Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Ronald Malfi as SMALL TOWN HORROR won Novel of the Year in the 2024 This Is Horror Award!

Washington Post: “It’s fun when slight little shows — especially comedies — overperform by improving on a silly premise. In Apple TV’s goofy space dystopia, “Murderbot,” Alexander Skarsgard plays a crabby, semi-obsolete “SecUnit” (or “private security construct” — sort of a computer with human tissue) that started the series by quietly rebelling against its overlords. Specifically, it hacked its “governor module” to watch a bunch of movies and TV, and it must now hide its newfound sentience (and fandom) from […]

Arabic rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s FURIES OF CALDERON, the first book in the Codex Alera series, to Aser Al-Kotob, by Ruqaya Tareq at Bears Factor in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Czech rights to Kel Kade’s DRAGONS AND DEMONS and KNIGHT OF SHADOWS, to Fantom Print, in a two-book deal, by Nada Popovic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency, for Cameron McClure. Hungarian rights […]

Publishers Weekly: A secret stalks the survivors of a catastrophic class trip in Faubion’s harrowing Pacific Northwest–set horror novel. Local legend says that within Hollow Lake sits Dead Refuge Island, which can only occasionally be seen, and only by some. “People who look for the island don’t ever come back,” so when Evie Williams and seven other teen girls vanish during a Shady Cove High–sponsored outing to Hollow Lake National Park, people fear the worst. Forty-six days later, however, Evie […]

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.”