DMLA congratulates Joelle Charbonneau for the nomination of The Testing for the Agatha Award in the Best Children’s/YA category!
Review: Cormorant by Chuck Wendig
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.
Deal: Mike Shepherd
Mike Shepherd’s 13th, 14th and 15th novels in the military science fiction series featuring the intrepid Kris Longknife to Ginjer Buchanan at Penguin Random House’s Ace imprint, by Jennifer Jackson.
Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau!
INDEPENDENT STUDY debuts at #8 on the New York Times Best Sellers Young Adult list! In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization.
Film Deal: The Wolf’s Hour by Robert McCammon
Universal has optioned The Wolf’s Hour, a novel by Robert McCammon, Chris Morgan and Emile Gladstone to produce and the script written by Bradley and Kevin Marcus. Read more about the deal here. Michael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in […]
Review: Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau
Shelf Awareness: Joelle Charbonneau melds coming-of-age themes with the suspense of a detective story in this second installment of a planned trilogy, with an intellectual narrative more complex than most dystopian literature. Malencia “Cia” Vale continues her quest for knowledge, and her life in the dystopian United Commonwealth, a future U.S. that is rebuilding after worldwide political and environmental upheaval. Now a student at Tosu City University in the capital, Cia can’t remember the trauma and betrayals that befell her in […]
Deal: Joelle Charbonneau
New York Times best-selling author of The Testing Joelle Charbonneau’s new YA novel N.E.E.D., pitched as Pretty Little Liars meets Homeland, about a website that will fulfill any wish provided you fulfill a request and the teen who investigates when people start getting hurt, to Margaret Raymo at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, for publication in Fall 2015, by Stacia Decker.
Philip K. Dick Award Nominees
DMLA congratulates Cassandra Rose Clarke on her nomination for a 2013 Philp K. Dick Award for her book The Mad Scientist’s Daughter! Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion… and more. But when the government grants rights […]
B&N Book Blog Top Books of 2013
DMLA congratulates Cassandra Rose Clarke on The Mad Scientist’s Daughter being named one of B&N Book Blog’s Top Books of 2013!
Starred Review: Falling Light by Thea Harrison
Romantic Times: Award-winning Harrison is back with the second half of her intense, dark and enthralling duology, which features the climax of an ancient ongoing war. The various characters in these novels have been fighting for so long it has damaged them on many levels. Harrison’s ability to craft multilayered characters as well as a believable, absorbing mythos makes her one of the best in the business.