Publishers Weekly: In this gripping follow-up to 2012’s Daughter of the Sword, Tokyo police officer Oshiro Mariko is now working in the Narcotics division. In the aftermath of a raid, an ancient mask is stolen, and its Yakuza owner demands that Mariko retrieve it. Her search for the mask leads her to a cult with a deadly agenda and a centuries-old mystery connected to the legendary sword she now possesses.
Publishers Weekly: Adult author Wendig (The Blue Blazes) launches the dystopian Heartland trilogy featuring a group of teenage scavengers at odds with an oppressive government that dwells in luxury up in the sky. Cael McAvoy, leader of the Big Sky Scavengers, is dealt a severe setback when a rival crew led by the mayor’s son sabotages his land-boat, which he needs to safely navigate the hostile fields of genetically modified corn that hold the Heartland in a stranglehold.
French rights to Steve Weddle’s COUNTRY HARDBALL, to Gallmeister, by Anna Jarota at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Stacia Decker. Spanish rights to Evil Hat Productions’ DRESDEN FILES RPG (based on the series by Jim Butcher) to Pedro Ramos at Nosolorol Ediciones by Jennifer Jackson.
USA Today bestselling author Teddy Harrison writing as Thea Harrison’s next three Elder Races paranormal romances, set in a world where fae, vampyres, gryphons, and a business dragon live, work, and love right alongside humans, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Sensation in a six-figure deal by Amy Boggs.
French rights to Thea Harrison’s SERPENT’S KISS, ORACLE’S MOON, and LORD’S FALL, Books 3, 4, and 5 in the Elder Races series, to J’ai Lu, in a three-book deal, by Anais Parouty at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Amy Boggs. German rights to Jim Butcher’s THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS and Book 2 of the Cinder Spires series to Blanvalet by Bastian Schlueck at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson. German rights to Thea […]
Paramount Pictures has acquired The Testing, a novel by Joelle Charbonneau. Deal got made last night, with no producer attached, and it was Peter Kang’s first acquisition since moving to the studio from Fox. The book will be published this week and already has been named a #1 Indie Next 2013 Summer YA Pick and one of the Top 10 Young Adult Books for Summer by USA Today. Foreign publishing rights have already been sold in the UK, France, Israel, […]
Andrea Portes’ ANATOMY OF A MISFIT and an untitled YA novel to Kristen Pettit at Harper Children’s in a six figure deal by Katie Shea.
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review: McGoran (Body Trace and two other Madison Cross mysteries under his D.H. Dublin pseudonym) impressively integrates concerns about genetically modified produce with an action-filled storyline and fleshed-out characters. Det. Doyle Carrick of the Philadelphia PD, suspended after putting a gun to a drug dealer’s head to coerce information, uses his mandatory vacation to take residence in the house he’s inherited from his recently deceased parents in the rural community of Dunston, PA.
Philip K. Dick Award winner Brian Francis Slattery’s THE FALL OF THE FAMILY HIGHTOWER, a literary novel describing the twisted fates and turbulent histories of two boys named after the grandfather they share, a self-made man, sometime criminal, and son of Cleveland, Ohio, to Amber Qureshi at Seven Stories by Cameron McClure.
Congratulations to DMLA clients nominated for the Anthony Awards! Best First Novel: The Professionals – Owen Laukkanen [Putnam] Best Paperback Original: Murder for Choir – Joelle Charbonneau [Berkley Prime Crime] Short Story: “Peaches” – Todd Robinson, Grift, Spring 2012