Donald Maass Literary Agency

Czech rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BROKEN EYE, Book 3 in the Lightbrigher series, to Fantom Print, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier. Polish rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, to Papierowy Ksiezyc, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure. Bulgarian rights to Robert McCammon’s THE BORDER, to Ciela Norma, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi, in association with […]

Audio rights to Cherie Priest’s THE FAMILY PLOT, a new standalone novel, and JACARANDA, a novella in the Clockwork Century series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible.com, by Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry. On behalf of Prime Books, audio rights to Richard Parks’ Yamada Monogatari: The War God’s Son, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.

Congratulations to DMLA authors nominated for a 2015 SFX Award! Best Novel: Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor The Incorruptibles – John Hornor Jacobs

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor on Lagoon‘s nomination for the 2014 Kitschies Red Tentacle (Best Novel)! When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against time to save the country they love and the world itself… from itself. Lagoon expertly juggles multiple points of view and crisscrossing […]

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor on Lagoon being nominated for the 2014 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel! When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against time to save the country they love and the world itself… from itself. Lagoon expertly juggles multiple points […]

Mrs. Jeffries and the One Who Got Away (#33 in the series) debuts on the New York Times Best Seller Mass Market list! Normally dead bodies in a graveyard are buried—but not this one. When a woman is found strangled in a North London cemetery with an old newspaper clipping clutched in her hand, Inspector Witherspoon is surprised to find that he and the victim have crossed paths before. Alice Robinson was a respectable widow who ran a quiet Islington lodging house. None of […]

Kirkus: To say I loved this book would be such an understatement. It’s a great, intensely fun, quick read that satisfied my Dresden Files itch in a year during which I’m not sure we’ll get a new novel in the series. To read Kirkus’ full review of War Cry, click here.

MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville has been nominated for a 2015 Audie in the Classic category! Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America’s most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author’s extensive research and nearly 25 years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor’s best-selling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious […]

NPR: But even though it deals with sinister magic and family tragedy, it counterbalances that darkness with something that’s become increasingly rare in fantasy fiction: laughs, laughs, and more laughs. At one point, a comically exasperated Dawn tells Finn and his magic-geek brothers, “You guys are taking this fantasy s*** way too seriously.” Intentionally or not, that line might as well be Henderson’s proclamation to his fellow fantasy writers: It’s okay to lighten up every once in a while, especially when the […]

Film rights to Joelle Charbonneau’s N.E.E.D., the story of small-town teenagers drawn deep into a social-networking site that promises to grant their every need, regardless of the consequences., to Merced Media and Benderspink, by Sean Daily of Hotchkiss and Associates for Stacia Decker.