Donald Maass Literary Agency

Library Journal: The personalities of Shara and her hulking assistant Sigurd leap off the page, as do supporting characters such as Shara’s former lover Vohannes Votrov and the gruff local Saypuri governor Mulaghesh. The world Bennett (The Troupe; American Elsewhere) has constructed is a complex political landscape of a subjugated people holding onto the memories of their glory days and protective gods and the conquerors reaping revenge for their own previous subjugation. An excellent spy story wrapped in a vivid imaginary […]

Literary Review: “Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon …disrupts the standard alien arrival cliches in numerous ways. …Okorafor brings science fiction back to its Utopian ideals. …Writing a novel in which optimism is not naivety is a challenge, and it is accomplished here with panache. …Patriotic and ambiguous, all-embracing and proudly independent, with a sense that any single viewpoint might be as fictional as aliens turning up: Lagoon offers a clever swerve from science fiction’s usual tracks.” For more, read the August 2014 issue of Literary Review.

UK rights to Emily Winslow’s third suspense novel, THE RED HOUSE, about when Maxwell and his fiancé Imogen move to Imogen’s childhood home and Maxwell starts having strange and impossible memories of his own childhood, until he begins to suspect that he may be Imogen’s younger brother who was lost at age 3, and even worse, he suspects Imogen knows that he is, to Susie Dunlop at Allison & Busby, for publication in 2015, by Cameron McClure.

Tor.com: Be prepared to bid a bittersweet goodbye to Beth and her best friend, then… but not before they’ve had one last adventure together. An adventure as incredible as it is desperate; as tragical as it is magical. … The City’s Son, for its part, marked a strong start, and the emergence of an improbably promising new voice in the genre. The Glass Republic—an ingenious inversion of the expectations set by said—proved Tom Pollock was no one-hit wonder. With Our Lady of the Streets, […]

British Fantasy Award nominee Molly Tanzer’s first novel, VERMILION, an alternate history steampunk set in 1870 America featuring a 19-year-old half-Chinese girl who passes as a boy so she can work as an exorcist, and whose investigation into why so many poor young Chinese workers are disappearing from Chinatown leads her to a sanatorium in the Rocky Mountains, and a very undead villain, to Ross E. Lockhart at Word Horde for publication in Spring 2015, by Cameron McClure.

Kerrie Hughes and Jim Butcher’s FIERCE, a new contemporary fantasy anthology featuring the fierce breed of warriors who use their unique abilities to fight back the darkness and often skirt its edges (including stories by Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Mercedes Lackey, Rob Thurman, Kat Richardson and others), to Anne Sowards of Roc, in a very nice deal, by Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency and Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

Publishers Weekly: Harrison’s enjoyable seventh Elder Races paranormal (after Kinked) takes a trip to the Vampyre demesne in San Francisco. The Vampyres are hosting their annual audition and auction for new human attendants. Running away from a dangerous Djinn, Tess Graham reluctantly offers her skills for auction and attracts the attention of Xavier del Torro, who serves the Nightkind King. Despite her fear of Xavier, she agrees to train as his attendant, understanding that she must eventually offer her blood without hesitation. […]

Library Journal: Perhaps inevitably this collection has a sense of yearning to it: a desire for escape, a wish for broken things to be fixed, a longing for more time. Here both literal and metaphoric narratives deal with Lake’s struggles with terminal cancer, but readers will enjoy plenty of adventure and pure flights of fancy as well.

Bulgarian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, to Bard, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Cameron McClure.

Hugo Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal’s OF NOBLE FAMILY, STAGECRAFT, and GHOST TALKERS #1, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, in a three-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson. World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling author Robert McCammon’s THE BORDER, about the teen-aged boy who may be the key to saving our way of life after Earth is caught on the border of a vicious and long-standing war between two alien civilizations, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Cameron McClure. Sci-fi humorist Robert Sheckley’s mix of […]