The View From Monday - August 2, 2021

Happy 1st Monday in August!

There are 6 debuts this week:

The Hand of the Sun King (Pact and Pattern 1) by J.T. Greathouse;

Monkey Around by Jadie Jang;

Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost by David Hoon Kim;

Shallow Waters by Anita Kopacz;

The Hunter and the Old Woman by Pamela Korgemagi;

and

Tidepool by Nicole Willson.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

From formerly featured DAC Authors:

We Cry For Blood (Reborn Empire 3) by Devin Madson.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

August 3, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
World Breakers	Tony Daniel (Ed) Christopher Ruocchio (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Winds of Wrath (h2mm)	Taylor Anderson	SF/AH - Destroyermen 15
All's Well	Mona Awad	LF
The Desert Prince	Peter V. Brett	F
The Baron of Magister Valley (h2tp)	Steven Brust	F - Dragaera 2
The King in Yellow	Robert Chambers Leslie Klinger (Ed)	H - Haunted Library of Horror Classics
Monster Hunter Bloodlines	Larry Correia	UF
Tales of Pannithor: Nature's Knight	Marc DeSantis Brandon Rospond (Ed)	F - Kings of War
Shattermoon (ri)	Dominic Dulley	SF/SO - The Long Game 1
Whether Change: The Revoluion Will Be Weird	Scott Gable (Ed) C. Dombrowki (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Waking That Kills (ri)	Stephen Gregory	H
Wakening the Crow (ri)	Stephen Gregory	H
Angel's Inferno	William Hjortsberg	Cr/Occ/Sup/Sus/VisM - The Falling Angel Novels  2
Monkey Around (D)	Jadie Jang	UF
Fate of the Fallen	Kel Kade	F - The Shroud of Prophecy 1
Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost (D)	David Hoon Kim	LF/Asian American/CL/AB/Psy
Something New Under the Sun	Alexandra Kleeman	LF
Holdout	Jeffrey Kluger	TechTh/SF/SE
Shallow Waters (D)	Anita Kopacz	CW/HistF/FairyT/FolkT/LM
The Hunter and the Old Woman (D)	Pamela Korgemagi	LF/NE/STR
The Store (ri)	Bentley Little	H/Sus/STR
We Cry for Blood	Devin Madson	F/DF - Reborn Empire 3
The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat al-Himma	Melanie Magidow	FairyT/FolkT/LM
The Godstone	Violette Malan	F
The Soulless	Kate Martin	F/Dys - The Myst and Labrynths Saga 1
Starlight Enclave	R. A. Salvatore	F - Way of the Drow 1
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color	Joy Sanchez-Taylor	LC - New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Warcry Catacombs: Blood of the Everchosen	Richard Strachan	F - Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
Nolyn	Michael J. Sullivan	F/HistF - The Rise and Fall
Saving Proxima	Travis S. Taylor Les Johnson	SF/HSF
Shards of Earth	Adrian Tchaikovsky	SF/SE/SO - Final Architecture 1
Indomitus (h2tp)	Gav Thorpe	SF - Warhammer 40,000
Chilling Cocktails: Classic Cocktails With A Horrifying Twist	Jason Ward	Cocktails
Tidepool (D)	Nicole Willson	Gothic/Occ
This Is Our Undoing	Lorraine Wilson	GH/Th
See You When the World Ends	Simon Paul Wilson	GH/H

August 4, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Aptitude: A Tor.com Original (e)	Cooper Shrivastava	SF

August 5, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Hand of the Sun King (D)	J.T. Greathouse	F - Pact & Pattern 1
The House of Whispers (e)	Anna Kent	GH/Th
Children of Demeter	EV Knight	Occ/Sup
Long Shadows (e)	Jodi Taylor	SupTh - Elizabeth Cage 3

August 8, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories	Susan Forest (Ed) Lucas K. Law (Ed)	SpecFic - Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Illus - Illustrator
Ke - Kindle eBook
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
BHU - Black Humor
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CM - Crime & Mystery
CoA - Coming of Age
CrM - Crime and Mystery
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
GothicR - Gothic Romance
GW&CC - Global Warming and Climate Change
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HistR - Historical Romance
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
Med - Medical
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
MU - Mash-Up
NF - Near Future
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PF - Paranormal Fantasy
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
PP - Police Porcedural
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
RF - Romantic Fantasy
ScF - Science Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SFTh - Science Fiction Thriller
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
SS - Short Stories
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TTR - Time Travel Romance
UF - Urban Fantasy
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical
WS - Women Sleuths

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.