BookPage Magazine: In Elizabeth Bear’s richly textured Ancestral Night, there’s a hole in space-time, and the good ship Singer is going to see what’s on the other side. A sentient ship capable of complex thought, Singer is helmed by Haimey and her shipmate Connla. When Haimey boards a derelict ship the crew hopes to salvage and inadvertently discovers a heinous crime, the team realizes they’re in way over their heads. Bear gives her characters the space to develop on their […]
Review: Cardinal Black by Robert McCammon
Booklist: This is a series entry that will satisfy fans and send new readers back to the beginning. Suggest to those who enjoy historical mystery series by Oliver Potzsch or Laura Joh Rowland.
2018 Bram Stoker Awards Finalists
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who are 2018 Bram Stoker Awards Finalists! Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray) Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Abbot by Saladin Ahmed (BOOM! Studios)
Deal: Tamsyn Muir
Author of the forthcoming GIDEON THE NINTH and Shirley Jackson Award nominee Tamsyn Muir’s untitled dark fantasy novella to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press for publication in 2020 by Jennifer Jackson.
Deal: Emily Brightwell
Three new titles in NY Times best selling author Emily Brightwell’s long-running Victorian mystery series about a dim-witted Scotland Yard inspector and his much smarter housekeeper, for publication in 2020 and 2021, to Michelle Vega at Berkley Prime Crime by Donald Maass.
Starred Review: The Favorite Daughter by Kaira Rouda
Publishers Weekly: Jane Harris, the unreliable narrator of this exceptional psychological thriller from Rouda (Best Day Ever), has sequestered herself in her gorgeous oceanfront home in a gated community in Orange County, Calif., overcome with grief following the death of her college-age daughter, Mary, in an accident a year earlier. Appearances are important to Jane—perfect house, perfect family, perfect image of mourning. Now that she has decided to move on, Jane finds her husband, David, distant, working long hours and […]
Deal: David Gerrold
A science fiction novel by David Gerrold (The Martian Child) in which humanity reaches a planet of strange flora and a young settler, Kyle, learns that his autism may be judged a liability to human survival, to Betsy Wollheim at DAW via Donald Maass.
Review: Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
B&N Kids: Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee, the most recent book from Rick Riordan Presents, takes Korean mythology on a wild adventure in space, and it’s tremendously fun! There’s a lot happening, but it all makes sense, and all the adventures and dangers lead briskly to the final confrontation. Min may not be a role model for principled rule following, but her brash fearlessness drives this story beautifully! As more and more tangles to her brother’s story emerge, and […]
British Science Fiction Association Shortlist 2018
Congratulations to the DMLA authors who made the British Science Fiction Association Shortlist for 2018: BEST NOVEL Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee BEST SHORTER FICTION Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
February Subsidiary Rights Deals
Audio rights to debut authors Wendy Trimboli and Alicia Zaloga’s THE RESURRECTIONIST OF CALIGO, to Joe McNeely at Brilliance Audio, at auction, by Katie Shea Boutillier, for Caitlin McDonald. Audio renewal rights to New York Times Bestselling author Jim Butcher’s GRAVE PERIL, book 3 in the Dresden Files, to Buzzy Multimedia by Jennifer Jackson.







