Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to the DMLA authors up for 2014’s Goodreads Choice Awards! Robert Jackson Bennett – City of Stairs Jim Butcher – Skin Game Brent Weeks – The Broken Eye

Jay Lake and Shannon Page’s Our Lady of the Islands has been named a Publishers Weekly Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book of 2014! Sian Kattë and her husband have an amicable empty-nest marriage and a thriving business, but that all changes when a god’s emissary assaults Sian and gives her mystical healing abilities that threaten the dominance of the male physician-priests. Longtime short fiction collaborators Lake and Page worked closely on this intimate novel (set in Lake’s Green universe) before Lake’s death in […]

Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau on The Testing being voted #7 in YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten for 2014! 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 […]

Matthew C. Funk’s The City of NO, a mesmerizing literary debut in which a rogue cop in post-Katrina New Orleans will do anything to save young women targeted by human traffickers, while hunting the men who once exploited her, to Richard Thomas at Dark House by Stacia Decker.

Robert McCammon’s novella THE LAST TRAIN FROM PERDITION, a sequel to his novella I TRAVEL BY NIGHT, about Civil War veteran and half-vampire gunslinger Trevor Lawson who is searching for the vampire queen LaRouge, the one who turned him, so he can recapture his humanity, to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press by Cameron McClure.

Publishers Weekly: This gripping postscript to Priest’s Clockwork Century series (which officially concluded with Fiddlehead) takes readers to the titular Galveston, Tex., haunted hotel, in an alternate 1895 seasoned with ghosts and gears. Father Rios is a former gunslinger cursed with second sight and a dark past. When Sister Eileen contacts him about the dozens who have died in the hotel, he visits ahead of an impending hurricane and soon witnesses the horrors firsthand. The hotel’s guests all have dark secrets, […]

Audio rights to Jay Lake and Shannon Page’s collaborative novel OUR LADY OF THE ISLANDS and a sequel to Steve Feldberg at audible.com by Jennifer Jackson.

Italian kiosk rights to Lynda Robinson’s MURDER IN THE PLACE OF ANUBIS, to Fabbri, by Stefania Fietta at Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale, in association with Cameron McClure and Katie Shea Boutillier. Italian rights to Thea Harrison’s SERPENT’S KISS, Book 3 of the Elder Races series, to Fanucci, by Stefania Fietta at Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale, in association with Cameron McClure and Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Amy Boggs. French rights to Anne Bishop’s MURDER OF CROWS, Book 2 of the Others […]

Anne Perry’s 31st novel in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series, 22nd novel in the Inspector Monk series, and 14th Christmas novella to Susanna Porter at Ballantine, by Donald Maass.

Kirkus: Hutchinson remains an author worth watching. A homeless, gay teen finds shelter and hope in the hospital where his family perished. Traumatized by their loss, 17-year-old Drew bides his time working in the kitchen of a suburban hospital. He lives in an abandoned wing and slips in and out of the halls and staff-only areas under the pretense that his grandmother is in a coma. He befriends two teens sick with cancer and finds himself opening up and falling […]