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
Review: Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
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 […]