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When All Seems Lost

When All Seems Lost:  A Legion of The Damned NovelBy William C. DietzPublished by Penguin, 2007 Chapter One “Surprise, the pith and marrow of war.”- Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher Standard year 1906...

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Why You Need to Wish Thriller Author Kovacs Good Luck

“I’m about to leave on a deployment to Central Asia as a security contractor, so wish me luck,” says Curtis Agency author Ed Kovacs in a Publishers Weekly interview tied to publication of his “Cliff...

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Beer Maven Pronounces President Obama’s Brew A Winner

Last year President Obama bought a kit for his White House chefs to produce their own beer.  Eric Asimov, the New York Times‘ specialist in all things potable, asked Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster at...

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Audio of First “Clones” Military Thriller “Sounds Like a Computer Game” Says...

Audiofile Magazine has reviewed the first audio volume of Curtis Agency author Steven L. Kent’s military science fiction series, following the exploits of a soldier in an interplanetary clone army....

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Are Medications Behind School Shootings?

In a recent television interview Dr. Peter Breggin, author of Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications, told stories of people driven to violence because of...

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Eating Disorders Are Not Confined to Teenage Girls

Curtis Agency congratulates our author Cynthia M. Bulik Ph.D and her publisher Bloomsbury Books on publication today of Midlife Eating Disorders, which Bloomsbury considers to be a landmark book. “In...

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“Arguably Very Best Paranormal Series Ever Written” Declares Barnes & Noble...

Paul Goat Allen, the influential book blogger for Barnes & Noble, recently listed the twenty best paranormal fantasies of the past decade, and at the very top of the list he placed For a Few Demons...

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Overprescription for Attention Deficit Disorder May Create Teen Psychoses

“Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,” reports the...

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Dan Simmons’ Nightmare Scenario Frighteningly Predictive of Today’s...

For Americans and their lawmakers the looming financial and government crisis is terra incognita.  But not for Dan Simmons, whose just-published Flashback projects a dystopian future launched by a...

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DAN SIMMONS’S DYSTOPIAN THRILLER ‘FLASHBACK’ NOW IN PAPERBACK

“Dark even by dystopian standards, Flashback chronicles the dark days of a dead superpower.” Christian Science Monitor For Americans and their lawmakers a financial and government crisis is terra...

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Star Fantasy and Science Fiction Author Dave Duncan Receives Career Honor

The first novel in a popular Duncan fantasy quartet. Thirty-one Duncan works are offered by E-Reads. Curtis Agency client Dave Duncan, a fantasy and science fiction star, has been elected a lifetime...

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Book and Audio Tie-In To Liberace Film Now On Sale

Liberace (file from the Wikimedia Commons) In connection with the blockbuster HBO Film scheduled for release May 26th, Tantor Media has reissued Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, the memoir...

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DJ MacHale’s “Sylo” Absolutely Un-Put-Down-Able”: Kirkus Starred Review

Kirkus has bestowed a starred review on “Sylo”, the thrilling first novel in a new series launched today by Penguin’s Razorbill YA imprint. MacHale is author of the mammoth bestselling “Pendragon”...

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A Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms

We hail Marty Sklar on publication of DREAM IT! DO IT!, his absolutely absorbing memoir about his relationship with Walt Disney and his role in helping The Disney Company become the premier...

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First Volume of Dave Duncan’s New Fantasy Duet Released by 47North

With Dave Duncan’s King of Swords, 47North releases the first volume of Starfolk, a fantasy duet of breathtaking beauty and complexity. But Duncan’s hallmark swashbuckle makes King of Swords as...

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“Behind the Candelabra” Cops 11 Emmys

Liberace (file from the Wikimedia Commons) Behind The Candelabra, the blockbuster HBO film adapted from the Scott Thorson memoir represented by Richard Curtis Associates, scored 11 Emmy awards in last...

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Fleeing the Inquisitors: “Darkbeast” Sequel Takes Its Young Heroine to a Dark...

In Darkbeast, author Morgan Keyes introduced the young heroine Keara whose questions about the repressive society she lived in got her into mortal danger. Now on the run with her “darkbeast” Caw, she...

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“Chain Saw Confidential”– Memoir by The Actor Behind “Texas Chain Saw...

Gunnar Hansen, the actor who electrified audiences as Leatherface in the legendary horror film “Texas Chain Saw Massacre”, has released a memoir of his role in the film. Early reviews suggest that...

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Dying Is My Business by Nicholas Kaufmann

Kudos to Nicholas Kaufman on publication day of Dying is My Business, the first novel in a wildly imaginative urban fantasy series published by St Martins Press. Given his line of work in the employ of...

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Caesar the War Dog Wins Hearts – and Breaks Them, Too

From a Smart Books for Smart Kids review of Caesar the War Dog, the first novel in Stephen Dando-Collins’s hit children series launched by Random House Australia: This is the story of a single father,...

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Karen Chance’s Latest Cassie Lands on NYT Bestseller List

Tempt the Stars, Karen Chance’s latest Cassandra Palmer fantasy thriller has launched on the bestseller list. Being a goddess is a lot less fun than you might think. Especially when you’re only a half...

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Nightmare at 28,000 Feet – Dan Simmons’“The Abominable” Published Today

The latest thriller by Dan Simmons, The Abominable, released today, is being hailed as one of the most exciting adventure novels in decades. If you think that’s hyperbole, check out this review,...

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T. R. Fehrenbach, Distinguished Historian, Dead at 88

T.R. Fehrenbach, the distinguished historian, author and decorated World War II and Korean military veteran, has died at the age of 88. He was the author of eighteen nonfiction books, several of which...

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Janet Dailey, Beloved Romance Author, Dies

Janet Dailey, author of over ninety works of historical fiction and popular romances, died unexpectedly at the age of 69 years over the past weekend. She had undergone emergency heart surgery in...

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Harlan Ellison Opens The Cartons and….

E-Reads has issued a handsome matched collection of over thirty major works by multiple award winning fantasist Harlan Ellison. Over the course of his legendary career, Ellison has defined–and...

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“The Braided Path” by Donna Glee Williams

“The Braided Path,” a fantasy by Curtis Agency author Donna Glee Williams, has just been released by Hades Publications in its EDGE Science Fiction Fantasy Publishing imprint. On the slopes of a...

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Charles Curtis Middle Grade Fantasy Scheduled for 2015

Tantrum Author Charles Curtis Georgia McBride at Month9Books has acquired North American and audio rights to a middle-grade fantasy thriller called Strange Country Day, and an untitled sequel by debut...

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Kim Harrison’s “Undead Pool” Hits #1 on New York Times Bestseller List

Kim Harrison returns to the supernatural adventures of Rachel Morgan in The Undead Pool, the penultimate book of Kim Harrison’s bestselling Hollows series. And today it achieves the pinnacle of success...

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Ray Garton’s New Thriller Depicts the Storm to End All Storms

Cover image for the sixth and final installment. The title of Ray Garton’s new horror thriller seems to be the only word out of place in the assessment of Garton fans and reviewers.  Frankenstorm...

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