Big congrats to Mac Smith! Already an ALA GNCRT Top Ten Graphic Novel of the Year winner, SCURRY has just been selected for the Children’s Book Council’s Children’s Favorites Awards List. One of the most diverse and vibrant annual book lists since its inception in 1974, these books are read by 80 review teams nationwide and voted on by thousands of children, teachers, and librarians from rural, suburban, and urban schools and libraries. School Library Journal calls SCURRY, “A modern-day classic with an underdog readers will believe in,” and it looks like readers agree. Way to go, Mac ..read more

Extremely proud to announce THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY by author Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the winner of the 2023 Compton Crook Award, presented by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society ..read more

Ellison Russell Jones’ best friend Libba has a questionable track record when it comes to men. But finally—finally—she’s selected a good one. Charlie Ardmore hales from a fine family, plays a mean game of golf, and is a cardiologist. Even Mother approves. But when Charlie’s patients start dying, the whispers begin. Is Charlie a killer? Could Harrington Walford, Ellison’s beloved father and one of Charlie’s patients, be the next to die? Can Ellison stop a killer in time? Book 17 in the USA Today bestselling Country Club Murders series is now available in audio from Tantor Media ..read more

From the author of Stonewall Honor Book The Long Run comes another unflinchingly raw and boldly hilarious novel about an unlikely group of teens coming together to exact revenge on the person who wronged them. All’s fair in love and revenge… Phil Reyno is a “troublemaker.” With a punk aesthetic and a quick temper, Phil knows that it’s surprising to see him dating universally beloved Cameron Ellis, whose viral coming out video made him an internet darling. Jackson Pasternak is a “good guy.” Junior class president, star rower, and Ivy bound, Jackson is burnt out and misses the only per ..read more

We’re thrilled to announce that award-winning author/illustrator Matt Faulkner has signed with Fuse as a client of Karly Dizon and Gordon Warnock. With over 40 illustrated books to his credit, Matt enjoys working on projects both historical and fantastical in nature, from children’s picture books to graphic novels for all ages. His latest, My Nest of Silence, received four starred reviews and a Junior Library Guild gold pick. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Matt has taught illustration and character design courses at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and the Academy ..read more

Frances Walford’s daughter, Ellison Russell, has developed the truly deplorable habit of finding bodies. And Frances can’t help but scold her about it. But when Ellison goes to Europe, Frances finds a corpse of her own. Can she help catch a killer and keep her involvement a secret? This is a short novella told from Frances’s point of view. Chronologically it falls between The Deep End and Guaranteed to Bleed in the USA Today bestselling Country Club Murders series. Out now as an ebook, the audiobook launches today from Tantor Media ..read more

Today is the launch of Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle’s second audiobook in the Seattle Slayers series, Bricks and Murder. Follow the continuing adventures of Roxy Lim, now an inked member of the Seattle Slayers, tasked with enforcing the Oceanic Pact in a city teeming with deadly shifters, devious vampires, and scheming fae. Join the newest Seattle Slayer on her wildest mission yet as she battles through the largest peril of vampires she’s ever come across and one deadly rogue leader who wants to add Roxy to his team ..read more

Union Square Kids has acquired, at auction, world English rights to The Hidden Dominion of Geordie James, a middle grade graphic novel by Eisner-nominated author-illustrator Mike Dawson. Pitched as a neurodiverse Charlotte’s Web meets The Breakfast Club, the story follows an anxious sixth grader assigned a group science project as a final chance of improving his grades when a pig escapes a local slaughterhouse, calling into question our place in this world and our relationship with what we can and can’t control. Publication is scheduled for spring 2026. Gordon Warnock brokered the deal. Congra ..read more

It’s our Agencyversary! Happy birthday, Fuse Literary! *confetti cannon* That means it’s also time for our annual charity benefit. Past beneficiaries include the National Alliance on Mental Illness, We Need Diverse Books, Literacy for Incarcerated Teens, the ACLU, and others. This year, after an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books in libraries nationwide, we are celebrating 11 years of Fuse by auctioning off hour-long consultations with partners Laurie and Gordon with all proceeds going to the American Library Association’s Unite Against Book Bans campaign. About Unite Against Book B ..read more

We’re thrilled to announce that R.R. Virdi has signed with Fuse as a client of Ernie Chiara! R.R. Virdi is a two-time Dragon Award finalist, a Nebula Award finalist, and the USA Today Bestselling author of The First Binding and The Doors of Midnight, the Silk Road-inspired epic fantasy series Tales of Tremaine from Tor Books. He is the author of two urban fantasy series, The Grave Report and The Books of Winter. The author of the LitRPG/portal fantasy series, Monster Slayer Online. And the author of a space western/sci fi series, Shepherd of Light ..read more