Review: Suborbital 7 by John Shirley

Review: Suborbital 7 by John Shirley

Library Journal: Shirley’s (Stormland) exciting novel is an immersive near-future military adventure that proves that doing the job doesn’t count for much if you don’t make it home in one piece. The story follows a group of soldiers led by Lt. Art Burkett, U.S. Rangers Airborne, who is sent halfway around the world on an urgent rescue mission to save the life of a key scientist whose mind is filled with important information. Burkett and his team take off in an […]

April Subsidiary Rights Deals

April Subsidiary Rights Deals

Abridged audio rights to New York Times bestseller Martha Wells’ ALL SYSTEMS RED and 7 more Murderbot Diaries titles to Anji Cornette at Graphic Audio by Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.

April Translation Rights Deals

April Translation Rights Deals

French rights to Annika Martin’s MOST ELIGIBLE BILLIONAIRE and THE BILLIONAIRE’S WAKE-UP-CALL GIRL, to BMR, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Greek rights to Robert McCammon’s BOY’S LIFE, to Klidarithmos, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Spanish rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ ALL SYSTEMS RED, ARTIFICIAL CONDITION, ROGUE PROTOCOL, and EXIT STRATEGY, the first four installments […]

Review: Demons of Good and Evil by Kim Harrison

Review: Demons of Good and Evil by Kim Harrison

Booklist: After fighting for her position in Trouble with the Cursed (2022), Cincinnati subrosa (demon leader) Rachel Morgan must deal with an old enemy. Walter returns with a horde of alpha weres from outside the city, hoping to steal power over the city’s werewolves from Rachel’s ally David. On top of that, Rachel is being investigated by the coven of moral and ethical standards, initially for using an illegal dark curse and then for murder she didn’t commit. Coincidentally, Rachel’s […]

Review: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Review: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Booklist: In this viciously dark fantasy, a horrific siren who can’t speak, thanks to a cruel husband who captured her and cut out her tongue, and a plague doctor who has watched the kingdom succumb to a plague impossible for them to stop leave their now-desolate city in search of a new adventure. When the two creatures stumble on a sinister cult of children who believe gods can resurrect them, their interest is piqued. But then, in the snow-covered, frigid […]

2023 Lammy Finalist: The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

2023 Lammy Finalist: The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

Congratulations to DMLA author Ruby Barrett who has been nominated as a 2023 Lammy finalist in the LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica category for The Romance Recipe!

Review: Hybrid Heart by Iori Kusano

Review: Hybrid Heart by Iori Kusano

Library Journal: Kusano, an Asian American living in Tokyo, makes their debut with this novella set in a near-future Japan, where people have software apps installed in their bodies that allow them to interact online in their minds, and human pop stars compete for fame against digital vocaloid singers. Rei is a human “idol,” an entertainer with a corporate manufactured image created for purely commercial purposes. She loves to sing and aspired to this life, but then her singing partner […]

Starred Review: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Starred Review: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Library Journal: What if the Little Mermaid laid eggs and her hatched children’s hunger laid waste to her prince’s land? Khaw’s (Breakable Things) latest novella tackles this question with a brutally visceral but seductive opening sequence. The mermaid, who’s been held captive and rendered mute by her husband, meets up with the only survivor in the land, a plague doctor. They soon come upon a band of children gleefully hunting another child at the direction of their keepers, “The Saints,” three […]

Review: Dual Memory by Sue Burke

Review: Dual Memory by Sue Burke

Publishers Weekly: Burke (Symbiosis) explores art and artificial intelligence in this clever near-future adventure. The dual narrators, one human and one computer, meet on the small arctic island of Thule, run by altruistic doctors. Antonio Moro is a Bronzewing mercenary defending the island from the Leviathon League raiders bent on enslaving its civilians when he is blasted from a rusty garbage barge. Injured, he’s left to recover ashore, and secretly ordered by Bronzewing Captain Soliana to root out raider infiltrators. […]

March Subsidiary Rights Deals

March Subsidiary Rights Deals

Audio rights Robert McCammon’s SEVEN SHADES OF EVIL, book nine in the Matthew Corbett series, to Louise Quayle at Audible, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure. Audio rights to LJ Andrews’s Reign of Stars and Fire, book eight in The Broken Kingdoms series, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, by Katie Shea Boutillier.