I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

John Scalzi, The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means:( when murder isn't fatal, what do the criminals do? )
Stephen King, Later: ( he sees dead people )
Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead: ( he talks to dead people )
Ben Aaronovitch, What Abigail Did That Summer: ( magic shenanigans )
Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry: ( why do all these humans keep getting murdered? )
C.L. Polk, Stormsong: ( magic weather )
KJ Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting: ( marriage and the alternatives )
David Wong, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick: ( if this goes on, social media x mafia )
Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education: ( it eats you starting from your bottom )
Genevieve Cogman, The Dark Archive:( at last )
Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians: ( hunt gone wrong )
Stephen King & Joe Hill, In the Tall Grass: ( bad things happen )
N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became: ( sentient cities )
Cherie Priest, I Am Princess X: ( visitation from beyond the grave? )
Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: Salem’s Lot meets The Stepford Wives, sort of. ( Read more... )
Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland: ( the monster is you )
Daryl Gregory, The Album of Dr. Moreau:( animal/human hybrids in a boy band )

But first, a PSA: America’s worst charities. Don’t give money to charities that spend all their money fundraising. When the cause is very small (such as a specific, rare disease), resort to professional fundraisers and a lower percentage going directly to services can be understandable and acceptable. But nothing like these, including Youth Development Fund, which sends 80% of its donations to fundraisers and uses most of the rest to pay a company owned by the “charity’s” founder and president to make scuba-diving videos starring him and then to pay to broadcast those videos. Disgusting. Check names carefully, and check online, especially for anything veteran-related.

( Max Barry, Alec Nevala-Lee, Diana Wynne Jones, Mira Grant )

Non-sequels this time; sequels to come: ( Jones, Sterling, Kaye, Robinson, Banks, MacLeod, Guilfoile )

My version of nesting: trying to clear the backlog.

( marketing, copyright, comic books, pop culture )

Someone gave me 12 months of LJ! Thanks, someone! Can I do something nice for you? SV porn, perhaps? (It's occurred to me that this may have happened a while ago, and the notification might be part of the apparent release of long-delayed comments also happening now, in which case I'm really sorry I didn't know before.)

I learned one very important thing from my most recent story: When in doubt, break furniture. Mostly my feedback is varied and singles out different parts of a story, but this time every single person who said anything specific liked the impromptu office redecoration.

( Karen Joy Fowler, Stephen Dedman, Christopher Golden, Mildred Ames, Jeff Long, Jonathan Kellerman, Harlan Coben, Terry Pratchett, Sharon Shinn, Linda Nagata, Orson Scott Card, Diana Wynne Jones, Christopher Rice )

Yeah, not as enticing as "Girls, girls, girls" -- or really, given my assumed audience, "boys, boys, boys." But I have many more books than boys (and I'm not sharing him). Fantasy and science fiction.

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Iain Banks, Dan Brown, Harlan Coben, Jasper Fforde, Laurell K. Hamilton, Diana Wynne Jones, David Lodge, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Joss Whedon, sf and horror anthologies, and ancient Japanese poets.

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