Donald Maass Literary Agency

Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk) has been widely hailed as a highly significant voice in Caribbean and American fiction. She has been dubbed “one of our most important writers,” (Junot Diaz), with “an imagination that most of us would kill for” (Los Angeles Times), and her work has been called “stunning,” (New York Times) “rich in voice, humor, and dazzling imagery” (Kirkus), and “simply triumphant” (Dorothy Allison). Falling in Love with Hominids presents more than a dozen […]

B&N SF&F Blog: Add to the ranks of these Chuck Wendig’s new thriller Zeroes, which proves he knows exactly to how to turn sitting at a computer into an experience that’s somehow fun, action-packed, and violent all at once. Wendig weaves together genre tropes like a madman, mixing sci-fi tech, frenetic chases, and elements of horror into a brash, apocalyptic thriller with a wide stroke of black humor, shuffling and juggling a comfortable setup—a ragtag band of five colorful hackers recruited against their will by a […]

Library Journal: VERDICT: This is an accomplished debut, with a heroine whose motives are murky, seemingly even to herself. The twists and turns our unreliable narrator takes as she pushes the Aurdwynn nobles to rebel reveal her goals yet also expose her loneliness. We’ve only seen a fraction of the world of the Masquerade and a glimpse of Baru’s plans, setting the stage for a compelling series. Read the full review of The Traitor Baru Cormorant at Library Journal.

School Library Journal: A fresh and thought-provoking take on a disturbing but relevant topic. Seventeen chapters, each from a different point of view, tell the story of Kirby Matheson, a teenager who walks into school and opens fire on a pep rally before committing suicide. Narrators vary from those close to Kirby, like his sister, to more removed observers, such as his childhood next-door neighbor. While readers never enter Kirby’s mind, his environment, upbringing, family, and social interactions breathe life into his […]

RT Book Reviews: In Chapelwood, Priest manages the very difficult task of jumping decades ahead — with a cast winnowed by the events of the previous novel in the series and the passing of years — and writing an equally gripping Lovecraftian thriller where our heroes are nearing or at retirement age and are pitched fully out of their normal settings. In some ways, this book is even scarier than the first, with their monstrous opponents coming to almost total power […]

Kirkus: Wendig ups the ante in this second novel about a psychic girl pitted against dark forces, malevolent humans, and the twisty nature of fate. If readers were intrigued by the introduction of acid-tongued, supernaturally gifted Miriam Black in Wendig’s last novel, this book will really sink its teeth into them. […] As before, Miriam isn’t for everyone; she’s extremely profane, her creator absolutely punishes her physically, and she’s not exactly someone to root for. But it’s apparent that Wendig is […]

Martha Wells’ THE EDGE OF WORLDS and sequel, a new duology continuing the Raksura series with Night Shade Books to Cory Allyn by Jennifer Jackson.

French rights to Anne Bishop’s VISION IN SILVER, the 3rd novel in her series about The Others, to Bragelonne by David Camus at the Anna Jarota Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson. German rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BLOOD MIRROR (Book 4 in the Lightbringer series) and UNTITLED Book 4 in the Night Angel series, to Blanvalet, in a two-book deal, in a nice deal, by Bastian Schlück at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier. Dutch rights […]

Robert McCammon’s short story collection BLUE WORLD, to Steve Feldberg at Audible by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.

Jacey Bedford’s NIMBUS, book 3 in the psi-tech space opera series (book 2, CROSSWAYS, coming August 4, 2015) and SILVERWOLF, sequel to the February 2016 book WINTERWOOD, a Napoleonic-era fantasy following the adventures of a cross-dressing lady privateer, to Sheila Gilbert at DAW by Amy Boggs.