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"The Wrath of the Just", last part of the "Apocalypse Z" trilogy, published in the United States

A week ago, the American publishing house Amazon Crossing published The Wrath of the Just, the last volume of the Apocalypse Z trilogy by Manel Loureiro; the first one, The Beginning of the End, was published in 2012, and it was followed by Dark Days last year. Just three days after its release, The Wrath of the Just reached number one in three different best seller lists: dystopian fiction, post apocalytic fiction and Spanish literature in its Kindle version; in this last one, the first and second volumes of the trilogy got the silver and bronze medals. And this is just the beginning...

Eva García Sáenz de Urturi has obtained the Planeta 2020 Prize with the novel Aquitaine. “A medieval thriller, a tribute to The name of the rose and a Game of Thrones of what would later become Europe, ”said the author, who dedicated the award to the victims of the pandemic. “The world of culture will survive this pandemic, explain it to us and move forward. My characters have a motto, three S’s: I only know how to follow. Literature only knows how to go on, always ”. Sáenz de Urturi (Vitoria, Álava, 1972) is known above all for its Trilogy about the white city, inspired by his hometown and composed by The silence of the white city, The water rites Y The time lords, which to date have produced more than fifty editions and the magic number of one million readers. 

Secretos de la luna llena: Alianzas

  Once upon a time there was a prince, two brave princesses, a mysterious troubadour… and the war that united them forever. The world is at war, with the Fae battling against mankind. Seaben, Prince of the Fae, is to marry Fay, Princess of the Elves, in an alliance that will tip the balance of the war in their favour. Eirene, Fay’s cousin, travels with her to the fairy kingdom. An encounter with a strange troubadour changes their lives forever. Welcome to Faesia, a land where fairy tales are not what they seem and secrets hide behind the full moon. Alliances is the first volume of the Secrets of the Full Moon trilogy. It was chosen by Babelia Magazine as one of the best YA reads of the year and won Best Novel in a series given by El Templo de las Mil Puertas, one of the most prestigious online magazines of YA literature published in Spanish. The plot of Alliances revolves around four characters and the secrets of the fairy kingdom, Lothaire, and its mysterious Queen Mab.

Alcalá, Fernando

Fernando Alcalá Suárez (Cáceres, 1980) loves nothing more than telling stories and consuming them, whether in books, TV series, movies, or video games. Although he prefers to live among elves and dragons, life has forced him to pretend to be an adult, and today he teaches English at a high school in Cáceres. He has three cats: Melon, Pineapple, and Lychee. He won the VII Iberian Cultural Prize for Young Artists in the literature category, an international competition for Spanish-speaking artists of all nationalities. Among other achievements, he has received the Extremadura Creation Grant three times, which encouraged him to write Ne obliviscaris and Summer Storm (Edelvives, 2010 and 2011), as well as Carlos, Paula, and Company, which took second place in the I HQÑ Contest and was published by Harper Collins Ibérica in 2013. Together with Geòrgia Costa, forming the Costa Alcalá duo, he won the Kelvin 505 and El Templo de las Mil Puertas awards with Heir, the first volume of The Second Revolution trilogy (Montena, Penguin Random House, 2017, 2018, and 2019). They have also written Good Sisters (Elastic Books, 2019) and the Prodigies series, three standalone novels set in the same universe, published by Nocturna Editorial between 2020 and 2022. Additionally, they are the authors of the children’s series Look Out, Lice (Montena, 2019 and 2020) and several novels published on Fiction Express, such as Journey to the Center of the Volcano, which won the readers’ choice award for best children’s novel on the platform in 2022. In autumn 2023, they published their first novel for adults, The Hunter’s Moon (Umbriel Editores), and in June 2024 Orphans of the Wanderer (Puck Editorial), the first part of Shadowweavers, a duology whose second volume will be released in Spain and Latin America in the first quarter of 2025. That same year, they will launch Nessa, Princess with Animallibres, Bromera, and Algar, a series of graphic novels for early readers. And that’s all for now... Fer has many projects underway, both with Geòrgia Costa and on his own, but he still can’t talk about them.

