Donald Maass Literary Agency

Publishers Weekly: Bennett’s wonderfully clever and compulsively readable sequel to 2024’s The Tainted Cup offers another winning blend of fantasy and classic detection, featuring off-beat sleuths who call to mind Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin but operate in a realm under constant threat of destruction from eldritch marine creatures known as the leviathans. Ana Dolabra, “a woman so brilliant she lives most of her days blindfolded and rarely leaves her rooms, for fear that common life shall overwhelm her mind,” […]

Chinese (complex) rights to Nebula Award winner Vajra Chandrasekera’s THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, to Faces, by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry. Czech rights to Melissa K. Roehrich’s RAIN OF SHADOWS AND ENDINGS and STORM OF SECRETS AND SORROWS, to Albatros, in a two-book deal, by Sanja Stefanjesko at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier. German rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s DAUGHTER OF THE BLOOD, HEIR TO THE […]

Library Journal: This cozy fantasy mystery, set in the world of The Goblin Emperor, picks up where the previous book, featuring Witness for the Dead Thara Celehar, left off, with Celehar uncertain of his future after the loss of his abilities from his run-in with a deadly ghoul. But Celehar still has his intelligence, his dogged determination, and his contacts in the city. Serving as his Arch-Prelate’s troubleshooter, Celehar investigates the 50-year complete dysfunction of a city cemetery, gets kidnapped, and […]

So excited to share that DMLA author, Robert Jackson Bennett, and his novel, THE TAINTED CUP, was nominated for the 2025 Edgar Awards in the Best Novel category!

Congratulations to Martha Wells as her novel, SYSTEM COLLAPSE, narrated by Kevin R. Free, is named an Audie Award Finalist!

Publishers Weekly: In this captivating standalone from Thompson (Such a Lovely Family), tragedy and scandal rock a neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Gwen Khoury, Aimee Stern, and Lisa Greco-King enjoy weekly get-togethers with their husbands and children, but at one such gathering, tensions rise after Lisa questions Aimee’s parenting and Gwen’s husband, Anton, has too much to drink. At the end of the evening, Anton gets uncomfortably close to Aimee and whispers “You deserve to know” in her ear […]

School Library Journal: What makes a good unreliable narrator… in a picture book? One might argue that it’s very much the same qualities that make a good unreliable narrator in a work of fiction for older readers. There’s the choice the author must make as to whether or not to show their hand early or leave the reveal right up until the end. Then there are all the little details that appeared earlier in the book, leaving the reader to […]

Publishers Weekly: Married writing duo Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka (The Breakup Tour) beguile in this empathetic enemies-to-lovers romance. After book marketer Jennifer Worth ends her unsatisfying relationship, she decides to spend a week at an immersive fan experience based on her favorite romantic fantasy series, wanting an escape into a world where love is passionate and real. She’s shocked when she arrives to find her work nemesis, Scott Daniels, also in attendance and cosplaying as one of the men of her […]

Publishers Weekly: This animal guidebook send-up starts innocently enough, with a portrait of a dairy cow alongside a simple description of mammalian characteristics: “This animal has fur. This animal is warm-blooded.” Entries for a reptile and bird follow before a page turn reveals an outsize fish. “This is a FISH,” bold-faced type declares. “DON’T TRUST FISH.” Sharpson (When The Sparrow Falls) expands: “Fish don’t follow any rules…. They are rebels and outlaws.” A hint about the screed’s possible source soon […]

Audio rights to William C. Tracy’s PHYSICAL MAGIC, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a five-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier (world English). Audio rights to J.S. Fields’s OCEANS OF FIREFLIES, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier (world English). Audio rights to Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winner Premee Mohamed’s THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST,  to Aaron Piccirillo at Tantor, by Michael Curry.