Last week, new publisher Serial Box burst onto the scene, bringing the TV model of media production and delivery to the book world with Bookburners, an urban fantasy adventure following a black-ops anti-magic squad backed by the Vatican.
Wandering from police procedural to New Weird and dabbling in most genres in between, Bookburners will keep you hungry for more, week after week. In the series, magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Abruptly thrust into the battle between nefarious forces trying to unleash this power onto the world and those trying to stop them, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad: Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum. Together they stand between humanity and magical apocalypse. Some call them Bookburners. They don’t like the label.
Written by a team of authors including Margaret Dunlap (Eureka), Mur Lafferty (The Shambling Guide to New York City) and Brian Francis Slattery (Lost Everything), the group is led by rising genre star Max Gladstone (Three Parts Dead and the Craft Sequence).
Serial Box aims to bring book lovers everything they like about television including new episodes each week, produced by a team of writers delivering taut, fast reads that are not only procedural, but also add to the overall narrative.
The series is live now on SerialBox.com.
After the jump, check out an excerpt of the first chapter, Badge, Book and Candle.
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