Waiting for The Last Passenger, by Manel Loureiro.

Great expectations in the english world for the translation of The Last Passenger, the last novel by Manel Loureiro. AmazonCrossing bought the English World rights of The Last Passenger, which was published in Spain in 2013 (Planeta).The book will be released on January 1, 2015 and it's now avaiable on presale. It has been for the last week at the Top 3 of the Amazon Best Sellers. Moreover, the Kindle editions of all three volumes of the Apocalypse Z series have been included in the December Monthly Deal on Amazon.com. The trilogy has been a world phenomena on the internet, as you can see on the author's profile in Amazon.

The Immortal Collection 1: A Saga of the Ancient Family

After the successful “The White City Trilogy” and the Detective Kaken Series, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi - winner of the 2020 Planeta Award - publishes for the first time the complete trilogy with which she began her career. NEVER FORGET THAT BEING LONG-LIVED DOES NOT MAKE YOU IMMORTAL When Adriana, a brilliant young archaeologist, accepts a position at the Museum of Archaeology in her hometown of Santander, Spain, she never imagined that her new boss could have lived through the history she can only study. Iago, the charismatic technical director of the museum, is more than ten thousand years old but appears to be only twenty-five. Iago and his family are longevos: people who never seem to age after reaching adulthood. The ancient family is divided: Iago’s brother and sister seek the source of their longevity in hopes of creating more like themselves, while Iago and his father fear the repercussions of the true Fountain of Youth. A dangerous game of power and knowledge that has played out over eons becomes even more complicated when Adriana attracts both brothers’ attention and learns their secret. Filled with science, history, and passion, The Immortal Collection transports the reader through time and space, from the days of cavemen, through the Roaring Twenties, to the charming plazas of contemporary Spain. Ancient history meets cutting-edge research in this modern love story and sweeping historical saga.

Costa, Geòrgia

Geòrgia Costa Villaró (Tarragona, 1984) holds degrees in History and Classical Archaeology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, since the only thing she enjoys almost as much as writing stories is hearing them. She writes children’s and middle-grade books, including the recent Ada Tormentas series: Something’s Up with Ada Tormentas (Salamandra, 2024) and Ada Tormentas is Up to Something (Salamandra, 2024). She also writes children's non-fiction, such as 22 Mysteries of History (Montena, 2015) and the illustrated bestiary Monsters of the World (Montena, 2018). Together with Fernando Alcalá, with whom she forms the writing duo Costa Alcalá, she won the Kelvin 505 Award and the El Templo de las Mil Puertas Award with the novel Heir, the first volume of The Second Revolution trilogy (Montena, Penguin Random House, 2017, 2018, and 2019). They have also written Good Sisters (Elastic Books, 2019) and Prodigies, a series of three standalone novels set in the same universe, published by Nocturna between 2020 and 2022. Additionally, they are the authors of the children's series Look Out, Lice (Montena, 2019 and 2020) and several novels published on Fiction Express, such as Journey to the Center of the Volcano, which won the readers’ choice award for the best children's novel on the platform in 2022. In autumn 2023, they published their first novel for adults, The Hunter’s Moon (Umbriel Editores), and in June 2024 Orphans of the Wanderer (Puck Editorial), the first part of Shadowweavers, a duology whose second volume will be released in Spain and Latin America in the first quarter of 2025. That same year, they will launch Nessa, Princess, a series of graphic novels for early readers, to be published by Animallibres, Bromera, and Algar. And that’s all... for the time being. Fer has many projects underway, both with Geòrgia Costa and on his own, but we’ll have to wait until he’s allowed to talk about them.

