Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir! Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower, narrated by Moira Quirk, published by Recorded Books, has been selected as a 2022 Audie Award Finalists in the Fantasy category.

Award-winning historians Myke Cole and Michael Livingston’s THE KILLING GROUND: A BIOGRAPHY OF THERMOPYLAE, in which the authors explore why tens of thousands of people were willing to die for this tiny, out-of-the-way place, the site of dozens of battles stretching from the 5th century BC to World War II, to Kate Moore at Osprey by Paul Stevens.

Congratulations to our DMLA authors on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List! Novels – Science Fiction The Second Shooter, Nick Mamatas (Solaris) Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) Perhaps The Stars, Ada Palmer (Tor; Ad Astra) Novels – Fantasy Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom) The Mask of Mirrors, M.A. Carrick (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Novels – Horror A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris) The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s) Young Adult Novels A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine […]

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor! THE NSIBIDI SCRIPTS has been chosen as a New York Times Children’s Best Seller Series!

Audio rights to Otherwise Award nominee Amanda Downum’s STILL SO STRANGE, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Graphic audio subrights to Ada Palmer’s THE WILL TO BATTLE and PERHAPS THE STARS, books 3 and 4 of the Terra Ignota series, to Anji Cornette at GraphicAudio, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

Chinese (complex) rights to Nebula and Hugo Award winner Martha Wells’  NETWORK EFFECT, FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, and a new novella in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, to Global Group, by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Japanese rights to Donald Maass’s THE EMOTIONAL CRAFT OF FICTION: HOW TO WRITE THE STORY BENEATH THE SURFACE, to Filmart-sha by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass. Russian rights […]

Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger! A Snake Falls to Earth received a Newbery Honor and Elatsoe received an American Indian Youth Literature Honor.

Siblings Rachel Hope Cleves and Aram Sinnreich writing as RA Sinn’s SAVEPOINT, near-future SF about a woman who works for a company that uses brain implants to rewind time five seconds — but when a new upgrade is tested, she finds herself moving back in time every day, and only a nonbinary hacker from her past might help, to Jim Killen at Rebellion, for publication in 2023, by Jennie Goloboy. 

Locus: I’ve seen Darcie Little Badger’s A Snake Falls to Earth described as young-adult fantasy and young-adult science fiction, but it’s really young-adult Indigenous futurism. In a novel full of remarkable things, one of the most remarkable is the narrative itself….The way Little Badger jumped between Oli and Nina, between first and third person, between mainstream and traditional narratives, is really quite something. It should feel jarring and disjointed, but it doesn’t. It flows seamlessly while also letting the structure […]

Booklist: Shortly after moving from Seattle to his father’s hometown of Merritt, Florida, Virgil Knox, 15, is attacked by a monster. Barely clinging to his sanity and bleeding copiously from his injuries, he makes his way to a parking lot and collapses. In spite of his wounds, however, people either don’t believe him, laugh at him, or say he asked for it by walking alone in a deserted area at night, and when he starts school, the pranks and teasing […]