.
But the case ends up being more complicated than Wen could ever have anticipated. Their client has been possessed by a demon prince from Hell, and he’s not interested in leaving…
Solaris are thrilled to announce the acquisition of The Hacienda and Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas for the UK.
Cañas’s luscious Gothic debut, The Hacienda, follows newlywed Beatriz as she accompanies her husband to his countryside estate, Hacienda San Isidro. She tries to ignore the rumours surrounding the death of the wife who preceded her, but something is wrong with the hacienda and young priest Padre Andrés is her only ally against its malevolent presence.
In Vampires of El Norte Cañas returns to 19th century Mexico, where vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in a supernatural tale of two friends reunited after a tragedy that will satisfy fans of Netflix’s Midnight Mass.
The Hacienda will be released in October 2023, with Vampires of El Norte following in October 2024. English Language UK/BC Rights were acquired by Amy Borsuk from Tawanna Sullivan at Berkley, PRH.
Author Isabel Cañas on the acquisition:
“I am utterly thrilled that The Hacienda and Vampires of El Norte are making their way across the pond! The UK was my home for many years–I spent five years studying at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh and as many again flying back and forth to London to visit my now-husband and beloved friends. I could not be more delighted to call it home once more, this time in the care of the brilliant Amy Borsuk and the whole Solaris team.”
Acquiring Editor Amy Borsuk:
“I’m so excited to be bringing Isabel’s fantastic horror books to the UK! Her haunted house and vampire stories set in 19th century Mexico are thrilling, refreshing and evocative. The way she weaves magic, hauntings, and monstrous vampires into the realities of Mexican history is unlike any other horror out there!”
Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American speculative fiction writer. After having lived in Mexico, Scotland, Egypt, Turkey, and New York City, among other places, she has settled in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and writes fiction inspired by her research and her heritage.
For press enquiries please contact Jess Gofton, PR & Marketing Manager: jess.gofton@rebellion.co.uk
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2023 Locus Awards and a number of Solaris titles have made an appearance.
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal is nominated for Science Fiction Novel while The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison and Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse are nominated for Fantasy Novel. Roanhorse makes another appearance in Novella for Tread of Angels and is joined there by Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Ogres, and Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance ed. by Jonathan Strahan rounds off this year’s nominees with its Anthology nomination.
We’re sending huge congratulations to all of our authors and their fellow nominees! The winners will be announced at the Locus Awards Ceremony in Nile Hall at Preservation Park in downtown Oakland, California on 24 June 2023.
Today we’re so excited to begin our #HalfwaytoHalloween celebration by revealing the cover of our second 2023 Solaris Satellites novella, If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu!
Journeyman Wen’s internship at One Wizard takes a sinister turn when their client is possessed by a demon prince from Hell…
If Found, Return to Hell is out this June!
Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yelled at by senior mages and angry clients who’ve been turned into platypuses alike. So when Journeyman Wen receives a frantic call from a young man who’s awoken to a talisman on his bedroom wall and no memory of how it got there, they jump at the chance to escape call center duty and actually help someone for once.
But the case ends up being more complicated than Wen could ever have anticipated. Their client has been possessed by a demon prince from Hell, and he’s not interested in leaving…
We’re wishing a very Happy Book Birthday to the first of our Solaris Satellites novellas, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow!
Asher has been training her entire life to become a Sor-Commander. One day, she’ll give her soul to the gilded, mechanical body of the Sor and become a commander to a whole battalion of Dedicates. These soldiers, human bodies encased in exoskeletons, with extra arms, and telepathic subordination to the Sor-Commanders, are the only thing that’s kept the much larger Levastani army of conquest at bay for decades.
But while on a training journey, Asher and her party are attacked, and her commander is incapacitated, leaving her alone to lead the unit across a bitterly cold, unstable mountain. Worse, one of the Dedicates is not what they seem: a spy for the enemy, with their own reasons to hate their mechanical body and the people who put them in it.
To get off the mountain alive, Asher and her unit will need to decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice — and what for.
“I would follow Asher into any battle, no matter how uncomfortable she would personally feel about that fact.” — Freya Marske, author of The Last Binding Trilogy
“Come for the clockwork battle nuns and fascinating worldbuilding, stay for a profound, moving conclusion that goes straight for the soul.” — Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars
“A brilliant science fantasy adventure, perfect for fans of Murderbot and Becky Chambers.” — Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister