Donald Maass Literary Agency

Italian rights to Margaret Doody’s untitled short story collection, to Mondadori, by Stefania Fietta at Donzelli Fietta, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass. Spanish rights to Brooke Bolander’s Nebula Award-winning THE ONLY HARMLESS GREAT THING, to Crononauta, by Amaiur Fernández at International Editors’ Co. in association with Michael Curry. Polish rights to Robert McCammon’s SPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD, to Vesper by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Polish rights to New […]

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who made the 2019 British Fantasy Award Shortlist! BEST FANTASY NOVEL Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher) Priest of Bones, Peter McLean (Jo Fletcher) BEST NOVELLA The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing) Binti: The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)

Congratulations to our DMLA authors for their 2019 Locus Awards! NOVELLA Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) NOVELETTE The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)  

The Guardian: There are no everyday elements to Kerstin Hall’s debut novella The Border Keeper. It begins on the outskirts of the spirit world, before moving to the weird realm of the underworld, Mkalis, where demon beasts and macabre gods are in constant battle. The grieving Vasethe has come to petition the eponymous border keeper: he wants her to guide him through Mkalis in search of his dead lover’s soul. What follows is a phantasmagorical picaresque through a lushly realised […]

Library Journal: Gideon Nav wants to escape servitude in the Ninth House. Armed with only her sword, her wit, and a bunch of dirty magazines, she is ready to leave behind the catacombs, the nuns, the dead, and especially necromancer Lady Harrowhawk, bane of her existence. However, Harrow calls on Gideon for a quest she cannot get out of: the emperor demands that the houses bring their firstborn necromancers, along with their cavaliers, to ascend to the position of Lyctor […]

Congratulations to Jo Ann Brown’s for The Amish Widower’s Twins making this week’s Publisher Weekly Mass Market Bestsellers List at #21!    

Audio rights to J.A. Pitts’ RAINBOW BRIGADE, the 5th book in the Sarah Beauhall series, to Ryan MacGavin at Audible, by Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure.

Bulgarian rights to Robert McCammon’s THE LISTENER, to Ciela by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure. French rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s novella VIGILANCE, to du Belial, by Robin Batet at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure. Swedish rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s WHO FEARS DEATH, to Palaver Press, by Philip Sane at The Lennart Sane Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.

Tor.com: As noted in discussion of the first book in the series, the Lotus Kingdoms trilogy is one large arc spread over three separate novels, which I particularly appreciate in a second-world setting as grand in scope as that of the Eternal Sky. Released from the constraint of wedging in a stand-alone plot for each novel, Bear devotes all of her considerable craft to weaving one dense, affectively powerful story. The result is well worth the gamble. In fact, I’d argue […]

Congratulations to Ruthanna Emrys on being a finalist for the 2019 Mythopoeic Awards!