Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Constellation 4, a new volume collecting recent short stories set in their nationally best-selling Liaden Universe ® series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Deal: Troy Bucher
Troy Bucher’s THE FALLEN GODS’ WAR trilogy, a coming of age, epic fantasy series, in which two characters must bridge opposing cultures to stop a pair of long-dead gods from returning to destroy their homeland, to Sheila Gilbert at DAW, by Jennie Goloboy.
2018 Hugo Award Finalists
Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated for the 2018 Hugo Awards! Best Novel Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) Best Novella All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing) Best Novelette “Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com, February 15, 2017) Best Graphic Story Black Bolt, Volume 1: Hard Time, written by Saladin Ahmed (Marvel) Best Semiprozine Escape Pod, editors include S.B. Divya Fireside Magazine, editors include Elsa Sjunneson-Henry Best Series The […]
Review: Lake Silence by Anne Bishop
B&N SFF Blog: Anne Bishop blazed onto the genre scene in the late 1990s with the Black Jewels Trilogy, a fantasy epic filled with violence, blood, and revenge that somehow mostly leaves readers with lingering impressions of its beautiful empathy, kindness, and impish sense of humor. This deeply affecting mixture won the hearts of many fans then (including mine), and remains her signature today. In this sense, her new urban fantasy LAKE SILENCE fits perfectly into her bibliography. Bishop has always been skilled at building playful, enticing […]
March Subsidiary Rights Deals
Audio rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s short story collection KABU KABU, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Audio, by Katie Shea Boutillier. Audio rights to Shirley Jackson- and World Fantasy Award nominee Tamsyn Muir’s debut epic science fantasy GIDEON THE NINTH and two sequels to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, in a pre-empt, via Jennifer Jackson. Audio rights to Sean Grigsby’s stand-alone DAUGHTERS OF FORGOTTEN LIGHT, plus ASH KICKERS (sequel to his debut SMOKE EATERS), to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books by […]
March Translation Deals
Romanian rights to NYT bestselling author, Brent Weeks’s THE SHADOW’S EDGE and renewal of THE WAY OF SHADOWS, to Grupul Editorial Art, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier. Hebrew rights to NYT and USA Today bestselling authors Annika Martin and Sky Warren’s HOSTAGE and PRISONER, to Sifrut Acheret, by Beverley Levit of The Book Publishers Association of Israel, in association with Cameron McClure and Katie Shea Boutillier. Spanish rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI: […]
Review: Stone Mad: A Karen Memory Adventure by Elizabeth Bear
Publishers Weekly: Bear’s Karen Memory (2015) introduced her stubborn and spunky heroine, Karen Memery, a teenage sex worker who saved her late 1870s Pacific Northwest town from threats foreign and domestic. Now Karen and her beloved, Priya, are preparing to enjoy their first night in their new home when traveling spiritualists dredge up an old, seemingly supernatural mystery poised to cause mayhem. Naturally, Karen wants to investigate. Though this novel lacks the scope and some of the sheer raucousness of the first, all of the […]
Deal: Crystal Duffy
Crystal Duffy’s TWIN TO TWIN, the story of a 29-year-old mother’s harrowing yet heartwarming adventure through a high-risk twin pregnancy to Chris McKenney at Mango, for publication in Fall 2018, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Deal: Tamsyn Muir
From debut author, Tamsyn Muir, the Ninth House trilogy (GIDEON THE NINTH, HARROW THE NINTH, and ALECTO THE NINTH), an epic science fantasy that blends necromantic theory and thrilling swordplay with a wicked, sacrilegious sense of humor; a modern mix of Dune, Riddick, and Gormenghast. Tamsyn’s works have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, F&SF, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and Clarkesworld. Her fiction has received nominations for the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award and the Eugie Foster […]
Review: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Locus: It’s always a treat to read a Martha Wells story, and it turns out that her Murderbot Diaries are an especial delight… Artificial Condition is a story that balances its disparate elements with exceptional skill. It’s perfectly paced, and Wells brings both a strong sense of humour and deep pathos to Murderbot’s character and to their voice. Murderbot, for all their insistence that they’re not really a person, is a very human sort of bot. There’s plenty of cool shit in this space operatic future, and […]