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Booklist: Little Badger returns to the world of her revelatory, award-winning debut, Elatsoe (2020). Seventeen-year-old Lipan Apache Shane and her mother, Lorenza, set out on a search-and-rescue mission to find two young siblings missing in Texas hill country. In this alternate 1970s America, fairy rings are transport centers. The missing seem to have stumbled on a group of dangerously unpredictable (and potentially world-destroying) mimic rings. They could be anywhere—and anytime. After Lorenza vanishes too, Shane undertakes her first solo rescue with […]

Kirkus: A Rhode Island teen who went from riches to rags when her parents divorced masterminds a scheme to get even with her father. After her mom leaves her philandering dad, 17-year-old Olivia Owens and her principled, loving mother are left broke. Swimming in medical debt after her exhausted mom falls asleep at the wheel in between jobs and is injured in a car crash, Olivia assembles a madcap cast of peers, plus a former teacher, each of whose skills […]

Washington Post: Fairies have starred in some terrific books of late, but in Mohamed’s novella they pack a lot more menace. In “The Butcher of the Forest,” the children of a despot known only as the Tyrant wander into an enchanted forest from which nobody has ever emerged, except a woman named Veris. Naturally, the Tyrant forces Veris to go rescue his kids, using her nimbleness to evade the snares and dangers in the woods, while grappling with the ethics […]

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who have been nominated for a 2023 Nebula Award! Nebula Award for Novel The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) Nebula Award for Short Story “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200“, R.S.A Garcia (Uncanny 7-8/23) “Author Martha Wells has graciously declined her nomination as a novel finalist this year for System Collapse published by Tordotcom. In 2022, Wells also declined a nomination for novella and felt that the Murderbot […]

THREE KINDS OF LUCKY by Kim Harrison is a USA Today Bestseller, debuting at #51!

New York Times: EXORDIA (Tordotcom, 532 pp., $29.99) is Seth Dickinson’s fourth novel and first work of science fiction, following three installments of the excellent Baru Cormorant fantasy series, and it revisits many of those novels’ themes and structures: empire, war and sacrifice. Set in 2013, “Exordia” is a first-contact story: Anna, a Kurdish survivor of genocide who is fostered in the United States, meets a many-headed snake alien named Ssrin in Central Park. Anna and Ssrin become friends and […]

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made the BSFA shortlist! BEST SHORT NON FICTION Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction, Eugen Bacon (Aurealis) BEST SHORTER FICTION (Novellas, novelettes) Broken Paradise, Eugen Bacon (Luna Press Publishing) BEST COLLECTION Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology (edited by Wole Talabi), Eugen Bacon (Android Press) No One Will Come Back for Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)

Booklist: Ezra feels like a third wheel. His two best friends, Lucas and Finley, have boyfriends, while Ezra is single. Or is he? Well, no, he does have a boyfriend, golden boy Presley, but it’s a secret since Presley is deeply closeted. The status quo is shattered when Lucas’ and Finley’s boyfriends dump them, and Presley turns out to be a player, using Ezra to make his intended jealous. It’s Ezra who suggests exacting revenge. He begins secretly posting anonymous […]

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera for winning the 2024 Crawford Award for his debut novel, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS!

Bookpage: Kim Harrison’s THREE KINDS OF LUCKY is an immediately compelling urban fantasy with an intricate magic system and complex world. In THREE KINDS OF LUCKY by Kim Harrison, author of the bestselling Hollows series, magic has its own specialized sanitation service: Sweepers, who pick up a byproduct of magic called dross. If left unattended, dross can attract shadow, a dangerous, somewhat intelligent life-form that can easily kill mages, sweepers and normal humans alike. THREE KINDS OF LUCKY will immediately […]