Donald Maass Literary Agency

UK/Commonwealth rights to 10 books in Emily Brightwell’s ongoing Mrs. Jeffries Mysteries series (#14-23) to Constable & Robinson, by Meg Davis at Ki Agency, on behalf of Donald Maass.  

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor on Binti being a Best Novella nominee and to Tananarive Due on Ghost Summer being a Best Collection nominee for the 2016 British Fantasy Awards!

Michael Fletcher’s SWARM AND STEEL, a fantasy novel set in a harsh world where belief defines reality, in which Zerfall Seele, thousands of years old and creator of a punishing afterlife sees her creation through unbiased eyes for the first time and vows to destroy it, to Bradley Englert at Talos Press, by Cameron McClure.

RT Book Reviews: Suitably enough, given the rigid Doctrine of the hexarchate and the irresistible formation instinct of the warrior Kel faction, Ninefox Gambit is a book of precise rigor that gives a wonderful amount of worldbuilding without any clunky exposition dumps, is ruthlessly clear-eyed about the costs and concerns of war (especially at this technological level) and gives us an instantly ingratiating heroine who spends most of the book doing her best to outmaneuver the forces that have set her […]

Polish rights to Anne Bishop’s MARKED IN FLESH, Book 4 of the Others series, via Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson. Spanish rights to Jim Butcher’s TURN COAT and CHANGES, the 11th and 12th books in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series, to NOSOLOROL by Maru De Montserrat at International Editors Co. in association with Jennifer Jackson. French rights to Cherie Priest’s BONESHAKER, DREADNOUGHT, CLEMENTINE, three books from the Clockwork Century series, to Livre […]

Ann Claycomb’s THE MERMAID’S DAUGHTER, about a promising opera singer plagued by stabbing pain in her feet, who slowly discovers she is 8 generations removed from the original Little Mermaid in Hans Christian Andersen’s story and is given the same awful choice all the women in her family faced: kill yourself and end the pain, or kill your true love and return to the sea, to Rebecca Lucash at William Morrow, for publication winter 2017, by Cameron McClure.

Publishers Weekly: The 19th installment of the long-running Liaden Universe space adventure series (following 2015’s Dragon in Exile) opens with the members of Clan Korval and their allies still trying to solidify their economic position and regain their strength following their exile from their home planet. With the insidious Department of the Interior manipulating their public image and outright attacking their ships, the clan is hard-pressed to maintain and expand its trade routes. Meanwhile, Clan Korval member Padi yos’Galen is starting […]

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor on Binti taking home the 2016 Novella Nebula Award! Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one […]

Jordan Brown at Balzer + Bray has preempted Justina Ireland’s DREAD NATION and an untitled sequel, a YA duology set in a post-Reconstruction America beset by an undead plague that rose from the battlefields of the Civil War. The book follows Jane, the daughter of a plantation-owner mother and enslaved father, who is training as an attendant in Baltimore to protect well-to-do white folk from the undead. Publication is scheduled for 2018. Amy Boggs did the deal for North American rights.

Dan Koboldt’s THE ISLAND DECEPTION and THE WORLD AWAKENING, sequels to THE ROGUE RETRIEVAL. A Las Vegas stage magician joins a mercenary extraction force infiltrating a world where magic is all too real and the penalty for impersonating a true magician is death, to David Pomerico at Harper Voyager Impulse for publication in February 2017 and 2018, by Paul Stevens.