Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to the DMLA authors who were named finalists for the 2014 Hugo Awards! Best Novelette: “The Lady Astronaut of Mars,” Mary Robinette Kowal Best Fancast: Tea and Jeopardy, Emma Newman Best Related Work: Writing Excuses Season 8, Mary Robinette Kowal (with non-DMLA authors Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, and Jordan Sanderson)  

MacKinlay Kantor’s ANDERSONVILLE, the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War, to Phil Budnick at Plume, for republication in Winter 2015, to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the book’s original publication, by Cameron McClure.

Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau on the nomination of The Testing for YALSA Teens’ Top Ten 2014! Cia is chosen to participate in The Testing, a government program that will select the brightest graduates who show potential for becoming future leaders in this post-apocalyptic world. Cia’s excitement of being chosen soon dies when her father warns her of the experiences he faced when he was chosen. Cia must trust no one if she hopes to come back alive. However, will she be able to […]

DMLA congratulates Randy Henderson, author of the upcoming Finn Fancy Necromancy, on winning the 2014 Writers of the Future award for his story “Memories Bleed Beneath the Mask!”

Chuck Wendig’s ZEROES, a fast-paced, character-driven thriller pitched as Michael Crichton meets The X Files, about five hackers who are blackmailed into working for the U.S. government only to discover the sinister NSA program controlling them has far-reaching implications, in a two-book deal to Harper Voyager by Stacia Decker.

Jon McGoran’s third book in the Doyle Carrick eco-thriller series, after Drift and Deadout, when a whistleblower is murdered while trying to contact Doyle, the Philly cop is forced to delve into a biotech company’s dangerous involvement in foreign food aid, to Kristin Sevick at Forge by Stacia Decker.

Library Journal: VERDICT: Shea takes us 500 years into Earth’s future, a place apparently decadent and war-torn in equal measures. Reminiscent of Takeshi Kovaks from Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon with a dash of Tank Girl attitude, Koko is memorable character. The violence is quite extreme, so the squeamish should probably look elsewhere, but this is a fun gender reversal of your typical shoot-em-up SF. Brothel manager Koko Martstellar was living a comfortable life on the pleasure resort of The Sixty […]

Romantic Times: [4 of 5 stars] The conclusion of the Eternal Sky series, Steles of the Sky has a lot to offer. The most incredible aspects of these stories are the well-created characters, who inhabit a rich, imaginative world. Bear shows admirable skill in balancing the fantastical aspects with the believability of her characters, adding a healthy does of gritty realism of human beings locked in battle, be it emotional, physical or the clash of kings. Edene, Temur and Samarkar are planning their […]

Booklist: Great fun and a fine introduction to an author with a distinctive voice. Expect more from Shea, perhaps in multiple genres. Set five centuries into the future, this debut novel begins in a resort complex called The Sixty Islands, where elite brothel owner Koko Martstellar narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. Fleeing to the orbital community known as the Second Free Zone, Koko is astonished to learn that her old friend, Portia Delacompte, is behind the assassination.

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who won an RT Reviewers’ Choice Award for 2013! Career Achievement Award in Science Fiction/Fantasy: Anne Bishop Best Shapeshifter Romance: Kinked by Thea Harrison Best Urban Fantasy Novel: Written in Red by Anne Bishop Best Fantasy Novel: Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal