Donald Maass Literary Agency

Italian rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BLACK PRISM, to Gargoyle Books, by Stefania Fietta at Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale, in association with Cameron McClure and Katie Shea Boutillier. Swedish rights to Robert Sheckley’s short story THE IMPACTED MAN, for a one-time use in an anthology, to Heidi Forlag, by Cameron McClure and Katie Shea Boutillier. Complex Chinese rights to Brent Weeks’ THE BROKEN EYE and THE BLOOD MIRROR, Books 3 & 4 of the Lightbringer series, to Gaea, in a two-book deal, […]

Congratulations to DMLA authors who made Tor.com’s fan-based Favorite Books of 2014 list! Steles of the Sky by Elizabeth Bear City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett

Kirkus: The story swiftly knots itself into steampunk-ishly surreal complications, with dauntless (and, by this point, love-stricken) Karen in the thick of the action. Supplies all the Bear necessities: strong female characters, existential threats, intriguing developments and a touch of the light fantastic. Steampunk: Something of a new venture for Bear, whose previous output (Steles of the Sky, 2014, etc.) has ranged from heroic fantasy to science fiction, often with an embedded murder mystery. By the late 19th century, airships ply […]

RT Book Reviews: Most writers would kill (or, okay, maybe just maim) for a debut novel as electrifying as Alex Gordon’s Gideon. Anchored by well-crafted prose that features a creepy-as-hell villain, Gideon feels like Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” brilliantly reconceived in a Neil Gaiman-esque universe. Gordon hooks readers from page one, as Gideon’s first few chapters are chilling and thoroughly engaging, making for a book that is impossible to put down. The only thing keeping this from being a Top Pick! is that Lauren, while […]

Publishers Weekly: Bear’s rollicking, suspenseful, and sentimental steampunk novel introduces Karen Memery (“like ‘memory’ only spelt with an e”), a teenage “seamstress”­that is, a prostitute­at Madame Damnable’s Hôtel Mon Cherie in Rapid City. This Pacific Northwest city of an alternate 1878 is home to airships, surgical machines, and other mechanical wonders that can also be put to horrific use. As Karen meets and begins to fall for Priya, another sex worker who escaped from evil pimp Peter Bantle, they learn that […]

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who were chosen for Kirkus’ Best Fiction of 2014! Elizabeth Bear, STELES OF THE SKY: “Considering the trilogy as a whole, the overused term masterpiece justifiably applies.” Mary Robinette Kowal, VALOUR AND VANITY: “Combining history, magic and adventure, the book balances emotional depth with buoyant storytelling.”  

Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau on winning the 2014 Best Young Adult Novel Anthony Award for The Testing! Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their […]

Congratulations to the DMLA authors who were nominated for a 2014 RT Book Award! Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop First Historical Romance: A Gentleman ‘Til Midnight by Alison DeLaine

Kirkus: A seductive work of paranormal horror that will draw readers into its cold and gloomy world. Generations ago, the people of Gideon burned a witch at the stake, and that decision has haunted the town ever since. Lauren Reardon doesn’t learn that her father was a witch of Gideon until after he dies, but she finds herself drawn, or driven, to go back and dig up his secrets, and some of her own. Her actions propel the present-day plot, […]

Kirkus: “The quick turns of the mystery plot make this a speedy and enjoyable read, and Finn’s world is a lively one, packed with all manner of weird and wonderful ghosts and goblins. Genre fans looking for a fix will enjoy the gleefully ghoulish setting and engaging, suspenseful plot.”