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Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been nominated for the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. ROMAN ÉTRANGER / FOREIGN NOVEL Terra Ignota (Volumes 1 to 5) by Ada Palmer (Le Bélial’) [Terra Ignota series] Ou ce que vous voudrez by Jo Walton (Denoël) [Or What You Will] TRADUCTION : PRIX JACQUES CHAMBON / JACQUES CHAMBON TRANSLATION PRIZE Lise Capitan for Analog/Virtuel by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette Heroes)  

Library Journal: Rachel Morgan knew that taking the position of demon subrosa—protector of Cincinnati’s supernatural residents—would be another way to get into trouble. When she discovers that a group of werewolves are after the focus that her friend David holds, it is just the beginning of the problems headed her way. From coven grumblings about a witch-born demon still walking, a vampire-turned-mouse causing havoc in her home, and a mysterious mage framing Rachel and her friends for various crimes, it may […]

Publishers Weekly: This brisk, funny thriller from Hendricks (It Could Be Anyone) begins at Murderpalooza, an annual New York City conference for writers of genre fiction. When Kristin Bailey, a nominee for the coveted Thriller of the Year award, is found dead in her hotel room, the Twitterverse runs rife with speculation. Shortly after Kristin’s death, four other conference attendees (who narrate the novel on a rotating basis) start receiving menacing tweets from a burner account that threatens to leak […]

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who have been nominated for a 2022 Nebula Award! Nebula Award for Novel Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) Nebula Award for Novella “Bishop’s Opening”, R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22) Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom) Nebula Award for Novelette “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold”, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5–6/22) Nebula Award for Short Story “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 3/22)

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who have been nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award! Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Cassandra Khaw – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications)

Library Journal: Demon Prince Kai awakens in his own tomb, alone and unable to remember how he got there, although he knows he must have been betrayed. He’ll have to recover his companions, retrace his steps, both in the past and in the present, and consume the life energy of anyone who gets in his way. After all, Kai is the Witch King, and he can’t let anyone stand in the way of protecting his loved ones. Kai and his dearest […]

Booklist: Though the scale of Burke’s latest (after Immunity Index, 2021) is limited to the small island of Thule in the Arctic Circle, the conflict faced by the islanders takes on a large-scale feel. Antonio Moro is injured while firing missiles at war boats of the Leviathan League, recruited by mercenaries to be on the lookout for LL agents, and hired to create art for the chamber of commerce. He takes possession of the control cube of Par Augustus, an […]

Kirkus: Authors’ dreams curdle into nightmares when murder strikes a mystery convention. Kristin Bailey, one of five nominees for Murderpalooza’s Thriller of the Year, has been stabbed to death in her room at the Waldorf. Amid the digital firestorm that breaks out, two items stand out. One is a Twitter thread indicating that @MPaloozaNxt2Dieis following Vicky Overton, a fellow nominee; Mike Brooks, the once-successful friend who shared a hush-hush relationship with Kristin; Suzanne Shih, the admiring stalker she’d gotten a […]

Arabic rights to Martha Wells’ ALL SYSTEMS RED, ARTIFICIAL CONDITION, ROGUE PROTOCOL, EXIT STRATEGY, NETWORK EFFECT, and FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, the first six installments in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, to Yatakhayaloon, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Bulgarian rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ ALL SYSTEMS RED, ARTIFICIAL CONDITION, ROGUE PROTOCOL, and EXIT STRATEGY, the first four installments in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, to Studio of A, by Milena Kaplarević […]

Library Journal: A story of human greed wrapped in a thriller… [keeps] readers riveted and entertained.