Donald Maass Literary Agency

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 […]

New York Times: Premee Mohamed’s THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is a genre-blending adventure full of bizarre creatures and dark magic. At the center of this novel is a forbidden forest that sits at the northern edge of a nameless town. No one who sets foot in the wood returns, with the exception of Veris Thorn, who once entered, somehow survived and came back. Now, the ruthless foreign tyrant who rules the region has pulled Veris from her home and […]

School Library Journal: Benny is not talented—not like his sister, the dancer; or his brother, the actor;  or his recently deceased abuelo, the famous musician Ignacio Ramirez. He is forced to reckon with this when he and his family move into his grandpa’s Miami mansion and Benny attends arts school. He discovers Abuelo is actually a ghost who has some unfinished business! Ignacio decides to help Benny become a star, so that the performer can go to the eternal party […]

Reactor: Where Dickinson succeeds—where he turns Exordia into a truly exhilarating, dizzying work—is that he can take these human stories, human choices on the personal and on the international scale, and set them against a deeply alien intelligence.    Exordia is a book that grabs your attention and doesn’t let it go: Dickinson creates a world that feels twice as vivid as normal and does it without ever slowing down the frenetic pace of the plot. It can be a lot to handle—Exordia certainly […]

Many congratulations to DMLA authors Cassandra Khaw and Tananarive Due for their 2023 Bram Stoker Awards nominations! Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Due, Tananarive – “Rumpus Room” (The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Akashic Books) Khaw, Cassandra – The Salt Grows Heavy (Tor Nightfire/Macmillan/Titan) Superior Achievement in a Novel Due, Tananarive – The Reformatory (Gallery/Saga Press/Titan)

Ada Palmer and Jo Walton’s TRACE ELEMENTS: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy, from two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at understanding of how SF and fantasy work, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure. Emily Blackwood’s WINGS SO WICKED and BLOOD SO BRUTAL, Books 1 and 2 of Golden City duology, to Julie Constantine at Podium Audio, in an exclusive submission, by Katie […]

French rights to Nebula Award winner Premee Mohamed’s THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST, THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS, and AND WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU TONIGHT, to L’Atalante, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry. French renewal rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s ACADEM’S FURY, PRINCEP’S FURY, and FIRST LORD’S FURY, books 2, 5, 6 in the Codex Alera series, to Bragelonne, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael […]