Author of the Rainbow Award-nominated and EPIC award finalist CLOSE QUARTER Anna Zabo’s MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS, a contemporary erotic office romance which follows Mike, who has a one-night stand on his last night of vacation only to get back to work and realize that it was with his new CEO, a man so deep in the closet he may as well be in Narnia, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Intermix, by Jennifer Udden.
NPR: Like a tightrope walker himself, Christopher deftly balances Hang Wire on multiple, crisscrossing threads of character and plot. As dizzying as it is, he never slips. Even when secrets swell to bursting with world-shaking promise, the story maintains a steady, nervy rhythm . . . A tightly wound, dynamic piece of genre-bending machinery. Click here to read the full review.
Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau and Cassandra Rose Clarke for their books The Testing and The Assassin’s Curse being included in YALSA’s 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers!
Adam Christopher’s LA Trilogy, following his novella “Brisk Money,” a sci-fi/noir mashup trilogy set in an alternate 1960s Los Angeles and starring Raymond Electromatic, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer named Googol, inspired by Raymond Chandler’s parody of sci-fi/fantasy in a letter to his agent, to Paul Stevens at Tor, by Stacia Decker.
Congratulations to all the DMLA clients who are featured on the 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List! Novels – Fantasy: American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central) Between Two Thorns, Emma Newman (Angry Robot) Collections: Conservation of Shadows, Yoon Ha Lee (Prime) Kabu Kabu, Nnedi Okorafor (Prime) Novellas: “Rock of Ages,” Jay Lake (METAtropolis: Green Space) “Iseul’s Lexicon,” Yoon Ha Lee (Conservation of Shadows) Short Stories: “Effigy Nights,” Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/13)
School Library Journal: Fans of The Testing will be thrilled with this new installment and will be anxiously waiting for the story’s conclusion. In this sequel, Cia is drawn deeper into the political machinations of Tosu City as she enters the University. She is accepted into the Government course of study, much to her disappointment. Now, joined by students from the City who did not have to endure the Testing, she must go through a hazing process that forces her to once […]
Booklist: The second book in the Others series continues to tell of the struggles of humans and the “terra indigene,” commonly referred to as Others. Building on the story told in the initial book, Written in Red (2013), Meg Corbyn is finding that life as a blood prophet, away from the man who had owned her, is anything but simple. In this fascinating tale, the Others, including vampires and shape-shifters, are the dominant species of the continent, and humans are the interlopers, barely tolerated.
Czech rights to Jim Butcher’s DEAD BEAT and PROVEN GUILTY (books 7 and 8 of the Dresden Files series) to Stanislav Juhanak at Triton by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson. French rights to Matthew McBride’s A SWOLLEN RED SUN, to Gallmeister, by Anna Jarota at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Stacia Decker. French rights to Brent Weeks’s novella PERFECT SHADOW, to Bragelonne by Anais Parouty at Anna Jarota […]
DMLA congratulates Joelle Charbonneau for the nomination of The Testing for the Agatha Award in the Best Children’s/YA category!
Tor.com: “Excellent…full of dark humor and snappy scenes and perfect, unforgettable little descriptions. …If you’re a fan of the series, don’t miss The Cormorant.” Read the full review by clicking here.