Donald Maass Literary Agency

The New York Times has released it’s 100 Notable Books of 2023 list, and it includes two DMLA titles!!! The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Congrats to Vajra Chandrasekera and Tananarive Due!

The latest Murderbot Diaries, SYSTEM COLLAPSE by Martha Wells, is a New York Times best seller, debuting at #12 (hardcover) and #4 (combined hardcover and ebook)! Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’s bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But […]

Jess K Hardy’s COME AS YOU ARE and LIPS LIKE SUGAR, to Kerri Buckley at Dreamscape Media, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.

Annika Martin’s THE GRUMPY BILLIONAIRE, Book 8 of Billionaires of Manhattan series,  to Petra Kruijt at April (The Netherlands), by Vere Bank at Sebes & Bisseling, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Spanish rights to Jo Walton’s NECESSITY, to Duermevela, by Amaiur Fernandez at International Editors’, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Ukrainian rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON and GRAVE PERIL, the first three novels in […]

Kirkus: The daughter of a famous self-help author struggles when she must join a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of her mother’s bestselling book, Letters to My Someday Daughter. Logical, driven, precise Audrey is everything Camilla St. Vrain, her yoga-practicing, emotionally distant, image-conscious mother, is not, but she still winds up accompanying her on a nationwide press tour. This means that Johns Hopkins–bound Audrey must give up a place in a prestigious summer program for pre-med students at UPenn that her […]

Library Journal:  It’s Dinios Kol’s first murder case as the junior assistant to the brilliant, irascible, and much senior investigator Ana Dolabra. Din has been magically engineered to retain every single detail of everything he sees and hears, which should be a boon in his work. But not when the victim is dead as the result of a tree growing out of his lungs. Ana uses Din’s observations to determine not just whodunnit but how this uniquely gruesome murder was […]

The Olympian Affair by DMLA author, Jim Butcher, is a USA Today Bestseller!

We are thrilled to share that Jim Butcher’s THE OLYMPIAN AFFAIR is a New York Times bestseller, coming in at #15 for hardcover and #14 overall! The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, […]

Publishers Weekly: An 11-year-old navigating friendship troubles, mercurial blended family dynamics, and questions surrounding his sexual identity wishes to disappear—and abruptly does—in this heartwarming adventure by Hutchinson (Howl). Hector Griggs, who attends St. Lawrence Catholic School for Boys, isn’t a sports star like his older stepbrother. Instead, Hector prefers solitary activities such as reading, playing piano, and hanging out with his only friend, Blake. But Blake’s new pals constantly bully Hector, and when a major fight puts Blake and Hector’s […]

Congratulations to the following DMLA authors for being nominated for the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards! BEST FANTASY Martha Wells – WITCH KING BEST SCIENCE FICTION Martha Wells – SYSTEM COLLAPSE BEST HORROR Tananarive Due – THE REFORMATORY