Join us in congratulating DMLA authors, Premee Mohamed and Vajra Chandrasekera in making the 2024 British Fantasy Award shortlist with their following titles! Best Collection No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications) Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer Vajra Chandrasekera, for “The Saint of Bright Doors” (Tordotcom)
The finalists for the 2023 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, and many congratulations to the following DMLA authors on their nominated titles! Best Novel The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK) Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) Best Collection No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
The 2024 Aurora Awards winners have been announced and we’re thrilled to share that the following DMLA authors have won in the Best Novel and Best Short Story categories! Best Novel: The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager Best Short Story: “At Every Door A Ghost”, Premee Mohamed, Communications Breakdown, MIT Press
Congratulations to the following DMLA titles for making the final ballot for the 2024 Dragon Awards! Best Science Fiction Novel System Collapse by Martha Wells The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal) Three Kinds of Lucky by Kim Harrison Best Horror Novel The Dead Take the A Train by Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Publishers Weekly: The Christmas season heats up in Buck’s steamy second First Responders romance (after Fake Flame). After 10 years working as a firefighter in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Thea Martinelli is rattled when a fellow firefighter is seriously injured on the job, and she jumps at the chance to take a breather as the new social media manager for emergency services. To train her, the department brings in the local library’s social media manager: total hunk Simon Osman. Simon […]
Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear sold rights to two novels in her White Space setting. For new readers, her next science fiction epic, THE FOLDED SKY, stands alone. For returning readers, this is an indirect sequel to Ancestral Night, and takes place more or less concurrently and a little bit after Machine. In THE FOLDED SKY, Dr. Sunyata Song must travel across the Milky Way to learn to communicate with the greatest discovery of her century: an artificial intelligence the size of […]
Publishers Weekly: YA author Clarke (the Scapegracers trilogy, written as H.A. Clarke) makes their adult debut with a slick and sexy queer fantasy western. Ignavia City is on the cusp of industrial revolution and roiling with discontent. When Marney Honeycutt’s family and childhood sweetheart are murdered in a strikebreak, she swears revenge on Yann Chauncey, the foundry owner who ordered the massacre. Fleeing the city, she falls into the hands of the Highwayman’s Choir, a troop of bandit revolutionaries fighting […]
Chinese (simplified) rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ WITCH KING, to Science Fiction World, by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Chinese (complex) rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ WITCH KING, to Gaea, by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. LJ Andrews’s THE EVER SEAS series, in a three-book deal, to Kossuth (HUNGARY); also to Artline Studios (BULGARIA), by Milena […]
KNOCK KNOCK, OPEN WIDE author Neil Sharpson’s picture book debut DON’T TRUST FISH, which explains in a scientific and reasonable way why fish cannot be trusted, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist and National Book Award winner for A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING Dan Santat, to Kate Harrison at Dial, at auction, for publication in spring 2025, by Jennie Goloboy for the author, and by Jodi Reamer at Writers House for the illustrator.
The finalists for the 2024 Ignyte Awards have been announced, and we are so excited to see so many DMLA authors on the list! Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera, C.L. Polk, R.S.A. Garcia, and Premee Mohamed! Outstanding Novel: Adult The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) Outstanding Novelette Ivy, Angelica, Bay – C L Polk (Reactor) Outstanding Short Story Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 – R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny) Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works No One Will Come Back for Us […]