Donald Maass Literary Agency

Booklist: It’s only natural to approach a new novel by the author of Empire State (2011), Seven Wonders (2012), and The Age Atomic (2013) with wide-eyed enthusiasm and a childlike sense of eager anticipation, and Christopher fulfills our expectations and more: just when we think the story couldn’t get any weirder, he adds a whole new layer of weird, bouncing from one unexpected moment of goofiness to another, keeping us stuck to our chairs until we think it’ll take an industrial-strength solvent to pry us loose. Days […]

Booklist: Jacob’s The Twelve-Fingered Boy (2012) was exactly what the teens-with-powers subgenre needed: a fullbody beat down that reminded us that having such powers would really, really suck. This hefty sequel follows 16-year-old delinquent Shreve, who can possess people’s bodies, as he shifts from juvenile facility to psych ward to, at last, the Society of Extranaturals, a boot camp of sorts for “post-human” kids run by the highly untrustworthy Mr. Quincrux.

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!