Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Yoon Ha Lee with DRAGON PEARL on the New York Times Children’s Middle Grade Bestseller List at #4 for another week!

Brazilian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s FOUNDRYSIDE, to Morro Branco by Cristina Purchio at International Editors’ on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. German rights to Paula Volsky’s THE WOLF OF WINTER, THE GATES OF TWILIGHT and THE WHITE TRIBUNAL, to Barenklau, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass. Russian rights to World Fantasy Award nominee Tamsyn Muir’s debut GIDEON THE NINTH, the first book in the Ninth House […]

Publishers Weekly: Queer necromancers vie for power, solve ancient puzzles, and cross rapiers while exploring haunted deep-space ruins in this madcap science fantasy romp that manages to be both riotously funny and heartbreaking. Eighteen-year-old orphan Gideon Nav has spent her life devising ways to escape indentured servitude to the Ninth House. When Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the sole daughter and heir to the Ninth, sees a chance to become a Lyctor, right hand to the Necromancer Divine, she needs a cavalier by […]

Locus: In the latest title from the Rick Riordan Presents imprint, Korean-American author Yoon Ha Lee transports traditional Korean animal folklore to space in an interplanetary adventure with all the thrills, spills, and surprises that younger teens could want. It’s an obvious page-turner, and Yoon Ha Lee has nailed what the younger action crowd craves. There are some very funny moments in Dragon Pearl and plenty of angsty ones as well. There is no romance at all which fits well with […]

NPR: Squad is a short, highly concentrated blast of a book that revels in all the best and worst feelings of high school and offers the reader a charismatic and imperfect character to fall in love with. Jenna certainly won me over, and so did Squad.

B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog: A Fantastic New Space Opera Saga Dawns in Elizabeth Bear’s Ancestral Night Elizabeth Bear is a master of disguise. If you’ve spent any time with her enormous back catalog, you know that the only thing you can expect from her is to be surprised and delighted by how different each new book is from the one that preceded it. Since winning the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, she has published dozens of […]

Congratulations to Carissa Ann Lynch for My Sister is Missing hitting the USA Today Bestseller List at #142!

Congratulations to Yoon Ha Lee for having Dragon Pearl on the New York Times Children’s Middle Grade Bestseller List at #4!

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who made the 2019 Sturgeon Award Finalists list for best short science fiction story! The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing) “The Starship and the Temple Cat” by Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)

Kirkus: . . . a frank, good-humored recollection of depression, self-loathing, and eventual self-respect . . . Compelling.