Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Jim Butcher on The Aeronaut’s Windlass being named Best Fantasy of 2015 by Audible! “An excellent story, brilliantly read by Euan Morton. Jim Butcher simply gets better and better as an author. I didn’t want this book to end!”

Congratulations to the DMLA authors included in the New York Public Library’s Best Books for Teens 2015! I Am Princess X, Cherie Priest Violent Ends, Shaun David Hutchinson

Kate McIntyre’s THE TIMESEER’S GAMBIT, in the sequel to THE DEATHSNIFFER’S ASSISTANT, the Deathsniffer and her assistant take on a serial killer who is unleashing elemental spirits to murder young priests, while also trying to untangle the conspiracy that has declared one man responsible for the worst accident of the century, again to Vicki Keire at Curiosity Quills Press, for publication in Summer 2016, by Caitlin McDonald.

Publishers Weekly: Swashbuckling adventure collides with mystical mayhem on land and at sea in this rousing historical fantasy series launch set in a magic-infused England in 1800. Rossalinde Tremayne has done well for herself as a privateer in Mad King George’s service, using her abilities as a witch and the ever-present ghost of her long-dead husband (whose reputation and identity she’s borrowed) to claim other ships for profit and the Crown. Her estranged mother’s dying request is for Rossalinde to take […]

Publishers Weekly: Henry Denton’s life is in tatters—he was abandoned by his father; his boyfriend, Jesse, hanged himself; and he is regularly abducted by aliens who have put Earth’s very fate in his hands. The 16-year-old, nicknamed “Space Boy” by his tormentors, is self-destructing until he finds a friend in new kid Diego and an ally in Jesse’s former pal Audrey. In a style reminiscent of Slaughterhouse-Five, Hutchinson (The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley) intersperses Henry’s experience aboard the “slugger” spaceship […]

Congratulations to DMLA authors who made BuzzFeed’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2015 list! Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut’s Windlass  

Library Journal: Jacob “Trace” Tracy and Boz, his African American partner, are looking for jobs to tide them over until they get hired for their usual work of guiding wagon trains West. Wealthy Miss Fairweather of St. Louis employs them for what looks like an easy task: retrieving a box from a nearby town. Miss Fair- weather didn’t choose the duo by chance. She wants Trace for his ability to see the spirit world, a talent he has possessed (and hidden) […]

Congratulations to the DMLA clients who made NPR’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2015 list! OF NOBLE FAMILY by Mary Robinette Kowal THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT by Seth Dickinson VERMILION by Molly Tanzer

Locus: A fascinating and propulsive tale about what could happen when actual humans try to settle a planet and about how little protection technology can really offer in the face of our inherent weaknesses.

VOYA: Believe it or not, Henry’s main problem is not that he gets repeatedly abducted by aliens—it is that the aliens have given him the choice to save Earth from complete destruction or not. Back on Earth things get even harder. Henry is barely holding it together at home and school. His family is broken and troubled. At school, his problems increase. Henry is constantly reminded of his boyfriend Jesse’s suicide, and he avoids his and Jesse’s mutual friend. Then […]