Kirkus: A supernatural mystery unfolds aboard a boat with a haunted history. Chrissy, Chase, Kiki, and Emma, all 18, are recent high school graduates known as the Ghost Gang. Their YouTube channel has over a million subscribers, and after their last ordeal, in which a deranged serial killer fan terrorized them while they were filming an episode at the Hearst Hotel, the pressure’s now on them to deliver another heart-pounding show. The Ghost Gang also hopes to leverage their fame […]
New York Times Best Horror Books for 2023!
The New York Times released their Best Horror Books of 2023 list, and DMLA continues to do well, with two authors making the list! The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed
Film deal: Martha Wells The Murderbot Diaries to Apple TV+
Deadline: Martha Wells’ bestselling Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book series The Murderbot Diaries, is being adapted by Chris and Paul Weitz (About a Boy) and Paramount Television Studios. Apple TV+ has picked up 10 episodes starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård (Succession). The Weitz brothers are writing, directing and producing under their Depth of Field banner. Andrew Miano also executive produces alongside for Depth of Field. David S. Goyer executive produces alongside Keith Levine for Phantom Four. […]
Library Journal’s Best Books of 2023!
We’re thrilled to see two two DMLA titles (both in the Horror category) on the Library Journal’s list of best books for 2023! The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Review: Exordia by Seth Dickinson
Publishers Weekly: Survival is the measure of success for people overwhelmed by alien forces in this adroit alternate history of first contact from fantasist Dickinson (the Baru Cormorant trilogy). Anna Sinjari, a Kurd living in 2013 New York City, finds an eight-headed extraterrestrial casually snacking on turtles in Central Park. Bound soul to soul by a mysterious alien force, Anna and Ssrin, who turns out to be a rebel from the Exordia galactic empire, attempt to recover a crashed spaceship […]
Amazon Best SFF of 2023!
Congratulations to DMLA author, Martha Wells, for her book WITCH KING which was named as one of Amazon’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2023!
Congrats to Martha Wells!
SYSTEM COLLAPSE by Martha Wells is a USA TODAY Bestseller debuting at #20!
Book Riot’s Best Books of 2023
Huge shout out to DMLA author, Suzan Palumbo, for The Skin Thief making the list of Book Riot’s Best Books of 2023!
Deal: LJ Andrews
After an auction, L.J. Andrews has sold world rights to the first two books in her new Stonegate romantasy series to Kristine Swartz at Ace. The deal was negotiated by Katie Shea Boutillier at the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Broken Souls and Bones is set for summer 2025. (Details about the second book are not yet available.) Boutillier said Broken Souls follows a young woman “with a unique form of bone melder magic” who is “forced into the service of a power-hungry king and is determined to escape—until she falls […]
Deal: M.H. Ayinde
Orbit UK will publish a stunning epic fantasy trilogy from debut author M. H. Ayinde. The first book in the series, A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, will be published in spring 2025 and launches a gripping tale of revenge and rebellion in a vividly drawn world inspired by multiple pre-colonial cultures. Editor Emily Byron acquired rights from Jennie Goloboy. M. H. Ayinde was born in London’s East End. She was the 2021 winner of the Future Worlds Prize, which was […]









