Booklist: Priest (Boneshaker, 2009) offers a textured period piece set in the spiritualist camp of Cassadaga, Florida, in 1920. Alice Dartle is a powerful but untrained medium who has left Virginia in hopes of education in Cassadaga. She dreams of a man who turns out to be Tomás Cordero, a Cuban-American veteran in a distant town, who has been experiencing unexplained firesboth in dreams and in real lifewhich he fervently hopes are messages from his dead wife. Unfortunately, more sinister […]
Audio rights to Ronald Malfi’s BONE WHITE, to Daniel Totten at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Hungarian rights to NYT bestselling author Emily Brightwell’s MRS. JEFFRIES ON THE BALL, to Kulinaria, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Katie Shea Boutillier. German audio rights to NYT bestselling author Jim Butcher’s FURIES OF CALDERON, ACADEM’S FURY, CURSOR’S FURY, CAPTAIN’S FURY, PRINCEPS’ FURY and FIRST LORD’S FURY, to Blanvalet, by Sarah Knofius at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson. French rights to NYT bestselling author Jim Butcher’s PRINCEPS’ FURY and FIRST LORD’S […]
Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated for a 2016 Nebula Awards! Novel: Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Novella: Runtime, S.B. Divya (Tor.com Publishing) Short Story: “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
RT Book Review: Bishop’s Novel of the others series has truly been one of the most original and phenomenal UF series out there, so this fifth book is a bit bittersweet. While Bishop’s worldbuilding is second to none, it has been the characters and their relationships that elevate these stories into masterpieces. It appears that this will be the final Simon and Meg book (at least for now), since in her next book Bishop will turn to new characters in […]
Kirkus: A unique collection of 15 wrongful conviction sagas bound to shake faith in the American criminal justice system. In the past three decades, books about wrongful convictions have become so numerous that they form their own genre. The advent of DNA testing for law enforcement purposes validated the previously discredited statement that American prisons are filled with innocent inmates while the actual perpetrators remain unpunished. Few of the books, however, match this skillful anthology, assembled by Life After Innocence founder […]
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s three new novels in the epic Liaden series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen in a six-figure deal by Jennifer Jackson.
Publishers Weekly: The universe appears to be literally shrinking around Ozzie Pinkerton: erasing people, obliterating the stars, and reducing the world to little more than his town of Cloud Lake, Fla. Ozzie alone remembers the world as it was […] As in We Are the Ants, Hutchinson uses a science fiction overlay to explore important topics, including self-mutilation, gender identity, and child abuse. Ozzie’s friends remind him that the world doesn’t revolve around him, but Hutchinson playfully disagrees, turning the literal shrinking […]
Congratulations to the DMLA clients who made the 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List! Novels – Fantasy * City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway) Novels – Horror * The Family Plot, Cherie Priest (Tor) First Novels * Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Collections * Project Elfhome, Wen Spencer (Baen) Novellas * Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Publishing) Novelettes * “Foxfire, Foxfire”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/03/16) Short Stories * “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies“, […]
Shelf Awareness: Any breakup can make a person feel like the world has just ended, but high school senior Ozzie Pinkerton of Florida feels even worse: as far as the universe is concerned, his ex-boyfriend Tommy never existed. While Shaun David Hutchinson is a master of fusing the bizarre with the mundane, and the plot is delightfully constructed, it is Ozzie’s pained, sardonic voice that steals the spotlight. Hutchinson’s authentic characters, exploring their gender and sexuality with equal parts confusion and confidence, […]