Donald Maass Literary Agency

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 […]

Robert Jackson Bennett’s second novel in the Ana & Din series, A DROP OF CORRUPTION, has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Best Fantasy! Congratulations, Robert!

Congratulations again to Alta Hensley as HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING rings in at #103 on the USA Today Bestseller list! Why choose between naughty or nice in this steamy, suspenseful Christmas-themed stalker romance that’s perfect for dark romance readers seeking a spicy, festive read.

AudioFile: Eric Mok returns to narrate this sequel to WITCH KING, bringing back all of his wonderfully varied British accents for the large cast. The narrative jumps back and forth between two timelines: In the past, immortal demon Kaiisteron and Prince-heir Bishasha advance against the powerful, subjugating Heirarchs; years later in the present day, long after the war is over, Kai and his found family investigate whether any Heirarchs might still survive. While some close listening is required to keep […]

Shelf Awareness: Even in Tartarus, the great labyrinth builder reckons with the death of his son and confronts his failures as a father and a man in Seamus Sullivan’s debut novella, Daedalus Is Dead. Daedalus’s son, Icarus, famously flew too close to the sun with the wings his father built for the two of them to escape from King Minos. The wax melted, and Icarus crashed into the sea and died. Years after escaping, building a monument to his son, […]

Publishers Weekly: In this sprawling series opener, Bishop (the Black Jewels series) crafts an entertaining and sometimes brutal tale of magic, mystery, and mischief. Shortly after Junior Detective Beth Fahey is assigned to the Penwych police’s 13th precinct special investigations team, she’s tapped for an unusual case involving a magical gun. The inquiry sends her across the Fate River to the Isle of Wyrd to search for answers with the Arcana, the Isle’s enigmatic, fae-like inhabitants who believe that bargains […]

Congratulations to DMLA author Alta Hensley as HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’RE AWAKE hits the New York Times Bestseller list! This Christmas, it’s all about getting what you really want in this dark billionaire stalker romance sequel to He Sees You When You’re Sleeping. Stalking in a winter wonderland…