Marion Deeds

Marion Deeds's Comeuppance Served Cold is a hard-boiled historical fantasy of criminality and magic, couched in the glamour of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, Seattle's powerful Commission of Magi is moving against the city's most vulnerable magic users and merchants under the guise of protecting law-abiding citizens. Meanwhile, an unassuming young lady with hidden skills and a nebulous past named Dolly White enters the employ of the head commissioner's family as a lady's companion. Although she has her own agenda to fulfill, it may prove to be the perfect opportunity for one family who's suffered tremendous loss at the hands of the Commission to get their overdue vengeance.

Comeuppance Served Cold

Rachel Swirsky

Scotto Moore

Joma West

Malcolm Devlin

Hiron Ennes

Aimee Pokwatka

Tordotcom Publishing is proud to present a sneak peek of its 2022 debut novel and novella authors. In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scotto Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Marion Deed's Comeuppance Served Cold is a hard-boiled historical fantasy of criminality and magic, couched in the glamour of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us. Celebrated short fiction author Rachel Swirsky returns with January Fifteenth, a gut-wrenching, near-future novella humanizing the experimental, practically science fictional policy of universal basic income. Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in Joma West's Face, a sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame. Meet the cure for the human disease in this dark and infectious debut from Hiron Ennes. Leech is Edgar Allen Poe mixed with Ridley Scott, Jeff VanderMeer with a side of Charlotte Brontë, The Thing from the thing's point of view. It will worm its way deep into your bones and hold you hostage to your own insatiable human fascination. Pepper Rafferty has lived her entire adult life knowing two things: that the famous artist, Ula Frost's, paintings are purported to harbor magical powers and that Ula Frost is the woman who gave her away. Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing is a heartstopping quest for truth written for a post-modern age with the world-melding of David Mitchell and the intimacy of Marilynn Robinson. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Tordotcom Publishing 2022 Debut Sampler

Two women from vastly different lives struggle to save their worlds. Erin fights to stop an alien invasion force, while Aideen confronts boardroom skullduggery, murder attempts and family betrayal. Erin is an interdimensional traveler who carries a magical book her family has safeguarded for generations. She and copper-hunter Trevian must find and close the portal the invaders are using. How far has the invasion spread? Who can they trust? Aideen's father, Oswald, is the richest man in White Bluffs. His company harvests energy from fire elementals. Her brother Trevian fled their home two years ago, hunting for magical metals. Even though Oswald kept Trevian as his heir, Aideen taught herself the operations of the company. Now, with Oswald unconscious after a suspicious accident, Aideen is battling bandits and corporate raiders-and some of them are family. Copper Road picks up where the novella "Aluminum Leaves" left off, filled with magic books, bandits, mind-controlling parasites, boardroom betrayals, lesbian lovers, charms and chocolate.

Copper Road

Marion Deeds's Comeuppance Served Cold is a hard-boiled historical fantasy of criminality and magic, couched in the glamour of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. "[A] beautifully constructed magical heist in turn-of-the-century Seattle."—Mary Robinette Kowal Seattle, 1929—a bitterly divided city overflowing with wealth, violence, and magic. A respected magus and city leader intent on criminalizing Seattle’s most vulnerable magickers hires a young woman as a lady’s companion to curb his rebellious daughter’s outrageous behavior. The widowed owner of a speakeasy encounters an opportunity to make her husband’s murderer pay while she tries to keep her shapeshifter brother safe. A notorious thief slips into the city to complete a delicate and dangerous job that will leave chaos in its wake. One thing is for certain—comeuppance, eventually, waits for everyone. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Craig Martelle

Sean Monaghan

David Bruns

G. S. Jennsen

Patrice Fitzgerald

Joseph Robert Lewis

J.E. Mac

R. A. Rock

TR Cameron

Mark Sarney

Chelsea Pagan

“A blisteringly good collection.” “Will read everything in this series I can get my hands on.” “These stories are full of great, complex characters (not all of them human), twists and turns, and fantastic world-building.” Twelve brand new tales from fantastic writers--both bestselling and freshly discovered--in this sixth collection from the BEYOND THE STARS series of space opera anthologies. Join these authors as they launch you into Unimagined Realms! Don't miss the earlier volumes: DARK BEYOND THE STARS BEYOND THE STARS: A Planet Too Far BEYOND THE STARS: At Galaxy's Edge BEYOND THE STARS: New Worlds, New Suns Best of BEYOND THE STARS and now... BEYOND THE STARS: Unimagined Realms

a space opera anthology

Beyond the Stars: Unimagined Realms

Misha Burnett

W. O. Hemsath

Warm, heartbreaking, tender, poignant-eight fantasy stories of the family.Family is filled with magic. It can be the warm magic of love, with bonds that can never be broken; it can be the bitter magic of old resentments and keen disappointments. It can be achingly beautiful or terrifyingly cruel.Explore the hidden depths of family in this anthology of stories from celebrated and award-winning authors. Transport yourself to dazzling settings like an isolated lake cottage watched over by a mysterious protector, a reality-TV show about a family of witches, a world besieged by dragon-wielding terrorists, an oddly relaxing coffee shop, and New Orleans after the rise of the unquiet dead.Experience the wonder and magic of family.The Wand that Rocks the Cradle features the following stories: "Bellwethers Know Best," by Marion Deeds"Legacy," by Joanna Michal Hoyt"Coffee Break," by W.O. Hemsath"She That Was So Proud and Wild," by Misha Burnett"Dead in First Grade," by P.L. Sundeson"The Dragon Detector," by Elana Gomel"The Lake Cottage, by Michelle F Goddard"To Find a Peach," by Frank SaverioWith an introduction by editor Oren Litwin

The Wand that Rocks the Cradle: Magical Stories of Family

Marion Deeds

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