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
Publishers Weekly: The well-done cosmic horror and mix of mundane and magical scares make this a standout.
Congratulations to all our DMLA writers have been nominated for the 2022 Aurora Awards!
Best Novel
Best Novelette/Novella
Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been selected as 2022 Hugo Award Finalists.
BEST SERIES
The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Terra Ignota, by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)
BEST SHORT STORY
“Proof by Induction”, by José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny Magazine, May/Jun 2021)
BEST SEMIPROZINE
S.B. Divya as editor and Premee Mohamed as assistant editor from the Escape Pod team
LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK
A Snake Falls to Earth, by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
ASTOUNDING AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER
Micaiah Johnson (2nd year of eligibility)
Iori Kusano’s novella HYBRID HEART has been acquired by dave ring at Neon Hemlock in a World English deal via Jennifer Jackson. Rei is a pop idol in near future Japan with middling success trying to push forward in her solo career despite competition from Vocaloid-style digital singers. Haunted by both guilt and the insidious manipulations of a controlling talent manager, Rei is forced to question what parts of herself—and those around her—she will sacrifice on the path to success. Neon Hemlock will publish in their 2023 novella series.
Author of THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS Premee Mohamed’s NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US, their first collection of short fiction, to Michael Kelly at Undertow Publications, for publication in May 2023, by Michael Curry
Publishers Weekly: Following 2020’s Million Dollar Demon, the 17th installment of Harrison’s Hollows series proves that heroine Rachel Morgan’s adventures are far from over, with a new set of complications expanding her circle of influence and magical skills. After transforming the vampire Constance into a mouse, witch-born demon Rachel acts in her name while secretly running Cincinnati with her partner in crime, Pike. As the demon subrosa, Rachel is responsible for keeping the city’s supernatural population in line, but her position remains tenuous. When a vampire representative from D.C. arrives to meet with Constance, Rachel must find a way to cover Constance’s absence without revealing her own involvement and while avoiding accusations of murder. Meanwhile, the local demons start acting up, with Rachel’s housemate, Hodin, behaving suspiciously and another apparently kidnapping mortals. And with her closest friends distracted by their own lives, Rachel is especially vulnerable when an unexpected foe makes their true agenda clear at last. More personal subplots—including Rachel’s upcoming wedding to the elf businessman Trent Kalamack—move forward at a leisurely pace, while the return of Rachel’s best friend, Ivy, offers a welcome adjustment to the cast dynamic. Fans will be pleased to see plenty of life left here.
Photo credit to Anna
Garcia
Author of the forthcoming BOYS I KNOW Anna Gracia’s MISDIRECTION OF FAULT LINES, pitched as a tennis version of Center Stage, following three Asian American teen girls—the underdog, the social media darling, and the defiant ex-friend—from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds who compete against each other at an elite tennis summer camp and discover they’re not so different after all, to Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2024, by Kiana Nguyen.
Audio rights to Emily Childs’s LOVE AND ROCK series, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, at auction, in a four-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier (world English).
French rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s CROWBONES, a novel of the Others, to Bragelonne, by Megan Husain at the Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
German rights to Lara Elena Donnelly’s AMBERLOUGH, to Cross Cult, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Caitlin McDonald.
German rights to Robert McCammon’s FREEDOM OF THE MASK, to Luzifer, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure.
Taiwanese/Complex Chinese rights to Micaiah Johnson’s THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS, to Apex, by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure.