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Solaris to publish Tlingit epic fantasy by Caskey Russell

Solaris is delighted to announce the acquisition The Raven and Eagle Series, consisting of The Door on the Sea and its two sequels, by Caskey Russell.

From member of the Tlingit Nation of Alaska, Caskey Russell, The Door on the Sea is a Tlingit answer to Tolkien in which a bookish outcast must lead a crew including warriors, a giant wolf, and the mythical Raven to steal the only weapon that can defeat the shapeshifting colonists that threaten his community.

A modern, Indigenous reclamation of the quest fantasy genre, an ode to the power of storytelling, and an alternate-history retelling of white missionary colonialism, The Door on the Sea is a rich, adventurous debut for fans of Black Sun and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

World All Languages Rights were acquired by Amy Borsuk from Lauren Bajek at Liza Dawson Literary Agency. The Door on the Sea will be released in September 2025.

Author Caskey Russell on the acquisition:

“I am thrilled and delighted to be working with Solaris on The Door on the Sea and my entire Raven and Eagle Series. And I’m very grateful for Solaris for providing a way to share these stories, which are grounded in Tlingit culture, with the world. I want to thank Amy Borsuk and the entire Solaris team for working with me to bring these books to life!”

Acquiring Editor Amy Borsuk:

“I’m absolutely thrilled to be bringing Caskey’s fun, magical and epic Tlingit fantasy series to the world. Caskey’s nautical quest tale draws from Tlingit mythos and his own personal sense of Tlingit identity as shared with his family and his clan. This wonderful story has a fantastic cast of characters, featuring a particularly crude yet wise raven, bear humans, wolf cousins, a bookish hero and the warriors holding him up. But it is also much more than that: it is a captivating and original portal fantasy adventure that comes from the heart and explores the messy, harmful and tangled reality of what happens when one’s world is shaken by the invasion of those claiming everything you know is a lie.”

Caskey Russell is from Seattle Washington, and has lived in Oregon, Iowa, Wyoming, and New Zealand. He is a father, a professor, a musician, and an enrolled member of the Tlingit Nation (Eagle / Kooyu Kwáan) of Alaska.

For press enquiries please contact Jess Gofton, PR & Marketing Manager: jess.gofton@rebellion.co.uk.

For rights enquiries please contact Sam Birkett, Rights Manager: sam.birkett@rebellion.co.uk

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Revealing the cover of Saint Death’s Herald by C. S. E. Cooney!

We’re delighted to be sharing the stunning cover of Saint Death’s Herald by C. S. E. Cooney, designed by the fabulous Kate Forrester!

Sequel to the critically-acclaimed and World Fantasy Award-winning Saint Death’s Daughter, Saint Death’s Herald continues the adventures of necromancer-with-heart, Miscellaneous “Lanie” Stones, and will be released in April 2025.

Miscellaneous “Lanie” Stones is the necromancer that Doédenna, god of Death, has been praying for.

True, she’s always been more interested in books and pastries than in creating abominations and raising armies of the undead. But still—she lives to love and serve Saint Death. And damn it duodecifold, Saint Death needs her! Lanie has many talents—her powers of death magic are growing more complex and stranger every day—but first and foremost is her ability to lay the unrestful dead to their unending slumber.

Unfortunately for Lanie, the most restless of these “unrestful dead” happens to be her own great-grandfather, the powerful necromancer Irradiant Stones. After having escaped from his temporary prison, he is possessing people from all over the realms, sucking them dry of their magic and discarding their bodies when there’s nothing left to take, growing stronger and stronger all the time. His ultimate goal? To return to the icy country of Skakmaht, where he died, and finish conquering the North for his own. First the North—then the world! After Irradiant takes care of his pesky great-granddaughter Lanie, that is: the only person on Athe who can stop him.

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Saint Death’s Daughter wins World Fantasy Award!

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Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney has won the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel!

Following the kooky and creepy adventures of necromancer Lanie Stones as she fights to keep her home in the wake of her parents’ murders, and the found family she makes in the aftermath of loss, Saint Death’s Daughter is a whimsically Gothic delight for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Nettle and Bone.

The Solaris team are beyond thrilled that this warm hug of a debut novel has received such a prestigious award. The sequel, Saint Death’s Herald, will be released in Spring 2025!

Discover all of the wonderful winners and nominees of this year’s World Fantasy Awards here, and head on over to C. S. E. Cooney’s website to read her acceptance speech.

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Saint Death’s Daughter is a World Fantasy Award nominee!

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!

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OUT NOW: The Godbreaker by Mike Brooks

We’re so excited to be wishing The Godbreaker by Mike Brooks a very happy book birthday!

The stunning conclusion to The God-King Chronicles, The Godbreaker is epic fantasy in the truest sense, brimming with war-dragons, armoured knights, seafaring raiders and dangerous magic…

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War comes to Narida and nothing will be the same again.

As the Black Keep Council prepares for war, journeying far to protect their lands and friend, The God-King and his sister try to keep Narida together in the face of betrayal while the Splinter King remains at large.

The Golden and his hordes of raiders press their advantage and sweep across the land with unholy powers.

Sacrifices will be made, and not everyone will make it back to Black Keep alive…

“Any fan of epic fantasy will find something to love here.” — Publishers Weekly on The Black Coast

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OUT NOW: Flames of Mira by Clay Harmon

We’re thrilled to be wishing Flames of Mira by Clay Harmon a very happy book birthday!

What would you risk to overthrow a tyrant? For fans of Brandon Sanderson and Joe Abercrombie, Flames of Mira invites you into an unforgiving world of elemental magic, where disobedience means death.

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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.

“With some of the most unique and fascinating worldbuilding I’ve ever seen in a fantasy novel, Flames of Mira is a captivating read from start to finish.” — Nick Martell, author of The Two-Faced Queen

“An extraordinary world unlike any you’ve read before.” — FanFiAddict

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OUT NOW: The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addision!

We’re delighted to wish The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison a very happy book birthday!

Return to Amalo in this sequel to The Witness for the Dead, where an investigation into a school for foundling girls leads Thara Celehar on his most sinister journey yet. But it’s a journey he doesn’t need to take alone…

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Celehar’s life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city—the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go to the Prelacies; foundling girls are sold into service, or worse.

At once touching and shattering, Celehar’s witnessing for one of these girls will lead him into the depths of his own losses.

The love of his friends will lead him out again.