Laura Gallego and her novelties for the next season: "Encyclopedia of Idhun" and "All the Kingdom Fairies"

Laura Gallego has done nothing but grow in these last few years. A couple of them ago, she won the National Prize for Young Adult Narrative for her book Donde los árboles cantan (Where Trees Sing), and it seems she won't stop after achieving this high honour: she plans not one but two releases for the following nine months. The first one, that will arrive on the 14th of October, is the Enciclopedia de Idhún (Encyclopedia of Idhún): it will be released by SM and includes all the information about the trilogy as well as many interesting additional data about Idhun's universe. The second one is even more exciting: it's called Todas las hadas del reino (All The Kingdom Fairies) and it's Laura's new novel, which will be released by Montena on March 2015. Everything there is to know about the book is still a well kept secret, but there are some clues we can give you because Laura did so on her official webpage: it's a young adult novel; it occurs in a fairytale world; the name of its main character is Camelia; it won't have a sequel. How good is that for an advance? Will it be enough until March 2015? If the answer is no, don't worry: we'll keep you posted...

The Fairies' Great Swindle

THE GREATEST LITERARY MAGICIAN RETURNS WITH A NEW AND SPECTACULAR WORLD FULL OF ILLUSION AND MYSTERY. From the author of the internationally acclaimed “Victorian Trilogy,” with over 600,000 readers.If the heart wishes to believe in something, reason cannot prevent it. London, 1922. Alan and Violet Schofield are England’s leading experts in magical photography; a rogue couple taking advantage of the fever for capturing fairy beings that spread throughout gullible London society after the Great War, following the Cottingley girls’ having convinced none other than Conan Doyle that they had photographed fairies. Bombs no longer fall from the sky, and the entire city awaits its turn at the famous Schofield studio to obtain the prized photograph that will prove to family and neighbors that one’s attic or garden has been blessed with the presence of one of these mysterious creatures. Unfortunately for the Schofields’, their luck will change when a new client knocks on their door: the feared and powerful Percival Drake, lord of London’s underworld. A man of great cunning, brutally ruthless, and above all, a man who does not believe in magic. As they embark on a dangerous race against time to save their lives, Alan and Violet will discover that to outwit a gangster who doesn’t believe in fairies, they must be smarter than the fairies themselves. Only Félix J. Palma could combine fairies and gangsters in a novel brimming with love and magic. A delightful and thrilling cross between Peter Pan and Peaky Blinders. Rights sold:  Czech Republic (HOST)

Galán, Jorge

He has published narrative works in various genres, from historical novels such as November (Planeta MX 2015; Tusquets, 2016) and The Room at the Back of the House (Planeta MX, 2016), to children’s books like The Invisibles (Loqueleo, 2024), The Other Worlds (Alfaguara Children, 2010), and The Unexpected Prize (Alfaguara Children, 2008). Recently, he completed the young adult fantasy trilogy The Land of Mist (Océano Gran Travesía, 2020, 2021, 2022). In poetry, he has published Liquid Apocalypse (Pre-textos), Noise (Pre-textos), Midnight of the World (Visor), The Circle (Visor), The Overflowing Pond (Visor), The City (Pre-textos), and Brief History of Dawn (Rialp), among others. He has won numerous awards, including the José Emilio Pacheco Prize at the Guadalajara International Book Fair for the poetry collection Equinox; the Royal Spanish Academy Prize in 2016 for the novel November; the Casa de América Prize for American Poetry, Madrid 2016; the Ibero-American Jaime Sabines Award for Published Work in Mexico, 2012; the Antonio Machado International Prize, Madrid, 2009; the Adonais Prize, Madrid, 2006; and the national prize in his country for both poetry and short novels, among others. He has participated in numerous literary events, fairs, and presentations in various countries, mostly in the United States, including universities, institutes, public libraries, and even a reading at the Library of Congress in 2018. His novels have been translated into various languages and published by renowned houses such as Penguin Random House, Little Brown, Psichogios, and Mondadori, among others.

