About

Juno Books is an imprint of Prime Books/Wildside Press launched in fall 2006. Juno Books are distributed nationally by Diamond Distributors. Juno specializes in fantasy featuring strong female characters in richly imagined contexts: fiction that takes the reader beyond the ordinary.

(Revised: 21 May 2008)

2008

Jan 08: Apricot Brandy, Lynn Cesar (mmp)
Feb 08: House of Whispers, Margaret Lucke (mmp)
Mar 08: Clockwork Heart, Dru Pagliasotti (mmp)
Mar 08: Blackness Tower, Lillian Stewart Carl (mmp)
Apr 08: Personal Demons, Stacia Kane (mmp)
Jul 08: Seaborn, Chris Howard (mmp)
Aug 08: Nights of Sin, Matthew Cook (Blood Magic #2) (mmp)
Sep 08: Matters of the Blood, Maria Lima (mmp, reprint)
Oct 08: Brimstone Kiss, Carole Nelson Douglas (Delilah Street, PI #2) (mmp)
Nov 08: Blood Bargain, Maria Lima (Blood #2) (mmp)
Dec 08: Riversend, Sylvia Kelso (Sequel to Amberlight) (tp/hc)

2009

Jan 09: Demon Inside, Stacia Kane (mmp)
Feb 09: Vicious Circle, Linda Robertson (mmp)
Mar 09: Vampire Sunrise, Carol Nelson Douglas (mmp)
Apr 09: Amazon Ink, Lori Devoti (mmp)
May 09: (Title to be Announced)
Aug 09: (Title to be Announced)
Sep 09: (Title to be Announced)
Oct 09: Black Tiger Rising. Lisa Renee Jones (mmp)
Nov 09: (Title to be Announced)

2007

Jan 07: A Mortal Glamour, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (tp, reprint)
Jan 07: The Strangeling, Saskia Walker (tp)
Feb 07: Nimuar's Loss, Camille Gabor (tp)
Mar 07: The Bone Whistle, Eva Swan (tp)
Apr 07: Matters of the Blood, Maria Lima (tp)
May 07: Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, ed. Paula Guran (tp)
Jun 07: Euryale, Kara Dalkey (tp, reprint)
Jul 07: Twelve Steps from Darkness, Karen Taylor (tp)
Aug 07: Unveiling the Sorceress, Saskia Walker(tp)
Aug 07: Wind Follower, Carole McDonnell (tp)
Sep 07: The Eternal Rose, Gail Dayton (tp)
Sep 07: Dark Maiden, Norma Lehr (tp)
Sep 07: Master of Shadows, Janet Lorimer (tp)
Sep 07: Blood Magic, Matthew Cook (mmp)
Oct 07: Dancing With Werewolves, Carole Nelson Douglas (mmp)
Nov 07: Amberlight, Sylvia Kelso (mmp)
Dec 07: The Sarsen Witch, Eileen Kernaghan (tp, reprint)
Dec 07: Chasing Silver, Jamie Craig (mmp)

2006

Sep 06: Jade Tiger, Jenn Reese (tp)
Oct 06: Best New Paranormal Romance, Paula Gurana, ed. (tp)
Nov 06: Rags and Old Iron, by Lorelei Shannon (tp)
Dec 06: Beyond the Hedge, by Roby James (tp)

More About Juno

Juno Books takes its name from a Roman goddess. In ancient Roman religion, Juno was queen of the gods and female counterpart to her husband/brother Jupiter. Juno was a daughter of Saturn, sister to Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, as well as Jupiter's consort. Juventas, Mars, and Vulcan were her children. Juno was closely identified with the Greek goddess Hera and connected to all aspects of women's lives -- fertility, pregnancy and childbirth, and especially marriage. Individualized, Juno was a female inner force, a female principle of life. Each man had his genius, every woman her juno. A Roman's genius was the spirit enlivened and made him and sexually active; so, too, was each woman's juno.

Juno was worshipped in many guises, each with a different function. As Juno Regina (Juno the Queen), she was a member of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Minerva -- three supreme deities worshipped in an elaborate temple on Rome's Capitoline Hill, the Capitolium. Juno Moneta (perhaps meaning the Warner) warned the Romans when the Gauls tried to take the Capitolium in 390 BCE. Coins were later minted at the Temple of Juno on the Capitoline Hill, and our word money is derived from moneta. Juno Sospita (Juno the Savior) was the patron goddess of the Roman state. Juno Quiritis protected spearmen. Juno Lucina was goddess of childbirth who brought newborn children into their first light.

Juno is often portrayed wearing a diadem and veil and holding a scepter. The peacock was sacred to Juno. The Juno Books logo is a stylized peacock feather.

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