Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett on City of Stairs being a finalist for World Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2015! The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions—until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world’s new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself—first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it—stands as a […]

Creator of Thuglit Todd Robinson’s ROUGH TRADE, the second novel in his Anthony-nominated Boo and Junior series, about two Boston bouncers who agree to scare off a coworker’s ex-boyfriend, but when the man is later found dead they must uncover the truth about his murder by facing down crooked cops, crazed guard dogs, a rival security crew and the Irish mob to Jason Pinter at Polis Books by Stacia Decker.

Publishers Weekly: Clarke (the Assassin’s Curse series) brings novelty and delight to steampunk Antarctica in this complex and lovely mystery. Eliana Gomez is the first female PI in Hope City, a domed city originally built to support an amusement park full of steam-powered automatons, and she wants nothing more than to emigrate to warmer climes. When recently widowed Lady Luna, an heiress with a secret, asks Eliana to recover some stolen documents, the fee is too good to turn down, even […]

DMLA is pleased to announce that Jay Lake’s Last Plane to Heaven won a Locus Award for Best Collection 2015! Long before he was a novelist, SF writer Jay Lake, was an acclaimed writer of short stories. In Last Plane to Heaven, Lake has assembled thirty-two of the best of them. Aliens and angels fill these pages, from the title story, a hard-edged and breathtaking look at how a real alien visitor might be received, to the savage truth of “The […]

At Publishers Weekly, Ken Bruen included Matthew McBride’s A Swollen Red Sun in his list of 10 Best Noir Novels. McBride came to prominence with his debut novel, the wonderfully titled Frank Sinatra in a Blender. This, his second novel, comes fully noir, and is one of the finest accounts of how meth has spread across the Midwestern states like some bubonic plague. Demons from its use and the characters’ own demons fuse into an epic blend of one of the […]

Polish rights to Michael R. Fletcher’s BEYOND REDEMPTION to Papierowy Ksiezyc, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure. Russian rights to Michael R. Fletcher’s BEYOND REDEMPTION, to AST, by Alexander Korzhenevski Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure. Italian rights to Thea Harrison’s ORACLE’S MOON, Book 4 of the Elder Races series, to Fanucci, by Stefania Fietta at Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale, in association with […]

Audio rights to Jim Butcher’s WORKING FOR BIGFOOT, collecting the stories where Harry Dresden works cases for Bigfoot, to Amy Metsch at Penguin Random House Audio by Jennifer Jackson. Nationally syndicated columnist and humorist Amy Alkon’s UNF*CK YOURSELF, the science-based guide on how to live with confidence, guts, and integrity, to Erica Proulx at Brilliance, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure. Robert McCammon’s sixth book in the Matthew Corbett series, FREEDOM OF THE MASK, to Steve Feldberg […]

Susan R. Matthews’ BLOOD ENEMIES, a new novel in the Philip K. Dick Award nominated Jurisdiction Universe series, along with reprint rights to the first six novels in the series including the critically acclaimed EXCHANGE OF HOSTAGES to Tony Daniel at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.

Kirkus: This collection of stories provocatively and effectively illustrates the multidimensionality of someone considered to be a monster, and readers will find much of it fascinating and moving. A variety of characters affected by a school shooting offer their perspectives in this work of realistic fiction penned by 17 different authors and coordinated by Hutchinson. When Kirby Matheson, a high school student with a history both of being bullied and of coming to the aid of others being maltreated, kills six of […]

Stranger Horizons: Vermilion: The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp by Molly Tanzer is a fun adventure novel that is as intersectional in genre as it is in character. … a madcap comedy of errors that resolves in a moustache-twirling over-the-top climax—and which leaves plenty of room open for sequels, in the best pulp tradition. Read Strange Horizon’s full review of Vermilion here.