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Publishers Weekly: Mohamed’s stunning finale to her Beneath the Rising cosmic-horror trilogy (after A Broken Darkness) reunites readers with Nick Prasad following the implosion of his former friend Joanna “Johnny” Chambers’s last-ditch plan to save the Earth from the Ancient Ones. Thrown through dimensions, Nick lands on a faraway planet that did not resist the Ancient Ones’ dominion, where he’s treated as a divinely ordained prophet. Then the planet’s royals capture a strange chimeric creature trying to steal information from their […]

Congratulations to Anne Bishop! CROWBONES debuts at #17 on the USA Today bestseller list.

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s next three novels in the epic Liaden Universe ® series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen in a six-figure deal by Jennifer Jackson.

Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger for her inclusion in the 2021 British Science Fiction Association Shortlist: Best Book for Young Readers A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Tara Weikum at HarperTeen has preempted Ellen O’Clover’s debut novel Seven Percent of Ro Devereux. When her senior project—a future-predicting app based on the game MASH—goes viral, 18-year-old Ro and her app-selected match/ex-best friend Miller become the public faces of a phenomenon that spirals out of control. Publication is set for winter 2023; Katie Shea Boutillier did the six-figure, two-book deal for world English rights.

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been chosen as 2021 Nebula Award Nominees! Nebula Award for Novel Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga) Nebula Award for Novella And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock) The Necessity of Stars, E. Catherine Tobler (Neon Hemlock) Nebula Award for Short Story “Proof by Induction”, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5–6/21) “Laughter Among the Trees”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 2/21) Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction […]

Library Journal: In this new collection, editors Butcher and Hughes introduce a dozen short stories by some of today’s best urban fantasy writers. Standouts include Anne Bishop’s “The Dark Ship,” where, across the ocean from her tales of the Others, an act from a young woman brings her, and her town’s troubles, to the attention of great powers. Two powerful women face grief and hope on a search for their daughter in Annie Bellet’s “Train to Last Hope.” Werewolf Asil […]

Congratulations to Cassandra Khaw for her inclusion in the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH was chosen in the Superior Achievement in Long Fiction.

Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren’s ELLIE IS COOL NOW, in which a TV writer who didn’t peak in high school is given the ultimatum by her boss to go to her 10-year reunion or lose her big break, and takes the bait to (hopefully) prove once and for all, she is cool now, originally published via Wattpad, to Madeleine Colavita at Forever, in a very nice deal for publication in winter 2023, by Katie Shea Boutillier.

Audio rights to New York Times bestseller Jim Butcher’s new novella THE LAW, with the author to narrate, to Kate Runde at Podium Publishing, in a six-figure deal, at auction, by Michael Curry and Jennifer Jackson. Limited edition rights to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press. Audio rights to USA Today bestselling author LJ Andrews’s THE BROKEN KINGDOM SERIES, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, at auction, in a four-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier Audio rights to Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE, to […]