Author of I AM PROVIDENCE and THE SECOND SHOOTER Nick Mamatas’s KALIVAS!: OR, THE WASHED-AWAY, a post-modern, post-Singularity, and post-genre retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, to Christoph Paul at Clash for publication in spring 2026 by Michael Curry.
New York Times Book Review: “The Tainted Cup” is a thoroughly satisfying delight from start to finish. If you, like me, enjoy an animating nonsexual relationship between a brilliant, eccentric woman and a devoted and highly competent man, this book is a cornucopia. Bennett pulls off his own feat of engineering in splicing genres together so effectively, marrying the imaginative abundance of a fantasy world to the structure, pace and character dynamics of detective fiction.
Library Journal: The old gods are dead, and the new ones are horrific. Karys Eska is bound to a new god, and the price for her ability to speak to the dead is, on an unspecified day, to be snatched away to a realm of terrors. When she attempts to rescue a dying stranger from uncanny creatures, she accidentally merges Ferain with her shadow. If Eska learns how to free him, he’ll make her wealthy. But they soon discover that […]
New York Times Book Review: Where “The Space Between Worlds” was a structured book, unfolding its plot the way a scene would on a painted fan, “Those Beyond the Wall” is more tightly focused on character and voice, revolutionary ethics and practice. It’s about apartheid as a violent premise that requires violent resistance, not as a parade of suffering to be solved with pity and charity by those who profit from it. It’s a book that forces its characters and […]
The 2024 Locus Awards finalists have been announced and we’re excited to see so many DMLA authors on this list! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) FANTASY NOVEL Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) HORROR NOVEL The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK) FIRST NOVEL The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) NOVELLA The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) NOVELETTE “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown) SHORT STORY “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New […]
Congratulations to DMLA author, Jim Butcher, and his series The Dresden Files for being featured in Forbes as one of the best series of all time! FORBES: 17. The Dresden Files By Jim Butcher Spanning an impressive 17 books (and counting) and written over the course of more than two decades, Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files is a spellbinding narrative collection with elements of noir mystery, supernatural intrigue and pulse-pounding action. The New York Times bestselling series has attracted readers because of its layered approach […]
Shelf Awareness: The gritty, luminous Sheine Lende, a prequel to Darcie Little Badger’s acclaimed first novel, Elatsoe, features stouthearted Shane (grandmother to Elatsoe’s Ellie) who uses the family’s ability to raise ghosts to find three people, one of whom is her own mother. The women in 17-year-old Shane Solé’s Lipan Apache family line know how to reach deep into “the world Below” to “raise the ghosts of animals.” Shane and her mother, Lorenza, are known for their tracking abilities; they […]
Booklist: Two years ago: after her father was caught cheating, Olivia Owens was forced to move out of the mansion she’d grown up in. Five hours ago: she dressed to the nines to attend her famous father’s third wedding—and rob him of all the money his prenup kept from her ailing mother. Her revenge will hit him hard, if she and her team of misfits, including an old teacher and a dramatic new flame, can get in and out of […]
The 2024 Aurora Award Nominations are in and we’re excited to see so many DMLA authors on this fantastic list of nominees! Best Novel: The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager Best Novelette/Novella: “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”, Nalo Hopkinson, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Random House Best Short Story: “At Every Door A Ghost”, Premee Mohamed, Communications Breakdown, MIT Press Best Related Work: No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee […]
Library Journal: Leveret and Annelid star in a television show with a bloody finale; Vidyucchika is stalked by the corpse of the boy she betrayed; Viramunda hunts down her betrayer on a sun-scorched Earth. This novel is a sweeping slipstream epic that follows two intertwined personalities as they recur in new guises through time, moving from the mythic past to modern Sri Lanka to a far-future Earth abandoned by humanity. One of them always dies, but is there an escape […]