Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Neil Sharpson and Robert Jackson Bennett as DON’T TRUST FISH (Sharpson) and A DROP OF CORRUPTION (Bennett) have been named as one Book Page’s 10 Best Books of 2025!    

Locus: I didn’t know that I needed another book about Karen Memery, the main character in Elizabeth Bear’s take on steampunk (Restoration-era Northwestern U.S. flavor) that launched in 2015 with Karen Memory and was followed up by Stone Mad in 2018. Those rain-soaked, gear-full days feel like a hazy moment when we all wondered if we should be investing in goggles and corsets for a much more whimsical future. Here we are, ten years on. Is there still a place […]

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), selected five books as finalists for the 2026 William C. Morris Award and we are thrilled to see ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE by DeAndra Davis included in the lineup!

Sharon Lee sold CONSTELLATION SIX by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, a new volume collecting recent short stories set in the nationally best-selling Liaden Universe® series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books via Jennifer Jackson.

School Library Journal: A captivating story about the girls who returned from Hollow Lake National Park’s Dead Refuge Island. Eight girls on a school trip decide to adventure to the island, which no one can see, and no one has ever returned from. Only five return, but the island has haunted each girl from the moment they were saved. When the girls reintegrate into society, friends and teachers who were affiliated with the missing ones are killed. No one knows […]

Excited to see Tashan Mehta’s MAD SISTERS OF ESI named as a Washington Post Best Book of 2025! “A poetic, metaphysical epic, “Mad Sisters” feels like it’s in conversation with other recent books about people in surreal, liminal spaces questioning what everything means — and it’s my absolute favorite book of the year.”

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors selected to be on Library Journal’s Stellar Selections Best Books of 2025! SUSPENSE Thompson, Aggie Blum. You Deserve To Know. Forge. Mar. 2025. HORROR Starling, Caitlin. The Graceview Patient. St. Martin’s. Oct. 2025. Starling, Caitlin. The Starving Saints. Harper Voyager. May 2025. SCIENCE FICTION Bear, Elizabeth. The Folded Sky. (White Space, bk. 3). Saga. Jun. 2025. FANTASY Addison, Katherine. The Tomb of Dragons. (Chronicles of Osreth, bk. 3). Tor. Mar. 2025. Bennett, Robert Jackson. […]

Thrilled to see Melissa K Roehrich’s DAWN OF CHAOS AND FURY hit the USA Today’s bestseller list at #88!

Brazilian Portuguese rights to Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction winner Vajra Chandrasekera’s RAKESFALL, to Editora Companhia das Letras, by Cristina Purchio at International Editors’ Co. in association with Michael Curry. Chinese (simplified) rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ ALL SYSTEMS RED, ARTIFICIAL CONDITION, ROGUE PROTOCOL, EXIT STRATEGY, NETWORK EFFECT, FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, SYSTEM COLLAPSE, and PLATFORM DECAY, eight books in The Murderbot Diaries, to Yilin, by Yichan Peng at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry […]

Booklist: It has been three weeks since the devastating magical attack on Chicago (Battle Ground, 2020), leaving the city in complete disarray and wizard Harry Dresden’s life in shambles. He is mourning the loss of a loved one, has been banished from the White Council of Wizards—although he is not as upset about that—and has been forced by the ruthless Queen Mab into an engagement to the provocative leader of the White Vampires. Harry is grieving and exhausted but nevertheless […]