Medina, Maribel

Maribel Medina (Pamplona) has a passion for travel has taken her as far as India, but for the past 25 years, she has called the Baztán Valley in Navarra home. As a teenager, she became an orphan, forcing her to abandon her dream of becoming an astrophysicist and instead pursue a degree in Geography and History. Later, she worked as an external reader for a national publishing house.In 2014, she published Sangre de barro (Blood of Mud), a crime novel about doping in sports that achieved critical and commercial success. This was soon followed by the next installment in the Connors series, Sangre intocable (Untouchable Blood), which continued to tackle international plots rooted in real-world issues. In 2019, the final book of the Blood trilogy, Sangre entre la hierba (Blood Among the Grass), was released.Exploring a new genre, she published the illustrated story El Niño-Hoja (The Leaf-Child). Medina has served as a judge for various literary competitions, including the Tenerife Noir Prize and the prestigious María Moliner Award.Since 2019, she has been the president and director of Mi Pueblo Lee, a national rural network of literary festivals that was honored in 2024 with the National Award for Promoting Reading.On the wall of her office, the words “A bold life or nothing” are written—a reflection of her fearless approach to life and literature.

"Apocalipsis Z" in Poland and Galicia

This Christmas, two books of Manel Loureiro's zombie trilogy have been published in Poland and Galicia: Apocalipsis Z. Los días oscuros saw the light of day as Apokalipsa Z. Mroczne Dni, published by Muza, and Apocalipsis Z. El comienzo del fin turned itself into Apocalipse Z. O comezo da fin, published by Urco Editora. The trilogy, which Loureiro posted at first in a blog and then, after having been read by more than 1,5 million people, was published by Plaza y Janés, has been translated into English (Amazon Crossing), French (Panini France), Italian (Casa Editrice Nord Sud), German (Heyne Verlag), Portuguese (Ediçoes ASA in Portugal and Editorial Planeta do Brasil in Brasil), Slovak (Premedia Group), Hungarian (Konyvmolykepzo Kiado), Turkish (Monokl), Japanese (T. O. Entertainment) and Korean (Minumin), and has seen the light of day in other Spanish-speaking countries such as México, Chile or Argentina, becoming an unanimous success that has turned it into one of the Spanish best selling works in digital format all around the world. A film and a TV series are currently in the works. 

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, published in Poland

The first book of the bestselling trilogy written by Manel Louriero, Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, was published in Poland at the beginning of the October, by MUZA Publishing House (Apokalipsa Z, Poczatek Konca, translated by Joanna Ostrowska y Grzegorz Ostrowski). With its release, the publishing house invited the author to visit the city of Warsaw and to inaugurate the promotion for this novel. During his stay Manel Loureiro was able to visit with his editors and speak with the press. MUZA is extremely optimistic about the zombie trilogy and is already preparing for the next two releases.

Apocalisse Z L’ira dei Giusti by Manel Loureiro

On July 11th the Italian publishing house “Nord” launched the last book from the popular trilogy by the author Manel Loureiro; Apocalisse Z L’ira dei Giusti (Apocalypse Z: The Wrath of the Righteous.) The trilogy has had worldwide success, with translations in more than 10 languages, online million sales, and with devout fans in Italy who have requested the last episode of this tale of Zombies. Italian Publications: 1. Apocalipsis Z, 2007 (Apocalisse Z, 2010) (Apocalypse Z: The beginning of the End) 2. Los Dìas Oscuros, 2010 (Apocalisse Z. I giorni oscuri, 2011) (Apocalypse Z: Dark Days) 3. La Ira de los Justos, 2011 (Apocalisse Z. L’ira dei giusti, 2013) (Apocalypse Z: The Wrath of the Righteous)

“The Map of the Sky” a fascinating read

“Spanish author Felix J. Palma, with an amazing translation by Nick Caistor, has delivered a cross-genre masterpiece… The writing immerses the reader in another world that resembles our recent past, but not quite. Palma seeks the motivations behind the authors and their creations, and comes up with a tale that defies description. Readers of Palma's "The Map of Time" will find a worthy sequel,and newcomers will have no problem following the events in his latest book.” —Associated Press   The reviews from various US press and electronic press media confirm the quality of the delivery of the second novel from the trilogy by Félix J. Palma; “El mapa del cielo” (The Map of the Sky, Atria, 2012). The novel was released to the North American market on the 4th of September and has raised the attention of the media who confirm that it has been well received. The publishing house Atria has launched a grand publicity campaign for the book including a spectacular billboard in Times Square. We wish all the best and further success inSpain, USA and in the many other countries that the novel is about to be published during the next few months.