Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Cherie Priest on I Am Princess X being named a nominee for YALSA’s 2016 Teens’ Top Ten!

Library Journal: A plague has decimated the planet’s population. Former ballerina Cressyda resides in the City, a community of survivors that remains a collapsed ruin compared to New Charity. This society stands strong behind its wall, with a hydroelectric dam that ensures no one from the City can access that water. When Syd learns she has inherited her father’s New Charity ranch, she returns both to the family she left behind years ago and to her then best friend, Casandra. Cas, […]

RT Book Review: This debut is astonishingly dense, accomplished and well-realized, with a future that feels real in both its strangeness and its familiarity. Trying to follow what goes on in this world is roughly as easy as following what’s happening in ours, but also as rewarding, with an incredibly colorful (and often ambiguous) cast of characters, truly skillful layering of plot and incident in ways that can spin your head around and a milieu pitched perfectly between utopia and dystopia […]

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.