Best-selling author of A Wish For Home, Jo Ann Ferguson, writing as Jo Ann Brown, sold SAVING GRACES, a story of found family, quilts, grace, and a new chance at love set among the Amish community of Bliss Valley, to Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired via Jennifer Jackson.
Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger!
Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger! A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH debuted at #9 last week on the Indie Bestseller List (Young Adult), and remains on the list this week at #8.
The Times’s 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2021
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who were chosen for The Times’s 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2021! WHEN THE SPARROW FALLS by Neil Sharpson REMOTE CONTROL by Nnedi Okorafor
Review: Crowbones by Anne Bishop
Library Journal: A new entry (following Lake Silence) in Bishop’s “World of the Others” urban fantasy series set in an alternate North America. It’s Trickster Night in Lake Silence, a celebration of ghosties and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night. Lake Silence is a mostly human settlement in an area controlled by the terra indigene, or the Others (a group of supernatural beings and cryptids), making Trickster Night a perfect chance to generate tourism from humans who want […]
Review: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly
Kirkus: Can perfume kill? Scent is everything in Donnelly’s unique, voluptuous thriller. Not only does suave antihero Vic Fowler analyze the mix of odors emanating from every person and place he encounters; Donnelly’s introductory list of characters describes them in terms of their “base notes.” She opens each chapter with an analysis of its content in scent—for example, Chapter 1: “Notes de Tête: Whiskey, Jasmine, Oakmoss. Notes de Cœur: Old Cigarettes and Stale Coffee. Notes de Fond: Mildew, Charcoal, Barbicide.” The […]
Washington Post’s Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2021
Congratulations to Cassandra Khaw for having THE ALL CONSUMING WORLD chosen for Washington Post’s Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2021!
Review: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly
Publishers Weekly: New York City perfumer Vic Fowler, the narrator of this clever standalone from Donnelly (the Amberlough Dossier series), has a somewhat less respectable sideline—murder for hire. To save his financially strapped perfume business, Vic accepts a contract from Joseph Eisner to kill the three partners in Eisner’s asset management company. A further condition is that before Vic disposes of the victims’ bodies, he must produce a fragrance that evokes a particular memory in Eisner, a task Vic has no […]
November Subsidiary Rights Deals
Audio rights to Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear’s HAMMERED, SCARDOWN, and WORLDWIRED, to Gregory Souza at Tantor Media, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
November Translation Rights Deals
Arabic rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON, and GRAVE PERIL, the first three books in the Dresden Files series, to Ebhar Publishing, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Dutch rights to Annika Martin’s MOST ELIGIBLE BILLIONAIRE and THE BILLIONAIRE’S WAKE-UP-CALL GIRL, to April Books by Emma Lind and Phillip Sane at Lennart Sane Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Russian rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ WITCH KING, to […]
Deal: W.A. Simpson
Author of forthcoming TINDERBOX W.A. Simpson’s sequel, TAROTMANCER, when a Black diviner predicts a dark future and assists a wily shape-shifter in a heist gone wrong, it’s up to her to make a deal with a two-faced King to save her friend and the realm from the malevolent Rot, to Don D’Auria at Flame Tree Press, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, by Anne Tibbets (world English).









