French rights to Frank Wheeler’s THE GOOD LIFE to Gallimard by Anna Jarota at the Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure, on behalf of Stacia Decker. Italian rights to Fiona Maazel’s WOKE UP LONELY to Cavallo di Ferro by Stefania Fietta at ALI, in association with Cameron McClure, on behalf of Stacia Decker. German rights to Robert McCammon’s SWAN SONG to Festa, to be published in two volumes, by Caroline Hartge and Franka Zastrow at Thomas Schlueck Agency, in […]
THE TESTING hit #14 on the New York Times Best Sellers Young Adult list! It’s graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about—hope for—is whether she’ll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish […]
Jay Lake and Shannon Page’s fantasy novel OUR LADY OF THE ISLANDS and a sequel, featuring Domina Sian Katte’s reluctant adventures after gaining healing powers, set in the archipelago world of Alizar, to Jak Koke at Per Aspera Press, by Jennifer Jackson.
DMLA congratulates our authors on their mentions in Tor.Com’s Reviewers Choice Best Books of 2013 list! Shattered Pillars and Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig
Author of FRANK SINATRA IN A BLENDER Matthew McBride’s THE SWOLLEN RED SUN to Rob Hart at The Mysterious Press, by Stacia Decker. In Gasconade County, Missouri—at one time called the meth capital of the world—Deputy Sherriff Dale Banks discovers $50,000 hidden in a cat’s litter box in the broken-down trailer Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows that what he’s done is wrong, but he’s done it for all the right reasons. At […]
Owen Matthews’ HOW TO WIN AT HIGH SCHOOL, the story of a loser who, upon transferring schools his junior year, decides to do whatever it takes to reinvent himself, win over the popular crowd, and take over the school (Ferris Bueller meets Scarface) to Kristen Pettit at Harper Children’s, by Stacia Decker.
Romantic Times: After her father’s death, Catherine Meriweather is still adjusting to her cousin Edmund becoming the master of Meriweather Hall. Helping her with this is Jonathan Bradby, Edmund’s friend. Jonathan is a hero, or so they say. He knows his heroic act was just an accident. Instead of continuing to try and convince his friends of that, he decides he will just become a real hero by accomplishing a heroic act.
DMLA congratulates Fiona Maazel on her novel Woke Up Lonely being named one of New York Times‘ 100 Notable Books of 2013!
Shya Scanlon’s The Guild of St. Cooper, about an obscure author in a near-future post-evacuation Seattle who is drawn into writing a revisionist history that sets the book itself unspooling backward into its own alternate history and into a world—featuring giant rhododendrons, space aliens, and a certain Special Agent Dale Cooper—increasingly both familiar and unrecognizable, to Guy Intoci at Dzanc, by Stacia Decker.
Romanian rights to Brent Week’s THE WAY OF SHADOWS to Editura Art by Prava I Prevodi, in association with Cameron McClure, on behalf of Donald Maass. Polish rights to Judy Huddleson’s LOVE HIM MADLY: AN INTIMATE MEMOIR OF JIM MORRISON to Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie by Prava I Prevodi, in association with Cameron McClure, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier. Polish Rights to Anne Bishop’s DAUGHTER OF THE BLOOD, HEIR TO THE SHADOWS, and QUEEN OF THE DARKNESS to Initium by Prava I Prevodi, […]