Congratulation to our DMLA authors who made the 2019 Locus Awards Finalist list! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) HORROR NOVEL The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance) FANTASY NOVEL Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher) The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor) Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing) Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams) YOUNG ADULT BOOK Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray) The Agony House, Cherie Priest […]
Review: PERfunctory afFECTION
Library Journal: Meg knows her therapist means well, but any scrutiny is hard to handle when coping with overwhelming anxiety. Even driving a car or going out in public too often is stressful. Luckily, her boyfriend Austin is a help, even though he wears his scars on the outside, owing to the car accident they were both in three years ago. Facing a long teaching semester, Meg takes the chance of befriending guest university instructor Haley. Haley is bright, beautiful, and […]
Review: If I’m Being Honest by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
School Library Journal: The dialogue is funny and effortless, and the other characters are quirky and believable…. Expect demand.
Review: Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
Library Journal: Haimey Dz is an engineer who, along with pilot Connla Kurucz and the sentient ship Singer, are just-barely-lawful salvagers looking for that one big haul that will make their fortunes. When searching one derelict ship, Haimey becomes infected by something that gives her knowledge about the construction of the universe itself, making her a prize for not only the interstellar government Synarche but also the space pirates determined to use her for their own nefarious plans. On the run […]
2018 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee
Congratulations to Brooke Bolander on making the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee list for The Only Harmless Great Thing in the novella category!
Deal: Wayne Santos
Wayne Santos’s debut THE CHIMERA CODE, set in a cyberpunk, magical future; about a mercenary and her team, who are hired to erase a magician who’s already dead, to Kate Coe at Solaris, for publication in July 2020, by Jennie Goloboy.
April Subsidiary Rights Deals
Audio rights to James Tiptree, Jr. Award nominee Amanda Downum’s THE POISON COURT, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
April Translation Deals
Czech rights to Eliza Maxwell’s THE SHADOW WRITER, to Euromedia by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier. German rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s THE FOUNDERS TRILOGY, to Blanvalet, in a three-book deal, at auction, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure. German rights to NYT bestselling author Kel Kade’s FATE OF THE FALLEN, to Heyne, at auction, in a three-book deal, by Sarah Knofius and Bastian Schluck […]
Review: Shrouded Loyalties by Reese Hogan
Publishers Weekly: Hogan writes with tangible energy, capturing the trials of divided loyalties in the midst of global war…. Fans of military SF will enjoy Hogan’s fresh take on the genre.
Review: PERfunctory afFFECTION by Kim Harrison
B&N: Bestselling urban fantasy author Kim Harrison (the Hallows series) has been experimenting with sci-fi of late in novels like The Drafter and The Operator; her latest is more difficult to classify, but filled with the danger, romance, and readability that has attracted her a legion of devoted readers. Artist Meg is on the brink of breakout success, but held back by the anxiety triggered by her boyfriend’s recent serious car accident. At her therapist’s urging, she connects with a woman […]