![]() ![]() Dedicated and feisty this novel will appeal to everyone from YA and beyond. The first in The Skyscraper Throne trilogy, this is the story of a hidden London that is perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and China Mieville. A cross between Rosemary’s Baby and Dennis Wheatley, A Cold Season contains brilliant characterisation and chilling thrills. So on the understanding that just because you’re not listed here, doesn’t I don’t think every book on the Jo Fletcher Books list is just as wonderful, here are Fletcher’s Five for 2012.Ī fabulous alternate history: Pavane meets The Sopranos, with a hefty dose of Rimbaldi artefacts from Alias, Irenicon has all the fun of Renaissance Italy, but with a sinister dark dimension.Ī Cold Season by Alison Littlewood – Januaryįabulous novel from debut author Alison Littlewood. Without that, I would have had to beg for Fletcher’s Five to become Fletcher’s Thirteen, which might have more of a creepy ring to it, but doesn’t entirely fulfill the brief. So the only possible way I can do this is to focus on brand-new authors and ask enormous forgiveness for the handful who were first published last year. So enjoy your read through of what publishers across the country are most looking forward to in 2012.īeing asked to pick just five titles, in a year that is stuffed full of brand new talent, is like being asked to pick three of your five siblings to go on an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon: It’s a no-win situation. So simply, who better to tell you what you should be looking out for? The answer of course is no one. It is a list made by people who spend their days working in the industry, surrounded by books. What we present to you today, fantasy fans, is without doubt the most comprehensive list of anticipated books for next year. Not all of them could pick a Top 5, but all of them came back with five titles that we as fantasy fans should watch out for. What are you, the publishers, looking forward to in 2012? Remember those publishing houses we mentioned earlier? Well, we approached each and every one and asked them the following: We haven’t seen the writing or spoken to the authors, and we certainly haven’t been working busily away behind the scenes with them. But, the problem is, we were just guessing. ![]() Now, you may have seen Friday’s article where we looked ahead to our Top 10 Anticipated Fantasy Books of 2012. When you begin meeting people within the industry, you see that some of them seem to know the books as well as the authors. What this means is that they build a huge bond with the books that they publish. Of course the writer creates the text, but the publishing house edits it, formats it, commissions cover art, decides what shelf it belongs on, picks a method to market it, negotiates with stores, organises signings and much, much more besides. ![]() When you look at how a book comes to market, you come to realise the scale of what a publishing house does. Although rivals in a business sense, it is their combined dedication to bringing only the very highest level of fantasy novels to readers across our country that has seen fantasy go from strength to strength in recent years. You’ve heard of Gollancz, Orbit, Tor, Voyager, Jo Fletcher, Solaris, Abaddon Books, and Angry Robot, right? These are the publishing houses who are standing at the very forefront of our genre. ![]()
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