MTV has announced the series pick-up for SHANNARA, based on the international best-selling fantasy novels from author Terry Brooks. Additionally, Jonathan Liebesman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) has signed on to direct the first two episodes. MTV and producing partner Sonar Entertainment announced the development deal in December. Al Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville) will write and executive produce the series, which is greenlit for 10 episodes.

As part of the Kindle First program, David’s pulse-quickening military thriller leapt to become #2 in the Kindle Store as of July 21st. Thomas & Mercer’s release date is August 1, 2014.

Mr. Harris’s book is #16 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list for the week of July 20, 2014 and is featured in a piece on the New Yorker's blog. IT books published the book in hardcover March 11, 2014.

Dinaw Mengestu’s THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT HEAVEN BEARS has been voted the winner of Washington, D.C.’s annual one city, one book program: DC Reads. Thousands of votes were cast to the public. He is congratulated by the DC Public Library, the Washington Humanities Council, the DC Public Library Foundation, and the Federation of Friends of the DC Public Library.

Library Journal says of Charles Cumming’s book, “This fast-paced thriller is full of twists, turns, and surprises. With well-developed, complex characters and plenty of details about spycraft, it's a perfect summer read for fans of Stella Rimington and John le Carré” St. Martin’s Press publishes the hardcover August 5, 2014.

Dinaw Mengestu was featured in a front page New York Times article, “A New Wave of Internationalist Writers,” in which he was quoted saying, “There’s this investigation of what happens to the dislocated soul,” said Mr. Mengestu, 36, the author of “All Our Names” and a MacArthur “genius” award winner, who was born in Ethiopia but left at age 2 and grew up in Illinois.”

Laura Kipnis’ MEN received a starred, boxed review in Publishers Weekly. “Kipnis’ gifts are on full display in this irresistible collection of essays, in which she weaves together complex and penetrating insights about gender into provocative treatises…Kipnis has given us a necessary, and often witty, book that shows a brilliant, agile mind at work.” Metropolitan Books will publish the book on November 18, 2014.

Josh Weil’s THE GREAT GLASS SEA has been longlisted for 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, awarded to the best debut novel of the year by the Center For Fiction. Grove Atlantic published the book on July 2, 2014.

Shelf Awareness reviews Malcolm Brooks’s forthcoming PAINTED HORSES, describing it as “a paean to the untamed majesty of… Montana, that rings like the neigh of a horse running free in a canyon…. Glowing with spirit, Brooks's debut will entrance anyone who has ever felt the call of the West.” Along with the review is an interview with Malcolm Brooks where he discusses his childhood in Montana and the inspiration for PAINTED HORSES. Grove Press will publish PAINTED HORSES on August 5, 2014.

Ted Thompson’s THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS has been longlisted for 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, awarded to the best debut novel of the year by the Center For Fiction. Reagan Arthur Books published the book on March 4, 2015.