Congratulations to all our DMLA authors chosen as 2022 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) FANTASY NOVEL The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris) HORROR NOVEL A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris) The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s) YOUNG ADULT NOVEL A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) FIRST NOVEL Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga) The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon) NOVELLA A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear […]
Starred Review: Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
Kirkus: Bennett is a master of worldbuilding,… Great fun, with nonstop action and… high-spirited mayhem.
Deal: Suzan Palumbo
Nebula Award finalist Suzan Palumbo’s SKIN THIEF, her first collection of short fiction, to dave ring at Neon Hemlock for publication in Fall 2023 by Michael Curry.
Congratulations to Jim Butcher!
Congratulations to Jim Butcher! HEROIC HEARTS debuts at #67 on the USA Today Bestseller List.
Review: Second Spear by Kerstin Hall
Publishers Weekly: A shamed warrior becomes responsible for the salvation of all Mkalis’s realms when an old enemy returns for revenge in Hall’s exciting sequel to The Border Keeper. The many realms of Mkalis serve as an afterlife for residents of a world called Ahri. Warrior Tyn, of Res Lfae’s realm, has been suspended from her position as Second Spear and struggles to come to terms with the role she played in the battle with the goddess Kan Fanieq and the knowledge […]
Deal: P.C. Hodgell
P.C. Hodgell sold rights to the 11th novel in the Kencyrath series to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books via Jennifer Jackson. Per the author, this sequel to Deathless Gods (coming from Baen this October), will wrap up many lingering storylines, and is possibly the final volume in the long-running tale, begun in God Stalk, of Jamethiel and the Highborn.
Starred Review: Boys I Know by Anna Gracia
Kirkus: June is a winning protagonist with a lively, appealing voice that renders the repartee between her and her flinty, anxious mother simultaneously infuriating, hilarious, and poignant.
April Translation Rights Deals
Bengali rights to Hugo Award-winner Elizabeth Bear’s untitled short fiction collection, consisting of ten stories never before appearing in Bengali, to Kalpabiswa Publications, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Dutch rights to Annika Martin’s BREAKING THE BILLIONAIRE’S RULES & THE BILLIONAIRE’S FAKE FIANCE, to April Books by Emma Lind and Phillip Sane at Lennart Sane Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. French rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ THE WIZARD HUNTERS, THE SHIPS OF […]
Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2022
Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett for having both Foundryside and Shorefall shortlisted for the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2022’s Best Foreign Novel!
2022 Igynte Awards Finalists
Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who were chosen as 2022 Igynte Awards Finalists! Best Novel: Young Adult A Snake Falls To Earth – Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) Best Novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth – Cassandra Khaw (Tor Nightfire) Best Novelette “The Music of the Siphorophenes” – CL Polk (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) Best Comics Team Abbott: 1973 – Saladin Ahmed (writer) (Boom! Studios) The Ember Award (for unsung contributions to genre) Tananarive Due