Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Shaun David Hutchinson for having BRAVE FACE featured on Booklist Editors’ Choice: 2019’s Books for Youth!

Booklist: Longtime genre fiction readers will know exactly what they’re getting in this omnibus. Bear covers a lot of ground, from strange, magical westerns to near-future science fiction to the fantastic world of the Steles of the Sky trilogy—all with her characteristic style and attention to detail. The collection begins with the fascinating and haunting tale of a serial killer in “Covenant” and ends with the recent “Erase, Erase, Erase,” a haunting look at responsibility, identity, and memory. Notable in between […]

Audio rights to Donald Maass’s THE EMOTIONAL CRAFT OF FICTION, to Ashley Fortier at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.

Chinese rights to Robert McCammon’s SWAN SONG, to Xiron, by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure. Czech rights to New York Times bestselling author Yoon Ha Lee’s REVENANT GUN, the third book in the Machineries of Empire series, to Host, by Milena Kaplarević at Prava i prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Hungarian rights to USA Today bestselling author Tamsyn Muir’s GIDEON THE NINTH, the first book in […]

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir for having Gideon the Ninth on Tor Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2019 list!     

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir’s GIDEON THE NINTH and Elizabeth Bear’s ANCESTRAL NIGHT for making NYPL 2019 Best Books for Adults list!

Library Journal: Dame Grace Hensley assisted her brother Miles to undo the aether network just 14 days ago. Now Aeland is without power, filled with ghosts, and faced with an incredible set of winter patterns that could destroy what is left of the country. All Grace wants to do is make sure her family in Kingston is safe, but circumstances place her in the middle of the growing conflict between stubborn Queen Constantina, reparation-seeking Amaranthines, and the mages imprisoned throughout […]

Congratulations to Yoon Ha Lee for having Dragon Pearl chosen for the Kirkus Review’s Best Middle-Grade Fantasy & Science Fiction of 2019 list!

Booklist: Drayden’s latest (after Temper, 2018) is a sweeping, smart, stunning story that dazzles brighter than a star system. Seske Kaleigh is the young heir to the command of a starship that is comprised of the insides of a whale-like space beast. Adalla is her best friend and lover of a lower caste. The young girls are among the descendants of Africa, who resettled among the stars and rely on whale-like space beasts to keep them alive. They carve out […]

NPR: Readers may want to start with the first book in the series (this is the second), though starting here doesn’t get in the way of enjoying this otherworldly mystery, gorgeous writing and slow burn of a romance with a man who truly understands a woman, ghosts and all.