Donald Maass Literary Agency

Locus: Witch King and now Queen Demon are the mature, accomplished work of a writer at the peak of their powers, one whose interest in consequences, power, responsibility, and rebuilding in the wake of destruction – personal, social, societal, epochal – is here both given breadth and depth and sharpened to a series of exquisite points. This is a fantastic novel, set in a fascinating world with truly compelling characters. It is shot through with grief, with the reverberations of destruction and the […]

Congratulations to Premee Mohamed on having TWO titles named winners in the 2025 Aurora Awards! Her works, THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS (Solaris) won Best Novel and THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST (Tordotcom) won the Best Novelette/Novella category!

Booklist: Sharpson (Knock Knock Open Wide, 2023) presents another homage to Irish folklore and the creatures that inhabit it, though this time he takes a different approach. On the first page of The Burial Tide, readers meet a woman who is quite literally fighting her way out of a buried coffin. She escapes but has no memory of herself or her life and must rely on those living on an out-of-the-way Irish island to help her. However, Mara (and the […]

DMLA is immensely delighted as LJ Andrews’ THE EVER KING comes in at #86 on the USA Today Bestseller list! Congratulations LJ!

Wall Street Journal: Living in the depths of the black cosmic sea, there is a giant whale with an infinite number of worlds within its body. Wandering among them are two sisters: Laleh and Myung, neither of whom know their origins or how they wound up in the whale; only that both they and it were created by the Great Wisa. This is the mind-bending scenario dreamed up by Tashan Mehta for her unique fantasy novel “Mad Sisters of Esi.” […]

Publishers Weekly: A remote Irish island with an insular community of crusty locals provides the perfect backdrop for this riveting splice of suspense and folklore from Sharpson (Knock Knock, Open Wide). Inishbannock is just recovering from a deadly “outbreak” (though an outbreak of what goes unspecified) when one of its victims, Mara Fitch, claws her way out of her grave, having been mistakenly buried alive. At least that’s what her caretakers tell her, since Mara has no memory of the […]

Jim Butcher sold a new Dresden Files novella which will chronologically follow the forthcoming TWELVE MONTHS (PRH/Ace, January 2026) and will be released later in 2026. Head of Acquisitions at Podium Kate Runde acquired World English rights in a deal negotiated via Jennifer Jackson.

We are thrilled to see these in the finalists for the 2025 Dragon Awards! Best Science Fiction Novel The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series, TV or Internet Murderbot, Apple TV+ (based on The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells)

THE LIBRARY AT HELLEBORE by Cassandra Khaw is an instant USA today bestseller, debuting at #42 on the list! Congratulations, Cassandra!!!

Reactor: Holy shit, what a book. I’ve been waiting with unalloyed anticipation for Elizabeth Bear’s next White Space novel since 2020’s Machine. That novel is The Folded Sky. Part thriller, part murder mystery, and part Big Ideas Space Opera Adventure, it’s entirely worth the wait. If there’s a single through-line that unites the White Space books, it’s that they’re about competent people who are good at their jobs, who encounter serious problems in the course of their professional lives. Those problems have […]