Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to DMLA client Brooke Bolander, whose “And You Shall Know Her By the Trail of Dead” has been named a finalist for the 2016 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award!

New York Times Bestselling author Jim Butcher’s new original graphic novel “Wild Card”, which takes place in the aftermath of the novel WHITE NIGHT and is based on the Dresden Files series to Nick Barrucci at Dynamite Entertainment by Jennifer Jackson.

Congratulations to DMLA authors who made the 2015 Tiptree Awards Long List! Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory (Tor, 2015) Nalo Hopkinson, Falling in Love with Hominids (Tachyon, 2015) Yoon Ha Lee, “The Contemporary Foxwife” (Clarkesworld, July 2014)

Portuguese rights for Anne Bishop’s VISION IN SILVER, Book 3 of the Others series, to Saida de Emergencia by Jennifer Hoge at International Editors Co. in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry. Dutch rights to Anne Bishop’s MARKED IN FLESH, Book 4 in the Others series, to Sabrina Verbeek at De Fontein, by Philip Sane at the Lennart Sane Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.

Diane Duane’s GAMES WIZARDS PLAY, the 10th book in the long-standing Young Wizards series, to Melanie Donovan at Recorded Books, by Katie Shea Boutillier. On behalf of Prime Books, audio rights to Richard Parks’ Yamada Monogatori: The Emperor in Shadow, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.

Publishers Weekly:  With remarkable emotional insight and precision, mystery writer Winslow turns to memoir to narrate the long-delayed prosecution of the man who raped her two decades ago….Her story is profoundly troubling, but the legitimate care and consideration of Winslow’s legal support system is powerfully redemptive. Her account bravely illuminates a process many survivors of rape must endure. Read Publishers Weekly’s full review of Jane Doe January: My Twenty-Year Search for Truth and Justice here.

Kirkus: Urgently written with forthright prose, the memoir’s serpentine suspense elements resemble the plot points seen in the kind of crime fiction the author writes herself….A potently rendered chronicle of rape and the clarity and closure achieved even when justice is only partially served. Read Kirkus’ full review of Jane Doe January here.

Marked in Flesh, book 4 of the Others series by Anne Bishop, debuted at #16 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list! Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their own kind, the delicate dynamic between humans and Others changed. Some, like Simon Wolfgard, wolf shifter and leader of the Lakeside Courtyard, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn, see the new, closer companionship as beneficial—both personally and practically. […]

Publishers Weekly: McCammon’s rousing sixth yarn featuring Matthew Corbett (after 2014’s The River of Souls) transports the early 18th-century American problem solver across the Atlantic to London, where he’s clapped into hellish Newgate Prison on murder charges. Matthew quickly becomes embroiled in mysteries involving fellow inmate Daniel Defoe; a gin-running street gang, the Black-Eyed Broodies; a kidnapped Italian opera singer; and a masked avenger named Albion, whose exploits are sensationalized (along with Matthew’s) in a penny dreadful broadsheet, the Pin—all the […]

Anne Bishop’s Marked in Flesh, book 4 of the Others series, debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list at #13 print/ebook combined, #9 ebook, #20 hardcover extended! Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their own kind, the delicate dynamic between humans and Others changed. Some, like Simon Wolfgard, wolf shifter and leader of the Lakeside Courtyard, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn, see the new, closer companionship as […]