Deal: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Deal: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

ANYONE, and the forthcoming I DIDN’T DO IT, Jaime Lynn Hendricks fourth domestic thriller, EVERYONE IS LYING, about a woman who marries and builds a perfect life with her best friend’s boyfriend until the friend’s adult daughter arrives questioning her paternity, and implicates the woman in a decades old murder, to Luisa Cruz Smith at Scarlet, in a nice deal, by Anne Tibbets.  

Deal: Kate Heartfield

Deal: Kate Heartfield

Author of THE EMBROIDERED BOOK Kate Heartfield’s THE VALKYRIE, pitched as retelling of the myth about the valkyrie Brynhild and her love for a Burgundian princess; THE CHATELAINE, a revised edition of the Aurora Award-winning ARMED IN HER FASHION; and THE SHARP SISTERS, about four sisters with the second sight during World War II, to Jane Johnson at Voyager UK, in a three-book deal, for publication in March 2023, May 2023, and 2025, by Jennie Goloboy.

Review: The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Review: The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Entertainment Weekly: Making their adult fiction debut, Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka, a couple turned writing duo turned husband and wife, have crafted a book about two writing partners, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen, who are themselves in denial about their romantic feelings for each other all while they write about other complicated couples. It’s a meta mind-trip that sets the stage (or the page, rather) for a meditation on writing, the power of prose, and the terrible cost of fear. […]

Deal: Finley Turner

Deal: Finley Turner

Finley Turner’s debut THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY, when a woman becomes the primary suspect of a murder at her very own engagement party, she must come to terms with her secrets in order to prove her innocence, to Holly Ingraham at Crooked Lane, for publication in November 2023, by Katie Shea Boutillier.

Deal: Kim Harrison

Deal: Kim Harrison

New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison sold a new Hollows novel, DEMONS BLUFF, to follow Summer 2023’s DEMONS OF GOOD AND EVIL, featuring witch-born demon Rachel Morgan in an alternate United States where humans and supernatural beings exist side-by-side. Anne Sowards at Ace Books acquired world rights in a six-figure deal for two books negotiated with Jennifer Jackson.

NPR's Books We Love 2022

NPR’s Books We Love 2022

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who have been included in the NPR’s Books We Love 2022 roundup! Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir  

Review: Ellie is Cool Now by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren

Review: Ellie is Cool Now by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren

Publishers Weekly: Romance readers will have a blast.

SOVAS 2022 Nominees

SOVAS 2022 Nominees

Congratulations to Jim Butcher! THE LAW has been nominated for a SOVAS Award (Society of Voice Arts and Sciences) in the Author Performance – Best Voiceover Category.

Libro.fm’s Top 10 Audiobooks of 2022

Libro.fm’s Top 10 Audiobooks of 2022

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir! NONA THE NINTH has been chosen as a Libro.fm’s Top 10 Audiobooks of 2022.

November Subsidiary Rights Deals

November Subsidiary Rights Deals

Audio rights to LJ Andrews’s DEN OF BLADES AND BRIARS, book seven of The Broken Kingdom series, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, by Katie Shea Boutillier. Audio rights to Adele Buck’s CENTER STAGE series, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a four-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier. Audio rights to Sara Codair’s JUNK JUNCTION, a young non-binary person who can talk with ghosts must save their mother after she’s turned into a mannequin by a poltergeist, to Kim Budnick at […]