Publishers Weekly: The well-done cosmic horror and mix of mundane and magical scares make this a standout.
2022 Aurora Awards Nominees
Congratulations to all our DMLA writers have been nominated for the 2022 Aurora Awards! Best Novel A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris) Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom) Best Novelette/Novella The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed (ECW) These Lifeless Things, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
2022 Hugo Award Finalists
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) […]
Deal: Iori Kusano
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 […]
Deal: Premee Mohamed
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
Review: Trouble with the Cursed by Kim Harrison
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 […]
Deal: Anna Gracia
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.
March Subsidiary Rights Deals
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).
March Translation Rights Deals
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 […]
Deal: Premee Mohamed
Nebula Award-nominated author Premee Mohamed’s WE SPOKE THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN and THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES, two novellas continuing the stories of Reid and Henryk from THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS, to Jen Albert at ECW Press for publication in 2023 and 2024 by Michael Curry.