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  • Bestsellers

    12/18/2025

    TAILORED REALITIES is an Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller
    Since its publication earlier this week, TAILORED REALITIES by Brandon Sanderson has hit #10 on the New York Times bestseller list and #9 on the USA Today list! A deviation from the usual doorstopper novels that Brandon is known to write, his latest book is a collection of short fiction. It blends science fiction and
  • News

    12/16/2025

    BADASSTRONAUTS Film to Launch with Paramount Pictures
    Let the countdown to takeoff begin — BADASSTRONAUTS by Grady Hendrix is being developed into a movie! Deadline announced the exciting news in an exclusive, revealing that Paramount Pictures is developing the project with Grady to exec produce as well as Todd Garner and Adam Goldworm to produce. This makes BADASSTRONAUTS the seventh Grady Hendrix
  • Bestsellers News Awards

    12/10/2025

    JABberwocky Wrapped: 2025 in Review
    What a year 2025 has been! To say the least. But here at JABberwocky Literary Agency, we’ve had a few major changes for the better and a lot of client books that we’re excited and proud to have worked on. Consider this our annual formal bragging rights post! Our team grows ever bigger — JABberwocky
  • News

    12/8/2025

    Brandon Sanderson Has Officially Sold 50 Million Books Worldwide!
    The JABberwocky team extends a HUGE congratulations to longtime client, Brandon Sanderson — he has officially sold over 50 million copies of his books across the world! Over the past weekend, during Dragonsteel Nexus, a lucky fan was showered in confetti after they purchased the symbolic 50 millionth copy of a Brandon Sanderson book. That
  • Awards

    12/4/2025

    WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS is a Goodreads Choice Awards Winner
    We’re excited to see that WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix has been voted as Readers’ Favorite Horror Book in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2025! The Goodreads Choice Awards are annual, reader-voted awards across a variety of fiction and nonfiction categories. In addition to Grady, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s spellbinding novel, THE BEWITCHING, was also a
  • News Awards

    8/18/2025

    Our 2025 Hugo Award Winners
    It was a whirlwind weekend at Seattle WorldCon, and we’re thrilled to celebrate four JABberwocky clients who were announced winners at the 2025 Hugo Awards! Best Poem: “A War of Words” by Marie Brennan, originally published in Strange Horizons, won for Best Poem! Best known for her Memoirs of Lady Trent historical fantasy series (starting with A
  • News

    7/15/2025

    New Hire: Sam Morgan, Book to Film Agent
    It is our pleasure to announce that Sam Morgan has rejoined JABberwocky as our first Book-to-Film Rights Agent! Sam will be working with our entire client list to help unlock additional opportunities on screens both big and small.  Sam says “It is my honor to be joining JABberwocky once again and working with all of
  • Awards

    7/8/2025

    THE WINGS UPON HER BACK is a World Fantasy Award Finalist
    A huge congratulations goes out to JABberwocky client, Samantha Mills — THE WINGS UPON HER BACK is a World Fantasy Award Finalist for Best Novel! Locus Magazine announced the World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2024 yesterday, which feature five finalists for Best Novel. The awards will be presented during the 2025 World Fantasy
  • Bestsellers

    5/22/2025

    ONE OF THE BOYS is a NYT and Indie Bestseller
    A double congratulations is in order for JABberwocky client, Victoria Zeller — ONE OF THE BOYS is a New York Times and Indie List bestseller! ONE OF THE BOYS debuted at #9 on the New York Times list for YA hardcover fiction, and #5 on the Indie List for YA. What’s especially exciting is that
  • Awards

    4/9/2025

    Samantha Mills Wins the 2025 Compton Crook Award
    It’s an exciting week for us here at JABberwocky, because Samantha Mills’s debut science-fantasy novel, THE WINGS UPON HER BACK, has just won the 2025 Compton Crook Award. The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year, and will be presented this May at Balticon 59 in Baltimore, MD. In THE WINGS UPON