Amazon Launches New 47North Imprint Featuring Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

Amazon has announced the launch of 47North, a new imprint from Amazon Publishing featuring a wide array of new novels and cult favorites, from urban fantasies to space operas, alternate histories to gothic and supernatural horror.

Curious about the name? Well so was I but Amazon was nice enough to tell us that 47North is based on the latitude coordinates of Seattle.

The newest imprint joins Amazon's six other imprints AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing, Powered by Amazon, Montlake Romance, Thomas & Mercer and the New York imprint in the Amazon Publishing family.

47North will launch with the following books & series:

• Together, Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin are the authors of "Successful Television Writing" and have written and/or produced scores of highly successful network television series, including Diagnosis Murder, Spenser: For Hire, Baywatch and many more. Their digital-first novel, "Face of Evil," which will publish in October 2011, is the first novel in The Dead Man series. Protagonist Matthew Cahill gains new sight into the netherworld after a terrible accident, making each day a living nightmare. Four more installments will also publish in October, with a new adventure following each month thereafter. Additionally, a print compilation of the first three novels will publish in January 2012.
• Prolific science fiction and fantasy writer Dave Duncan's "Against the Light" tells the story of a young, magical missionary's arrest for heresy and treason in the land of Albi. Duncan is best known for fantasy series The Seventh Sword, A Man of His Word and The King's Blades. "Against the Light" will be published in January 2012.
• Arwen Elys Dayton's action-packed science fiction novel, "Resurrection," centers on warring alien races and the two star-crossed pilots who hold the key to salvation. The fan-favorite novel has been out of print for years and will be brought back into print by 47North in January 2012.
• Aric Davis' previous novel, "Nickel Plated," was named by Booklist as one of the Top Ten Crime Novels for Youth in 2011. Now, Davis turns his attention to the macabre in the all-new "A Good and Useful Hurt," in which tattoo artist Mike's life is torn apart when a supernatural, psychopathic killer targets him and those he loves. "A Good and Useful Hurt," Davis' first adult novel, will be published in February 2012.
• A new edition of the first book in Evan Currie's popular military space opera Odyssey series will be published in March 2012, now entitled "Into the Black: Odyssey One." 47North will also publish its sequel later in the year.
• Best-selling UK author Stephen Leather's new Nightingale series will be published by 47North starting in March 2012. "Nightfall," "Midnight" and "Nightmare" are fast-paced supernatural thrillers that follow former cop and struggling private investigator Jack Nightingale who is forced to confront the possibility that demons exist after inheriting a supernatural mansion.
• Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear have teamed up with an ensemble of respected authors and newcomers to create the Foreworld series. The series will begin with The Mongoliad trilogy, an epic tale about the birth of Western martial arts. The Foreworld series will begin with the publication of "The Mongoliad: Book One" in April 2012.
• New York Times best-selling author Chris Roberson lends his ear for humor and the otherworldly in "Further: Beyond the Threshold," to be published in May 2012. Roberson is best known for his DC Comics/Vertigo work in the Cinderella series and iZombie. "Further" is a novel about a space explorer who is kept in stasis for too long and awakens to a universe that is terrifying and unfamiliar.
• B.V. Larson has published over 20 novels in genres ranging from military science fiction, to epic fantasy, to paranormal romance. 47North will publish the next two novels in his urban fantasy series, Unspeakable Things, in June 2012. In the first book, "Technomancer," Larson's detective Quentin Draith is tasked with solving impossible crimes, and each clue leads him further into a world that exists between the raindrops of the known world.

For more information on 47North and upcoming titles, visit http://www.amazon.com/47North.